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| Commissioner likely to oversee Legion of Christ - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4-13-10 As a Vatican-sponsored investigation of the Legionaries of Christ reaches its end-game, the leading hypothesis in Rome appears to be that Pope Benedict XVI may appoint a special “commissioner” to lead the order through a period a reform. The appointment would, in effect, amount to a compromise between total suppression of the Legionaries, as some of the order’s fiercest critics have suggested, and a papal “certificate of good conduct,” as some of its Vatican backers had initially hoped. (full story) |
| How Fr. Maciel built his empire - Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4-12-10 With funds from several of Mexico's wealthiest families and its president, Miguel Alemán Valdés, he wrangled a meeting with Clemente Micara, a newly named cardinal and veteran papal diplomat. Micara, 67, was obsessed with rebuilding Rome. Maciel, tall and lean with fair brown hair and searchlight eyes, spoke no Italian, but Micara spoke Spanish. Maciel gave Micara $10,000, "a huge sum in a city reeling from the war," said a knowledgeable priest. (full story) |
| Just-resigned Canadian bishop's letter revealed - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-11-10 Upper Ottawa Valley Catholics went to church this morning for the first time since a letter was released showing their diocese suspected one of its priests of sexually abusing boys. That priest was, later, convicted in connection with 13 victims. Penned by then-bishop Joseph Windle, the Feb. 10, 1993 letter says defrocked priest Bernard Prince should not be given any papal honours, or promoted to bishop, so as not to stir reaction from four or five possible sexual abuse victims of Prince the diocese knew about. The consequences would be disastrous for both the Canadian church and the Vatican should the information be released, Windle wrote. (full story) |
| Italian cardinal calls for dismissal - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-11-10 The powerful head of Italy's bishops, responding to mounting pressure on the Vatican, said on Sunday those in the Church who mishandled, minimized and covered up sexual abuse of children should be dismissed. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said in a newspaper interview that pedophilia was a "heinous crime" and even more serious when committed by members of the Church. (full story) |
| Pope faces growing hostility on trip to Malta - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 Pope Benedict XVI’s planned two-day trip to Malta this week is set to be overshadowed by the paedophile scandal enveloping the Catholic Church, with victims of abuse on the island demanding that he meet them and apologise.According to the diocesan authorities in Malta, 45 of its 850 priests have been accused of abuse and the Maltese Catholic Church is conducting investigations into several sex abuse claims. (full story) |
| AJC urges Italian Church to denounce bishop - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-10-10 The American Jewish Committee is urging the Italian Bishops Conference to condemn the anti-Semitic libel statements of Catholic Bishop Giacomo Babini, published Friday on Pontifax, an Italian Catholic extremist right-wing website. Babini, the retired Bishop of Grosetto, referring to the pedophile scandals, accused Jews of a “refined Zionist” media attack against the Church. He called Jews a “Deicide” people and inferred that the Holocaust took place due to Jews “strangling Germany economically” through “usury.” “We urge the Italian Bishops Conference to categorically condemn these slanderous stereotypes, which sadly evoke the worst Christian and Nazi propaganda prior to World War II,” said Rabbi David Rosen, AJC's International Director of Interreligious Affairs. (full story) |
| Massachusetts priest calls on Pope to step down - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 The church’s top leader has not been truthful, said the Rev. James Scahill of St. Michael’s Parish, violating an important tenet of the faith.“Any who deny the truth deny Christ, and we, as people, must reclaim our church,’’ Scahill said in a phone interview last night. “Those in authority must be willing to admit to the truth, admit their horrific crime of coverup, and beg for forgiveness, and until that happens, there will be no healing.’’ (full story) |
| Church primary obstacle to Fla. SOL legislation - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 This year, Senate Bill 870 and House Bill 525 have traction. That’s probably due to the reawakened abuse scandal confronting the Catholic Church. For six years, opposition has been led by the Catholic Church. That voice of moral authority, however, is willing to accept a lifting of the statute of limitations on the actions of an individual, just not on the actions of an institution, like the Catholic Church, that shields the individual. (full story) |
| Delaware's lay workers fear for their pensions - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 The lay employees are fearful that the official committee representing the unsecured creditors has interests that are in conflict with the workers'. Currently, the committee consists of seven people who are all survivors of sexual abuse. Now, to protect themselves, a group of lay employees has written to the Office of the U.S. Trustee requesting an official committee of lay employees so that they can have a seat at the table in the Chapter 11 reorganization. (full story) |
| Vatican published handbook on sex abuse - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 Pedophile priests should "always" be turned in to civil authorities, the Vatican says in guidelines on handling sex abuse cases posted on its website. "Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed," state the guidelines, compiled from existing Vatican rules. The document also confirms that the Pope can intervene directly to defrock the worst offenders. "In very grave cases where a civil criminal trial has found the cleric guilty of sexual abuse of minors or where the evidence is overwhelming," the pope may issue a decree to remove him from the priesthood. (full story) |
| New lawsuit filed in North Dakota - Monday, April 12, 2010 4-12-10 A lawsuit filed in Cass County District Court on March 16 has two unique benefits for the plaintiffs. For one, the complaint – which was also filed in Otter Tail County District Court, as that’s where the sex abuse is claimed to have occurred – is the first of four North Dakota lawsuits to use new information gleaned from discovery in earlier lawsuits and continuing investigation. A second unique element about the case: Sandness joined the U.S. Marines at age 18 and retired five years ago. There’s a federal law that halts time imits on civil actions for military personnel. (full story) |
| The Vatican and the Jeyapaul Case - Sunday, April 11, 2010 In 2004, the Rev. Jeyapaul Joseph Palanivel was accepted by the U.S. Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota for parish work. Jeyapaul was in Crookston for less than a year, but in that brief time, he is accused of sexually abusing two female minors, is suspected of abusing at least one other girl, and is now the subject of a police investigation and a civil suit. Jeyapaul is also accused of taking money from the Crookston diocese. At a time when the role of the Vatican bureaucracy in abuse cases is coming under increased scrutiny, the Jeyapaul documents show the Vatican allowing a priest to remain in ministry, though the CDF has long possessed strong evidence that he is credibly accused. At a time when foreign priests are being used to patch a U.S. priest shortage, the Jeyapaul documents cast doubt on the formation of such priests, and on the system's ability to monitor and discipline them effectively. (full story) |
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