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…
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“The Ire of Eire”: Catholic Rebellion Gathers Steam
Vatican attempts to silence its troublesome Irish priests simply draw more support for reform, and encourage unfavourable comparisons with the lethargic response to the scandals of clerical sexual abuse. Vatican authoritarianism simply feeds the tsunami of resistance building up in…
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…
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…
(Columbian) Church ordered to pay $238,000 to child abuse victims A Colombian court orders the Catholic Church to pay $238,000 as compensation to the families of two victims of a pedophile priest, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. According to El…
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…
Catholics troubled by abuse handling
Catholics troubled by abuse handling. Catholics everywhere would be troubled by the church’s handling of a serial pedophile within their ranks, says a victim of Christian Brother Robert Charles Best. The victim, speaking outside the Victorian County Court where Best…
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…
