Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., shared on Sunday that he told Pope Francis about accusations of sexual abuse made against a prominent priest in 2013. Vigano reported that despite being told about the accusations, Francis took no action.
When Pennsylvania officials unveiled a report this week detailing accusations that Catholic priests had sexually abused more than 1,000 children since the 1940s and that church officials shielded the abusers, the public outcry was swift.
The church is supposed to be the light of the world. But this week, the doors of the church opened and what the world saw was darkness—on a staggering scale, on both sides of the Tiber.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte turned up the heat in his feud with the Roman Catholic Church by questioning the existence of God and mocking basic Christian doctrines.
Even as Texas faces legal action against new regulations mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains from an abortion or miscarriage, the state’s Catholic cemeteries are developing plans to provide free interment for any deceased fetus.