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| Contempt motion sought against diocese - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-16-10 The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's bankruptcy case wants the judge to hold the diocese in contempt of court. The committee, made up of alleged survivors of priest sexual abuse, argues in an emergency motion filed Tuesday that the diocese violated bankruptcy rules and the judge's orders by filing a brief in a state Supreme Court case. The Supreme Court case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of a 2007 law that created a two-year window in which lawsuits previously barred by the passage of time could be filed by victims of alleged child sexual abuse. (full story) |
| Traditionalist priest removed - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-15-10 A priest with a criminal past has been dismissed as chaplain of the traditionalist Catholic congregation he served for several years in York [Pa.]. In 2005, police in Monroe County charged Fr. Tetherow with 10 counts of possessing child pornography and 10 counts of criminal use of a communication facility, according to court records.Dr. David Drew, chair of the congregation's board, said Tetherow is still in the York area, trying to organize an elementary school with families who left the chapel when Tetherow was dismissed. Drew said the school has no ties to the Sts. Peter and Paul Roman congregation, which is considered schismatic by the Roman Catholic Church. (full story) |
| Vatican absolves Polish archbishop - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-17-10 Against the wishes of some leading figures in Poland’s Roman Catholic church, the Vatican has revoked a ban imposed on Archbishop Juliusz Paetz - accused of sexually molesting clergy in 2002 – from leading religious ceremonies. Eight years ago, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper alleged that Paetz, the then head of the archdiocese of Poznan, western Poland, sexually molested seminarians at his diocesan seminary. Paetz denied the charges, claiming that he was the victim of a "broadly conceived and systematically conducted" smear campaign but resigned from his position and retired from public life. (full story) |
| Native Canadians to recall boarding school abuse - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-17-10 About 150,000 children attended the Church-run boarding schools which operated up to the 1970s. The pupils were forced to abandon their cultural identity and many were physically and sexually abused. The truth and reconciliation commission is part of a settlement agreed by the Canadian government four years ago. (full story) |
| Loyola athletic director won't return in Fall - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-7-10 Amid the controversy surrounding a volunteer, the activities director at Loyola High School [Minn.] will not return next year. Brad O'Donnell was put on leave in April while school officials investigated his role in the decision to let a convicted sex offender volunteer at Loyola baseball games.That volunteer, 78 year old Urv Dickman, had faced criminal sexual conduct charges in 2002. Head Baseball Coach Chris Biehn has already resigned over the Dickman controversy. O'Donnell has admitted that he was aware of the allegations against Dickman. (full story) |
| Catholic Charities has loss in government funding - Thursday, June 17, 2010 6-16-10 Boston Catholic Charities, which serves roughly 200,000 people in Eastern Massachusetts each year, has attempted to meet the rising demand for basic services despite tight budget constraints. The agency had an $800,000 loss in public funding last year, at a time when an increasing number of families, feeling the effects of the recession, turned to it for help. (full story) |
| US bishops 'refreshing their souls' - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6-16-10 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assembly runs through Saturday at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort, St. Petersburg, Fla. The bishops, who hold two general meetings a year, schedule a retreat every three years for "prayer and refreshing their souls," said Mar Muñoz-Visoso, assistant director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C. Muñoz-Visoso said the bishops are getting a group discount at the luxury hotel, where Tuesday some were seen in street clothes. (full story) |
| Head of Indian orphanage arrested - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6-16-10 Antony Thareparambil was arrested on June 15 after seven residents of Kriaplayam (house of grace) Orphanage complained about him, said B. Sandya, a police official. It receives funds from overseas and is recognized by the state government, she added. Brother Saji Xavier, co-director of the institution, said he helped the children to register their complaints after several told him about the sexual abuse. (full story) |
| Mixa wants his case reviewed by Vatican - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6-16-10 Controversial former Augsburg bishop Walter Mixa, who resigned over allegations of child abuse and misusing Catholic Church funds, said Wednesday he was forced out and plans to have his case investigated by the Vatican. Mixa accused the head of Bavaria’s Catholic bishops, Archbishop Reinhard Marx, as well as the country’s top Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of rushing to the Pope with a "so-called abuse case based on what amounts to no more than eight handwritten sentences on a highly dubious scribbled note.” (full story) |
| Vatican nixes Mixa's plea - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6-16-10 “Pope Benedict XIV will receive Walter Mixa in the coming weeks. The acceptance of his resignation, however, is not likely to be a subject of debate,” Vatican spokesperson Frederico Lombardi said. (full story) |
| Mahony admits protecting abusive priest - Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6-16-10 Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles admitted, in a deposition given in February, that he protected a priest he knew had abused children. In a subsequent statement on the matter, Mahony repeated a defense he has given numerous times in the past -- that members of the Catholic hierarchy just didn't know enough at the time about the conditions that caused abuse to get rid of priests who sexually molested children. It is noteworthy, however, that the incident in question, his protection of now-defrocked priest Michael Baker, who's serving a 10-year sentence for molesting two children, occurred in 1986, a year after the scandal first broke nationally and 30 years after the founder of the Servants of the Paraclete, an order that treated abusive priests, repeatedly warned US bishops and Pope Paul VI of the need to isolate priests who abused children because of the extreme recidivism rate. It was also a year after the US bishops chose to ignore a 92-page report compiled by Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle. (full story) |
| Church to be present at reconciliation event - Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6-14-10 Peter Yellowquill has more than 50 years worth of hurt to heave off his chest, and he plans to start lifting this week – so long as the priests don’t cramp his style. On Wednesday, the former chief of Long Plain First Nation near Portage La Prairie, Man., will drive 45 minutes to Winnipeg for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first national event – a chance, at last, to air all he experienced during 11 years of residential school that began in 1958. He’s fine with the process; he’s not so sure about the heavy church presence. (full story) |
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