Tag Archives: scandal

Indiana’s First Baptist Church, which is one of the twenty largest megachurches in the nation, has fired head Pastor Jack Schaap for an adulterous affair with the teenaged girl. The church has issued a press release: At this time, we deeply regret the need to announce that First Baptist Church has dismissed our pastor, Dr. Jack Schaap, due to a …

On Monday when Boston detectives burst in to arrest yet another Catholic priest for distributing child pornography, they found his computer humming away with more downloads. Rev. Andrew J. Urbaniak, 39, mostly kept his head down during his arraignment in South Boston Municipal Court where he pleaded not guilty to charges of possession and dissemination of child pornography. Judge Michael …

“Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, has said that we are ‘inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ How this unremarkable statement, which never mentions homosexuals, can be labeled anti-gay is astounding. But according to the editorial board of the New York …

Yesterday Penn State tore down its statue of local hero Joe Paterno. The action came two days after a banner plane flew over the university bearing the warning: “Tear it down or we will.” Penn State’s president has issued a lengthy statement. An excerpt: I now believe that, contrary to its original intention, Coach Paterno’s statue has become a source …

Despite the June embezzlement arrest of the former Bronx LGBT Center executive director, enough money was raised this weekend to ensure that Bronx Pride will go on this Saturday.

Far right five-term GOP House Rep. Thad McCotter (MI) abruptly resigned from Congress yesterday even though he was predicted to skate through an easy reelection campaign. Had he actually been on the 2012 ballot, that is. His staff turned in 2,000 signatures supporting his candidacy, twice as many as needed to be eligible for the Aug. 7 primary ballot. But …

After its former head was arrested earlier this week for swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars, today we learn that the Bronx LGBT Center will be closing. After more than two years of scrambling to fill the budget gap caused by the missing funds, the center’s board of directors decided last week to shut down the 16-year-old agency, which serves …

The former executive director of the Bronx LGBT Center has been arrested for embezzling over $338,000 from the group she once headed. Lisa Winters, 42, who was let go as head of the Bronx Community Pride Center in January 2010, used the dough to pay $25,751.74 to Eyes on Africa for a personal trip and $15,953 to a dog-walker, authorities …

Megachurch defender of the family Bishop Noel Jones has been exposed for fathering the child of a married reality television star. Former “X Factor” U.S. finalist Stacy Francis is making tabloid headlines again for her personal life. Francis is admitting that she was married when she had an affair with Bishop Noel Jones, whom she has now publicly revealed is …

In a historic verdict, today a Philadelphia jury found a high-ranking Catholic Church official guilty of child endangerment for shielding the crimes of pedophile priests. This is the first time an American church official has been convicted of such charges. Monsignor William Lynn helped the archdiocese keep predators in ministry, and the public in the dark, by telling parishes their …

Yes, it was the butler. But also, SATAN. A senior Vatican official on Monday blamed the media — and the devil — for fueling the scandal over the butler who leaked Vatican documents. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told the Italian Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana that journalists reporting on the scandal were “pretending to be Dan Brown,” …

The National Catholic Register twists itself into knots in a bizarre defense of the Dolan pedophile payoff scandal. Consider this: Suppose you are walking down the street and a homeless person approaches you and asks you for some money. You give him the money. Would that justify a headline saying that you have been paying the homeless? Or suppose you …

And not a peep yet from Bill Donohue, either.

The New York Times last night dropped a bombshell on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, reporting that Dolan paid pedophile priests to go away, rather than turning them in to authorities. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when …

The pope’s private butler has been arrested and charged with leaking embarrassing and confidential Vatican documents to the Italian press. The pope’s butler has been arrested by Vatican police on suspicion of leaking a large number of confidential letters addressed to Benedict XVI which have lifted the lid on alleged corruption and nepotism at the Holy See. A Vatican spokesman …

Queerty has posted a message from the Atlantis Events cruise passengers arrested on board their ship earlier this year while moored at the Caribbean island of Dominica. An excerpt: Yes, we were having sex on the balcony. We were fucking. There, I said it. The complaints came from Dominica dock workers, who were offended. I’m sure if it had been …

A prominent Catholic priest noted for his media appearances has been exposed for fathering a baby with his secret lover. Father Thomas Williams, who has appeared on CBS and NBC and was interviewed by ABC News for a 2010 report on the Legion, made the acknowledgment after an activist who had sought reform in the order contacted the Vatican with …

City & State covers the never-ending scandal of the New York Senate: The Four Amigos – the band of New York State Senate Democrats who were instrumental in handing control of the Senate to Republicans in a wild power grab in 2009 – are now just one. After a string of criminal prosecutions felled former Senators Carl Kruger, Hiram Monserrate …