Archbishop installation revives conversation of clergy sexual abuse scandal
Devout Catholic catalogues clergy’s crimes, offers victims comfort
Sylvia MacEachern’s website go-to gathering place for church abuse victims
By Simon Gardner
Mike Fitzgerald is a 60-year-old truck driver who grew up on a farm near Bancroft, Ont.
It’s with some trepidation that I ask him if we can
Synod on the Family 2015: A Reflection from the Paulist Fathers
SYNOD ON THE FAMILY: A Reflection from the Paulist Fathers
The joy and the hope, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joy and
Gay Catholics Will Be Silenced During Pope Francis’ Philadelphia Visit: Archbishop
By Philip Pullella
Homosexuals can attend a Catholic family congress in Philadelphia during Pope Francis’ U.S. visit this year but won’t be allowed to use it to attack Church teachings, the city’s archbishop said on Thursday.
“We don’t want to
Gay Catholic Music Director Files Discrimination Complaint Against Church For Unfair Termination
by Jack Jenkins
Colin Collette, a gay man, worked as the music director of Holy Family Catholic Community in Inverness, Illinois for 17 years, preparing songs for worship and orchestrating liturgy for weekly services. When Illinois embraced marriage equality in
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 Church forces woman to leave job after gay marriage is revealed
By MARY SANCHEZ
Colleen Simon insisted on performing her job this week out of devotion.
On Wednesday, she managed a delivery of 2,000 pounds of food for the pantry at St. Francis Xavier Church. It’s work she sees as fulfilling
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
Glendora Catholic school dismisses gay Rancho Cucamonga teacher after publicized wedding
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt,
A Rancho Cucamonga man who taught 17 years at a Catholic high school was fired from his job days after he married his gay partner in a San Bernardino civil ceremony.
While school representatives declined comment on