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Saturday, July 31 2010 @ 05:30 PM EST

Caught on Film: Catholic Priests, in Gay Clubs, Having Casual Sex

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:55 AM EST

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by Kilian Melloy Edge.Boston

Italy, a devoutly Catholic country, has been shocked at reports of Catholic priests being filmed having sex in gay clubs by a magazine reporter, a July 23 article at U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail reported.

The reporter, accompanied by a "gay accomplice," spent two weeks at gay night spots. In the course of that time, he reportedly filmed three priests having sexual encounters. Two of the priests caught on video were reportedly Italian; one was French.

Losing my religion

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:50 AM EST

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A new website has made it easier for lapsed Catholics such as Michelle Dunne Breen, concerned about the church's teachings and scandals, to stage an official defection.

I was once told I'd never be able to leave the church. ''Once a Catholic, always a Catholic,'' was the saying. It got me thinking that there must be a way to return a membership taken out on my behalf when I was only two weeks old.

Feudal Catholic church at risk, says theologian

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:31 AM EST

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THE ROMAN Catholic Church is the last feudal institution in the Western world, a mediaeval bastion of secrecy and privilege that cannot survive in the modern world, according to a visiting theologian.

As the church is shaken to its foundations by the clergy abuse scandals - with the lid to be lifted in Asia next - bishops are vainly trying to maintain their plummeting credibility through authoritarian control, Donald Cozzens of John Carroll University, Ohio, said in Melbourne yesterday.

Bishop Peter Ingham apologises to sexual abuse victims

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:28 AM EST

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By VERA BERTOLA

IN a heartfelt and candid pastoral letter, Bishop of Wollongong Peter Ingham has admitted the leadership of the Catholic Church failed parishioners in the diocese by its tardiness to address child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy and lay members.

Bishop Ingham’s apology was read or watched on DVD in all churches across the Macarthur region, Southern Highlands, Illawarra and Shoalhaven on July 17. Stepping outside of the shadows of some of the church’s most shameful secrets and cover-ups, Bishop Ingham was unreserved in his regret.

Pastors To Turn Gays

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:19 AM EST

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Pastors in Ghana have recently developed an appetite for horrible scandals, ranging from fraud to sex abuse, and sensational fetish priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam says the nation should expect more pastors to get involved in worse scandals, especially homosexuality.

Orthodox face 'double whammy' in reporting child sex abuse

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:11 AM EST

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OPINION: An Orthodox couple from Lakewood are very special and heroic people. When they found out that their son was molested by a rabbi, they confronted the rabbi and got him to admit it.

But when the rabbi became defiant and would not go to therapy or agree to leave the synagogue, they went to the police and had him arrested.

Child Abuse and the Catholic Church

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:04 AM EST

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There have already been a couple of BRIN news posts reporting British public attitudes to the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests and alleged cover-ups thereof. ‘Pope Benedict on the Back Foot’ (20 April) featured a YouGov poll undertaken on 12-14 April. ‘Ongoing Public Relations Problems for the Vatican’ (30 May) dealt with a Harris Interactive survey from 27 April to 4 May.

Now, buried among the pre-general election political opinion polls conducted by Populus for The Times, BRIN has unearthed three further questions touching on the abuse issue. They were put to a half-sample (of 742 adult Britons aged 18 and over) interviewed by telephone on 6 April 2010. The data tabulations, including breaks by demographics, will be found on pages 62-65 of the following document:

Catholic Archdiocese of Portland reports on child abuse prevention procedures

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 01:56 AM EST

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Nancy Haught, The Oregonian

Every year, Bridget Becker rounds up parents and children from St. Juan Diego Catholic Parish to reflect on boundaries and what to do if someone breaches them. Age-appropriate videos and lesson plans spark discussions about physical, emotional and behavioral lines that no one should cross.

Starkly put, the subject is sexual abuse, and the goal is to prevent it within the parish and the broader Catholic Church. The prompt was a devastating scandal that rattled the American church and the Archdiocese of Portland eight years ago.

Catholics angry as church puts female ordination on par with sex abuse

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:14 AM EST

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Women’s groups describe Vatican’s decision on female ordination as ‘appalling’

It was meant to be the document that put a lid on the clerical sex abuse scandals that have swept the Roman Catholic world. But instead of quelling fury from within and without the church, the Vatican stoked the anger of liberal Catholics and women’s groups by including a provision in its revised decree that made the “attempted ordination” of women one of the gravest crimes in ecclesiastical law.

Fondling little boys means you can't be a priest or a Special Olympics volunteer

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 03:41 AM EST

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By Peter Rugg

Former Roman Catholic priest Tom Ericksen was removed from his volunteer position with Special Olympics Missouri this week after the organization found out that Ericksen's predilection for fondling young boys was the subject of a $5 million sex-abuse settlement in 1989 with the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin.

The Associated Press reported that Ericksen admitted fondling children but said he had never had inappropriate contact with any children he met through the Special Olympics.

Where is the voice of women?

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 02:18 AM EST

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I have written in the past about openness and transparency in the Church and have joined the long queue of those articulating a considerable and consistent concern about the position of women in the Church and the extent of their ability to make a contribution in Ireland and elsewhere.

There can be little doubt that while women form the majority of those who pray in churches, participate in parish activities, clean churches, raise money for churches etc, they have only a limited role in decision making in this Church of ours.

Pope defrocks ex-Warren priest

Tuesday, July 20 2010 @ 05:34 AM EST

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By BOB COUPLAND / Tribune Chronicle

YOUNGSTOWN - The Vatican has officially notified the Diocese of Youngstown that Pope Benedict XVI has removed from the priesthood a former Warren-area priest accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor.

Thomas Crum, a former Cardinal Mooney High School faculty member who also served as a priest at St. James Catholic Church in Warren and St. Mary in Orwell, had requested he be removed from the priesthood after the allegations surfaced about a year ago.

St. Louis Female Priest Responds to Vatican Equating Women Reverends with Pedophiles

Tuesday, July 20 2010 @ 04:19 AM EST

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By Chad Garrison

By now you've probably heard how the Vatican unveiled sweeping changes last week regarding its policies on sexual abuse and sexuality within the Catholic church.

On one hand, the Church increased efforts to out priests accused of sexual abuse by increasing the statute of limitations in which the church will investigate such claims from 10 to 20 years. On the other hand, the church also classified the ordination of female priests as a "grave crime" against the Church -- on par with pedophilia.

Another blow for victims of clergy sexual abuse

Monday, July 19 2010 @ 12:59 AM EST

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By CATHY KEZELMAN

The Vatican's juxtaposition of women's ordination and child sexual assault as a "grave crime" is another attack on the victims of clergy abuse.

Melbourne's Archbishop, Denis Hart, has since stated that "the Church is merely clarifying its position" regardiing what it thinks is serious, but this does not mitigate the blow for those people awaiting justice for their ordeals.

Rwandans Deserve the Pontiff's Apology Too

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 07:49 PM EST

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These is no single day that passes without new allegations of members of the Catholic Church clergy involved in sexual abuses of young children.

Some of these cases extend over decades and cover all the continents. They have shaken the Roman Catholic Church to its foundation and, in some instances, some accusations have pointed to the current pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, as having played a role in pushing these abuses under the carpet, a charge that the Vatican has vehemently rebuffed.

New Vatican rules polarise opinion

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 07:44 PM EST

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By Emma Alberici

New Vatican rules use the same words to describe sex abuse and the ordination of women.

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Losing faith in the Polish church

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 06:39 PM EST

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church is losing its faithful as the country becomes more secular and the church finds its moral authority sapped by sexual scandals and increasing concern over its political influence.

Bishop resigns over pedophilia case

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 06:28 PM EST

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The world's first female Protestant bishop has resigned in Germany over her handling of a sex abuse case.

"My credibility has been contested," international German broadcaster Deutsche Welle quoted Mary Jepsen, the bishop of Hamburg, as saying on Saturday.

"For that reason, I do not see myself in a position to continue to spread God's word as I had promised," Jepsen added.

Critics Blast New Priest Abuse Guidelines

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 06:07 PM EST

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After months of scandal in Europe and years after the problems spread across this country, Pope Benedict issued a new set of guidelines this week, hoping to deal with the sexual abuse crisis among the clergy.

Critics are already lashing out. The new policies speed up the process of removing abusive priests from the clergy, as well as extending the limits for reporting allegations to church authorities.

Vatican issues new rules on abuse by priests; activists call them inadequate

Friday, July 16 2010 @ 11:15 PM EST

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By William Wan Washington Post Staff Writer

The Vatican issued long-anticipated rules Thursday dealing with clergy sex abuse, putting Catholic priests who molest the mentally ill or use child pornography in the same category as pedophile priests, and formally lengthening the number of years that canonical charges can be brought against transgressors.

Bishop Santa Claus Slams Pope Benedict XVI for Moral Failure

Friday, July 16 2010 @ 10:52 PM EST

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A Christian Bishop, Monk, and child advocate, whose legal name is Santa Claus, is taking Pope Benedict to task, for what Bishop Santa describes as the Pope's continued moral failure to address urgent children's issues within the Roman Catholic Church.

International Catholic ogranizations speak out against new Vatican women's ordination edict

Friday, July 16 2010 @ 07:46 PM EST

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By Thomas C. Fox

The Vatican July 15 issued a clarification of its canonical norms for how dioceses should handle clergy sex abuse cases. As part of the announced canon norm chages, Vatican officials added that the "attempted ordination of a woman" has now been added to the list of "delicta graviora," or most serious crimes in church law, alongside the sexual abuse of minors.

Justice denied

Thursday, July 15 2010 @ 11:33 PM EST

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The international wave of forgiveness that washes over Roman Polanski, film director and sexual predator, raises an intriguing question: What if Polanski had been a Roman Catholic priest?

Catholic church must aid sexual abuse victims 'despite cost'

Thursday, July 15 2010 @ 03:55 PM EST

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TOOWOOMBA'S Bishop believes the church's admission of legal liability for the rape of girls at a Toowoomba school should set a template.

Bishop Bill Morris, co-chairman of the National Committee for Professional Standards, which is handling the abuse allegations said it should set the template in dealing with victims, despite the risk it may lead to the sale of assets to cover compensation payouts.

Accused priest's backers hold vigil sex abuse victims respond

Thursday, July 15 2010 @ 01:40 AM EST

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Statement by David Clohessy, director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314-566 9790)

Bishop Jugis and parishioners are essentially playing 'good cop, bad cop.' The bishop suspended Fr. Kelleher after he was arrested for alleged child sex abuse. Yet at the same time, Jugis lets parishioners hold a public support rally for a likely criminal.

Germany: another Catholic Church controversy

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 02:47 PM EST

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It's been a tough few months for the Catholic Church in Germany. First damming allegations of child sex abuse at the hands of paedophile priests, and now revelations of secret funds and extravagance at a time when parishioners face continued cutbacks.

Indeed, in the past few months a handful of diocese have been under investigation for missing funds. The revelations are particularly hard to swallow in times of economic crisis.

Churches must unite to deal with sexual abuse claims

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 01:28 PM EST

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By KIM OATES

Fresh allegations detailing abuse of children by clergy highlight the need for an ecumenical approach to caring for victims.

Recently a 67-year-old Catholic priest was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for sexual assaults on young boys between 1968 and 1986.

Then, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, apologised for crimes of sexual abuse by clergy, acknowledging the church's shame and failures, an apology endorsed by Sydney's Archbishop George Pell.

Special Olympics suspends former Superior priest because of past abuse claims

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 12:46 PM EST

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By: Brandon Stahl, Associated Press

A former Superior Diocese priest who was the subject of a multi-million dollar settlement in a sex abuse case has been indefinitely suspended from working with the Special Olympics.

Tom Ericksen, who the News Tribune reported last month was accused of sexually assaulting two boys in the 1980s in Winter, Wis., while a priest there, volunteered for the past three years with the Special Olympics in Kansas City, Mo., according to Jeremie Ballinger, the organization’s director for that city.

Bishop tasks priests on celibacy, chastity

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 01:51 PM EST

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By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—The Catholic Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Reverend Hilary Okeke, has charged priests to accept celibacy in all its ramifications and live chaste lives.

He spoke against the backdrop of allegations of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church by some priests in parts of the world at the ordination of some priests in Anambra State last weekend.

Cardinal leading abuse probe calls for a more open church

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 02:52 PM EST

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By John Cooney

THE most senior cleric heading the Vatican probe this coming autumn into clerical child abuse in the Irish Catholic Church has called for "a more consultative" church.

At a private meeting in Maynooth, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor told the Irish bishops and clergy that one of the biggest challenges facing them in the wake of the damning Murphy and Ryan reports into the paedophile scandals was to promote the mission of the laity.

Wheeling priest suspended after sex abuse charge

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 01:05 PM EST

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WHEELING, W.Va. -- The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston has suspended a priest following his arrest in northern Virginia on a charge of aggravated sexual battery of a minor under 13.

Father Finian Egan: the church moves slowly towards 'healing'

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 12:42 PM EST

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By a Broken Rites researcher

In a media statement in Sydney on 17 May 2010, the Catholic Church confirmed that it had dithered for two years in a matter concerning a Sydney-based priest, Father Finian J. Egan.

The Egan matter, which came up in 2008 under the church's Towards Healing process, concerned two girls who allegedly encountered Egan (separately) in 1979-1986 when they were aged eleven and sixteen respectively.

Call for bishop's resignation amid new abuse allegations

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 12:39 PM EST

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The Catholic Church in Australia faces fresh criticism over its handling of child sex abuse cases, this time from Ireland - the country seen as possibly the worst case in the Church's worldwide scandal.

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TRACY BOWDEN, PRESENTER: The Catholic Church in Australia faces fresh criticism tonight over its handling of child sex abuse cases, this time from Ireland, the country seen as possibly the worst case in the Church's worldwide scandal.

Vatican sees third straight loss

Sunday, July 11 2010 @ 04:28 PM EST

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The Vatican has seen its third consecutive financial loss, with a 4.1m euros (£3.4m; $5.2m) deficit in 2009.

It saw revenues of 250.2m euros against expenses of 254.3m euros.

But annual donations from churches worldwide - known as Peter's Pence - were up by about 9% in 2009 at $82.52m.

No apology for Qld victims of sex predator clergy

Sunday, July 11 2010 @ 03:09 PM EST

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KATE DENNEHY

Queensland Catholics who were sexually abused by the clergy will not receive a personalised apology from their archbishop as did victims in Victoria this month.

Melbourne’s Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart sent a pastoral letter of apology that was read out or distributed in all 219 parishes in the archdiocese.

Austrian bishop Klaus Kung emphasizes the efficacy of the commission on sex abuse

Saturday, July 10 2010 @ 04:10 PM EST

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Austrian bishops have asked that all priests who have committed abuses turn themselves in to authorities. They've also asked victims to name their alleged abusers despite the pain caused by reopening wounds.

“In Austria there is no mandatory reporting. We comply with what the person who has suffered sexual abuse wants,” said bishop Klaus Kung.

Catholic Church must follow its words about child abuse with action

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 10:22 PM EST

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By Shay Cullen

The Catholic Church Hierarchy in the Philippines is strongly opposing the introduction of sex education in the public schools. They say it will encourage youth to engage in premarital and promiscuous sex, learn about contraception and lead immoral lives.

Sex education, they say, is the duty and responsibility of the parents not the governments. It would violate the Church¹s solemn teachings on human sexuality.

Cardinal Sodano is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 05:12 PM EST

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By William Oddie

His sinister record would give the press a field day if he was left in charge of the conclave

German bishop acknowledges abuse scandal mistakes

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 04:23 PM EST

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By VERENA SCHMITT-ROSCHMANN - Associated Press Writer

Germany's top Roman Catholic bishop on Friday acknowledged mistakes in dealing with allegations against a priest who is believed to have molested boys over more than two decades.

Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German Bishops Conference, said he should have checked more intensely into sexual abuse allegations coming from the priest's congregation in 1992.

Vatican Prepares Revisions to 2001 Sex Abuse Norms

Thursday, July 08 2010 @ 10:44 PM EST

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By John Thavis

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican is preparing to update the 2001 norms that deal with priestly sex abuse of minors, in effect codifying practices that have been in place for several years.

The revisions have been in the pipeline for some time and were expected to be published in mid-July, Vatican sources said. While the changes are not "earthshaking," they will ultimately strengthen the church's efforts to identify and discipline priests who abuse minors, the sources said.

Former Charlotte area priest facing sex abuse allegations; Sex abuse victims respond

Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 05:02 PM EST

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Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director, 414 429 7259

We applaud this brave victim for speaking up and contacting police. The independent professionals in law enforcement should investigate crimes, not the biased and often corrupt amateurs in church offices.

We hope this victim’s courage will prod others with information about Fr. Kelleher to step forward, get help, call police, protect others and start healing.

Sex abuse victims to meet First Ministers

Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 03:08 PM EST

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By Deborah McAleese

The First and Deputy First Ministers have agreed to meet with victims of clerical child abuse in Northern Ireland to discuss the possibility of ordering an official inquiry into the scandal.

Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness wrote a letter to a group of victims — who have been campaigning for an inquiry similar to the Ryan Report that uncovered a litany of historic crimes in the Republic — and told them that safeguarding children was a key priority for the Executive.

STOCKTON: Pedophile Priest Lives by Park, Schools, and Church After 2008 Settlements, Vatican Lawsuit for Crimes

Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 02:12 PM EST

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When pedophile priests are removed from ministry for their crimes, they can end up living in any community, usually with no monitoring, even though they are credibly accused sex offenders, as the AP reported earlier this week followed by yesterday’s story at Politics Daily When civil lawsuits settle without going to trial, sex crimes of the priests remain “alleged.”

As a result there could be thousands of pedophile priests, who have or have not been removed from ministry for child sex crimes, now living anywhere in the United States, with free and easy access to children.

Culture Briefs

Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 02:01 PM EST

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"The discussion of a relatively rare phenomenon as a 'great evil' of our age shows that child abuse in Catholic churches has been turned into a morality tale - about the dangers of belief and of hierarchical institutions and the need for more state and other forms of intervention into religious institutions and even religious families.

latest news from Belgium

Tuesday, July 06 2010 @ 01:17 PM EST

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For immediate release: Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Statement by Barbara Blaine, president and founder of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (312-399-4747)

We're grateful that Danneels is being questioned. It should have happened long ago.

It's time for Catholic officials to stop griping about the police raid and start helping to unearth the truth about long-hidden clergy sex crimes and cover ups. Had the church hierarchy acted responsibly, there would have been no need for the raid, of course.

Vatican House of Cards is Falling

Monday, July 05 2010 @ 03:34 PM EST

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Vatican House of Cards is Falling

Roman Catholic assassination teams in Belgium issue death threats to magistrates, witnesses, informants and complainants.

People close to the heart of the Belgian police investigation into Catholic church-based paedophile rings are being targeted by the Vatican’s underworld enforcers. Jesuit and Opus Dei BlackOps suspected.

The archbishop apologises, but later rather than sooner

Monday, July 05 2010 @ 12:56 PM EST

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THERE is no doubt that the Catholic Archibishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, is a man of deep conscience as well as strong personal conviction. For him, the terrible history of troubles within his church and within his own archdiocese have become a matter requiring acknowledgment and warranting apology.

At the weekend, the archbishop circulated to all his 219 parishes an extraordinary document, A Pastoral Letter on Sexual Abuse, that left no doubts of his feelings of profound shame at the criminal offences and breaches of vows committed by various priests over many years. ''How can we Catholics not be shocked and ashamed?'' Archbishop Hart wrote. ''For me personally, this is one of the saddest times of my 43 years in the Catholic priesthood.''

Let us count the ways the Catholic church is like the mob

Sunday, July 04 2010 @ 03:39 PM EST

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After their recent raid to expose information about child-raping priests, the Belgian police are facing another problem.

Officials say that police are also looking into threats to the lives of some witnesses and magistrates connected to the case.

Jean Marc Meillure, a spokesman for the public prosecutors office, confirmed that an investigation was under way.

"There are some threats against certain people around the case, and the prosecutors office is investigating that," he told the BBC.

He said the threats had been made against people who gave the authorities information or made a complaint, or against some magistrates.

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Catholic churches require volunteers' fingerprints

Sunday, July 04 2010 @ 11:45 AM EST

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Anyone who volunteers in a Catholic parish in Las Vegas -- ranging from ushers to those who clean up litter at a church festival -- must be fingerprinted or they cannot volunteer, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas has decreed.

The Catholic Church has been rocked nationally and internationally by sex and child abuse scandals. And the policy was handed down to "further protect children" in local parishes, according to Rachel Wilkinson, of Rogich Communications, the public relations firm that represents the diocese.

Victims say abuse suit against Vatican could heal

Sunday, July 04 2010 @ 11:31 AM EST

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LOUISVILLE (AP) — It had been more than 80 years since James O'Bryan had stepped inside a Roman Catholic church. He had not attended Mass since the late 1920s, when he says he was fondled at age 7 by a priest at Saint Cecilia Catholic Church in Louisville.

O'Bryan is one of three men who filed a US lawsuit regarded as having the best chance of discovering whether the Vatican holds any liability in sexual abuse by American priests. He and others who are involved with the court action also see an opportunity for Rome to reconnect with American victims who lost their faith after being abused.

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