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Saturday, September 04 2010 @ 08:48 PM EST

Marthasville woman helps victims of clergy sex abuse

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 04:50 AM EST

Tag: usa

Judy Jones runs a quiet little bed and breakfast on five wooded acres near Marthasville, but last week she jetted off to head a press conference in West Virginia in a case about a priest charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl.

As the Midwest associate director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, Jones regularly travels to Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to pass out leaflets, run support groups or appear on television.

Sinead O'Connor No Longer Alone In Church Protest

Sunday, June 20 2010 @ 04:26 AM EST

Tag: ireland

In a 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live, Sinead O'Connor sang an a cappella version of the Bob Marley song "War," but substituted the word "racism" with "child abuse" in protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

What she did at the end of the song shocked viewers: She held up a picture of Pope John Paul II and ripped it in two.

Stockton officer laid to rest

Saturday, May 15 2010 @ 12:44 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Christian Burkin

STOCKTON - When Matthew Smith was at the police academy in Sacramento, his class was polled on career goals. Some of his classmates said they'd like to be chiefs or run SWAT teams.

He later told his younger brother Pete that for a moment, the responses had made him feel inept: All he wanted to be was a good police officer.

Senator walks to Lansing to protest child abuse laws

Tuesday, May 11 2010 @ 04:12 AM EST

Tag: usa

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) -- (05/09/10) -- A state senator has put on comfortable shoes and is walking 50 miles to the state Capitol to call attention to Michigan's child abuse laws.

Democratic Sen. John Gleason left Sunday afternoon from St. Robert Church in Flushing.

Gleason said he's walking to prevent what happened to the 5-year-old grandson of one of his constituents.

Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Former Bishop Speaks Out Read more at Suite101: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: Forme

Thursday, April 29 2010 @ 09:36 PM EST

Tag: australia

The Australian Women’s Weekly Magazine reported that former Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, when he was a child, was sexually abused by a stranger.

To this day, at age 72, Bishop Robinson is filled with terror when a person approaches him from behind. In The Weekly Magazine interview, the retired Bishop stated, “Sixty years disappear in a split second. In that sense, the memory never goes away.”

Parishioners stand behind dissident priest Father James Scahill who calumniated Pope Benedict XVI

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 10:50 AM EST

Tag: usa

WWLP 22News is reporting that parishioners at Saint Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts gave dissident priest Father James Scahill a standing ovation after he gave his homily yesterday, the first since he called upon Pope Benedict XVI to step down.

Even though Fr. Scahill has calumniated the Holy Father, even though he has referred to the Mystical Body of Christ as "insidiously evil," even though he knew about Father Richard Lavigne molesting childen and didn't act on it, he has his supporters.

Local Priest Gets Support Over Controversial Remarks

Friday, April 16 2010 @ 12:14 PM EST

Tag: usa

By Ray Hershel

EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WGGB) -- A local Catholic priest who's spoken out against the church's handling of the clergy sex abuse crisis has gained some national support.

For the last eight years, the Rev. James Scahill of St. Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow has spoken out about the church hierarchy's handling of clergy sex abuse cases.

For Working to Put an End to Priest Pedophilia, Gary Bergeron Merits the BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award

Sunday, April 04 2010 @ 05:56 AM EST

BUZZFLASH WINGS OF JUSTICE AWARD

GARY BERGERON

Don't call Gary Bergeron a victim; te sees himself as a survivor, a survivor of sexual child abuse at the hands of a religious figure: in this case a priest.

His father and brother were similarly violated in the Boston Archdiocese, as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church devoted more time to protecting the priests who abused than the victims.

Martyrs Tried to Expose & Stop Gov�t Backed Child Abuse �Ops�

Thursday, April 01 2010 @ 04:28 AM EST

Last Friday, March 26, 2010, seven days before Good Friday 2010, an American Georgian former R-Senator, someone�s loving Baptist Christian grandmother named Nancy Schaefer died, so that others (little children) could live.

She was murdered yet MARTYRED her, for her work as a HUMAN RIGHTS activist exposing the horrors of government backed mass child abuse, where the CPS (& family law judges & a whole protected empire of therapists, psychologists, lawyers, etc. involved with this gone rogue gov�t child protection agency) is involved in child trafficking for the child sex crime trade.

US clergy sex abuse victims head to Europe

Monday, March 22 2010 @ 02:31 AM EST

Catholic scandal there is spreading across the continent

Hundreds of victims are coming forward in six countries

SNAP wants state probe of child sex crimes & cover ups in dioceses

Chicago woman to start confidential support group for German victims

Advocate for sex abuse victims to hold events on Guam

Thursday, March 18 2010 @ 12:43 AM EST

An official from a national support group for those who have been sexually abused in religious organizations has scheduled a visit to Guam next week.

Joelle Casteix, the volunteer Southwest Regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is scheduled to arrive March 22, according to a news release.

While here, she plans to hold confidential support group meetings and public events to draw attention to and foster an open dialogue about the issue of alleged child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Agana.

New Website Fire & Ice

Tuesday, March 16 2010 @ 02:52 AM EST

A New Website in Ireland has been created Called Fire & Ice

This website will prove to be our most important tool in our journey for justice, restoration and compensation.

Our aim is not to provide a location for survivors to air their pain and the horror of their stories. That simply does not go far enough through no fault of anyone. Airing ones pain is one thing, doing something about it is quite another. Here we aim to be proactive and positive and to bring together those people and those tools required for survivors to work together to demand their rights and to demand justice for the sake of those already harmed and for the sake of those children who will follow us.

To fight sexual abuse, wrestler Mick Foley learns the computer

Monday, March 08 2010 @ 03:36 AM EST

By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

Mick Foley (otherwise known as Mankind or Cactus Jack) is best known in the wrestling ring. But now he�s taking on a new, unlikely opponent: sexual abuse. In the last few weeks, Foley completed training as an online hotline volunteer for the Washington-based Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, or RAINN.

Sinead O'Connor attacks Catholic church

Sunday, March 07 2010 @ 02:03 AM EST

Singer Sinead O'Connor has launched an attack against the Catholic church.

Irish bishops want their followers to help compensate children sexually abused by priests. The move comes after the Dublin archdiocese was rocked in November 2009 by the release of The Murphy Commission Report, a document resulting from a
public inquiry into allegations the Vatican had hidden child abuse by its priests between 1975 to 2004.

Sinead O'Connor Rips Catholic Church Sex Scandals

Friday, March 05 2010 @ 02:03 AM EST

Irish singer Sinead O�Connor has long had problems with the Catholic church, but the latest confrontation with the Dublin archdiocese seems to merit her outrage.

O�Connor went off on church leaders, after Irish bishops asked their poor parishioners for money to pay compensation to children sexually abused by priests.

Mountaineer launches awareness campaign on child sex abuse

Sunday, February 21 2010 @ 10:42 PM EST

CHENNAI: When Sandhosh Kumar scales Mount Everest, it will be a collective victory for all who feel the need to create awareness on child sexual abuse. The 27-year-old has pledged to combine his passion for scaling peaks with the cause he feels so strongly about.

Malooly seen as forceful advocate for victims

Wednesday, February 10 2010 @ 10:58 AM EST

By Nick ColtrainThe News Journal

As an auxiliary bishop in 2002, the Rev. W. Francis Malooly helped steer the Archdiocese of Balitmore to a groundbreaking decision. It was a decision the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington would need another four year � and a priest�s arrest � to make: Publish the names of priests accused of sexual abuse.

Martin 'respects Madden decision'

Monday, January 18 2010 @ 11:39 PM EST

PATSY MCGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said he respects the decision of abuse victim Andrew Madden to formally leave the Catholic Church.

Mr Madden was the first person in Ireland to go public - in 1995 - about his abuse by a Catholic priest as a child. He was abused as an altar boy in Cabra parish in Dublin by Ivan Payne.

Ryan Report Researcher Honored Thursday

Monday, January 18 2010 @ 09:04 AM EST

The Irish publishing world will unveil on Thursday, Jan. 21, a new book by UALR -- University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- Professor Moira Maguire on the history of childhood in Ireland after the country gained independence from England in the 1920s.

Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland, published by Manchester University Press, examines how the Irish state cared for poor, illegitimate children after its war of independence with Great Britain.

John Katubi, survivor of clergy child sexual abuse, outs predator priest

Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 06:13 PM EST

John Katubi, survivor of clergy child sexual abuse, outs predator priest for the first time telling story to Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti High School principal, archdiocese of philadelphia�

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People of the Year 2009 Judge Yvonne Murphy

Thursday, December 31 2009 @ 04:29 PM EST

We always knew Judge Yvonne Murphy's report into the handling of child abuse allegations in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin over a period of nearly four decades was going to be shocking, but few could have predicted just how devastating its findings would prove to be.

Two avenging angels in Ireland

Monday, December 28 2009 @ 04:10 PM EST

By Paula Kirby

Q: What was the most important religion story of 2009?

2009 was the year in which - finally - thousands of Irish victims of child abuse on an unimaginable scale had the extent of their suffering acknowledged in the form of two reports, issued under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Sean Ryan and Judge Yvonne Murphy, respectively.

The Dublin commission: Who's Who

Friday, November 27 2009 @ 09:29 AM EST

CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor

Judge Yvonne Murphy is no stranger to the issue of child sex abuse. As a judge of the Circuit Court since April 1998, most of which she served in the Circuit Criminal Court, she presided over dozens, if not hundreds, of cases involving the abuse of children by relatives, teachers, clergy and others.

Among the cases she heard was one where the female victim of alleged incest sought to have her accused brother identified, but Judge Murphy ruled that this was not permitted by law. This ruling was later upheld by the High Court.

SNAP Leaders Respond to Latest Findings of the John Jay Study on Predator Priests

Wednesday, November 25 2009 @ 04:05 AM EST

Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP outreach director:

Now that the obvious has been re-affirmed (that pedophile priests molest girls and boys), let�s hope researchers start to focus on the real question: why do thousands of current and former church employees stay silent about clergy sex crimes and cover ups? That�s what really needs to be addressed.

US abuse victims demand right to testify vs church

Tuesday, November 03 2009 @ 07:38 AM EST

By Tom Hals

WILMINGTON, Del., Nov 2 (Reuters) - Victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Delaware will be "egregiously" harmed if they are unable to tell their stories in court, a lawyer for the alleged victims told a federal bankruptcy hearing on Monday.

SNAP Urges Openness About Sexual Abuse by Priests

Friday, October 02 2009 @ 08:37 AM EST

JEFFERSON CITY, MO (KBIA) - The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is asking victims to come forward and report their abusers. Today, SNAP met in front of Columbia's Police station to promote awareness and support for abuse victims. David Clohessy (Klossy) is SNAP's national director.

He says SNAP is here in Columbia because of the recent discovery that a convicted abuser, Father Gerry Howard, formerly worked as a teen counselor at Columbia's now closed Charter Hospital. Clohessy urges anyone with information about Howard to speak to authorities.

Taking the stand: Young sex abuse victims face tough task as witnesses

Wednesday, September 23 2009 @ 02:46 PM EST

By SANFORD J. SCHMIDT
The Telegraph

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two parts about the difficulties of prosecuting sexual abuse cases involving children.

EDWARDSVILLE - Experienced prosecutors say they would rather try a tough murder case any day than put a sexual abuse victim on the witness stand to tell about the most intimate and horrific experiences of their young lives.

In Memory of Paul Martin, Ph.D. (1946-2009)

Thursday, August 27 2009 @ 03:48 PM EST

Noted psychologist and cult expert Paul Martin, 63, passed away after an 8-month battle with leukemia on August 14, 2009.

Dr. Martin (photo right) was the founder and director of the Wellspring Retreat in Albany, Ohio; the only licensed mental health facility exclusively devoted to the rehabilitation of former cult members in the United States.

Former holy cross priest hits out at church abuse

Monday, August 24 2009 @ 05:16 PM EST

Former Holy Cross priest Father Aidan Troy has hit out at the Catholic Church from his new parish in France over the issue of clerical child abuse.

The well-known priest has called on the church to halt recruitment to the priesthood until it has addressed the issue properly.

In an interview in a Sunday newspaper yesterday. Fr Troy accused the Catholic Church of a ?wholly inadequate response? to the recent revelations over clerical child abuse.

Abused daughters' parents front campaign

Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 04:34 PM EST

By Michelle Draper

They've campaigned to meet the Pope and spoken out against horrific abuses within the Catholic Church that destroyed two of their daughters' lives.

Now Anthony and Christine Foster want to warn other parents that the "insidious" sexual abuse inflicted on two of their three young girls during primary school could happen to anyone.

The Melbourne couple, who found themselves excluded from a meeting of sexual abuse victims with Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Australia last year, are the face of a new advertising campaign warning parents to "Wise Up" to child sexual abuse.

Speak up about abuse

Thursday, June 11 2009 @ 09:04 PM EST

Credit should go to the brave survivor who came forward about the sex abuse by Fr. Thomas Crum. This is not an easy thing for a victim of clergy abuse to do. Now kids will be safer, and others may have courage to come forward, get help, and contact law enforcement.

Abuse victims march in Dublin to demand justice

Wednesday, June 10 2009 @ 09:11 PM EST

By Andras Gergely

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Survivors of rape and ritual beatings at Catholic-run schools marched silently to the Irish parliament on Wednesday, carrying children's shoes and wearing white ribbons symbolizing their lost youth.

Disclosures of floggings, slave labor and gang rape in Ireland's now defunct system of industrial and reform schools have shamed Irish people, particularly older ones who did not confront what a report last month described as endemic abuse.

HETTY LISTED AMONG WORLD'S BEST

Sunday, March 01 2009 @ 09:22 AM EST

The founder and Executive Director of BRAVEHEARTS, Hetty Johnston has been ranked alongside 70 of the world's best leaders and communicators, joining the likes of former Australian of the Year, General Peter Cosgrove OAM, in receiving the prestigous Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Award.

John Paul II Pedophile Priest in San Antonio, Texas, today

Wednesday, February 25 2009 @ 05:39 PM EST

Letter to Archbishop Gomez

Dear Archbishop Gomez:

We are men and women who were molested by clergy. We belong to a nationwide support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org). Our mission is simple: to protect the vulnerable and heal the wounded.

Church seeks to lift sex abuse claim time limit

Saturday, January 17 2009 @ 04:12 PM EST

{ Admin Note- I had to read this twice to believe it}

Michael McKenna

AUSTRALIA'S church leaders are secretly lobbying for the removal of a time limit that blocks child sex victims from suing for compensation over institutional abuse.

Child abuse cases similar yet so different

Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 04:15 AM EST

By Dr Gary Schoener
August 28, 2008 12:01am
OVER the years I have dealt with around 2000 victims of child sex abuse involving clergy.

I've assisted people in bringing complaints about all manner of religious organisations and groups - from Catholic dioceses to Anglican, Jewish organisations and Lutheran Synods.

Most people would be familiar with the US Catholic Church scandal uncovered in the Archdioscese of Boston involving a secret settlement of child molestation claims against at least 70 Catholic priests.

Grants available to fight child abuse

Wednesday, October 22 2008 @ 02:40 PM EST

News-Sun Staff Report

The Exchange Club Foundation for the Prevention of Child Abuse in Lake County has announced the distribution of $17,500 in grants this year.

Clergy-Abuse Victims Aim Protest At Hartford Archdiocese

Tuesday, October 21 2008 @ 03:18 PM EST

By ELIZABETH HAMILTON | The Hartford Courant

Clergy sex abuse victims called on Hartford Archbishop Henry Mansell Monday to use the power of his office to more aggressively protect the public from accused priests, particularly in the case of the Rev. Stephen Foley.

Send the Bishops a Message

Monday, October 20 2008 @ 03:13 PM EST

�Send the Bishops a Message� is an organization of reform-minded Catholics who are tired of the business as usual approach of the bishops.

We plan to get our message across by advocating that all Catholics withhold financial (cash, check, and credit card) donations on designated �Withholding Sundays.�

The Pope�s Visits: A Reflection On Waiting

Thursday, September 04 2008 @ 12:51 PM EST

SNAP Canada sent a statement written by Rev. Thomas Doyle who twenty years ago warned the nation's Roman Catholic bishops about the church's looming sexual abuse nightmare.

Since then, he has become a hero to the victims, speaking out on their behalf and helping them in legal cases in recent years. In doing so, Father Doyle also became a thorn in the side of the church hierarchy and was quietly removed from his job as an Air Force chaplain in a clash with his archbishop over pastoral issues.

Spreading the word about child sex abuse, a step at a time

Monday, September 01 2008 @ 01:59 AM EST

By STACEY BARCHENGER
Mail Tribune

Virginia Jones will lace up her New Balance tennis shoes, clip on her fanny pack and walk out of Ashland this morning, headed for Portland.

She and a friend are walking the almost 300 miles along Highway 99 to raise awareness of the problem of child sexual abuse.

Talking Sex and Power in the Catholic Church

Monday, August 18 2008 @ 07:27 PM EST

What might drive a committed Roman Catholic bishop to resign his office after almost 25 years and denounce his church? In the case of Geoffrey Robinson of Sydney, it was the church�s meltdown during the recent sexual abuse scandals. In the September/October issue of FOREIGN POLICY, John Allen says Robinson�s recent book about his ordeal �will keep an important conversation alive.� Now, Robinson discusses his journey from consummate insider to persona non grata.

atholic Church Sex Abuse: Tom Doyle and the Survival of the Spirit

Sunday, August 10 2008 @ 03:49 PM EST

Fr. Tom Doyle is a Catholic priest who belongs to the religious Order of Preachers, or more commonly known Dominicans. Depending on your perspective he is either a disgruntled, reviled priest or a John the Baptist-like hero who has dared to take on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church for their complicity in the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal. Those who revile him usually belong to the group who aided and abetted the sexual abuse cover-up plaguing the Catholic Church. I know Tom Doyle, consider him a friend and an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. Doyle has been a "thorn in the side" of the Catholic Church for more than two decades now. He's not a thorn because he's simply a priest. He's a problem for the hierarchy (the bishops and cardinals) because besides being a priest he is also a noted scholar. He knows canon law (church law) as well as church history.

Attorney Jeff Anderson Sues the Hell Out of Clerical Sex Abusers

Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 02:51 PM EST

St. Paul, MN: Attorney Jeff Anderson is a genuine firebrand. He has handled not hundreds, but thousands of cases on behalf of sexual abuse survivors across the US, and even outside the US over the last 25 years. �I have sued psychologists, psychiatrists, family members, movie stars, politicians, and every religious denomination you can think of including the Latter Day Saints, the Jehovah Witnesses and the Catholic Church," he says.

Investigator takes abuse cases to heart

Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 02:12 PM EST

By Edward Munger Jr. (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

County cites Gilston for his 40 years of service

MONTGOMERY COUNTY � Most children in Montgomery County don�t realize they�ve been adopted by an investigator at the Montgomery County Sheriff�s Department.

Attorney Jeff Anderson Sues the Hell Out of Clerical Sex Abusers

Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 02:32 AM EST

By Brenda Craig

St. Paul, MN: Attorney Jeff Anderson is a genuine firebrand. He has handled not hundreds, but thousands of cases on behalf of sexual abuse survivors across the US, and even outside the US over the last 25 years. "I have sued psychologists, psychiatrists, family members, movie stars, politicians, and every religious denomination you can think of including the Latter Day Saints, the Jehovah Witnesses and the Catholic Church," he says.

SA bishop's vow to care for victims

Sunday, July 20 2008 @ 09:21 PM EST

CHRIS PEPPER, MICHELE CAZZULINO in SYDNEY

ADELAIDE'S Catholic leader yesterday promised Pope Benedict XVI that the church in Australia would treat sexual abuse victims with care and compassion.

'Troublesome priest' will not be bowed

Sunday, June 15 2008 @ 07:21 AM EST

AFTER he was introduced to the crowd of nearly 200 in the conference room of the motel, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson stood up and took off his jacket.

Controversial Bishop to Speak in SF

Friday, June 13 2008 @ 07:39 AM EST

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS) - An Australian bishop with controversial ideas about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal is scheduled to speak in San Francisco Friday night, in defiance of the local Archbishop.

Catholic rebels with a cause

Thursday, June 12 2008 @ 09:25 PM EST

Former Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's work with victims puts him at odds with the church. Karin Klein hears him speak.

Bishop Criticizes Church For Response To Clergy Sexual Abuse

Wednesday, June 11 2008 @ 08:37 PM EST

Monica Dean, NBC 7/39 Reporter

SAN DIEGO --
A controversial, retired Catholic bishop from Australia spoke in San Diego Tuesday against the wishes of the local diocese.

Bishop implores Catholic church to re-examine what led to sex-abuse scandal

Wednesday, June 11 2008 @ 08:32 PM EST

BY VIK JOLLY The Orange County Register

Church official in U.S. from Australia has been asked by some here not to address subject publicly.

COSTA MESA - In a standing-room only community hall Wednesday night, a retired Australian bishop asked not to speak about the Catholic clergy sexual abuse by some American bishops outlined his theory on its causes and how to move forward.

Outspoken Catholic bishop on sex abuse holds public talk Tuesday

Monday, June 09 2008 @ 09:44 PM EST

By Onell R. Soto UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

SAN DIEGO � A Roman Catholic bishop who questions whether the church's celibacy rules have played a role in leading to childhood sexual abuse by priests is speaking in San Diego, defying church leaders.

Australian defies US church on sex abuse

Monday, June 09 2008 @ 07:31 AM EST

Duke Helfand in Los Angeles

AN AUSTRALIAN bishop has rejected demands by 12 leading Catholic bishops that he cancel a month-long tour of the US to promote his controversial book about sexual abuse by the clergy.

Australian defies bishops on book tour

Sunday, June 08 2008 @ 08:55 PM EST

Twelve Roman Catholic bishops have taken the extraordinary step of urging an Australian bishop to cancel his U.S. tour to promote his controversial new book about clergy sexual abuse.

Australian bishop calls on Catholic Church to take a serious look at sensitive issues

Saturday, June 07 2008 @ 07:44 PM EST

By Janet I. Tu Seattle Times religion reporter

After years spent listening to the stories of sexual-abuse victims and leading the Australian bishops in their response, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson started writing.

Probe on Derryn Hinch's sex offenders outburst

Tuesday, June 03 2008 @ 09:48 PM EST

OUTSPOKEN radio broadcaster Derryn Hinch was last night standing by his decision to publicly "name and shame" two serious sex offenders, despite their identities being protected by court orders.

Defying hierarchy, bishop urges change

Saturday, May 31 2008 @ 08:41 PM EST

By Michael Paulson Globe Staff

DEDHAM - He is an unlikely hero for the Catholic left: a retired Australian bishop who served for years as an aide to the very conservative cardinal-archbishop of Sydney.

Bishop Robinson confrontation leaves unfinished business

Thursday, May 29 2008 @ 10:50 PM EST

Andrew Hamilton

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church, in which he explores what he sees as the roots of abuse in the Church, continues to raise controversy.

Australian Catholic Bishop Speaks Here About Power and Sex in the Church

Sunday, May 25 2008 @ 03:30 AM EST

Controversial Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson was scheduled, as of press time for this column, to speak at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights on Tuesday, May 20, sharing his perspectives about sex and the Catholic Church.

Catholic bishop at odds with church to speak at UCSD Faculty Club

Sunday, May 25 2008 @ 03:22 AM EST

By Sandi Dolbee
UNION-TRIBUNE RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR

A retired Catholic bishop from Australia, under fire for a book expressing �profound disillusionment� over the church's handling of its clergy sexual abuse crisis, said he will continue his U.S. speaking tour � including a stop in San Diego next month � despite requests from other bishops not to do so.

A bishop speaks out on abuse

Sunday, May 25 2008 @ 03:20 AM EST

Stephen Scharper

"Sexual abuse of minors by a significant number of priests and religious, together with the attempts by many church authorities to conceal the abuse, constitute one of the ugliest stories ever to emerge from the Catholic Church. It is hard to imagine a more total contradiction of everything Jesus Christ stood for, and it would be difficult to overestimate the pervasive and lasting harm it has done to the Church."

Priest who battled removal over sex abuse allegation dies

Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 07:56 AM EST

By Associated Press

LOWELL, Mass. - A Roman Catholic priest who fought his removal from a Lowell parish because of a decades-old allegation that he sexually abused a child has died at age 70.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1094530&srvc=home&position=recent

Cardinal Mahony bars dissident Australian bisho

Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 07:24 AM EST

Los Angeles, May. 20, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has barred a controversial Australian bishop from speaking in his California archdiocese.

CONTROVERSIAL AUSTRALIAN BISHOP To Speak at St. Francis

Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 07:11 AM EST

Controversial Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson will speak at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights tonight, May 20, sharing his perspectives about sex and the Catholic Church.

Church actions show why jury award was justified

Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 07:20 AM EST

By BARBARA BLAINE and DAVID CLOHESSY

Following is a statement by Barbara Blaine and David Clohessy, leaders of the national Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a support group based in Chicago:

Nun who pressed church leaders on sex abuse dies

Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 06:46 AM EST

By RODRIQUE NGOWI

BOSTON (AP) � Sister Catherine Mulkerrin, who pressed Roman Catholic church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died. She was 73.

105 Catholic priests and brothers have been sentenced in Australian courts in Broken Rites cases regarding church sex-abuse

Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 08:42 AM EST

INTRODUCTION

Broken Rites Australia helps victims of church-related sex abuse to obtain justice. Since Broken Rites began operating its Australia-wide telephone hotline in 1993, we have received thousands of calls and emails about incidents of abuse.

From these reports, we have built up a huge database of thousands of alleged incidents. Therefore, when someone contacts us to report abuse, it is possible that the name of the alleged offender may already be on our database. A victim will find it easier to achieve justice if our database reveals previous complaints about the same alleged offender.

Catholicism�s Sex Abuse Crisis: an Australian Bishop�s rebellion

Saturday, February 02 2008 @ 08:58 AM EST

Barry Healy

Confronting Power & Sex in the Catholic Church, Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus
By Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
John Garratt Publishing 2007
307 pages, $34.95

Townsville bishop says victims more important than diocesan finances

Saturday, September 13 2003 @ 10:24 AM EST

Responding to the prospect of a huge monetary payout in a sex abuse case, Bishop Michael Putney of Townsville has said the needs of the victims remain the Church�s priority.

Father Mark Raper speaks out against the Church's handling of sexual abuse allegations

Wednesday, July 02 2003 @ 10:30 AM EST

Reporter: David Hardaker MARK COLVIN:

A leading figure in Australia's Roman Catholic Church is delivering an extraordinary mea culpa tonight. The Head of Australia's Jesuits, Father Mark Raper, has admitted that the Church has failed a man who was the victim of sexual abuse, 35 years ago.

`Lighthouse' a safe haven for victims of priest sex abuse

Wednesday, May 14 2003 @ 04:13 AM EST

Boston Herald

by Robin Washington

After more than a year of protesting the Catholic Church over the clergy sexual abuse scandal, Taunton's Phil de Albuquerque has taken his activism indoors.

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