By Sister Maureen Paul Turlish
I have said it before and I will say it again:
Accountability and transparency for the crimes of childhood sexual abuse today and in the future absolves no one from the accountability and transparency for
Remarried couples should abstain from sex, Philadelphia Catholic church says
File Under: AS IF!
Archbishop Charles Chaput also stated that gay Catholics should also ‘live chastely’ in new rules issued after Pope Francis urged more acceptance of others
Altoona man abused by priest kills himself just days after defeat of reform measure in bill
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He was 10 years old, the product of a devout Catholic family that worshipped at Holy Name Catholic Church in Ebensburg.
An altar boy, Brian Gergely should have been preoccupied with the task of assisting his priest
Sexual acts involving Catholic priests not worst of sins – Archbishop
Archbishop Emeritus of the Kumasi Arch Diocese Most Reverend Peter Akwasi Sarpong has taken a swipe at persons accusing the clergy especially priests of the Catholic Church of engaging in sexual intercourse indicating that it is not the worse form
French cardinal suspends four paedophile priests
The Roman Catholic cardinal-archbishop of Lyon said on Thursday he had suspended four priests accused of paedophile activities and said their cases
Catholic priests in Montreal banned from being alone with children
New policy, which includes church workers and volunteers, intended as ‘safety net’ against allegations of sex abuse, but critics say move is ‘too little, too late’
Catholic Bishops Back NOM’s Hate March
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement urging Catholics to attend NOM’s anti-LGBT hate march this weekend. They write:
March for Marriage 2016
On June 25, 2016, the day before the
Maynooth in crisis as president goes on a sabbatical
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- By Sarah Mac Donald
St Patrick’s College Maynooth has denied the sabbatical announced this week by its president, Monsignor Hugh Connolly, is in any way linked to a row over a recent anonymous allegation of inappropriate behaviour by some seminarians.
U.S. BISHOPS’ SILENCE ON GUNS AND GAYS
The U.S. Catholic bishops met in Huntington Beach, California this week, just days after the Orlando massacre. And despite the fact that the church’s most powerful prelates were all gathered together at a time when the
Pennsylvania Catholic church using ‘mafia-like’ tactics to fight sex abuse bill
The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers who support state legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse more time to sue