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| Judge rules priest be extradited to Ireland - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-19-10 A federal judge has ruled that a Catholic priest should be extradited from here to his native Ireland to face child molestation charges there. U.S. Marshals arrested the Rev. Francis Markey, 82, in November at his Miller Court apartment, on an extradition warrant alleging that he raped a 15-year-old boy twice in Ireland in 1968. Markey has fought the extradition process each step of the way in South Bend’s U.S. District Court. (full story) |
| German victim sees no evidence of church 'support' - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 Heinrich Mussinghoff, the Roman Catholic bishop of the western German city of Aachen: "We make sure that such deeds are thoroughly investigated, and we punish the culprits if they are found to be guilty," he said in an Easter Vigil sermon. "We pay attention to the victims and offer humane, therapeutic and pastoral support." Christopher, 19, lives in his diocese. He claims that he endured several years of sexual abuse at the hands of Georg K., a Catholic priest, up until 2007. It is one of the most recent cases in the Catholic Church in which serious accusations have been made. But Christopher says he has seen no evidence of the Church's alleged "investigation" and "support" to date. (full story) |
| Philippine church transfers American preist - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 Joseph Skelton Jr. will be moved from his parish in Tagbilaran City, where he has served for years, to an undisclosed place, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said. Skelton, an associate pastor of the St. Vincent Ferrer Parish in Calape, Bohol, was convicted of sexual misconduct in 1988 while still a seminarian in Detroit, Michigan. (full story) |
| Gilbert Gauthe to be released today - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 One of the nation's most notorious priest pedophiles is scheduled to be released from the Galveston County Jail today after serving a two-year sentence for failing to register as a sex offender. Former Catholic priest Gilbert Gauthe, 64, who in 1985 was convicted on 34 counts of child molestation and possession of child pornography in a Louisiana case, was arrested by Texas police in April, 2008. Gauthe was living in his recreational vehicle at Galveston State Park when police arrested him for failing to register. Before then, he was living in La Marque and driving for a limousine service. (full story) |
| Tenn. priest facing charges in No. Carolina - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 McDow ell County authorities say 76-year-old Bill Casey will face a charge of crime against nature. He was arrested Monday in Greene County, Tenn., on a fugitive warrant from McDowell County. Capt. Victor Hollifield with the McDowell County Sheriff’s Department said Casey waived extradition. Hollifield said Casey was charged with first-degree sexual offense. However, that charge will be dismissed during arraignment. It was not applicable in 1977 and 1978 when the offense is alleged to have occurred. (full story) |
| Indian priest to face trial in Italy - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 An Indian priest who confessed to sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Italy will face trial in a ‘couple of months’ and could face up to 14 years in prison. ‘The trial will happen and it will happen soon,’ Giovanni Gebbia said Monday. The 40-year-old priest, named only as David, is from Madurai in Tamil Nadu. He was released from prison last week but remains under house arrest in Teramo town. The priest admitted to visiting the young girl at her home while her parents were out on Dec 19 last year. He offered her a Santa Claus doll. (full story) |
| German priest ordered home from Wash. D.C. - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 A German priest has been suspended and ordered home from a posting in the U.S. as he faces allegations he sexually abused teenage girls in Germany two decades ago, church authorities said Tuesday. The priest has most recently been working in Washington, D.C., pastoring to Germans there. (full story) |
| Texas priest began ministry in Omaha - Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4-20-10 A former Omaha priest, the Rev. John M. Fiala, has been accused of sexually abusing a minor, the Archdiocese of Omaha said Tuesday. The abuse is alleged to have occurred in 2007-2008 when Fiala was serving at a parish in Rocksprings, Texas, which is in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The San Antonio Express-News reported that Fiala is the subject of a civil lawsuit and criminal investigation. The newspaper reported that Fiala, 51, is accused in the lawsuit of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at gunpoint and during private catechism sessions two years ago. (full story) |
| A formula for restoring church's credibility - Monday, April 19, 2010 4-18-10 All the words from the pope, all the apologies and protestations of sorrow coming from him will not give one abuse victim back his or her innocence or trust. It is time for the pope and bishops to take some concrete steps to see that the future is different from the past. It is the system that is broken. It is the system of entitlement that must go. (full story) |
| California lawyer is voice of the Vatican - Monday, April 19, 2010 4-19-10 Jeffrey Lena, a sole practitioner who works out of a small office in Northern California where his wife has kept the books, has taken the lead in defending the Vatican in the courts of law and public opinion. That means that the mild-mannered and reclusive comparative law specialist is swamped. (full story) |
| NSAC comments on pope's Malta trip - Monday, April 19, 2010 4-18-10 The National Survivor Advocates Coalition: Tears, yes, words, yes but solid and convincing action that is uniquely within the Pope’s purview is what is needed. Remove the bishops and Vatican hierarchy that covered up. Otherwise what we have is creeping relativism, the very thing Pope Benedict preached against on the eve of his election to the papacy five years ago. (full story) |
| Bishop urges leaders to criticize Vatican - Monday, April 19, 2010 4-19-10 A Roman Catholic bishop has called on EU leaders who are Christians to speak out against the Vatican if it makes "stupid" remarks, such as a recent declaration that homosexuality causes paedophilia. In an interview with EUobserver on Friday (16 April), Peter Moran, the Bishop of Aberdeen in Scotland, said the church's cover up of child abuse in Ireland 40 years ago was facilitated by "an exaggerated deference toward the clergy." (full story) |
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