By Joanne McCarthy
Cardinal George Pell has to resign. Before the week is out, and on the back of his evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the cardinal must go, and Pope Francis must
Police Say Seymour Priest Embezzled From Church
A 50-year-old local Catholic priest is facing charges after police say he embezzled more than $20,000 from St. Augustine Church.
Police charged Honore Kombo, the former pastor of St. Augustine Church on Washington Avenue, with first-degree larceny after they say
‘I am not sure there was a civic obligation to report such a crime’: Cardinal George Pell says priests who knew of child sex abuse had no responsibility to tell police as he gives evidence to royal commission
- Cardinal George Pell has given evidence at child abuse royal commission
- He said it was unacceptable Gerald Francis Ridsdale was moved parishes
- The Cardinal described the prolific pedophile’s offending as a ‘sad story’
- Cardinal Pell maintained that he wasn’t aware
Grand jury: 2 bishops hid sex abuse of hundreds of children
Two Roman Catholic bishops who led a central Pennsylvania diocese helped cover up the sexual abuse of hundreds of children by over 50 priests or religious leaders over a 40-year period, according to a grand jury report issued Tuesday.
The
Vatican newspaper praises Spotlight for confronting ‘horrendous realities’
Holy See-owned L’Osservatore Romano hails Tom McCarthy’s best picture Oscar winner, which shows systemic abuse and cover-ups by Catholic church
By Ben Child
The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has praised the 2016 best picture Oscar winner Spotlight for its convincing
Top Vatican cardinal says pope backs him on stance over abuse issue
Catholic priest is caught on video snorting cocaine in a room full of Nazi memorabilia
- Father Stephen Crossan filmed taking cocaine at party on church grounds
- Roman Catholic priest sniffed the class A drug through a £10 note at home
- He admitted taking cocaine but said he did ‘not have an issue with drugs’
- Revellers
Pell denies abuse accusations and criticises suspicious timing
This coming 29 February, the cardinal is to give evidence before an Australian commission, via video link from Rome. The cardinal, who has been accused of covering up child sex abuse cases, said the false news report printed by the
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