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| Teacher faces additional charges - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-22-10 A former teacher at St. Dominic School faces sex charges involving two teenage students. Matthew Herrmann, 35, of Delhi Township [Ohio], is accused of sexual battery and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor in connection with a 13-year-old girl and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance involving a 14-year-old girl - a former student. There could be more victims, Delhi police announced Tuesday. (full story) |
| Sheboygan priests help victims heal - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-22-10 Over the last several months, the priests have been meeting with victims and holding parish prayer vigils that draw as many as 80 people. The idea, endorsed by Archbishop Jerome Listecki, is to learn from victims what they need to heal and to create an environment where everyone in a parish - victims and non-victims alike - can talk about their own hurt and resentment. "It has become such a polarizing issue," said Amy Peterson, the Milwaukee Archdiocese's victim assistance coordinator who has served as a resource for the priests. "People want to point fingers - they blame SNAP or the bishops - so we've not been able to have the conversations we need to get into the healing," she said. "And that includes priests." (full story) |
| Austrian Church sets up abuse fund - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-23-10 The 'Victim Protection Fund' will provide damages to victims and pay for therapy costs if necessary, 'in a timely, unbureaucratic, humane and measured manner,' Austria's bishops announced after their annual conference in Mariazell, south of Vienna. The fund will not be financed by the Church at large, but rather 'by the offenders or the responsible institutions,' they said. (full story) |
| Full scope of clergy sex crimes still unknown - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-23-10 A two-year investigation by the Journal-World and 6News examined the church-mandated practices within each Kansas diocese regarding sexual abuse by clergy. Our investigation shows that while some information is released about cases of sexual abuse, some church officials continue to keep the public in the dark about abusive clergy, leaving the true scope of sexual abuse in the Kansas Catholic Church unknown. (full story) |
| Mixa backs down - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-23-10 On Wednesday, Bishop Walter Mixa issued a joint statement with his former Augsburg diocese, announcing he was resigning for good. He recanted the claim he had been forced out by the head of Bavaria’s Catholic bishops, Archbishop Reinhard Marx, and the country’s top Archbishop, Robert Zollitsch. (full story) |
| Californian accuses church of fraud - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-23-10 A California man has filed a lawsuit accusing the Roman Catholic church of fraud for allowing a priest to work with children in Mexico long after allegations of molestation emerged north of the border. The man, an alleged victim of abuse, says church leaders promised him the priest would never be around children again. But three years ago, the man discovered the priest's MySpace page, which said he was serving in Tijuana and working with kids. (full story) |
| Austrians ramp up quest for reform - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6-23-10 As the sex abuse scandal has heated up, critical Austrian Catholics have stepped up their reform campaign — holding news conferences and pressuring church officials. In May, the Priest Initiative — a group of critical clerics — adopted a strongly worded resolution that criticized the "absolutist" church structure and urged both bishops and ordinary believers to take a stand. The Vatican has had no comment on the turmoil in the Austrian Church. (full story) |
| Converting Catholic schools to charter schools - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 The obvious fact for Catholic schools is this: Well-funded, private Catholic schools (non-diocesan schools) thrive. Diocesan-owned and operated schools are going the way of the typewriter. Inner city Catholic schools are a potential catastrophic financial weight on an entire diocesan enterprise, including, e.g., by not adequately contributing to the lay pension funds. Seriously, only a bona fide miracle can save diocesan-owned and operated Catholic schools. (full story) |
| Sinead O'Connor no longer alone in protest - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-20-10 In a 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live, Sinead O'Connor sang an a cappella version of the Bob Marley song "War," but substituted the word "racism" with "child abuse" in protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. What she did at the end of the song shocked viewers: She held up a picture of Pope John Paul II and ripped it in two. Eighteen years later, amid continuing revelations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, O'Connor's anger is matched by the public worldwide. (full story) |
| Boston revokes priest's faculties - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-20-10 The Archdiocese of Boston today announced the revocation of Rev. Gabriel Michel’s faculties to perform public ministry while in the Archdiocese of Boston as a result of receiving allegations of adult sexual misconduct. Fr. Michel, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haitien in Haiti, has served in the Archdiocese of Boston since 2002, most recently as parochial vicar at St. Angela’s Parish in Mattapan and Coordinator of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Haitian Apostolate. (full story) |
| Austrian victims demand compensation - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 Austrian abuse victims are demanding compensation of up to €130,000 ($160,100) each from the church. The 131 victims also want the church to pay their therapy costs and accuse it of failing to take appropriate action to counter abusive priests and protect the vulnerable from sexual, physical and verbal abuse. (full story) |
| Bishop wrote letter of recommendation - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 In 1990, then-Diocese of Boise, currently Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown drafted a letter of recommendation on behalf of Father Ruben Idalio Garcia so that the former Boise priest could officially join the Archdiocese of Tijuana. Brown wrote this letter even though Garcia had long been a problem priest in Boise, even though Garcia had molested boys in Idaho, and even though Brown's predecessors had sent Garcia to the country's most notorious pedo-priest rehabilitation camp during the 1980s. (full story) |
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