The New Orleans Ceasefire Resolution Committee has voiced strong opposition to a recent “Statement of Peace“ signed and distributed by the New Orleans City Council concerning the ongoing conflict in Gaza and Israel. The Committee claims that this statement was issued without consulting groups advocating for a ceasefire resolution, undermining their efforts to bring this […]
JEFFERSON PARISH (SCSA) The V.M. Wheeler case has always been peculiar and sparked our interest. Wheeler, an Attorney and a Catholic Deacon in the New Orleans Archdiocese, died of pancreatic cancer just months into serving a sentence of probation. He was originally charged with 1st Degree Rape of a Child Under 13, using a weapon. […]
There is a crisis in the Federal Louisiana Eastern District Courts. Federal Judges Wendy Vitter, Jay Zainey, Sarah Vance, Ivan Lemelle, Lance Africk immediately recused themselves from the Archdiocese of New Orleans’ Federal Bankruptcy case. They are some of New Orleans fourteen federal district judges and five magistrates, who mostly handle pre-trial matters. Later, under pressure, Federal […]
This article was originally published on www.scsaorg.org. Big Easy Magazine was given permission to publish by author, Richard Windmann, Ph.D. It would seem that we finally have a champion on our side. And the documents they handed over to the DA better be complete, because we WILL find out. We think it is very notable […]
Aaron Hebert, a survivor of childhood sex abuse at the hands of Catholic Monsignor Lawrence Hecker, wrote a letter to Chief Federal Magistrate Judge Michael B. North on 03/28/2022, questioning the sealing of documents in the Archdiocese of New Orleans Bankruptcy. Hebert asked Judge North ….why would you seal the court document deposition of Father […]
Multiple sources have come forward to make allegations against Archbishop Aymond, after his spokesperson sent a letter of denial to Church Militant. As the Bishops conference in Baltimore approaches this week, what seems to be a witch hunt by Aymond has begun. It’s important to understand Archbishop Gregory Aymond’s young career as a Priest, serving […]
Today is the very beginning of the end for the unspeakable, traumatic atrocity that victims and survivors of childhood sex abuse have experienced in the Great state of Louisiana by the Catholic Church, which is the calculated, systematic, and the horrific wholesale rape of our precious children. The victims and survivors, along with their families […]
It was the summer of 2011, and I was summoned to the office of a psychologist in Dallas, and Raymond Fitzgerald, the President of Jesuit High School, who flew from New Orleans to attend. Jesuit paid for the psychologist as a part of their due diligence, to determine if I was telling the truth about […]
Cynical and frivolous is how a letter to Louisiana State Legislature signed by nearly 100 bishops and clergy of various faith traditions describes Senate Bill 156. SB 156 would bar transgender students from competing in sports outside of their assigned gender at birth. Clergy representing 12 faith traditions in 24 cities across Louisiana delivered a […]
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Fulton v. Philadelphia that the city of Philadelphia improperly applied anti-discrimination laws against the Roman Catholic charity, Catholic Social Services (CSS), for denying eligibility in foster adoption to same-sex parents. Chief Justice Roberts clarifies the tension at-hand in his delivery of the Courts opinion: Because the […]
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