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Pope Leo XIV is breaking with tradition by inviting four men to live with him in the papal apartment. With Francis as the model of humility, this move raises serious questions about papal authority, moral leadership, and the Church’s future. iPINIONS argues this living arrangement is less about community and more about hypocrisy. Read my… Read more.
Archbishop Gregory denounces Biden No self-respecting Christian would judge another Christian’s faith. After all, the Bible teaches, Judge not, that ye be not judged. (Matthew 7:1-3 KJV) Yet that’s precisely what no less a Christian than Cardinal Wilton Gregory did. He’s the Archbishop of Washington. So you’d think he would know better than to commit this cardinal sin,… Read more.
The Boy Scouts of America says it prepares young boys for life. But it turns out much of that preparation involves grooming them for sex. And we now know that its legacy of systemic sexual abuse of boys rivals that of the Catholic Church. Boy Scouts Settles Sexual Abuse Claims for $2.4 Billion The Boy… Read more.
Forgive my French. But are you surprised by this: According to law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl (WSW), which conducted the investigation, Benedict failed to prevent abuse of minors during his tenure as archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982. ‘In a total of four cases, we reached a consensus there was a failure to act,’… Read more.
Catholic nuns are predators, too? Anyone who attended Catholic grade school can testify to witnessing nuns display spasms of demonic violence. Witnessing that informed the cynicism I vented earlier this year (on February 26) in “More Catholic Depravity: Nuns Pimping Orphans to Priests.” But if nuns could serve as madams for pedophile priests, it’s hardly… Read more.
Nothing has defined the Catholic Church in recent years quite like the civil reckoning for the systemic way priests raped young boys. Catholic dioceses across the United States have paid more than $3 billion dollars to victims of clergy abuse. Often, these priest abuse settlements also bought silence from victims. (abuselawsuit.com) I have written many… Read more.
Canada’s aboriginal sin America has been reckoning with the legacy of its “original sin” for centuries. This reckoning has been notorious – and often deadly. But it might surprise many to learn that Canada has been reckoning with the legacy of its “aboriginal sin” for just as long. This reckoning, however, has been tame and relatively suppressed. Indeed, it’s easy to… Read more.
I am loath to abuse my standing as the deprogrammed son of an evangelical preacher man. But I am moved by the Holy Spirit (heehee) to at least acknowledge this seminal religious trend (and this is Holy Week after all): Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for… Read more.
Studies show that people in the Bible Belt watch the most porn. And church sex scandals are damning every religious denomination in America. The contradiction and hypocrisy are self-evident. But the tug and correlation between the pulpit and porn speak volumes. Latest church sex scandals The child sex abuse scandal now defines the Catholic Church.… Read more.
And things are getting very salty indeed. In 2012, international headlines suggested that the Vatican papers would shake the foundations of the Vatican much as the Pentagon papers did those of the Pentagon. But anyone who knew anything about papal history, or had merely seen season 1 of The Borgias, knew or should have known… Read more.
