On Friday, the influential Bishops’ Conference of France (CEF) recognized that the Church bore “institutional responsibility” for scores of child abuse cases within its ranks. The statement came a month after an independent inquiry led by former Council of State Vice President Jean-Marc Sauve estimated that 216,000 children were abused …
Read More »Biden says Pope told him he’s a ‘good Catholic’ & to keep taking communion as conservatives outraged abortion ‘didn’t come up’
Following a meeting between Biden and Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday, Biden answered “no” when reporters asked if the two had discussed abortion. “We just talked about the fact he was happy I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving communion,” he said. Conservative Americans expressed outrage over …
Read More »Majority-Catholic San Marino decriminalizes abortion, over 77% vote to abolish 1865 law in historic referendum
About 77.3 percent of those eligible to vote in the referendum answered “yes” to the question whether women should be allowed to “voluntarily terminate pregnancy until the twelfth week of gestation” and thereafter if a woman’s health is jeopardized by the pregnancy, or if fetus’s “abnormalities and malformations” pose “a …
Read More »Catholic lives matter: The campaign group fighting the endemic bigotry that’s Scotland’s ‘dirty secret’
The burning down of Catholic churches is not the sort of thing you expect in a so-called ‘progressive’ nation. But it’s happening in, of all places, Scotland, a country with a left-leaning government that is aggressively pursuing some of the most woke legislation in Europe. Back in July, the 163-year …
Read More »‘White martyrdom’: Mel Gibson blasts Catholic bishops for persecuting priests who preach traditional beliefs
Gibson delivered his rant in a video message posted on Sunday for a rally held by the Coalition for Canceled Priests (CFCP), a group set up to support clergymen who have been run out of the church or persecuted for teaching orthodoxy. The Hollywood star said it’s not hard to …
Read More »Trudeau condemns spate of arson attacks on Catholic churches as Canada reels from unmarked graves scandal
“It is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the country, including against Catholic churches,” Trudeau said on Friday, less than 24 hours after statues of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria were torn down by protesters in Winnipeg without any interference by police. …
Read More »Two MORE Catholic churches in British Columbia go up in flames amid ‘anger and rage’ over school mass graves
The two fires were reported on Saturday morning, consuming the Lady of Lourdes Church in Chopaka and St. Ann’s Church in Hedley, some 60km away. St. Ann’s is on land belonging to the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, and Chopaka is in Lower Similkameen territory. Both buildings were made of wood, …
Read More »751 unmarked graves found near former Catholic residential school in Canada, indigenous group reveals
The graves were found in a cemetery at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan province, which borders the US to the south. The Catholic institution operated for almost a century from 1899 to 1997, as part of a Canadian school system created to assimilate indigenous children into Christian …
Read More »Blast rocks Catholic church in Indonesia in suspected suicide attack (VIDEOS)
The explosion went off at the Makassar Cathedral Church on Sunday morning as the people who flocked to the church to attend the service were on their way out, a pastor at the church was quoted by the local media as saying. “We were finishing the service and people were …
Read More »Divine intervention or the right connections? Roman Catholic Church received $3 BILLION in US taxpayer-funded Covid-19 aid
The 200-plus dioceses, and the churches and schools the Catholic Church operates under their names pulled down over $3 billion in taxpayer-funded aid from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as part of the US coronavirus bailout of small businesses, according to an Associated Press (AP) investigative report published on Thursday. …
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