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| Albany diocese priest pleads guilty - Thursday, May 20, 2010 5-20-10 James McDevitt, a Brooklyn native raised in Lake George and ordained at the age of 51, was arrested last July based on the complaints of six victims that first came to light through an investigation by the county's department of social services. McDevitt's plea stems from his abuse of two of those victims, both of whom were boys around 11 years old he had met through the church, Hubbard said. Each count could have come with up to a year in jail. (full story) |
| Comprehensive documentary on abuse crisis - Thursday, May 20, 2010 5-20-10 “BAD APPLES” is a comprehensive documentary on a complex problem, with shocking testimony from victims, advice from psychologists and testimony from the most active bishops dealing with abuse. It also includes analysis from Vatican insiders on what is happening behind the scenes at the Vatican. (full story) |
| Legal strategies in suit against Vatican - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-17-10 McMurry has said that based on district and appellate court rulings, he doesn't need to prove bishops were employees of the Vatican but merely "officials." He noted that they take an oath of office. The pope appoints, disciplines and removes bishops. If a bishop wants to spend more than $5 million he must ask permission from Rome, and if he wants to take a three-month sabbatical, he needs the Holy See's OK, said McMurry's main expert witness, the Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, a canon lawyer who worked at the Vatican's U.S. nunziature. "For the defense to claim that what's necessary is to show day-to-day monitoring is unrealistic," Doyle said. "That is not a viable argument to show the Vatican has direct control over the bishops." (full story) |
| Martin warns again of 'strong forces' - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-19-10 Archbishop Diarmuid Martin reiterated his warning of "strong forces" in the Catholic Church which do not want the truth about clerical sex abuse to come out -- but failed to identify them. However, the Archbishop of Dublin rejected newspaper reports that his comments of last week were "a criticism of Pope Benedict". (full story) |
| Accused Belgian priest flees Peru - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-17-10 Jef Van Den Ouweland, a Belgian priest accused of pedophilia in his country, left Peru after discovery of information that compromised him. He went to Belgium last night after revealing that he was accused of raping three minors in the early 1980s. He headed a school in the town of Ichuna (Moquegua) and celebrated mass in that area. He arrived here 20 years ago. One of the alleged victims in Belgium said the priest allegedly gave him $106,000 euroes in 2006 to silence him.. (full story) |
| Victims' groups criticize Brady - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-19-10 Victims' groups yesterday expressed disappointment at Cardinal Seán Bradys decision not to resign over his handling of abuse allegations against paedophile priest Brendan Smyth. The One in Four group said Dr Brady’s stance made it difficult to believe the church was truly committed to reforming itself. (full story) |
| St. John's Abbey faces new suit - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-18-10 St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., broke its promise that a monk accused of sexually abusing a 12- and a 14-year-old boy would be barred from working with children, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Ramsey County Court alleges. The latest clergy abuse suit filed by St. Paul lawyer Jeff Anderson involves the Rev. Raymond Francisco Schulte, 57, who was accused of abusing the boys in the mid-1980s and is now living in Rome, where his duties include leading school tours of religious landmarks. (full story) |
| Allegation of abuse against CCD teacher - Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5-18-10 The juvenile lodged a complaint with the Thomaston [Conn.] police on March 28 leading to the arrest of the 57-year-old teacher of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. According to the warrant, the boy looked at Stanco as someone who was “close to God,” trusting him because “he was a CCD teacher.” Stanco entered not guilty pleas in Litchfield Superior Court Tuesday to charges of second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. (full story) |
| One parent's demand for justice - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5-10-10 I was asked recently what advice I’d give the bishops today, and these three things came to mind immediately:
I would add to that a renewed sense of urgency. I closed my 2002 memorandum this way: “More than anything else, Christ’s Church should be about preserving and promoting innocence, not accelerating its ruin. Pardon the platitude, but it’s time we stopped protecting our past and did something to fortify our future.” We don’t have the luxury of “thinking in centuries” any longer, and we’re running out of second chances. (full story) |
| Police investigate Australian archbishop - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5-17-10 Police are investigating complaints from victims who allege that when Archbishop Philip Wilson held senior positions in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in the 1970s and '80s, he failed to report sexual abuse by priests against children. Archbishop Wilson is widely tipped as the next Archbishop of Sydney if Cardinal George Pell takes up a Vatican post. The Archbishop is also chairman of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference. (full story) |
| Documents sought in lawsuit - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5-18-10 Attorneys for the Diocese of Norwich are trying to keep secret hundreds of documents — including a letter written to the pope when he was a cardinal — that discussed the status of a priest accused of molesting more than a dozen young girls. The letter from Bishop Michael Cote to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in April 2005 concerned "canonical processes" regarding Thomas W. Shea, a retired priest accused of molesting as many as 16 girls at 11 different parishes during a nearly 40-year career, according to court records. (full story) |
| Bolivian president asks pope to abolish celibacy - Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5-18-10 Pope Benedict XVI received Monday in the Vatican the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, who sought the abolition of priestly celibacy and the admission of women to the priesthood. In a note, Morales described himself as a ‘member of the Catholic Church’ and proposed ‘the need to overcome the crisis in the church, which, as you said, is wounded and sinful. To do that it is essential to democratise and humanise its clerical structure. Democratise it so that the same religious rights are acknowledged for all god’s sons and daughters and allowing women to have the same opportunities as men to fully exercise the priesthood,’ he wrote. Morales said the church ‘must not deny a fundamental part of our nature as human beings and must abolish (priestly) celibacy’. (full story) |
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