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 […]
Read more "The deadly toll of Catholic church sex abuse in Guam."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Texas church closes after priest dies, members get coronavirus. A Texas church canceled Mass services just days after reopening after a priest died and several members of his religious order tested positive for the coronavirus. Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Houston reopened its doors on May 2, as the Lone Star State began loosening its stay-at-home orders. But on […]
Read more "Texas church closes after priest dies, members get coronavirus."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Over 900 accused U.S. clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists. Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic […]
Read more "Over 900 accused U.S. clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Women sue Dutch Catholic order over forced labor claims. Nineteen women are suing a Dutch monastery and its Catholic order over claims they were subjected to forced labour and abuse by nuns between 1951 and 1979 during periods of virtual imprisonment as children or young adults. The case against the Sisters of […]
Read more "Women sue Dutch Catholic order over forced labor claims."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Polish abuse scandal: Victims take on the Catholic Church. Marek Mielewczyk was a 13-year-old altar boy when a priest asked him to come to his presbytery. “This is where I was abused for the first time,” he says. He is one of several victims, now adults, featured in a documentary about Polish […]
Read more "Polish abuse scandal: Victims take on the Catholic Church."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse lawsuits. HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania – The Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, six months after disclosing it had paid millions of dollars to people sexually abused as children by its clerics. The diocese joins at least 20 others across the United States in […]
Read more "Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse lawsuits."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican 12,000+ Catholic churches in the US applied for PPP loans – and 9,000 got them. As suffering small businesses around the country clamor for much-needed loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, news of prominent national chains receiving millions of dollars sparked an outcry among owners of smaller businesses who have been […]
Read more "12,000+ Catholic churches in the US applied for PPP loans – and 9,000 got them."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Pope Francis accused of comparing convicted child abuser cardinal to Jesus after controversial comments. Pope Francis has faced fierce criticism online after appearing to compare Cardinal Pell, recently acquitted of five child sexual abuse offenses during the 1990s, to Jesus Christ himself. During a Mass celebrated at his residence in Santa Marta […]
Read more "Pope Francis accused of comparing convicted child abuser cardinal to Jesus after controversial comments."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Jesus told his disciples: “Nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light.” The teaching is playing out in real time at the Vatican, the heart of the church founded by the Nazarene. Prosecutors and gendarmerie staged a raid this […]
Read more "The Vatican’s new corruption scandal."Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Dozens of Priests accused of abuse found work abroad with Church help. The Rev. Jose Antonio Pinal, a young priest from Mexico, arrived at his first parish in rural Northern California in 1980, fresh out of seminary. The priest befriended the Torres family, helping the parents, also immigrants from Mexico, to fill […]
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