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Jul 29, 2021 · The latest sex scandal in the Catholic Church alleges that a prominent priest, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrell, used the gay hookup app Grindr to habitually violate his vow of celibacy while serving as general secretary of the U.S. bishops' conference. The story, which appeared on a muckraking Catholic news site called The Pillar and was based on ...
Oct 5, 2021 · A Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.
Nov 25, 2020 · Even when the faithful don’t believe it, the above statement is still scandalous. The faithful feel betrayed by their shepherd, who should be witnessing to Christ’s truth. This can cause a mistrust of the hierarchy and a disrespect for the priesthood. The Catechism names two more factors that can increase the gravity of scandal.
Aug 15, 2021 · The Deep Strangeness of the Catholic Church’s Latest Scandal. The outing of a top administrator of the nation’s conference of Catholic bishops as a regular Grindr user was clearly a story. But ...
Oct 26, 2021 · Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, provides compelling evidence in THE TRUTH ABOUT CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE of the great progress that the Church has made in ...
Jul 13, 2021 · John Kennedy, seen attending church in Kentucky in 1962, was the first Catholic US president. Decades ago, when Kennedy was in the White House, the president's faith was hardly ever in the news.
Oct 30, 2021 · Oct. 30, 2021, 11:40 AM PDT. By Ginger Gibson. WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden met Friday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, he presented the pontiff with a 100-year-old handspun cloak from ...
