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McCarrick Report: details of abuse ignored

11/14/2020 at 3:42 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, November 10, 2020 The Vatican has issued a 450-page report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, acknowledging that reports of McCarrick’s sexual misconduct had circulated for years but insisting that Pope Francis was unaware of any serious charges against... read more

Alleged victims still waiting for justice in case of Argentine bishop working at Vatican

11/13/2020 at 6:46 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Inés San Martín, Crux, November 13, 2020 ROSARIO, Argentina – As the release of a Vatican report on the rise of laicized former cardinal Theodore McCarrick puts the spotlight on how clerical culture can protect high-ranking officials when they are accused of abuse, some eyes turned to... read more

McCarrick and John Paul II: key moments in the Vatican’s report

11/13/2020 at 5:24 PM By Kevin Edward White
by Joshua J. McElwee, National Catholic Reporter, November 11, 2020. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's explosive report on the career of disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick makes one thing devastatingly clear: the late Pope John Paul II decided to appoint the priest as archbishop of... read more

The McCarrick Report and the need for new protocols (Part 1)

11/13/2020 at 4:51 PM By Kevin Edward White
I told the Congregation of Bishops about Theodore McCarrick’s disturbing behaviors and some of my account appears in The McCarrick Report. But there is more to be said. By Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D., National Catholic Reporter, November 11, 2020 On June 5, 2019, I spoke to JL, who was... read more

Ohio Priest Arrested on Sex Trafficking Charges

08/19/2020 at 10:43 AM By Kevin Edward White
Fr. Zacharias has served as pastor at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, in Findlay, Ohio since 2017. Catholic News Agency, August 19, 2020 TOLEDO, Ohio — A priest in the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio was arrested and charged with sex trafficking on Tuesday. The diocese has placed him on... read more
Former Archbishop Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus

Ex-archbishop in Chile dies before facing trial for sex abuse

08/15/2020 at 12:49 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Inés San Martín, Crux, August 14, 2020 Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus, died age 87 in Chile, on Aug. 12, 2020. He died two years after being defrocked by Pope Francis. He faced several allegations of sexually abusing minors. ROSARIO, Argentina – A former powerful Chilean archbishop... read more

It’s an issue

06/08/2020 at 4:43 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Phil Lawler | Jun 02, 2020 A friend recently called my attention to a debate held at the Oxford Union last June, on the resolution: “This House believes the Catholic Church can never pay for its sins.” It wasn’t really much of a debate. With their focus on the sex-abuse scandal, the... read more

Catholic Citizens to Feature Fr. Paul Sullins at the luncheon on June 12, 2020 [Cancelled by Gov. Pritzker’s Shut Down Orders]

04/24/2020 at 5:58 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
The Catholic Citizens if Illinois luncheon on June 12, 2018 also has been cancelled due to Governor Pritzker's shut-down order. Mark your Calendar for June 12, 2020 Luncheon. Rev. D. Paul Sullins, Ph.D. will be the speaker at the the June 12th luncheon.  Father Sullins is a Senior... read more

Future Priests Forge Ahead: Seminarians Say Lessons From Scandals Bolster Hope, Faith

02/26/2020 at 7:30 PM By Kevin Edward White
Several seminarians who spoke with the Register said they grew in their love for the priesthood, thanks to the support and example they received within their seminaries. Mass is celebrated at John Vianney College Seminary in Miami. Transitional Deacon Connor Penn says, ‘God’s people... read more
St. Patrick's Seminary & University in Menlo Park, California.

The State of the Seminary and Reasons for Hope

02/05/2020 at 7:13 PM By Kevin Edward White
The seminarians whom I serve, as a professor of philosophy, wish eagerly to share the Gospel and the freedom they themselves have found in Christ. Catholic World Report, John Macias, January 30, 2020 Our Lord told his disciples, “the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask... read more

A Trojan Horse in the Pontifical Biblical Commission

12/26/2019 at 3:14 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Catholic Thing, December 26, 2019 In his 1967 classic defense of the Catholic Faith against modern errors, Trojan Horse in the City of God, Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote: “With a religion the only question that can matter is whether or not it is true. The question of... read more
Archbishop Charles Scicluna, left, and Spanish Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right

Top Vatican official says celibacy, homosexuality not cause of abuse crisis

12/15/2019 at 7:56 PM By Kevin Edward White

Vatican youth seminary scandal grows with new abuse claims

11/17/2019 at 3:35 PM By Kevin Edward White

Buffalo’s Christ the King Seminary: Sexual Misconduct Dates Back Decades

11/15/2019 at 11:32 AM By Kevin Edward White

Q&A turns up the heat as Latin Americans talk clerical abuse

11/08/2019 at 10:26 AM By Kevin Edward White
Theodore McCarrick (defrocked)

At least 7 more people told the Vatican they were sexually abused as boys by Theodore McCarrick, according to sources

10/21/2019 at 4:07 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic University campus

Msgr. Rossi Takes Leave of Absence From Catholic University of America Board

09/21/2019 at 11:28 AM By Kevin Edward White
Marie Collins, then member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, watches as Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the commission, speaks at the Vatican (CNS photo/Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)

In US tour, Marie Collins exposes clerical culture behind abuse cover-up

09/12/2019 at 6:35 PM By Kevin Edward White
Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, N.Y

‘This could be the end for me,’ Buffalo bishop says in taped conversation

09/04/2019 at 4:36 PM By Kevin Edward White

McCarrick created ‘culture of fear and intimidation,’ Seton Hall review finds

09/04/2019 at 4:16 PM By Kevin Edward White