Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Friday, February 8, 2019

Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock Updates List of Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse of Minors

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This is another footnote to my posting two days ago entitled " As Catholic Dioceses Release Lists of Priests Credibly Accused of...

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, November 28, 2018

German Catholic Bishops on Abuse: Church Is at "Point of No Return" and Has Been Exposed as "Perpetrator Organization" — What Now?

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Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, " Bishops must open archives to 'independent experts' ":
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...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Commentary: Political Fall-Out as Catholic Bishops Face Reckoning for Covering Abuse Crimes; German Catholic Discussion of Bible and Homosexuality

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More commentary today that catches my attention, and is especially interesting when read side by side:  Patricia Miller, " I...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

As Papal Visit to Ireland Nears, More Commentary on Abuse Crimes in Church: Cover-Up Directed from "Central Command and Control, Which Is the Vatican"

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This is powerful! : Names of 796 Tuam Babies written on white sheets and brought to Galway church #Stand4Truth (via @thejournal_ie ) http...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Now This: Wuerl Withdraws from World Meeting of Families

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Now there's this: as Patsy McGarry reported several hours ago, Cardinal Wuerl has withdrawn from the World Meeting of Families: A ...

Colm O'Gorman on Wuerl as Keynote Speaker in World Meeting of Families: Will Speak on "Welfare of the Family is Decisive for the Future of the World"

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Read this. This man reappointed known serial child abusers to ministry. Cardinal Wuerl will give the keynote address in the RDS at 2.30pm ...
Friday, August 17, 2018

USCCB, Delete Your Account: Lay Catholics Respond to Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

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USCCB, delete your account. https://t.co/dkvQTJPfiO — 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) August 16, 2018

More Commentary on Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, as Vatican Sends Thoughts and Prayers

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Elizabeth Bruenig, " Evil walked the earth in Pennsylvania ": That there should be mass defrockings is obvious. That t...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Valuable Commentary on Pennsylvania Report: "Spokesperson for the Vatican Reached Wednesday Morning Said It 'Has No Comment'"

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Valuable commentary I've read in the past two days about the Pennsylvania grand jury report:
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Rita Ferrone on Responding to the McCarrick Story: "What Will the People Calling for These Investigations Do if Pope Saint John Paul II Is Implicated?"

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A statement well worth reading , which has even more weight following yesterday's release of the Pennsylvania grant jury report (...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

More Initial Impressions of Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

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More first impressions:

Initial Impressions of Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report: "They Hid It All"

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I have not yet read the Pennsylvania grand jury report. I am reading news coverage now. Here are some initial top-of-the-head responses...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Laurie Goodstein on Why the Catholic Abuse Story Remains a Story (and Minnesota Survivor Megan Peterson Files Lawsuit As Her Abuser Father Jeyapaul Is Returned to Ministry)

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Recommended: New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein's "Times Insider" report today on why the sex abuse story in th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Quote for Day: Events at McGuffey High School Are a "Reminder That Large-Scale Successes Like Those Expected with Same-Sex Marriage at the Supreme Court . . . Will Not End the Struggle for LGBTQ Acceptance"

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J. Bryan Lowder writing at Slate  about an "anti-gay day" organized by some students last week at McGuffey High School in Cla...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Gay Music Director of Parish Who Marries? Scandal; Priests Who Engage in Sexual Improprieties Sitting on Marriage Tribunals? Not So Much

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How's this for news? A headline in yesterday's Star Tribune  (Minneapolis) reads, "Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis ...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "How Could a Catholic Priest with Such a History End Up As Second in Command of a Diocese—in 2014?"

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho examines the curious case of Father Carlos Urrutigoity, who was removed by the Vatican in July from h...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Catholic News Service on Arkansas Same-Sex Marriages: "Several Marriage Licenses Were Issued"; and Pennsylvania Governor Refuses to Appeal Ruling

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It's interesting, isn't it, to read Catholic News Service's Pravda -like distortions of the truth (via National Catholic...

Marriage Equality in the U.S.: Where Things Now Stand — Overviews from the Latest News

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As Chris Morley points out in a comment here earlier today, I managed to photo-bomb the photo of the very first legal marriage license...