As the Zika virus spreads in Latin America, Catholic leaders are warning women against using contraceptives or having abortions, even as health officials in some countries are advising women not to get pregnant because of the risk
Ex-priest John Feit arrested in former beauty queen Irene Garza’s 1960 murder case
A former Catholic priest faces a first-degree murder charge for allegedly killing a onetime beauty queen who was last seen alive the night he heard her confession.
John Feit, 83, had long been the main suspect in the 1960 death
Tracing the Bishops’ Culpability in the Child Abuse Scandal
Pope Francis’ commission on the clergy’s sexual violation of children had a timely private screening in Rome last week of “Spotlight,” the Oscar-nominated film about the pedophilia scandal in Boston. The film offers the Vatican, if
Australian paedophilia Commission gives green light to Pell testifying via video link
The Vatican Secretary for the Economy is being called to give evidence after he was accused of covering up an old abuse case. Polisca says the cardinal is unable to attend the hearing in person due to health reasons
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Critic of Vatican refuses to step down from sex abuse commission
File under: No Surprise Here!
A prominent and outspoken British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy on Saturday
Catholic high school: Archdiocese ‘does not permit’ same-sex wedding announcement
By BY JOEL CONNELLY
Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle has refused to run an announcement in its alumni magazine for the same-sex marriage
‘I’m gay and I’m a priest, period.’
After 23 years in Chicago parishes, the question had pushed its way to the surface.
He weighed his options. He thought about his parishioners. Many, he knew, were accepting of gay people, even of same-sex marriage, but … Continue reading
Former student priest arrested on suspicion of trying to pay to rape babies
Joel Wright, 23, detained at San Diego airport while carrying baby clothes and $2,000 in cash
A former student priest has been arrested on suspicion of trying to pay to rape a baby and a young girl,
Irish American Cardinal Raymond Burke blames women for church’s problems
File under: What A Twit!
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The crisis in Catholicism apparently has one source: women. According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, since the 1960’s women have “feminized” the church and discouraged “manly” men from participating in clerical life.
Irish priest punished by Florida bishop for informing on pedophile colleague
By Cathy Hayes
A priest, originally from County Tyrone and now