Skip to content

Keep the Faith, Change the Church.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • LinkedIn
Voice of The Faithful
  • About
    • Mission
    • Who We Are
    • Financial Reports
    • Current Campaigns
    • VOTF FAQs
    • Contact Us
  • Media
    • Blog
    • In the Vineyard
    • Press Releases
    • Videos
    • Publications
    • Documents
  • Conferences
    • VOTF 20th Year Commemoration: 20 Years Keeping the Faith, Changing the Church
    • VOTF 2021
      Conference: Re–Membering the Church
    • 2020 Conference: Visions of a Just Church
    • 2019 Conference: Creating a Just Church
    • 2018
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • 2009 Voice of the Faithful National Conference
  • Giving
    • Give Now
    • Monthly Giving
    • Planned Giving
  • Programs
    • SYNOD 2021-2024
    • SURVIVOR SUPPORT
    • PRIEST SUPPORT
    • STRUCTURAL CHANGE
    • Bishop Selection
    • Child Protection
    • Clericalism
    • Financial Accountability
    • Healing Circles
    • Lay Education
    • Mandatory Celibacy
    • Ordain Married Men
    • Prayerful Voice
    • Women’s Emerging Voices
    • The BridgeDialogues
  • Home
Home / Media / Press Releases

Press Releases

  • National Statement — After 10 Years of Clergy Sexual Abuse Headlines Voice of the Faithful Sees No Certainty Children Are Safe

    NEWTON, Mass., Jan. 5, 2012 – More than 130 people had come forward to tell their stories of childhood sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priest Fr. John Geoghan, reported The Boston Globe on Jan. 6, 2002. Over the next decade, around the world and as recently as last month in The Netherlands, came revelations that […]

    Read more

  • Emily & Rosemary Fund for Women in the Catholic Church Awards $5,000 to Former Michigan Teacher

    NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 21, 2011 – A Michigan teacher fired from her position at a Catholic elementary school has been awarded $5,000 in the fourth round of grants from the Voice of the Faithful’s Emily & Rosemary Fund for Women in the Church. These grants support women who have lost employment in the Catholic Church […]

    Read more

  • Voice of the Faithful Repeats Calls for Transparency & Accountability as Dutch Report Widespread Clergy Sexual Abuse

    NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 20, 2011 – Another chapter in the horrific story of worldwide Roman Catholic clergy child sexual abuse began Dec. 16 when a commission established by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands released its report. “In the Netherlands, as elsewhere, clerics who perpetrated sexual abuse on helpless children could do so first […]

    Read more

  • News Release — Irish Audits Show Clergy Sex Abuse Won’t Stop Without Accountability, Independent Review

    NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 1, 2011 – For 36 years, leaders of six Roman Catholic dioceses in Ireland not only mishandled clergy sexual abuse and were not held accountable for abetting abuse, but also failed to establish reviews totally independent of Church influence, according to Voice of the Faithful’s reading of reports by Ireland’s National Board […]

    Read more

  • Assessing the New Missal Translation

    After more than a year of objection and resistance from English-speaking Catholics, including several bishops and many liturgists and translators, in Advent 2011 the Vatican imposed its new translation of the Missal for regions where English is the predominant language. Here’s a compendium of reflections published in preparation for the new translation: Fr. Anthony Ruff, […]

    Read more

  • VOTF National Statement — Young Girls Again Are Prohibited from Serving Mass

    NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 23, 2011 – Young girls have been prohibited from serving Mass by the pastor of Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Arlington, Va. In 2006, even as he relinquished a long-standing practice that excluded girls from altar service, Arlington Bishop Paul Loverde authorized diocesan priests to continue to exclude […]

    Read more

  • VOTF National Statement — The Catholic Church, Penn State and Rampant Child Sexual Abuse

    NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 17, 2011 — The recent grand jury account of child sexual abuse at Pennsylvania State University are as sickening as grand jury accounts of similar abuse by Catholic clergy in Philadelphia, Ireland, Boston and elsewhere, and the fact that the crimes were covered up is just as criminal, according to the worldwide […]

    Read more

  • VOTF National Statement — Nothing Has Changed at Vatican as Cardinal Law Leaves Basilica Post

    NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 21, 2011 – Nothing in the Vatican’s response to clergy sexual abuse has changed with the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law from his post as archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, according to Voice of the Faithful, the worldwide Catholic Church reform movement. At the epicenter of the clergy sexual […]

    Read more

  • News Release — Church Reform Group Identifies Serious Flaw in Bishops’ Clerical Abuse Report

    NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 3, 2011 – A serious flaw exists in the John Jay College report on the causes and context of the Catholic Church’s worldwide sexual abuse scandal, according to the worldwide Church reform group Voice of the Faithful. The report was made public earlier this year, and the VOTF board of trustees recently […]

    Read more

  • Voice of the Faithful National Statement — Finally Accountability for a Bishop

    NEWTON, Mass., Oct. 14, 2011 – Bishop Robert Finn and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese were indicted today by a Jackson County, Missouri, grand jury for failing to report child abuse, the first time a Catholic bishop has been indicted on such a charge since clergy sexual abuse of children was first made widely known […]

    Read more

< Previous
1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 12
Next >

Mission Statement

To provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the Faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church.

Search VOTF

Follow...

Watch VOTF videos...

Confronting Clericalism
By the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests and Voice of the Faithful; endorsed by FutureChuch

Voice of the Faithful
P.O. Box 920408
Needham, MA 02492
(781) 559-3360

Copyright © 2023 Voice of the Faithful, Inc.
All rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy  

↑