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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Cardinal George Pell freed from prison after High Court overturns sex abuse conviction. Cardinal George Pell has been freed from prison after Australia’s High Court unanimously overturned his conviction on five counts of historical child sex abuse. The momentous decision, handed down Tuesday by Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, ends a five-year legal […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Priest says abortion worse than pedophilia, which “doesn’t kill anyone” A Catholic priest in Rhode Island who barred state lawmakers who supported an abortion rights bill from receiving communion at his church has doubled down on his stance, saying abortion is worse than pedophilia. In an interview over the weekend with NBC […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican List of 6,754 Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse is released to the public. Over the last year and a half, 178 U.S. dioceses serving 64.7 million Catholics have released lists of priests “credibly accused” of sexual abuse. However, the problem with these lists is that they exist independently of one another, with no consensus as to what […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Vatican youth seminary scandal grows with new abuse claims. A scandal over alleged sexual molestation and abuse at the Vatican’s youth seminary is growing, with more former papal altar boys alleging inappropriate behavior by priests inside the Vatican walls. Le Iene, an Italian investigative television program, plans to air the new allegations […]

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Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Vatican to keep Celibacy rule in place. Ever since Francis summoned 185 bishops to the Vatican in October for three weeks of discussion about the Amazon region, the church had been in a state of agitation — and not over burning rain forests or endangered indigenous cultures or the mercurial Brazilian president, […]

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