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| Cardinal implicated in Italian corruption scandal - Sunday, June 20, 2010 6-20-10 Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, 67, is being investigated for alleged corruption when he was a Vatican official running the Congregation for Evangelisation of People, a cash-and-real-estate rich department of the Vatican that finances the work of missions abroad. The Vatican said Sepe would cooperate with magistrates but proper procedures had to be used as the Vatican is a sovereign state. (full story) |
| Last Catholic school in New Brunswick to close - Saturday, June 19, 2010 6-19-10 On Wednesday, the Diocese of Metuchen said it was closing the city's last remaining Catholic school, St. Mary and St. Peter Catholic Academy. Officials said only about 60 students were signed up for classes for the upcoming school year. (full story) |
| Cardinal O'Malley issues another insult - Saturday, June 19, 2010 6-18-10 Commenting on the pervasive clergy abuse in Ireland, O'Malley told a Boston Herald reporter: "Our hope is that people will recognize that this is a human problem, not just a problem that exists within the church..."So this isn't about the Church, right? These are the failings of our common humanity, says Ireland's next best hope. (full story) |
| Mexican man to sue Legion for fraud - Saturday, June 19, 2010 6-18-10 A man who claims the priest-founder of a once-powerful religious order was his father plans to sue the group, saying the Roman Catholic clergyman molested him for years. Jose Raul Gonzalez of Mexico plans to file the claim of fraud and negligence Monday in Connecticut against the worldwide Legionaries of Christ, said his attorney, Jeff Anderson. The order has its U.S. headquarters in the state. (full story) |
| Priest removed over alleged financial misdeeds - Saturday, June 19, 2010 6-19-10 Parishioners at today's morning Mass were told the Rev. Keith LeBlanc was removed as pastor at St. John the Evangelist church last night. He was escorted by Catholic Church officials to Philadelphia, where they are conducting an investigation, according to the announcement at today's Mass. An audit of finances at the church is being conducted, parishioners were told. (full story) |
| The Pope's bedevilment - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-18-10 So why do we find the pope, of all people, falling into the same trap and engaging in the all too predictable blame game. I can’t help but think it is for much the same reason as for too many of my male clients at that AA rehab center. As much as they said they wanted to be sober, they were unwilling to quit blaming others, change their own habits of thinking, or give up their accustomed way of life. So too, the present agenda in Rome seems to be headed in the direction of firm resolutions and for a crackdown on any leniency, but no serious re-examination of or change in the ecclesiastical “culture” that has failed time and time gain. (full story) |
| Vatican feared suit by Pell's accuser - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-18-10 While the daily's Marco Tossati wrote that -- likely due in part to the fierce internal opposition toward Pope Benedict's "Australian project" -- fear suddenly circulated in the Vatican that "the presumed victim could decide to open judicial proceedings," the complainant in the 2002 matter has never been heard from since the inquest's close. What's more, the accuser's attorney made clear at the time that his client would seek no criminal or civil redress in the case and was satisfied with the process' result. (full story) |
| Paetz's activities 'well known' - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-18-10 The Vatican dicastery quietly removed the suspension from ministry of a Polish archbishop who resigned in disgrace in 2002 after allegations came to light that he had abused teenage seminarians in his local church. While Archbishop Juliusz Paetz has categorically declared his innocence over the last decade, his departure from the helm of the 1.5 million-member church in Poznan was forced after a Vatican investigation concluded that the prelate's misconduct was well known to the degree that, years earlier, Paetz had been banned from visiting his seminary given its rector's finding that, as the latter put it, the archbishop had "not changed his ways." (full story) |
| Priest critical of diocesan policy - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-18-10 The Rev. James Connell said he became concerned in March when Milwaukee Archbishop Listecki met with the archdiocese review board, which investigates sexual abuse allegations. As a member of that board, Connell checked the diocese website to see the "norms" used by its review board. What he read disturbed him. The standard, established in 2003 by then Bishop Raymond Burke to guide the board in determining whether to forward allegations to church authorities in Rome, was "moral certitude which excludes every prudent doubt or every doubt founded on positive reasons," rather than the mere "semblance of truth" that Connell says is outlined in church law. (full story) |
| Protester calls Truth Commission 'fraudulent' - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-17-10 As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard from residential school survivors on the second of four days of hearings in Winnipeg Thursday, one woman criticized the commission for not allowing the people testifying to name names. Louise Halama has been handing out pamphlets at The Forks national historic site, where the commission's first national event is being held June 16-19. (full story) |
| Eminent Italian ex-priest to stand trial - Friday, June 18, 2010 6-18-10 Former priest Pierino Gelmini, one of Italy's most high-profile and politically well-connected Catholics, was ordered on Friday to stand trial on charges of sexual abuse at a drug rehabilitation center, his lawyer said. Twelve men who were residents of one of his drug rehabilitation centers have accused him of sexually abusing them, some when they were teenagers. Gelmini, who has denied all charges, was defrocked by the Vatican at his own request two years ago, a move he said would allow him to defend himself better. (full story) |
| Pope meets with head of Legion - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-17-10 The pope met Thursday with the head of the Legionaries of Christ before an expected announcement about who will take charge of the conservative order scarred by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child. The Vatican said the Legionaries' superior general, the Rev. Alvaro Corcuera Martinez del Rio, met with Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience but gave no details. (full story) |
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