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| A New Kind of Obedience? - Monday, August 16, 2010 By Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Created Aug 12, 2010 In a few moments, as we always do on Sunday, we will recite what we call our profession of faith, the doctrines that we believe in, and most of the time, I think, when someone says to us, “What is your faith?” we think of those doctrines, a creator, God; or the incarnation, God becoming flesh; or the Immaculate Conception, Mary born without any sin -- all of these doctrines we think of as our faith, and it’s very intellectual. (full story) |
| Nun abuse at hell's orphanage - Saturday, August 14, 2010 By Matt C. Abbott Although I'm a staunch, orthodox Catholic, I still consider myself an advocate for clergy/religious abuse survivors, for which I make no apologies. I was able to attend the opening session of the 2010 Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) conference. It was a somber experience, and it made me realize how difficult it would be if I had ever been abused by a priest or nun — and no, I'm not talking about getting hit on the wrist with a ruler — to remain a practicing Catholic. (full story) |
| Gramick claims disconnect beteen laity and bishops - Saturday, August 14, 2010 Dallas, Texas, Aug 14, 2010 / 07:21 am (CNA).- Sr. Jeannine Gramick, founder of a dissenting outreach effort to homosexual persons, in an interview with a Dallas-area homosexual paper has claimed to see a disconnect between laity and the Catholic bishops. She also asserted that as many as 50 percent of Catholic priests are homosexual. (full story) |
| Court allows Belgian investigation to continue - Friday, August 13, 2010 August 13 BRUSSELS — A Brussels appeals court ruled Friday to allow an investigating magistrate to continue looking into alleged sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, in cases that came to light after police seized documents, computers and data discs from the Belgian archbishop's residence in June. (full story) |
| Pope rejects Irish bishops' resignations - Thursday, August 12, 2010 If Pope Benedict XVI is trying to dig the Catholic Church out of the sex abuse scandal, he only seems to be making the hole deeper. (full story) |
| LCWR meets under tight media security - Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Aug. 10, 2010 You have to feel sorry for U.S. women religious leaders. They are under attack from the Vatican for being followers of the gospels and servants of the church. (full story) |
| Abuse Ruins Lives - Sunday, August 08, 2010 In the early '70s, Eddie Blair was known as a friendly kid to the women at the corner grocery near his Locust Point home. "Ed worked up there. And those mothers and neighbors, they all just loved him," recalls his aunt and godmother, Mary Cadden, 83. But as he moved into middle school, a troubling change came over Eddie, the youngest of three boys in the Blair family. (full story) |
Ousted OH Priest Arrested in Canada - Saturday, August 07, 2010Saturday, August 7, 2010 02:51 AM By Meredith HeagneyA Catholic priest removed from ministry in Columbus in 1993 for molesting a teenage boy has been charged with sex crimes against children in British Columbia. |
| What the Church could learn from Freud - Saturday, August 07, 2010 By Nicole Sotelo Created Aug 05, 2010 A little more than 100 years ago, Sigmund Freud presented a lecture to his colleagues on the "The Aetiology of Hysteria." It was to be his magnum opus, his great contribution to the budding field of psychology. Instead, this lecture on his discovery of the origins of hysteria was not met with the warm reception he expected and Freud found himself uncomfortable with his own theories. In a year's time, Freud questioned his findings that had revealed an uncomfortable truth: the mysterious disease of hysteria from which so many women suffered may not have been the result of an illness, but symptoms of childhood sexual abuse. (full story) |
| Saying Sorry is Not Enough - Wednesday, August 04, 2010 August 3, 2010 John E. Guiniven: In church scandal, 'sorry' isn't enough By Advertiser CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The pope has not asked me for advice regarding the sexual abuse scandal threatening the Roman Catholic Church. Neither have the nuns from my elementary school, the priests from my high school, nor the brothers from my college. But if asked, here's what I'd offer. Simply saying you're sorry isn't enough. (full story) |
| A Hierarchy with a Sex Offender Mentality - Tuesday, August 03, 2010 The Vatican announcement that the attempted ordination of women is a “grave crime” to be dealt with according to the same procedures as the sexual abuse of minors exposes the way those running our church actually think. In attempting to explain revised norms to church canons, they reveal the legalistic inner workings of their minds, and affirm unsettling psychological patterns of thought. (full story) |
| Stand up for our women religious! - Monday, August 02, 2010 U.S. women religious, whose leaders meet in Dallas next month, find themselves in a terrible position. On one hand, they can defend their approach to religious life. Through decades of prayer and work together, they have discerned that approach, articulated in their Vatican-approved charters, as God's call. The process has drawn them deeply into social apostolates through which they have become a powerful representation of Catholic life throughout U.S. culture and the wider world. (full story) |
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