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| O'Grady stll collects Church pension - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-28-10 Oliver O’Grady, the ex-Irish priest convicted of paedophile offences who was living under a false identity in the Netherlands until February this year, receives a monthly pension from the Roman Catholic church. “This is extremely upsetting for the survivors of his abuse who are many in number…" (full story) |
| Brazilian priest charged - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-29-10 Father Jose Afonso De is being prosecuted for allegedly assaulting children aged 12 to 16, Sao Paulo state's public prosecutor's office said. The lead prosecutor in the Brazilian case, Jose Lourenco Alves, said the priest's role as mentor and authority over the children could increase the gravity of the charges. The police chief who conducted the investigation sparked by an anonymous tip-off made a month ago, Graciela de Lourdes Ambrosio, has said she had no doubt that the minors "were sexually molested" by Father De. (full story) |
| Pope to meet top German bishops - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-29-10 Pope Benedict XVI was scheduled later Thursday to meet three top bishops from his native Germany - where the Catholic church has been hit by widespread revelations of sexual abuse of minors by priests. The pontiff was set to hold a private audience at noon (1000 GMT) with the group headed by the archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, who also chairs the German Episcopal Conference. Archbishop of Munich Reinhard Marx and the auxiliary bishop of Augsburg, Anton Losinger, were also scheduled to participate in the talks. (full story) |
| Austrian victims call for gov't investigation - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-29-10 So far, the Church has established an independent commission, and prosecutors are looking into specific incidents. "Those affected feel abandoned by the state. Most of them call for an investigation by the government that takes place independently of the Church," said Philipp Schwaerzler, a psychologist who is part of a newly-formed panel of victims and experts. (full story) |
| Member of review board resigns - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-28-10 The Press Democrat reported that the seven-member review board recommended last October that Monsignor Joseph Alzugaray, pastor of St. Apollinaris in Napa, should be removed because of accusations that he repeatedly sexually abused Brady when she was in grade school more than 40 years ago. Walsh rejected that recommendation in January. (full story) |
| Ex-Fordham priest/teacher sued - Thursday, April 29, 2010 4-29-10 A New York woman who says she was sexually violated by a Jesuit priest who once headed St. Louis University is filing an unusual new civil lawsuit charging that the Jesuits are violating a 2003 agreement with her to keep the cleric out of public priestly ministry. She says that the agreement provides that the Jesuits are to give her and a church panel notice if any successor considers changing these restrictions. Despite these restrictions, Fr. Daniel C. O’Connell has subsequently taught seminars at two Jesuit universities – Fordham in the Bronx and Georgetown in Washington DC.- and was on the pastoral staff of a Berlin parish where he presided over mass since the early 1980s, after his supervisors had deemed his accuser “credible.” (full story) |
| Bozek tells St. Stan's parishioners he may go - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-26-10 In the strongest evidence yet that the legal battle between the St. Louis Archdiocese and St. Stanislaus Kostka Church could soon be resolved, the church’s pastor, the Rev. Marek Bozek told parishioners Sunday that he may be leaving within months to start his own church. "I told them that I, and the board, have been working hard to reach a settlement (with the archdiocese) that is acceptable to both parties," Bozek said in an interview Monday. "And that if and when we do, I most probably will not be part of the picture at St. Stanislaus." (full story) |
| Number of Catholics up in Africa and Asia - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-27-10 The Vatican's annual statistical report says roughly one out of every five priests in the world comes from Africa or Asia. Those also are the continents where Catholic church growth is strongest. Data released on Tuesday show the number of Catholics in Africa rose by 33% in the period from 2000 to 2008, and by 15.6% in Asia. (full story) |
| Levada interviewed on PBS Newshour - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-27-10 CARDINAL WILLIAM LEVADA: .... I think the causes we will see go back to changes in society that the church and priests were not prepared for, particularly changes involving how to be a celibate person in a time of the sexual revolution, that's one of the causes I'd say.... The names [of priest abusers] are public, I mean they are public ... in the dioceses the priests are known, published by their bishops. (full story) |
| Bertone: Celibacy open to review - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-28-10 The vow of celibacy by the clergy may be open to review, the Vatican's second highest ranking official has said. "It is not that it is untouchable," Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone was quoted as saying by Spain's Catalan public television on Tuesday. "There are married priests in the Catholic as well as oriental church," Bertone said. (full story) |
| Paying for the sins of the fathers, and others too - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-27-10 “There has been coordinated, deliberate campaigns to keep victims silent in one way or another,” Mike Armstrong, a spokesman for New York Assemblywoman Markey, said. Most of the opposition to allowing more time to sue has come from the state’s conference of Catholic bishops, he added. He said he did not believe the government associations were as vulnerable as the church. The State Catholic Conference said it supports extending the time allowed to sue, but not to 40 years. (full story) |
| Polish poll has good news for the Church - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4-27-10 Support for the Roman Catholic Church has risen in Poland, a survey showed on Tuesday, despite child sexual abuse scandals that have badly eroded its authority and reputation in many other countries. The TNS OBOP survey, conducted from April 8 to 19 among 1,056 people, showed 73 percent of Poles had a high regard for the church's work, up 5 percentage points from March. Only 18 percent of respondents viewed the church critically. (full story) |
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