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| Bishop, protestors face off in Knoxville - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-9-10 The women with the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) brought a poster with blank spots on it. They said it stands for 11 priests who have abused victims. Bishop Richard Stika came outside to address the protestors. At times, the conversations between Bishop Stika and the women with SNAP, got heated. "Our mission was to reiterate what we have said for eight long years, that East Tennessee has been covered with pedophilia by priests and it hasn't been told," said Susan Vance, the East Tennessee coordinator for SNAP. (full story) |
| Abuse charge roils Kenya - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-11-10 After three young men and a boy told police last June an Italian priest had been sexually molesting them for years at a shelter for poor children, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in Kenya announced the church would investigate thoroughly. Ten months later, nothing has been investigated by the church, its lawyer says, and the Vatican has not been notified. The accused priest, the Rev. Renato Kizito Sesana, continues to run the facility along with other shelters on the outskirts of Nairobi. (full story) |
| Church's claim to 'sovereign immunity' questioned - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-11-10 That the Holy See is often treated as a state is deeply troubling, for several reasons. For one thing, the Catholic Church isn't truly a sovereign nation; to allow it to play one on the international stage perverts the meaning of statehood. Moreover, the church's claim to statehood gives it even more political influence than it would otherwise wield and grants outsized power to only one of the world's many religions. And its claim is particularly worrisome now that the church -- embroiled in a disturbing scandal that has reached from Boston to Berlin -- is claiming the sort of immunity enjoyed by prime ministers and presidents. (full story) |
| From 'The National Law Journal' - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-12-10 Issue There are two secrecy problems that need to be addressed, and redressed. First, the confidentiality of the confessional, intrinsic to Church doctrine, while benign in most situations, also has led to terrible injustices. A recently exposed Wisconsin case disclosed a priest who began his misconduct with a 12-year-old parishioner who came to him for confession. That priest molested 200 young boys. Second, the confidentiality of settlement agreements is a questionable legal tactic misused by many litigants, and used by the Catholic Church in these settlements. Church money has been used to pay secret settlements that avoid bad publicity. Both practices led to hidden misconduct and bred repeated offenses. (full story) |
| 2 more Philadelphia schools to close - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-9-10 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia is shuttering two more schools due to low enrollment. The archdiocese says St. Joseph Parish School in Collingdale and Stella Maris Parish School in South Philadelphia will close at the end of this academic year. (full story) |
| 2 Indianapolis schools to convert - Sunday, April 11, 2010 4-10-10 Charter school authorizers and management officials say the city's approval Monday of a plan to convert St. Anthony's and St. Andrew & St. Rita Academy into charter schools marks the first time in the country that an archdiocese will run public charter schools. The move will qualify the schools for nearly $1million in state funding in the first year. (full story) |
| VOTF organized Good Friday Vigils - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-9-10 Voice of the Faithful organized Good Friday Vigils throughout the country and abroad to pray for the victims of clergy abuse and to pray for an end to the culture that has allowed this abuse to continue. Although the vigils were organized quickly, VOTF members rose to the occasion and turned out throughout the country to add their prayers. Shortly after the vigils, Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who had joined the vigilers there when they prayed the Stations of the Cross, defended the hierarchy in an editorial in the Washington Post. Bill Casey and Bob Stewart of VOTF responded to the editorial in a letter to the editor. (full story) |
| Britain's top prelate 'protected' pedophile - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-10-10 The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, chaired the church’s child safety watchdog in 2001-08 while Father David Pearce was repeatedly investigated by church officials and police. Despite a High Court ruling in 2006 awarding damages to one of his victims, Pearce remained a priest at Ealing Abbey, West London, where he groomed and assaulted one final victim before his arrest in 2008. (full story) |
| Uruguayan ex-priest avoids justice - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-9-10 Juan Jose Santana has been a fugitive from justice since being charged in May 2008 with raping three children ages 12 to 17 in Brazil. Uruguayan church officials were aware that he had returned home — a priest even went to his house to provide counseling — but he has remained free. It took Uruguay's La Republica newspaper to revive the case, interviewing Santana in his home in Salto, Uruguay. Asked if allegations that he had abused children are true, the newspaper reported Thursday that Santana said, "It's true. That's all I can say. ... You know something? I'm dead." (full story) |
| Former Canadian bishop implicated in cover up - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-10-10 As local Catholics puzzle Friday over the sudden resignation of the their bishop, his predecessor was implicated in the cover-up of sexual abuse by a priest in Pembroke. Former St. Catharines bishop John O'Mara was named by former Pembroke bishop Joseph Windle in a 1993 letter to the Vatican's ambassador in Ottawa. O'Mara was named as part of a group of Ontario bishops who backed Windle's recommendation that the abuse of minors by a Pembroke priest be kept silent. The priest in question, Father Bernard Prince, had been shipped off to Rome and became a friend of then Pope John Paul II. In his letter, Windle was deeply concerned that if the Vatican graced the priest with any attention or honours it would expose the abuse and create a scandal. (full story) |
| Hartford archbishop urges fight against SOL bill - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-10-10 A proposal to extend the civil statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases could have a "devastating financial effect" on the state's Catholic dioceses, Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell wrote to pastors this week, urging them to include a letter opposing the bill in parish bulletins this weekend. The website for the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference, where the letter is posted, also includes a statement about the bill for pastors to read from the pulpit during Masses this weekend. (full story) |
| Pope didn't impede defrocking priest - Saturday, April 10, 2010 4-10-10 The Vatican on Saturday defended Pope Benedict from accusations that, in a previous post as a high Vatican official, he tried to impede the defrocking of a California priest who had sexually abused children. In a statement, a Vatican lawyer accused the media of a "rush to judgment". (full story) |
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