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Welcome to The Catholic Cover Up
Saturday, July 31 2010 @ 05:20 PM EST

Priest Destroyed Child Porn, Parents Say

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:29 AM EST

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (CN) - When a Catholic church's choirmaster was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a child, his supervising priest abruptly left a parish school board meeting and went to the choirmaster's apartment to destroy evidence of the crimes by deleting files from the man's computer, a girl's parents claim in Buncombe County Court.

Beneath the child abuse scandal

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:02 AM EST

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By A.W. Richard Sipe

Examining the Crisis

Many people, including bishops, date and lable the "Crisis in the Catholic Church" to Jan. 6, 2002 when The Boston Globe began publishing its series about sexual abuse of minors by priests and revealing the conspiracy of bishops in covering up crimes.

That was the flash point of a worldwide scandal. The crisis it epitomizes is more profound.

The secret secret of the Vatican

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 02:57 AM EST

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The Vatican's policy on paedophile priests was so secret that not even the bishops knew about it

Was there a centrally organised cover up of child abuse within the Catholic church? This is one of the main charges against the institution. I don't believe it myself; I think there were disorganised and decentralised efforts to conceal scandal, just as there are in almost any organisation which discovers paedophiles working for it, from Islington Council to the United Nations.

It doesn't excuse the efforts that were made, but it doesn't suggest, either, that the Vatican is a uniquely wicked institution.

Serious allegations against head of German Bishops Conference

Sunday, July 18 2010 @ 01:57 AM EST

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Zollitsch is said to have covered up child abuse

Freiburg (AP) -

Serious allegations against Robert Zollitsch: The Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German Bishops' Conference is said to have tried to cover up a case of sexual abuse by a priest.

Allegations should be assessed

Sunday, July 18 2010 @ 01:34 AM EST

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A Southern Baptist missionary worked in Belize for four years, and on return to the United States, he became the director of a Baptist camp in North Carolina. His work put him in contact with a lot of kids.

A couple months ago, this former Southern Baptist missionary and camp director was found “dead of an apparent suicide.” At the time of his death, he was awaiting trial on child-sex charges. The charges involved three separate children.

German Lutheran bishop quits after report accuses her of sex abuse cover-up

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 06:41 PM EST

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The world’s first female Lutheran bishop, Maria Jepsen of Germany, resigned on Friday following a report she had allowed a pastor accused of sexual abuse of teenagers in her diocese continued contact with youngsters.

In an echo of scandals hitting the Catholic Church, Der Spiegel news magazine reported last week that Jepsen, 65, heard in 1999 that the pastor had abused teenagers in his care, but let him stay in contact with youngsters until 2000.

When healing becomes hell on Earth

Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 05:32 PM EST

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A church program is meant to help victims of priestly abuse, but many leave more scarred than ever, writes Jacqueline Maley.

It was Christmas Eve, 2002, and John Ellis was preparing for the holiday. As a Catholic, it was still an important religious festival to him, even though his faith had been tested by the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Father Aidan Duggan of the Bass Hill parish, some 35 years before.

Predatory Priests, Church Cover-Ups and the Belgian Abberation

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 11:28 PM EST

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By Barbara Blaine and Rita Nakashima Brock

The clergy sex abuse and cover-up crisis continue not only across Europe but also across the globe. Nowhere, however, has the recent crisis been more acute than in Belgium.

Over the span of just a few weeks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, July 13, a bishop has resigned, police have conducted an unusual raid on three church facilities to collect evidence, and hundreds of men and women have stepped forward reporting the horrors they say they experienced as children at the hands of Belgian clerics.

Episcopal Church abuse case outed in PA: some observations

Wednesday, July 14 2010 @ 02:02 PM EST

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Regarding Bishop Davis

Current Bishop Sean Rowe of Northwestern Pennsylvania is communicating with his diocese and the wider church about sexual abuse committed by his late predecessor, Donald Davis, and possibly kept secret by an intervening (also deceased) Bishop and even a past Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Priest allowed to say Mass despite sex abuse allegations against him

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 02:30 PM EST

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PÁDRAIG COLLINS in Sydney

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. In May 2008 Fr Egan was allowed to go home to Ireland and say Mass.

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Disgraced priest also abused us, say twins

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 02:00 PM EST

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RAFAEL EPSTEIN AND NICK MCKENZIE

NSW police are investigating new claims of sexual abuse against the Sydney Catholic priest Father Finian Egan, who had separate complaints of sexual molestation upheld by an internal church investigation last year.

Two sisters took their allegations to the police after seeing reports in the Herald and on television about the previous claims against Father Egan.

Abuse Took Years to Ignite Belgian Clergy Inquiry

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 01:32 PM EST

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Abuse Took Years to Ignite Belgian Clergy Inquiry – This man is still free. Not a single priest or bishop in Belgium went to jail for raping thousands of children.

New Sexual Abuse Charges Brought Against Former Chicago Priest Daniel McCormack

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 01:30 PM EST

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New criminal charges have been filed against Chicago priest Daniel McComack by the Illinois Attorney General this week. McCormack is currently being held in a mental health facility after having been paroled last September. The now 41 year old defrocked priest served two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to five felony counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in 2001.

He was paroled last September, but the Cook County State’s Attorney and the Illinois Attorney General filed petitions under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act to block his complete release.

Call for church to come clean

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 10:56 AM EST

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A HEALESVILLE woman is calling for mandatory reporting of child abuse to be extended to the hierarchy of the Melbourne Archdiocese of the Catholic Church.

Her call follows an apology statement made by Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart to victims of abuse last week.

Jo (an assumed name, for legal reasons) however says more than a year after Healesville priest Paul Pavlou was convicted of sex abuse charges involving her son and knowingly being in possession of child pornography, nothing has changed in the church’s ‘in-house’ approach to dealing with abuse allegations.

Episcopal Bishop and Church Hide Child Molestation - WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES!!!

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 01:58 PM EST

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Let me be clear I am not attacking the TEC here. I also understand the thing going on between the Church and the victims and why it was handled this way. But when the Catholic Church does this it is treated as a whole different manner.

Abuse Took Years to Ignite Belgian Clergy Inquiry

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 01:44 PM EST

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By DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE

WESTVLETEREN, Belgium — Behind an aggressive investigation of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Belgium that drew condemnation from the pope himself lies a stark family tragedy: the molestation, for years, of a youth by his uncle, the bishop of Bruges; the prelate’s abrupt resignation when a friend of the nephew finally threatened to make the abuse public; and now the grass-roots fury of almost 500 people complaining of abuse by priests.

Bishop admits ignoring abuse cases, The Pope’s Duty

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 05:31 PM EST

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Bishop admits ignoring abuse cases 09 Jul 2010 Germany's senior Roman Catholic bishop Robert Zollitsch has admitted his mistakes in dealing with allegations of sexual abuse against an alleged pedophile priest.

The Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German Bishops Conference said on Friday that he should have probed more intensely the sexual abuse accusations laid against a priest, who is believed to have molested boys when he worked in the town of Oberharmersbach from 1968 to 1991, AP reported.

Catholic Church Violated by Karmic Thrust

Thursday, July 08 2010 @ 12:57 PM EST

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The frustration and embarrassment of the sexual abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church added another chapter recently, this time in Belgium. The quiet European nation was rocked by news their longest standing bishop, Roger Vangheluwe, was to resign after admitting to sexually molesting a young boy.

To add more burn to the Vatican's sexual abuse firestorm, Belgian authorities raided Catholic compounds last week, seizing personal computers and cell phones, detaining several bishops for upwards of nine hours, and even opening the tomb of a deceased priest.

Police question Belgian cardinal in child abuse probe

Tuesday, July 06 2010 @ 04:26 PM EST

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BRUSSELS - The former head of Belgium's Catholic Church, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, was questioned for several hours by police on Tuesday, his lawyer said, as part of a probe into allegations of child abuse by priests.

The 77-year-old cardinal entered a Brussels police station in the morning and was still being questioned in the late afternoon, lawyer Fernard Keuleneer told AFP.

Diocese of Stockton Hides Serial Molesters Location

Tuesday, July 06 2010 @ 02:59 PM EST

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Once again the Catholic Church hierarchy has proven it’s deceit. On July 2, 2010, SNAP members held a press conference in Stockton California, to alert the public that yet another lawsuit was filed against serial molester Fr. Jim Miani, who was listed on the Diocese of Stocktons website as a “retired” Priest..

SNAP members exposed the serial molester’s location, living across the street from a grammar school, and adjacent to two kiddie parks. The diocese did nothing to alert tenants at the apartment complex Fr. Miani is living at, according to the tenants I interviewed.

Lawsuit: Church protected abusive Salesian priest

Friday, July 02 2010 @ 02:13 AM EST

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LOS ANGELES — A California man who alleges he was abused in the 1960s by a priest who belonged to the Salesian order of the Roman Catholic church filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the order and the Vatican, claiming officials covered for the cleric by shuffling him between three continents over three decades.

The lawsuit filed in Superior Court claims the Rev. Titian "Jim" Miani abused children in Italy, Canada and California, including at least 12 alleged victims at a Catholic high school in Bellflower, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Amid Church Abuse Scandal, an Office That Failed to Act

Thursday, July 01 2010 @ 11:30 PM EST

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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and DAVID M. HALBFINGER

In its long struggle to grapple with sexual abuse, the Vatican often cites as a major turning point the decision in 2001 to give the office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger the authority to cut through a morass of bureaucracy and handle abuse cases directly.

The decision, in an apostolic letter from Pope John Paul II, earned Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, a reputation as the Vatican insider who most clearly recognized the threat the spreading sexual abuse scandals posed to the Roman Catholic Church.

Roman Catholic Church 'enabled' child abuse at Californian high school

Thursday, July 01 2010 @ 11:13 PM EST

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A LAWSUIT filed in California has accused the Roman Catholic Church of enabling a priest to abuse a child at a high school in the 1960s.

The suit filed in California's state court claims that the victim was abused repeatedly by the school's dean of students, named as Father Titian Miani, who has already been previously accused of abuse.

Church Office Failed to Act on Abuse Scandal

Thursday, July 01 2010 @ 02:55 PM EST

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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and DAVID M. HALBFINGER

In its long struggle to grapple with sexual abuse, the Vatican often cites as a major turning point the decision in 2001 to give the office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger the authority to cut through a morass of bureaucracy and handle abuse cases directly.

September 11 = 5,000 victims. Belgian Catholic Church = 5,000 victims.

Wednesday, June 30 2010 @ 02:08 PM EST

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In the United States, the victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army are more than double that of the victims of September 11 - as a newspaper of Belgium reported (see news below). In Belgium, the victims are the same as the victims of September 11.

And the Belgian Police waited patiently for the Catholic Church’s commission since 1990 to do its job of investigating pedophile priests and their victims through the Church’s due process of “Canon Law”. Canon Law did nothing for victims in the USA and Ireland.

Former La Salle Priest Accused Of Molestation

Wednesday, June 30 2010 @ 02:07 AM EST

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By Jorge Estevez

MIAMI-The Archdiocese of Miami is facing a new lawsuit for a familiar allegation. For the first time, an alleged victim is telling his story of alleged sexual abuse at La Salle High School, which he claims was covered up by the archdiocese.

"It was in today's terms a pedophile circus," said the alleged victim, who wished not to be identified for this story.

Abuse Loosens Church’s Culture of Silence in Italy

Sunday, June 27 2010 @ 11:43 PM EST

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By RACHEL DONADIO New York Times

ROME — One afternoon last month, a rare thing happened in Rome’s main courthouse: for perhaps the first time ever, an Italian bishop took the witness stand in the case of a priest accused of the sexual abuse of children.

Soon after, another rare thing happened. The leader of the Italian bishops’ conference acknowledged at a news conference that it was “possible” that bishops in Italy had covered up abuse, while his deputy said that in the past decade, 100 Italian priests had faced church trials in connection with the sexual abuse of minors.

Belgian probe of sex-abuse cover-up allegations

Sunday, June 27 2010 @ 11:30 PM EST

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The Vatican is stepping up its condemnation of an extraordinary raid by Belgian law enforcement authorities to search for evidence that clergy sexual abuse was covered up. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that the detention of bishops for questioning smacked of communist governments’ practices.

The Belgian police were also faulted by church authortieis for searching the graves of two archbishops in the cathedral crypt, apparently on a tip that documents were hidden in the tombs. “It looks like police were searching for the Da Vinci code,” Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard reportedly said.

Legionaries of Christ: Marcial Maciel's legacy of sexual abuse

Sunday, June 27 2010 @ 04:41 AM EST

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The man calling from the airport sounded tired. Earlier, Jose Raul Gonzalez Lara filed a lawsuit against the Legionaries of Christ, and the estate of his dead father, the disgraced Marcial Maciel, the founder of that militaristic and ritualistic Roman Catholic order.

Maciel died in 2008, but not before he sexually abused untold numbers of boys and seminarians, fathered children with more than one woman, and turned his predator-attention toward his own children, according to the lawsuit.

Kmiec criticized for failure to alert area on priest accused of sex abuse

Saturday, June 26 2010 @ 12:10 AM EST

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By Jay Tokasz

A national group critical of how the Catholic Church deals with clergy sex abuse cases on Friday criticized Buffalo Bishop Edward U. Kmiec for failing to alert area families about a priest accused of molesting three minors more than 30 years ago.

Top Irish priest compares child abuse to the Holocaust

Friday, June 25 2010 @ 12:30 AM EST

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A leading Irish priest and theologian, Father Brendan Purcell has stated that the child sex abuse issue in Ireland is like the Holocaust for the church.

Purcell was speaking to NBC reporter Jim Maceda about the fallout from the scandals in Ireland.

Behind High Walls - Catholic Child Abuse

Thursday, June 24 2010 @ 04:40 AM EST

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The Catholic child abuse scandal has hit no country harder than Ireland, and we should know. http://BlatantWorld.com is run by Irish staff, and we have been witnessing the growing realisation amongst the population here, that widespread abuse has indeed been committed in the name of religion throughout our nation.

Since the 1950's, successive Irish governments and the police force have helped to cover up the massive amounts of abuse by members of the clergy.

Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kan.

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 07:38 PM EST

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Representatives from the Archdiocese provided information about several clergy accused of abuse, but would not agree to an interview, and didn’t provide information about the number of total allegations made against clergy.

Report: With dozens of past priest sex abuse cases, Kansas Catholic dioceses not forthcoming

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 07:36 PM EST

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A newspaper report says that Kansas Catholic dioceses are still keeping information about abusive priests from the public.

Women are also victims of clergy sex abuse

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 02:41 AM EST

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Virginia Saldanha, the former executive secretary of the FABC Office of Laity and Family, raises concern over the issue of sexual abuse of women in the Church in Asia.

The issue of sexual abuse of women in the Church in Asia has been simmering beneath the surface for a long time. It is not a new issue. It has just never made the news before. But that must now be rectified.

Sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 02:35 AM EST

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Sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church

REUTERS - Germany's Catholic bishops confirmed on Tuesday they had sent a damning confidential report on the disgraced retired Bishop Walter Mixa, to Pope Benedict to persuade him that the man had to be removed from his post.

The Abuse Puzzle: Despite reforms, the full scope of clergy sex crimes in Kansas is still unknown

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 02:32 AM EST

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Janet Patterson investigates alleged child molesters, chronicles timelines of crimes and assists victims of abuse in dealing with the aftermath of their trauma.

Patterson isn’t in law enforcement and she isn’t a private investigator or a social worker. But after her son, Eric, became one of five suicide victims who alleged being sexually abused by former Wichita priest and convicted sex offender Robert Larson, she became a watchdog on the Catholic Church and its handling of abusive clergy.

Newspaper Alleges Kansas Dioceses Keep Sex Abuse Allegations from the Public

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 01:20 AM EST

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In Lawrence, Kansas, a local newspaper is claiming that the Kansas Catholic dioceses may still be keeping information about abusive priests from the public.

The paper alleges that the dioceses are keeping their mouths shut when sex abuse is an issue.

Bishop Mixa reaffirms resignation; German bishops’ conference confirms 'secret dossier'

Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 01:11 AM EST

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A German bishop who resigned in the face of abuse charges, then threatened to rescind his resignation, has announced that he will adhere to his decision to resign, and apologized for his misconduct.

Roman Catholic Church in CT: MORE Legal Trouble

Tuesday, June 22 2010 @ 02:44 AM EST

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There was that protracted legal fight between the Bridgeport Diocese in Connecticut and the media such as THE NEW YORK TIMES. It went to the U.S. Supreme Court three times, in appeals from the Diocese to turn down the media's demand for access to the sealed documents regarding the settlement of the clergy sex abuse charges. The media won. Those documents were unsealed in December 2010.

Now, there's more legal trouble in Connecticut for the Roman Catholic Church.

LA Cardinal Tells a Grim Tale of Sex Abuse Complicity

Tuesday, June 22 2010 @ 02:15 AM EST

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By Kathleen Gilbert

LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a videotaped deposition released last Tuesday, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony admits he did not think it necessary to contact police after learning of the sex abuse perpetrated by a priest in his diocese against two boys.

Instead, Mahony transferred the priest to other locations, where the abuse could potentially continue.

Secret Mixa file details alcohol and sexual abuse

Monday, June 21 2010 @ 02:54 AM EST

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Secret documents contain serious allegations of alcoholism and sexual abuse against controversial former Augsburg bishop Walter Mixa, media reports said on Monday.

Secret file rekindles controversy over ex-bishop Mixa

Monday, June 21 2010 @ 01:15 AM EST

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A cache of secret documents alleging alcoholism and sexual abuse is the latest element to surface in the battle over the fate of conservative German Bishop Walter Mixa.

German bishops' dispute deepens; leaks of 'secret file' on bishop who resigned

Monday, June 21 2010 @ 01:12 AM EST

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An ugly dispute within the German Catholic hierarchy has grown uglier, with the multiple media references to a “secret file” on Bishop Walter Mixa, reportedly containing allegations of severe alcohol problems and resurrecting old charges of sexual abuse.

LCWR’s long-standing coverup of sexual abuse of children by nuns

Sunday, June 20 2010 @ 04:57 AM EST

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LCWR’s long-standing coverup of sexual abuse of children by nuns

The Dissenter’s Breviary, NCR, and the "magisterium of nuns", LCWR, are abusing the abuse crisis for their own ends.

Bishop urges clarity on paedophile priest

Saturday, June 19 2010 @ 01:23 PM EST

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By Stephen Crittenden and Suzanne Smith

The Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Michael Malone, says Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson needs to clarify what he knew about paedophile priest Denis McAlinden.

The diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, north of Sydney, has been the subject of a major police investigation called Strike Force Georgiana.

Bishop demands clarity in paedophile case

Friday, June 18 2010 @ 06:20 PM EST

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Reporter: Suzanne Smith

Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide should clarify what he knew about paedophile priest Denis McAlinden, says colleague.

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Mahony admits protecting abusive priest

Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 10:46 PM EST

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By Tom Roberts

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles admitted, in a deposition given in February, that he protected a priest he knew had abused children. Read USA Today's Cathy Lynn Grossman's commentary.

what they didn't know and when they didn't know it

Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 10:44 PM EST

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By Diogenes

The argument is now as familiar, as depressing—and, yes, as unhealthy-- as a bout with the flu. Cardinal Mahony said that back in the 1980s he put a predatory priest back to work (and withheld evidence of the priest’s crimes) because he didn’t know then what he knows now about the problem of sexual abuse. Honestly, your Uncle Di is tired of pointing out the absurdity of that argument.

So let me turn to Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today, who makes the obvious point:

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Deposition: LA cardinal didn't warn parishioners after priest admitted to molesting 2 boys

Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 10:59 PM EST

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By: GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony didn't call police in 1986 after a priest admitted to molesting two boys, and he didn't warn parishioners because the priest told him the children were illegal immigrants who had returned to Mexico, according to court documents released Tuesday.

New testimony sheds light on Mahony's role in notorious priest abuse case

Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 10:24 PM EST

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Testimony by Cardinal Roger Mahony made public Tuesday gives the clearest account to date of how he handled the notorious case of Father Michael Baker, who is serving a 10-year prison term for sexually abusing children.

Mahony has long said he made mistakes in allowing Baker to stay in his ministry when child-abuse allegations first surfaced in 1986.

Prosecutors investigating Germany’s top cleric

Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 08:47 AM EST

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German prosecutors are investigating allegations that the country's top Roman Catholic cleric was responsible in the 1980s for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The investigation of Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch is based solely on a complaint by a person who claims to have been abused, and the allegations haven't yet been scrutinized, Prosecutor Wolfgang Maier said.

Prosecutors investigating Germany’s top cleric

Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 02:10 AM EST

Catholic Church faces renewed questions about disclosing names of abusers

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 11:16 PM EST

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By Michael O'Malley, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio - With the Roman Catholic Church thrust into headlines again over allegations of hiding and protecting pedophile priests, the institution faces renewed scrutiny of its vow to be open and honest about clerical sex abuse.

Little girls are often the forgotten victims of priestly abuse.

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 09:11 AM EST

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Mary Ormsby is calling it the "next wave" of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal: priests molesting young girls.

In a blunt expose for The Toronto Star, Ormsby relates some harrowing instances where the church systematically hid crimes against female children from the public eye, and sheds light on the unique circumstances surrounding these other, less familiar pedophiles: In the small Ontario town of Pain Court, a French-Canadian community near Chatham, Father Charlie’s attention was prized by devout Roman Catholic families like Cecilia McLauchlin's.

Danish diocese did not alert parishoners about priest’s child porn 2005 conviction

Monday, June 07 2010 @ 08:15 AM EST

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The Catholic Church took no action against priest convicted of downloading child pornography Despite being convicted of possessing child pornography in 2005, the Catholic Church in Denmark allowed a Catholic priest to continue carrying out his duties including teaching children and young people.

In this latest scandal to rock the Danish Catholic Church, it was announced that the priest had recently been suspended, but the church did not mention the reason.

The priest was convicted of paying for and downloading 38 movies involving minors. He was sentenced to pay 6,000 kroner and his computer was confiscated.

German clerical sexual abuse, the press and weasel words.

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 09:30 AM EST

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Archbishop Robert Zollitsch - elected head of the German Bishops' Conference - is being investigated by German authorities in his archdiocesan seat of Freiburg. The most senior bishop in Germany is suspected of allowing a Cistercian priest accused of child abuse in the 1960s to be reappointed to a parish job in 1987 - twenty-three years ago.

The archbishop is reported as defending himself by saying that the appointment of the priest was up to the Cistercian order, and not under the direct control of himself as Archbishop.

Did you know about the Sex Crimes Cover-Up By Vatican?

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 09:22 AM EST

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CBS) For decades, priests in this country abused children in parish after parish while their superiors covered it all up. Now it turns out the orders for this cover up were written in Rome at the highest levels of the Vatican.

CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales has uncovered a church document kept secret for 40 years.

Cardinal accuses Vatican official of abuse cover-up

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 09:21 AM EST

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Internal Catholic Church bickering over the handling of its sexual abuse scandal has escalated to a new level, with one cardinal accusing another of a cover-up.

The accusations were leveled by Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna against Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who served for 16 years from 1990 to 2006 as secretary of state, the Vatican's second-most important position.

Britain's top Catholic 'protected' paedophile

Sunday, June 06 2010 @ 09:13 AM EST

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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales presided over a child protection system that allowed a paedophile priest to continue abusing schoolboys despite repeated complaints from victims, an investigation by The Times has discovered.

SECRETS: Kamala Harris Hides Catholic Sex Abuse Files in SF While Running for Attorney General in CA

Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 02:47 AM EST

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“SF Weekly’s attempts to obtain her office’s files on Catholic clergy abuse under the state Public Records Act suggest Harris favors concealment over transparency.”

Catholic Church fixer tells of his role in covering up clerical sex abuse

Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 02:45 AM EST

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IN one of the most riveting interviews I have heard in months, a former “fixer” for the Roman Catholic Church in the US – ex-Benedictine monk Patrick Wall – told Radio 4’s Saturday Live this morning how he had unexpectedly found himself charged with the duty of covering up clerical child abuse.

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Danish Catholic priest suspended after church 'recently learned' about child pornography case

Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 02:20 AM EST

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The Catholic Church took no action against priest convicted of downloading child pornography.

Despite being convicted of possessing child pornography in 2005, the Catholic Church in Denmark allowed a Catholic priest to continue carrying out his duties including teaching children and young people.

In this latest scandal to rock the Danish Catholic Church, it was announced that the priest had recently been suspended, but the church did not mention the reason.

More evidence the catholic church covered-up child-rape.

Saturday, June 05 2010 @ 02:01 AM EST

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In 1984, the first year of his assignment to the Boston diocese, Cardinal Bernard Law approved the transfer of Father John J. Geoghan to St. Julia's parish in Weston, Massachusetts, despite substantial evidence that Geoghan had sexually abused children during previous assignments.

Geoghan had been treated several times for molesting boys and had been removed from at least two parishes for sexually abusing children.

Head of the Catholic Church in Germany allegedly aided and abetted a child abuser

Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 03:09 AM EST

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GERMAN prosecutors revealed yesterday they are investigating claims that the head of the German Catholic Church, Robert Zollitsch, aided and abetted a known sex offender in the church.

Lawyer urges Italian bishop be charged in child abuse case

Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 02:39 AM EST

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Rome, Italy (CNN) -- A second lawyer is calling for charges to be filed against an Italian Catholic bishop for failing to report the alleged sexual abuse of minors by a Roman priest.

Fabrizio Gallo represents an alleged victim in the trial of Rev. Ruggero Conti, who is accused of molesting seven boys at a parish in Rome.

The divine act of forgiveness has cloaked decades of abuse

Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 12:34 AM EST

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By JODI DEATH

Victims of the clergy must be allowed to find peace by telling their stories.

More than a decade after they first served to shock, scandals about the mismanagement of child sexual abuse by clergy continue unabated to enter the public domain.

Priest told of abuse: woman

Wednesday, June 02 2010 @ 10:43 PM EST

Tag: australia

BY JOANNE MCCARTHY

FORMER Maitland-Newcastle priest Philip Wilson is under renewed pressure to stand down amid fresh allegations of his role in the cover-up of sexual abuse by notorious pedophile priest Denis McAlinden.

A Secrecy Fetish

Wednesday, June 02 2010 @ 10:34 PM EST

Tag: usa

By Matt Smith

District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

Was Kamala Harris merely sloppy when she failed to disclose a crime lab scandal and the criminal backgrounds of police who were trial witnesses? Or does she have a policy of "When in doubt, keep secrets"?

Abuse Cover-Ups Will Be Corrected, Says Cardinal

Tuesday, June 01 2010 @ 04:36 AM EST

Tag: italy

ROME, (Zenit.org).- If bishops in Italy have been responsible for covering up abuses committed by clergy in the past, these are mistakes that will be corrected, says the president of the Italian bishops' conference.

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco affirmed this Friday in a press conference at the closing of the 61st General Assembly of the Italian bishops.

Italian bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up

Monday, May 31 2010 @ 11:53 PM EST

Tag: italy

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ROME - The alleged victim of an Italian priest who is on trial for sex abuse has pressed charges against the bishop overseeing the accused's diocese at a court in Rome, his lawyer said Monday.

For Ireland, Visitation Day

Monday, May 31 2010 @ 02:15 AM EST

Tag: ireland

In a move that could be considered too coincidental to be a coincidence, the Holy See used this feast of the Visitation to roll out the plans for the much-expected Apostolic Visitation of the church in Ireland in the wake of the Isle's latest, most staggering wave of revelations of sex abuse by clergy and cover-up by church officials.

Italy sex abuse scandals ‘possible’

Saturday, May 29 2010 @ 03:30 AM EST

Tag: italy

It is “possible” that some cases of sexual abuse by priests have been hushed up in Italy, as they were in Ireland, a Catholic cardinal said yesterday.

If it is true “it is an error and it must be corrected,” Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco told reporters, adding that such scandals should never be allowed to happen again.

'Possible' priest abuse cover-ups in Italy

Friday, May 28 2010 @ 04:21 AM EST

Tag: italy

'Something wrong that must be corrected,' top bishop says

(ANSA) - Vatican City, May 28 - Italy's top bishop on Friday admitted there was a "possibility" that priest sex abuse cases had been covered up in Italy as they have been in other countries.

Polish priest suspended in 2008

Thursday, May 27 2010 @ 02:11 AM EST

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By BRADLEY BROOKS

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Rio de Janeiro archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that a Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a boy was suspended two years ago when the allegations against him first surfaced.

Adionel Cunha, a spokesman for the church, said a statement released last week indicating that Marcin Michal Strachanowski was suspended after his arrest was ordered last Thursday "was not clear."

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The Catholic hierarchy can heal the church by opening itself to change

Thursday, May 27 2010 @ 02:02 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Allen Rose

If you have ever driven by the papal nuncio's residence on Massachusetts Avenue, you may have seen a man standing in front who is protesting about priests who sexually abuse children. I do not know this man.

But his public protest, and the thousands of personal stories from victims, demonstrate that the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is about people who have been harmed, and about an institution that for decades attempted to pretend that no harm had occurred.

Clerical Abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland

Thursday, May 27 2010 @ 12:38 AM EST

Tag: ireland
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In this emotianal clip Michael O Brien, a child who lost his mother as a child, and his father was forced to hand him and his siblings over to be cared for by the church, speaks out about the abuse he suffered at the hands of "men of god".

I will most likely do a video on this issue in the future as it is a very serious aspect of what can happen when absolute power is handed over to religious institutuons.

Anyone who has any questions about this clip or about what happened in Ireland from the 1930's onwards leave a comment or message me.

Clergy sex victims expose abusive bishop's whereabouts

Tuesday, May 25 2010 @ 03:02 AM EST

Tag: usa

He's left treatment center and is now in DC retirement home

Group wants 20+ offending US prelates put into secure, remote facilities

SNAP also urges Vatican to investigate them and sanction the guilty ones

Self help organization also deplores Catholic hierarchy’ “continuing secrecy”

Australia archbishop: Church culture tied to abuse

Monday, May 24 2010 @ 02:11 AM EST

Tag: australia

By ROD McGUIRK (AP)

CANBERRA, Australia — The Roman Catholic Church's culture of discretion and focus on "sin and forgiveness rather than crime and punishment" were among ingrained factors that ultimately led to the child sex abuse scandal and cover-up surrounding the church today, a pre-eminent Australian bishop said Monday.

The divine act of forgiveness has cloaked decades of abuse

Monday, May 24 2010 @ 02:07 AM EST

Bishops should be naming and shaming the guilty

Sunday, May 23 2010 @ 02:43 AM EST

Tag: ireland

Last week, Sean Brady stepped forward as Ireland's ecclesiastical answer to Gordon Brown. (Not that anyone asked for one, but still.) Recently exposed for his part in the hushing up of young boys abused by Fr Brendan Smyth in the Seventies, and facing calls for his resignation, the Archbishop of Armagh promptly did a Gordon and described himself as a "wounded healer", before asking for time so that he could "pray, reflect on the Word of God, and discern the will of the Holy Spirit".

Now, as luck would have it, the Almighty seems to have come up with the answer that his representative in Armagh should stay on.

Panel: no penalties for not reporting abuses

Sunday, May 23 2010 @ 02:27 AM EST

Tag: germany

German churches, child protection agencies and officials have said that they opposed legal action against people who fail to report child abuse cases, many of them linked to Roman Catholic clergy.

“There’s general consensus amongst the table that there shouldn’t be any new penalty,” Germany’s justice minister said. “We’re thinking of the victims. They have to trust that they won’t be called by police, before they are ready.”

Corruption is never harmless, in the Church or state

Sunday, May 23 2010 @ 02:23 AM EST

Tag: australia

CORRUPTION is the most serious moral scandal of our time. Why? Because corruption is a double-edged sword, a moral evil that may turn one chump's decision to bribe, extort or otherwise abuse his power for personal gain into destruction of the very systems that order our society and make this country great.

Victims frustrated by Adelaide archbishop

Saturday, May 22 2010 @ 03:12 AM EST

Tag: australia

ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, who has been embroiled in priest sex abuse claims in New South Wales, says he had no idea of the abuse perpetrated by a colleague in his former diocese.

Archbishop Philip Wilson has told the ABC's Stateline program in South Australia that he never saw one incident of abuse. The response has done little to quell the anger of victims.

Bronwyn Herbert reports.

Victim’s challenge to Church on sex abuse

Saturday, May 22 2010 @ 02:53 AM EST

Tag: ireland

An abuse survivor has called on Archbishop Dermot Martin to reveal who are the “strong forces” in the Catholic Church preventing the truth about sex abuse from coming out.

John Ayres (53) has been on hunger strike outside the Archbishop of Dublin's official residence in Drumcondra since Monday morning at 7am. He has hung dozens of children's shoes on railings leading up to the Archbishop's Palace to draw attention to the issue.

Cracks in the wall of the curia

Friday, May 21 2010 @ 01:56 AM EST

Tag: usa

by Jason Berry on May. 20, 2010 NCR

Examining the Crisis

The Roman Curia is the Vatican bureaucracy. Most people know little about the men who run the curia. But press coverage of the clergy abuse crisis is closing in on cardinals whose blunders in the clergy abuse crisis have begun to draw criticism from other Princes of the Church.

As words fire back and forth in the press, the wall of secrecy that traditionally surrounds the curia is showing cracks.

Agencies to assess Ryan report

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 10:44 PM EST

Tag: ireland

A number of agencies are meeting in Dublin on Thursday to discuss the impact of an inquiry into child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland.

The Ryan report, which was published a year ago today, found church leaders knew sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions.

Sex Abuse Scandal Still Haunts Raleigh Diocese

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 02:52 AM EST

Tag: usa

Bishop J. Peter Sartain of the diocese of Joliet, Illinois has removed Father Jerry Simonelli from his parish due to Simonelli willingly and knowingly engaging in one of the four "sins that cry to heaven for vengeance", willful sodomy.

A 21-year-old man has accused Father Simonelli of inappropriate conduct that took place more than two years ago. The office of the DuPage County State's Attorney did not find enough evidence to warrant secular criminal charges.

Springfield bishops facing suit

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 02:38 AM EST

Tag: usa

By JACK FLYNN jflynn@repub.com

GREENFIELD - A Michigan engineer filed a lawsuit Wednesday against two Springfield bishops, claiming he was sexually assaulted by now-defrocked priest Richard R. Lavigne while living in North Adams in the 1970s.

In a complaint filed in Franklin Superior Court, Peter J. Caffrey, 47, of Chelsea, Mich., accuses Bishops Joseph F. Maguire and Thomas L. Dupre of negligence, saying they allowed him to be molested by Lavigne in 1976 and 1977.

Look Back: Bishop Dupre scandal

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 02:13 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Jennifer Colby

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - One day after his resignation, Bishop Thomas Dupre was faced with allegations of sexual abuse. He would never truly ‘face’ the allegations, because that very same day he went into hiding.

In February 2004, after nine years on the job, he unexpectedly resigned from his post, citing health reasons. The very next day, allegations surfaced that Dupre molested two men in the 1970s, when they were 12 and 16 years old. He was indicted on two counts of child rape, but prosecutors didn't pursue the charges because the statute of limitations had expired.

Website sheds light on abbey history

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 11:57 PM EST

Tag: usa

By David Unze • dunze@stcloudtimes.com

The former St. John’s Prep School student had occasionally tried to find information about the Rev. Francisco Schulte in the years since he was an altar boy at a North Carolina church where Schulte had once served.

When he did a Google search in January for Schulte, he found one of the first links was to a website started by an abuse survivor named Pat Marker.

Another case of child abuse

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 11:53 PM EST

Tag: usa

A GLARING omission in your May 14 editorial “After Hingham school errs, archdiocese makes amends’’ is that perpetrators of child abuse have once again not been held accountable by the Boston Archdiocese.

We sadly remember Cardinal Law’s practice of transferring priests who sexually abused children from parish to parish, rather than dealing directly with the problem by removing the abusing priests from the ministry and holding them accountable.

Church 'took nine years to reveal case'

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 11:31 PM EST

Tag: ireland

THE Catholic Church in Ireland waited nine years before disclosing a case of alleged child abuse, the News Letter has found.

In March 2006, then Archbishop Sean Brady stated publicly that the Church had disclosed all allegations of child sexual abuse against clergy to the police.

Claimed knowledge about pedophile priest

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 03:53 AM EST

Tag: australia

BY JOANNE MCCARTHY

ONE of the Australian Catholic Church's most recognised spokesmen, Father Brian Lucas, allegedly knew of allegations against pedophile priest Denis McAlinden prior to McAlinden's attempted secret defrocking in 1995.

Victims who contacted The Herald after investigations about the church's handling of the problem priest have claimed that Father Lucas, the current Australian Bishops Conference general secretary, met with a victim of McAlinden's at Bishop's House, Maitland, in the months before the attempted defrocking in October 1995.

Cardinal mishandled abuse case, says top church adviser

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 02:44 AM EST

Tag: ireland

PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

CATHOLIC PRIMATE Cardinal Seán Brady was wrong in his handling of 1975 child sex abuse investigations, the head of the church’s child protection watchdog said yesterday.

Ian Elliott, chief executive of the the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), also said it “would have been helpful” had the cardinal disclosed details of the matter sooner than their disclosure in newspapers last March.

John Cooney: Church needs 'forces' of child protection supremo

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 12:14 AM EST

Tag: ireland

FOR the past week Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has caused many Catholics to scratch their heads about the "strong forces" not wanting the truth to emerge about the scale of clerical child abuse.

Some have even wondered if the archbishop knows the answer to this question.

Spain struggles with new Catholic sex abuse claims

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 12:00 AM EST

Tag: spain

By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Cordoba

For almost 50 years, the Franciscan Brothers of the White Cross have run care homes across Spain, looking after the sick and the needy.

Now the Catholic order and its centre in Cordoba are the focus of allegations of sex abuse that have shocked the city.

Archbishop's handling of abuse claims challenged

Tuesday, May 18 2010 @ 01:25 PM EST

Tag: australia

By Stephen Crittenden and Suzanne Smith

The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, is coming under increasing pressure to explain what he knew about clerical sexual abuse when he was an office-holder in the NSW diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Archbishop Wilson has just been re-elected as chairman of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, and is widely tipped as a possible successor to the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, if Cardinal Pell leaves Sydney to take up a senior post in the Vatican.

Police investigate clergy abuse claims

Tuesday, May 18 2010 @ 01:16 PM EST

Tag: australia

By Liv Casben

New South Wales police are investigating complaints that Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson mishandled sexual abuse cases involving fellow clergy in the 1970s and '80s when he was a senior priest.

One of the complaints comes from a Hunter Valley man who was abused by notorious paedophile Father Jim Fletcher in a house the Archbishop lived in.

Irish Catholic Cardinal Won't Quit Over Abuse

Tuesday, May 18 2010 @ 04:00 AM EST

Tag: ireland

LONDON -- The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has indicated he will not resign following a cover-up of child abuse in the church.

Cardinal Sean Brady had said he would step down if he found that a child had been abused as a result of his managerial failures.

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