Category: Christanity

Sex scandals, land scam, and charges of suppressing cases against priests. As Kerala Church, across denominations, fights the accusations, The Indian Express reports on what has brought it here and the debate within. On February 15, a 36-year-old employed in a private financial firm was collecting proofs to avoid paying excess tax. The management graduate, […]

(Bloomberg) — Poland’s Catholic Church admitted to failures amid a growing scandal about pedophilia among priests, but bishops took no specific action to punish wrongdoers, pending an investigation. The admission followed the release of a crowd-funded documentary film, “Tell No One,” that detailed how the church moved priests who abused children from parish to parish […]

KOCHI, INDIA — After rigorous public charges of foul play and sabotage, Kerala’s High Court in Kochi Nov. 20 overruled a move to transfer the trial judge from the high-profile case against a bishop in the alleged rapes of a nun.  Critics said the transfer of Judge G. Gopakumar, announced Nov. 12, would have stymied the […]

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 […]