Archive for November, 2015
Vatican arrests two in connection with leaked documents / The New York Times
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Catholic Church Finances, Vatican, Voice of the Faithful on November 3, 2015
The Vatican announced Monday that two members of a commission set up by Pope Francis to study financial operations at the Holy See had been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to journalists.
“The arrests added to the intrigue and infighting that appear to be intensifying around Francis, whose push to liberalize certain aspects of the Roman Catholic Church and to shake up the Vatican’s administrative body, or Curia, has met with stiff resistance from traditionalists and vested interests inside the Vatican and beyond.”
By Elisabetta Povoledo, The New York Times — Click here to read the rest of this story.
Costs of sex abuse crisis to U.S. church underestimated / National Catholic Reporter
Posted by Voice of the Faithful in Catholic Church Finances, Clergy Sexual Abuse, Future of the Church, Voice of the Faithful on November 2, 2015
The U.S. Catholic church has incurred nearly $4 billion in costs related to the priest sex abuse crisis during the past 65 years, according to an extensive NCR (National Catholic Reporter) investigation of media reports, databases and church documents.
“In addition, separate research recently published calculates that other scandal-related consequences such as lost membership and diverted giving has cost the church more than $2.3 billion annually for the past 30 years.
“Between 1950 and August of this year, the church has paid out $3,994,797,060.10, NCR found.”
By Jack Ruhl and Diane Ruhl, National Catholic Reporter — Click here to read the rest of this story. NCR also has editorialized on this topic, and the editorial, “The deep, lasting financial cost of sex abuse,” can be read by clicking here.
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