The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand confidential files and testimony from church leaders, according to two people familiar with the probe. The subpoenas, served last week, follow a scathing state grand jury report over the summer that found […]
Cardinal Ouellet to Abp. Viganò: Your testimony was ‘political’ and ‘extremely reprehensible’…
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, today issued an open letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in response to his explosive 11-page testimony, alleging that Pope Francis and several high-level prelates were complicit in covering up ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s homosexual abuse of seminarians. In his letter, released in French (official text), […]
German Catholic Church Reveals Scope of Sexual Abuse…
The scope of sex abuse within Germany’s Catholic Church has been laid out for all to see following a four-year investigation. Head bishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx admitted that the Church has lost public trust. The German Catholic Church was forced to confront decades-worth of sexual abuse allegations with the presentation of a large-scale investigation at […]
Priest Who Fled America Blamed Sex Abuse On Cancer He Didn’t Have…
What Do Church Abuse Policies Mean by ‘Vulnerable Adult’?…
Leaked Sex Abuse Report Rocks German Church, 3,677 Victims…
Two German major media outlets – Der Spiegel and Die Zeit – leaked today the findings of a sexual abuse commission funded by the German Bishops’ Conference and which Cardinal Reinhard Marx had planned to present to the public on 25 September. The report shows that many abusing priests were simply transferred to other parishes […]
More Than Half of the German Abuse Victims by Catholic Priests Were Under the Age of 13…
When it Comes to Abuse by Priests, a Crime Is a Crime…
What Has Pope Francis Covered Up?
The Catholic Church is confronting a series of interconnected scandals so shameful that its very survival is threatened. Pope Francis himself is accused of covering up the activities of one of the nastiest sexual predators ever to wear a cardinal’s hat: his close ally Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, DC. Popes John Paul […]
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Journalists Must Ask What Happened to ‘Cache of Documents’ Benedict Gave to Francis…
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has spoken out from an undisclosed location in response to attempts to discredit his 11-page testimony implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in coving up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s abuse of seminarians and priests. In an interview this week with Aldo Maria Valli, an Italian journalist who helped Viganò plan the […]