An investigation by the news agency AP has revealed the shocking extent of sexual assault and abuse of nuns within the Catholic Church in Kerala, India. Several harrowing accounts, some dating back to the 1990s, detail instances of forced kisses and unwanted advances by powerful priests, some of them under the influence of alcohol. One nun recalled being […]
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It is time to practice what the brotherhood has so eloquently preached, but so abysmally failed to practice: Visit the survivors. Support them. Speak up now. The Year of Our Lord, 2018 was an annus horribilis for the Roman Catholic Church in India, particularly Kerala. It is not that some of the men in frocks were caught […]
Read More(CNN)A witness in the trial of an Indian Catholic bishop accused of raping a nun has died, according to police, prompting a probe into his death. Father Kuriakose Kattuthara was around 62 years old, police said. He died just weeks after giving his testimony in the case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused […]
Read MoreNew Delhi, India (CNN)As more than 200 leaders from the Roman Catholic Church meet in Rome for an unprecedented summit to address clergy sexual abuse, a crisis is being renewed in India. In the southern Indian state of Kerala, accusations of sexual abuse involving the Catholic Church have demonstrated the challenges of holding some members of the […]
Read MoreBy MRT on December 20, 2021 Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni reported this Sunday that a report on sexual abuse of minors within the Spanish Church has been sent to “the competent authorities” to proceed according to “current canonical regulations”, while Spanish ecclesiastical authorities will open an unprecedented investigation into more than 1,000 cases of pedophile […]
Read MoreComments By Heather Galloway • Updated: 22/11/2021 Activists are calling for an independent probe into alleged sexual abuse in Spain’s Catholic Church. They insist the number of cases is on a par with neighbour France, where a recent investigation found 218,000 victims since 1950. But as the Episcopal Conference’s gathering of bishops closed in Madrid on Friday (November 19), […]
Read MoreThe case of Gianluigi Torzi is likely to shed a light on one of the Catholic church’s most controversial financial deals in decades© FT montage Miles Johnson in Rome June 10 2020 We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest The Big Read news every morning. As the rest of Italy […]
Read MoreJuly 8, 2019Featured, –Will Kohler Let us revisit some of the worst “Evangelical Christian” scandals of our time which according to the right-wing’s own their own logic would prove that every “Christian” is an adulterous, drug crazed, satanic felon, and murderer. Hallelujah! Aimee Semple McPherson, 1920s–40s One of the most famous evangelist scandals involved Canadian-born […]
Read MoreIndian Bishop Is Acquitted on Charges of Raping a NunThe bishop, Franco Mulakkal, had been accused of repeatedly assaulting the nun in the southern state of Kerala over a two-year period.By Suhasini RajJan. 14, 2022 Those We’ve lostDonald Cozzens, Priest Who Pressed Church From Within, Dies at 82He challenged the Roman Catholic Church on the […]
Read MoreAn Associated Press investigation found that those credibly accused are now teachers, coaches, counselors and also live near playgrounds. Roger Sinclair was removed by the Diocese of Greensburg in Pennsylvania in 2002 for allegedly abusing a teenage boy decades earlier.Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office / via APOct. 4, 2019, 6:03 PM CESTBy Claudia Lauer, Associated […]
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