Showing posts with label clerical sexual abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clerical sexual abuse. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

"Pope St. John Paul II Knew about Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests and Sought to Conceal It": Pope SAINT John Paul II?

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News outlets are now reporting that Polish television broadcaster TVN24 has just aired a report stating that " Pope St. John Paul II kn...
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...
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...
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 ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

More on Catholic Leaders' Loss of Moral and Pastoral Credibility Due to Handling of Abuse Crisis: Protecting Children, Really?!

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Frank Schindler of Baltimore writes the Baltimore Sun, " Bishops show lack of interest in pedophile victims ":
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

More Commentary on Situation in French Catholic Church: "Structural 'Implosion" and Pope Francis's Mixed Record

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More commentary on the eye-popping revelation in the French Catholic church that 11 former bishops, some still sitting and others retired, ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

More Commentary from French Catholics about Abuse Story in French Church: "What we are discovering today – with horror – is a twisted system"

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Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, photo by Tom S., Wikimedia Commons As a follow-up to my two previous postings ( here and here ) about the shoc...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Reactions of Some Leading French Catholics to New Abuse Revelations in French Church: "Je suis mal"

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Graffiti on wall in Lisbon, Portugal, February 2011, showing a priest chasing children, uploaded by Milliped to Wikimedia Commons I blogged ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Former President of French Catholic Bishops' Conference, Admits to Abusing Girl in 1980s

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From Wiktionary Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard : “Thirty-five years ago, when I was a parish priest, I behaved in a reprehensible way with a yo...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Jeff Altaras, "Evil Thrives When Good People Remain Silent": Discussion of Sexual Abuse in the Mennonite Context

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I'm pleased to have the opportunity to share with Bilgrimage readers a fine statement by Jeff Altaras, commenting on the response of som...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

"Pope John Paul II Was Warned about Allegations of Sexual Impropriety by Theodore McCarrick, but Chose to Promote Him": My Response

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Joshua McElwee on Twitter Some headlines today:
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

David Clohessy of SNAP Speaking Outside Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, June 2019: How to Effect Real Change with Churches and Abuse

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I'd like to share with readers a presentation that David Clohessy of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) made in Jun...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

German Catholic Bishops on Dismal Failure of Predecessors in Nazi Period; Anne Barrett Doyle on Anniversary of Vos Estis Lux Mundi

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Writing in The Tablet  yesterday, Christa Pongratz-Lippit reports on an in-depth study the German Catholic bishops recently commissi...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

More on Forgiveness and Clergy Abuse Situation: Kaya Oakes on Need for New Understandings

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finally starting to directly reckon with how white evangelicalism taught 'forgiveness:' what it is, who it serves, how it's o...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Commentary about the New ProPublica Database of Catholic Priests Across the U.S. "Credibly Accused" of Sexual Abuse

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Ultimately @SNAPNetwork suggests that every diocese lists be made as complete as possible to protect children & give account towards...
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...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

A Reminder: Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte, North Carolina, Has Not Yet Fulfilled Promise to Release List of Accused Priests This Year

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It's now the final week of the year, and Bishop Peter Jugis of the Catholic diocese of North Carolina has not released the list of prie...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

St. John Paul II, Pray for Us! Legionaries of Christ Report Shows Maciel Abused at Least 60 Boys, Abuse Was Rife in the Order

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Sexual abuse of minors was rife among superiors of the Legionaires of Christ, with at least 60 boys abused by its founder Father Marcial M...