Italy’s Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday fired a priest who said he could “understand” how pedophilia by clergy could occur because some children yearned for affection.
The diocese of Trento, in northern Italy, said Father Gino Flaim,
A Giant mistake: Priest arrested over claims he pointed musket at 8-year-old boy because of football rivalry
File Under: WT actual F?
BY Laurie Hanna
A New Jersey priest has been arrested over claims he pointed a musket at an 8-year-old boy because of a football rivalry.
Father Kevin Carter allegedly threatened the child because he was
Vatican sacks priest after he comes out as gay
The Vatican dismissed a priest from his post in a Holy See office on Saturday after he told a newspaper he was gay and urged the Catholic Church to change its stance on homosexuality.
Monsignor Krzystof Charamsa
John McNeill, Priest Who Pushed Catholic Church to Welcome Gays, Dies at 90
Farewell to my friend, my mentor, and my colleague.
The Rev. John McNeill, an openly gay Roman Catholic priest who, from the 1970s onward, publicly pressed the church to welcome gay men and lesbians — and
Vatican ex-envoy Wesolowski dies ahead of abuse trial
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, has died before he could be tried for child sex offences.
He had been taken ill just before the start of his Vatican trial in July.
He was
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