The Irish Abuse Story Gets Worse
I blogged a couple times already on a report by an investigative commission in Ireland on the abuse of children in the care of the Roman Catholic Church (such as orphanages and schools) which had been...
View ArticleRoman Catholic Clerical Abuse Surfaces In Germany
I’ve blogged before about the Roman Catholic clerical-abuse scandals, here in the U.S. and in Ireland. It’s also happened in other countries, such as Australia and Canada. But this scandal has finally...
View ArticleThe Pope Reassigned A Known Pedophile Priest
It’s official. Pope Benedict XVI has, in fact, been directly involved in at least one priestly-pedophilia case. It happened while he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising (and a Cardinal as well). The...
View ArticleCatholic Sex Scandal Reaches Brazil
The scandal of Roman Catholic clergy abusing children has broken in yet another country: Brazil. This time the story includes — of all things — a sex tape! The AP reports via Google News (WebCite...
View ArticleA Priest The Vatican Refused To Discipline
The failure of the Roman Catholic Church — at every level — to deal with abusive clergy within its ranks, is slowly becoming more and more evident, as increasing amounts of information come to light...
View ArticleArchdiocesan Lawyer Implies Sex-Abuse Victims “Liked It”
Note: See below for a “good-news update” about this case, as well as another update. Most of us realize that, when we’ve dug ourselves into a hole, the best thing to do is drop the shovel and climb...
View ArticleThings Just Keep Getting Worse For Catholic Clerical Order
A couple years ago I blogged about the Vatican’s takeover of the long-troubled priestly order Legionaries of Christ. This order’s founder, the late Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, had been a darling of...
View ArticleNewark Archdiocese Allowed Admitted Pedophile Access To Children
This is a story which is a couple weeks old, but sadly, it might as well have been decades old. Why? Because it’s merely the latest example of a long-standing pattern of behavior which the Roman...
View ArticleThe Irish Abuse Story Gets Worse
I blogged a couple times already on a report by an investigative commission in Ireland on the abuse of children in the care of the Roman Catholic Church (such as orphanages and schools) which had been...
View ArticleRoman Catholic Clerical Abuse Surfaces In Germany
I’ve blogged before about the Roman Catholic clerical-abuse scandals, here in the U.S. and in Ireland. It’s also happened in other countries, such as Australia and Canada. But this scandal has finally...
View ArticleThe Pope Reassigned A Known Pedophile Priest
It’s official. Pope Benedict XVI has, in fact, been directly involved in at least one priestly-pedophilia case. It happened while he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising (and a Cardinal as well). The...
View ArticleCatholic Sex Scandal Reaches Brazil
The scandal of Roman Catholic clergy abusing children has broken in yet another country: Brazil. This time the story includes — of all things — a sex tape! The AP reports via Google News (WebCite...
View ArticleA Priest The Vatican Refused To Discipline
The failure of the Roman Catholic Church — at every level — to deal with abusive clergy within its ranks, is slowly becoming more and more evident, as increasing amounts of information come to light...
View ArticleArchdiocesan Lawyer Implies Sex-Abuse Victims “Liked It”
Note: See below for a “good-news update” about this case, as well as another update. Most of us realize that, when we’ve dug ourselves into a hole, the best thing to do is drop the shovel and climb...
View ArticleThings Just Keep Getting Worse For Catholic Clerical Order
A couple years ago I blogged about the Vatican’s takeover of the long-troubled priestly order Legionaries of Christ. This order’s founder, the late Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, had been a darling of...
View ArticleNewark Archdiocese Allowed Admitted Pedophile Access To Children
This is a story which is a couple weeks old, but sadly, it might as well have been decades old. Why? Because it’s merely the latest example of a long-standing pattern of behavior which the Roman...
View ArticleSouthern Baptists Never Reported Suspected Child Abuser
As I’ve said dozens of times, the problem of clerical child abuse is most assuredly not solely a Catholic problem. It’s true a worldwide “priestly pedophilia” scandal has wracked the R.C. Church for...
View ArticlePope Says Abuse Scandal Is “Persecution” of Church
Since he was elected by the College of Cardinals in 2013, Pope Francis has veered all over the place with regard to the two-decade-old worldwide Catholic clerical abuse scandal. At times, he’s...
View Article“60 Minutes” Reports on Diocesan Whistleblower
The Justice Department has launched investigations into a number of dioceses in the US. One of them is that of Buffalo, NY (locally-cached article). It’s not exactly new, though — records were...
View ArticleDC Parish Mired in “Priestly Pedophilia” Scandal
One of the more common protests made by Catholic apologists, regarding the worldwide “priestly pedophilia” scandal, is that it’s a “historical problem.” As in, “it’s ‘history’,” a thing of the past,...
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