Imagine dedicating your life to the priesthood. Six years alone of seminary training. The formation. The sacrifice. The study. The love. But then comes a tap on the shoulder one day in the form of a phone call from your bishop's office. … [Read more...]
Fighting to the End: Falsely Accused Priest Restored to Ministry Just Days Before Death
It wouldn't seem like much to ask: Rev. Kenneth Kaucheck just wanted justice and to clear his name. In 2009, a woman came forward claiming that Fr. Kaucheck had sexually abused her as a teen in the 1970s. And even though prosecutors … [Read more...]
Justice? Falsely Accused Priest Finally Returned To Ministry – After Eight Years!
Eight years. If you can believe it, that is how long it took for a falsely accused priest to finally return to ministry. After a scammer accused Rev. William C. Graham, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota, in 2016 of abusing him … [Read more...]
Lunacy Down Under: Australian Court Now Says Family of Dead Accuser Can Sue Church For Abuse That Now-Deceased Cardinal Pell Never Committed
You can't make this up. To begin, Cardinal George Pell never abused anybody. In fact, Australian law enforcement officials even admitted in court that they began an investigation into Pell in 2013 even though there were not any criminal … [Read more...]
The Great Shakedown Keeps A-Rollin’: Phony Claims Continue at Epic Pace, Here Are The Facts
The legacy media will never admit this, and the professional victims' groups will outright lie. But the facts are the facts. Bogus abuse accusations against Catholic priests are now off the charts. Fraud being perpetrated against the … [Read more...]
More Falsely Accused Priests Finally Returned To Ministry
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the diocesan review boards formed by the Dallas Charter 23 years ago, while originally well intentioned, have become a virtual dragnet for specious, unfounded claims from decades prior in which … [Read more...]
Same Old Story: Accused Priest Is Cleared, Boston Globe Goes Mum
The claims were ludicrous from the beginning. Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan (Massachusetts) and an anonymous accuser wanted the public to suspend all common sense and somehow believe that Rev. Msgr. Francis V. Strahan of the … [Read more...]
Unintended Consequences: Dallas Charter Leaves Innocent Priests In Limbo
It might be human nature. Humans seem incapable of correcting one problem without overcorrecting to the point that they create another, opposite problem. So seems to be the case with the United States bishops' 2002 "Dallas … [Read more...]
Twice Is a Charm? Wall St. Journal Again Profiles Stunning Case of Wrongfully Convicted Priest Fr. Gordon MacRae
For the second time this past decade – and at least the fourth time since 2005 – the Wall Street Journal has taken up the case of Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, who has, quite unbelievably, been serving a 33½-to-67 year sentence in a … [Read more...]
Another Wave of Falsely Accused Priests Returned to Ministry
As we have written many times, the diocesan review boards formed by the Dallas Charter 20 years ago, while originally well intentioned, have become a virtual dragnet for specious, unfounded claims from decades prior in which the due process … [Read more...]