The Vatican on Saturday said it had defrocked ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, leveling a historic penalty against a onetime church power broker and former archbishop of Washington after the church found him guilty of sexual abuse. It is the most significant abuse-related punishment given to a former cardinal in the modern history of the Roman Catholic […]
Ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Defrocked by Vatican for Sexual Abuse…
Feds Open Clergy Abuse Probe in Pennsylvania…
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 […]
20 Months After an Arson Attack, the Loaves Church in Israel Reopens…
Twenty months after an arson attack by the extremists in 2015, the church in northern Israel reopens following renovation work at the cost of $1million, with Israel contributing $400,000. The church in northern Israel where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes reopened on Sunday, 20 months after an arson attack […]