Showing posts with label Tony Anatrella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Anatrella. Show all posts
Friday, January 20, 2023

Abusive Anti-Gay French Priest Tony Anatrella Sanctioned by Vatican; Survivors Say They Expected More

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" Catholic Church Tells Bishops They Are Not Obliged to Disclose Child Sex Abuse: Report ,"  Time (11/2/2016) Earlier this week, t...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Paris Archbishop Upholds Sanctions Against Vatican "Expert" on Homosexuality, Msgr. Tony Anatrella

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A tidbit of news that should not escape our notice as Vigano et al. try to stage a coup toppling Pope Francis, with overt allegations tha...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

James Alison on Homosexuality Among the Clergy, the Anatrella and McCarrick Stories, and the Trap of Clerical Dishonesty

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Someone else who understands and has recently commented on the significance of the Anatrella (and McCarrick) story for those trying t...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Bigger Picture in Sexual Abuse Stories Inside One Institution After Another: How Does Everyone Know, but Nothing Happens?

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There's a recurring pattern here, isn't there, as if each individual story — spanning different faith communities and o...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Philippe Lefebvre Explains How Anatrella Held On So Long: "If You Are Scared Yourself, You Send in the Dogs. And Anatrella Said Things That Conservative Catholics Like to Hear"

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Here's another piece of valuable commentary to which MarkWilliam has pointed us, which places the current hot attempt of those de...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Anatrella and the Homophobic Catholic Two-Step: Footnote to This Morning's Posting

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In what I posted earlier today about the Tony Anatrella story, I mentioned to you that MarkWilliam had offered to translate for us a...

Ecclesiastical Censure of Tony Anatrella: "All Those Religious Officials with Responsibility to Hear This Case in Paris and Rome Have Known the Facts about Anatrella for at Least Two Decades"

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In comments here in the past two days, Sarasi and MarkWilliam both noted that they had not seen news* of the recent censure of the infl...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Catholic Commentary re: McCarrick Doubling Down on Calls to Bar Gays from Priesthood: Why This Red-Herring Solution Is Not a Viable Solution to the Abuse Problem

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1) I see Catholic commentators on Twitter saying — all over again —in light of the McCarrick story that the solution to the abuse problem ...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Update on Story of Msgr. Tony Anatrella, Vatican "Expert" on Homosexuality: Archdiocese of Paris Sets Up Commission to Investigate Allegations

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An update for you on a story we have discussed here in the past: as I told you this past May ( here , here , and here ), news reports...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Historical Footnote to Orlando Discussions: 19 June 2013, World's Largest "Ex-Gay" Organization Exodus International Announces It's Shutting Down

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Jim Burroway reminds us that yesterday in 2013, the world's largest "ex-gay" organization, Exodus International, announ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

David Gibson and Tom Heneghan Publish Religion News Service Report about Father Tony Anatrella: "Scandal That Could Have Repercussions All the Way to the Vatican"

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An update as the week ends, on the story of Father Tony Anatrella, about which I've been keeping you posted  (and here ) as it...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Msgr. Anatrella, Vatican "Expert on Homosexuality" Accused of Molesting Patients, Now Back in News As Paris Archbishop Vingt-Trois Issues Statement

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An update to the story I told you earlier this month about allegations regarding . . . unusual . . . therapeutic methods (i.e., curi...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Cousin of John Nienstedt Reports That He Told Nienstedt of Abuse by Nienstedt's Priest-Friend, and Nienstedt Did Nothing: The Unholy Trinity of Lies, Secrets, and Silence

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The story told in the video above is one to which a valued reader of this blog alerted me yesterday. The report is from KMSP (Fox News) i...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

French Media Report Allegations That Vatican "Expert on Homosexuality" Monsignor Tony Anatrella Sexually Abused a Minor Undergoing "Reparative" Therapy

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I have seen no reports about this story in English-language media. I thought I would share it with you since 1) we've previously ...
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...
Friday, February 12, 2016

From Bad to Worse in News Of Catholic Abuse Crisis: Vatican Tells Bishops They Don't Have to Report Abuse to Authorities, Indian Bishop Places Criminally Convicted Priest in Ministry

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This week, as Carnival was in full swing in many Catholic regions of the world and as the body of Padre Pio was paraded in Rome in a glas...