For the first time the Roman Catholic Church in Italy has admitted that about 100 cases of paedophile priests have been reported to church authorities during the past 10 years. But the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference refused to reveal how many priests in the country had subsequently been defrocked under canon law. It also did […]
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Shekinah TV, run by an evangelical movement under the church, comes on the heels of two top priests being charged with rape and corruption. Mired in allegations of rape and corruption against its top priests, the Catholic Church in Kerala has launched a television channel to spread “positive news”. Shekinah TV went on air on […]
Read MoreA 40-year-old priest from Italy has been placed under house arrest after allegations have surfaced that he had embezzled more than $117,000 from his parish funds, to finance gay sex parties and the purchase of date rape drug GHB. Father Francesco Spagnesi, a former medical student who became a highly regarded Roman Catholic priest from Prato […]
Read MoreFrance’s Prime Minister Jean Castex has been received in Rome this Monday by Pope Francis amid shocking revelations of sexual abuse and a “secrecy of confession” controversy that have shaken the French Catholic Church to its core. Castex’s visit to the Vatican this Monday morning had been overshadowed by reactions following the publication of the conclusions of the Independent Commission on […]
Read MoreThe recent outing of gay priests by a male prostitute has shocked the Italian Church and prompted several dioceses to address the issue of homosexual activity among their clergy. Francesco Mangiacapra, a former lawyer who works as a prostitute, announced recently that in late February he forwarded to the Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Campania a […]
Read MoreThe Church is one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic. Whenever we violate these marks of the Church, we abuse the Church. Acts of Church abuse are increasing. In 2017, Father Antonio Spadaro, an Italian Jesuit—often identified as “the Pope’s mouthpiece”—defended the theological ambiguities of Amoris Laetitia. “Theology is not mathematics,” he said, adding, “2 + 2 in […]
Read MoreVATICAN CITY – The latest – and most serious – wave of pedophilia and cover-up allegations to hit the Vatican is shining a new light on the gap dividing the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. And almost none of it is about the charges of widespread clerical abuse scandals. Dozens of commentators and Vatican watchers have […]
Read MorePlans to hold a mass in memory of a suspected mafia boss have sparked a scandal in Italy, with a parish priest planning to appeal to Pope Francis after authorities banned the ceremony. “Sinners deserve God’s mercy,” Father Michele delle Foglie told several newspapers Wednesday. After a request from the family of Rocco Sollecito, 67, […]
Read MoreThe Vatican is holding its biggest criminal trial in modern history. The case alleges 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal, of defrauding the Holy See of tens of millions of dollars. AILSA CHANG, HOST: An unprecedented trial began in Italy today, specifically at the Vatican. One of the defendants is a cardinal. He and nine […]
Read MoreVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis told prelates Saturday to shun the “logic of human power,” pressing his campaign to root out corruption and other wrongdoing from the Vatican’s scandal-tainted power structures. The admonition came a day after the latest embarrassment for the Vatican hierarchy — the arrest by Italian authorities of a Vatican accountant, in […]
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