For those of you who didn’t study Latin, annus horribilis means horrible year. That’s probably understating it a bit when it comes to the Catholic Church. In a year when church officials must be scratching their heads wondering what else can go wrong? something worse happens. Just before the Pope’s much publicized summit on clerical […]
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The Catholic bishops met this past week in Washington DC. They had one item on their agenda that was sure to monopolize the press coverage. How were they going to handle the new wave of sex abuse, especially now that it has evolved into a story more about themselves than the priests? This time it’s
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Buffalo my hometown. Thanks to the Catholic Church and its history of sexually abusing children, my city is now the subject of an FBI investigation and the credible accusations of a whistle blower who happened to be the bishop’s former secretary. Siobhan O’Connor chose to do the right and courageous thing when it became obvious
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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced last Thursday a statewide investigation into the Catholic Church in Florida concerning the sexual abuse of children. Her office will coordinate with local prosecutors in the effort. A month ago, I sent a letter to Pam Bondi urging her to launch just such an investigation of the Catholic Church.
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Many people, including myself, have asked the question, “How could this happen in the Catholic Church?” The sexual abuse of children is not isolated to one diocese or geographic area of the church. It’s worldwide and doesn’t seem to be abating any time soon. So, the logical question to ask is, “Why did this happen?”
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The Diocese of Brooklyn has agreed to pay four individuals $27.5 million for sexual abuse. The boys were abused by a lay teacher Angelo Serrano, who worked at St. Lucy-St. Patrick Catholic Church in Clinton Hill from 2003 to 2009, according to a release. Serrano pleaded guilty in 2011 to inappropriate course of sexual conduct
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It sounds like the beginning of a joke or at the very least fake news but it’s actually true. Two Catholic priests from the Archdiocese of Chicago visiting South Beach in Miami were arrested for lewd and lascivious conduct in the middle of the afternoon on Labor Day. They were so engrossed in what they
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It looks like Pope Francis knew about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse of children and seminarians long before he finally asked him to resign. An 11-page letter published on August 22, 2018 reveals that the former papal nuncio (ambassador) to the United States told Pope Francis about McCarrick’s behavior in 2013. He also told him that
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The news out of Pittsburgh last week was nothing new. It’s the same news that’s dominated headlines since 2002 when the Boston Globe started publishing articles about the priest abuse crisis in the Archdiocese of Boston. The stories have not let up since in spite of the Catholic Church’s programs, policies, speeches, and cover-ups. Yet,
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Before you dismiss the title of this post as hyperbole, you have to read Rod Dreher’s piece today. Dreher, a former Catholic and a journalist, is like a dog with a bone. He was tracking the McCarrick story decades ago but couldn’t find anyone who would go on the record with him. Now, the flood
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