Showing posts with label Cardinal George Pell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cardinal George Pell. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2023

As Cardinal Pell Is Buried, He's Acclaimed a "Saint for Our Times," While Abuse Survivors and LGBTQ People Protest

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As Rod McGuirk reports , as Cardinal Pell's funeral is held today, police have refused to permit LGBTQ-rights protesters outside the Cat...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Telling Truth about Benedict's Legacy re: Clerical Sexual Abuse of Minors, and Commentary on Cardinal Pell's Legacy re: Abuse

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Adam Horowitz offers one of the best pieces of commentary  I've seen on how far too many Catholic journalists and academics have chosen ...
Friday, August 30, 2019

"George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) Is an Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Convicted Child Sex Offender": Questions We Might Ask

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Plus ça change : for people who profess to be all about taking history and tradition seriously, many self-professed Catholic conserva...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Pell Conviction in Light of Frédéric Martel's Exposé of the Gay "Parish" Inside the Vatican: Twisted Connection of Catholic Officials to Gay Community

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Comment: George Pell thought the boys would never tell. One did - and millions believe https://t.co/jiNu0Ysv2Y — The Sydney Morning Hera...
Friday, March 8, 2019

The Pell Case, the Continuing Vast Gulf Between What Francis Says re: Abuse and What Really Happens, and the Anger of Catholic People

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How many more mornings will we wake up to read of yet another cardinal convicted by a court? And yet gobs of Catholics still have their cu...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Why Blaming Gay Priests for Catholic Abuse Situation Will Not Help Anything (Plus News about Cardinal Pell, Anti-Gay Hardliner)

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As I posted my posting two days ago  with an assortment of reports about the sexual abuse of vulnerable people in Christian churches,...
Monday, November 5, 2018

"A Broad, Deep, Clerical Conspiracy" and "Bishop Accountability Has Proved a Contradiction in Terms": More Commentary

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And there's more: here's another diptych from recent commentary that I want to offer for your consideration — about a totally...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Quote for Day: Why Scott Pruitt Kept Opulent Dinner with Cimate Change Denying Cardinal Pell a Secret — "It Was a No-Brainer"

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Rachel Olding in an article entitled " Why George Pell dined with under-fire EPA's Scott Pruitt in secret ," on Cardina...

Cardinal Accused of Sex Crimes Has Secret Dinner with U.S. Official Attacking Climate Change Findings and Federalist Society Members: Where's the Punchline?

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Think about this - a leading curial cardinal, George Pell, is meeting secretly with those in the Trump administration whose main goal in l...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Pell Paints Himself as Victim: But "George Thought Men Had to Be Men and That Pansies Belonged in the Garden" — Homophobic Backdrop to Pell Story

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Pell says he's the victim of a witch hunt .
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Hot Off the Presses: Cardinal Pell Facing Criminal Charges with Multiple Complainants

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SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian police say they are charging a top Vatican cardinal with historical sexual assault offenses. — Kyle Griffin (@k...
Monday, February 29, 2016

"Spotlight" Shines Brighter, Wins Best Feature Oscar!

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Well. This is amazing news to have awakened to this morning. Even as His Eminence Cardinal George Pell was saying the following in Rom...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Call to Cardinal Pell to Come Home and Face the Music Ruffles His Eminence's Feathers

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Even in Lent we can laugh, right? Though sometimes it's through our tears.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Update on Story That Vatican's Telling Bishops They Need Not Report Abuse to Authorities: Cardinal O'Malley Issues Statement (and Where's Pope Francis?)

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Last week, I noted that it was being reported  that the Vatican is informing newly appointed bishops that they do not have an obliga...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Charles Pierce and Joelle Casteix on the Rot in the NY Archdiocese: The Sordid Story of Father Peter Miqueli and What Cardinal Dolan Knew When

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Until yesterday, the story of what's happening with Father Peter Miqueli and former USCCB president Cardinal Timothy Dolan in t...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Sensational Austrialian T.V. Interview with Peter Saunders of Papal Abuse Commission About Cardinal George Pell: "Massive Thorn in the Side of Pope Francis's Papacy"

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Last evening, "60 Minutes Australia" aired a segment about Cardinal George Pell, whom Pope Francis has brought to the Vatican t...
Friday, May 22, 2015

News in Catholic Abuse Crisis: Continued Outrage that Finn Will Ordain Seminarians, St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese Under New Criminal Investigation, Sensational Accusations Against Vatican Official Cardinal Pell

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In the area of the abuse crisis in the Catholic church, several stories and pieces of commentary in recent days that deserve attent...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: When "Pro-Life" Is Anything But — Robert Mickens Comments on National March for Life in Rome

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At National Catholic Reporter Robert Mickens comments on the American-style "pro-life" march, the National March for Life,...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Christmas Miracle Comes Early! Cardinal Pell Finds € Hundreds of Millions "Tucked Away": Catholics React

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Christmas miracles have come early this year, it seems. As Gaia Planigiani reports for New York Times  yesterday, Pope Francis's...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Massimo Faggioli on Shifting Tectonic Plates of Global Catholicism: Europe and Latin America at Forefront of New Openness, North America, Africa, and English-Speaking Catholics Determined to Resist

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Massimo Faggioli in Conversation US on how the synod on the family reveals a tectonic shift in global Catholicism, in which old alli...