File under: Nice goin’ Francis! You talk a good line, but when push comes to shove, you’re just like your predecessor. SHAME!
By Anne Lu
Melbourne priest Greg Reynolds has not only been defrocked, but also excommunicated by the Catholic
Catholic Priest, Caught With Pantless 15-Year-Old In Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania priest has been charged with molesting a teenage boy after police allegedly found him in a car on a college campus with a 15-year-old who was wearing no pants, according to a police criminal complaint filed Friday in
Kansas City priest sentenced to 50 years in prison for child porn
By Carey Gillam
A Kansas City Catholic priest was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Thursday on federal child pornography charges for taking sexually explicit photos of several young girls, including a 2-year-old.
Shawn Ratigan, 47, pleaded guilty in
Priest recounts in essay released in church files of fleeing from LA after he abuse confession
The orders the Rev. Carlos Rodriguez got from his religious superiors after he confessed to molesting a 16-year-old boy just hours before were swift and decisive: Leave immediately. Check into a motel. Don’t tell anyone where you are going. Wait
Book Review by John Minck
Secrecy, Sophistry and Gay Sex in the Catholic Church — Book Report
Rev. Richard Wagner, PhD, ACS
This is a tough book to read. It covers a complex and detailed, 13-year-long administrative action to dismiss a Catholic priest from his
Vatican Envoy To Dominican Republic Recalled Amid Sex Abuse Allegations
Following his abrupt removal from his post by the Vatican, authorities in the Dominican Republic will look into allegations of child sex abuse against the papal envoy to the Caribbean country, the attorney general said Wednesday.
Attorney General Francisco Domínguez
Uriel Ojeda to join few Catholic clergy in California prisons for child sex abuse
By Cynthia Hubert
Some time during the next week or so, the Rev. Uriel Ojeda will leave Sacramento County’s Main Jail and join other inmates for a long bus ride to state prison.
Once a rising star in the Sacramento
Polish priest’s dismissal exposes rift over dialogue with Jews
By Dagmara Leszkowicz
When the outspoken Polish priest Wojciech Lemanski returned with his parishioners to his church near Warsaw after holding a prayer vigil at the Treblinka Nazi death camp in early July, a dismissal notice awaited him.
The Warsaw
Boston Archdiocese official charged with hiring prostitute
File under: How refreshingly heterosexual
By Melissa Hanson and Peter Schworm
An official of the Archdiocese of Boston pleaded not guilty today after he was allegedly found with a prostitute behind a cemetery.
Monsignor Arthur Coyle, 62, of Lowell