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| Pope's trip highlights changing face of Catholics - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-15-10 Looking at the throngs of faithful following Pope Benedict XVI around Portugal this past week, you might mistake this tiny European country for one in South America or Africa. With more brown faces in the crowd than white ones, the Catholic Church is increasingly drawing its support here from immigrants to Portugal rather than from native Europeans. And as secularism sweeps Europe, immigrants may be the Vatican's best hope for hanging on to formerly traditional Catholic countries where its once overwhelming power is now waning. (full story) |
| Back in Rome.... - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 Citing estimates from Vatican police, the Vatican press office said 150,000 people had turned out for the demonstration organized by an association of 68 Italian lay groups. Benedict said he was comforted by such a "beautiful and spontaneous show of faith and solidarity." "Thank you for your presence and trust," he said. "All of Italy is here." (full story) |
| Back in Rome.... - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 "The only enemy that we must fear and fight is the sin to which even members of the church are not immune," Pope Benedict XVI said in front of thousands of faithful after regular Sunday prayers. About 150,000 Catholic faithful gathered in Rome Sunday as part of Pope's Day, organized by Italian Catholic organizations to show solidarity with the pope as he addresses the ongoing scandal. (full story) |
| Power was the issue - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 When I left the priesthood in 1974, I was more conscious of vowed obedience as the pressing issue than celibacy. I wanted to be a writer, which required a free play of the mind that seemed impossible in the life of “orders.’’ But now I see how imposed sexlessness and restrictive authority are mutually reinforcing. Power was the issue. (full story) |
| Victims want more than words - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 Does the pope's new stance comfort victims and will the church follow his word with action? Former Allentown Bishop Edward P. Cullen once said the news coverage of the issue was more difficult to deal with than the offending priests or the victims they molested. Cullen, Allentown Bishop John O. Barres and Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Regali were not made available to comment. Matt Kerr, spokesman for the Allentown Diocese, said because the pope speaks for the universal church, there would be nothing local bishops could add to his comments. (full story) |
| Burlington diocesan properties on the market - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 The state’s Roman Catholic diocese is aiming to raise enough money from the sale of two large tracts of land, including the site of its headquarters in Burlington, to pay the entire $17.65 million settlement it reached last week with 26 victims of clerical sex abuse. The combined asking price for the diocesan headquarters on North Avenue in Burlington and the former Camp Tara-Holy Cross land on Malletts Bay in Colchester is $20 million, according to listing information provided by the commercial real estate firms contracted to sell the properties. (full story) |
| Justice for child sex abuse victims - Sunday, May 16, 2010 5-16-10 We urge the New York State Legislature to rise above intense lobbying by the New York State Catholic Conference and Orthodox Jewish officials and pass the overdue Child Victims Act. Like a similar measure enacted in 2003 by California, it would create a one-time, one-year suspension of the statute of limitations for bringing civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children. Once that window closes, people alleging abuse would have until age 28 to bring a claim. Current law sets the limit at 23 in most circumstances. (full story) |
| Benedict's defense may be tainting John Paul II - Saturday, May 15, 2010 5-12-10 Benedict and his admirers face a choice straight out of Goethe’s Faust: In order to salvage Benedict’s reputation on the sexual abuse crisis, they’re almost compelled to tarnish that of Pope John Paul II. It’s tough to make a case for Ratzinger’s determination, without also conceding that there were obstacles at the top -- and that, in turn, cannot help but cast a critical light on the pope who allowed those obstacles to fester. (full story) |
| Vatican's top American has mixed record on abuse - Saturday, May 15, 2010 5-14-10 After complaining loudly when the archdiocese decided not to remove the Rev. James Aylward, Conley ended up being disciplined himself. Conley said the San Francisco archbishop wanted to send him to a hospital "where they send priests who are disturbed." "He said, 'Father Conley, you do know what wrestling is, don't you?'" Conley recalled. "And I said, 'As a matter of fact, I do know what wrestling is. It's usually in a gymnasium with all the lights on. It is not a 60-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in a hallway." The archbishop is now Cardinal William Levada, the highest-ranking American at the Vatican and head of the office that defrocks pedophile priests. (full story) |
| Australian parishioners outraged - Saturday, May 15, 2010 5-16-10 Parishioners at St Brigid's Parish in Healesville were outraged last month over plans for admitted child sex abuser Fr. Barry Robinson to carry out Easter services as a temporary replacement priest. The visit came only 12 months after former Healesville priest Paul Pavlou was convicted of possessing child pornography and the indecent assault of a boy, 14, and given an 18-month suspended sentence. In 2000, Fr. David Daniel, also a one-time Healesville priest, was sentenced to six years' jail and classified as a serious sexual offender over 16 counts of indecent assault, gross indecency, and indecent acts involving children. The Sunday Herald Sun has learned Fr. Robinson is one two Catholic priests found to have been the perpetrators of sexual abuse who have been appointed to a panel of supply, or fill-in, priests in Victoria. (full story) |
| Canadian diocese to sell hundreds of properties - Saturday, May 15, 2010 5-14-10 The diocese of Antigonish is about to put much of its property on the market to raise money to pay for an $18 million sexual abuse settlement. The diocese has about 600 properties — including community halls, religious retreats and vacant land — that could be put up for sale. Cemeteries, churches and rectories still in use will not be sold, said Rev. Paul Abbass, diocese spokesman. (full story) |
| Idaho priest has been on leave three times - Saturday, May 15, 2010 5-15-10 Fr. William R. Gould's leaves stemmed from sexual conduct allegations. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise acknowledged two leaves earlier this week and reported the third from 1989 on Friday after an inquiry from the Idaho Statesman. The most recent leave began just this month, pending an investigation, after a nearly 30-year-old allegation of sexual misconduct involving a minor while Gould was a pastor in Idaho Falls. (full story) |
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