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| Perils of church-related pensions - Friday, April 23, 2010 4-22-10 Today's Wall Street Journal has an important article on how church-related pensions can fail miserably, shut down and leave its participants out in the cold. "Pensions are protected by federal law, which requires employers to fund the benefits, and insure their pensions with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which ensures their pensions will be paid even if the pension plan fails and the employer files for bankruptcy. But when the law was enacted in the 1970s, churches were exempt unless they opted in. (full story) |
| San Francisco sues over property tax ruling - Friday, April 23, 2010 4-22-10 The Archdiocese of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court challenging the Office of the Assessor-Recorder's determination that it must pay property transfer taxes for moving church properties from one nonprofit entity to another. The Archdiocese argues it "violates the California and U.S. Constitution by imposing a tax on a church for exercising its recognized constitutional rights to choose and change those civil law corporate forms that best accommodate its religious structure and needs." (full story) |
| Mass. town to collect property tax - Friday, April 23, 2010 4-23-10 Scituate is claiming a significant victory in its effort to collect over $200,000 in property taxes on a closed church that is owned by the Archdiocese of Boston. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston has withdrawn a Suffolk Superior Court complaint, in which it had asked a judge to rule the town could not tax the St. Frances X. Cabrini Church as long as it was not being used for a non-religious purpose. The archdiocese will continue to pursue appeals before the state Appellate Tax Board. (full story) |
| Feds file new indictment against Perlitz - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 Federal prosecutors made good Wednesday on their vow to re-indict Douglas Perliz, filing five more charges that the former Fairfield resident traveled from Connecticut to Haiti to engage in illicit sex with 18 street boys enrolled in the schooling programs he established. The new indictment returned by a federal grand jury brings to 24 the number of counts Perlitz, 39, an honored Fairfield University alumnus, now faces. (full story) |
| New charges against Chicago-area priest - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-22-10 The new charges filed against the Rev. Alejandro Flores were contained in a grand jury indictment released Wednesday by Kane County prosecutors. In January, Flores was charged with sexually abusing the west suburban boy beginning in 2005 -- when the youngster was 8 years old. That alleged abuse continued for about five years, prosecutors said. The new indictment charges that Flores, now 37, attempted to sexually abuse the boy's older brother during that same time period. The older boy was at least 13 years old when that attempted abuse occurred, authorities said. (full story) |
| Guam archdiocese admits clerical sex abuse - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-22-10 In the statement SNAP's Western Regional Director Joelle Casteix writes: ....How many times have church officials told Guam's communities and the media that there was no problem of sexual abuse on island? Why was Ray Cepeda allowed to get a job with Catholic Social Services - with unfettered access to children - when the Archbishop knew there were "serious allegations" of abuse? How many children were put at risk because the Archbishop refused to warn Cepeda's current employers and law enforcement? Why was no one informed about the risk that Nowack poses? And why were they silent about Mannetta - a known perpetrator who spent years on Guam? (full story) |
| Lawyer seeks files on all accused priests - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 Attorney Jeff Anderson is seeking “injunctive release against [the] Vatican for release of lists of offenders and secret files in all clergy abuse cases” in a federal lawsuit alleging now-Pope Benedict XVI and two of his aides engaged in “fraud and concealment” covering up the abuse of more than 200 deaf children by the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy. (full story) |
| Pope accepts Irish bishop's resignation - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Thursday of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn't challenge the Dublin church's policy of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests. Bishop James Moriarty of Kildare is the third Irish bishop to resign in the past four months as a result of the Irish abuse scandal, and two more have offered to go. He said he was stepping down because he realized that "renewal must begin with accepting responsibility for the past." (full story) |
| Jailed Hawaii priest accused of Colorado assualt - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 Mark Matson was a Catholic priest in Hawaii and chaplain at Tripler Army Medical Center. In 2000 he was convicted in Honolulu of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. In the mid 1970s Matson supervised young boys at a Colorado seminary. Court documents filed Tuesday in Denver allege he sexually assaulted one of them. (full story) |
| SNAP leaflets in favor of Ct. SOL legislation - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 SNAP maintains that because of limited law enforcement resources, fewer than 20% of all child molesters are never arrested, prosecuted and jailed. So ‘next best option’ to protect kids is to at least publicly expose child sex offenders through civil courts, so that neighbors, parents and prospective employers will know of their crimes and whereabouts. That’s one of the key benefits to the proposed legislation, the group feels. (full story) |
| Pope 'taking action'? - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 The National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) today urged Catholics and all men and women of goodwill not to confuse Pope Benedict’s statement at his Wednesday audience that he would take action in the sexual abuse scandal with action. The proof of action will be in whether Pope Benedict pursues justice that includes bishops and Vatican personnel who covered up the crimes of sexual abuse not pronouncements on removal of priests and nuns who abuse. (full story) |
| Invitation to cardinal to say mass is withdrawn - Thursday, April 22, 2010 4-21-10 A former top Vatican cardinal who planned to lead a Latin Mass in honor of Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday at the Basilica in Washington has been disinvited by the conservative Catholic group organizing the event because of fresh controversy over the cardinal’s role in the sexual abuse scandal. Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, a Colombian who formerly headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, came under fire last week when a Web site posted a letter he wrote in 2001 praising a French bishop for refusing to hand over to the police a priest who had raped children. (full story) |
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