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Pastors Misbehaving

The men (and women) of God are sometimes all too human.

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  • June 2008

    • Former Obama Pastor in Church Power Battle

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 5, 08 2:39 AM CDT

      Former Obama Pastor in Church Power Battle

      Barack Obama's former Chicago church is in turmoil over a battle to retain power by firebrand preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Time reports. A rift has opened between Wright, who was supposed to retire from the church he nurtured for 36 years, and his hand-picked successor, whose qualifications he's now questioning. More »

    • Boo Hoo: Firebrand Priest Suspended

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jun 4, 08 6:38 AM CDT

      Boo Hoo: Firebrand Priest Suspended

      The controversial Catholic priest who mocked Hillary Clinton in a guest sermon from the pulpit of Barack Obama's church has been suspended from his own parish, reports the Chicago Tribune . Father Michael Pfleger was ordered to take a weeks-long leave of absence by Chicago's cardinal, "to reflect on his recent statements." Pfleger didn't agree that the leave was merited, the cardinal noted. More »

  • April 2008

    • After Pope Meets Victims, Vatican Considers Change

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 18, 08 6:21 PM CDT

      After Pope Meets Victims, Vatican Considers Change

      Just a day after a Washington meeting where Pope Benedict XVI talked with victims sexually abused by Catholic priests, a Vatican official said the church would consider changes to canon law dictating how the church deals with such offenses, the New York Times reports. Cardinal William Levada holds Benedict’s old post as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. More »

    • Abuse Victims Find Some Peace With Pope

      newser  |  CNN  |  Apr 18, 08 3:46 AM CDT

      Abuse Victims Find Some Peace With Pope

      Victims of sexual abuse yesterday exited a long-sought meeting with Pope Benedict XVI moved by his compassion and inspired by hope. "He apologized," one of them told CNN after the talk in a Washington chapel. "He seemed to intrinsically understand what we were talking about." Benedict listened to personal accounts of abuse by priests and prayed in what was believed to be his first-ever meeting with victims. More »

    • Pope to Church: Pedophilia Was 'Badly Handled'

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 16, 08 7:53 PM CDT

      Pope to Church: Pedophilia Was 'Badly Handled'

      Pope Benedict XVI had strong words for America's Roman Catholic bishops today, asserting that the clerical sexual molestation scandal had been "very badly handled" in many cases, the AP reports. "It is your God-given responsibility as pastors to bind up the wounds caused by every breach of trust, to foster healing, to promote reconciliation and to reach out with loving concern to those so seriously wronged," he said. More »

    • Pope Will Address Abuse Crisis During US Visit

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 8, 08 9:45 PM CDT

      Pope Will Address Abuse Crisis During US Visit

      Pope Benedict XVI will address the clergy sex-abuse crisis during his visit to the US next week, a top aide tells the AP. The pontiff, who begins the six-day trip Tuesday in Washington, "will try to open the path of healing and reconciliation" during a mass for clergy members April 19 at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. More »

  • March 2008

    • Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

      newser  |  Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Mar 12, 08 2:40 AM CDT

      Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

      The husband of Pentecostal televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting her and was sentenced to three years probation. Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, admitted grabbing Bynum, throwing her down and kicking her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel in August, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  Weeks apologized to his wife in court. More »

  • December 2007

    • Priests Brawl With Brooms at Church of the Nativity

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Dec 29, 07 6:58 AM CST

      Priests Brawl With Brooms at Church of the Nativity

      A holiday cleanup at the church built over the grotto in Bethlehem where Christians believe Jesus was born turned ugly Thursday, as Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows, the Times of London reports. Robed priests pummeled each other with brooms and stones in the Church of the Nativity for an hour before police broke up the melee. More »

    • Navy Chaplain With HIV Gets Jail in Forcible Sodomy Case

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Dec 6, 07 2:43 PM CST

      Navy Chaplain With HIV Gets Jail in Forcible Sodomy Case

      An HIV-positive US Navy chaplain pleaded guilty today to several charges of forcible sodomy and an aggravated assault charge for not disclosing his HIV status to one man, the AP reports. Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee, 42, was sentenced to two years; without the plea bargain, the charges could have carried a life sentence. More »

    • Senator Attacks Free-Spending Megachurches

      newser  |  NPR  |  Dec 5, 07 3:34 PM CST

      Senator Attacks Free-Spending Megachurches

      Sen. Charles Grassley thinks big-spending pastors of so-called “megachurches” might be abusing their tax-exempt status, NPR reports. Ministers in these stadium-sized churches preach a gospel of wealth, and practice what they preach—driving Rolls Royces, flying in private jets, living in mansions. “Maybe that's not illegal,” the Iowa Republican says, “but it may raise questions about whether it's the right expenditure of money.” More »

    • NY Diocese's Coloring Book Warns of Abuse

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Dec 5, 07 9:06 AM CST

      NY Diocese's Coloring Book Warns of Abuse

      A coloring book handed out by the Catholic Church to kids in New York warns them not to be alone with an adult in a room with the door shut, Newsweek reports. It doesn't specifically name priests as a risk, but it does depict an angel warning an altar boy not to "be alone in a closed room with an adult." A man with his back turned—possibly a priest—is smiling at the child. More »

  • November 2007

    • Sex Scandal Roils Atlanta Megachurch

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 22, 07 3:59 PM CST

      Sex Scandal Roils Atlanta Megachurch

      Revelations was the theme of the day for a scandal-plagued Atlanta church as its archbishop had to admit that his "nephew" is really his son. And worse, he’d lied about it under oath, AP reports. A court-ordered DNA test showed Archbishop Earl Paulk fathered D.E. Paulk. Both work at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church. More »

    • Jeffs Gets Two Terms on Rape Charges

      newser  |  Salt Lake Tribune  |  Nov 20, 07 5:45 PM CST

      Jeffs Gets Two Terms on Rape Charges

      Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs received consecutive five-year-to-life terms today for two counts of accomplice to rape, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. A Utah judge also made him pay $18,500 on each count of forcing an underage girl to marry in 2001 at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where Jeffs is considered a prophet, CNN reports. More »

    • Jesuits Settle Sex Suit for $50M

      newser  |  Seattle Times  |  Nov 19, 07 3:55 AM CST

      Jesuits Settle Sex Suit for $50M

      The Jesuits have agreed to pay $50 million to some 110 people living in remote Alaskan villages who claim they were sexually molested as children by 15 priests, brothers or men working for the Jesuits, reports the Seattle Times . Details of the settlements are still being negotiated, according to attorneys and a Jesuit spokesman. The victims were reportedly molested over a 20-year period from the ages of 5-16. More »

    • Pope to Shun Boston on US Visit

      newser  |  Time  |  Nov 14, 07 7:52 AM CST

      Pope to Shun Boston on US Visit

      For his much-anticipated inaugural trip to the US this spring Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit the White House, the United Nations, the site of the World Trade Center—but not Boston, where the Church sex abuse scandal first erupted. The omission of Boston from the papal tour has infuriated victims of priest sexual abuse, reports Time. More »

    • Lawmaker Probes TV Preachers

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 7, 07 8:18 AM CST

      Lawmaker Probes TV Preachers

      A top Republican lawmaker is probing six televangelists who have put their opulent lifestyles on display, the AP reports. Rolls Royces, private jets, and a $30,000 table are among the luxuries that sparked Sen. Chuck Grassley's inquiry, he said yesterday. "I don't want to conclude that there's a problem, but people who donated should have their money spent as intended and in adherence with the tax code." More »

    • Pull Over, Father

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Nov 3, 07 5:08 PM CDT

      Pull Over, Father

      Irish priests are carping about a government proposal to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers from .08 to .05, fearing that communion wine may make them legally drunk. “I don't like to use the word wine, as it is Christ's blood,” says one priest, “but it still has all the characteristics of wine when in the blood stream.” Non-alcoholic vino is no option, he adds, for it requires case-by-case church approval.  More »

    • Anti-Gay Church Ordered to Pay Dead Marine's Family $11M

      newser  |  CNN  |  Nov 1, 07 2:00 AM CDT

      Anti-Gay Church Ordered to Pay Dead Marine's Family $11M

      A fundamentalist Kansas church has been ordered to pay $11 million to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq after a jury decided that anti-gay church protesters violated the family's privacy. Members of Westboro Baptist Church routinely wave anti-gay posters at soldiers' funerals because they claim the war is punishment for the nation's tolerance of gays. More »

  • October 2007

    • Oral Roberts U President Takes Leave of Absence

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 17, 07 10:44 PM CDT

      Oral Roberts U President Takes Leave of Absence

      Richard Roberts, the Oral Roberts University president who is accused of misuse of university funds and illegal involvement in a political campaign, requested and received an indefinite leave of absence from the university's Board of Regents today. The board said a senior pastor will temporarily take over the president's duties, with help from 89-year-old Oral Roberts, who is technically still the school's chancellor but had left day-to-day operations to his 58-year-old son. More »

    • Gay Vatican Priest Outed on TV; Ousted by Holy See

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 14, 07 6:55 AM CDT

      Gay Vatican Priest Outed on TV; Ousted by Holy See

      The Vatican yesterday suspended a senior official caught on hidden camera making advances to a man and saying that he didn't believe he was sinning by being involved with gays. Italian television showed the priest with his face distorted, but Vatican officials recognized the office where he was filmed. The suspended priest, Monsignor Tomasso Stenico, works for the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy, which aims to ensure proper conduct by priests. More »

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