A Polish priest who carried out an exorcism on a teenage girl says he is getting abusive text messages — from the devil. It appears Lucifer isn’t too happy that Father Marian Rajchel tried to save the young girl’s soul and has been voicing his displeasure via text. “The author of these texts is an evil spirit who has possessed her soul”, he told the Austrian Times. “Often the owners of mobile phones are not even aware that they are being used like this. However, in this case it is clear.” READ FULL ARTICLE |
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It took three years for comedians and Catholics to find a mutually agreeable way to rename part of a Manhattan street after George Carlin, the merrily vulgar comic who made religion a frequent target of his acerbic monologues.
A bill signed into law on Wednesday finally declared that a two-block stretch of West 121st Street was named George Carlin Way. But it was supposed to be only one block — and not the one once home to Mr. Carlin, and still home to the Corpus Christi Church. Priests there opposed the plan for years, calling Mr. Carlin, who died in 2008, unworthy of the honor. Yet in an irony of Carlinesque proportions, a clerical error means that Mr. Carlin’s childhood church will indeed reside on a block ceremonially named for the comic who relentlessly skewered it. READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A man who was abused as a child by a former Marist Brothers teacher accused the Catholic church of having a “sociopathic disregard for the welfare of victims” after its senior counsel attempted to discredit him as a witness by airing past drug use.
Damian De Marco told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Canberra that he had repeatedly warned the Marist Brothers that one of their members, brother Kostka Chute, had abused him and was still abusing other young students, but he was ignored and given false promises that Chute would be kept away from children. READ GUARDIAN ARTICLE The St. Louis Archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal testified last month that he didn’t know in the 1980s whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children, according to a court deposition released Monday. FULL NBCNEWS ARTICLE
GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004. READ FULL ARTICLE
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis has defended the Catholic Church's record on tackling the sexual abuse of children
by priests, saying "no-one else has done more" to root out paedophilia. "The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No-one else has done more. Yet the Church is the only one to have been attacked," he said in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera daily published Wednesday. READ MORE Rehberg appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to promote his effort, but ran into some trouble while responding to a statement from the foundation behind the lawsuit. “Just because it’s maintained and was put up by the Knights of Columbus does not make it a religious statement,” he said. No, the fact that
it’s a statue of Jesus makes it religious. READ MORE The Rev. Stephen O'Gara, a popular priest from St. Paul, stepped up to demand accountability from the diocese, criticizing Archbishop Nienstedt for his handling of sex abuse scandals in the clergy in a scathing sermon. READ MORE
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