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”
Archbishop apologises on behalf of Scottish Catholic Church for ‘criminal and sinful’ abuse
The Archbishop of Glasgow has spoken of the Scottish Catholic Church’s ‘pain and shame’ after release of McLellan Commission report
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia has offered a “profound” apology to victims of “criminal and sinful” abuse within the
Justice must be done for abuse survivors, says McLellan report
The McLellan Commission was created in 2014 to investigate how the Scottish Church handled abuse cases
Justice must be done – and
Bishop apologizes for anti-gay speech
The Bishop of Chur, Vitus Huonder, has apologized to gay people after citing controversial Bible passages in a speech he gave at a Catholic forum in Germany at the end of July.
The bishop, well known for his ultra-conservative views,
Catholic Priest: We Can Reach Out to Gay People by Comparing Gay Sex to Shoving a Bagel in Your Ear
by Dan Savage
Isn’t it cute when Catholic priests pretend to know nothing—nothing at all—about gay sex?
At a national conference in Plymouth, Catholic leaders spoke out Wednesday against same-gender sexual relations, claiming it’s harmful and unnatural,
Catholic priest: I have a family member who is gay
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At a national conference in Plymouth, Catholic leaders spoke out Wednesday against same-gender sexual relations, claiming it’s harmful and unnatural, but added that the Catholic Church must reach out to those with same-sex attractions.
At the conference,