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| 'Child protection' officer pleads guilty - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-16-10 The Catholic Church education system has nominated a “child protection officer” in many of its Australian schools. Gerard Vincent Byrnes pleaded guilty in the Toowoomba District Court, Queensland, on 14 April 2010 to 33 counts of indecent dealing with a child under 12, 10 counts of rape (relating to digital and oral penetration) and one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 12. The offences took place between January, 2007, and September, 2008, and involved 13 girls aged nine or 10. (full story) |
| U.S. bishops tracking foreign priest complaints - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-16-10 For the first time, American Catholic bishops have begun tracking complaints of sexual abuse against foreign-trained priests working in this country, raising questions about the screening process in place in U.S. dioceses. In the U.S. bishops' most recent annual survey, church officials reported that of the 21 clergy sex abuse complaints made in 2009 by minors, nine involved priests sent by overseas dioceses. (full story) |
| Dutch priest accused of abuse in Sri Lanka - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-16-10 The priest, who until today was pastor in the towns of Leidschendam and Voorburg on the outskirts of The Hague, is a regular visitor to Sri Lanka where, according to the diocese he is "active in the field of charity". A spokesman for the diocese said it was informed in July 2009 about "possible sexual abuse and possible financial misappropriations by this priest while in Sri Lanka". Pending an investigation, the priest has been suspended with immediate effect by the Rotterdam diocese, which contacted the police. (full story) |
| Philippine bishop admits many priests not celibate - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-16-10 Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal has broken his silence over the death of one of his priests, whose body was found inside a pension house in Cebu City. He admitted that many priests have indeed violated their vow of celibacy. Cardinal Vidal said that instead of further embarrassing the priests, the public should pray for them. He added that the Catholic Church is doing everything it can to address celibacy. (full story) |
| Mexico bishop says porn, tv to blame - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-16-10 A prominent Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico blamed eroticism on television and Internet pornography for child abuse by priests, in the latest incendiary comments on sex scandals in the church. "With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it's not easy to stay celibate or to respect children," Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday. (full story) |
| Abuses by Memphis-area priests boggle the mind - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-18-10 A week and a half after the release of 10,000 pages of depositions and church documents about child sexual abuse and Memphis priests, it remains difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the crisis. Until just five years ago the Catholic Diocese of Memphis didn’t report anything to anyone outside the church hierarchy. The diocese still disagrees that it is obligated by state law to report the sexual abuse of a child 13 or older. (full story) |
| German bishop now accused of misusing funds - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-17-10 Walter Mixa, Bishop of Augsburg, denied ever using physical violence against children in the face of claims from eight people who lived at the Schrobenhausen children’s home during the 1970s and 1980s, that he beat them with his fists, a stick and even a carpet beater. All eight are ready to repeat their accusations under oath to a court. The bishop has now been accused of misusing orphanage funds on wine, art and jewellery. (full story) |
| SNAP responded to victims in Europe - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-18-10 Despite revenue that has declined sharply in the past three years, the U.S.-based nonprofit group dug into its depleted coffers and found $6,000 for two members of its staff to fly across the Atlantic and talk to victims and the European press. SNAP founder and president Barbara Blaine and outreach director Barbara Dorris spent 10 days opening new SNAP chapters in Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and England. They slept on couches, rushed between buses and trains and grabbed snacks on the road. In Germany, they met with the justice minister and members of parliament about changing laws. (full story) |
| Castrillon's letter sent after CDF instructions - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-15-10 Fr. Federico Lombardi held it up as an example of what was wrong at the Vatican before the abuse cases were all directed to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in May 2001. There’s a hole in this argument – Castrillon Hoyos’s letter was sent in September, about four months after the centralisation under Cardinal Ratzinger that he mentioned. (full story) |
| Italian bishops: 'Like Nazi smear campaign' - Saturday, April 17, 2010 4-17-10 Massimo Introvigne published an essay in the April 16 edition of L’Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian bishops, about a Nazi campaign in 1937 led by Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels to discredit the Catholic Church....The suggestion – never made explicit, but clear nonetheless – is that today’s drumbeat of criticism of the church over “pedophile priests” amounts to a replay of a Nazi smear campaign. (full story) |
| Penance is not justice - Friday, April 16, 2010 4-16-10 Pope Benedict, in extemporaneous remarks in a homily April 15, spoke of the need for penance. The press referred to it as a “change in tone” regarding the sexual abuse crisis. The National Survivor Advocates Coalition is compelled to say what the survivors and victims deserve is justice. Penance can take its due course but justice delayed is justice denied. Justice will only be achieved when there is a stark facing up to the crisis, when truth is sought and found and acted upon. Veiled references to the crisis do not bring an end to it. Only justice will do that. The road to justice is through truth. Once again we call upon the Pope, all officials of the Vatican, and all bishops to release the documents on sexual abuse so that the truth may be known. (full story) |
| German abuse victims march - Friday, April 16, 2010 4-16-10 Some 200 Germans brought up in children's care homes, many of whom were abused in Church-run institutions, marched through Berlin on Thursday, waving banners to draw attention to the plight of victims. The rally coincided with talks between the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, and Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger to patch up a public spat over the abuse scandal that has shaken the Church. (full story) |
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