Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B. NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Archdiocese of Detroit Joins Extremist Homophobia Trend. As I cope with the Sunday-morning death of my father, thoughts of religion and spirituality occupy me. As extended family gathered around his deathbed last week, I reflected on my membership in a large Irish-Catholic clan. While much of my close family has converted to […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Most priests accused of sexually abusing children were never sent to prison. Here’s why. The Catholic Church has been under scrutiny from survivors, victims’ advocates and, in some cases, law enforcement, since early 2002, when the sex abuse crisis that involved church administration covering for thousands of priests first became public knowledge. […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Catholic Church investigating two nuns who returned pregnant after missionary trip to Africa. The Catholic Church launched an investigation into two nuns who took a vow of chastity, yet returned to Italy pregnant after a missionary trip, according to reports. The two women, who belonged to different orders in Sicily, had both […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Altar boys were abused by priests inside The Vatican. Former altar boys have claimed they were molested by priests inside the Vatican, as a lingering scandal surrounding widespread abuse in the Catholic Church erupts at its headquarters once again. Several anonymous former altar boys at the Vatican’s youth seminary alleged at least two priests kissed […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican From West Virginia to the Vatican: How a Catholic bishop secretly sent money from a church hospital to a cardinal in Rome. The idea came to West Virginia Bishop Michael J. Bransfield while he was in Rome visiting an old friend, a powerful cardinal at the Vatican. Bransfield thought the cleric’s apartment […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Vatican admits Pope John Paul II knew of sexual abuse in the church. The late Pope John Paul II was warned about allegations of sexual impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but chose to promote him to Archbishop of Washington anyway following McCarrick’s own denials and an investigation by American bishops that returned “inaccurate […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican 10 years after Vatican takeover, “Legion of Christ” in new abuse crisis. MEXICO CITY: The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them. […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Years after he told Ireland his story of abuse on live TV, ex-politician says Pope must do more for survivors. A former politician who rose to prominence a decade ago after revealing on national television that he was abused in a Catholic-run school in Ireland has said that Pope Francis has a […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican The deadly toll of Catholic church sex abuse in Guam. Walter Denton wanted to grow up to be just like Father Tony Apuron, until the night he says the parish priest raped him in a church rectory. The pastor sent the sobbing 13-year-old altar boy away with a warning: “If you say […]

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