This is a partial list of scandals relating to the Roman Catholic Church: A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ...

• 850 - Pope Joan, also La Papessa, a female pope who supposedly reigned for less than two years in the 850s, based on story that circulated in the Middle Ages. Aparently history is true, since furniture sedia stercoraria was introduced to inspect each newly elected pope for precence of testicles. Its use durning coronation of Innocent X in 1644 is described by traveller from Sweden Lawrence Banck.
• 1200' - Inquisitions
• 1244 onward - Stigmata
• 1500' - Castrato choirs
• 1517 - The 95 Theses or The Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of *Indulgences
• 1555 - Marian Persecutions
• 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
• 1610 - The persecution of Galileo Galilei, referred to as the Galileo affair
• 1800' - Magdalen Asylum
• 1940' - Duplessis Orphans, in the Province of Quebec, Canada
• 1940' - Mount Cashel Orphanage, in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• 1940' onward, Marcial Maciel head of Legionaries of Christ rapes several young memebers. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI cover up.
• 1950' onward priests and nuns in Poland start to spy on parishoners and themselves on behalf of secret police. In 1982 number of spies counts over 5000, that is one in three.
• 1960' - 1980' - Abuse by nuns at Congregation of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Kilmarnock; [1]; [2]; [3].
• 1962 onward - Father John Geoghan, accused of sexually molesting over 100 boys in the Archdiocese of Boston.
• 1974 - The fathering of a son by Bishop Eamon Casey
• 1978 - bishop Juliusz Paetz, then working in the Vatican, becomes secret informant for Polish secret police
• 1982 - bishop Juliusz Paetz becomes bishop in Lomza, Poland, and starts raping students in local seminary. Continues molesting after becoming bishop in Poznan in 1996. Pope informed in 1999 and refused to act until scandal was revealed by the newspaper in 2002.
• 1999 retaired Vatican priest Luigi Marinelli publishes book titled Via Col Vento in Vaticano (Gone With the Wind in the Vatican). English edition titled: Shroud of Secrecy: The Story of Corruption Within the Vatican. In it, he describes corruption and sex among Vatican clergy in the past 4 decades he worked there.
• 2001 - protege of pope John Paul II bishop Emmanuel Milingo marries a woman. Marriage ifficiated by Sun Myung Moon. Vatican hides Milingo in monastery in northern Italy.
• 2002 - priest Roman Kramek on visitation from Poland is arrested for rape in New Britain Connucticut
• 2002 - bishop Raymond Leo Burke received final vows from male Joel Green as female nun Julie Green of Franciscan Servants of Jesus, knowing that he underwent sex change operation to make him physically appear as a woman.
• 2004 - priest Krzysztof Sobczyszyn from Lubaczow, Poland, on assignment at seminary in Saint Ploeten, Austria, was arrested during an international pedophile ring invesigation. Search of his computer revealed pictures of orgies between seminary students and faculty. Boss Ulrich Küchl is removed, and whole seminary shut down.
• 2005 priest Marek Bozek and 6 board of directors members of St. Stanislaus Kostka parish in St. Louis were excommunicated by bishop Raymond Leo Burke for refusing to turn over the control of parich money to bishop. Parish was incorporated under state civil law in XIX century, but recognized by Vatican.
• 2006 bishop Emmanuel Milingo is excommunicated by pope Benedict XVI after ordaining 4 married persons as bishops.
• 21 September 2007 priest Alejandre V. Galias in Philippines is excommunicated by bishop Arturo Bastes for "violating the seal of confession". No deitails were provided by bishop, nor defendant given an opportunity to provide his side of the story. However, it appears that earlier that year priest was heading some local church group, and collected money, which he refused to share with bishop. This sparked dispute with bishop. Unlike money disputes, which must be resolved by the Vatican, penalty for violating seal of confession can be dealt with locally by bishop himself.
• October 2007 high ranking Vatican priest Tommaso Stenico is exposed as a gay seeking sexual partner. He was caught by private Italian TV station with hidden camera stating that gay sex is OK. Although his face was blurred by TV station, his bosses managed to identify his office furniture. Stenico was removed from office. A week after exposure, he promised to expose all the gays among Vatican priests.
• October 2007 Italian newspaper La Stampa exposes racket of marriage annulments. Catholic version of divorce. Corrupt clergy charges up to 45 thousand euro for fictitious annulment. Number of annulment proceedings increased fewfold in a dacade, and is reminiscent of selling indulgences in the Middle Ages.

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Galileo before the Holy Office, a 19th century painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury The Galileo affair, in which Galileo Galilei came into conflict with the Catholic Church over his support of Copernican astronomy, is often considered a defining moment in the history of the relationship between religion and science. ... // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... Magdalen Laundry in Ireland, c. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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