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Priest on the hook for $5.7K after CRA rejects donation receipts from his church

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With his appeal to CRA denied, Father Stephen Amesse of St. Patrick Basilica is heading to tax court Arthur White-Crummey · CBC News · Posted: Oct 25, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 25 Father Stephen Amesse is … Continue reading

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“Zanchetta to stand trial in Argentina for sexual abuse of seminarians” & related articles

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Catholic News Agency 10 June 2019   Pope Francis meets with Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta. Credit: Vatican Media. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jun 10, 2019 / 09:30 am (CNA).- Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta has been criminally charged with sexually assaulting two seminarians before … Continue reading

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Vatican diplomat accused of corruption and ‘romantic’ relationship while at UN

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Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe Catholic News Agency 15 March 2019 By Ed Condon and JD Flynn New York City, N.Y., Mar 15, 2019 / 01:09 pm (CNA).- An archbishop who served as the Holy See’s permanent … Continue reading

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“Priest in Johnson County allegedly stole more than $40,000 from his church” & related article

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 The Kansas City Star May 09, 2018 02:49 PM By Tony Rizzo trizzo@kcstar.com A Catholic priest in Johnson County has been charged with stealing more than $40,000 from a Gardner parish while he served as pastor. Father Joseph Cramer was … Continue reading

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Catholic priest in therapy after gambling 500,000 euros of parish money

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Father Flavio Gobbo, 48, negotiated a plea bargain for a suspended two-year jail term for embezzlement, the Corriere della Sera newspaper said. The Eagle Online 19 April 2018 An Italian Priest has gambled away more than 620,000 dollars of his … Continue reading

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“Buffalo bishop to sell mansion to compensate clergy sex abuse victims” & related articles

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The Diocese of Buffalo’s property on Oakland Place in Buffalo, which serves as the bishop’s residence, pictured in May 2007. (Sharon Cantillon/News file photo) The Buffalo News Published April 17, 2018 | Updated April 18, 2018 By Jay Tokasz and … Continue reading

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Retired pastor pleads to embezzling from church

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mlive.com (Michigan) Updated on July 14, 2017 at 3:28 PM Posted on July 14, 2017 at 3:26 PM By Oona Goodin-Smith ogoodins@mlive.com  (Photo courtesy of the Shiawassee) CORUNNA, MI – A retired pastor has pleaded guilty in a case alleging … Continue reading

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Oysters, wine and travel? A UK priest’s bizarre fraud scandal

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CNA  Catholic News Agency April 10, 2017 by CNA Daily News London, England, Apr 10, 2017 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. John Reid, a Roman Catholic priest serving in County Durham, England, has been spared an 18-month jail sentence … Continue reading

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“Philadelphia Monsignor Charged With Stealing More Than $500K” & related articles

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Some of the money came from the estate of a priest named as a child abuser in the infamous 2005 grand jury report. Philadelphia Magazine April 5, 2017 at 3:55 pm By Victor Fiorillo Villa St. Joseph in Darby, Delaware … Continue reading

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“Retired priest, secretary accused of taking nearly $500,000 from church” & related articles

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MLive.com on March 21, 2017 at 12:39 PM, updated March 21, 2017 at 12:40 PM By Dominic Adams | dadams5@mlive.com OWOSSO, MI — A Catholic church in Shiawassee County is reeling after it was discovered the former pastor there is … Continue reading

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