Catholic theology loses a giant with a sense of humor in Metz
- Dec 5, 2019
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Lawsuit: Church pressured victims into unfair settlements
- Nov 22, 2019
Two impoverished Mississippi men who say they were sexually assaulted by Franciscan missionaries filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming that Catholic officials pressured them into signing settlements that paid them little money and required them to remain silent about the alleged abuse.
Mississippi man says he still struggles after clergy abuse
- Sep 3, 2019
For Joshua K. Love, recovering from beatings and sexual abuse he says he suffered at a Catholic grade school 20 years ago is a matter of day-to-day survival.
Survivors demand US investigation of Mississippi abuse deals
- Aug 30, 2019
Catholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.
In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap
- Aug 27, 2019
A famed Catholic religious order settled sex abuse cases in recent months by secretly paying two black Mississippi men $15,000 each and requiring them to keep silent about their claims, The Associated Press has found.
Franciscans’ Denver meeting first phase of making six provinces into one
- Aug 13, 2019
History was made when close to 400 Franciscan friars — from 25 states as well as Canada, Italy Jamaica, Mexico and the Philippines — gathered in unity and fraternity in Denver for the religious order’s “Chapter of Mats.”
Monastery connects U.S. Catholics to Holy Land, events in Christ’s life
- Jul 14, 2019
Father James Gardiner, a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement, who is director of special projects at the monastery, said the gardens and the replicas are meant to “whet your appetite” for seeing the real things in the Holy Land.
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