Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

SNAP to Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina: Nine Names Missing from Your List of Credibly Accused Clergy Need to Be Added

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In January this year, I reported  that after the Catholic bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, Peter Jugis, and his diocese released a li...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Diocese of Charlotte and Fr. George Berthold, Hired to Teach Theology at Belmont Abbey in 1997: A Case Study in Hierarchical Duplicity and Cover-Up

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Bishop Accountability , archiving 18 May 2002 Charlotte Observer article In response to my last posting, " Now This in Diocese ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Now This in Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina: "Advocate Wants Former Belmont Abbey Priest Named as Child Sexual Abuser"

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In an article entitled, "Advocate wants former Belmont Abbey priest named as child sexual abuser," Nathan Morabito writes ,  ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Two Days Before New Year, Charlotte Diocese Releases List of Accused Clergy: "It's Incomplete, There Are Names Missing"

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Hmm. We count 43 names on the Charlotte list, not 14. Presumably to minimize the extent of the abuse, the diocese put the clerics in thr...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Footnote to My Eulogy of Carmel McEnroy: "As so Many Others Have Experienced in This Life, Her Complete Redemption Had to Wait Till the Next Life"

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Mercy Sister, Carmel McEnroy, author who captured women's role in #VaticanII , dies https://t.co/UxKj64GdVU via @ncronline @Sisters...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Recommending "The List" — Commentary on Catholic Diocese of Charlotte and Its Yet to Be Fulfilled Promise to Release List of Abusive Priests

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As I have noted in previous postings (a bibliography is appended at the end of this posting, covering the past several years), the di...
Monday, December 9, 2019

Remembering Carmel McEnroy, RSM, a Distinguished Theologian Whose Career Was Cut Short by St. Meinrad Theology School

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Mercy Sister, Carmel McEnroy, author who captured women's role in #VaticanII , dies https://t.co/UxKj64GdVU via @ncronline @Sisters...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

SNAP Holds Media Event in Charlotte: Bishop Peter Jugis Endangering Children by Refusing to List Names of Predator Priests

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An update for you about the continuing refusal of the Catholic diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, to release a list of names of predat...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests — Footnote

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An important note about the story I tell today in my blog posting linked below: even as Catholic institutions in the 1990s knew of the gro...

Belmont Abbey, Where I Met Waterloo as a Theologian, Back in News: Two Abbey Priests Who Served at the College Appear in List of Accused Priests

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Readers of this blog who have followed it for any length of time will know the story of how my career as a Catholic theologian and th...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Michael Iafrate on How Jurisdictional Mentality Protects Abusive Priests by Hiding Cross-Diocesan Connections in Lists of Abusive Priests

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This is a follow-up/companion piece to what I posted two days ago  about lists of priests credibly accused of abusing minors which ar...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

As Catholic Dioceses Release Lists of Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse of Minors, Important Things to Watch for: The Case of Arkansas

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As more and more U.S. Catholic dioceses — but not the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, which remains "one of the least tran...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Front Page News Today in Charlotte, North Carolina: "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE — The Charlotte Diocese Has Not Released Lists"

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On the front page of today's Charlotte Observer : a headline reading, "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE," with a notice that th...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Abuse of Vulnerable People and Churches: Recent Reports, from Baptists to Nuns Raped by Bishops and Priests to Jesuits to a German Princess Saving the Church

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This is a collection of reports on the abuse situation as it is unfolding in various churches now. These are all recent statements, and...
Friday, November 30, 2018

As More U.S. Catholic Diocesan Offices Are Searched by Police, Reports Continue That Lists of Abusive Priests Released by Bishops Are Incomplete

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Two days ago, I wrote ,  One bishop after another is claiming that there have not been cases of abuse in his diocese for years now,...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

When a Story About Chewing Gum Is Not About Chewing Gum: Transgender Teen Denied Communion in Charlotte, North Carolina, Catholic Church

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Was she denied Communion because she’d been chewing gum — or because she’s transgender? https://t.co/cm8rjukgYx — 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻...
Monday, January 8, 2018

Charles Pierce on How "It's Not about Race Because Nothing Ever Is about Race."

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Charles Pierce today at his "Politics" blog at Esquire , commenting on the "gerrymandered mess" the Republican-c...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Bishop William G. Curlin: Some Last Words (about Pastoral Image and Pastoral Substance)

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I don't like beating dead horses — and could not bring myself to beat a live one, either. I do think it's important to make one...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

"Bishops Like Curlin and Cardinal Law, What They Have Done Is Criminal": A Church That Wants to Be Pastoral Must Listen to Testimony of Abuse Survivors

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In a 27 April 2002 letter to the Charlotte Observer  entitled "In Eyes of Abuse Victims, Bishop Curlin Is No Hero,"* Neal E...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Remembering Bishop William G. Curlin of Charlotte As Eminently Pastoral (There's Still No Room in the Inn for You Queer Catholics) (2)

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On 22 January and 3 February 2003, Cardinal Bernard Law was deposed in Boston by attorneys representing abuse survivors. In that depo...