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| Four siblings sue Texas archdiocese - Saturday, July 03, 2010 7-2-10Male and female members of a former Houston family have sued the Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese, alleging that a now-dead northeast Houston priest repeatedly molested them in the early 1970s. The plaintiffs, three women and a man who live elsewhere in Texas and in Georgia, said in the filing that some of the attacks happened in their family's home. They could not be reached for comment Thursday, but their attorney, John Sloan Jr. of Longview, said molestations also occurred on field trips and other occasions. (full story) |
| Vatican faces external and internal challenges - Saturday, July 03, 2010 7-2-10 Pope Benedict XVI and his key advisers are facing a series of external and internal conflicts that threaten to make this a long, hot summer of problem-solving and strategizing. One hesitates to use the word "unprecedented" when writing about the Vatican. But it's difficult to remember a time when so much bad news has landed at the Vatican's doorstep. (full story) |
| Police end sit-in at Cleveland church - Saturday, July 03, 2010 7-2-10 Parishioners ended a 16-hour sit-in at a Cleveland Catholic church that is closing after police told them Thursday they would be trespassing if they did not leave. The protest ended after police had entered the church several times and spoken with parishioners by cell phone. Police Commander Keith Sulzer said six protesters were inside the church. No one was arrested. (full story) |
| Ouellet asked to remove Law from Vatican post - Saturday, July 03, 2010 7-1-10 The promotion of Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet to head the powerful Vatican Congregation for Bishops has not been well received by advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse.... A U.S.-based organization, the National Survivor Advocates Coalition, is calling on Ouellet "to quickly remove Cardinal Bernard Law as a member of the bishops congregation." Law resigned as archbishop of Boston in 2002 amid the growing abuse scandal, but he continues to serve on several Vatican bodies, including the one on bishops. (full story) |
Church committed to 'identity politics' - Friday, July 02, 2010
A growing swath of Catholics in the West, particularly in the church’s leadership class, believes that all these markers now apply to the Catholic church. (full story) |
| SNAP comments on NYT article - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-2-10 The single most crucial sentence in the Times piece is this one: “But most importantly, bishops always had the opportunity to contact law enforcement . . . following the moral and ethical law they promised to uphold: protecting children.” Few of them did this. Few of them do it now. (full story) |
| NYT: Church office failed to act on abuse scandal - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-1-10 The future pope, it is now clear, was also part of a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction. More than any top Vatican official other than John Paul, it was Cardinal Ratzinger who might have taken decisive action in the 1990s to prevent the scandal from metastasizing in country after country, growing to such proportions that it now threatens to consume his own papacy. (full story) |
| Priests' addresses requestered - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-2-10 A victims group on Thursday asked the Catholic Stockton Diocese to list its pedophile priests and their current places of residence. The request from Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests came on the heels of a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles against a former priest in the diocese, the Rev. Titian (James) Miani, a native of Italy who lives in Stockton. He served in Italy, Brazil, Canada and California dioceses in Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, Oakland and Stockton. (full story) |
| Belgians receiving death threats - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-2-10 [summary] The public prosecutor in Brussels said Thursday that some people involved with investigating cases of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church have received death threats. Rik Deville, a retired priest, said he also has received threats. Deville said he got a telephone call two days ago from a man who promised him he would be killed in two days. The court takes the threat seriously but will simply continue with the investigation. (full story) |
| Sadistic priest jailed - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-3-10 Sadistic paedophile priest John Denham's reign of horror at Adamstown's St Pius X school was laid bare in a Sydney courtroom yesterday, where grown men wept and a judge passed scathing comment on the church that protected him. "For reasons known only to them, other teachers and priests did not intervene to stop the abuse of which most of the students were aware," Sydney District Court Judge Helen Syme said before sending Denham to jail until at least June 2022. (full story) |
| Mixa could resume pastoral duties - Friday, July 02, 2010 7-2-10 Having resigned in the face of further allegations of beating children and misappropriation of funds, Bishop Mixa subsequently attacked his brother bishops in the press and claimed that he had been bullied out of office. A Vatican communique following this week's meeting confirmed that the Holy Father accepted Mixa’s resignation and said: “Bishop Mixa will retire for a time of silence, meditation and prayer and, following a period of cure and reconciliation will, like other bishops emeritus, be available for pastoral duties, with the agreement of his successor.” (full story) |
| Vatican-minted Euros may contain Nazi gold - Thursday, July 01, 2010 7-1-10 The Vatican in a rare departure from its usual policy agreed to place itself under the jurisdiction of the European Union in order to obtain the right to coin Euros. The agreement between the EU and the Vatican expressly contains provisions regarding prevention of money laundering, further it is presumed the beleaguered European Central Bank would frown upon the possibility that concentration camp gold might be used to finance or mint Euro coins. The Holocaust Survivors are requesting the European Central Bank investigate the allegations and that holders of Vatican Euro coins mail them back to the Vatican and request certification that concentration camp gold was not used in the minting or financing of these coins. (full story) |
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