An Italian bishop has testified in court that the did nothing to report allegations of sexual abuse against one of his priests. He did not report the allegations, of offences between 2002 and 2006, to the police or to the Vatican.
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The Buck Stops…….. Way Over There
Writing about the revelations from California of Cardinal Ratzinger’s reluctance to remove from the priesthood a convicted child molester Andrew Sullivan observed that The Pope cannot blame the local bishops this time – they desperately tried to get the priest…
Clerical Abuse, Clerical Cover-up
I have been reading Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s autobiography, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church. Weakland is the former Archbishop of Milwaukee, and former “Abbot Primate” of the global Benedictine order, who was forced to retire when news of money paid…
