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Priest Sex Abuse Scandal

Spendthrift Shepherds & Pervert Priests: Where Are They Now?
June 2020Here we follow-up on some disgraced prelates and their inner circles who did the dirty work of covering fraudulent, criminal behavior.
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A Deficit of Heroes
May 2020We must maintain an emotional distance even from those who project an aura of holiness. Often, God’s holy ones are known only to Him.
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Million-Dollar Bishops
March 2020It’s no coincidence that financial corruption walks hand in hand with sexual immorality. Where you find one, you’ll often find the other.
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A “Deeper Understanding” of the Priesthood?
November 2019No temporal or civilizational events can override the sacramental necessity of the Catholic priesthood’s being reserved to men.
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Father Figuring
July-August 2019The Catholic Church's sex-abuse problem is caused by predators who wear clerical collars and who are protected by a clericalist culture.
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The Hollywood Scandal Behind the Clerical Scandal
March 2019U.S. media and the American judicial system will gladly go after a high-ranking Catholic priest or bishop but will run cover for powerful Hollywood directors and actors.
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Wuerl, the Flesh & the Devil
March 2019The whole Wuerl saga goes to show — yet again — that many of the leaders of the Church aren’t so much interested in professing the truth as they are in protecting their prestige.
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Letter to a Friend on Church Scandal
January-February 2019The Church still teaches everything taught by the first generation of Christians; it still conforms to the specifications laid down by Jesus for His Church.
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An Outcast Among Organization Men
December 2018Few are the churchmen who are willing to speak publicly about the root cause of the sex-abuse crisis: the scourge of homosexuality in the priesthood.
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Ecce Papa Franciscus!
November 2018The Pope has convened a summit for February with the presidents of all bishops’ conferences to discuss ‘protection of minors.’
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At Last, a Reckoning?
October 2018Archbishop Viganò has cracked open the Vatican cone of silence and exposed what might be a Church-wide cover-up of McCarrick’s crimes.
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Uncle Ted McCarrick: Queen Pin of the Lavender Mafia
September 2018Many, many priests and bishops knew Theodore McCarrick was a serial molester and yet, somehow, McCarrick got the ultimate appointment to the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., and was elevated to the rank of cardinal.
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A Loss of Nerve?
October 2008If the Pope is serious about curbing clerical sexual abuse before it happens, then it is high time he took off the pastoral gloves.
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The Perennial Crisis of Clerical Sexual Abuse
July-August 2008Review of Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
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Blaming the Victim -- Again
June 2008The underlying attitude amongst most bishops that fostered the environment of abuse, secrecy, and clerical privilege still remains.
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The Pastoral Problem of Priests in Prison
April 2008"Ordinary" criminals -- murderers and thieves -- still retain a sense of moral outrage against the hideous evil of child sexual abuse.
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Nothing Distinctive About the Church
April 2008The U.S. bishops are relieved that the Church's record on the sexual abuse of minors is no worse than that of our society as a whole.
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Priestly Pedophilia: Soul-Murders or Merely "Incidents"?
January 2004Bishop Moynihan, your Freudian slip is showing.
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This Man Has No Shame
November 2003Yep, we're talking about the disgraced Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland.
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Devious "Gay" Priests
July/August 2003An (anonymous) homosexual priest "speaks out" in Commonweal.
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What About Predator Lesbian Nuns?
June 2003It would appear that sexual license in women's religious orders is much worse than among priests.
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When Minimizing the Priestly Sex Scandals Boomerangs
March 2003Tom Hoopes and the Register are trying mighty hard to pull the wool over our eyes.
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Can We Please Change the Subject!
January 2003Forget the scandals? (Uh, not so fast, pal!)
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"A Regime of Hypocrisy & Indifference"
November 2002Can the sorry performance of many of our U.S. bishops with regard to the priestly sex scandals be traced to a "culture of silence"?
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Goodbye, "New Evangelization"
November 2002Fr. Neuhaus thinks the whole priest scandal thing can just be brushed off.
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Priest-Psychologist Hangs Himself
October 2002If anyone doubts the veracity of Goodbye, Good Men, just contemplate Fr. Franco Imoda's words.
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The Glorious Shame of The Catholic Church
September 2002These are times of chastisement for the Catholic Church. Christ will simply not allow His wayward Bride to become a slut.
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The Register Steps Into the Ring
September 2002Why is David Pearson "hopping mad" at Michael Rose and the NOR?
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Killing Michael Rose
September 2002Why were moderate Catholic papers such as Our Sunday Visitor so desperate to discredit Michael Rose’s book Goodbye, Good Men?
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Desperately Jesuitical
July/August 2002Fr. James Keenan, S.J., is worried that the "scapegoat" for the priestly sex scandals will be "gay priests."
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Sheer Effrontery
July/August 2002This dude has figured out how to solve the priestly sex crisis. His humble recommendation: ordain dudettes.
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Show & Tell for Priests
July/August 2002America magazine blames the scandals on "a repressive clerical culture."
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Understanding the Pedophilia Crisis in the Boston Priesthood
June 2002The foolish policy of playing musical chairs with pedophile priests was not Cardinal Law’s to start with. He inherited it.
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