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| A Personal Issue, The Catholic Church Scandal - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-28-10 While you dress your Cardinals and Pope in fine linens and moral rectitude, the molested cover themselves in revulsion and self-loathing believing they did something to cause this crime. While you parade about with burning incense and wafers of contrition the raped and battered wander in doubt and confusion as to how God let this happen. While you sprinkle the Water of Oblivion and chant sacred liturgies the true victims suffer the holy trinity of abuse, alienation and abandonment. How dare you cloak the Church in victimhood. Should the deaf children thank God that they were not able to hear their rapist's grunts and gasps of pleasure at defilement? (full story) |
| Fresh wave of abuse scandals in Italy - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-28-10 We are likely to discover that the Vatican worked even harder in Italy with bishops than elsewhere to hide cases, simply because the contact was closer and the church is so powerful in Italy," according to Roberto Mirabile, head of La Caramella Buona, an Italian anti-abuse group. Sergio Cavaliere, an Italian lawyer who has documented 130 cases of clerical paedophilia, also believes that the Vatican's backyard could follow Ireland, the United States and Germany in producing a wave of abuse revelations. (full story) |
| For Rwandans, pope's letter to Irish unbearable - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-29-10 For any practising Catholic in Rwanda, this letter must be unbearable. For it tells you how little you mean to the Vatican. Fifteen years ago, tens of thousands of Catholics were hacked to death inside churches. Sometimes priests and nuns led the slaughter. Sometimes they did nothing while it progressed. The incidents were not isolated. Nyamata, Ntarama, Nyarubuye, Cyahinda, Nyange, and Saint Famille were just a few of the churches that were sites of massacres. (full story) |
| Pope offends victims - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-28-10 That last description - "petty gossip" - hurts the worst, because it comes from the Pope himself. The mean-spirited comments by some loyal church bureaucrats in defense of the pontiff are wrong but understandable, given the intense scrutiny their leader now faces. But when the Pope himself responds to hundreds of suffering clergy sex abuse victims and thousands of aching Catholic parishioners with dismissive rhetoric, it's particularly disturbing. (full story) |
| Vatican documents show coverup of Miami priest - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-29-10 The documents reveal that Garcia-Rubio was personally known to several Vatican officials, and began his career in Miami at the request of the Holy See. Less than 5 years after he was ordained, the Vatican warned Miami officials that he had been forced to leave Cuba because of sexual misconduct, and it sought assurance that Garcia-Rubio would be “protected” in Miami. Garcia-Rubio was so well known that Vatican officials even called on him to assist with special projects. Subsequently, in the 1980s, allegations of sexual abuse were made by multiple child victims of Garcia-Rubio, particularly relating to Garcia-Rubio’s ministry with Mariel Boatlift, Nicaraguan, and Salvadoran refugees. (full story) |
| Archbishop Levada ignored Italian abused children - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-29-10 Clergy sex abuse victims are outraged that former San Francisco Archbishop William Levada, now the third highest-ranking Vatican official, apparently did nothing for a year about allegations that clergy molested dozens of deaf kids in an Italian school. SNAP will publicly urge Levada to explain and apologize for his delay and use Vatican resources to aggressively seek out others who may have been assaulted at the school. (full story) |
| Fr. Tom Doyle on current scandal - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-28-10 To begin the process of restoration, I believe that the current pope needs to stand up and make a public apology. Not that those mistakes were made in the past — they always do in the past tense and there's a subtle message there that this is in the past and not now. The pope should say: "I'm sorry for what I did in my negligence to allow this to happen. I'm sorry that I did not fire bishops when I knew they were covering up." But I don't believe that will ever happen in my lifetime. (full story) |
| Profile on Jeff Anderson - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-29-10 Jeff Anderson has filed thousands of lawsuits alleging sex abuse by priests and won tens of millions of dollars for his clients, but he has had a bigger goal in mind for nearly two decades. He wants to bring his career-long legal crusade against misconduct in the Roman Catholic Church right to the top. Documents Anderson has unearthed have the potential to take a scandal that has plagued dozens of dioceses around the world and place it at the doorstep of Vatican leadership. (full story) |
| Archbishop Diarmuid Martiin's homily - Monday, March 29, 2010 3-28-10 The challenge is not to follow the short-cuts of the disciples who found that fleeing was the quick and easy answer; the challenge is not to follow the hypocrisy of Pilate who places his own position ahead of his responsibility towards an innocent man; our challenge is not to get trapped in irrelevant questions of prestige and status as did some disciples at the Last Supper. Our challenge is to be like Jesus who, with all the anguish and fear it entails, does not flinch or waver in remaining faithful to the will of his Father, even at the price of enduring the ignominious death on a criminal’s cross. (full story) |
| As archbishop, Benedict focused on doctrine - Sunday, March 28, 2010 3-27-10 In 1979, the year before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, approved the Rev. Peter Hullermann's move to Munich, the cardinal blocked the assignment to the local university of a prominent theology professor recommended by the university senate. And in 1981, he punished a priest for holding a Mass at a peace demonstration, leading the man to ultimately leave the priesthood. (full story) |
| Those who met Pope have second thoughts - Sunday, March 28, 2010 3-27-10 Two years ago, Bernie McDaid stepped out of a police escort and into a Washington, D.C., chapel for a secret meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and a handful of clergy sex-abuse victims like him. McDaid left afterward believing Benedict was beginning to understand the scope of his church's corruption. He doesn't believe that today. "Was it a PR move? Looking back at that now, I have to say it was," McDaid said of the meeting. (full story) |
| Pope considers emergency 'abuse summit' - Sunday, March 28, 2010 3-28-10 An embattled Pope Benedict XVI is coming under mounting pressure to call an emergency synod of bishops from around the world to hammer out a new strategy to deal with the worsening child abuse scandal, Vatican sources say. A number of Roman Catholic prelates have strongly urged the Holy See that such an extraordinary synod, or conference, be held on the grounds that the German pontiff and the Vatican evidently cannot cope effectively on their own with the spiralling image crisis. (full story) |
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