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Saturday, July 31 2010 @ 05:29 PM EST

Church blasts gay priests leading 'double life'

Sunday, July 25 2010 @ 02:41 AM EST

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By NICOLE WINFIELD (AP) –

ROME — The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.

The Diocese of Rome issued the strongly worded statement after the conservative Panorama newsweekly said in a cover story and accompanying video that it had interviewed three gay priests in Rome and accompanied them to gay clubs and bars and to sexual encounters with strangers, including one in a church building.

In St. Catharines, it’s silence for the lambs

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:31 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Sandro Contenta Jim Rankin

DUNNVILLE, ONT.—Two months after Bishop James Wingle abruptly resigned and disappeared, word that he had been spotted in Jerusalem swept his St. Catharines diocese.

Parishioners and priests were hungry for news of the missing bishop. But officials temporarily running the Catholic diocese quickly moved to reassert a wall of silence.

Priest allowed to say Mass despite sex abuse allegations against him

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:44 AM EST

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A SYDNEY-BASED Irish Catholic priest was allowed to say Mass two years ago in Ireland despite allegations of sexual abuse against him.

ABC television last night revealed that on at least eight occasions Fr Finian Egan was given exemptions to conduct weddings or funerals while supposedly banned from doing so and under investigation by the church.

Priest accused of sexual abuse in Kansas still working in Philippines

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 03:40 AM EST

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By Shaun Hittle

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.

Sex abuse investigator worked for church

Tuesday, July 20 2010 @ 06:25 AM EST

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The committee investigating sexual abuse by officials in the Roman Catholic church in the Netherlands has been criticised for a lack of independence.

Catholic diocese seeks cash to pay Irish victims

Tuesday, July 20 2010 @ 05:29 AM EST

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A Roman Catholic diocese at the center of Ireland’s child-abuse scandals appealed Tuesday to its parishioners to cover some of its more than euro10 million ($14 million) in bills to victims and lawyers.

Brennan said the diocese has already paid euro8 million to settle lawsuits from 48 abuse victims. But it has yet to settle 13 pending cases, and also has remortgaged the bishop’s residence to cover euro2 million in its own lawyers’ bills for defending the church.

Vatican defends revised abuse rules

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 06:35 PM EST

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By ALESSANDRA RIZZO (AP)

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican spokesman defended on Saturday a revised set of rules on clerical sex abuse as an essential and lasting response to abuse cases, but acknowledged the church will need to show long-term commitment if it wants to eradicate the crime.

The Vatican issued its revised in-house rules this week, as it confronts one of the worst scandals in its recent history. Revelations of rape or other sexual abuse of minors by priests, and of cover-ups by bishops, have been piling up for months.

Female priesthood equal to pedophilia

Friday, July 16 2010 @ 06:32 PM EST

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The Vatican has stiffened its disciplinary measures on sexual abuse in a decree that considers the ordination of women to priesthood a grave crime tantamount to pedophilia.

In a move that has drawn harsh criticism from women's ordination groups, the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday issued revisions to its internal laws including a controversial provision that labeled the designation of women as priests a crime "against the faith", which should be dealt with in the same way as child sexual abuse, AFP reported.

The Vatican's new norms

Friday, July 16 2010 @ 06:03 PM EST

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The latest attempt by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to stem the continuous onslaught of revelations of sex abuse and cover-up in Europe and elsewhere has some good and some bad aspects.

Melbourne Archdiocese to adjust letters sent to abuse victims

Thursday, July 15 2010 @ 11:39 AM EST

Tag: australia

The Melbourne Archdiocese says it will adjust future letters sent to sexual abuse victims about legal settlements after being informed that the original contained mistakes.

The standard letter sent by the Church in Melbourne with legal offers of compensation stated that signing the offer would release the Archbishop from further claims of abuse, according to a report in The Age.

Clergy sex abuse victims challenge WV Jesuit University

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 12:50 PM EST

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Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, SNAP director, 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com

Shame on Wheeling Jesuit University President Sister Francis Marie Thrailkill and other top staff at the school for the shamelessly self-serving spin they’re trying to put on the arrest of a priest and teacher there. The Catholic hierarchy is essentially trying to pretend they barely know this alleged predator.

Catholic abbot returns to office despite abuse scandal

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 01:40 PM EST

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A German Benedictine Abbot who resigned in February amid the Catholic child abuse scandal for failing to properly report abuse accusations is already set to return to his former post, media reported Tuesday.

Abuse appeal started by Catholic Middlesbrough Diocese

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 02:04 AM EST

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A Catholic diocese has launched an appeal after being found liable for running a boys' school where 150 former pupils are suing for abuse.

Middlesbrough Diocese is facing the £8m compensation claim.

The alleged abuse took place between 1960 and 1992 at St William's in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.

Protecting its assets rather than children

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 10:13 PM EST

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Skip Johnson’s comparison of the pope selection process to the Bibb County school superintendent selection process was instructive and relevant. Sharon Patterson was investigated by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission because she was accused of failing to report actions by a middle school principal and a high school principal.

Priest reinstated after abuse conviction

Thursday, July 08 2010 @ 02:02 PM EST

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Rome - An Italian priest who was convicted of sexually abusing a girl has been restored to his post after being deemed innocent by the Vatican and his diocese, a bishop announced on Wednesday.

Primate leaves bishop to talk about sex abuse

Monday, July 05 2010 @ 11:24 AM EST

Tag: ireland

Catholic all-Ireland Primate Sean Brady left it to a bishop to talk about the issue of child sex abuse at a special mass to celebrate St Oliver Plunkett's Day.

Cardinal Brady led a procession of around 2,000 people through Drogheda, Co Louth, yesterday to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the beatification of the saint.

Dioceses oust abusers they had pledged to monitor

Monday, July 05 2010 @ 11:21 AM EST

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By RACHEL ZOLL (AP)

NEW YORK — At the peak of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, the discipline plan American bishops adopted prompted dioceses to remove nearly all accused clergy from the priesthood.

Some of the men, however, were considered too old or sick to be kicked out. Instead, bishops barred those clerics from functioning as priests and promised to keep watch over them in supervisory programs that would keep the men far from children.

But interviews with canon lawyers, church child protection officials and experts who advise them found that, eight years after the plan was approved, few of those diocesan programs exist. Church leaders are more likely to oust a cleric from the priesthood than monitor him.

Child abuse witnesses get death threats

Sunday, July 04 2010 @ 05:45 PM EST

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Police investigating claims of child abuse by Belgian clergy say they are probing death threats against witnesses and magistrates.

The threats have been made to witnesses who gave information to the police and to the magistrates who may end up judging the case.

Belgian child sex abuse police probe death threats

Sunday, July 04 2010 @ 11:26 AM EST

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Police investigating claims of child abuse by Belgian clergy have told the BBC they are probing death threats against witnesses and magistrates.

Last month police raided a meeting of Belgium's Catholic bishops as part of their investigation, seizing computers and documents.

They even searched the tomb of at least one cardinal, prompting an angry response from the Vatican.

The Bishop of Bayeux went to jail rather than give authorities information about a priest who had raped a minor

Friday, July 02 2010 @ 01:23 AM EST

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"I congratulate you for not turning in a priest to the civil administration..."

Joseph Ratzinger is having a terrible year. But as the Catholic Church faces yet another scandal, blame is
Mass appeal: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger greets Pope John Paul II in December 2004

There is a cruel paradox in the career of the man who, in September, will become only the second pope in history to visit Britain. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in April 2005, he set about purifying the Catholic Church and returning it to its core values. He also pledged to get his charismatic predecessor, John Paul II, canonised as quickly as possible.

Dan Rather Reports on Catholic Church hiding sssets to avoid paying damages to abuse victims

Friday, July 02 2010 @ 01:03 AM EST

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In the report, attorney John Manly and victim advocate Patrick Wall provide Dan and viewers some eye-opening information about how the RCC handled diocesan bankruptcies in San Diego, CA; Davenport, IA; and Wilmington, DE.

Cardinal Praised Bishop for his Willingness To Go To Jail Rather Than Reveal Information On Priest Rapist

Thursday, July 01 2010 @ 01:15 AM EST

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The Pope continues to face allegations of his prior knowledge of abuse by clergy. However, the most striking story in the article below is how Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos allegedly heralded a bishop for his willingness to go to jail rather than reveal information about a priest accused of raping a child.

Catholic Church evades abuse scandals

Wednesday, June 30 2010 @ 05:55 AM EST

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Senior analyst of Foreign Policy in Focus Ian Williams believes that Vatican tries to escape its child abuse scandals by misusing the principle of Separation of Church and State.

The US Supreme Court has rejected Vatican's appeal for legal immunity from pedophile priests' sexual abuse of minors in the United States.

Pedophile ex-priest tried to bribe way out of jail

Wednesday, June 30 2010 @ 05:34 AM EST

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A former Catholic priest who sexually abused teenage boys in South Australia paid a $US25,000 “downpayment” to be released from an Indonesian prison, an Adelaide court has heard.

Charles Alfred Barnett, 69, was in the court for sentencing submissions over sexual and indecent assaults on four occasions between 1977 and 1994, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Vatican Power Struggle Comes Amid Priestly Removal And Dioceses Declaring Bankruptcy

Tuesday, June 29 2010 @ 05:43 AM EST

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With Catholic diocese declaring bankruptcy in order to avoid having to sell their assets or have them seized by the government in order to pay the victims of pedophile priests, the Vatican decided that they were more than willing to attack a cardinal who is critical of the Vatican’s handling of the child sex abuse scandal.

DAN RATHER REPORTS EXPOSES COORDINATED EFFORT BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO PROTECT ASSETS FROM ABUSE VICTIMS

Tuesday, June 29 2010 @ 04:09 AM EST

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Are local dioceses declaring bankruptcy in order to avoid paying settlements to victims of priest sexual abuse? Tuesday, June 29 at 8:00 p.m. ET

"Dan Rather Reports" investigates how the Roman Catholic Church has been hiding and shielding assets from victims of priest abuse. Some say the Church is behaving more like a big corporation than a sacred institution.

Belgian church mulls legal action after paedophilia raids

Saturday, June 26 2010 @ 11:56 PM EST

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BRUSSELS — A Catholic archdiocese could sue the Belgian state over police raids on church property carried out as part of a paedophilia investigation, a lawyer said Saturday, amid Vatican indignation.

Fernand Keuleneer, lawyer for the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese, said he had his "doubts" over whether the authorities' actions on Thursday were legal.

Facts are not “anti-Catholic”

Saturday, June 26 2010 @ 11:33 PM EST

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William McMurry, an attorney from Louisville, Kentucky, wants to subpoena the Pope and other Vatican officials in order to determine what the Vatican knew about both his specific case (involving three Kentucky men who allege that they were sexually abused by priests) and about the many other institutionally-sanctioned coverups of clergy sexual abuse in the United States.

The information obtained from these depositions would most likely reveal the extent of the Vatican’s culpability in these matters.

Vatican: Ky. abuse lawsuit lacks link to Rome

Saturday, June 26 2010 @ 01:29 AM EST

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By DYLAN LOVAN (AP)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Vatican is asking a federal judge to reject an attempt to question Pope Benedict XVI under oath in a Kentucky sex abuse lawsuit on the grounds that there has been no evidence of a link to church officials in Rome.

The arguments filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Louisville also say that forcing Benedict, a head of state, to give a deposition would violate international law. The U.S. considers the Vatican to be a sovereign nation.

Church fights lifting of sex abuse suit limits

Friday, June 25 2010 @ 03:09 PM EST

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Ron French / The Detroit News

Lansing -- The abuse David Collins suffered as a teen from a Catholic priest in the archdiocese of Detroit confused him for decades.

He spiraled into alcohol abuse. He suffered years of depression and post-traumatic stress. His relationships suffered because he had trouble trusting others.

Catholic church fights lifting of sex abuse suit limits

Friday, June 25 2010 @ 01:30 AM EST

Accused priest given victim’s file

Friday, June 25 2010 @ 12:35 AM EST

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By Claire O’Sullivan

CLAIMS that the child protection delegate in the diocese of Cloyne handed over a confidential file containing allegations of abuse to the priest at the centre of the allegations are being investigated by the Catholic Church.

Springs church: Priest accused of abuse worked in parish

Thursday, June 24 2010 @ 02:00 AM EST

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MARK BARNA The Gazette

A Denver priest accused of molesting a boy in the early 1970s was a pastor during that period at Divine Redeemer Church in Colorado Springs, the Rev. Jim Klein announced to his parish Saturday.

Reading from a statement from Michael Sheridan, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, Klein said the abuse of which the Rev. Mel Thompson is accused did not take place at Divine Redeemer, though he encouraged anyone with abuse allegations to contact the diocese.

Vatican asked to investigate Chilean priest sex abuse accusations

Monday, June 21 2010 @ 04:12 AM EST

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Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- The archbishop of Santiago has asked the Vatican to investigate a priest accused of sexually abusing four minors, a church official said.

Archbishop Francisco Javier Errazuriz decided to ask the Vatican to intercede after learning of the grave accusations against the Rev. Fernando Karadima, the church official said in a statement broadcast Friday on CNN Chile, CNN's partner network in the nation, and on the Chilean church's website.

Accused priest was 'tipped off'

Saturday, June 19 2010 @ 06:22 PM EST

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BY STEPHEN RYAN

A PRIVATE investigator hired by a Catholic Church panel to investigate sexual abuse allegations against Father David O'Hearn tipped Father O'Hearn off during the inquiry, a statement tendered to Newcastle Local Court said.

Members of the panel, which was set up by the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese to investigate and assess allegations made against priests, also believed that one of their own disclosed information to Father O'Hearn, a police statement said.

Diversionary Tactic by One of Ratzi's Browndresses

Friday, June 18 2010 @ 06:50 PM EST

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Attacking women and queers is an old tactic of the Roman Catholic Church when they want to divert attention from the rampant child molestation in their clergy. They just won't let go of it. (From Edge 6/16/10)

During a Southern Baptist Convention

Thursday, June 17 2010 @ 06:57 PM EST

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Another Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting came and went this week, and Southern Baptists still remain the all-time-biggest do-nothing denomination on clergy sex abuse. Nothing has changed.

But in my inbox today, there is still another reminder of how big the problem is. With the permission of Jay Thompson, I’m reprinting his email below.

Ron Johnson Was Part Of The Same GB Diocese Team That Reassigned Pedophile Priests

Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 10:55 PM EST

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By Jud Lounsbury

Russ Feingold's likely challenger is plastic mogul Ron Johnson. Johnson is a neophyte in the public service arena with one exception: For years he has served on the Green Bay Diocese's Finance Council.

In that capacity, he has the lobbied Wisconsin legislature on behalf of The Church, including, earlier this year when he urged the Wisconsin Senate to kill a bill that would have, for purposes of law suits, lengthened the statute of limitations for sexual crimes committed against children. This, of course, would have brought all kinds of head aches for Johnson and the rest of the Green Bay Diocese Finance Council.

Roger Mahony Calls Family of Sex-Abuse Victim, Victim "Illegal Aliens"

Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 10:48 PM EST

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By Gustavo Arellano

For years, the greatest shield Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony has used to protect his pedo-priest-protecting ass from the full wrath of the public is Mexicans, specifically of the illegal kind.

His Eminence blesses marches for LA's many amnesty rallies, has spoken out against Proposition 187, SB 1070, and many other Know Nothing resolutions--and that's a good thing.

How Tod Brown Quashed a Sex-Abuse Lawsuit While Bishop of Boise

Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 11:55 PM EST

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By Gustavo Arellano

In December 1993, just around the time then-Diocese of Boise, now-Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod Brown learned that one of his priests had repeatedly molested a boy nearly 20 years earlier, two brothers filed a lawsuit against the Boise diocese for molestations they suffered under the grubby hands of Luke Meunier during the early 1970s.

O’Malley has unfinished business here in Boston

Saturday, June 12 2010 @ 01:19 AM EST

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IN “THE pope’s pro’’ (Op-ed, June 3), Joan Vennochi rightly describes Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s responses to clergy sexual abuse as a “push and pull between the old forces of secrecy and the new pressure for transparency.’’

In March 2009, the cardinal publicly stated that “in the very near future’’ the Archdiocese of Boston would revise its policy on “disclosing information about accused clergy and the status of cases against them.’’

Fifteen months later, despite urgings from child advocates and abuse victims, and the fact that two dozen other bishops have released this information, we in Boston still wait.

Usual suspects attack TV programme about Pope – before it’s even made!

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 03:04 AM EST

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A cabal of zealous Catholics reacted with fury at the news that the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is to front a Channel 4 documentary on the Pope, to be broadcast in the days before the September visit begins.

“Apostolic Visitation” another Papal PR stunt

Thursday, June 10 2010 @ 04:24 AM EST

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As promised in his March letter about the Irish sexual abuse epidemic, the Paedophile Protector-in-Chief, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed a team of nine leading international paedophile protectors and enablers to invade Ireland and spread their noxious PR spin across the land.

ITALIAN PRIEST ABUSE VICTIMS 'TERRIFIED' SAYS US GROUP

Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 06:05 AM EST

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(ANSA) - Vatican City, - Italian victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are afraid to reveal their identities for fear of repercussions in their private and working lives, a United States victims group told a news conference near the Vatican Tuesday.

How does the RC church make a sex abuse scandal go away?

Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 06:02 AM EST

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It orders a ‘fixer’ to come in and get to work. Ex-Benedictine monk, Patrick Wall (Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2,000 Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse), recently provided a revealing, disturbing, angering, and heartbreaking 12 minute radio interview describing his role in helping to make clerical abuse scandals go away. The broadcast is from CBC Radio:

Power to the prelates as State is bypassed

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 09:09 AM EST

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Archbishop Dolan is set to prescribe a return to prayer, humility and a rediscovery of identity

AS SHERLOCK Holmes might observe to Dr Watson, it smacks of a case of the secular watchdog not barking in the night at the national incursion by robed envoys of a foreign power.

Curiously, the Government has remained ominously silent about its attitude to the Vatican-appointed team of investigators of the Catholic Church in Ireland that was announced last week by Pope Benedict XVI.

Adelaide’s ‘healing bishop’ to help US priests

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 02:20 AM EST

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NO DATE FOR ARTICLE POSSIBLY JUNE 2002

Adelaide Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has been asked to help US bishops cope with an unprecedented sex-abuse crisis.

Society is paedophile, archbishop says

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 05:00 AM EST

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A Brazilian archbishop has risked stirring new controversy in the Catholic Church's defence against child sex abuse allegations by saying "society today is paedophile".

Monsignor Dadeus Grings, the archbishop of the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, told a Brazilian bishops' annual conference he believed paedophilia was on its way to becoming as accepted as homosexuality in society at large.

Catholic church pays $94,560 to pedophile ex-priest Oliver O'Grady

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 02:24 AM EST

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Oliver O'Grady has been called the Hannibal Lecter of pedophile Catholic priests.

He has been gone from the Stockton Diocese for 17 years, but the civil lawsuits keep coming — 22 to date, resulting in $18.7 million paid to victims.

Catholic church pays $94,560 to pedophile ex-priest Oliver O'Grady

Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 08:11 AM EST

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By Sue Nowicki

Oliver O'Grady has been called the Hannibal Lecter of pedophile Catholic priests.

He has been gone from the Stockton Diocese for 17 years, but the civil lawsuits keep coming — 22 to date, resulting in $18.7 million paid to victims.

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