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| SNAP conference one week away - Saturday, July 24, 2010 Have you heard? There will be a silent auction at the SNAP Conference! Can you help? Please consider bringing or sending items to be auctioned off! You can receive a receipt for your taxes indicating that you donated the value of your donated item(s). (full story) |
| The church in 2010 and France in 1940 - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-22-10 This parallels the activity that alternately astounds and enrages Catholics who understand what their bishop/generals do not -- that the hierarchical structures of the church are buckling under the lightning strikes of modern times. Ordinary people get this but many leaders continue to reassure themselves that nothing has changed and that the true way into the future is the one that leads back into a supposedly glorious past. (full story) |
| Beneath the child abuse scandal - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-22-10 Father Gene Kennedy and Doctor Victor Heckler had been commissioned by the bishops to produce a Psychological Investigation of the priesthood in the United States. The 1972 Kennedy-Heckler Report concluded that over two-thirds of priests in their representative psychological study were psychosocially either underdeveloped or mal-developed. (full story) |
| Government plan could prevent pope's arrest - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-23-10 The government have proposed legal changes that could stop an arrest warrant being issued against Pope Benedict XVI. Under the law, any individual can be tried in Britain for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture, even if committed on foreign soil. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s changes would mean any warrant would have to be consented by Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer, QC. This effectively means that Starmer would be able to override the courts. (full story) |
| Victims meet with No. Ireland officials - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-23-10 In a move that could finally signal a public probe into clerical child abuse in Northern Ireland, the First and Deputy First Ministers have met with a group of victims. Campaigners — who have called for a public inquiry into the scandal after the Ryan report in the Republic ruled that mistreatment in Catholic and state-run institutions was endemic — said yesterday they were hopeful of progress following their meeting with the ministers in Stormont yesterday. (full story) |
| Rome diocese says gay priests should leave - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-23-10 The Vicar of Rome, one of the most important positions in the Vatican, was responding to a report today in Panorama Magazine that said Catholic priests were conducting a double life, citing secret video footage. “No one is forcing them to stay in the priesthood to exploit the benefits,” the Diocese of Rome said in a statement posted on its Web Site. “If they are coherent, they should come out into the open.” (full story) |
| New scandal in Italy - Friday, July 23, 2010 7-23-10 A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out. Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine - owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi - filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex. (full story) |
| Second person alleges sexual abuse - Thursday, July 22, 2010 7-22-10 The Rev. Joseph Kelleher, charged earlier this month with child abuse in Albemarle in 1977, has been accused of a second incident involving a minor 29 years ago at a Catholic church in Charlotte. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating the new allegation against Kelleher, which was made July 14, a spokesman for the police department, Rob Tufano, told The Charlotte Observer yesterday. (full story) |
| Parents say priest destroyed child porn - Thursday, July 22, 2010 7-22-10 When a Catholic church's choirmaster was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a child, his supervising priest abruptly left a parish school board meeting and went to the choirmaster's apartment to destroy evidence of the crimes by deleting files from the man's computer, a girl's parents claim in Buncombe County Court. Before in Asheville, Paul Lawrence Berrell had got into trouble for his relationships with minors in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the Archdiocese of Boston and the Diocese of Memphis, the complaint states. The parents claim that Berrell and their daughter had sex and oral sex repeatedly between 2007 and 2009, and that Berrell took numerous pornographic photographs of the girl, "depicting actual or simulated sexual acts." (full story) |
| Cultural forces at work in Belgian scandal - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-20-10 A strong Catholic culture still exists, but increasingly along with a strong sense that the official church has been conducting too much business behind closed doors. This latest sentiment, along with a new resolve by the government not to be seen as lax in dealing with sex abuse issues, means that for many the June 24 police raid on the offices of the Catholic church in Belgium was not as shocking here as it might have been to the rest of the world. (full story) |
| Special Olympics ousts ex-priest - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-20-10 A former Roman Catholic priest who was part of a $5 million sex abuse settlement in Wisconsin two decades ago was suspended from a volunteer position with Special Olympics Missouri. The former priest, Tom Ericksen, also has admitted some of the abuse. (full story) |
| Priest under investigation not removed from school - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-20-10 In September, an alleged victim came forward to police saying Father Joseph Kelleher molested him as an alter boy. The year was 1977 in the small town of Albemarle. Kelleher is out on bond and facing charges for the crime. Although the investigation started months ago, Kelleher was not placed on administrative leave by the Diocese of Charlotte until July when he was arrested. (full story) |
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