Vatican's Openness Prompts Review of Policies that Led to Pregnant Gay Teacher's Firing
Barbara Webb, left, and Kristen Laseki, right, are expecting a baby. They’re legally married, but Webb’s pregnancy resulted in her termination at the all-girl Catholic high school where she has taught for nine years. (Screenshot: WJBK video) Catholic ...
Report: Bishop Finn Under Vatican Investigation
The Vatican has launched an examination into Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn, according to The Kansas City Star. (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) The Vatican has launched an examination into Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn, according to The Kansas City Star. Ottawa ...
Vatican investigating convicted US bishop
The only U.S. bishop ever convicted of shielding a pedophile priest is now under investigation by the Vatican. The leadership of Bishop Robert W. Finn, who heads the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in northern and western Missouri, is being reviewed by a ...
The Vatican is investigating Bishop Finn's leadership
The Vatican is investigating Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Missouri, two years after he was convicted of failing to report suspected abuse. Finn was notified of the investigation by the papal ambassador in Washington and has “cooperated with the ...
Paedophilia Scandal, Former Vatican Ambassador Jozef Wesolowski Collected Hundreds of Thousands Child Porns
Former Vatican archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who is now under arrest for a case involving paedophilia (Photo source: latertuliard). Vatican City - Former Vatican archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, 66, was found to have collected more than a hundred thousands of ...
To my eighteen-year-old self, on your departure for Cambridge
September 21st, 2003 In three days, you will encounter a fish knife for the very first time. You will not know what it is, but everyone else will. You will watch, and imitate. You will not know how to eat – how to cut cheese, hold a wineglass, to dissect pheasant. You will not know how to dress, in ...
News of the Week
Item: General Motors to market "faith based" internal combustion engines. Following its hostile yet weirdly rapturous takeover by the Vatican, GM has announced plans to introduce a new line of bloatmobiles powered by what company promotional literature terms "the awesome force generated by clean liv ...
Preserving the Dead
Imagine a silent funeral. Family, relatives, colleagues, co-workers, and acquaintances gather together to recall nothing of the deceased. There’s no eulogy, no song, no commemoration, no recognition, no memories retold. Instead, the mourners line up behind the elaborate casket to inspect the pale, d ...
