Showing posts with label sexual abuse crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual abuse crisis. Show all posts
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...
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:
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...
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, November 5, 2019

Father Tom Doyle's Recent Lecture, "What the Sexual Abuse Phenomenon Has Done to the Catholic Church"

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I'd like to point you today to a resource Ruth Krall has told me about: as the video at the head of the posting indicates, recently, ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It's Still Going on — Cover-Up of Abuse Is Still Going on — and Catholics Know This, Do not Trust Their Bishops, and Are Withholding Money

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Since some of us recently had a discussion here about Catholics withholding donations to parishes and Catholic institutions because m...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (3)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The following is the third part of Ru...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems (2)

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility This is the second part of Ruth Krall's essay "Looking Slant: Oppressive...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse — What Language Shall We Use?

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Citrus Trees Ready for Harvest (1) This essay is the third in a series Ruth Krall has written with the title "Recapitulation: ...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   I recently had the privilege of publishing an essay by Ruth Krall ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Southern Baptist and U.S. Catholic Leaders Meet in Same Week, Both Confronting Serious Sexual Abuse Problems: A "Gender Hurricane" Results

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It's a gender hurricane out there this week. Come Holy Spirit. https://t.co/ebDdAKIsEc — Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) June 11, 2...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Ruth Krall, Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking (Part 2)

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This posting is a continuation of an essay by Ruth Krall, the first part of which I posted several days ago . As that previous postin...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Ruth Krall, Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking

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Ebola Virus Isolation Unit — A Visual Metaphor to Ponder (i) I'm very pleased to be able to share once again an outstanding essay...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Where's Solidarity When You Need It? Letting Off a Bit of Steam

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I don't need this. Today, I shared on Facebook the following statement by Rev. Andrew Foreshew-Cain from a Guardian interview p...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Benedict Undercuts Francis on Abuse Narrative: The 1960s Made Us Do It

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Pope Benedict's letter from his hideout blames the sexual revolution in the '60s for crimes against children committed on his wat...