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Altar boy murdered retired priest over 'sex abuse' court told

Wednesday, September 01 2010 @ 02:23 PM EST

Tag: england

An altar boy murdered a retired priest and chopped his body into pieces because he had sexually abused him, a court heard yesterday.

Christopher Hunnisett was 17 when he allegedly drowned Rev Ronald Glazebrook, 81, at the home they shared in St Leonards, East Sussex, in 2001. Hunnisett, 26, who pleads not guilty to murder, is standing trial a second time after his original conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal.

Judge bans campaign against child abuse in Wangaratta

Friday, September 03 2010 @ 08:49 PM EST

Tag: australia

A JUDGE has banned a campaign against child abuse in a country town under an unprecedented court order.

Police have removed flyers promoting White Balloon Day from the windows of pubs, shops, offices and cafes in Wangaratta.

Church supports White Balloon Day

Thursday, September 02 2010 @ 01:52 PM EST

Tag: australia

The Catholic Church will throw its support behind a national campaign against child sexual assault for the first time.

The church announced on Thursday that it would support Bravehearts' White Balloon Day campaign during Child Protection Week, September 5 to 12.

Dublin's Archbishop Martin has not discussed resignations with Pope

Thursday, September 02 2010 @ 01:50 PM EST

Tag: ireland

Irish analysts continue to scrutinize Pope Benedict’s decision not to accept the resignations of two Dublin auxiliary bishops.

The key question being asked: whether the Pope’s choice reflects a setback for Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who clearly wished for the two bishops to step down.

Irish cardinal will not resign after scandals, he says

Thursday, September 02 2010 @ 01:38 PM EST

Tag: ireland

Armagh, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has "moved on" and will not resign.

"I've moved on there, I think, and I got a lot of support in my decision," he told CNN in a rare interview.

Diocese, Vatican working to defrock priest accused of sexual abuse

Thursday, September 02 2010 @ 01:05 PM EST

Tag: vatican
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The Allentown Diocese is working with the Vatican to defrock a priest accused of sexually abusing a young woman and impregnating her after counseling her at Central Catholic High School.

The process, called laicization, removes a priest from a clerical state, diocesan spokesman Matt Kerr said Tuesday.

Priests who sin remain priests who win

Tuesday, August 31 2010 @ 05:26 PM EST

Tag: australia

The Catholic Church denied a pedophile priest sexually abused two young sisters more than a decade after the man was jailed for attacking children over a period of 50 years.

The denial came despite an earlier letter written to the girls’ parents by Cardinal George Pell, apologising for the priest’s crimes and acknowledging the findings by the church’s investigator that the cleric had raped both the children.

The latest from Sister Maureen: “The crisis continues worldwide…”

Tuesday, August 31 2010 @ 02:06 PM EST

Tag: global

The reader’s comments section of an article in America magazine carried on this blog and on the tbd edition of the NSAC News presents Sister Maureen Paul Turlish’s latest analysis–which is provided below– on the state of the disunion, dysfunction, and disarray in the Institutional Roman Catholic Church.

Catholic Church defends male-only priesthood

Monday, August 30 2010 @ 08:38 PM EST

Tag: vatican

Barring women from being Catholic priests is not the result of sexism 2,000 years ago, it's because women cannot fulfill a basic function of the priesthood, "standing in the place of Jesus," a leading British Catholic thinker argued Monday.

"This teaching is not at all a judgment on women's abilities or rights. It says something about the specific role of the priest in Catholic understanding - which is to represent Jesus, to stand in his place," argued Father Stephen Wang in a statement sent out by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales.

Church must face scrutiny for child sex abuse

Sunday, August 29 2010 @ 07:31 PM EST

Tag: australia

IT IS tempting sometimes to think that we know everything we can know about the scandal of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

After all, the issue has been loudly canvassed on and off in the media for years - most recently in 2008 when the Pope visited Australia for World Youth Day.

Diocese announces deacon's removal

Sunday, August 29 2010 @ 06:28 PM EST

Tag: usa

ALBANY -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany announced Sunday that it has removed a deacon from active ministry after determining there were reasonable grounds to believe he sexually abused a minor in the early 1990s prior to his training and ordination as a deacon.

Dramatic drop in number of Irish priest vocations

Saturday, August 28 2010 @ 07:34 PM EST

Tag: ireland

By DARA KELLY ,IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

The number of young Irish men being ordinated to the priesthood in Ireland has dropped below competing figures in England and Wales for the first time in living memory.

The plummeting number of vocations are a dramatic departure for a country that once used to export Catholic missionaries globally and provided Britain with a significant proportion of its priests.

Former MetroWest priest defrocked

Wednesday, August 25 2010 @ 04:12 PM EST

Tag: usa

By Julia Spitz/Daily News staff MetroWest Daily News

Two Catholic priests, including one who served in Framingham and Marlborough parishes in the 1990s, have been voluntarily defrocked, as much as a decade after being accused of sexual abuse.

Refusal of resignations serves to protect church

Monday, August 16 2010 @ 01:02 AM EST

Tag: ireland
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ANALYSIS: To spread responsibility for child abuse even to prelates who omitted to act against it would collapse the system, writes MARY RAFTERY

THE KEY to understanding the refusal this week of Pope Benedict XVI to accept the resignations of Dublin auxiliary bishops Ray Field and Eamonn Walsh lies in realising the scale of the trauma experienced by the Vatican in recent months.

More just if all bishops resigned - theologian

Saturday, August 14 2010 @ 01:05 AM EST

Tag: ireland

PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

A CATHOLIC theologian has suggested there would be greater justice in all of Ireland’s Catholic bishops resigning than just those Dublin auxiliary bishops named in the Murphy report.

“In a way, it would be the only fair outcome,” Prof James Mackey told The Irish Times last night. “Why pick on the ‘little fellows’?” he asked.

Charges 'credible' of priest sex abuse in Charleroi

Friday, August 13 2010 @ 03:49 AM EST

Tag: usa

A Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh review board said two allegations of sexual abuse of minors by a Washington County priest are "credible," and a Vatican disciplinary body could decide his fate.

The diocese placed the Rev. David Dzermejko, the former pastor of Mary, Mother of the Church Parish in Charleroi, on administrative leave in June 2009, when an allegation surfaced that he sexually abused a youth more than 20 years ago.

Martin didn't tell bishops of Rome's resign rebuff

Friday, August 13 2010 @ 01:42 AM EST

Tag: ireland

By John Cooney and Aine de Paor

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin did not inform other Irish bishops that he had been told by Rome of Pope Benedict's refusal to accept the resignations of two Dublin auxiliary bishops named in the Murphy Report.

The only communication of the Pope's decision to reject the resignations of Bishop Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field was directly to Dublin clergy in a private letter which he sent on Tuesday before going on holiday.

Free press central to uncovering of child sex abuse

Friday, August 13 2010 @ 01:17 AM EST

Tag: ireland

By Colin Gleeson

THE freedom of the press is vital to the workings of a democratic society and was central to uncovering the phenomenon of child sexual abuse, the Press Ombudsman John Horgan claimed yesterday.

Speaking at the Parnell Summer School at Avondale House in Co Wicklow, Prof Horgan delivered a speech outlining the importance of press freedom.

Rector and Vestry of St. David's Episcopal Church calls on Bennison to Resign

Friday, August 13 2010 @ 01:10 AM EST

Tag: usa

The rector and vestry of St. David's Episcopal Church in Wayne, PA, the largest Episcopal parish in the Diocese of Pennsylvania has called on Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison to resign. This is the second parish in the diocese to call on Bennison not to return to the diocese.

In a letter to the parish, the Rev. W. Frank Allen said, "we have sent a letter to the Bishop asking for his resignation or retirement in accordance with the conversation of Sunday morning and a previous Vestry conversation with Bishop Bennison present.

Vatican wary of resignation 'domino effect' in Rome

Thursday, August 12 2010 @ 01:53 AM EST

Tag: vatican
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ANALYSIS : The Holy See appears to have differentiated between sins of omission and sins of commission in relation to clerical sex abuse scandals, writes PADDY AGNEW

VATICAN OBSERVERS last night speculated that Pope Benedict’s decision not to accept the resignations of Dublin auxiliary bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field is an indication of a Holy See “Maginot Line” on the question of episcopal resignations in light of the clerical sex abuse scandals.

Baptist World Alliance needs common voice on clergy sex abuse

Thursday, August 12 2010 @ 01:45 AM EST

Tag: global

A prominent British Baptist minister is being held in a Virginia jail on charges of child molestation. Robert Dando, the senior minister of Worcester Park Baptist Church in suburban London, is charged with four counts of aggravated sexual battery of a victim younger than 13.

Dando previously served as executive assistant to the president of the Baptist World Alliance, David Coffey. Thus, Dando was closely connected to the highest levels of Baptist worldwide leadership.

Bishop resignations: Timeline of events

Thursday, August 12 2010 @ 01:43 AM EST

Tag: ireland

Timeline of events leading up to today's news that Pope Benedict has rejected the resignations of Auxiliary Bishops of Dublin Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field.

Child sex abuse victims want bishop to do “outreach”

Thursday, August 12 2010 @ 01:31 AM EST

Tag: usa

Serial child molesting cleric abused while at local church

Six men resolved civil lawsuit last fall in Dallas against predator priest

Despite multi-million dollar settlement, he’s never been “outed” in Oklahoma

SNAP says local Catholic officials should “aggressively seek out & help” other victims

Group begs those who “saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes” to “come forward”

Rector calls on bishop to 'sacrifice' for diocese

Wednesday, August 11 2010 @ 02:20 AM EST

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By Mary Frances Schjonberg, August 11, 2010

[Episcopal News Service]The rector of historic Christ Churchin Philadelphia is urging Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania

Bishop Charles E. Bennison to "prayerfully consider making the sacrifice of not returning" to the diocese as bishop.

In a posting on the church's website, the Rev. Timothy Safford wrote that he does not expect Bennison to follow the advice he gave him in an Aug. 8 letter.

Archdiocese invites abuse victims to September gathering for healing, advocacy

Wednesday, August 11 2010 @ 02:16 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Rick DelVecchio

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is inviting survivors of clergy abuse in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area to come together to share food, participate in a group discussion to exchange ideas and discuss individual needs and mutual concerns, including personal healing and advocacy.

Becoming an atheist? Renounce your religion online

Wednesday, August 11 2010 @ 01:36 AM EST

Tag: ireland
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The internet transformed our relationship with organised religion; it could now become its downfall. In 2009, Irish website http://Countmeout.ie caused an international stir by offering a quick, simple way to leave the catholic church.

Panorama on how Europe’s muslims, christians and jews exchange faith for freedom of speech

Bishop resignations: Timeline of events

Wednesday, August 11 2010 @ 01:21 AM EST

Tag: ireland
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Timeline of events leading up to today's news that Pope Benedict has rejected the resignations of Auxiliary Bishops of Dublin Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field.

SNAP Blasts Episcopalians On Reinstated Bishop

Tuesday, August 10 2010 @ 03:58 AM EST

Tag: usa

(RNS) Advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse have blasted the Episcopal Church for reinstating the bishop of Philadelphia who had been charged with not investigating sex abuse allegations about his brother.

A church appeals court ruled July 28 that Bishop Charles Bennison committed conduct inappropriate for a member of the clergy, but said charges against him had to be dismissed because the statute of limitations had run out.

Austrian churchgoers quit in record numbers: report

Tuesday, August 10 2010 @ 01:55 AM EST

Tag: austria

(Reuters) - A record 100,000 Austrians are expected to leave the Roman Catholic Church this year after abuse scandals which have badly damaged its image, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Sex charges against priest harmful for all bishop says

Monday, August 09 2010 @ 02:06 AM EST

Tag: canada

By Vancouver Sun

Allegations of sexual abuse against a Roman Catholic priest who spent six years working in Greater Victoria will likely have a painful ripple effect for local parishioners, Victoria's bishop said.

Father Philip Jacobs, a 60-year-old U.S. priest, has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and sexual exploitation against three children under the age of 14.

We could have done more admits Diocese Bishop after priest charged with sex offences

Monday, August 09 2010 @ 01:56 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Kyle Slavin - Saanich News

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria is determined to “see that justice gets done” over allegations of sexual abuse against a former priest that worked at two parishes in the Capital Region.

Bishop Richard Gagnon said Father Philip Jacobs – who now faces two counts of sexual assault, and one count each of sexual interference and sexual exploitation – would not have been hired based on tighter recruitment screening within the church.

Duo warns parishioners of sex abuse

Monday, August 09 2010 @ 01:50 AM EST

Tag: usa

CRYSTAL LAKE – Standing in the wind and rain for 45 minutes in front of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Sandy Stilling-Seehausen of Cary and Therese Albrecht of Steger handed out fliers about a former priest who they said lived in the area.

Stilling-Seehausen is president of Chicagoland Voice of the Faithful, and Albrecht is a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

Catholics may be sick of clerical sex abuse stories, but they can't be ignored

Sunday, August 08 2010 @ 04:25 AM EST

Tag: usa

But our desire to avoid the topic may be part of the problem. Catholics need to stand up, not shut up

We’ve received several emails and letters from readers, pleading, essentially, “Enough!” of our coverage of the clerical sex abuse crisis. One said she was “weary of the continuing barrage of information on the sexual scandal in the Church. I know that it has happened; I know that the Holy Father is doing everything in his power to respond to it. I just do not think that we need to hear so much about it.”

Bishop's response about abuse allegations disappoints victims group

Thursday, August 05 2010 @ 03:53 AM EST

Tag: usa

By STEVEN SPEARIE THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER

Springfield Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki has assured a St. Louis-based victims’ rights group that no priests with proven, admitted or credible accusations of child abuse are currently ministering in the diocese.

Paprocki also rebuffed for now a suggestion from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests that the names of child-molesting clerics be posted publicly -- on the diocese’s website, for instance.

Listecki passed up action on priest for lack of evidence

Thursday, August 05 2010 @ 03:24 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel

La Crosse Diocese spokeswoman says incident did not meet standards for review

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki determined there was not enough evidence to warrant a formal church investigation into allegations that a La Crosse priest, later charged with child pornography, had followed little boys into a water park restroom a year ago, a spokeswoman for the diocese said Thursday.

Catholic Bishops’ Control Of Irish Primary Schools

Tuesday, August 03 2010 @ 05:04 AM EST

Tag: ireland

According to the Catholic bishops, the Catholic Church in Ireland “does not see itself in the future as the sole or dominant provider of schools”.

Excuse me?

In what sense does the Catholic church provide schools apart from owning the buildings which were in any case, paid for by the State?

Missing St. Catharines bishop surfaces

Tuesday, August 03 2010 @ 04:48 AM EST

Tag: usa

Jim Rankin Staff Reporter

St. Catharines Catholics — left to wonder what became of their bishop since his sudden resignation in April — learned over the weekend that James Wingle has been in Israel on sabbatical.

Church faithful learned little else from a brief letter from Wingle, which was shared in parishes across the Diocese of St. Catharines.

Author Anne Rice 'quits' Christianity

Monday, August 02 2010 @ 05:34 AM EST

Tag: usa

"Interview with a Vampire" author Anne Rice has turned her back on Christianity after becoming troubled by recent controversies surrounding the church.

The writer, whose gothic novel inspired the hit Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise movie of the same name, has been a follower of the faith for years and released her memoir, "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession," in 2008.

Scandals have scared off new recruits, Germany's top Catholic says

Sunday, August 01 2010 @ 07:03 AM EST

Tag: germany

DPA ("EarthTimes," August 1, 2010)

Freiburg, Germany - A string of sex abuse scandals in the German Catholic church has led to a dramatic fall in the number of young men wanting to become priests, Germany's top Catholic bishop said Sunday.

Speaking to the German Press Agency dpa, Archbishop of Freiburg Robert Zollitsch, who is the Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference and thus spokesman for the church, said that the church was now suffering from a serious lack of manpower.

World waking up to extent of anti-Catholicism in the UK

Sunday, August 01 2010 @ 05:42 AM EST

Tag: england

As Lord Patten predicted the eyes of the world are turning towards the UK in the run of the Holy Father’s visit and they are making the unpleasant discovery of how wide-spread anti-Catholicism is in this country.

The major US Catholic media company, Our Sunday Visitor, has posted the comment, ‘New York Times has nothing on British Press’. John Norton writes:

Sex offender still registered on teacher website

Sunday, August 01 2010 @ 01:21 AM EST

Tag: new_zealand

By Anna Rushworth

A convicted offender is still registered on the Teachers Council website despite being convicted for molesting boys in two different schools.

Elvis Dobson Shepherd was found guilty of four indecent assault charges against two teenagers in the High Court at Palmerston North on Friday.

The offences took place while Shepherd was teaching at Hato Petera College, a Maori Catholic boarding school on Auckland's North Shore.

Authorities actively try to protect children from predators online

Sunday, August 01 2010 @ 01:02 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Ryan Marshall,

Many parents might wish they could figure out how a 13-year-old thinks, but it's part of Marc Southland's job.

A former software consultant who applied to the FBI shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Southland is a special agent in the bureau's Baltimore field office who regularly operates online, posing as a teen to investigate cases of online sexual exploitation.

German archbishop cleared of charges that he was complicit in sex abuse

Sunday, July 25 2010 @ 05:16 AM EST

Tag: germany

The German city of Konstanz concluded an investigation which addressed the claim that Archbishop Robert Zollitsch was complicit in hiring a priest known to have sexually abused children. The investigation found “no basis for criminal liability” on the part of the archbishop.

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

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:55 AM EST

Tag: italy

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

Tag: australia
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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

Tag: usa

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

Tag: australia

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

Tag: ghana

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

Tag: usa

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.

Vatican defrocks priest accused of abuse

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:05 AM EST

Tag: vatican
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Washington - Pope Benedict XVI has defrocked a United States priest accused of sexually molesting a teenage boy more than 30 years ago, the disgraced cleric's Ohio diocese said on Thursday.

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