All posts tagged "Priest"

Call it Roman collar crime.

A wanted man has been posing as a priest to gain access to at least six parishes in Dallas to try to burglarize them, police told The Dallas Morning News.

"Two parishes were in the central downtown area, two in northeast Dallas and two in the southwest part of the diocese," Katy Kiser, communications director for the diocese, confirmed to the Morning News. ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday accepted the resignation of a US bishop accused of allowing an alleged pedophile priest from hisdiocese to flee to Mexico, as the Vatican takes action on abuses.

OAXACA, Mexico (AFP) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 60 undocumented migrants, including children, who were aboard a freight train in Mexico trying to get to the United States, a shelter director said.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Members of a liberal group of U.S. Roman Catholics on Sunday called on Church leaders to open talks with their members on controversies ranging from the ordination of women to allowing priests to marry.

James McGreevey, the former Democratic governor from New Jersey who resigned after admitting he had an affair with another man, won't be starting a new career as a priest anytime soon.

WASHINGTON – Allegations of sexual abuse involving the Roman Catholic clergy in the United States rose sharply last year to nearly 700 from around 400 in 2009, according to a church report Monday.