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| Shortest One-Act Play - Thursday, September 02, 2010 Author: Kevin Clarke Belgian's Cardinal Godfried Danneels, met with a victim of sexual assault, now 42, and his uncle-perpetrator, Bishop Robert Vangheluwe, in early April. The bishops spoke freely because they did not understand the conversation was being taped and would not be kept secret as so many others like it had. As a result, their conversation provides the most succinct explanation for the complicity and failure of our church in this continuing crisis. (full story) |
| Multiple Abuser Seeks Freedom - Thursday, September 02, 2010 Catholic News Service Elizabeth Ann Murphy discusses how faith helped her survive sex abuse by a teacher at Catholic Community School in Baltimore nearly 40 years ago. (full story) |
| Begian Cardinal Says He Was Misled - Thursday, September 02, 2010 PARIS — With the recent release of tapes chronicling the private clash of a family over sexual abuse by a Belgian bishop, the retired cardinal who played a role as a mediator is now distancing himself from his longtime colleague and friend. (full story) |
| Losing Patience with the Vatican - Wednesday, September 01, 2010 Religion in the News Losing Patience With the Vatican by Andrew Walsh Even in the hands of relatively buttoned-down practitioners of mainstream American journalism, blogs are megaphones. So Ross Douthat, the New York Times’ conservative columnist, was engaging in conscious hyperbole when his June 9 blog in the Atlantic carried the headline, “The Catholic Church is finished.” (full story) |
| New German Policy Backwards - Wednesday, September 01, 2010 Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell) The policy is backwards. It largely implies that clergy sex crimes and cover ups are past tense. They are not. Any bishop's first job must be to stop and prevent current and future child sex crimes. (full story) |
| Fr. Poandl Charges Dismissed - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 By Andrew Clevenger The Charleston Gazette Advertiser CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Roane County Circuit judge has dismissed all charges against a Catholic priest from Cincinnati who was accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in 1991. (full story) |
| Scandalous Tapes in Belgium - Monday, August 30, 2010 NATIONAL POST PARIS – Leaked tapes of Belgium’s Cardinal Godfried Danneels urging a victim not to reveal he was sexually abused by a bishop are some of the most damaging documents to emerge in the scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church. (full story) |
| Accused US Priest Working in Philippines - Monday, August 30, 2010 Catholic Culture.Org A priest credibly accused of abusing a minor in a Kansas diocese remains in active ministry in the Philippines, according to press reports. (full story) |
| Maciel's Ghost Still Haunts Legion - Monday, August 30, 2010 Chiesa ROME, August 30, 2010 – The changing of the guard that is taking place at the top of the Vatican congregation for religious is making the heads of the Legionaries of Christ, the heirs of their disgraced founder Marcial Maciel (in the photo), even more nervous. (full story) |
| Doing The Vatican Shuffle - Monday, August 30, 2010 The Cutting Edge Michael Parenti When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them. (New York Times, Mar 28, 2010). For Wojtyła, the Polish pedophilia problem was nothing more than a Communist plot to smear the church. (full story) |
| Managing Sex Offenders - Sunday, August 29, 2010 The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) believes that polices formulated to manage sex offenders must have as a primary goal the prevention of future sexual victimization. Such policies must hold sex offenders accountable while providing support and safety for victims and their families. (full story) |
| To Be a Pastor - Friday, August 27, 2010 As the 2009-2010 “Year for Priests” concludes, it is worth asking a fundamental question: What does it mean to be a pastor? The life of Fr. Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma City archdiocesan priest (1935-81), provides a compelling answer to this question. (full story) |
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