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December 2021

December 02, 2021

Five sue rabbi who used his position to ‘defile’ innocent children

RABBI Baruch Lanner, former principal at Hillel Yeshiva High School in New Jersey who was...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

Abuse survivor who helped topple Cardinal Law dies aged 69

ALTHOUGH he worked diligently for years to expose predatory clergy within the Catholic Church, and...

November 16, 2021

US Archdiocese made false claims in the wake of hurricane damage

THE scandal-ridden Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, led by Archbishop Gregory Aymond, above, was compelled...

November 12, 2021

Pope lavishes praise on cardinal who remained silent over abuse

IN January, 2020, outrage was expressed in various quarters after Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, above, the...

October 2021

October 05, 2021

Systemic RCC abuse: French archbishop begs for forgiveness

AFTER a report was issued today that revealed the enormity of sexual abuse within the...

September 2021

September 02, 2021

It’s official: religious organisations pose a real threat to children

IN a horrifying report published today Professor Alexis Jay, above, chair of the Independent Inquiry...

June 2021

June 04, 2021

Catholic abuse scandals: Church is at ‘a dead end’ says cardinal

GERMANY'S Cardinal Reinhard Marx, above, today (Friday) offered to resign over the Catholic Church’s 'catastrophic'...

June 01, 2021

Long time coming: Vatican announces a new sexual abuse law

A REVIEW of existing Catholic Church laws regarding clerical abuse, led by Archbishop Filippo Iannone,...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

‘Sexual sadist’ Catholic priest jailed for more than ten years

JOSEPH Quigley is paedophile priest who was sent to the US for 'therapy' before being reinstated...

January 25, 2021

‘Church has changed’ says archbishop after abuse victim gets $2.45-m

AFTER agreeing to pay out a record $2.5-million to an altar boy who was raped...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Ex-jailbird praises ‘barbarian’ Trump as a ‘champion’ of Christianity

FAR-RIGHT news outlet, The Daily Caller – which adoringly supported Trump throughout his train-wreck of...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Clerical abuse: RCC again shows that it can’t handle the problem

DESPITE being castigated in a damning report on clerical abuse, the head of the Catholic...

October 2020

October 06, 2020

Bishops can’t be trusted to safeguard kids, says damning report

THE chair of the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) – Prof Alexis...

October 03, 2020

Screwed twice over: victims of abusive NJ Catholic clerics

WHEN it was announced last Thursday that Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden in New Jersey,...

September 2020

September 08, 2020

New Queensland law compels priests to report abuse or face jail

AT THE beginning of the year, Brisbane's Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge, above, railed against proposed new laws...

August 2020

August 14, 2020

Catholic Church abuse: One archbishop dies, another resigns

CHILEAN archbishop Francisco José Cox, 86, defrocked in 2018 by Pope Francis years after he...

August 07, 2020

NYC church asks for prayers & support after priest’s child porn arrest

FOLLOWING the arrest late last month of Catholic Fr Francis Hughes, above, on on charges...

August 03, 2020

Victims of wealthy paedophile vicar invited to claim from his estate

WHEN convicted paedophile Michael Studdert, above, died in 2017 aged 78 a Church of England...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Catholic paedophile, 96, jailed again for abusing boys

IN 2017 retired UK priest John Kevin Murphy, above, was sentenced to three years for...

July 24, 2020

High school principal ‘procured’ a pupil for disgraced cardinal McCarrick

THE Theodore McCarrick affair in America grows more toxic by the day, prompting the National...

July 11, 2020

Catholic Church a big winner in US’s huge Covid-19 cash giveaway

COMMENTING on revelations that the US Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from...

April 2020

April 25, 2020

Row between a US priest and his bishop reaches farcical levels

A VIRGINIA priest who established a blog in which he posted entries critical of the...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

French Cardinal convicted of clerical abuse cover-up wins appeal

OUTRAGE is being expressed in France and beyond following news today (Thursday) that Cardinal Philippe...

January 25, 2020

US football team allegedly helped Catholic Church cover-up its crimes

THE New Orleans Saints, owned by devout Catholic Gayle Benson, above, are fighting to conceal...

December 2019

December 01, 2019

Catholic Church’s flirtation with paganism continues to haunt it

AND when you have a haunting you need a accomplished exorcist to deal with the...

November 2019

November 15, 2019

Pope’s new clerical abuse investigator allegedly abused an altar boy

Last month Pope Francis put Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, above, head of the Brooklyn Diocese, in charge...

November 10, 2019

Australia to extradite alleged abusive priest to Scotland

FOR years, former Catholic monk Fr Denis "Chrysostom" Alexander, 83, has been fighting attempts by the...

November 08, 2019

Clerical abuse: Catholic cardinal says church was ‘shocked to the core’

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols – leader of the Roman Catholic Church in...

September 2019

September 15, 2019

Abuse survivors furious over NY diocese’s bankruptcy move

SNAP, the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests, has reacted angrily to news that...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Filipino tyrant Duterte wants all abusive Catholic priests killed

IN his latest attack on the Catholic Church Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, above, said the...