A report from a grand jury in Pennsylvania shows the extent of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse problem, stating that there are more than 1,000 identifiable victims across the state and that leaders in the Church have been helping the perpetuators cover their tracks for 70 years.
A former archbishop in Australia was let off easy following a conviction for his role in concealing child sex abuse, with officials determining he could serve his one year jail sentence at home.
After hours of debate that went on until the early morning hours on Thursday, Argentina’s Senate voted on a bill to legalize abortion and rejected the measure 38-to-31.
Welcome back to the tidal wave of sexual abuse allegations currently sweeping the Catholic church: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has tendered his resignation to the pope weeks after he was removed from the ministry following an investigation into an allegation that he sexually abused a 16-year-old. This comes weeks…
The Catholic Church, which has yet to meaningfully address cases of child sexual abuse throughout its parishes for years, must now face a new class of people speaking out about sexual abuse within the church: nuns emboldened by the #MeToo movement.
On Wednesday, devout Catholics will be faced with a difficult choice. Do they commit to the commencement of Lent with Ash Wednesday, a day set aside for fasting, self-reflection, and sacrifice? Or do they celebrate St. Valentine’s Day and dine on wine, chocolate, and decadent meats with their SO? Tough choice.
For the past 16 years, Dr. Thomas Hodgman has taught at Adrian College’s Music Department, where he currently serves as the choir director. He enjoys a tenured position at the school even though, in 2005, the Catholic Diocese of Orange County, California paid a $1.6 million settlement to Joelle Casteix, after she…
The night before Easter in 1960, 25-year-old Irene Garza went to give confession at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. She was met by her priest, 27-year-old Rev. John Feit. On Thursday, Feit was convicted of assaulting and murdering Gaza 57 years ago.
I’m actually a little surprised it took the University of Notre Dame a whole three weeks to rescind birth control coverage for its students, faculty, and staff after the Trump administration officially rolled back the contraceptive mandate on October 6
Father Adam Prochaski worked in the Holy Cross parish in Queens from 1969 to 1994. In that time, he allegedly abused over a dozen girls. Though he was supposedly a known abuser, it’s only now that the women coming forward against him are being acknowledged.
Police from the Australian state of Victoria announced on Thursday that Cardinal George Pell—Pope Francis’s top financial advisor and Australia’s senior Roman Catholic prelate—has been charged with sexual assault, the New York Times reports.
MANHATTAN—Past a crush of tourists posing delightedly in front of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” a small crowd gathered around the “Fearless Girl” statue as lawmakers and childhood sexual abuse survivors called for passage of the Child Victims Act.
Pope Francis was criticized this summer for waffling on plans to put child abusers on trial within the Catholic Church, as well as those who facilitated abuse with cover ups. Instead, he strengthened the rules agains sexually abusing children that already existed, which he reminded bishops about one more time for the…
The Year of Mercy is almost at an end (2016 was the Year of mercy?!), having commenced on December 8, 2015. During this magical year, Pope Francis imbued Catholic priests with the power to “absolve” anyone involved in an abortion, so they could still get into heaven and also the church itself for when the donation…
In an attempt to address the approximately 200 claims of sexual abuse that occurred in parishes overseen by the Archdiocese of New York over the past few decades, the church is taking out a loan and launching an independently administered program that will distribute monetary compensation to those willing to…
Pope Francis continues to be (mostly) chill by recently announcing that he’s open to the “possibility” of woman deacons in the Catholic Church. It’s not a woman pope, but it’s a start, I guess.
Catholic priests have become synonymous with “abuse” in recent years, but they’ve never been the only people of the cloth guilty of inflicting physical and emotional pain on innocent victims. Seldom talked about are the rarely maligned women of the Church: sisters who intentionally abused fellow nuns behind convent…
In the run-up to Ireland’s general election next spring, one of the biggest issues is quickly becoming whether the country will vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which places a near-total ban on abortion. Liam Neeson recently did a voiceover for an ad advocating that the law be repealed, leading to an epidemic of…
Chill Pope Francis is continuing his reign, this week making it easier for Catholics to back out of marriage mistakes.
During his weekly address, Pope Francis admitted that there are situations where a married couple’s separation might become “inevitable” or even “morally necessarily,” especially if the situation involves domestic abuse.
