Tag Archives: the Scandal

Call for Seminarian Testaments

by James J Heaney Posted on 28 November 2018

It seems that the reality inside some (many?) Catholic seminaries does not match the brochure. We’ve all seen public accounts by priests and ex-seminarians (here is just one) describing Catholic seminaries as hothouses where clerical authoritarianism, combined with tolerance or … Continue reading →

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Vigano Clearinghouse Thread [Finished]

by James J Heaney Posted on 28 August 2018

I’ve spent the weekend absorbing the explosive testimony of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who claims that many people in the Vatican, including Pope Francis, ignored the homosexual harassment and abuse of adult seminarians by Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. Viganò makes a lot of … Continue reading →

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