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| Accused priest still working in Philippines - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-21-10 Despite having a credible allegation of sexual abuse made against him, a priest who served in the Dodge City Diocese is still in active ministry in a foreign country, according to the website for the Diocese of Boac, which is in the Philippines. Orestes Huerta was named in a May 2010 statement released by the Dodge City Diocese as one of three priests from the diocese who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor. (full story) |
| German inquiry into top bishop closed - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-21-10 German prosecutors say investigators have found no proof that would justify holding the country's top Roman Catholic cleric responsible for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors. Prosecutor Christoph Hettenbach says in a statement released Wednesday that the investigation into Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has been closed. (full story) |
| Wisc. court upholds McGuire's conviction - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-20-10 The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled to uphold a sexual abuse conviction of a former priest who said he was falsely accused.Donald McGuire is accused of abusing two boys in the 1960s. The men came forward in 2003, saying McGuire abused them during trips to a cottage in Fontana, Wis. (full story) |
| SNAP on McGuire ruling - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7-20-10 We are grateful that the Wisconsin Supreme Court is keeping Fr. Donald McGuire behind bars. He is an unrepentant, narcissistic, serial child predator who used his status as a Jesuit and Mother Teresa’s spiritual advisor to prey on unsuspecting families and kids. This case should remind child sex abuse victims that even the most high profile, widely-respected and cunning child molesting cleric can sometimes be prosecuted and kept away from kids if only we are brave, patient and persistent. (full story) |
| Ga. scales back sex offender law - Monday, July 19, 2010 7-19-10 Georgia was lauded four years ago by conservatives for passing one of the nation's toughest sex offender laws. But the state has had to significantly - and without fanfare - scale back its once-intense restrictions. Georgia's old law was challenged by civil liberties groups even before it took effect. (full story) |
| Letters from the faithful why they leave - Monday, July 19, 2010 7-18-10 In response to your "News and Views" item last Sunday ("An exodus of youth from Catholic Church"): I found it interesting that only one paragraph was partially devoted to the ongoing scandal of priest abuse cases. I can tell you that I (a 46-year-old male) and many others older than 30 have left the Catholic Church due to this scandal and the cover-ups that appear to lead all the way up the chain of command to the pope. (full story) |
| Vatican: Churches can be shut for good of diocese - Sunday, July 18, 2010 7-16-10 The Vatican's highest court has ruled a diocese can close a parish, regardless of that parish's health, if it decides the good of the church's religious mission is at stake. Ten churches that appealed their closings by the Boston Archdiocese learned their appeals had been denied in May, but written rulings by the Collegium of the Apostolic Signatura were not released until Saturday. (full story) |
| Dutch furious at 'Orange priest's' suspension - Sunday, July 18, 2010 7-17-10 Fr. Paul Vlaar had been suspended by Bishop Punt of the Amsterdam-Haarlem diocese. The bishop was apparently furious with Father Vlaar after he conducted a Mass last Sunday, the day of the FIFA World Cup final, with a definite football aura. Local parishioners did their best to buck up the priest. "Child abuse is covered up, but a priest who threatens to become too popular is suspended without mercy," said one of them. (full story) |
| Rome fiddles, we burn - Sunday, July 18, 2010 7-18-10 The casuistic document did not issue a zero-tolerance policy to defrock priests after they are found guilty of pedophilia; it did not order bishops to report every instance of abuse to the police; it did not set up sanctions on bishops who sweep abuse under the rectory rug; it did not eliminate the statute of limitations for abused children; it did not tell bishops to stop lobbying legislatures to prevent child-abuse laws from being toughened. (full story) |
| A tribute to Nancy Frazier O'Brien - Sunday, July 18, 2010 7-17-10 Nancy Frazier O'Brien's piece for Catholic News Service on Archbishop Weurl's attempt to explain the Vatican's yoking together child sexual abuse and women's ordination as "grave crimes" could have limited itself to the archbishop's effort to assure Catholic women that the stigmatizing of women's ordination meant no disrespect for women in general. But she went the extra mile to seek out the executive director of that Women's Ordination Conference and the WomenPriests group for their responses. (full story) |
| Church to women: We love you, but.... - Saturday, July 17, 2010 7-16-10 The Vatican's latest PR fiasco is mixing its announcement of new norms for handling sex abuse by clerics with the announcement that the “attempted” ordinations of women was being added to the “more grave” list of offenses against the church. One can only wonder how much “more grave” it can get than it already is. Those who have been involved in women’s ordinations are already said to have excommunicated themselves; it is unclear whether one can excommunicate oneself even more if the offense is elevated in status. (full story) |
| The Vatican's new norms - Saturday, July 17, 2010 7-16-10 The cloak of secrecy hasn't been removed. Fr. Lombardi claims that secrecy is maintained "in order to safeguard the dignity of all the people involved." This of course, is a lame excuse for the Vatican's obsession with image. Historically totalitarian regimes dispense their peculiar version of justice behind closed doors. In the church's case, closed hearings would be acceptable but as it stands now, tribunal cases in the U.S. are generally buried so deep that even the victims are stonewalled about the case. If Fr. Lombardi's rationale reflects official policy then it seems that everybody's dignity is respected except that of the victims. (full story) |
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