Catholic body paid almost a million to settle sex assault complaint against top priest, it has been revealed

Fr John McCloskey was a celebrity cleric, ministering to the conservative elite in Washington, D.C and helping convert high-profile political figures to Catholicism, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He wrote books and often appeared on TV. A Catholic organisation paid out almost a million pounds to settle a sex assault complaint against the top priest, it has now been revealed. Catholic Organisation Opus Dei footed the legal bill in 2005 following a complaint that McCloskey had groped a...

Trump would rather you didn’t share this video of him saying a President in his situation should be fired

A shutdown of government spending on certain departments is set to last until January, Donald Trump’s new acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has warned. Spending stopped flowing to many public employees in the United States on Friday after Trump and Congress failed to agree on a budget for his proposed wall. Trump refused a lower sum as a compromise and made good on his threat of a partial shutdown of government spending, changing his mind on an earlier temporary...

Guatemalan girl, 7, tragically dies in US custody from ‘dehydration, shock’

A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) . The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight hours after she was taken into custody, the Washington Post reported. The child and her father were being held by immigration authorities in the US state of New Mexico it said in the article. However, on December 7th, the girl was found to have a 41-degree-Celsius fever and was taken by...

Grim statistic – US gun death rate hits 20-year high

In 2017 almost 40 thousand peoples’ lives were ended by guns. The grim total of 39,773 brings the nation's death rate to the highest level since 1996. The data was released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The gun death rate of 12.0 per 100,000 people — higher than the rate of death from car accidents of 11.5 per 100,000 people. Tragically the increase in 2017 occurred due to suicide. Sixty percent of gun deaths last year were...

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