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New Orleans Priest Admits to Sexually Abusing Minors

NEW ORLEANS (ChurchMilitant.com) – A notorious New Orleans priest recently removed from ministry admitted to reporters that he sexually abused male adolescents and added that clergy sex abuse is no longer much of a problem in the Church. On Tuesday, Father Lawrence Hecker acknowledged to reporters for WWL-TV in New Orleans and the British newspaper The […]

The Carnegie riot, the rule of law, and No Touchee Run…

Today marks the centenary of the Carnegie Klan Riot, aptly named to describe what happened that time the KKK got it into their heads to march through the heavily Catholic town of Carnegie, just outside of Pittsburgh. Their aim was to stick it to the papists, who were also overwhelmingly Irish immigrants and thus doubly […]