nytimes.com | Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly une...

yahoo.com | VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged Catholics to refrain from judging sinners a day after he rebuked Irish bishops for their handling of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy. While the pope made no mention of the Vatican's widely criticized policy of cloaking ...

religiondispatches.org | Last month, Virginia lawmaker Mark Cole, a Fredericksburg Republican, sponsored a bill in the House of Delegates to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips into human beings. “My understanding—I’m not a theologian—but there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you...

rt.com | A group of people who posed as Russian Orthodox priests and performed fake holy rituals for money has been arrested in St. Petersburg. The swindlers had a constant supply of clients thanks to links with a morgue’s administration. Relatives of the dead were lured by their adverts, claimin...

gmwatch.org | VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Genetically modified food crops could be used as "weapons of infliction of hunger and poverty" if they are managed unjustly, said the new head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Cardinal Peter Turkson told Catholic News Service March 9 that he wou...

Veteranstoday | The “war on terror” has been like no other.  America has kidnapped and tortured dozens, hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians, bombed poor villages off the map and turned on its own citizens.  We hold mock trials, hire mercenaries and have covered up so many crimes...

creativeminorityreport.com | You remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist. Well, she was scheduled to appear April 9 at St. John the Evangelist Church hall in Scranton to speak with Pax Christi of Northeastern Pennsylvania. That is, until the Diocese of Scranton got wind of it. Then...not so mu...

aolnews.com | (March 10) -- The Rev. Gabriele Amorth, the man who has served as the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years, says the signs are there: The devil has infiltrated St. Peter's. Specifically, Amorth cites recent sexual abuse and pedophilia scandals as well as what he deems a cover-up i...

american-reporter | Reporting from Ratsat, Dogo Nahawa, Nigeria, and Lagos, Nigeria -- The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres were buried in mass graves in central Nigeria on Monday as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim her...

roguegovernment.com |  Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, boasting his divine stature, on Sunday predicted trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and urged him to do more to improve the lives of blacks and the downtrodden.

onenewsnow.com | The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry is pleased that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently proclaimed the fulfillment of the prophecy in Ezekiel, Chapter 37. Speaking on the recent 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in P...

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A New York rabbi has been accused of trying to trick managers of a Connecticut hedge fund into giving $4 million to two schools he works with, prosecutors say. Rabbi Milton Balkany, 63, of Brooklyn, faces federal charges of extortion, blackmail and making false statements...

Last week, around 20 former students claimed they had been sexually abused by two teachers at the school, Wolfgang S. and Peter R. The abuse is believed to have been committed during the 1970s and 1980s.