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Pope blames church’s own sins for sex scandal

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:16:29 +0000

(Lisbon, Portugal) Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday blamed the church’s own sins for the clerical abuse scandal – not a campaign mounted by outsiders – and called for profound purification to end(...)

Cardinal attacks former Vatican No. 2 on sex scandals

Jennifer Vanasco — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:00:11 +0000

(Vienna) Austria’s cardinal has said the former second-highest Vatican official blocked a probe into a sex abuse scandal that rocked the country’s Catholic church 15 years ago. Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn also accused Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the retired Vatican secretary of state, of causing “massive harm” to victims when he dismissed claims of clerical abuse as [...]

Pope’s No. 2: Pedophilia linked to homosexuality

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:15 +0000

(Santiago, Chile) The Vatican’s second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests.

Cardinal Tarcisio(...)

Studies find patterns of Catholic clergy sex abuse

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:14:55 +0000

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002 commissioned a series of surveys and studies on the roots of the clergy sex abuse crisis from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the(...)

Gay RI mayor faces new questions in Congressional run

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:17 +0000

(Providence, RI) Mayor David Cicilline, an openly gay man, claims he has cleaned up Providence after the corruption of his predecessor, but his family relationships and connection to a former(...)

Documentary maker admits to killing lover

logointern1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:11:54 +0000

Award-winning documentary maker Ray Gosling announced on the BBC he suffocated a former lover. The announcement came as a shock to both BBC staff and viewers.

“I killed someone once … He was a(...)

Vatican intrigue hits new level with leak denial

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:35:12 +0000

(Vatican City) The Vatican denied Tuesday that it leaked documents that led to the resignation of a prominent Catholic editor, intervening in a tale of ecclesiastical intrigue that has dominated(...)

Ex-pastor Ted Haggard holds home prayer meeting

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:00:52 +0000

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn’t the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after(...)

Sarkozy popularity dips amid minister sex scandal

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:04:06 +0000

(Paris) The sex scandal surrounding France’s culture minister has come at a bad time for President Nicolas Sarkozy whose popularity among voters took another dip, according to a poll published(...)

French culture minister denies paying boys for sex

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:20 +0000

France's culture minister denied Thursday paying boys for sex, in an impassioned response to critics on the right and left demanding that he resign over a candid book recounting encounters with male prostitutes in Thailand.