Many gay men, lesbians and their families will be feeling some smug sense of schadenfreude, after Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s admission yesterday that, yes, their was truth after all in the allegations by four (now five) priests/ former priests that he…
Sexual Abuse
Another Sexual Abuse Cloud Drifting to the Conclave
As if there were not enough scandal and controversy bubbling up to muddy the waters at next month’s conclave – there’s this: Three priests and former priest report Cardinal Keith O’Brien to Vatican over claims stretching back 33 years The…
Australian Police Probe Suicides of Church’s Sexual Abuse Victims
One of my earliest memories from primary school religion lessons is that suicide is a grievous sin, one of the worst of all. If that is so, how serious is it to be responsible for another person’s suicide? And how…
Sex abuse, Poland: National Catholic Reporter
I’ve asked the question before, and now repeat: if suicide is regarded in the Catholic Church as amongst the gravest of sins ….. then how do we judge those who drive a young person to suicide? Polish church faces demands…
Finally! Disgraced U.S. cardinal leaves Rome job Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002 over a sex-abuse scandal, has left his prestigious post in the Italian Church after turning 80, the Vatican announced…
Catholic Sexual Abuse, UK: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
In the UK, Catholic bishops for years have been congratulating themselves on their strong policies to deal with problems of sexual abuse by clergy, policies which they believed were shielding the country from the worst excesses that have plagued the…
“Clerical abusers shielded by ‘cabal’” -Dr Diarmuid Martin
The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has admitted that “a cabal” protecting clerical sex abusers may be operating at the highest levels in the Catholic Church. Dr Martin said: “There may be a cabal in Cloyne. They may have…
“Runaway bishop cannot hide from truth forever”
FR JOE McGuane speaks for most of us when he says it is time for Bishop Magee to return to Cloyne to answer criticisms outlined in the Commission of Investigation report. The continuing refusal of Bishop Magee to explain his…
The Austrian “Call to Disobedience”: Resistance to the “Banality of Evil” in the Catholic Church.
A few weeks ago, the news in the UK was dominated for a while by the extraordinary, and rapid decline in the might of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire. This has reached a climax of sorts with dramatic, full page…
Cardinal is ordered to court in pedophile sex abuse trial In a major escalation, a Philadelphia judge has ordered former Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua to testify in court in September about what he knows about child sex abuse cases in…
