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RSSPope Benedict XVI said on Monday that the Catholic Church must reflect on the failures in its message that allowed for the sexual abuse scandal and that it has to find a way to help heal victims and not ordain potential pedophiles.
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Once again, the Pope has jumped into the condom debate. After condemning people to aids for years, the Catholic Church seems to be coming into the 20th century.
I have...
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BEIJING – China’s government-backed Catholic church says it will proceed with the ordination of a bishop who does not have the pope’s approval, despite...
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The Belgian Roman Catholic Church has begged for more time to deal with widespread child sexual abuse by its clergy because the problem is “so big and touches on...
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Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland’s most notoriously abusive priests, the country’s top Catholic churchman, Cardinal...
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Roman Catholic Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium offered to keep a sexual molestation case against a bishop secret until the bishop retired, an official said...
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German prosecutors say a Roman Catholic priest has been charged with twice raping a 14-year-old girl 20 years ago.
Osnabrueck prosecution spokesman Alexander Retemeyer...
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In a press release, the Archdiocese of Mexico City criticized the country’s Supreme Court for ruling in favor of the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage” in...
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Thousands of demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage have gathered outside Argentina’s congress ahead of a key vote by lawmakers.
Supporters of the measure...
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The secretary general’s office of the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico has called on the country’s newly elected officials to not to rest “until justice, peace,...
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The Archdiocese of Mexico warned of “the latent danger that can generate a lack of citizen participation in elections today for fear of the presence of organized...
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The Vatican said Friday it was astonished and outraged that Belgian police investigating priestly sex abuse had conducted raids that also targeted the graves of two...
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German prosecutors are investigating allegations that the country’s top Roman Catholic cleric was responsible in the 1980s for hiring a priest known to have...
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A Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a former altar boy in Rio de Janeiro and turning his parish home into an “erotic dungeon” has surrendered and is...
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Cuban President Raul Castro has held a rare meeting with leading members of the Catholic Church.
Mr Castro met Cardinal Jaime Ortega, head of the country’s...
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Asinine remarks are not exclusively the territory of mullahs and Islamic clerics, other religions have their equally idiotic religious personages who make equally...
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The Vatican on Saturday ordered the overhaul of one of the Catholic Church’s largest and most influential organizations following an investigation into decades of...
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Belgium’s longest serving bishop resigned Friday, expressing sorrow for having sexually abused a young boy both as a priest and after becoming a bishop in...
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Brazilian police have detained an 83-year-old priest after a congressional hearing produced allegations he molested boys as young as 12, fueling a growing scandal...
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Pope Benedict cannot be called to testify at any sex abuse trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official says.
Pope being the head of...
made popular Apr 19 2010
A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico, Felipe Arizmendi, has sparked outrage by suggesting eroticism on television and internet pornography were to blame for child sex...
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Australian alternative television news program “Hungry Beast” reports on the history of child abuse in the Catholic Church.
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Catholic church clutching at straws in vain attempts to find scapegoat for endemic child abuse within it’s ranks. Blaming someone else doesn’t absolve them...
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Mexico is the Latin American country with more cases of sexual abuse by priests detected and processed by the unit used by the Church to prosecute such offenses.
The...
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Police say a man attacked the Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster with a broom handle during an Easter service in the city’s cathedral.
Police said in a statement...
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And you thought Hitler Youth was the worse thing on this resume?
The corrupt Catholic Church has reached a new low. Faced with widespread outrage that the Church...
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The voluntary crucifixions in the northern Philippines were the most extreme displays of religious devotion in this mainly Catholic country, where millions are praying...
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In a move that is unprecedented in modern history of the papacy, Pope Benedict (XVI) has resigned his position as the leader of the over one billion Catholics...
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British protesters called on Pope Benedict XVI to resign Sunday as they staged a demonstration over the Catholic Church’s handling of clerical sex abuse...
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Marko Tervaportti, the director of the Catholic Information Centre in Helsinki, criticises what he sees as the excessive enthusiasm of the media in reporting on the...
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Pope Benedict has written a pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland with guidelines on preventing and punishing sexual abuse of children by priests.
Scandals...
made popular Mar 19 2010
Let’s look at the scandals of the Catholic Church, just the recent ones:
Like a similar church sex scandal that rocked the United States in 2002, the European...
made popular Mar 19 2010
Before raising the allegations of sexual abuse, the reporter asks if the priest had ever sinned.
“Who has never committed a sin?” Barbosa responds.
The...
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Brazilian authorities are investigating three priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on...
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Amidst the resurgence of violence in Acapulco where over the weekend more than 30 people where executed, the Catholic Church has chimed its bells in mourning and...
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There are no accurate figures for the number of exorcisms in Mexico.
But the Roman Catholic Church says that in Mexico City alone there are about 10 cases a month -...
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Pope said on Friday that celibacy is “the sign of full devotion, the entire commitment to the Lord and to the ‘Lord’s business’, an expression...
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The Catholic Church in Mexico has and continues to benefit from drug cartels. Not only do they benefit greatly, from cartels, they repay these benefits with loyal...
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How can we legalise death when we want life? That could be the question; many Kenyans are asking themselves after the Parliamentary Select Committee on constitution...
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A harmonised draft constitution has now been handed over to Kenya’s Parliamentary Select Committee. Influential Christian leaders are warning that the question of...
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