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WE’VE BEEN HACKED!

admin — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:58:14 +0000

This website was hacked and destroyed early in the first week of May, 2026. I am now in the process of restoring it. You’ll need to be very patient, because the hack wiped out nearly 20 years of content and … Continue reading

In Mourning

richard wagner — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:32:41 +0000

FOR OUR COUNTRY

FOR OUR DEMOCRACY

Archbishop installation revives conversation of clergy sexual abuse scandal

admin — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:40:21 +0000

Archbishop Richard Henning was installed as the seventh archbishop of the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross while protesters outside the church called for transparency and settlement in clergy sexual abuse cases on Oct. 31, 2024

Women are a problem for the Catholic Church

admin — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:44:35 +0000

— An institution with ingrained misogyny

Women comprise half of the Catholic Church but end up being a category.

Papal plámás is no substitute for an end to discrimination against women

By Soline Humbert

The Catholic Church is bedevilled by … Continue reading

Retired priest: Catholic church knew of Guam sex abuses for decades

richard wagner — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:16:07 +0000

By Haidee V Eugenio

World’s largest clergy abuse survivors network says abusive priests ‘dumped’ in faraway places

Guam’s Catholic church leadership has known for decades about clergy sex abuses that happened as early as the 1950s, a retired priest said

Vatican condemns radio station over anti-gay comments on quake

richard wagner — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 07:17:26 +0000

File under: Me thinks she doth protest too much.

The Vatican has condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station after a broadcast said the recent earthquakes in Italy were “God’s punishment” for gay civil unions.

The remarks, made on the

N.J. priest charged with possession of child pornography

richard wagner — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 07:21:55 +0000

By Jeff Goldman

Fr. Kevin Gugliotta

A Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Kevin Gugliotta, 54, of Mahwah allegedly uploaded illicit images from a computer in his vacation home in Lehigh Township, Pa.

First: Do No Harm. Second: Do No Pussy Stuff.

richard wagner — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:29:31 +0000

High stakes for Canada’s Bishops in euthanasia row

richard wagner — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:49:36 +0000

by Michael Higgins

While having dinner recently with my former producer, Bernie Lucht, the Montreal Jewish intellectual and onetime head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship intellectual affairs programme, Ideas, he looked across the table at me and asked … Continue reading

Pope’s words create confusion for Catholics on same-sex relationships

richard wagner — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:46:32 +0000

By MICHELLE R. SMITH

An ideological tug of war over the firing of a Rhode Island church music director for marrying his same-sex partner illustrates the confusion that permeates some U.S. Roman Catholic parishes over Pope Francis’s words on homosexuality.