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While the Catholic Bishops claim to have been "enlightened" and say they are doing everything they can to protect our children, nothing could be further from the truth. Bishop Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger of Evansville Indiana, one of seven bishops who voted against the "Zero Tolerance" policy which called for the removal of any priest guilty of abusing one child, believes that an admitted "sex addict," registered sex offender, and convicted felon is the best man to run the diocese's diaconate program. "Father" Jean F. Vogler, who served jail time for possession of dozens of video tapes containing child pornography, who...

Fr. Richard Sparks, a well-known modernist heretic and blasphemer, has been invited to the diocese of San Jose to give a series of lectures on "Catholic" moral teaching. This, of course, is a joke – since Fr. Sparks is about as Catholic as Saddam Hussein. He has only denigrated and criticized traditional Catholic morality. Among other blasphemies, he has suggested that Jesus fondled Mary Magdalene and she fondled Him. That Our Lady and St. Joseph fondled each other. That homosexuality in not only normal and healthy but actually a "God given gift". His heresies regarding morality are too numerous to...

Roman Catholic Faithful announces "Operation Second Chance" "I'm 47 years old. I'm divorced. I'm a recovering alcoholic. I'm gay!" Homosexual activist seeks ordination to the priesthood as Roman Catholic Faithful announces "Operation Second Chance" The president of an international Catholic watchdog group today called upon the St. Louis Catholic hierarchy to block a self-proclaimed homosexual activist from seeking ordination to the priesthood. Citing a 1961 Vatican directive which declared that "advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty" as well as a more recent declaration from Rome...

On February 26, 2001 RCF sent the following to Cardinal George of Chicago. Your Eminence, I recently received a letter from a Mr. Matt Abbott regarding his Feb. 24, 2001 conversation with you at St. Rita High School during Parish Leadership Day. According to Mr. Abbott: ‘..he [Cardinal George] doesn’t like the fact that you make accusations with no evidence to back them up. He used the [Bishop] Ryan case as an example: He claims that there as no evidence of wrongdoing, other than Ryan’s “imprudent” association with certain individuals’ Surely Mr. Abbott misunderstood your comments, to assume otherwise would...