September 20th, 2009
There has been a lot of speculation about the actions of the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII (at left, as Nuncio in Berlin in 1927) in regard to the Holocaust during World War II. Some feel that the Church did more than it got credit for; others condemn the Church’s reluctance to criticize Germany […]
Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Catholic Church, Hlond, Holocaust, Innitzer, Pius XII, Stepinac
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May 21st, 2009
An excerpt from a report today in the Philadelphia Inquirer: For more than a half century, thousands of children in church-run orphanages and reform schools in Ireland were severely abused by priests and nuns, a government commission said yesterday in the first official accounting of a scandal that has wrenched the deeply Roman Catholic nation. […]
Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: Catholic Church, child abuse, Ireland
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