I’ve said this so often I probably ought to have it printed on T-shirts: the most important Catholic story of our time is the demographic shift from the global north to the south, with two-thirds of the Catholics in the world today living in the southern hemisphere, a share that will rise to three-quarters by Read more
They broke into the priest’s home as he slept, busted his ribs and gave him a black eye.
The Rev. Daniel Mallette, preparing for the next life, confessed his sins aloud. The two masked intruders told the 80-year-old priest to shut up and beat him some more.
They forced him to open a safe and stole $500 meant for the poor. And when they were done, one asked him to pray for his soul.
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The Cardinal who selects Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet has revealed that more regularly than he would have expected, priests chosen to be bishop do not accept the appointment. Reasons for refusing to become a bishop include the growing difficulty of fulfilling the role, in a society in which the bishops are under public attack, in Read more
Fr Dan Duane, of Cecilstown in Mallow, Co Cork, had told the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he had no recollection of the meeting where the woman alleged he had assaulted her.
The alleged victim had claimed that this meeting had changed the course of her life. She claimed Fr Duane had indecently assaulted her while whispering to her that it was “OK with God” and “God would approve.”
Fr Duane denied the assault and said he had no recollection of the meeting the woman complained of.
He told the court she must have invented the story.
The jury delivered its not guilty verdict after an hour and 25 minutes of deliberations.
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“I heard that one of those Catholic popes was molesting children again!” said my mother-in-law’s friend the other day, presumably referring to the news in Kansas City. One isn’t sure where to begin addressing a statement like that. As it turned out, I didn’t have to. She was so busy making comments about how awful “those Read more
A University of California, Irvine, professor who is an ordained Roman Catholic priest and has worked to establish common ground between science and religion in the debate over evolution donated $10 million to the School of Biological Sciences there.
Read the article...Emotions were raw and tears flowed in the Invercargill District Court yesterday as the family of a man killed by an 80-year-old priest who fell asleep at the wheel spoke of the devastating impact of losing a husband, father and grandfather.
Fr Vincent Kenneth Smith and another priest had been returning from officiating at a funeral in Nightcaps on June 28 when he fell asleep as they were driving south, through the Makarewa urban area.
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A Christchurch priest suspended from ministry, is being investigated over alleged “financial irregularities” in his parish. The parish priest of Sacred Heart, Addington, Father John Fitzmaurice, who also ministers to the Carmelite Monastery and the Hoon Hay parish, has been stood down In a letter from Bishop Barry Jones read out at masses on Sunday he Read more
A Niagara Falls man who preyed on a Catholic priest’s fear of being falsely accused as a sexual predator will spend another eight months behind bars.
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