Vatican youth seminary scandal grows with new abuse claims.

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 […]

Vatican to keep Celibacy rule in place.

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, […]

Priests in group shut down by Vatican accused of sex abuse.

Catholic Bishops Urge Parents To Reject Transgender Children.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Catholic Bishops Urge Parents To Reject Transgender Children. An open letter by The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging parents to reject transgender children. What did the letter say? “We acknowledge and affirm that all human beings are created by God and thereby have an inherent dignity. We also believe […]

Catholic Church Moved Funds Around to Shield $2 Billion in Assets from Abuse Victim Settlements.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Catholic Church Moved Funds Around to Shield $2 Billion in Assets from Abuse Victim Settlements. The Catholic Church in the U.S. has moved around more than $2 billion in assets in order to prevent the funds from going to alleged abuse victims who sued the Church. As more victims of sexual abuse […]

The Catholic Church Has No Moral Argument on Abortions.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican The Catholic Church Has No Moral Argument on Abortions. If you are going to get your information regarding abortion from anyone, perhaps it is best not to get it from an institution that has no women in its higher orders, and is keeping women as sex slaves. Like, for instance, the Catholic […]

Jesuits name 153 sexually abusive priests and brothers; more expected to be released.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Jesuits name 153 sexually abusive priests and brothers; more expected to be released. Catholic Jesuit provinces covering much of the United States released the names of 153 priests and brothers they believe have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors and vulnerable adults since the 1940s. The list includes priests and brothers […]

More than 70 predator priests still paid by Catholic church in Pennsylvania

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican More than 70 predator priests still paid by Catholic church in Pennsylvania Decades after their crimes were reported and largely ignored, more than 78 priests accused of child sex abuse still collect paychecks and pensions from Pennsylvania dioceses. Each of those priests has been removed from ministry by Pennsylvania bishops, but the pope himself needs […]

Top cardinal tells Vatican that several sex abuse documents were destroyed.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Top cardinal tells Vatican that several sex abuse documents were destroyed. A top German cardinal said Saturday that documents on past sex abuse cases in the church had been destroyed or ignored and urged changes to the Vatican’s legal code of secrecy in such issues to restore trust. Calling for the publication of statistics on the […]

New sex abuse lawsuits against Catholic priests could push NY dioceses to bankruptcy.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican New sex abuse lawsuits against Catholic priests could push NY dioceses to bankruptcy. After decades of anguish and argument over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, a final reckoning may be coming for New York parishioners. Over the last quarter century, sexual abuse allegations, some of them horrendous, have been lodged […]