Religion Apologia
Accused | Accusation | Year of Apologia |
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Cardinal Bernard Law | Knowing Father John Geoghan was fondling and raping children and doing nothing | 2002 |
Henry B. Eyring | Mountain Meadow massacre | 2007 |
Jimmy Swaggart | Corruption charges as televangelist | 1988 |
Mark Applewhite | His father, Marshall Applewhite, was the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult | 1997 |
Pat Robertson | Calling for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez | 2005 |
Pat Robertson | Saying that Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, suffered a stroke as a result of divine intervention for returning land to Palestinians | 2009 |
Pope Benedict XVI | Sexual abuses within the Catholic church | 2010 |
Pope John Paul II | Sexual abuses within the Catholic church | 2000 |
Ted Haggard | After condemning homosexuality, it was discovered he paid a male prostitute for sex | 2009 |
Devin Durrant | Attempting to profit from a non-commercial religious sermon | 2015 |
Charles Ellis III | Groping Ariana Grande at Aretha Franklin's Funeral | 2018 |
Pope Francis | Slapping a woman's hand | 2019 |
Archbishop of Montreal Christian Lépine | Abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church against indigenous Canadian Children | 2021 |