The case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, which began in 2018 after a nun accused him of raping her multiple times, went to trial in August 2020. Here is a timeline of significant events. 2018 June 27: Police in Kottayam in the state of Kerala, India, register a First Information Report against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, […]

THRISSUR: A gold scam has surfaced in  the St. Mary’s Forane Church at Koratty  belonging to the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese which is already facing a land scam. It is alleged that Father  Mathew Manavalan heading the church known as  ‘Koratti Muthi’ misappropriated  over  three  kg of gold which the faithful had offered to the deity since 2014. […]

Pope Francis recently stated that Catholic nuns in various parts of the world, including Africa, Europe, India and Latin America, have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of priests and bishops. In his comments during a news conference held aboard the papal plane, Pope Francis referred to a high-profile scandal within the Community of St. John – a religious […]

“I should have demanded the dismissal of Bishop Vangheluwe,” Danneels told the papers. Bruges bishop Roger Vangheluwe resigned in April, admitting that he had repeatedly sexually abused his nephew some 25 years earlier. The victim produced a secretly recorded tape on which Danneels can be heard asking him to forgive the bishop or at least […]

KOTTAYAM, INDIA — A court in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala Jan. 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar in the historic case of the rape of a nun, saying the prosecution failed to prove the charges against him. The court did not explain the reasoning behind its verdict. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge […]

NEW DELHI — The head of India’s Catholic religious organization has urged Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai to reach out to the accuser nun and her supporters in the recently concluded rape case and expressed the solidarity of women religious in India with the nun. “We would like the Church authorities to at least now, try and reach […]

A passive headline turns the rape narrative on its head. It tells us that women get raped, not that it is men who rape women. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has kicked up a storm by recommending that the practice of ‘confessions’ in churches should be abolished as it can apparently lead to women […]

In trying to serve the establishment, some priests have shown the church in darkest light. The only silver lining comes from brave nuns and honest parishioners. Fr Stephen, named after the martyr for truth in the calendar of the church, the priest-in-charge of a Catholic congregation in Wynand, Kerala, announces to the world that Sister […]

The Kerala police on Monday registered a case of rape and molestation against four priests in connection with the Church sex scandal. The victim, in her statement to police, confirms she was raped & blackmailed.  In June, a man from Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district accused five priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of using his […]

Sister Jesme was in her twenties and new to convent life when she found herself alone in a room with a priest. He told her to undress, then he did the same. She was so shocked she did not know what to do, so she complied. She had never seen a naked man before. “I […]