“I deeply regret the pain suffered by these victims,” Archbishop J. Peter Sartain said. REALLY? He doesn’t regret the rapist clergy or his predecessors who facilitated the rapists. Is anyone else sick to death with these non-apology apologies? This kind
Diocese of Winona explains why it’s paying priest who admitted abuse
Curious that they have to “follow the law” when it involves paying a priest rapist, but not paying the victims of the priest rapist.
By Jerome Christenson
The Diocese of Winona has offered a public explanation of why it continues
St. Louis Archbishop Didn’t Know Sex With Children Was a Crime
This person couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended upon it. How does he sleep at night? What a scandal!
By Erik Ortiz
The St. Louis archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal testified last month that he
Retired Archbishop Flynn doesn’t recall details from his handling of clergy abuse
By Madeleine Baran
Faced with tough questions under oath last month, former Twin Cities archbishop Harry Flynn said at least 134 times that he could not remember how he handled clergy sexual abuse cases during his 13-year tenure, according to
Galway historian reveals truth behind 800 orphans in mass grave
By: Cahir O’Doherty
There is a growing international scandal around the history of The Home, a grim 1840’s workhouse in Tuam in Galway built on seven acres that was taken over in 1925 by the Bon Secours sisters, who turned
Students rally around tux-wearing teen left out of yearbook
By Jill Tucker and Henry K. Lee
Hundreds of students at a San Francisco Catholic school wore ties to class Friday to protest an administrative decision to keep the graduation photo of a female student wearing a tuxedo out of
MDS band director says he was fired for planning same-sex marriage
By OBY BROWN and PHILLIP RAMATI
Mount de Sales Academy students and parents met with the school president Thursday, seeking the reinstatement of the school’s gay band director, who was fired Wednesday.
Students are planning a protest outside the school
Catholic teacher backs gay son, quits to protest contract
By Michael D. Clark
Veteran Catholic teacher Molly Shumate stared at the Cincinnati Archdiocese contract for next school year and thought of her son.
She remembered when a nervous Zachery Shumate, a teenager at the time, approached her and revealed
Torture the Little Children? The Catholic Church Says It’s Not Responsible
At a United Nations hearing the Vatican tries to turn the moral question of whether child abuse is torture into a legal debate about jurisdictions.
By Barbie Latza Nadeau
This may come as a huge surprise to many Catholics,
Roman Catholic Church faces human-rights case over dismissal of employee
By GLORIA GALLOWAY
Ginette Chaumont says she devoted her life to the Roman Catholic Church, forgoing marriage and a family to serve for 22 years as the assistant to a series of Ottawa archbishops before menopause left her depressed, disorganized