“No! This cannot be! I am invincible! If I must go, I will take as many of you with me as I can destroy!!!!” The voice of the Good Shepherd. Yeah. Look, if it turns out that Abp. Gomez is somehow complicit, then by all means let him face the music. On the other hand, [...]

Former LA Abp Mahony is relieved of duties and Bp. Curry is out. Rocco Palmo, who really knows what’s going on, gives you the details and what it all means (In brief: this is a biiiiig deal). Joanne McPortland, Frank Weathers and Deacon Greg Kandra have more. I don’t have much to add beyond, “Appalling–and a relief [...]

…should be wearing liturgical orange for obstruction of justice. But that’s up to us laypeople, who run the police, staff the courts, and man the jails.

…that commenced during the Long Lent of 2002. There has been a lot of change and improvement, but as cases like Bp Finn and, ahem, this guy demonstrate we have not crossed the finish line. I’m having trouble tracking the timeline on the priest and when he stopped serving. Can somebody make sense of it [...]

Me neither. About what? A reader writes: You might be interested in this. I’m looking forward to all of the publicity this will garner in the major press outlets and the shrill outcry for investigation into who in the abortion industry knew and what did they do to cover it up. Also for links to [...]

For years I have foretold that the day would come when the Church will be damned by the world, not for failing to prevent pedophilia, but for trying to prevent it.  Pedophilia was a useful club for the Manufacturers of Culture to feign outrage at the Church and land some solid punches because, luckily for [...]

Shoutin’ Bill offers a text book lesson in how not to defend the Faith: The Times says that Finn’s conviction of a misdemeanor “stemmed from his failure to report the Rev. Shawn Ratigan to the authorities after hundreds of pornographic pictures that Father Ratigan had taken of young girls were discovered on his laptop in [...]

…because the BBC, which absolutely *loved* the Scandal in the Catholic Church is now confronting its own massive institutional failure in preventing a Beloved Personality from being a predator. I think that the main thing to do here is to keep the focus on two things: 1) the victims and their need for help and 2) [...]

She sends along this link and wonders if this might be the answer to the question of why JPII, who was an obviously holy man, chose such lousy bishops. Seems reasonable to me.