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Cdl. Mahony Sued for Sexually Assaulting Male TeenLawsuit charges LA archdiocese with cover-upLOS ANGELES (ChurchMilitant.com) (warning: some explicit content) - A new lawsuit accuses California Cdl. Roger Mahony of sexually abusing a male minor. It is the first such lawsuit ever brought against the former archbishop of Los Angeles.Former Cathedral of St. Vibiana, Los Angeles, nowprivately owned and renovated into an entertainment venueFiled April 19 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the plaintiff, under the alias John Doe, is suing "The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles," which includes Cdl. Roger Mahony and staff of the archdiocese.The lawsuit alleges Mahony "repeatedly...

Archdiocese Of Washington Gives Disgraced Cardinal Wuerl Millions From Faithful CatholicsMost Catholics would probably agree that a priest caught lying to the public and who was an instrumental figure in the sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church probably shouldn’t be receiving millions of dollars a year in church donations. But that’s what is happening in the Archdiocese of Washington.Investigative journalists at The Pillar revealed that the archdiocese set aside more than $2 million in donations from the Catholic faithful to retired and disgraced Cardinal Donald Wuerl, former archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, for undisclosed “continuing ministry activities.”Upon review...

Cardinal Tobin joins Cupich on Vatican's influential Congregation for BishopsVatican City — On March 4, Pope Francis named Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, as a member of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, making him the second American now serving on the group tasked with advising the pontiff on which Catholic priests to appoint as bishops across the world.Tobin effectively replaces retired Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl, whose appointment to the congregation ended in November on Wuerl's 80th birthday. Tobin now joins Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, whom Francis appointed to the group in 2016.The congregation, which traces its origins to...

Bizarre Information in the McCarrick Report The November 10 McCarrick report contains in side- and footnotes the following assessments: • When McCarrick was considered to become a bishop, a recommendation said: “Monsignor McCarrick would not be a cause of scandal of any kind.” • In the early 1980s, McCarrick’s rising profile drew the attention of the FBI and the KGB. A KGB agent tried to befriend him but the FBI asked him to serve as a counterintelligence asset. McCarrick declined, but the FBI persisted. McCarrick asked Nuncio Laghi who said that McCarrick should “not be negative” about the proposal. It...

Cupich targeted in ad A former Rapid City Catholic bishop is under attack from a group called the Roman Catholic Faithful. The group is investigating Cardinal Blase Cupich for a role they believe he played in a massive cover up of sexual abuse by the Catholic priests. The ad placed in the Rapid City Journal calls on local Catholics to come forward with evidence against Cupich. Roman Catholic Faithful, or RCF, is a not-for-profit organization based out of Illinois. On Thursday, they placed an ad in the Rapid City Journal asking for input from local Catholics on the actions of...

A Blast from the Past – Homosexuality and Catholic Episcopal Conferences n light of the prominent role that Catholic Episcopal Conferences played at the recent “Sex Abuse Summit” held at the Vatican from February  21 to February 24, 2019, I thought I would treat AKA Catholicreaders to a “Blast from the Past,” article I wrote in December 2006 on the role of national conferences in the promotion of homosexuality and pederasty.Here’s that shot over the USCCB bow written 13 years ago. I think it will leave a bitter-sweet memory in the mind of every faithful Catholic, especially as the dust settles...

Pope picks liberal cardinals Cupich, Marx, Tagle for featured talks at Vatican Abuse Summit ROME, February 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Germany, and Cardinal Antonio Tagle of the Philippines will be featured speakers at the Vatican’s upcoming summit on clerical sex abuse titled, “The Protection of Minors in the Church” beginning later this week. Cardinal Cupich, one of the main organizers of the summit and lead prelate of the delegation from the United States, emerged as an immediate proponent of the Vatican summit when at the last minute, the Holy See blocked...

DALLAS - Sources tell Banks of the Trinity that Kevin Cardinal Farrell is under investigation by the Keller Police Department regarding an allegation of abuse while he was bishop of Dallas.We will keep you updated as this story develops.

Association of U.S. Catholic Priests rejects Catholic teaching on women priests, homosexualityST. LOUIS, Mo. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal Blase Cupich is slated to be the keynote speaker at the annual conference for a notorious dissident priests' organization. The annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) will take place in June 2019, and the webpage for the event lists the Chicago cardinal as one of three main speakers. The event's page notes that "Cupich welcomed AUSCP members to Chicago for the June 2016 assembly." AUSCP shared a photo on Facebook in 2016 of the organization's leaders posing with Cdl....

Abuse victim 'James' speaks with Church Militant DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - A victim of homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick says the current crisis in the Church is a time when justice is being reckoned. Church Militant has been in contact with "James," who says he was sexually abused by McCarrick when he was an underage boy. James plans to make an appearance at Silence Stops Now, the rally in Baltimore outside the U.S. bishops' annual meeting just a few weeks from now. James said of the current time in Church history, "It's an opportunity to tell the world, 'It's time to stop...

I will never forget what happened in May of 1993 when the then-archbishop of Newark, Theodore McCarrick, visited my home parish to preside at a special Mass. I had just graduated from college, and given that I was planning to enroll in the seminary later that year, my pastor decided to showcase me by assigning me as lector for the ceremony. The Archbishop arrived, we met, and after Mass we had another brief discussion before he departed. I asked one of our priests how he thought things went. "I can see that he really liked you," he said. "In fact,...

Cardinal Farrell Last week, the Catholic twitter verse was chattering about Bishop Thomas Tobin’s embarrassing, but appropriate questionto Cardinal Kevin Farrell.Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island, (not to be confused with Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark), called out Cardinal Kevin Farrell for his gratuitous comments that priests have no credibility when it comes to instructing couples on marriage. Bishop Tobin tweeted a pertinent question to Cardinal Farrell, who is the head of the Vatican Dicastery on Laity, Family and Life. ‘We’re from the Vatican, and we’re here for the kids.’ (Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell at meeting in preparation for...