McCarrick Report America Magazine Title: Deep Dive: The McCarrick Report and the popes it implicates Author: Gerard O’Connell Publisher: America Magazine Date: 10NOV2020 In a long awaited act of transparency, fulfilling a commitment from Pope Francis, the Vatican has today published a report based on a two-year internal investigationinto the career of former cardinal Theodore
Popes ordered silence Title: Popes ordered silence, former judge Kieran Tapsell claims in book Author: Joanne McCarthy Publication: Newcastle Herald Date: 09JUN2014 A FORMER NSW judge who studied to be a priest with a future notorious Hunter child sex offender has launched a devastating critique of the Catholic Church’s six popes, including two new saints, who
NCR exposed Catholic Church Title: NCR first exposed Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal 40 years ago this month Author: Ryan Di Corpo Publisher: National Catholic Reporter (NCROnline) Date: 19JUN2025 Forty years ago this month, readers of the National Catholic Reporter first learned through a series of three articles about a dark secret in the Catholic
Release Secret Abuse Archives Title: Survivor advocacy group sounds alarm about several papabili records Author: Aleja Hertzler-McCain Publisher: Religion News Service Date: 30APR2025 ROME (RNS) — An advocacy group of survivors of clerical abuse is raising concerns about several cardinals who are buzzed about as papabili, or potential popes. Survivors Network of those Abused by
Pope Francis Box of Evil Title: Pope Francis was given a box full of ‘abuse, corruption, dark dealings’ Author: Brianna Morris-Grant Publisher: ABC News Date: 25APR2025 Just 10 days after Pope Francis was appointed head of the Catholic Church, he received an ominous gift from his predecessor — a large white box. The then-76-year-old Pope Francis
Jesus Wept Philip Shenon Title: A History of Modern Catholicism Puts Sex Abuse Front and Center Author: Mary Jo McConahay Publisher: The New York Times Date: 15FEB2025 Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second
Potiphar’s Wife 2nd Edition Title: Potiphar’s Wife – The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sexual Abuse 2nd Edition Author: Kieran Tapsell Publisher: C & F Press Date: 04DEC2024 Book overview For 1,500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that child sexual abuse was not only a sin but a civil crime, deserving of imprisonment and worse. From the
Abuse Crisis Centre Synodal Process Title: The abuse crisis should be the center of the pope’s ongoing synodal process Authors: Massimo Faggioli & Hans Zollner Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 15NOV2022 As American Jesuit historian Fr. John O’Malley wrote in one of his last articles published in America magazine last February, the history of synodality is
Vatican’s quiet reprimand of US bishop Title: Vatican’s quiet reprimand of US bishop raises concerns about pope’s clergy abuse law Author: Katie Collins Scott Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 04OCT2022 Earlier this year, the retired bishop of the Diocese of Yakima, Washington, received a formal reprimand from the Vatican for how he handled clergy abuse
Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick Title: Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teenager in 1970s Author: Shelley Murphy Publisher: The Boston Globe Date: 29JUL2021 Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in the 1970s, making him the highest-ranking Roman Catholic