A report commissioned by the German Bishops’ Conference, known as the “MHG Study,” has been obtained by media outlets Spiegel Online and Die Ziet, and the findings are staggering: between 1946 and 2014, there were a reported 3,677 cases of …
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Bishops Offer Support for Viganò – Six Prelates Voice Their Concern
In the wake of explosive accusations (PDF link) from former apostolic nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò about the complicity of high-ranking churchmen – including Pope Francis – in covering up abuse from Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a number of …
Harrisburg Diocese Releases Names of Over 70 Priests Accused of Abuse
The Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has just released the names of over 70 members of its clergy who have been accused of sexual abuse in cases spanning back to the 1940s. At a news conference this morning, Bishop Ronald Gainer of …
Scandal-Plagued Honduran Bishop Has Resignation Accepted, But His Superior Still Has a Job
In today’s Holy See Bolletino, it has been announced that the pope has finally accepted the resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, CMF. In April of 2018, National Catholic Register Rome Correspondent …
UPDATED | Report: “Married” Bolivian Bishop Will Be Made Cardinal by Pope Francis
In a news report that comes to us from our Spanish-language partners Adelante la Fe, OnePeterFive has learned that Bishop Toribio Ticona — an 81-year-old Bolivian prelate who is alleged to be living with a woman as husband and wife …
Cardinal Müller Rejects Notion of “Homophobia”, Calls it an “Instrument of Totalitarian Dominance”
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has given an interview to the Italian journalist Costanza Miriano, who works for the Italian television broadcaster RIA. In this new interview, the German cardinal …
Right Hand of Chancellor Angela Merkel Publicly Asks for Female Priests
Today, the German media are filled with reports about the new interview given by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the recently elected General Secretary of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and thus Angela Merkel’s “right hand” and one of the most influential …
The Downfall of Pope Francis’s Cardinals
The Decomposition of Pope Francis’ reign continues. In light of what Onepeterfive has shown in the recent past concerning Pope Francis’ close advisors – Cardinals Maradiaga, Errazuriz, and Marx – it might be of interest that now one of the …
German Bishops’ VP: If Pope Allows Married Priests in Amazon, We Want them Too
The German bishops’ vice president, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, is now announcing that the German bishops would – and should likewise – ask the pope for a special permission for the ordination of “viri probati” (married proven men to be ordained …
CDF, Pope Reject Intercommunion Handout of German Bishops’ Conference
As the Austrian Catholic news website Kath.net reports today, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – with explicit approval of Pope Francis – rejected the 22 February 2018 pastoral handout concerning the admittance, in individual cases, of Protestant spouses …