Krzysztof Charamsa told a private Italian television channel
Italy diocese fires Roman Catholic priest over pedophilia comments
Italy’s Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday fired a priest who said he could “understand” how pedophilia by clergy could occur because some children yearned for affection.
The diocese of Trento, in northern Italy, said Father Gino Flaim,
A Giant mistake: Priest arrested over claims he pointed musket at 8-year-old boy because of football rivalry
File Under: WT actual F?
BY Laurie Hanna
A New Jersey priest has been arrested over claims he pointed a musket at an 8-year-old boy because of a football rivalry.
Father Kevin Carter allegedly threatened the child because he was
Chile Catholic Church rocked by e-mail scandal
Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski dies ahead of abuse trial
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences.
He had been taken ill just before the start of his Vatican trial in July.
He was
Catholic cardinal arrested for DUI
By JOHN BURNETT
One of the high-ranking American officials of the Roman Catholic Church was arrested for drunken driving late last week in Kailua-Kona.
The Most Eminent Cardinal William Joseph Levada, 79, of Menlo Park, Calif., was stopped at about
Resigned priest had student images on computer
A Louisville Catholic priest resigned from his church after child pornography and hundreds of images of schoolchildren from his parish were found on his computer, archdiocese officials said Friday.
Stephen A. Pohl resigned as pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish,
Longtime leader at St. John’s Abbey accused of sex abuse
Thomas Andert, St. John Abbey’s prior, accused of abuse by a former student.
The Rev. Thomas Andert, the prior at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, has been removed from his leadership position following an allegation of
Philly archdiocese settles sexual-abuse civil suit
By Jeremy Roebuck
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has settled a civil lawsuit brought by an accuser whose testimony helped convict two Catholic priests and a former parish-school teacher on sexual abuse charges, and
Priest admits sex with minor, says teen ‘wanted’ it
By Mark Mueller
In an extraordinary admission of wrongdoing, a priest sought by authorities in New Jersey has acknowledged engaging in a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy, but he deflected blame for the incident by saying the teen “wanted”