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July 28, 2018 – PA Catholic Nuclear Bomb

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pennsylvania-catholic-nuclear-bomb-grand-jury/ Breaking news out of Pennsylvania: the state Supreme Court has ordered the release next month of a 900-page grand jury report that will discuss more than 300 “predator priests” in six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses. According to PennLive.com: The findings, which exceed 800 pages, are widely expected to expose decades-old abuse of…

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July 28, 2018 – Vatican meets #MeToo: Nuns denounce their abuse by priests

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/28/vatican-meets-metoo-nuns-denounce-their-abuse-by-priests.html Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done…

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July 28, 2018 – With McCarrick, timing is everything

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/with-mccarrick-timing-is-everything-3931 The timing of these revelations alongside the commemoration of one of the most polemical papal writings in the history of the Church – which happens to be about love and sex – is more than a coincidence for me. God, in his gift of free will, has allowed us to be utterly stupid about…

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July 28, 2018 – Comunicato della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, 28.07.2018

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/28/0548/01187.html Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (U.S.A.), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to…