Catholic Church Avoids Responsibility
After the release of the devastating report on the abuse of tens of thousands of Irish children in their care over a period of decades, the Roman Catholic Church has done everything in its power not to...
View ArticleExorcizing “Homosexual Demons”
People often ask me what good my degree in medieval history is. An answer I sometimes give is, “In many ways our civilization is still medieval; modern history is medieval history, and vice versa.” A...
View ArticleThe Irish Abuse Story Gets Worse
I blogged a couple times already on a report by an investigative commission in Ireland on the abuse of children in the care of the Roman Catholic Church (such as orphanages and schools) which had been...
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R.C. Clerical Scandal Hits The Netherlands
The Roman Catholic child-abuse scandal has reached into yet another country … the Netherlands. The NRC Handelsblad reports on the most recent expansion of what is becoming one of the worst...
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Is Celibacy The Problem?
The scandal of child abuse (including, but not limited to, sexual abuse) at the hands of Roman Catholic clergy has flashed around the globe since becoming an issue in the United States in the early...
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Admitted Catholic Bishop-Pedophile Says He’s No Pedophile
Not only does the Roman Catholic Church have pedophiles in its ranks — as most people now realize, even if at one time they preferred not to — but it also has unrepentant pedophiles-in-denial in its...
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Courts Get Back To Work On Philly Catholic Church
Pennsylvania courts made history a few months ago when an official of the Philadelphia archdiocese was convicted for his involvement in covering up abuses of children committed by other clergy in his...
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AP Runs Exposé on Abusive Church in NC
The American South isn’t called “the Bible Belt” for nothing. Churches pervade the area, and range in size from megachurches with tens of thousands of congregants, to tiny little backyard shacks that...
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Corrupt Local Officials Protected Abusive NC Church
The Associated Press continues to report on the vile shenanigans that have gone on at the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindale, NC, which I blogged about just a few days ago. I wondered, when I...
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Word of Faith Corruption May Be Investigated
It seems officials in North Carolina finally awakened to the idea that maybe … just maybe! … there’s been a little corruption going on, surrounding abuses at the Word of Faith Fellowship Church in the...
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More Fallout from Word of Faith Fellowship Abuse Exposé
I’ve already blogged about the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindale, NC which was the subject of a series of Associated Press stories. In addition to some North Carolina prosecutors (who were...
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Abuse-Church Pastor Confesses to Beating Congregant
I blogged a few times about the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC. A trial is underway there, as I type this, and as the Associated Press reports, one of the defendants suddenly turned state’s...
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NC Abuse-Church Trial Implodes
I just blogged about the case involving North Carolina’s “abuse church,” Word of Faith Fellowship in the little town of Spindale. But only a short time later, the trial of one of the abusive pastors...
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How Did NC Abuse Church Get Away With It, So Long?
For several months now, the Associated Press has been digging into the abuse inflicted on congregants at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC, including continuing criminal trials (one of which...
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Vatican Abuse-Investigator Resigns Due to Abuse Accusation
The Roman Catholic Church is nothing if not consistent. It never changes — or so it says. It just keeps doing what it’s always done, without regard to … well, pretty much anything. The Church is the...
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… and for the Thousand-First Time …
Earlier today I posted on child sexual abuse within an evangelical-missionary outfit once called New Tribes Mission, and remarked that it constitutes an example of how clerical child abuse isn’t only a...
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More on the SBC Abuse Revelations
I blogged a while ago about a joint exposé of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention — America’s largest Protestant sect — by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. After...
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