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| 2nd Lawsuit against Santa Rosa Diocese - Thursday, August 26, 2010 JULIANA BARBASSA The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A man who claimed he was sexually abused as a child by an Irish priest filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa the second such alleging the church knew the priest was facing abuse charges in Ireland, but failed to warn the parish. (full story) |
| NJ Priest Resigns over Missing Money - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 NCR Online Tom Gallagher Aug. 24, 2010 "The pastor of St. Therese Roman Catholic Church resigned one week after an audit showed an undisclosed sum of money missing from the 2,800-family parish in Succasunna, according to Kenneth Mullaney [3], attorney for the Paterson Diocese. (full story) |
| Teacher Resigns; Diocese Kept Allegations Secret - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director 314 862 7688 In acts of stunning recklessness, Toledo Catholic officials secretly investigated a Catholic school staffer and the state sanctioned him for "failing to maintain appropriate student-teacher boundaries." Still, a Catholic principal deceitfully urged a public school to rehire him, putting innocent kids at risk of child sex crimes. (full story) |
| Complicit Bishops Should Do Time - Monday, August 23, 2010 Irish Independent By Marese McDonagh Monday August 23 2010 'The abuse of children by clerics has left a permanent scar upon the soul of Ireland' Bishops who failed to report priests accused of sexually abusing children should be prosecuted in the courts, according to a former monk and canon lawyer. (full story) |
| A Defining Moment for All Catholics - Sunday, August 22, 2010 Regina Brett,The Plain Dealer "There is nothing on this earth so ugly as the Catholic Church, and nothing so beautiful." If you don't like that sentiment, blame Cardinal John Henry Newman. He wrote that in a letter and he's still expected to be canonized as a saint. Either something beautiful or ugly just happened in this dysfunctional church that so many of us love and hate in equal measures. The parishioners and priest at St. Peter Church have defied the authority of the bishop and created an independent church called the Community of St. Peter. (full story) |
| Catholic Church Reform: No More Thrones - Friday, August 20, 2010 August 19, 2010 Robert Blair Kaiser I love the Irish. I love you for your smiling Irish eyes, for your impish sense of humor, for your great gift of gab, for the poetry in your souls, for the intelligence and the beauty of your women.... I also love you for your revolutionary spirit. (full story) |
| Survivors Say Speak Out about Abuse - Friday, August 20, 2010 CHICAGO -- When little Stevie Theisen was in the fourth grade in Dubuque, Iowa, classmates used to tease that he was “teacher’s pet.” If they only knew. While he was staying after school to clean the blackboard and help “Sister,” she was taking advantage of her 9-year-old student, Theisen says. (full story) |
| Charity Founder Admits to Sex with Minors - Thursday, August 19, 2010 By EDMUND H. MAHONY – The Hartford Courant NEW HAVEN, CONN. Douglas Perlitz, the founder of an internationally known charity in Haiti, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to one count of traveling to a foreign country with the intent to engage in illicit sex. (full story) |
| Bishops Question Clerical Culture - Thursday, August 19, 2010 In statements, speeches, interviews and at least one pastoral letter, bishops in various parts of the world have begun raising provocative questions about whether something intrinsic to the Roman Catholic church -- perhaps its clerical culture, its manner of governance, its exercise of authority, or a combination of such elements -- has either caused or abetted the priest sex abuse tragedy. (full story) |
| Hierarchy Deeply Damaged from Within - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 An NCR Editorial The first half of 2010 has been a particularly bumpy patch for the papacy of Benedict XVI. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. This pope had as goals to sharpen the teaching of the world’s largest Christian denomination, to do battle with secularism and relativism, and to convince the world, Catholic and otherwise, that Christianity authentically lived is more about possibilities and new freedom than about “thou shalt nots” and other restrictions. (full story) |
| Priest with Past Arrested for Child Porn - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 WISCONSIN Anderson Advocates Blog By Patrick Noaker This is a particularly sad story. A little over a year ago, Fr. Patrick Umberger of the Diocese of LaCrosse was kicked out of Noah’s Ark Water Park in Lake Delton, Wisconsin for following young boys to the bathroom. When water park personnel observed Fr. Umberger follow the boys into the bathroom, they called the police and revoked his season pass. Two days ago, it was revealed that the Diocese of LaCrosse knew about this incident, but never restricted Fr. Umberger’s involvement with kids. (full story) |
| Steep Decline in Catholic Weddings - Tuesday, August 17, 2010 (full story) |
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