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| Brazilian archbishop says 'society is pedophile' - Thursday, May 06, 2010 5-6-10 Brazilian Archbishop Dadeus Grings said adolescents are 'spontaneously homosexual' and in need of guidance. He also said: "Society today is paedophile, that is the problem. So people easily fall into it. And the fact it is denounced is a good sign." (full story) |
| African bishops warned as pedophile paroled - Thursday, May 06, 2010 5-6-10 Hobart's Catholic Archbishop Adrian Doyle says he has alerted bishops in Africa to the release of a serial paedophile, amid concerns the man wants to work with African children. Paul Ronald Goldsmith sexually abused 20 boys in Tasmania's north-west while working as an athletics coach and trainee priest in the 1970s and 1980s. The 65-year-old has been released on parole after serving four years of his six and a half year jail sentence. (full story) |
| Poll shows US Catholics have mixed views - Thursday, May 06, 2010 5-5-10 Results of a new Zogby Interactive survey show mixed results among American Catholics' evaluations of Catholic Church leaders. Both Pope Benedict XVI and American Catholic Bishops receive largely negative ratings in their handling of the sexual abuse situation with the church. However, pluralities approve of the overalljob performance of both the Pope and Bishops. In addition, a clear majority of American Catholics believe Pope Benedict XVI should continue to serve as Pope. (full story) |
| Vatican will decide on 'vigiling' parish - Thursday, May 06, 2010 5-6-10 The Vatican’s highest court will make a final decision on appeals by parishioners of St. Frances X. Cabrini Church in Scituate and nine other parishes that the Boston archdiocese closed in 2004. Parishioners at the Scituate Catholic church – currently in their fifth year of an around-the-clock sit-in to keep St. Frances X. Cabrini from closing – say they do not have high hopes for a favorable ruling. (full story) |
| Missouri retreat for pedophile priests - Thursday, May 06, 2010 5-6-10 The Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, is just 30 miles southwest of St. Louis. It's supposed to provide intense counseling, therapy, and strict supervision of priests. But the former therapeutic program coordinator told Investigative reporter Leisa Zigman the Vianney Renewal Center is home to some of the nation's most dangerous pedophile priests. Yet many served little to no prison time. Instead, diocese all over the country and probation and parole boards sent them to Vianney to undergo intense therapy and counseling in an environment that is strictly supervised. McCoy said, "There is no one monitoring them at all...When I first stepped foot on campus it reminded me of camp. It reminded me of a summer camp." (full story) |
| Belgian rights group contacted bishops in 1998 - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-3-10 The pedophilia scandal in the Belgian church no longer can be reduced to te abuse of the one bishop of Bruges. As bad as the personal failures of so many priests, there was the collective unwillingness of the church leadership to remedy this, as shows the registrerd letter the group "Human Rights in the Church" in 1998 sent to all bishops, and announcing a long list of glaring cases of sexual abuse by priests and clerics. (full story) |
| German man sent letter to the Pope - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-4-10 A German man who says a priest sexually abused him when he was an altar boy has sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI seeking what he calls "high" financial compensation from the church. Wilfried Fesselmann told The Associated Press he is also demanding an apology from the pope and asking for a personal audience at the Vatican. Fesselmann said he sent the letter Tuesday. He claimed an unspecified level of compensation, saying the abuse three decades ago traumatized him so badly that he couldn't work for several years. (full story) |
| Utah priest says leadership has failed - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-4-10 "The reality is that Pope Benedict is part of all this," said the Rev. Bob Bussen, who heads St. Mary's Catholic Church in Park City. "The Vatican doesn't seem to have its act together so we get a lot of misfires on a lot of different issues, not just that. In the end, the bottom line is the we have been so busy protecting our priests that we've let our lambs be fed to the wolves," Bussen said in a telephone interview. (full story) |
| Catholics criticize Pope but see some hope - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-4-10 A majority of Roman Catholics in the United States are critical of the way Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican have handled the reports of sexual abuse by priests, but have confidence in the Vatican to make changes to prevent abuse in the future, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released Tuesday. (full story) |
| From Ghana: Has the Vatican forgotten us? - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-4-10 It was with deep sadness and grave concern that many of us read the report appearing on the Ghanaweb.com on the 25th of April, 2010, that one Rev. Father Charles Asamoah, a Catholic Priest, not only inflicted brutal, savage cutlass wounds on a Ghanaian lady, but also exhibited extreme dereliction of Pastoral responsibility by engaging in sexual relationship with her and other women. Does this sad story of a sinful crime by a Catholic Priest in Ghana not pry the tight lid off the can of worms squirming inside the rotten hidden truths about the abuse by Catholic Priests in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa? (full story) |
| Irish canon lawyer says inquiry not needed - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-5-10 Father Aidan McGrath, who is based in Rome, said he believes more inquiries into a scandal that has rocked the Church in Ireland and throughout the world in the last 12 months will focus too much on the past instead of working to prevent the cover-ups happening again in the future. "I believe that 90 per cent of the victims who are going to come forward have done so and anyone else who hasn't should not be forced to come forward through an inquiry," Fr McGrath told the Leader. (full story) |
| NSAC warns about Pope's specific words - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-5-10 National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) is increasingly concerned about the very specific words used by Pope Benedict. The pope called on all bishops to report abuse where they are “required” to report abuse to local authorities. We implore the pope to demand that all bishops report all abuse to local and state authorities. Our experience is highlighted by one example in the state of Maine in the United Statess. The bishop appointed an unlicensed counselor as the Victims’ Outreach Coordinator... (full story) |
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