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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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