Knestout Lifts White’s Suspension Title: John Allen vs. David von Drehle + Update from the Gulag Author: Father Mark White Publisher: Father Mark White Blog Date: 29JAN2022 Six hundred fifty-three years ago yesterday, a solemn procession carried the bodily remains of St. Thomas Aquinas into the French city of Toulouse. They deposited his bones in
Cardinal Angelo Comastri Investigation? Title: Will the Vatican investigate a cardinal implicated in its own abuse trial? Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Now Date: 25FEB2021 ROME – An unusual sex abuse trial currently underway in the Vatican took a potentially explosive turn Wednesday, and the response may have a great deal to say
Gabrielle Martinelli Vatican Tribunal Title: Abuse case at Vatican pre-seminary captures risk, reward of transparency Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 12FEB2021 ROME – A Vatican tribunal Wednesday heard testimony from the accused party in an unusual sexual abuse case, one involving a charge that one minor abused another during their time at
Secular Lawsuits Ecclesiastical Conundra Title: Two secular lawsuits raise deeply ecclesiastical conundra Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 22Nov2020 Rome – Within the last few days, two completely separate lawsuits have been filed in two different countries that somehow involve the Vatican. In the United States, four alleged sex abuse victims of ex-cardinal
McCarrick Report Bishop Barron Title: Report shows ‘tragic incompetence’ on McCarrick, Barron says Author: John L. Allen Jr Publisher: Crux Date: 13NOV2020 ROME – At the heart of the Vatican’s recent report on the case of ex-cardinal and ex-priest Theodore McCarrick is a story of “tragic incompetence” fueled by a “self-referential and self-protective” clerical culture,
Vatican Zero Tolerance Ambivalence Title: Explaining the Vatican’s lingering ambivalence on “zero tolerance” Author: John L Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 31MAY2020 Anne Barrett Doyle, co-founder of the online research database BishopAccountability.org, holds a picture of Buenos Aires Archbishop Mario Poli, right, next to Peter Isely, member of the organization called Ending Clergy Abuse, holding a
Orlandi Vatican Trust Deficit Title: Italy’s most notorious unsolved mystery illustrates Vatican’s trust deficit Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 27MAY2020 ROME – Pietro Orlandi, the older brother of Emanuela Orlandi, whose still-unexplained disappearance at the age of 15 in 1983 has become the country’s most infamous unsolved mystery, is a bit like
Pontifical Secret Transparency Scicluna Title: No secret that ‘pontifical secrecy’ is taking a beating at pope’s summit Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 23Feb2019 ROME – One hallmark of Pope Francis’s style is that during big moments, he prefers to have his friends and allies in the spotlight. That’s certainly the case during
Vatican Pope anti-abuse taskforce Title: Is Vatican anti-abuse task force ‘Tale of Two Cities’ or ‘Remembrance of Things Past’? Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 29FEB2020 ROME – Anyone watching the Vatican under Pope Francis try to come to grips with the clerical sexual abuse crisis could be forgiven for feeling themselves trapped
Abuse Summit Wikipedia Page Title: Where things stand a year after pope’s historic sexual abuse summit Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Now via Angelus News Date: 24FEB2020 ROME — Last weekend marked the one-year anniversary of arguably the most important single moment to date in the Catholic Church’s efforts to come to grips