News & Issues
|
|
News & Issues |
|
Home | Communications with the Archbishop
| Discussion Board
|
News | Articles & Essays
| Links | Officers | Meetings |
|
| There are 8077 News Items in 674 pages and you are on page number 37 |
| Bishop approves priest's return - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5-10-10 A Catholic priest who left Yakima after being investigated on suspicion that he viewed child pornography six years ago has been given permission by Bishop Carlos Sevilla to return to work in the diocese. The Rev. Darell Mitchell will begin working in an administrative position in the pastoral office at 5301 Tieton Drive in July. (full story) |
| Catholic education is in 'mission confusion' - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5-10-10 Catholic education is in a state of "mission confusion" as the number of schools shrinks along with the student population, according to a longtime Catholic education executive. "We are in very, very serious trouble," said Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill, the outgoing superintendent of schools in the Archdiocese of Washington. (full story) |
| No time for world's women religious leaders - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5-11-10 The Holy Father today, (Monday, May 10), according to the Vatican Press Office, received in separate audiences: two prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Belgium, Bishop Lucas Van Looy of Ghent, and Msgr. Koen Vanhoutte, the diocesan administrator of Bruges. He also received Italian Bishop Valentino Di Cerbo of Alife-Caiazzo, accompanied by members of his family. Nothing unusual – except for a mention of who he did not receive in audience. Who the Holy Father did not receive in audience was any (or all) of the 800 general superiors of international women religious orders who are in Rome from all corners of the globe for a once in three-year general assembly. (full story) |
| Pope says sex abuse crisis 'terrifying' - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5-11-10 "In terms of what we today can discover in this message, attacks against the pope or the church don’t come just from outside the church. The suffering of the church also comes from within the church, because sin exists in the church. This too has always been known, but today we see it in a really terrifying way. The greatest persecution of the church doesn’t come from enemies on the outside, but is born in sin within the church. The church thus has a deep need to re-learn penance, to accept purification, to learn on one hand forgiveness but also the necessity of justice. Forgiveness does not exclude justice." (full story) |
| Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin - Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5-11-10 "There are still strong forces which would prefer that the truth did not emerge. The truth will make us free, even when that truth is uncomfortable. There are signs of subconscious denial on the part of many about the extent of the abuse which occurred within the Church of Jesus Christ in Ireland and how it was covered up. There are other signs of rejection of a sense of responsibility for what had happened. There are worrying signs that despite solid regulations and norms these are not being followed with the rigour required...." (full story) |
| Congo sister's talk offers new light - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-9-10 When Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Liliane Sweko began her talk on the second day of a gathering of international women religious superiors here by sharing with them that in the past fifty years or so, many African women religious have been assassinated - 235 in 2003 – she had the audience’s full attention. (full story) |
| Examining the crisis - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-10-10 What if members of the hierarchy got out of their chanceries and spent time every month in the kitchens of survivors and their families, listening abundantly to their stories and apologizing to these people of God? What if they visited the families of every victim in their diocese who committed suicide and with every victim who is in jail or rehab -- and apologized on behalf of themselves and for all Catholics? What if they visited with judges, plaintiffs’ attorneys, attorneys general, district attorneys and grand jurors, listening with fullness to the perspectives of those who have seen sexual abuse within the church from other angles? (full story) |
| Settlement reached against Newark archdiocese - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-10-10 An out-of-court settlement has been reached between a woman assaulted by a priest and the church officials whom she accused of failing to protect her. The woman, who was identified in court documents only as Jane Doe, alleged that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark (NJ) knew about the “dangerous sexual improprieties with women” of the Rev. Wladyslaw Gorak, a priest who was transferred from New Jersey to Florida. As part of the transfer process, Newark’s vicar general, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli, signed a letter attesting to Father Gorak’s “good moral character” and lack of any criminal record or behavioral problems. There had been complaints against Gorak in New Jersey, however. (full story) |
| For-profit to acquire Boston's Caritas Christi - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-6-10 A for-profit equity firm’s proposal to acquire Caritas Christi, the Catholic hospital network that owns and operates the Carney and five other hospitals, was formally filed Thursday with the state attorney general’s office, launching a review process that will include a hearing on the proposal in Dorchester. (full story) |
| Dolan lays out plan to save schools - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-9-10 The question is not whether we're going to have to close some schools, the question is how. We can't do it from the top down. We have got to collaborate with our stakeholders - our parents, our pastors, our principals, our parishioners, our civic leaders, our benefactors and our business leaders. Ultimately, we need more paying customers. Principals always say to me, "Archbishop, if I had two dozen more kids, we wouldn't be in the urgent situation we're in now." (full story) |
| Dutch commission needs year-long investigation - Monday, May 10, 2010 5-9-10 The head of a Dutch commission asked by the Catholic Church to look into allegations of sexual abuse said on Friday a year-long investigation was needed and appealed for offenders to come forward. Wim Deetman, tasked to probe reports of sexual abuse by priests, said an independent inquiry should assess the scale and nature of the alleged abuse over the last 65 years, examine who was accountable and establish measures to prevent it recurring. (full story) |
| Catholics debate defrocking priests - Sunday, May 09, 2010 5-8-10 Church officials, experts in abuse prevention and even some victims' advocates question whether the time-consuming church process known as laicization, often called defrocking, is the right benchmark in abuse cases. To defrock or not? The question is complicated by the reality that most abuse allegations date back decades and cannot be prosecuted criminally, leaving decisions about how to deal with abusers largely in the hands of church authorities. (full story) |
VOTF Atlanta
Voice of the Faithful, VOTF, "Keep the Faith, Change the Church,"
Voice of Compassion, VOTF logo(s), Parish Voice, and Prayerful Voice are
trademarks of Voice of the Faithful, Inc.