August Archive

‘Papal cover-up’ critic wants lower ages of consent

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 August 2010

A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14. Peter Tatchell has called for Pope Benedict to be prosecuted for "covering up" clerical sexual abuse.

The Catholic Church has always gone through crises

La Figaro | 20 August 2010

Translation of an earlier post -- an interview in La Figaro with a young French intellectual who puts the clerical sexual abuse scandal in historical perspective.

Young French intellectual defends the Pope

Catholic Culture | 17 August 2010

A prominent young French intellectual has remarked that attacks on the Catholic Church reflect a general “instinct about the special purity of its mission.”

Kentucky sex abuse case against the Vatican dropped

Carolyn Moynihan | 10 August 2010

Three men who sought to hold the Vatican liable in an American court for sexual abuses by Roman Catholic priests are abandoning the case, according to a court motion filed Monday, the Associated Press reports.