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| Irish bishop calls for informed public debate - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5-5-10 Serious, informed public debate and the fostering of courageous leadership were required in response to the dilution of trust in Ireland’s institutions, Bishop of Down and Connor Dr Noel Treanor said today. “We know all too well the contagion of distrust and how corrosive it is of hope, another vital and spiritual element in the social capital of a people and nation. “How do we respond to such distrust, to the anger it generates and to its erosion of hope: how are we to respond as a people, as institutions led and animated by citizens, and as a nation? (full story) |
| Georgia priest accused of child sex abuse in WV - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-4-10 The Rev. Bob Poandl was indicted by a West Virginia grand jury in January on charges that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a child in the early 1990s in Roane County. At the time the allegations surfaced, Poandl was serving as pastor of three area Glenmary missions: St. Christopher in Claxton, Holy Cross in Pembroke and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Sand Hill. He held those positions beginning in 2007, according to the order's website. Poandl was removed from ministry in Georgia in 2009. (full story) |
| Pittsburgh announces 16th school closing - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-3-10 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is closing its 16th elementary school since 2005, once again citing falling enrollment and rising tuition and other costs. St. John Neumann Regional Elementary School will close after this academic year. The school draws students from three parishes, Our Lady of the Angels, St. Matthew and St. Lawrence O'Toole. (full story) |
| 'Affinity fraud' and the parish priest - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-4-10 The potential penalty a Catholic priest faces if found guilty of theft has increased as a result of DuPage County prosecutors being allowed to alter the wording of criminal charges against him. The Rev. John Regan, 46, who served at St. Walter's Parish in Roselle from 2006 to 2008, is accused of stealing more than $300,000 from parishioners. (full story) |
| Downsizing Irish dioceses could bring benefits - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-4-10 Ongoing, behind-the-scenes discussions on the future of the Irish Catholic Church have included a sharp focus on the number of dioceses on the island, with general agreement that 26 is far too many. A consensus is emerging that when it comes to structural reform of the church in Ireland, this situation cannot continue. (full story) |
| Belgian bishops to meet with Pope - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-3-10 Belgian bishops stung by sexual abuse revelations in the Catholic Church began a series of long-scheduled meetings at the Vatican on Monday that will culminate in talks on Friday with Pope Benedict XVI. Archbishop Andre Leonard of Brussels said the pope would discuss the “painful” case of a Bruges bishop, Roger Vangheluwe, who resigned last month after a admitting he had sexually abused a boy for years. (full story) |
| Parishioners vigil over pastor's tranfer - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5-4-10 In a final plea to reverse the Rev. Guy Blair's transfer, nearly 100 members of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in downtown Green Bay held a prayer vigil on Monday night. Nearly 50 members at the church are deaf or hard of hearing, and some said they weren't included in the decision to transfer Blair to St. Paul Catholic Church in the fall. Others have speculated Blair was forced out because of previous run-ins with the Green Bay City Council over the seasonally operated homeless shelter. (full story) |
| Pope has refused true reform - Monday, May 03, 2010 5-2-10 Many in the Church hierarchy seem to think that the most brief acknowledgment of wrongdoing and an indistinct promise of reform will generate sufficient goodwill. Benedict has the power, with a stroke of a pen, to really make a difference and protect the vulnerable, heal the wounded and restore trust in the hierarchy. He just refuses to use that power in any way that brings true reform to the Church by putting an end to decades of secrecy and recklessness. (full story) |
| Charges facing Chile's Church - Monday, May 03, 2010 5-3-10 Sexual abuse charges against Father Fernando Karadima, 82, a living icon in the upscale part of Chile’s Catholic Church community, have created a tremendous amount of attention in the media and throughout the country. Karadima has ministered to the “very best” of Chile’s Catholic elite and has been instrumental in recruiting new priests. Four sitting Chilean bishops were recruited and trained by Karadima. The editorial below was in Sunday’s La Tercera and gives the readers sense of how serious an issue this is for Chile’s Catholic community: not just Karadima’s alleged sexual transgressions, but also the Church’s very obvious foot-dragging in response to charges that first began to surface in 2003. (full story) |
| Maciel case offers view of Vatican politics - Monday, May 03, 2010 5-2-10 The two former Mexican seminarians had gone to the Vatican in 1998 to personally deliver a case recounting decades of sexual abuse by one of the most powerful priests in the Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado. But in little more than a year, word emerged that Cardinal Ratzinger — the future Pope Benedict XVI — halted the inquiry. “It isn’t prudent,” he had told a Mexican bishop, according to two people who later talked to the bishop. (full story) |
| The forgotten victims of priest abuse - Monday, May 03, 2010 5-3-10 Even as Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, was bashing gays as part of his attempt to shift the blame for the abuse scandals onto the backs of homosexuals, the very country he was standing in -- Chile -- was reeling from the news that a priest had engaged in sex with many girls and even made one of them pregnant. (full story) |
| Ugandans protest archbishop's visit - Monday, May 03, 2010 5-3-10 Members of the Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church at Mamprobi in Accra on Sunday, May 02 received a rude shock when they turned up for worship only to find the sanctity of their church desecrated with human excreta and offensive posters by unknown persons. The act was said to have been carried out at 3am in protest against some policies and demands of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, the Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle, who was expected at the church for a confirmation service. (full story) |
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