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| Archdiocese allowed pastor to omit reports - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 Officials at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford let the pastor of Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon Church in Waterbury go for seven years without filing required financial reports because he had a reputation as a sound financial manager and officials believed he suffered from a life-threatening illness. That priest, the Rev. Kevin J. Gray, is now suspected of stealing $1 million in parish funds. (full story) |
| Cardinal says he was set up - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 The personal secretary of the late Pope John Paul II has weighed in on the sweeping corruption scandal that has touched senior Cardinal Cerscenzio Sepe, claiming he might have been set up. “It’s clear that somebody wants to hurt him,” Archbishop of Krakow and Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz told Italian newspaper La Repubblica, echoing a defence issued by Sepe himself on Monday. (full story) |
| Vatican looked away - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6-22-10 Gonzalez claims that his father sexually abused him -- along with many other boys -- and while the Vatican was not named a defendant, the lawsuit said that "from at least the 1950s until 2002, the Legionaries, Fr. Maciel, the presiding Pope, the Vatican, and its officials engaged in a conspiracy to conceal their knowledge of Maciel's abuse of children." (full story) |
| Women religious also victims of clergy sex abuse - Monday, June 21, 2010 6-18-10 Montfort Brother Mani Mekkunnel, national secretary of the Conference of Religious India, a strong defender of women’s rights in the Church, also spoke of the need to chart a policy on sexual abuse of Religious within the Church. But the momentum only really began to gather over the past year or so. With the avalanche of child sex abuse cases in the Church coming to light in different parts of the world, women began asking, “what about the sexual abuse of women which is also a violation of women’s dignity, abuse of priestly position, and violation of the vow of celibacy?” (full story) |
| Secret file rekindles controversy over Mixa - Monday, June 21, 2010 6-21-10 The allegations are said to be contained in a secret dossier held by the Vatican, by which Pope Benedict XVI was influenced in his decision to accept Mixa's resignation. The documents are said to contain statements from Mixa's co-workers claiming the bishop suffered from a serious alcohol problem, and that he sexually abused and/or harassed his subordinates. (full story) |
| Maciel's son, 'Dad promised $6 million' - Monday, June 21, 2010 6-20-10 Raul Gonzalez gave his account in a May 7 interview with NCR. A recurrent theme in the interview was that Gonzalez feared his father and the Legionaries of Christ, and that he had concern for the safety of his brother, Omar, 33, who was also allegedly abused many times by Maciel. Omar lives in Mexico and is aware of the suit. (full story) |
| The Legion meets its (re-)maker - Monday, June 21, 2010 6-20-10 According to the lead Italian vaticanista of the moment, the Holy See's top money man will be named to oversee the reinvention of the scandal-scarred Legionaries of Christ. Archbishop Velasio DePaolis, 74, has served as head of the prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See since 2008; prior to that, he spent five years as #2 of the Apostolic Signatura, the church's highest court. According to Tornielli, the archbishop is "close" with the pontiff's influential Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB. (full story) |
| Letter to the papal nuncio - Monday, June 21, 2010 6-20-10 An incident happened about 2 years ago in my parish that haunts me to this day. Our pastor absconded with church funds – living lavishly, in control of the collection money and bookkeeping in a community that is not well to do. The minute the Archdiocese of Chicago discovered this, he was removed from ministry. I mean the next day! He was not assigned a therapist; he was not sent to another parish to see if he could resist walking off with its money; he was physically removed from the rectory and his ministry. It became clear to me that financial malfeasance trumped child abuse. This is not something I wanted to know about my Church. (full story) |
| Maltese victims wait 7 years for meeting - Sunday, June 20, 2010 6-20-10 The alleged victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy have "finally" been called in for a meeting with the Curia's Response Team and a top Vatican official which will take place in the coming days. The team responsible for probing the cases will question the men who first made the allegations seven years ago against priests who ran an orphanage in St Venera. However, two of the alleged victims have said the meeting with the Response Team will be nothing more than a whitewash to exonerate the priests in question. (full story) |
| Bolivian priest found guilty in Chile - Sunday, June 20, 2010 6-20-10 A court in the Chilean city of Antofagasta on Saturday declared guilty of sexual abuse a Catholic priest of Bolivian nationality, who could be sentenced to four years and one day in prison, judicial officials said. The incident occurred on March 17, 2009, when the priest Freddy Gutierrez Mendez, 59, received a woman in his office at Heart of Mary parish in the port of Mejillones, located near Antofagasta some 1,453 kilometers (903 miles) north of Santiago. (full story) |
| Conn. priest under $1M theft investigation - Sunday, June 20, 2010 6-20-10 The Hartford Archdiocese says it’s asked police to investigate after it discovered a priest may have taken more than a million dollars from a Waterbury parish for personal use. The archdiocese said Saturday that the Rev. Kevin J. Gray, former pastor at Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon Parish in Waterbury, may have taken the money over a seven-year period. (full story) |
| SNAP National Conference - July 30 to Aug. 1 - Sunday, June 20, 2010 SNAP is pleased to announce two more speakers who will address the SNAP Conference in Chicago! Mary Raftery from Ireland is coming! She produced the documentary “States of Fear” which won the IFT (Irish Film and Televisions Academy Award) for best documentary in English, as well as the award winning “Cardinal Secrets.” Victor Veith has previously spoken at SNAP Conferences and we are grateful that he will join us this year, too. Veith is the director of the National Child Protection Training Center where he teaches professionals to recognize, react and respond to abused children. (full story) |
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