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 […]

Vatican has paid over $2 billion to 100,000+ rape victims in U.S. alone.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Vatican has paid over $2 billion to 100,000+ child rape victims in U.S. alone. Two American experts told a Vatican summit that the full costs of the sexual abuse crisis – including financial payouts, emotional distress, alienation among both clergy and laity, and damage to the church’s moral authority – is essentially […]

The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia’s Holocaust.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia’s Holocaust. During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Catholic priests and Muslim clerics were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population. From 1941 until 1945, the Nazi-installed regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia carried out some of the […]

Warnings about West Virginia bishop went unheeded as he doled out cash gifts to Catholic leaders .

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Warnings about West Virginia bishop went unheeded as he doled out cash gifts to Catholic leaders . Senior Catholic leaders in the United States and the Vatican began receiving warnings about West Virginia Bishop Michael J. Bransfield as far back as 2012. In letters and emails, parishioners claimed that Bransfield was abusing […]

Only 10% of donations of major catholic fund go to charitable works.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit. Only 10% of donations to the Peter’s Pence collection go to charitable works Every year, Catholics around the world donate tens of millions of dollars to the pope. Bishops exhort the faithful to support the weak and suffering through the pope’s […]

Rhode Island Bill to make Catholic Church sex abuse reports public was buried.

Join: facebook.com/occupythevatican Rhode Island Bill to make Catholic Church sex abuse reports public was buried. Rhode Island’s attorney general says lawmakers have buried a bill that would have made grand jury reports about sex abuse public in the Catholic Church even without indictments. Attorney General Peter Neronha’s bill is garnering new attention after the Diocese […]

Bishop under investigation for sexual misconduct went on vacation with Pope Francis.

Join: facebook.com/occupythevatican Bishop under investigation for sexual misconduct went on vacation with Pope Francis. A bishop currently under investigation for sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement, including claims he had naked selfies and gay pornography on his phone, is on retreat with Pope Francis and other senior members of the Roman Curia. The bishop is Gustavo […]

The state of West Virginia sues Catholic Church for hiring pedophiles.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican The state of West Virginia sues Catholic Church for hiring pedophiles. The U.S. state of West Virginia sued a local Catholic diocese Tuesday because it had knowingly employed pedophiles and did not inform the public. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed the lawsuit against the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston as well as […]