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Grindr, blackmail and confession: The life of a gay seminarian

Grindr Blackmail Gay Seminarians Title: Grindr, blackmail and confession: The life of a gay seminarian Author: Frédéric Martel Publisher: The Irish Times Date: 02MAR2019 Frédéric Martel on power, homosexuality and hypocrisy in the closet of the Vatican. Ydier and Axel are two seminarians whom I meet at the Mario Mieli cultural centre, in Rome. (Their

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Madonnina
Opinion

Catholic Church response to sexual abuse must centre on survivor well-being, not defensiveness

Catholic Church Survivor Centred Title: Catholic Church response to sexual abuse must centre on survivor well-being, not defensiveness Author: Cathy Driscoll, Saint Mary’s University Publisher: The Conversation Date: 16JUN2021 In light of the recent discovery of 215 Indigenous children in unmarked graves at a former Catholic-run residential school in British Columbia and investigations at other former

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Madonnina
Opinion

Priest who exposed ‘homoheresy’ speaks out on need to curb ‘homosexual clans’ in Church

Dariusz Oko Lavender Mafia Title: Priest who exposed ‘homoheresy’ speaks out on need to curb ‘homosexual clans’ in Church Author: Dorothy Cummings McLean Publisher: Lifesite News Date: 31MAR2021 KRAKOW, Poland, March 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A Polish priest and professor has suggested that a Synod of Bishops be called together to address the increasing number

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Madonnina
Opinion

McCarrick report shows a church infected with unchecked clericalism

McCarrick Report Sick Church Title: McCarrick report shows a church infected with unchecked clericalism Author: Lisa Fullam Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 29DEC2020 The Vatican’s report on defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick revealed sexual abuse of adults and minors by a Catholic cleric and its cover-up by church officials — more of the same pattern we’ve

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Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Opinion

McCarrick report shows former cardinal’s character: ambitious, brazen, untouchable

Ambitious Brazen Untouchable McCarrick Title: McCarrick report shows former cardinal’s character: ambitious, brazen, untouchable Author: Fr. Peter Daly Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 08DEC2020 Seventeen! That’s the most shocking number in the Vatican’s 449-page report on ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. McCarrick appears to have molested 17 “postpubescent boys or young men” over the course of his

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Madonnina
Opinion

Confessions of a Vatican source: Jason Berry on the McCarrick report

Jason Berry McCarrick Report Title: Confessions of a Vatican source: Jason Berry on the McCarrick report Author: Jason Berry Publisher: National Catholic Reporter (NCR) Date: 25NOV2020 When Pope John Paul II made Theodore McCarrick a cardinal in 2001, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., was a silk-between-the-fingers fundraiser. A year later, when the pope summoned the

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Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Blog

Regnum-Christi Memory Turned Painful

Rev White McCarrick Report Title: Regnum-Christi Memory Turned Painful Author: Father Mark White Publisher: Father Mark White Blog Date: 20NOV2020 I have had a little crucifix for over twenty years. Every morning when I first wake up, I kiss it and say, “Christ our King, Your Kingdom come.” Same thing when I lay down to

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Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Opinion

Please press ‘mute’ to the US bishops

McCarrick Report Mute Bishops Title: Please press ‘mute’ to the US bishops Author: Michael Sean Winters Publisher: National Catholic Reporter (NCR Online) Date: 17NOV2020 The first day of the plenary meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was disappointing in virtually every regard. Indeed, the only good idea to come from this virtual

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