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| Archbishop of Canterbury: 'losing credibility' - Saturday, April 03, 2010 4-3-10 In an unusual intervention, the leader of the Anglican communion said that the controversy had been a "colossal trauma" for Ireland. Dr Rowan Williams, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, said, "An institution so deeply bound into the life of a society suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility — that’s not just a problem for the Church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland." (full story) |
| Levada defends position on Ore. priest - Saturday, April 03, 2010 4-3-10 In a newly released court deposition, a top Vatican official who is a former Portland archbishop defends not telling Oregon parishioners about the sex abuse allegations against a priest he restored to duty. The deposition also shows that the official, Cardinal William Levada, insisted he had given complete information to the pastor of the parish about the history of Father Joseph Baccellieri. Documents provided by the archdiocese show his position was parochial vicar, an administrative, not pastoral post. (full story) |
| SNAP on Cardinal Levada's defense - Saturday, April 03, 2010 4-3-10 The Vatican bureaucrat now in charge of child sex cases world-wide defends keeping quiet about credible child sex allegations against a priest he supervised just four years ago. This stunning callousness is one of the main reasons hundreds of thousands of girls and boys have been sexually assaulted by Catholic clergy, why thousands of church employees and supervisors ignored or hid the crimes, and why the church is still not a safe place. (full story) |
| SNAP on Ratzinger's delays - Saturday, April 03, 2010 4-3-10 Newspapers in Boston and Tucson reveal that notorious child-molesting clerics weren’t defrocked for years, even though Arizona Catholic officials sought Ratzinger’s help in doing so. How can bishops across the globe claim Pope Benedict was ‘helpful’ dealing with child sex crimes when actual church documents show him being helpful only to the criminals? (full story) |
| Scam at Catholic school - Saturday, April 03, 2010 4-2-10 Massachusett's Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that Hlady, 37, had been arrested at home Wednesday in the alleged theft of $370,000, all the fees the school paid him. It turned out, she said, that the donor Hlady said was poised to pony up millions was a phantom and that Hlady had allegedly spent what he was paid on gambling, prostitutes, strip clubs, hotels, and travel. Sister Napier, whose school built nearly $3 million worth of new classrooms on the promise of the donation, likened Hlady to one of the biggest con artists in history. (full story) |
| Reflection by Peggy Noonan - Friday, April 02, 2010 4-2-10 The press has been the best friend of the Catholic Church on the scandals because it exposed the story and made the church face it. The press forced the church to admit, confront and attempt to redress what had happened. The press forced them to confess. The press forced the church to change the old regime and begin to come to terms with the abusers. The church shouldn't be saying j'accuse but thank you. (full story) |
| Reflection by a theologian - Friday, April 02, 2010 3-26-10 My theological work sits at the intersection of faith and culture, especially popular culture. In the face of what is being revealed about the Catholicism that has been so much my atmosphere, how can I justify my intellectual work? I have had to ask myself whether my research project shares in the failures of ecclesial courage into which I was also trained as a Catholic. This is not an easy question to answer. I realize now that focusing on theology and culture has been an escape from ecclesial problems. And responsibility? But it has also been a way of preparing myself and my readers and students for dealing with the implosion of this Catholicism. Understanding how faith and culture interrelate, with rigor and patience, can be the antechamber of a new way of being religious, after what we will have had to let go about what we thought Catholicism was and could be. Tom Beaudoin (full story) |
| Reflection by Fr. Tom Doyle - Friday, April 02, 2010 4-1-10 Sexual abuse of the vulnerable by clergy has been a shameful aspect of Catholic culture for centuries. Church defenders claim it has always been a minuscule percentage of the clerical population, but the numbers are irrelevant. What is urgent and destructive has been the way the Church leadership, from the papacy on down to local bishops, have responded. “For the good of the Church” victims have been ignored, silenced and rebuffed, and criminal offenders have been quietly sent off to new assignments, often to offend again. “For the good of the Church” those harmed by the clergy have been led to cooperate in their own exploitation, convinced by their trusted leaders that the institution’s image and the exalted status of the priests is of greater value than healing or justice. (full story) |
| The Vatican spins; The NYTimes wins - Thursday, April 01, 2010 4-1-10 Ratzinger is connected to the Murphy case. And he was handling it for two years. What are the odds he knew nothing about it? Or that he had no sign-off on the final decision not to proceed with a trial? But the NYT's coup de grace against the Vatican comes with the theocon chief witness, Father Brundage. Brundage had claimed he had been misquoted in the NYT, and that the trial was indeed ongoing at the time of Murphy's death. Brundage, now seeing documents he had not seen before, reverses himself. (full story) |
| Former Legionaries defend Garza - Thursday, April 01, 2010 3-31-10 Responding to Vatican analyst Sandro Magister’s article on the leadership of the Legion of Christ, two prominent former members of the congregation told CNA on Wednesday that Fr. Luis Garza LC, current Vicar General of the Legion, should be regarded as part of the solution and not the problem. (full story) |
| U.S bishops reinstate accused priests - Thursday, April 01, 2010 3-31-10 Anne Barrett Doyle, who works with the watchdog group BishopAccountability.org, says that recently, bishops have started quietly returning to ministry priests who previously have been accused of abuse. Doyle and others have identified about a dozen clergy who have been accused, arrested or sued for abuse and returned to ministry. She says the process for investigating priests is secret, and often the diocese says nothing about the charges against a priest when it returns him to ministry. (full story) |
| Kicanas defends Vatican's handling of Tucson cases - Thursday, April 01, 2010 4-1-10 Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, the vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has defended the Vatican’s handling of the cases of Fathers Michael Teta and Robert Trupia, two suspended priests whom former Bishop Manuel Moreno was seeking to laicize. Both were laicized in 2004 after long delays; the former had been suspended in 1990, the latter in 1992. “In my mind after a review of the documentation it would be inaccurate to suggest that Cardinal Ratzinger's office delayed resolution of the Teta case. In fact, the office sought to expedite the case.” (full story) |
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