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| Italian priest arrested for sexual abuse - Thursday, July 08, 2010 7-8-10 A priest was arrested in a car parked on the highway ring around Naples while sexually abusing a fifteen-year-old high school girl he picked up through a chatline. The girl didn't know he was a priest: for the time being the only information about him are initials (M.D.M) and the name of the town near Naples where he lives (San Giorgio a Cremano). He was let free but he will have to answer for the crime of sexual violence against a minor. (full story) |
| Facebook message prompted lawsuit - Thursday, July 08, 2010 7-7-10 William Dotson never told anyone about the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest when he was a pre-teen altar boy in the 1980s, but decided to come forward recently after the priest tried to “friend” his son on Facebook. Dotson, now 34, of New Haven, filed a lawsuit today in Superior Court in New Haven charging the Rev. Stephen Bzdyra, who is currently the priest at St. Augustine Church in Seymour, with sexually molesting him. (full story) |
| Pornography to be added as canonical crime - Thursday, July 08, 2010 7-8-10 Downloading child pornography from the internet is to be ruled a "grave" canonical crime for the first time, according to a report in La Repubblica, Italy's leading centre-left daily. Culprits could be punished by dismissal from the priesthood. (full story) |
| Colombian Church to pay in priest murder case - Thursday, July 08, 2010 7-7-10 A judge ordered the Colombian Catholic church to pay COP 600 million ($315,000) in compensation to the family of the victims, in the case of a priest who killed his lover and their 5-year-old daughter in 2007. The court found that the crime was motivated by the priest's desire that the church would not find out that he had violated his celibacy order. (full story) |
| Former school chaplain to be arrested - Thursday, July 08, 2010 7-7-10 A Catholic priest who served in two Charlotte parishes in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s is set to be arrested Thursday for alleged sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old boy in Albemarle in 1977. The Rev. Joseph Kelleher, 82, has also been placed on administrative leave by the Diocese of Charlotte pending further investigation. The Irish-born priest retired in 1999, but since then has served as chaplain at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in Kernersville. (full story) |
| Atlanta's St. Joseph's Hospital seeking partner - Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7-6-10 The morning after partnership talks broke off between St. Joseph's and Piedmont hospitals, St. Joseph's officials were back seeking another partner to help them reduce costs and expand their presence in the metro Atlanta medical market. St. Joseph's CEO Kirk Wilson said that the "unique requirements" of the hospital's religious mission "were a bit perplexing to understand. ... It's not easy to get your hands around that in 90 days." He said such requirements are often associated with "women's reproductive services, treatment of colleagues and just wages." (full story) |
| Danneels questioned about reporting - Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7-7-10 Prosecutors questioned retired cardinal Godfried Danneels for a full day Tuesday about his failure to report to the police cases of sexual abuse involving children, further heightening tension between public authorities and church leaders in Belgium, a traditional Catholic stronghold. There are "at least 50" cases where the cardinal failed to report alleged incidents of sexual abuse to police, a spokesman said. (full story) |
| Vatican's new rules maintain status quo - Wednesday, July 07, 2010 7-7-10 The Vatican is expected to slightly enhance its rules for punishing clergy who sexually abuse children, but the new policies will still fall short of what victim advocates say is necessary to protect minors. Moreover, the changes are seen as fairly minor concessions in a decades-long battle to push Rome to act forcefully against abusers. In addition, the new policy still has no provision for dealing with bishops who cover up for molesting priests and it is unlikely to clarify whether or how bishops should report abusers to civil authorities. (full story) |
| Changes to internal status of accused priests - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7-6-10 The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is expected to release a set of changes to the church’s rules for meting out ecclesiastical discipline against abuser priests sometime in the next few days. Vatican sources caution, however, that the revisions are largely a matter of consolidating existing practice, rather than a dramatic new approach to how sex abuse cases are handled. Sources also stress that the revisions affect only the internal ecclesiastical status of an accused priest. In a separate set of guidelines published in April, the Vatican said that civil law regarding reporting crimes of sexual abuse of a minor to the police and other authorities should always be followed. (full story) |
| Conn. priest charged with first-degree larceny - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7-6-10 A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut was charged Tuesday with stealing $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing and luxury hotels and restaurants. The Rev. Kevin J. Gray, former pastor at Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon Parish in Waterbury, was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny, Waterbury police said. Arraignment was expected Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court. (full story) |
| Belgians question Cardinal Danneels - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7-6-10 Danneels, the man who led Belgium's Catholic Church for three decades until December, was taken in for questioning shortly after 9:30 am (0730 GMT), Belga news agency reported. Danneels has been accused by a retired priest of shielding predator priests when he headed the country's Catholic Church from 1979 to 2009 but he has denied any cover-up. (full story) |
| Cardinal Schoenborn's brave struggle - Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7-5-10 Schönborn has supposedly been chastised by the Vatican so often in the last fifteen years and yet has emerged stronger and more prominent each time than before. And behind the scenes, his open criticism of Cardinal Sodano is being applauded even in bishops" circles. (full story) |
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