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Clergy Child Molesters (179) — References/Archive/Blog • Sacked principal rehired [2010 Roman Catholic (RC) school -NEW*. Hires "enabler."] [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 13 girls (<12).] Warwick Daily News, http://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/ story/2010/12/02/sacked-abuse- principal- rehired-Toowoomba ; December 02, 2010 AUSTRALIA - THE sacked principal at the centre of the child sex abuse scandal at a Toowoomba Catholic primary school has been rehired at a in Ipswich. Yesterday families of five girls abused by former teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes reached a settlement with the 's Toowoomba to discontinue their legal proceedings. A further three girls' families are expected to settle their cases next year. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:01 PM, Dec 01, 2010 [LOOK BACK: October 2010, April 2010.] (This is the first item of Abuse Chronology: http:// www. multiline. com.au/~johnm/ ethics/ethcont179. htm , and of the Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www. - accountability.org/ abusetracker , A Blog by Kathy Shaw, for Wednesday, December 01, 2010) < < Back ^ ^ Child Wise (Australia) Irish Survivors Useful Links Parents For Megan's Law (USA 631 689 2672) Celibacy crept Non-marital REFERENCES 50 171 Overview Outreach Books "Fathers" Secrecy Petition v v Next > > Directories: Main 22 Australia 4 Esperanto Experiments Freedom Georgist Globalism Molestation 171 4 Submission 9 ^ ^ CONTENTS 1 21 Translate Links Events Books HOME v v INTENTION: A challenge to to PROTECT CHILDREN Series starts: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethicscontents.htm Visit http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/ . These are digests of and links to mass media and other coverage of clergy abuse. Get more details by clicking links. • Denied priestly , commits suicide [2010 Nov 30, Deacon Luca Seidita -NEW*, very new. Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Suicide.] Catholic Culture, http://www.catholicculture.org/ news/headlines/index. cfm?storyid=8435 , ~ Dec 01, 2010 ITALY - An Italian transitional deacon who was found unfit for priestly ordination took his own life on November 30. Luca Seidita leapt to his death from a cliff after receiving word from the Vatican that he could not be ordained a . He left behind a note saying: "I wanted to become a priest and all my life was devoted to that." Bishop Giovanni Scanavino of Orvieto denied rumors that Seidita had been judged unfit because he is homosexual. But he said that there were "some issues" involving the deacon's friends. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 PM, December 01, 2010 • $3.7 million of Catholic trust funds will be available to victims of by within Diocese of Bathurst [2010 Diocese of Bathurst -NEW*. Roman Catholic Church gets court's approval to move clergy-training trust funds into compensation for badly-trained clergy.] Times & Transcript BY KRIS MCDAVID, ~ Dec 01, 2010 BATHURST, CANADA - A judge in Miramichi has ruled that the Diocese of Bathurst can use 21 trust funds intended to train future members of the Roman Catholic priesthood in order to compensate victims of sexual abuse. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Fred Ferguson released his decision on Monday that a major portion of the church's trusts, which are valued at about $4.3-million, can be allocated to the 35 people who have come forward claiming abuse at the hands of priests. The ruling states that $1.5 million of the trust funds be retained by the church for the initial intended purpose. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 AM] • Jury finds St. Elizabeth liable for priest abuse [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Unusual. as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] CommunityPub, December 01, 2010 DOVER, Del. – A jury has found St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic parish in Wilmington liable for a former priest's sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1960s. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 1 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM priest's sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1960s. The jury awarded the victim $33 million. The jury ruled Wednesday that St. Elizabeth parish was negligent in not preventing Francis DeLuca from sexually abusing John M. Vai. The jury levied $30 million in compensatory damages for Vai against DeLuca and another $3 million in compensatory damages against St. Elizabeth's. "The legal system in Delaware works and can render justice to all survivors of childhood sexual abuse," Vai said in a statement. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:09 PM, December 01, 2010 • Attorney says only Sklba, not Archdiocese, seeks to block deposition [RCC expensive secrecy bid continues.] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, By Annysa Johnson, Dec. 1, 2010 MILWAUKEE (WI) - The lawyer for Milwaukee Richard Sklba said Wednesday that he will correct an error in a motion seeking to block a deposition of Sklba because it states that the archdiocese – and not Sklba alone – is seeking the action. The victims advocacy group SNAP, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, drew attention to the assertion after the archdiocese posted a statement on its web site clarifying what it said was errors in media reports the previous day. Among them, it said that the motion was filed by Sklba's personal attorney and not the archdiocese. In an attempt to refute that, SNAP on Wednesday disseminated a page from the motion that says: "For all the reasons stated above, the Archdiocese respectfully requests that the Court grant its motion for a protective order." Attorney Patrick W. Brennan said he sent a letter to the court today changing the reference from "the Archdiocese" to "Bishop Sklba." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:05 PM, December 01, 2010 • Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs extradited to Texas [Warren Jeffs' own religion.] Deseret News, ~ December 01, 2010 DRAPER, UTAH – Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been extradited to Texas. Utah State Prison personnel took Jeffs to the Salt Lake City International Airport early Tuesday evening. Representatives from Texas then transported him from Utah by airplane just prior to 4 p.m. The Utah Department of Corrections has received confirmation that Jeffs landed in Texas late Tuesday night, according to prison spokesman Steve Gehrke. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:03 PM, December 01, 2010 • SNAP comments on new St. Louis bishop & retiring St. Louis bishop [Claim that bishop did not tell police or the people. RCC. US $500k spent on lawyers and courts for Fr Thomas Graham.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by Barbara Dorris, outreach Director, 314 862 7688, [email protected] , ~ Dec 01, 2010 ST. LOUIS (MO) - It's tempting to assume that a newer bishop will handle clergy sex cases better than the older bishop did. But that's not always true. We urge St. Louis Catholics to be vigilant, not complacent, about the safety of kids within the church, no matter who holds the top spots in the archdiocesan hierarchy. RICE PROMOTED More than 50 St. Louis priests are proven, admitted or credibly accused child sex offenders. In none of these cases, civil or criminal, have we seen any evidence that Rice ever did anything to call police, notify parishioners, warn parents or protect kids in any way. In none of these cases, as best we can tell, did Rice ever voice any dissent with or objection to a single callous, reckless or deceptive move by his supervisors in the archdiocese. In one case, Rice testified as a character witness at a criminal trial for Fr. Thomas Graham. Graham was convicted of molesting a boy. (Later, that conviction was overturned on a technicality - the statute of limitations.) Rice stayed silent when then- Raymond Burke spent $500,000 of church funds to keep a convicted child predator free while appeals were filed on behalf of Graham. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:13 PM, December 01, 2010 • Parishioners walk out on Cardinal [? 2010 Fr Oliver Brennan*. RCC. "Child safeguarding."] The Argus, By Olivia RYAN, Wednesday December 01, 2010 NORTHERN IRELAND - ANGRY parishioners staged a 'walk-out' as Cardinal Sean Brady celebrated the installation of a new clerical team in Blackrock last weekend.

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The Argus has learned that the move was in protest against the treatment of former Parish Priest, Fr Oliver Brennan, who was removed from his ministry in August pending an investigation. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:06 PM, December 01, 2010 [LOOK BACK: August 2010] • Bisschop De Korte voelde machteloosheid [RCC] Reformatorisch Dagblad, GRONINGEN, NEDERLAND (ANP) – „Heel veel katholieke gelovigen hebben zich beschaamd gevoeld, boos en verdrietig over de verhalen die naar buiten zijn gekomen de afgelopen tijd." Dat zei bisschop Gerard de Korte woensdag, terugkijkend op het jaar waarin het ene na het andere bericht over misbruik binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk werd gepubliceerd. Ook De Korte zelf was af en toe flink geschokt. „Dat vorige week duidelijk werd dat een slachtoffer door maar liefst zeven verschillende priesters is misbruikt, dat is walgelijk. Dat is zo schaamtevol. Dan voel je machteloosheid, woede, verdriet: alle emoties door elkaar heen. Maar dat is natuurlijk maar een peulenschil bij datgene wat de slachtoffers hebben meegemaakt." De Korte omschrijft 2009 als een hectisch jaar. „En we zijn nog lang niet aan het einde", zegt de bisschop. Hij is referent is namens de Nederlandse bisschoppenconferentie over het thema seksueel misbruik. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:37 PM, December 01, 2010 • Catholic clergy member wants Archdiocese to be public in legal proceedings [Archdiocese vice- chancellor Fr James Connell, against the RC policy, asks that Bishop Richard Sklba's forthcoming statements be made public.] Superior Telegram, By Chuck Quirmbach, Public Radio, Superior Telegram WISCONSIN - An official of the Milwaukee Archdiocese says he hopes an upcoming deposition done for priest abuse lawsuits is made public, counter to what another church leader apparently wants. Father James Connell is a of two Catholic churches in Sheboygan. He's also vice-chancellor of the Milwaukee Archdiocese-- a position he describes as midway up the local church hierarchy. Connell is asking that a request to seal the upcoming deposition of Auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba be dropped. Clergy abuse victims say Sklba helped the Archdiocese cover up many cases of clergy abuse of children. Father Connell says Sklba's deposition should be made public. Connell says if the courts agree to seal Sklba's deposition, Sklba should speak up anyway. Connell says he's not worried about the Milwaukee Archdiocese punishing him for his requests. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:01 PM, December 01, 2010 • "Slachtoffers kerkmisbruik moesten niet vergoed worden" HLN, BELGIE - De kerk vond dat ze slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik niet moest vergoeden. Dat stelde Godelieve Halsberghe, de voorzitster van de voorloper van de commissie-Adriaenssens, in de bijzonders Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. De commissie hield het voor bekeken omdat ze geen antwoord meer kreeg van de kerk. Halsberghe verklaarde dat haar commissie van 2000 tot 2009 34 dossiers behandelde. Die waren allemaal verjaard, op één na. In dat ene dossier was een minderjarige betrokken en daarom werd het doorverwezen naar het gerecht. De commissie moest zowel de slachtoffers helpen in hun herstel als ongegronde verdachtmakingen voorkomen ten aanzien van pastorale werkers. Eed van kuisheid, dus geen schadevergoeding Volgens haar vonden de kerkelijke autoriteiten dat een geestelijke door het afleggen van de geloften van gehoorzaamheid, kuisheid en armoede boven degenen staan die deze eed niet hebben afgelegd en daarom noch materiële, noch morele schadevergoeding verschuldigd zijn aan hun slachtoffers. Halsberghe was het daar niet mee eens. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:34 PM, December 01, 2010 • Church to pay compo to abused girls' families [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 10yrs prison. 13 girls (<12).] ABC News, By Fidelis Rego, Dec 02, 2010 AUSTRALIA - The Catholic Church has reached an out-of-court settlement with five families whose children were abused at a Toowoomba primary school in southern Queensland. In October, Gerard Vincent Byrnes was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with parole after eight years, for abusing 13 girls during his time as a child protection officer in a Toowoomba Catholic primary school.

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Queensland Attorney-General Cameron Dick is appealing against the sentence. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 PM, December 01, 2010 • Teacher's sex victims settle with church [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 10yrs prison. 13 girls (<12).] Sydney Morning Herald, AUSTRALIA - Five families whose children were sexually assaulted by a teacher at a Queensland primary school have settled out of court with the Catholic church. The settlements were announced in a joint statement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, and the families' law firm Slater & Gordon. Gerard Vincent Byrnes, 61, pleaded guilty in April to 33 counts of indecent treatment of a child under 12, 10 counts of and one of maintaining a sexual relationship with a student. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:56 PM, December 01, 2010 • Jury grants big $30M award in Del. priest abuse [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Unusual. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] KSRO, By BEN NUCKOLS, , DELAWARE - A Delaware jury has awarded $30 million in damages to a man who claimed he was abused by a priest - a verdict that was exceptional for both the dollar value and for finding the local parish liable, not just the diocese. The lawsuit by John Vai claimed that he was abused repeatedly as a boy in the 1960s by Francis DeLuca when the former priest was a teacher at St. Elizabeth's parish in Wilmington, Del. Advocates for victims of clergy abuse said the value of the compensatory damages was the largest ever awarded in such a lawsuit in the and that a parish had never before been found liable for abuse. "It is far and away the largest single verdict in any clergy sex abuse case for compensatory damages," said Jeff Anderson, a St. Paul, Minn., attorney who has represented more than 2,000 alleged victims. "This would be a new and unprecedented outcome that I have no doubt is much needed and well-deserved and hard-fought." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 PM, December 01, 2010 • Jury finds St. Elizabeth's Parish liable for Francis DeLuca sexual abuse [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The Dialogue, By Joseph Ryan, Dialog assistant editor, DELAWARE - A County Superior Court jury has awarded John Vai $3 million in damages from St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington for the parish's negligent supervision of former priest Francis DeLuca when he was stationed at the parish. Vai also sued DeLuca, saying he had been sexually abused by the then-parish priest in the late 1960s. The jury awarded Vai $30 million in damages against DeLuca, who admitted in a deposition that he had abused Vai. The jury is scheduled to consider punitive damages in the case on Dec. 6. Bishop Malooly issued the following statement after Wednesday morning's verdict was announced: "First and foremost, I wish to convey, once again, my sincere apology to Mr. John Vai for the suffering he experienced as a child at the hands of Francis DeLuca while DeLuca was a priest for the Diocese of Wilmington. I also reiterate my apologies to anyone who suffered by priests of this diocese and I reaffirm my deep commitment to creating and sustaining a safe environment within the church for our children and youth. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:30 PM, December 01, 2010 • Defrocked priest, parish ordered to pay in sex abuse case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 1, 2010 DOVER (DE) – A jury awarded abuse survivor John Vai $30 million in damages for the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of defrocked priest Francis DeLuca today, and found that St. Elizabeth's Parish was grossly negligent in its failure to supervise DeLuca in the late 1960s, and should pay at least $3 million of that damage award. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 4 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

The $30 million award for compensatory damages was entered against DeLuca, who admitted to molesting Vai and did not appear at the month-long trial in Dover to offer any defense. But according to DeLuca's former attorney, the ex-priest has little money, so the chances of that full award being paid are next to none. The parish of St. Elizabeth's, however, is responsible for the $3 million in damages that the jury awarded based on the gross negligence of parish officials from approximately 1966 to 1968 when Vai testified he was molested more than 100 times by DeLuca, including a number of times in the St. Elizabeth's rectory. … St. Elizabeth's attorney Colleen Shields declined to comment today on the result, citing that the trial is not yet over because the jury still has to consider punitive damages. However, Krebs released a statement on behalf of Bishop W. Francis Malooly, who apologized again on behalf of the diocese to Vai and all other victims of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of priests. However, Malooly added he was "disappointed that the jury found the people of St. Elizabeth's liable for the acts of Francis DeLuca." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:47 PM, December 01, 2010 [COMMENT ON BISHOP'S STATEMENT: You are disappointed that, in your words, the "jury found the people of St. Elizabeth's liable ..." So, are YOU going to take the full responsibility, your Lordship? No, you won't. Will the priest involved pay? Won't the MONEY the diocese, presumably, has to pay come from the PEOPLE of your diocese, not from the sweat of your brow? Have you studied the actions of a bishop of a different US diocese, who scurried around paying lawyers to draw up documents to give away all the parish lands, churches, schools, halls, etc to the parish councils, so that the diocese would seem to have insufficient assets to pay the court-ordered compensation? Answer this: Does mortal sin harm the victims? Should restitution be made?] • Three groups push to open church records [2007-10. RC Franciscan leadership. Masking truth.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], - Three groups concerned about the Catholic church sex abuse crisis are petitioning California Supreme Court to make public thousands of pages of long-secret church documents about known and alleged predator priests. The organizations include a Boston-based research group called BishopAccountability.org, a Dayton- based Catholic reform group called NSAC, the National Survivors Advocacy Coalition, and a - based self help group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. In September, 25 alleged child sex abuse victims who sued the Santa Barbara-based Franciscan religious order won a court of appeals. The judges ruled in favor of releasing thousands of pages of long-secret church records about accused child molesting clerics. In 2006, the adults settled their civil cases, but only after insisting that the clerics' personnel records be made public. Over the past four years, Franciscan officials have continued to fight in court against the disclosure. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:18 PM, December 01, 2010 • Victims group to leaflet over new archbishop [RCC] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, SEATTLE (WA) – WHAT: As parishioners enter a special service for Seattle's new Catholic archbishop, clergy sex abuse victims and supporters will hand out fliers about him. The leaflets will: harshly criticize the for knowingly ordaining a sexually troubled cleric last summer who molested at least one child recently, challenge the archbishop to explain and apologize for his recklessness and secrecy, & beg anyone who saw, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes to come forward and get help WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 1:15 p.m. WHERE: Outside St. James Catholic , 804 Ninth Ave. in Seattle, WA Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:15 PM, December 01, 2010 • Seattle Archdiocese installs new archbishop [RCC] NWCN, by KING and NWCN.com Staff, ~ December 01, 2010 SEATTLE (WA) - Seattle's new archbishop officially assumed his new position Wednesday. New Seattle Catholic Archbishop J. Peter Sartain is being installed with a Mass at St. James Cathedral. Sartain replaces Archbishop Alex. J. Brunett, who retired last year at the age of 75. … But not all are happy about this appointment. Clergy sex abuse victims and supporters will also be at St. James Cathedral, handing out fliers which criticize the new archbishop for ordaining an Illinois priest last year who had been caught with pornography on his computer. The priest was later accused of molesting a boy and Sartain removed him from his position. Father Paul Magnano, a priest with Christ Our Hope Catholic Church, says the new archbishop will be http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 5 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM inheriting a church that has dealt with the sexual abuse issue. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:12 PM, December 01, 2010 • Controversial Catholic official comes to Stockton; Victims object [Cardinal Mahony] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by of Chicago, president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (312-399-4747, [email protected]) STOCKTON (CA) - It's very sad to learn of this invitation to Cardinal Mahony. And it's a very reckless move by Stockton Catholic officials. It's sad because Mahony's role in clergy sex crimes and cover ups has been very widely documented. And it's reckless because ignoring misdeeds essentially encourages more misdeeds. Every time a complicit church official is honored, it makes children less safe in the church because it discourages victims, witnesses and whistleblowers from exposing predators, warning parents and protecting kids. Giving corrupt men like Mahony praise and visibility contributes to the already strong sense of powerlessness that many who saw, suspected and suffered clergy sex crimes feel. It decreases the chances they'll find the courage and hope needed to speak up about horrific wrongs. So it basically sanctions the concealing of sexual assaults against children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:08 PM, December 01, 2010 • Verdict in DeLuca priest sex abuse case; St. E's negligent [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as diocese to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] WDEL, {with audio}, By Amy Cherry, Updated Wednesday, December 1, 2010 DOVER (DE) - The highly anticipated verdict is in, in the priest sex abuse civil suit brought by survivor, John Vai, who we're now hearing from for the first time. DeLuca has been ordered to pay damages to Vai in the amount of $30 million The jury also found St. Elizabeth's parish in Wilmington grossly negligent. They've been ordered to pay $3 million. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:05 PM, December 01, 2010 • Jury finds Del. parish liable for priest abuse [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as diocese to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] NECN, December 01, 2010 DOVER, Del. (AP) – A jury has found a Roman Catholic parish in Wilmington liable for a former priest's sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1960s and has awarded the victim $33 million. The jury ruled Wednesday that St. Elizabeth's parish was negligent in not preventing Francis DeLuca from sexually abusing John Vai. The jury levied $30 million in compensatory damages for Vai against DeLuca and another $3 million in compensatory damages against St. Elizabeth's. A hearing to consider punitive damages against the parish and DeLuca begins Monday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:03 PM, December 01, 2010 • Defrocked priest, parish ordered to pay in sex abuse case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Unusual. Parish as well as diocese to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 1, 2010 DOVER (DE) – A jury this morning ordered defrocked priest Francis Deluca to pay $30 million in damages to John Vai in his civil sex abuse case. It also found St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Parish guilty of negligence and ordered it to pay $3 million in damages. The panel deliberated for about five hours Tuesday, after hearing final instructions from Superior Court President Judge James T. Vaughn Jr. It continued deliberating this morning and reached its verdict about 11:30 a.m. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:01 PM, December 01, 2010 • OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS [RCC world hq] Vatican Information Service, - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Trenton, U.S.A., presented by Bishop John Mortimer Smith, upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop David M. O'Connell C.M. Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the archdiocese of Saint Louis, U.S.A., presented http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 6 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM by Bishop Robert J. Hermann, upon having reached the age limit. Appointed Msgr. Edward M. Rice of the clergy of the archdiocese of Saint Louis, U.S.A., director of vocations to the priesthood, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 15,451, population 2,211,707, Catholics 572,000, priests 716, permanent 262, religious 1,983). The bishop-elect was born in Saint Louis in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1987. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:52 PM, December 01, 2010 • Jim Keenan's empowering step for protecting children MN SNAP via YouTube {video}, ~ December 01, 2010 ST. PAUL (MN) - Jim Keenan and his loving family empower clergy sexual abuse survivors to protect children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:49 PM, December 01, 2010 • Teacher who failed to report abuse rehired [2010 Roman Catholic (RC) school*. Hires "enabler."] [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 13 girls (<12).] The Australian, Rosanne Barrett, From The Australian, December 02, 2010 AUSTRALIA - A TOOWOOMBA principal who was sacked after failing to report to police serious sexual abuse allegations against a teacher has been rehired. The former principal has been employed as a supply teacher at a Catholic primary school in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, to the dismay of some victims' families, who declared him derelict in his duty for not reporting the allegations. Yesterday families of five girls abused by former teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes reached a settlement with the Catholic Church's Toowoomba diocese to discontinue their legal proceedings. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:45 PM, December 01, 2010 • Benedict XVI has put the Church's penance for sex abuse at the heart of his pontificate [ B XVI (Ratzinger) says not to look away.] The Telegraph, By Damian Thompson, Last updated: December 1st, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - The controversy over condoms has overshadowed many extraordinary things Benedict XVI says in Light of the World. Earlier this week I read the book from cover to cover and it didn't change my view that the Pope is prepared to tolerate – let's put it no stronger than that – the use of condoms to prevent the spread of disease. If I'd encountered the relevant passage without warning but in context, my jaw would still have dropped open. But enough on that subject. There are other surprises. Let me offer a specific observation about Light of the World and a general one. No doubt I'll get my throat ripped out again, especially by traditionalists, but perhaps that's inevitable. Pope Benedict's interview with Peter Seewald is an unsettling document, and not just because the concept of the Supreme Pontiff "in conversation with…" is intrinsically strange. First, the specific point. The Holy Father has done more than take to heart the horrified outrage created by Catholic child abuse scandals, much of it directed at him. He has placed this crisis at the heart of his pontificate. He is aware, of course, of the malice of commentators who tried to frame him for other people's crimes, but doesn't dwell on it. He is more robust in defending Church authorities who did institute effective guidelines against abuse; he also speaks up for innocent priests and faithful burdened with collective guilt. But when Seewald throws a bunch of statistics at him demonstrating that paedophilia is statistically rare among Catholic clergy, he says: "If you look at the real statistics, that does not authorise us to look away from the problem or to minimise it." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:31 PM, December 01, 2010 • Perlitz Defense Denied Delay in Sentencing [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] The Mirror, By: Alexandria Hein, December 1, 2010 FAIRFIELD (CT) - The defense team for Douglas Perlitz was denied its plea for a delay in his sentencing by a federal judge in New Haven, Connecticut. Perlitz, 40, a Fairfield University graduate, is awaiting his Dec. 21 sentencing after confessing to sexually abusing at least one underage student at his Project Pierre Toussaint School in Haiti. The Connecticut Post reports that the defense claimed that damage from the January earthquake, a hurricane in October, the cholera outbreak and civil violence riots has prevented them from properly investigating the prosecution's claims that Perlitz abused at least 13 of his victims. They claimed that because of the above, they were not able to meet with all of the witnesses who would be able to speak in

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 7 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM favor of Perlitz. U.S. District Janet Bond Arterton said no Monday to such a request. Perlitz pled guilty to traveling from to Haiti on June 6, 2005 with the intention of engaging in sex with an underage student. It is vital to the defense to talk to those witnesses in Haiti in favor of Perlitz because he did not discredit Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristna Patel's claim that there were at least eight underage boys that he engaged in sex with, and as many as 13. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:27 PM, December 01, 2010 • Paint-By-Numbers Journalism [RCC] First Things, George Weigel, Dec 1, 2010 UNITED STATES - Press coverage of New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan's recent election as president of the United States Conference of Catholic exemplified what my colleague Meghan Clyne calls "paint-by-numbers" reporting. Like the paint-by-numbers kits that were a fad when I was a kid, paint-by-numbers journalism produces something rather childish and not very pretty. Both unhappy attributes were fully on display as the herd of independent minds tried to cope with the Dolan story, scrambling (and failing) to grasp its dynamics and meaning. The first paint-by-numbers color in this particularly childish picture was the color "surprise": It was hard to find a story that didn't peg Archbishop Dolan's election that way in the first sentence. And while there was some truth to this–the bishops overturned a long custom of electing as president the outgoing conference vice president–the real story was that a quiet, extensive, and ultimately successful campaign was mounted, often by younger bishops, to change The Way We Bishops Do Things. You might have thought exploring that dynamic was worth some ink. Evidently, it wasn't. Why? Might it have been because the Fourth Estate could not concede to having swallowed its unimaginative and rather lazy pre-election reporting, according to which USCCB Vice President Bishop Gerald Kicanas's ascension to the conference presidency was inevitable? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:23 PM, December 01, 2010 [COMMENT: But, isn't the real newsitem that neither of the bishop-candidates has ever lawfully wooed a lady, cuddled a crying baby son or daughter (or a grown-up one), cried over his family's misfortunes, and smiled at their joys? If they do not successfully guide their own households, how can they guide the congregation of God? (see 1 Timothy 3:2)] • Laatste dag om misbruik te melden bij Deetman Parool, DEN HAAG, NEDERLAND - Mensen die seksueel misbruik binnen rooms-katholieke instellingen willen melden bij de onderzoekscommissie Deetman, kunnen dat woensdag voor het laatst doen. De meldingen die worden gedaan na 1 december, gaan niet meer mee met het wetenschappelijk onderzoek. De onderzoekscommissie, bestaande uit vijf wetenschappers, ontving vanaf maart dit jaar ongeveer duizend meldingen van seksueel misbruik en fysieke mishandeling. Oud-minister Wim Deetman is voorzitter van de commissie. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:08 PM, December 01, 2010 • Léonard: "Kerk is bewust geworden van gruwel van kindermisbruik" HLN, BELGIE - "De publicatie van het rapport-Adriaensens heeft de Kerk bewust gemaakt van de gruwel die misbruikte kinderen of jongeren hebben beleefd. Een schande als men zich realiseert dat dit hen werd aangedaan door priesters of religieuzen." Dat schrijft aartsbisschop Léonard in het nieuwe nummer van Pastoralia, het beleids- en informatieblad van het aartsbisdom -Brussel. "In ons recente verleden was er geen gebrek aan schaduwzijden en beproevingen", luidt het. "In al zijn weerzinwekkende grofheid is, zoals we dat wensten, door deze onthulling van meestal oude gebruiken gerechtigheid geschied voor de slachtoffers. Ze kunnen eindelijk worden gehoord en gerespecteerd, en zo hersteld in hun waardigheid", aldus Léonard, die eraan toevoegt dat slachtoffers van recente feiten zich in de eerste plaats beter tot het gerecht wenden en niet tot het Infopunt seksueel misbruik in de Kerk. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:50 AM • Church official calls for release of documents [Brave Fr James Connell wants truth revealed.] News Buzz, By Marie Rohde, MILWAUKEE (WI) - At a press conference yesterday, Father James Connell, vice-chancellor of the Milwaukee Archdiocese, called on archdiocesan leaders to release court documents relating to the abuse of

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 8 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM children. "I am absolutely convinced that we need the truth," Connell declared. "Justice requires that the truth be known." Connell made this announcement as he stood on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at a press conference called by SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. It was startling that any priest would stand shoulder to shoulder with a group of men who have publicly said they were the victims of sexual abuse by priests as children. Even more stunning is that a top official like Connell would contradict the policy of the archdiocese, which has declined in the past to voluntarily release any documents relating to abuse of children by clergy. The chancery is the local office that maintains church law. The chancellor is Barbara Anne Cusack. While Connell, 67, is second in command, he is a priest. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:40 AM • Sexual misconduct allegations surface against former Scranton Jesuit [RCC] SCRANTON (PA) - Citizens Voice By Joe McDonald (Staff Writer) Published: December 1, 2010 Jesuit officials in Maryland are looking into allegations that a Jesuit priest with ties to Scranton Preparatory School, the University of Scranton and St. Thomas More Church in Lake Ariel sexually abused minors while in Scranton. The Maryland Province of the , in a news release, said it was seeking information about possible "abuse of minors" by the Rev. Neil McLaughlin "during his ministry in Scranton." According to Jesuit officials in Maryland, McLaughlin has "disclosed that there may be other victims of similar sexual misconduct in the Diocese of Scranton." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 AM • Lawyer asks to block or seal Sklba's deposition in clergy sex abuse case [? RCC] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE (WI) - An attorney for a key witness in the clergy sex abuse cases now pending against the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee is moving to block his deposition, or seal it if it is taken, prompting anger Tuesday by plaintiffs' attorneys and victim advocates. The release of a planned deposition of newly retired Auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba, the second in command to Milwaukee for 30 years, would expose him to "unnecessary publicity, reputational harm and prejudice," attorney Patrick W. Brennan argued in a motion filed Friday in one of the cases in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Plaintiffs' attorney Jeff Anderson, who plans to depose Sklba in January, said he would fight the motion and that it undermines ongoing negotiations to reach a settlement in the cases. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:31 AM • Jeff Anderson addresses the Survivors Australia Conference YouTube {video} AUSTRALIA - Jeff Anderson addresses the Survivors Australia Conference and speaks about how to protect children worldwide. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:28 AM • Surviving Hanukkah: Jewish Survivors of Childhood Abuse (, Emotional, Physical and Sexual Abuse) [] UNITED STATES - Hanukkah is for many a time filled with wonderful memories of rushing around to purchase gifts and cards for loved ones; of families and friends getting together, lighting the Menorah, eating potato pancakes, and singing the traditional songs. However, for survivors of childhood abuse (emotional, physical and sexual abuse), this festive time can be a time where painful memories reemerge. It is not unusual for survivors to need to make decisions about how to best keep themselves safe during the holiday: some may need to spend time with friends who understand their conflicted emotions toward the holiday, some may need to limit their time with their families, while others may not feel safe spending the holiday with family at all. Even for those who make alternate plans, there is often a sense of loss of the loving, healthy family they never had or the memories they wish they'd had. Hanukah - like other times where families traditionally get together - can be a difficult time for those who no longer have contact with family members due to the degree of dysfunction that was (and often still is) in their family. This is a time of year when a survivor may find it safer to retreat than to participate in holiday functions - the associations and memories may be too painful, too emotions too close to the surface. This is not a http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 9 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM failure or wrongdoing, but can be seen as yet another aspect of the aftermath of abuse in the family. It is important that each individual survivor finds what works best for him or her so that they can optimize their ability to stay emotionally healthy. If you decide to be with your family and are nervous about how you'd feel about it, it can be helpful for you to designate ahead of time a 'safe person' with home you can debrief afterwards or call if things get tough while with family. It is vitally important that each person be kind to themselves about the decisions they make for holiday plans. The rest of us need to respect the survivor's decisions, and to understand that they may decide not to participate in Hanukah events. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:24 AM • Mgr. Léonard : 'Geen gebrek aan schaduwzijden en beproevingen' RKnieuws MECHELEN, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - 'In ons recente verleden was er geen gebrek aan schaduwzijden en beproevingen. De publicatie van het rapport Adriaensens heeft ons bewust gemaakt van de gruwel die misbruikte kinderen of jongeren hebben beleefd. Een schandaal, een schande als men zich realiseert dat dit hun werd aangedaan door priesters of religieuzen. In al zijn weerzinwekkend grofheid is, zoals we dat wensten, door deze onthulling van meestal oude gebruiken gerechtigheid geschied voor de slachtoffers. Ze kunnen eindelijk worden gehoord en gerespecteerd, en aldus hersteld in hun waardigheid. Tegelijk hebben de bevindingen en adviezen van dit rapport ons genoopt tot nieuw overleg om nadien op gepaste wijze over te gaan tot een nieuw initiatief ten bate van de slachtoffers (Infopunt seksueel misbruik in de Kerk). Intussen herinneren we er echter nog steeds met aandrang aan dat, wanneer het recente feiten betreft – die gelukkig blijkbaar zelden voorkomen – we de misbruikte personen aanbevelen zich op de eerste plaats tot het gerecht te wenden'. Dat schrijft mgr. Leonard in het zopas verschenen nummer van Pastoralia, het beleids- en informatieblad van het aartsbisdom Mechelen-Brussel. 'Naar aanleiding hiervan heeft de pers de opheffing van het celibaat van priesters en religieuzen bepleit. Logischerwijs zou ze ook de afschaffing van het huwelijk en het samenlevingsverband moeten aanklagen vermits de meeste gevallen van seksuele mishandeling zich voordoen binnen het gezinskader en door gehuwde personen. Eigenlijk moet men noch het celibaat noch het huwelijk met de vinger wijzen, maar meer dan ooit, en hierbij rekening houdend met de menselijke zwakheid en de perverse psychologische ontwikkeling van sommigen, veeleisender en waakzaam zijn bij de voorbereiding van het huwelijk en de opleiding van de priester of vorming van kandidaten voor het religieuze leven', aldus mgr. Léonard. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:22 AM • Vrienden houden 'processie' tegen Léonard Gazet van Antwerpen, BELGIE - Vijf vrienden uit het Mechelse organiseren op woensdag 1 december een stille optocht met kaarsjes naar het aartsbisschoppelijk paleis. "Wij protesteren daarmee tegen de botte uitspraken van Léonard en tegen het misbruik van kinderen in de kerk", zegt initiatiefnemer Frank Peeters. Het comité 'Verbolgen Vlaanderen' verwacht woensdagavond om 19u zo'n 250 tot 300 sympathisanten op de Mechelse Grote Markt. Daarvoor heeft Peeters enkele weken geleden een oproep gelanceerd op de sociale netwerksite facebook. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:19 AM • Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik: Van Steenbrugge wil niet publiek antwoorden Vandaag, BELGIE - De Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik in de Kerk hoorde zopas de advocaten Walter Van Steenbrugge (foto) en Christine Mussche. Zij stonden in de jaren negentig Rik Devillé, de bezieler van Mensenrechten in de Kerk, juridisch bij in de begeleiding van slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk. Momenteel zijn ze voor een tiental slachtoffers burgerlijke partij bij de Brusselse onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy in Operatie Kelk. Ze hielpen naar eigen zeggen "tientallen slachtoffers van heel gruwelijke feiten". Daarbij ervaarden ze druk van de Kerk. "Als de kerkelijke overheden over seksueel misbruik van een priester werden geïnformeerd, dan plaatsten ze die priester eenvoudigweg over, zodat nieuw misbruik kan ontstaan", aldus Meester Mussche. "In één bepaalde zaak van een misbruikt mentaal gehandicapt meisje in West-Vlaanderen werden wij door een kerkelijke leider ontvangen, maar het gesprek leverde niet veel op. Later lazen we in een proces-verbaal dat die kerkelijke leider aan de politie had verklaard dat wij hem kwamen afpersen. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 10 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Maar er was met geen woord gerept over een schadevergoeding voor het meisje!", zo voegde Van Steenbrugge er aan toe. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:17 AM • Samenwerking slachtoffers misbruik [RCC] Omroep Gelderland, ARNHEM, NEDERLAND - Gelderse slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de Katholieke Kerk gaan samenwerken. Ze willen daardoor de gezamenlijke belangen zoals erkenning en vergoeding beter kunnen behartigen. De slachtoffers van de salesianen van Don Bosco 's Heerenberg zijn al geruime tijd verenigd in de 'Jongens van Don Rua'. Ook de slachtoffers van de jezuïeten in het Canisius College in Nijmegen hebben zich verenigd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:14 AM • Kerk bestudeert collectieve compensatie [RCC] NRC Handelsblad, Door onze redacteur Joep Dohmen, 30 nov. 2010 Rotterdam, Nederland - De leiding van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk in Nederland overweegt een collectieve regeling voor financiële genoegdoening voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. Bisschoppen en oversten van religieuze ordes en congregaties beraden zich hierover, blijkt uit documenten waarover deze krant beschikt. Ook in andere landen bestaat een dergelijke regeling, of wordt aan zo'n regeling gewerkt. Bisschoppen en oversten hebben een commissie benoemd om zich te laten adviseren over hun juridische positie „rondom genoegdoening vanwege seksueel misbruik gepleegd door mensen die werkzaam waren in de RK-Kerk". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:03 AM • Church From Below: For many, the Church "was abandoned because of the Church" [RC Church herself is the cause of her people leaving.] Chicago Catholic News, POSTED Nov/29/10 CHICAGO (IL) - In a recent column in the Catholic New World, Cardinal George wrote about the New Evangelization, a worldwide campaign to bring back to the faith the millions who have strayed away. He was certainly on target about the straying. Surveys indicate so many have abandoned Catholicism that today one in every 10 Americans is a former Catholic. But as I read the cardinal's words, I could not help but question the one and only reason he gave for the drift: Many "have rejected the faith. They live as if God did not exist. Their way of life and of thought is 'secularized' … . For secularized people it is not Jesus Christ who saves but their own resources and activities, our scientific knowledge, our sense of human progress. Self-sufficiency, of course, is the sin against the Holy Spirit." What George does not acknowledge is that for many who have fled, perhaps the majority in the last 10 years, the Catholic Church was abandoned because of the Church. An all-too-pervasive anti-gospel has compelled people to leave their Catholic heritage, not to embrace secularism or self-sufficiency but to find some peace of mind. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:59 AM • Abuse Victims Urge Testimony In Sklba Trial To Be Public [Vice-chancellor Fr James Connell wants open witnessing. RCC.] WISN, MILWAUKEE (WI) - For the first time, an active member of Milwaukee's archdiocese is urging his church to make some upcoming testimony in a priest sex abuse case public. An attorney for Bishop Richard Sklba requested Sklba's testimony be sealed in a pending priest abuse lawsuit. However, a victims' group argues hearing from Sklba will help victims and church members heal. The Rev. James Connell, the archdiocese's vice-chancellor, agrees. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM • Alleged Church Abuse Victim Bankrupt [Allegedly 33 more hidden sex abusers. RCC] Fox 9, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - There has been a surprise development in the case about a Twin Cities man who is being asked to pay more than $60,000 to the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The man, who sued the church, came forward for the first time to talk about the demand for money. Then learned the archdiocese has put the demand on hold. The Archdiocese admits priest abused a number of children over a number of years.

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The abuse allegedly happened when Jim Keenan was in the eighth grade. Unlike the others, Keenan refused to settle his suit. He says it wasn't about the money. He wanted the church to reveal the names of 33 other priests he says are documented abusers but still hidden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:54 AM • 'He's in God's hands': Priest facing child porn charges dies from liver cancer WISCONSIN - LaCrosse Tribune By ANNE JUNGEN / [email protected] lacrossetribune.com | Posted: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 A Diocese of La Crosse priest who resigned from his parish after being charged with died Tuesday morning. The Rev. Patrick Umberger, who resigned in late July as priest at St. Patrick's Catholic Parish in Onalaska, succumbed to cancer at Meadow Wood Assisted Living in La Crosse, attorney, Keith Belzer said. He was 60. John Staut, grand knight of the St. Patrick's Parish Knights of Columbus council, said Umberger had been sick and his death did not come as a surprise. "He's in God's hands," Staut said. "For everything that happens there is a reason." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:51 AM • Clergy abuse in Delaware: Deliberations continue in DeLuca trial [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as diocese to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 1, 2010 DOVER (DE) - A jury will begin a second day of deliberation today in the sex-abuse case brought by John Vai against defrocked priest Francis DeLuca and St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Parish. The panel deliberated for about five hours Tuesday, after hearing final instructions from Superior Court President Judge James T. Vaughn Jr. At about 4:30 p.m. the jury sent out a note asking what would happen if they did not reach agreement on a verdict by 5 p.m. Vaughn told the jurors that if they had not reached a verdict, they could all go home and return Wednesday morning to continue their work, and then promptly allowed the group of 12 to do just that. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:48 AM • Local man suing United Church for $2.1 million CANADA - The Daily News ERICA BAJER A 48-year-old North Kent man is suing the United Church of Canada for $2.1 million, claiming it didn't protect him from an alleged sexual predator. The man, who can't be named due to a publication ban issued in criminal court, claims he was molested for eight years by the late Rev. Robert Duthie. Duthie – who ministered at Victoria Avenue United Church in Chatham for about a decade starting in 1971 – was acquitted of sexual abuse charges against the man following a Superior Court trial in late 2008. However, the man maintains Duthie's guilt. "He introduced me to sex at the age of 11," the man said, adding the abuse continued until he was 19. "He ruined my life." The man – who shared his story of abuse under the pseudonym Jim in Tom Wilken's book Rebuilding Your House of Self-Respect: Men recovering in group from childhood sexual abuse – said he came forward about the molestation to the church years before he contacted police. He underwent prayer counselling and eventually joined Wilken's therapy group. He continues to attend counselling and said Duthie's alleged abuse, which included sexual touching and oral sex, has defined his life and tainted all of his relationships, including those with his children. "He has taken away something I can never get back," the man said. He said taking legal action is his way "to prove to the congregation who Duthie really was." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:43 AM • The One Year On and the State of the Irish Catholic Church: Does it Matter? IRELAND - Slugger O'Toole, Gladys Ganiel, Tue 30 November 2010 The one year anniversary of the Murphy Report was 26 November. It's been a year of almost unremitting crisis for the Irish Catholic Church, as revelations about the scale of sexual abuse in the church – and the collusion of church and state authorities to keep it behind closed doors – have shocked almost everyone on this island. This year has seen a stream of stories in the media about particular cases. These have included: The dismay of victims and survivors at the public statements of church authorities regarding the abuse,

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Cardinal Sean Brady and 'covering up' for , The Easter protest at Dublin's Pro Cathedral Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM • Former CCD teacher pleads guilty to sex assault of teen LITCHFIELD (CT) The Register Citizen By CHRIS RUELI LITCHFIELD – A former religious education teacher who befriended one of his students and then allegedly molested him appeared in Litchfield Superior Court on Tuesday. For nearly a year, former religion teacher David G. Stanco allegedly molested a 15-year-old at his Thomaston home, touching the boy while in a hot tub and performing oral sex on him in the suspect's bedroom, according to an arrest warrant. In court, Stanco pleaded guilty to second-degree as well as risk of injury to a minor. He entered this plea because he is, in fact, guilty, the defendant revealed as Judge James P. Ginocchio canvassed him. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:36 AM

• Jesuit Priest Accused of Decades-Old Abuse SCRANTON (PA) MSNBC SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY- A credible allegation has surfaced, according to the Jesuit Order of Priests, concerning Rev. Fr. Neil McLaughlin, an 82-year-old priest who taught at Scranton Prep from 1961 to 1983 and 1985 to 1986. McLaughlin was also a weekend assistant at various across the Diocese of Scranton (see list below).According to a statement on the diocese' website, "The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus is seeking information about possible abuse of minors by one its members, Neil McLaughlin, S.J., during his ministry in Scranton. This inquiry is being made as a result of information about possible victims in the Scranton area which has been received and because the Province has received a credible allegation from an adult woman who contacted the Jesuits in 2008 regarding an abusive incident she suffered as a young girl in Scranton in 1963. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:33 AM

• Possible victims of priest sought SCRANTON (PA) The Times Leader By Mark Guydish [email protected] Education Reporter Who to call Those with information about possible abuse by Neil McLaughlin are asked to call the Maryland Province at 443-921-1326. SCRANTON – The Diocese of Scranton issued a notice Tuesday stating the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus – the Jesuits – is seeking any information from possible victims abused as minors by one of the Society's priests. Jesuit priests who serve within the 11-county diocese do not answer to the bishop, but to their province. The priest in question, Neil McLaughlin, was ordained in 1959 and served in Scranton for much of his religious career. He taught at Scranton Preparatory School 1961-83 and 1985-86, and held several posts at The University of Scranton from 1985 through 2006. He also helped out at area churches when needed. The diocesan notice said the Maryland Province has received "a credible allegation from an adult woman who contacted the Jesuits in 2008 regarding an abusive incident she suffered as a young girl in Scranton in 1963." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM • Mahony to visit Stockton Sunday [RCC honouring Cardinal ] [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony.] The Modesto Bee, Buzz up! By Sue Nowicki, [email protected] , STOCKTON (CA) - More than 10,000 people from parishes throughout the Stockton Diocese are expected to participate in the 30th annual procession honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe on Sunday. Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Diocese will be among them, invited because he began the event 30 years ago when he was the bishop there. He and Bishop will celebrate the Mass – mostly in Spanish with some English prayers and readings – at the Stockton Arena after the procession. … http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 13 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

But in the past decade, Mahony's work has been overshadowed by the priest sex abuse scandals in the Stockton, Fresno and Los Angeles . He was deposed, for example, in lawsuits over the notorious pedophile ex-priest Oliver O'Grady, who still plagues the Stockton Diocese. And he agreed to pay $660 million from the Los Angeles Diocese in 2007 to 508 people who said they had been abused by priests or other church employees. It was the largest settlement of such cases in the country. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:24 AM • From , new words on the clergy abuse crisis Catholic December 1st, 2010 VATICAN CITY - On Nov. 19, the eve of the third cardinals' assembly of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI, 150 cardinals and 24 cardinals-designate met to discuss five issues affecting the global church, including the abuse crisis. Cardinal , prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the Vatican is preparing a document for all bishops' conferences offering guidelines for a "coordinated and effective program" of child protection and for dealing with allegations of clerical sexual abuse. The cardinal "made some observations about the greater responsibility of bishops for safeguarding the faithful entrusted to them," said a Vatican statement issued after the meeting. The statement said bishops should be "inspired by the words" of Pope Benedict and the way he has listened to victims of sexual abuse during his meetings with them. Cardinal Levada also spoke about "collaboration with civil authorities and the need for an effective commitment to protecting children and young people and for an attentive selection and formation of future priests and religious," the statement said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:21 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Wed December 01, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 02, 2010 edition: • Jury Awards Priest Abuse Victim $30 Million [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] Wall Street Journal, By Rachel Feintzeig, December 02, 2010 DELAWARE - A $30 million award for a victim of clergy sexual abuse could change the tide in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's bankruptcy case. A Delaware jury Wednesday found former priest Francis DeLuca and St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic parish liable for the damages, with St. Elizabeth's negligence costing it at least $3 million, according to the News Journal. Abuse survivor John M. Vai, who was molested as a teenager during the 1960s, could see even more funds after the jury considers possible punitive damages following additional testimony next week. While the Wilmington diocese was shielded from the trial, the decision could have an impact on the sex abuse cases that are tied up in bankruptcy court, the News Journal reported. Experts told the Delaware newspaper that the Superior Court ruling could bring parties in the Chapter 11 proceedings back to the negotiating table, after court-appointed mediation reached an impasse in early September. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:55 PM, December 02, 2010 • 'Kerk verstopt dossiers op geheime plek' Het Nieuwsblad, ~ December 02, 2010 BELGIE - Godelieve Halsberghe, de oud-voorzitster van de kerkelijke commissie misbruik, getuigde gisteren in de Kamer over felle tegenwerking en verborgen pedofiliedossiers. Haar opvolger, Peter Adriaenssens, vertelde een heel ander verhaal. Het is een publiek geheim dat de Brusselse onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy eind juni overging tot de spectaculaire Operatie Kelk na verklaringen van Godelieve Halsberghe. De eremagistrate had tegenover speurders gezegd dat kardinaal zware pedofiliedossiers verborgen hield in de crypte van de Sint-Romboutskathedraal in Mechelen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:59 PM, December 02, 2010 • SNAP Goes After Bishop Edward Rice

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Berger's Beat, Author: Jerry Berger | December 2nd, 2010 ST. LOUIS (MO) - New St. Louis Bishop Edward Rice joins a remarkably small circle of Catholic who are in an elite, if uncomfortable circle, those who have actually had to testify in open court in a clergy abuse case. In 2005, then Father Rice was a character witness for the Rev. Thomas Graham who was on trial in a St. Louis city jury trial, presided over by Judge Angela Turner Quigless. Despite Father Rice's testimony, Graham was deemed guilty, though the verdict was later overturned when another court ruled that the law under which Graham was charged was unconstitutional. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:53 PM, December 02, 2010 • Diocese: La Crosse Priest Umberger Did Nothing Illegal WHBL LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN (WTAQ) - The La Crosse Catholic Diocese says it has no evidence that a priest who died Tuesday did anything illegal, despite facing child pornography charges. And the church hoped people will be, "merciful in their judgments" about Patrick Umberger. The 60-year-old Umberger died at an assisted living center in La Crosse from cancer. He was awaiting a trial after pleading innocent to a felony charge of possessing child porn. Umberger was charged in July after state Justice agents found 3 graphic images of nearly-nude children on his computer. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:49 PM, December 02, 2010 • Church defends rehiring sacked principal [2010 Roman Catholic (RC) school*. Hires "enabler."] [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 13 girls (<12).] ABC - PM, AUSTRALIA - MARK COLVIN: In Queensland, the Catholic Church is standing by its decision to rehire a Principal sacked for failing to report sexual abuse allegations to police. Brisbane Catholic Education says the man's new role is entirely different, but the families of the 13 children abused at a Toowoomba school say they're disappointed by the move. The Church has been reaching mediated settlements with some of the children's families. Annie Guest reports from Brisbane. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:44 PM, December 02, 2010 • Wikileaks/ Lo scrittore Ennio montesi: perché non si parla del Vaticano? Affaritaliani, 17:48, Giovedí 02.Dec.2010 Lo scrittore Ennio Montesi si rivolge a Julian Assange sui documenti segreti dei Nunzi Apostolici e dello IOR ITALIA - "Chiedo a Julian Assange perché il suo gruppo WikiLeaks non abbia pubblicato i documenti riguardanti lo Stato dittatoriale extracomunitario del Vaticano". La domanda ad Assange arriva in una nota dallo scrittore Ennio Montesi il quale recentemente ha chiesto asilo politico al governo della Svezia. "Dove sono i documenti segreti relativi ai carteggi tra i Nunzi Apostolici, cioè tra le ambasciate del Vaticano, presenti nei vari paesi, i rapporti con le diplomazie ed i governi di tutto il mondo? Dove sono i documenti riservatissimi della banca offshore IOR, Istituto Opere Religiose, la più grande banca offshore appartenente allo Stato del Vaticano? Dove sono i rapporti confidenziali sulla politica interna ed estera redatti dall'efficientissimo servizio segreto denominato Santa Alleanza conosciuto con il nome di "Entità" e del servizio di controspionaggio denominato SP, Sodalitium Pianum, organizzazioni di intelligence facenti entrambi capo allo Stato del Vaticano, esattamente a Joseph Ratzinger e alla sua camarilla? Dove sono i documenti riguardanti gli innumerevoli crimini perpetrati dai preti pedofili della Chiesa cattolica e dello Stato del Vaticano presenti nelle varie nazioni, relativi o riconducibili al documento segreto , per i quali le famiglie dei bambini abusati sessualmente dai preti hanno ottenuto e stanno richiedendo risarcimenti milionari per i danni subiti soprattutto negli Stati Uniti e in Europa?", conclude Ennio Montesi. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:41 PM, December 02, 2010 • Wikileaks' Vatican cables involve national security, intelligence and religious freedom issues

Catholic News Agency, By Kevin J. Jones, Staff Writer, 03:43 pm, Dec 2, 2010 D.C., / (CNA/EWTN News).- The ongoing Wikileaks "Cablegate" project could result in the release of more than 800 U.S. diplomatic cables involving the Vatican. According to an exclusive analysis of preliminary data conducted by Catholic News Agency, many of the

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 15 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM cables, which span a nine-year period from 2001-2010, concern human rights and religious freedom issues. However, more than 50 of the cables reputedly originating from the U.S. Embassy to the concern intelligence issues, and another five involve national security issues Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:36 PM, December 02, 2010 • Diocese of Winona's Notice of Taxation ST. PAUL (MN) - County of Ramsey, District Court, Second Judicial Circuit; November 24, 2010 In John Doe 76C v. Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Please take notice, that application will be made pursuant to Rule 54.04 of the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure to the Court Administrator at the Ramsey County Courthouse, 600 Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, City of St. Paul, in the County of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, to have the within bill of costs and disbursements taxed and inserted in the judgment then and there to be entered herein. … Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct itemized statement of items of costs and disbursements by, and on behalf of, Defendant The Diocese of Winona, in said action including costs for depositions, witness fees and other costs and disbursements in connection with the Frye-Mack hearing and summary judgment proceedings herein. These costs and disbursements are just, true and correct and have been necessarily paid and incurred by Defendant Diocese of Winona in said action. … TOTAL $67,928.46 Posted by Terry McKiernan at 7:24 PM, December 02, 2010 • Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis' Notice of Taxation County of Ramsey, District Court, Second Judicial Circuit; November 22, 2010 In John Doe 76C v. Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis ST. PAUL (MN) - Please take notice, that application will be made pursuant to Rule 54.04 of the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure to the Court Administrator at the Ramsey County Courthouse, 600 Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, City of St. Paul, in the County of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, to have the within bill of costs and disbursements taxed and inserted in the judgment then and there to be entered herein. … Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct itemized statement of items of costs and disbursements by and on behalf of Defendant The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, in said action. These costs and disbursements are just, true and correct and have been necessarily paid and incurred by Defendant The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, in said action. Attached hereto as Exhibit B are true and correct copies of checks for payment of costs incurred by The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis including costs for depositions, witness fees and other costs and disbursements in connection with the Frye-Mack hearing and summary judgment proceedings herein. … TOTAL $64,076.75 Posted by Terry McKiernan at 7:12 PM, December 02, 2010 • Bishop Richard Sklba's Brief in Support of Motion for Protective Order Circuit Court, State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County; By Patrick W. Brennan for Bishop Emeritus Richard Sklba and the Archdiocese of Milwaukee; November 23, 2010

MILWAUKEE (WI) - Bishop Richard J. SkIba has legitimate, protectable, personal interests in not having his deposition taken while appeals and mediation are pending. A protective order that his deposition not be had at this time is necessary to prevent oppression, undue burden, expense and prejudice to the Bishop. His deposition should not go forward while appeals of other Archdiocese of Milwaukee cases are pending, and until such time as he can be deposed once and for all, in each filed case. Wisconsin Statutes preclude depositions while appeals are pending, and an order permitting depositions of witnesses who are 75 years of age or older has only been entered in Case No.07-CV-10888. If Bishop Sklba's deposition is permitted at this time, the Court should further order that his deposition transcript, exhibits and video be sealed, and that the scope of the deposition be limited. Such an order is necessary because Bishop SkIba has recently retired and should not be put to the undue personal burden, expense and prejudice of multiple deposition appearances. Personal prejudice and reputational harm to Bishop SkIba may result from public dissemination of deposition transcript, exhibits and video. By its very nature the cross examination in a deposition is a one- sided process that does not permit a full airing of the evidence that ultimately will be revealed at trial. Plaintiffs' counsel has already publicly posted Archbishop Rembert Weakland's deposition transcript and http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 16 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM exhibits on their law firm's website, as well as posting the deposition video on YouTube. … For all of the reasons stated above, the Archdiocese respectfully requests that the Court grant its motion for a protective order. Posted by Terry McKiernan at 6:51 PM, December 02, 2010 • Letter shows Pope Benedict pushed faster penalties for abuse in 1980s Catholic News Agency, 02:02 pm Dec 2, 2010 VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News).- Previously unseen correspondence shows Pope Benedict XVI taking an active concern for "more rapid" prosecution of abusive priests, over two decades ago. A letter from 1988, published for the first time on Dec. 2 in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, details the cardinal and future Pope's concern that Church officials were not able to act quickly enough to implement existing penalties in cases of priestly abuse. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger raised these concerns about how the Church was handling some priests' "grave and scandalous conduct" in a letter to Cardinal Jose Lara, then president of a on law, on Feb. 19, 1988. At the time, the future Pope Benedict XVI was serving as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:43 PM, December 02, 2010 • Archbishop talks with parish about missing $60K KOAM, Associated Press - December 2, 2010 SULLIVAN, Mo. (AP) - St. Louis' archbishop is trying to assure an eastern Missouri Roman Catholic parish after an audit of its bookkeeping found $300,000 in discrepancies - and $60,000 still unaccounted for - following the departure of its priest. Investigations into the missing money centered on the Rev. Dennis Zacheis, who resigned last year before the accounting issues surfaced from St. Anthony Catholic Church in Sullivan, about 65 miles southwest of St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday. A probe by Franklin County's prosecutor led to no charges being filed against Zacheis, according to the archdiocese. Zacheis' whereabouts were not immediately known Thursday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:39 PM, December 02, 2010 • Pope in 1988 sought to remove abusers faster The Associated Press, VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican on Thursday released documentation showing Pope Benedict XVI sought as early as 1988 to find quicker ways to permanently remove priests who raped and molested children but was rebuffed. A 1988 letter from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger could serve as the Vatican's best defense to date that the future pope wanted to quickly remove pedophile priests far earlier than previously known but found himself stymied by church law. The letter, republished in Thursday's Vatican newspaper, shows that Ratzinger complained that church law made it exceedingly difficult to remove abusers if they didn't request to be laicized voluntarily. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:17 PM, December 02, 2010 • While a cardinal, pope asked for swift action against abusive priests Catholic News Service By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A newly disclosed letter reveals that as early as 1988, the future Pope Benedict XVI pressed for swifter and more streamlined procedures to punish priests guilty of "grave and scandalous conduct." The letter, written by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger when he was head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation, expressed concern that the normal process for dealing with such priests -- which typically involved a request for dispensation from priestly obligations -- took too long and was seen more as a favor than a punishment. Eventually, with Cardinal Ratzinger's involvement, the penal procedures were simplified and sanctions were strengthened. But in 1988, the cardinal's suggestion of a "more rapid and simplified penal process" was rebuffed by the Vatican's canon law experts. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:12 PM, December 02, 2010 • La Crosse priest awaiting trial dies Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, By Annysa Johnson, Dec. 2, 2010 WISCONSIN - A La Crosse Catholic priest awaiting trial on child pornography charges has died. Father Patrick Umberger, 60, who resigned in July as pastor at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Onalaska, http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 17 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM died Tuesday of complications related to cancer, according to his attorney. The Diocese of La Crosse, where former Milwaukee Auxiliary Bishop William Callahan now presides, issued a statement asking the faithful to be "merciful in their judgments" of Umberger and "remember his many good deeds." It said the diocese has yet to see any evidence of criminal activity by Umberger. "It is unfortunate that Father Umberger was denied, by death, his day in court," it said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:01 PM, December 02, 2010 • when the news isn't news Catholic Culture By Diogenes | December 02, 2010 UNITED STATES - Act I, Scene I: The newsroom of a major metropolitan daily Reporter: Hey, boss! We've got a story here. Says the Pope might have allowed a priest who was accused of abuse to work in a parish while he was Archbishop of Munich. What should we do with it? Editor: Did the Pope personally assign the priest to parish work? Reporter: No; his did. Editor: Did the Pope know about it? Reporter: No evidence of that. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:57 PM, December 02, 2010 • Appeals court upholds priest's conviction , CHICAGO (IL) – A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Jesuit priest on charges he traveled abroad and across state lines to have sex with a teenager. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday rejected Donald McGuire's argument that, while the sex occurred, sex wasn't the purpose of the travel. McGuire is serving a 25-year prison sentence. The 80-year-old has also been convicted in Wisconsin for indecent behavior with a child. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:51 PM, December 02, 2010 • Church hire accused sex offender The Chronicle, Jim Campbell | 3rd December 2010 AUSTRALIA - CHILD safety campaigner Hetty Johnston has blasted the Catholic Church after it rehired the principal who was sacked over a child sex abuse scandal at his Toowoomba Catholic primary school. The man, who can't be identified to protect the identities of the abused children, has been employed as a supply teacher at a Catholic primary school in the Ipswich area. Mrs Johnston said the Catholic Church had let themselves down with the re-employment of this man. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:47 PM, December 02, 2010 • Father of sex victim speaks out [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 10yrs prison. 13 girls (<12).] The Chronicle | {with reader poll} | Jim Campbell | 3rd December 2010 AUSTRALIA - THE father of a girl who was sexually abused by a teacher at a Toowoomba Catholic primary school says his family's experience has been a nightmare that will never end. The family was one of five to this week reach a settlement with the Catholic Church over the sexual abuse their children suffered at the hands of convicted rapist Gerard Vincent Byrnes. But just as he felt they were making progress following the out-of-court settlement, the father of the abused girl was outraged yesterday when it was revealed the principal at the centre of the sex abuse scandal had been rehired at a Catholic primary school in Ipswich. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:44 PM, December 02, 2010 • Delaware Jury Awards $30M to Priest Abuse Victim AOL News, Lauren Frayer, Dec. 2, 2010 DELAWARE - A jury in Delaware has awarded $30 million to a man who says he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest more than 100 times as a teenager in the 1960s. It's believed to be the single largest payout to any church abuse victim in U.S. history. But it's unclear when the victim, John Vai, will get his money. The Diocese of Wilmington declared bankruptcy last year and has said it can afford to pay only $2 million in damages to abuse victims, and six other people have also filed lawsuits against the diocese alleging abuse.

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"I think the jury is making a statement … telling the world what they think of the behavior of the parish and the priest," Barbara Dorris, outreach director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, told the Wilmington News Journal. She said she considered the jury's award symbolic and acknowledged that Vai will probably receive only a fraction of the total amount. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:01 AM, December 02, 2010 • Pastor faces sex abuse charges Hartselle Enquirer, HARTSELLE (AL) - A former pastor was arrested last week on charges related to an inappropriate sexual relationship he allegedly had with a member of his youth group. Pastor Carl C. Lloyd III, former youth pastor at Son Rise Baptist Church in Hartselle, faces sodomy charges in connection with an alleged relationship between himself and a 15-year-old girl. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:58 AM, December 02, 2010 • Former priest admits indecent assault [Ex-Fr . Guilty plea. 2 boys.] RTE News, IRELAND - A former Dublin priest has admitted in court to indecently assaulting two children in the 1970s and 1980s. Tony Walsh, 56, from Bunratty Road, Coolock pleaded guilty today to three charges of abusing the two boys. Mr Walsh was ministering as a priest in Ballyfermot during the period. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:54 AM, December 02, 2010 • Priest's sex victim awarded highest-ever clerical abuse payout of $30m [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The Journal (Ireland), DELAWARE - A MAN WHO was sexually abused more than 100 times by a Catholic priest has been awarded $30m (€22.7m) by a jury – the largest payout ever to a clergy abuse victim. John M Vai is one of seven people who have filed lawsuits against former priest Francis DeLuca, who was defrocked by the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, USA in 2008. is reporting that the parish in which the abuse was perpetrated, St Elizabeth in Wilmington, is liable for $3m of the damages and Francis DeLuca must pay the rest. Victims' advocacy group bishopaccountability.org has found that parishes have only been held liable for damages in one or two cases previous to this, with the overall diocese or religious order more frequently bearing the weight. Evidence on punitive damages is to be heard this coming Monday – and Mr Vai's lawyers say that it will be extremely damning and will increases the award to their client. … In this case, the parish was held accountable by Mr Vai for allowing his abuse to continue. He testified that he had been seen by another priest, being hauled to DeLuca's room as a young boy. Another witness, the Rev Thomas Doyle, said that other priests in the parish were aware of DeLuca's behaviour at the time. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:41 AM, December 02, 2010 • CARDINAL RATZINGER AND REVISION OF CANONICAL PENAL LAW Vatican Information Service, 2 DEC 2010 VATICAN CITY, (VIS) - Given below is the text of an article by Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the for Legislative Texts. the article is to be published on 4 December by the Italian magazine "Civilta Cattolica" under the title "Cardinal Ratzinger's Influence on the Revision of the Canonical Penal Law System". In the coming weeks, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts will distribute to its Members and Consultors the draft of a document containing suggestions for the revision of Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, the basis of the Church's penal law system. For almost two years a commission of experts in penal law has been re-examining the text promulgated in 1983, taking into account the needs that have emerged in subsequent years. The aim is to maintain the general plan and the existing numbering of the canons, while revising some of the decisions taken at the time, which with hindsight can be seen to be insufficient. This initiative (which cannot be implemented yet, as the process of consultation has still to be completed,

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Breaking News, IRELAND - A former Dublin priest has today admitted in court to indecently assaulting two victims in the 70s and 80s. Tony Walsh (aged 56) of Bunratty Road, Coolock pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin church between November 1978 and April 1979. He pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:25 AM, December 02, 2010 • Regierung will Rechte von Missbrauchsopfern stärken Spiegel, Ein Runder Tisch der Bundesregierung will die zahlreichen Fälle sexuellen Missbrauchs aufarbeiten, die in diesem Jahr bekannt geworden sind. Nun liegt der Zwischenbericht des Gremiums vor. Opfervertreter üben Kritik. , DEUTSCHLAND - Der offene Streit bleibt diesmal aus. Die Chefinnen des Runden Tischs gegen Kindesmissbrauch können ihren Zwischenbericht an diesem Mittwoch störungsfrei vorstellen - ohne Zwischenrufe und ohne Vorwürfe aus dem Publikum. Nach dem jüngsten Treffen des Gremiums hatten Missbrauchsopfer ihrem Unmut noch lautstark Luft gemacht, das politische Eingreifen als zu lax kritisiert und Mitsprache eingefordert. Heute sind die Betroffenen ungewohnt still. Ihre Wut scheint inzwischen in Frust umgeschlagen zu sein. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:22 AM, December 02, 2010 • New Seattle Catholic Archbishop Installed KIRO, SEATTLE (WA) - New Seattle Catholic Archbishop J. Peter Sartain is being installed Wednesday with a

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Mass at St. James Cathedral. The 58-year-old, who previously served in Joliet, Ill., replaces Archbishop Alex. J. Brunett, who retired last year at the age of 75. Protesters from the Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are expected to be outside. Some say they were sexually abused by priests and are angry that two years ago, while serving as a bishop in Joliet, Illinois, Sartain ordained Alejandro Flores, who is now serving four years in prison for molesting a young boy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:17 AM, December 02, 2010 • Herzlich willkommen bei der Unabhängigen Beauftragten Unabhangige Beauftragle zur Aufarbeitung des Sexuellen Kindesmissbrauchs DEUTSCHLAND - Der Schutz von Kindern vor Missbrauch und Gewalt ist eine unserer wichtigsten Aufgaben. Kinder können sich nicht zur Wehr setzen und leiden meist ein Leben lang unter den Folgen sexuellen Missbrauchs. Als Unabhängige Beauftragte setze ich mich dafür ein, dass das Leid der Betroffenen anerkannt wird und sie nachhaltig Hilfe und Unterstützung erhalten. Wir brauchen Lösungen, die langfristig den Schutz der Kinder vor sexuellem Missbrauch und sexueller Gewalt verbessern. Hierfür arbeite ich vergangene und aktuelle Fälle auf und spreche Empfehlungen für materielle und immaterielle Hilfen für Betroffene gegenüber der Bundesregierung und dem Runden Tisch aus. Als Unabhängige Beauftragte bin ich Anlaufstelle für alle Betroffenen. Ihre Anliegen und Botschaften zu kennen, ist für die Aufarbeitung und meine Empfehlungen von zentraler Bedeutung. Neben der Möglichkeit einer schriftlichen Kontaktaufnahme haben wir auch eine kostenfreie telefonische Anlaufstelle eingerichtet. Betroffene können sich dort anonym und vertraulich an ein Team von Fachleuten wenden. Auch Angehörige und weitere Kontaktpersonen, die Missbrauch in ihrem Umfeld wahrnehmen, können sich bei uns melden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:12 AM • Runder Tisch "Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch" legt Zwischenbericht vor DEUTSCHLAND BMFSFJ Ministerinnen Schavan, Schröder, Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger: "Verschweigen, Vertuschen und Verdrängen hat ein Ende" Der Runde Tisch "Sexueller Kindesmissbrauch in Abhängigkeits- und Machtverhältnissen in privaten und öffentlichen Einrichtungen und im familiären Bereich" hat heute in seiner dritten Sitzung den Zwischenbericht verabschiedet. Unter dem Vorsitz der Bundesfamilienministerin Kristina Schröder, der Bundesjustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger und der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, Annette Schavan, wurden die Ergebnisse der bisherigen Arbeit beraten und eine erste positive Bilanz gezogen. Damit liegt der Öffentlichkeit eine aktuelle Zusammenfassung der umfangreichen Arbeiten vor. "Verschweigen, Vertuschen und Verdrängen hat ein Ende", bilanzierten die drei Bundesministerinnen gemeinsam. "Das Tabu, über sexuelle Gewalt an Mädchen und Jungen zu sprechen, wurde gebrochen - Prävention, Forschung und Gesetzgebung arbeiten gemeinsam an einer nachhaltigen Strategie zum Schutz gegen sexuellen Missbrauch. Erste Bausteine wie Standards in Einrichtungen, Institutionen und Verbänden, die mit Kindern arbeiten, die Etablierung eines Forschungsnetzes, eine bundesweite Fortbildungsoffensive für Fachkräfte in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und ein verbesserter Opferschutz in strafrechtlichen Verfahren sind umgesetzt", erklärten die Ministerinnen weiter. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:09 AM • Mehr Rechte für Opfer DEUTSCHLAND Deutschlandfunk {mit Audio} Über den Runden Tisch zum Kindesmissbrauch Von Gudula Geuther, Hauptstadtstudio "Verschweigen, Vertuschen und Verdrängen hat ein Ende." Mutige Worte von Bundesbildungsministerin Annette Schavan. Natürlich hat es das nicht. Sexueller Missbrauch, gerade an Kindern, geschieht heimlich. Und allzu oft bleibt es dabei. Die Täter zählen auf die Scham ihrer Opfer, auf Angst, auf unberechtigte Schuldgefühle derer, die sich manchmal nicht schnell genug zu wehren wussten. Auch wenn ein Damm gebrochen ist, wenn viele ihre Stimme gefunden haben, werden andere weiter schweigen, vielleicht ein Leben lang; und verdrängen, womit viele nie zurecht kommen. Vertuscht werden wird weiterhin, wenn sich die Mutter den Taten ihres Mannes nicht stellen kann, wenn Abhängigkeit oder Loyalität die Überhand gewinnen. Das Thema des Rundes Tisches eignet sich nicht für vollmundige Erfolgsmeldungen. Es sind die http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 21 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Mühen der Ebene, die kleinen Schritte, an denen die Fachleute zu arbeiten haben. Und die größten Brocken haben sie noch vor sich. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:06 AM • Was ist ein zerstörtes Leben in Euro wert? DEUTSCHLAND Aachener Nachrichten Aachen - Im Johannes-Höver-Haus an der Rütscher Straße in Aachen, heute Wohngebäude, früher ein Kinderheim, hat es in den 1950er Jahren Fälle von schwerem sexuellen Missbrauch gegeben. Eines der Opfer, ein ein jetzt 65-Jähriger, kämpft um finanzielle Entschädigung. Er fühlt sich von den Verantwortlichen hingehalten. Als Elf- und Zwölfjähriger sei er mehr als 100 Mal unter Gewaltanwendung von einem inzwischen verstorbenen Bruder vergewaltigt worden, schreibt er an die "Nachrichten": "Über fünf Jahrzehnte hat mich diese böse Geschichte enorm belastet. Ich konnte zu keinem Menschen Vertrauen haben, konnte nie eine Familie gründen. Kurz gesagt, mein ganzes Leben wurde durch diese Sache negativ beeinflusst und quasi zerstört." Er habe Hilfe bei anderen Ordensbrüdern gesucht, aber nicht bekommen, weil diese ein Sprechverbot auferlegt bekommen hätten, führt Walter S. weiter an. Bruder A., 1915 in Alsdorf geboren, sei 1966 in anderen Fällen wegen Unzucht mit Minderjährigen und Abhängigen rechtskräftig verurteilt worden. Er habe also noch jahrelang weitermachen können und sicher auch andere Kinder missbraucht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:41 AM • Archbishop meets with Sullivan parishioners over financial 'irregularities' St. Louis Post-Dispatch SULLIVAN, Mo. -- St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson addressed parishioners of St. Anthony Catholic Church here on Wednesday night about $60,000 in "apparent irregularities" in their church's bookkeeping. Internal and outside investigations into the missing money centered on St. Anthony's former pastor, the Rev. Dennis Zacheis, according to an audit by the St. Louis Archdiocese and obtained by the Post-Dispatch and the church's current pastor. An investigation by the Franklin County prosecutor resulted in no charges being filed, according to the archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:38 AM • Protesters criticize new Catholic archbishop of Seattle SEATTLE (WA) CNN By Michael Martinez, CNN December 2, 2010 (CNN) - The new Roman Catholic archbishop of Seattle, J. Peter Sartain, was installed Wednesday afternoon with a Mass in the archdiocese's cathedral, amid ongoing controversy over Sartain's ordination of a priest who later pleaded guilty in a molestation case. "I resolve to serve faithfully the spiritual needs of this church," Sartain told congregants and priests filling St. James Cathedral. He then officially assumed his seat behind the altar to a minute-long ovation. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:34 AM • La Crosse Diocese releases statement on death of priest WISCONSIN WKBT LA CROSSE, Wis.- The La Crosse Diocese releases a statement about the passing of a former Onalaska priest who was facing criminal charges. 60 year old Father Patrick Umberger died Tuesday at an assisted living facility after a long battle with cancer. Umberger resigned from his priest duties at Saint Patrick's church in July after being arrested for having child pornography. In a statement released Wednesday, the La Crosse Diocese says: "The Diocese extends to the family and friends of Father Patrick Umberger our prayers and support in this sad and difficult time. While Father Umberger's recent years have been filled with physical pain and sadness, our faith teaches that he is now in a place of light, happiness and peace. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 AM • Former Sullivan Priest Accused of Spending Spree With Church Dollars Fox 2 By Andy Banker SULLIVAN, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) – Amid the furor swirling around the spending practices of a catholic priest, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson visited a divided parish, St. Anthony's, in Sullivan, Wednesday night. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 22 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

The Archdiocese reported there were tens of thousands of dollars in question, spent at the Lake of the Ozarks and clothing stores like Abercrombie and Fitch, among other places. Carlson met with parish leaders and then held an open forum with members of the congregation. The meetings lasted for more than two hours. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:29 AM • Code of Canon Law's penal provisions to be revised Catholic Culture December 02, 2010 VATICAN CITY - In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI, out of concern for the "integrity and consistent application of discipline in the Church," gave the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts the mandate to revise the Church's system of penalties outlined in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, according to Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, the pontifical council's secretary. Bishop Arrieta said a commission has worked on revisions for two years and that the proposed revisions will be sent to the pontifical council's members in upcoming weeks. Bishop Arrieta, a Spaniard and a priest of Opus Dei, said that the 1983 Code differs from the previous 1917 Code in promoting a greater subsidiarity within the Church's disciplinary system and in affording greater rights to those accused of canonical crimes. "Subsequent experience has shown that some of the techniques used by Code to guarantee the rights were not essential and could have been replaced by other guarantees more consistent with the reality of the Church," Bishop Arrieta wrote. "Indeed, these techniques are in many cases an objective obstacle, sometimes insurmountable because of the scarcity of resources, to the effective application of the penal system." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:24 AM • Commissie Seksueel Misbruik: "Schaakmat gezet omdat ik schadevergoedingen wilde betalen" Vandaag, BELGIE - De Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik in de Kerk hoorde zopas ere-magistrate Godelieve Halsberghe. Zij zat tussen 2000 en 2009 binnen de Kerk de Commissie voor die dossiers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk moest afhandelen. Haar Commissie werd in 2009 opgevolgd door de Commissie- Adriaenssens. De Commissie-Halsberghe werd in 2000 opgericht nadat in 1997 binnen de Kerk al een netwerk van vertrouwenspersonen waarnaar slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik door priesters konden bellen voor hulp, was uitgebouwd. Halsberghe zei dat ze in negen jaar tijd 33 dossiers behandelde. "Alle feiten die we binnenkregen waren verjaard. We gingen dus niet naar het gerecht, want dit zou tijdverlies zijn. Volgens het kerkelijk recht is er geen verjaring voor aanranding van mensen, wij konden die zaken dus nog behandelen om een morele en materiële schadevergoeding toe te kennen". Halsberghe kreeg wel één dossier binnen van een minderjarige en dat had ze onmiddellijk naar het gerecht gestuurd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:21 AM • Warren Jeffs returned to Texas to face bigamy case TEXAS - Chronicle, By TERRI LANGFORD, Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs faced a Texas judge Wednesday more than two years after authorities discovered his followers married underage girls at an Eldorado ranch, prompting the removal of 438 children, the largest child custody case in U.S. history. A wan Jeffs, 54, appeared before state District Judge Barbara Walther in San Angelo where he was arraigned on three charges involving two underage brides, unidentified girls who were 12 and 14 at the time of the alleged crimes. He's accused of sexually assaulting one girl in 2005 and committing bigamy and aggravated sexual assault with the other girl in 2006. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:09 AM • Minister Vandeurzen geeft stand van zaken van maatregelen tegen seksueel misbruik RKnieuws BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) – Vlaams minister van Welzijn Jo Vandeurzen geeft woensdag in een interview met het christelijk opinieblad Tertio een stand van zaken van de maatregelen die hij plant om seksueel misbruik tegen te gaan. "We werken aan vier initiatieven. We gaan de komende maanden in de CAW's onthaalpunten installeren voor emotioneel, fysiek of seksueel misbruik bij volwassenen – of zij die vroeger als kind slachtoffer waren. Daarmee beantwoorden we de vraag die breed leeft – niet alleen in de kerk maar ook bij sportverenigingen

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– naar een onafhankelijke plek waar slachtoffers terechtkunnen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:07 AM • Meeste misbruik binnen ordes en congregaties De Telegraaf, , NEDERLAND - Van de meldingen van seksueel misbruik binnen rooms-katholieke instellingen die bij Hulp & Recht zijn binnengekomen, gaat 85 procent over misbruik binnen religieuze ordes en congregaties. De overige 15 procent gaat over misbruik binnen bisdommen. Dat heeft het meldpunt van seksueel misbruik van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk Hulp & Recht woensdag bekendgemaakt. Hulp & Recht ontving de afgelopen maanden 1799 reacties van mensen over seksueel of fysiek misbruik binnen rooms-katholieke instellingen. Daarvan leidden 241 tot een officiële aanklacht. De Beoordelings- en Adviescommissie (BAC) van Hulp & Recht behandelt die aanklachten. Van de 1799 meldingen die zijn binnengekomen bij Hulp & Recht hebben 265 reacties betrekking op een van de Nederlandse bisdommen. Tegen de zeven bisdommen zijn 54 officiële aanklachten ingediend bij Hulp & Recht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:04 AM • $30 Million Is Awarded Over Abuse by Priest [Unnamed priest. RCC. $30m from priest, and $3m from parish. Male.] The New York Times, By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Published: December 1, 2010 DELAWARE - A jury in Delaware on Wednesday awarded $30 million in compensatory damages to a man who said he was sexually abused more than 100 times by a Roman Catholic priest – the largest such award granted to a single victim in a clergy abuse case, victims' advocates said. In an unusual outcome, the jury decided that the parish where the abuse occurred, St. Elizabeth in Wilmington, must pay $3 million of the damages, while the perpetrator is liable for the rest. Parishes have previously been held liable in only one or two cases involving abuse by Catholic priests, according to records kept by an advocacy group for victims known as bishopaccountability.org. It is usually the diocese or the religious order, not the parish, that is held responsible for damages. But the Diocese of Wilmington, which covers all of Delaware, declared bankruptcy last year just as the lawsuit was going to trial, so this lawsuit as well as more than 100 pending lawsuits against the diocese was frozen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:59 AM • Il cardinale Ratzinger e la revisione del sistema penale canonico in tre lettere inedite del 1988 [RCC] L'Osservatore Romano, di Juan Ignacio Arrieta, CITTA' DEL VATICANO - Nelle prossime settimane il Pontificio Consiglio per i Testi Legislativi invierà ai propri membri e consultori una bozza con alcune proposte per la riforma del libro vi del Codex iuris canonici, base del sistema penale della Chiesa. Una commissione di esperti penalisti ha lavorato per quasi due anni, rivedendo il testo promulgato nel 1983 per mantenere l'impianto generale e la numerazione dei canoni, ma anche per modificare decisamente alcune scelte dell'epoca rivelatesi meno riuscite. L'iniziativa nasce dal mandato conferito da Benedetto XVI ai nuovi superiori del dicastero il 28 settembre 2007. Da quell'incontro è risultato evidente come l'indicazione rispondesse a un convincimento profondo del Papa, maturato in anni di esperienza diretta, e a una preoccupazione per l'integrità e la coerente applicazione della disciplina nella Chiesa; convincimento e preoccupazione che hanno guidato i passi del cardinale Joseph Ratzinger sin dall'inizio del suo lavoro come prefetto della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, malgrado le oggettive difficoltà provenienti, tra l'altro, dal particolare momento legislativo vissuto all'indomani della promulgazione del Codex. Per valutarlo meglio occorre ricordare alcune particolarità del quadro legislativo allora appena ridisegnato. Il sistema penale del Codex iuris canonici Il sistema penale del Codex del 1983 possiede un impianto sostanzialmente nuovo rispetto a quello del 1917, e s'inquadra nel contesto ecclesiologico disegnato dal concilio Vaticano ii. Per quanto riguarda la disciplina penale, vuole ispirarsi anche ai criteri di sussidiarietà e di "decentramento", concetto usato per indicare la particolare attenzione riservata al diritto particolare e, soprattutto, all'iniziativa dei singoli vescovi nel governo pastorale, essendo essi, come insegna il concilio (cfr. Lumen gentium, n. 27), vicari di Cristo nelle rispettive diocesi. Nella maggioranza dei casi, infatti, il Codex affida alla valutazione degli Ordinari locali e dei superiori religiosi il discernimento sull'opportunità o meno di imporre sanzioni penali,

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GLASGOW, Scotland, United Kingdom, / (CNA).- Responding to comments made against Pope Benedict during his visit, a Scottish spokesman for the Catholic Church has decried "sectarianism" and popular blindness towards anti-Catholic bigotry, saying it contributes to thuggish violence against Catholic clergy. A senior Scottish Football Association (SFA) official, head of referee development Hugh Dallas, allegedly sent an e-mail to other SFA staff on the day of Pope Benedict's September visit to Scotland which joked about Catholic sex abuse scandals and implied the pontiff was a pedophile. Peter Kearney, director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, wrote to the SFA two months after the e- mail was first reported to have been sent, asking for further action. Dallas resigned later that week, citing family reasons. [Check later newsitems that suggest he was dismissed, not resigned.] Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:33 AM • Church abuse foundation deals with 241 complaints Dutch News - In total, 241 of the 1,800 people to contact the church foundation set up to help victims of sexual and by Catholic church officials, have made a formal complaint. Wednesday was the last day for registration. No legal action can be taken in most cases because the alleged abuse took place too long ago. Just 10 complaints focus on abuse which is said to have taken place since 1990. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM

• Soto speaks CALIFORNIA - News Review Interview by Jeff vonKaenel [email protected] This article was published on Dec.02.10. Born the eldest of seven children in a Mexican-American family near Los Angeles, used to play Mass in his backyard with his siblings, pretending to give Communion and take confessions. Little did his parents know that their son's pretend game as a youth would turn into the real deal. After attending the seminary, Soto was ordained to the priesthood in 1982. He went on to receive a master's degree in social work from in New York, then proceeded to climb the ranks in the Catholic Church. While serving in Orange County, Soto, one of few Hispanic bishops in the United States, urged compassion for AIDS victims and became known as a strong supporter of immigrant rights. But Soto was controversial in other realms, once writing a letter in support of a Catholic priest who had been convicted of sex-abuse crimes. Also, he became a vocal opponent of gay marriage. In November of 2008, Soto was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento after the retirement of his predecessor Bishop William Weigand. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:25 AM

!!!: Church sued in sex-abuse case sues victim's parents [Bible Church sues parents!] The Kansas City Star By JUDY L. THOMAS MISSOURI - First, a youth leader in a western Missouri church pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor. Then the victim sued the church, New Life Bible Church of Easton, and its former youth leader, Michael J. Landy. And now the church is suing the victim's parents, saying they were negligent for placing her in Landy's care. The action contends the parents – who are missionaries for the church – "breached their duty to provide for the proper care, custody and control of their daughter." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:22 AM

• Woman says pastor groped her 15 years ago LUBBOCK (TX) Avalanche-Journal By LOGAN G. CARVER AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A woman on Wednesday told a Lubbock County jury her former pastor molested her more than 15 years ago, when she was 9 or 10 years old.

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Terry A. Nesmith, former pastor of Faith Assembly of God, is on trial in the 140th District Court for allegedly fondling the girl in 1995. She came forward with the allegation in 2007. Nesmith, 44, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the second-degree felony, indecency with a child involving sexual contact. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:19 AM • Jury Finds Del. Church Liable in Sexual Abuse Case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Precedent? Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)]

NBC Philadelphia, By KELLY BAYLISS DELAWARE - A jury has found a Roman Catholic parish in Wilmington liable for a former priest's sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1960s and has awarded the victim $33 million. The jury ruled Wednesday that St. Elizabeth's parish was negligent in not preventing Francis DeLuca from sexually abusing John Vai. The jury levied $30 million in compensatory damages for Vai against DeLuca and another $3 million in compensatory damages against St. Elizabeth's. A hearing to consider punitive damages against the parish and DeLuca begins Monday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:17 AM • Victim families unhappy that Toowoomba principal re-hired [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 10yrs prison. 13 girls (<12).] CathNews, AUSTRALIA - The former principal of a Toowoomba school, who was acquitted of charges under mandatory reporting laws for child abuse, has been re-hired as a supply teacher at a Catholic primary school in Ipswich, Queensland, said The Australian. The news that he was re-employed by the Catholic education sector dismayed some victims' families, who declared him derelict in his duty for not reporting the allegations made in the case of their children, the report said. Additionally, the newspaper reports that yesterday, families of five girls abused by former teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes reached a settlement with the Catholic Church's Toowoomba diocese to discontinue their legal proceedings. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:15 AM • New Trenton Diocese Bishop David O'Connell concerned TRENTON (NJ) Asbury Park Press By BONNIE DELANEY • STAFF WRITER • December 1, 2010 TRENTON – Fewer Catholics are celebrating Sunday Mass, choosing religious life as a vocation and sending their children to Catholic schools that must close as a result of declining enrollment. Those are the three greatest concerns that Bishop David M. O'Connell of the Trenton Diocese said he will address as he officially begins ministering to the 830,000 Catholics who live in Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington and Mercer counties. … O'Connell also said he does not accept as a reason for poor church attendance the scandal over the sexual abuse of children by priests. He termed it an easy, convenient excuse not to practice. But he also said about the abuse: "I hate it. It's the most dreadful thing." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 AM • Church rehires former principal who failed children [2007-08 Bro. Gerard Byrnes* (61) (Christian Brother). RCC. 10yrs prison. 13 girls (<12).] [RCC defies common sense] ABC - The World Today, AUSTRALIA - SHANE MCLEOD: In Queensland, the Catholic Church has re-hired a former principal it sacked for failing to report sexual abuse allegations to police. The man's former colleague, Gerard Byrnes is now serving 10 years in jail for abusing 13 girls from a primary school in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. The school's then-principal, who can't be named for legal reasons, was also charged because he didn't go to police with the allegations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:06 AM • Vatican Defends Pope's Record On Sexual Abuse [RCC] The Huffington Post By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI, while still a cardinal, sought in vain to expedite the process

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 27 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM for priests guilty of grave crimes, according to a 1988 letter published in the official Vatican newspaper. The letter, which appears in the Thursday (Dec. 2) edition of L'Osservatore Romano, could have important implications for the pope's record on child sex abuse. The letter appears in an article by Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, the No. 2 official at the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts. Arrieta said it recently resurfaced during preparations for a planned revision of the Catholic Church's system of penal law. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 AM • Jury orders Delaware parish to pay $3 million to sex abuse victim [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] U.S. Catholic, By Joseph Ryan, Catholic News Service WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (CNS) -- A Superior Court jury in Delaware's Kent County has awarded clergy sex abuse victim John Vai $3 million in damages from St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington for the parish's negligent supervision of former priest Francis DeLuca when he was stationed at the parish. The jury awarded Vai a total of $30 million in compensatory damages and said the parish should pay $3 million of that. DeLuca admitted in a deposition that he had abused Vai in the late 1960s. According to news reports, the jury was to reconvene beginning Dec. 6 to decide whether to award additional punitive damages. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:56 AM • An Albuquerque man's terrifying experience with a pedophile priest alibi By John Bear Co-Author Dennis Domrzalski Raped: Memories Of A Catholic Altar Boy Dennis Domrzalski and Larry Monte Jr. (Logan Square Press · $14.95) UNITED STATES - Violence is a popular theme in American media, be it news, film or literature. Scores of people routinely die in PG-13 movies. Sexual violence, however, is nearly unspeakable. That's what is remarkable about Raped: Memories of a Catholic Altar Boy by former Alibi editor Dennis Domrzalski and Larry Monte Jr. It doesn't look away. The book follows the two years Monte was ferried around New Mexico and molested in cheap motel rooms by a priest, and how it affected his life decades ago and to this day. The authors pull no punches. Domrzalski and Monte use brutal terms to relay what happened to the teenaged Monte. I have a strong stomach, but reading this book made me physically ill at times. The scenes could be prurient if they weren't the excruciating truth. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 AM

• Catholics rejoice as new archbishop installed in W. Wash. SEATTLE (WA) KOMO SEATTLE -- There's a new leader of the Catholic church in Western Washington. Peter Sartain was installed as the new archbishop at St. James Cathedral on Wednesday. … But some others don't agree. The leader of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, says the group wants Sartain to explain what happened in Illinois. John Shuster says Sartain ordained a new priest whom he knew to have a history with pornography. That priest, Alejandro Flores, was later charged and pleaded guilty to sexual assault. "We want Archbishop Sartain to publicly explain why he ordained Father Flores," said Shuster. The Catholic Diocese of Washington has paid out millions of dollars the past two decades involving hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by priests. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:49 AM

• ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA SYNODAL COMMISSION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM CANADA The Orthodox Church in America 1. BACKGROUND The formation of a Synodal Commission responsible for the internal investigation into http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 28 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM allegations concerning Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa and Canada (hereafter referred as the "Synodal Commission") was blessed to be formed by the Holy Synod of Bishops during a special Synodal session on October 13, 2010. This mandate was approved for release by the Holy Synod on November 30, 2010. The Synodal Commission is part of the response of the Orthodox Church in America (hereafter referred as "the Church") to official allegations of sexual misconduct involving a ruling hierarch in accordance with the Policies, Standards, and Procedure of the Orthodox Church of America on Sexual Misconduct, adopted by The Holy Synod of Bishop, April 2, 2003. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:46 AM

• Holy Synod suspends Archbishop Seraphim, appoints Bishop Irenee Administrator, and issues investigative mandate CANADA The Orthodox Church in America Posted 12/01 SYOSSET, NY {OCA} -- During a special meeting called by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah on Tuesday, November 30, 2010, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America decided to suspend His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa and Canada. This decision was reached after careful deliberations and in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Orthodox Church in America mandated in cases of allegations of sexual misconduct. The Holy Synod further designated His Grace, Bishop Irenee of City, Administrator of the Archdiocese of Canada. He will be responsible for all aspects of the hierarchical supervision of the Archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:43 AM

• Archbishop suspended over abuse allegations CANADA Ottawa Citizen By Kristy Nease, The Ottawa Citizen December 2, 2010 The Orthodox Church in America said Wednesday it has suspended Ottawa Archbishop Seraphim Storheim, who has been on a leave of absence since October, when he was revealed to be the focus of a police investigation into accusations of sexual abuse going back 30 years. The decision was reached "after careful deliberations and in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Orthodox Church in America mandated in cases of allegations of sexual misconduct," said a release on the church's website. The decision was made at a special meeting on Tuesday, it said. Bishop Irenée Rochon of Quebec City has been filling in and was announced to be taking over the role of administrator of the archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:40 AM

• New leader for Catholics SEATTLE (WA) The News Tribune STEVE MAYNARD; Staff writer Published: 12/02/10 With the passing of a pastoral staff and a hug, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain was installed Wednesday as the spiritual leader for Western Washington Catholics. Archbishop Alex J. Brunett handed Sartain his 14-pound pastoral staff, called a crosier, and embraced his successor as an overflow crowd of 2,200 people stood and applauded at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. … But outside the cathedral Wednesday, two members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) handed out fliers criticizing Sartain for ordaining a "sexually troubled" priest last year. "We want Archbishop Sartain to explain to the Catholics of the Northwest why he did this," said John Shuster, spokesman for SNAP in the Pacific Northwest. Catholic officials allegedly caught the man with pornography on his computer a few months earlier before he was ordained. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:37 AM • Jury faults Delaware parish in sex [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 29 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 2, 2010 DOVER, DELAWARE - In a ruling that likely will have far-reaching implications for about 150 priest sex abuse cases pending or tied up in bankruptcy court, a jury found that St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic parish was grossly negligent in its failure to properly supervise then-priest Francis DeLuca and is responsible for at least $3 million of $30 million in damages awarded to John M. Vai, who repeatedly was molested as a teenager in the 1960s. The parish also may end up owing Vai more after the Kent County Superior Court jury rules on potential punitive damages. Superior Court President Judge James T. Vaughn Jr. ordered the panel of seven men and five women to return to court next week to hear two more days of testimony before considering possible punitive awards. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:30 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 02, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Fri December 03, 2010 edition: • Father, Sons Face Sex-Abuse Claims [Judaists.] Wall Street Journal By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY And ALISON FOX NEW YORK - The former of a Brooklyn school for boys is believed to have fled to after police identified him and three of his sons as suspects in the sexual abuse of the rabbi's four daughters, authorities said Friday. Gershon Kranczer, 58 years old, allegedly boarded a flight from Kennedy Airport destined for Israel on Monday along with his 21-year-old son Asher, after an informant told police that Mr. Kranczer had allegedly engaged in a prolonged sexual relationship with at least one of his daughters, police said. Asher, who a law-enforcement official said is legally blind, is being investigated in the sexual abuse of three of his sisters, police said. "We are seeking the exact whereabouts and return from Israel of the two men," top NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 PM

• Houston-area priest accused of exposing self at adult book store HOUSTON (TX) KHOU HOUSTON – A Houston-area priest was arrested and charged with public lewdness Wednesday after police said he was caught exposing himself in an adult book store. Father Alberto Maullon Jr. has been the pastor at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Nassau Bay since 2002. He was arrested at a store in the 10100 block of the Gulf Freeway. Maullon, 52, was out on $1,000 bond Friday. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston issued a statement about Maullon's arrest, saying they were deeply saddened by the incident. The Diocese said Maullon expressed deep sorrow for any pain or hurt he might have caused, and has been granted a leave of absence from his ministerial duties. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:06 PM

• WDEL Interview UNITED STATES WDEL {audio} This radio station interviewed , executive director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 PM

• WikiLeaks: Fallout is more dribble than storm, say Vatican officials http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 30 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM • WikiLeaks: Fallout is more dribble than storm, say Vatican officials VATICAN CITY Catholic News Service By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- WikiLeaks' release of classified U.S. documents is unlikely to ever develop into a flood capable of eroding decades of U.S. diplomatic efforts, some Vatican officials and watchers said. The content of the communications between the U.S. government and its diplomatic missions abroad does "not seem capable of substantially changing relations between the United States" and its 274 embassies around the world, said the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the day after the WikiLeaks website launched "Cablegate" Nov. 28. Among the quarter of a million alleged diplomatic cables WikiLeaks said it would release over the coming months, sources in Rome said 850 documents concern communications between the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 PM

• German Church Abuse Study Implicates Priests Wall Street Journal BY VANESSA FUHRMANS A new report found that more than 250 priests and other clerical staff were implicated in abusing children over a 64-year period in the Munich Archdiocese that Pope Benedict XVI once led, but that widespread destruction of church documents over time prevented a full accounting of the sexual abuse scandal. The report, released Friday by a church-appointed law firm, is the result of a six-month audit of the diocese's vast archives to see how Catholic leaders handled, or mishandled, past sexual abuse cases in the pope's former archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:57 PM • "Callewaert onderzoeksrechter ad interim Operatie Kelk" [RCC.] HLN, BELGIE - Operatie Kelk, het gerechtelijk onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de Kerk, heeft een nieuwe onderzoeksrechter: Colette Callewaert. Callewaert neemt de fakkel over van Wim De Troy, zolang het wrakingsverzoek tegen hem niet behandeld is. Dat meldt het weekblad Humo vandaag op zijn website. Het is het openbaar ministerie dat gevraagd heeft om de aanstelling van een interim-onderzoeksrechter. Op 22 december beslist de Brusselse kamer van inbeschuldigingstelling over de geldigheid van de huiszoekingen en inbeslagnames die onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy een half jaar geleden in en om de Mechelse Sint-Romboutskathedraal liet uitvoeren. Het parket-generaal en het aartsbisdom vonden dat De Troy zijn boekje te buiten was gegaan, de KI ging daarin mee, maar het Hof van Cassatie vernietigde het arrest. Fernand Keuleneer, de advocaat van kardinaal Danneels, had daarnaast een wrakingsverzoek tegen onderzoeksrechter De Troy ingediend. Het Brusselse hof van beroep moet het wrakingsverzoek volgens de letter van de wet snel behandelen. Maar intussen is De Troy al anderhalve maand technisch werkloos: hij mag geen onderzoeksdaden meer verrichten. Ter vervanging heeft de voorzitter van de Brusselse rechtbank, Luc Hennart, nu een tijdelijke onderzoeksrechter aangeduid: Colette Callewaert. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 PM • Duitse kardinaal vraagt vergiffenis om misbruik DUITSLAND MSN Nieuws (Novum/AP) - De aartsbisschop van München en Freising heeft vergiffenis gevraagd voor 'alles wat zij die voor de kerk werkten hebben aangericht'. Vrijdag werd een rapport gepubliceerd waarin staat dat meer dan tweehonderd priesters en godsdienstleraren kinderen misbruikten in het bisdom, dat eens onder de hoede stond van paus Benedictus XVI. Kardinaal presenteerde het rapport vrijdag en zei dat katholieke kerk in Duitsland veel werk zal moeten verzetten om het geschonden vertrouwen te herwinnen. In het rapport wordt seksueel misbruik in het bisdom onderzocht in de periode van 1945 tot en met 2009. De onderzoekers stelden vast dat kerkelijke documenten die als bewijsmateriaal konden dienen met opzet waren vernietigd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 PM

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• 'Kerk verdoezelde seksueel misbruik' DUITSLAND Dagblad Noorden Het aartsbisdom München heeft seksueel misbruik door katholieke geestelijken decennialang systematisch in de doofpot gestopt. Dit concludeert een onafhankelijke deskundige in een vrijdag gepubliceerd rapport over het misbruikschandaal. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 PM

• Elior Chen convicted of abusing 8 children ISRAEL YNet News Aviad Glickman Published: 11.30.10 A week after three of his followers were sentenced to 17-20 years in prison, self-proclaimed rabbi Elior Chen was convicted of the charges against him by the Jerusalem District Court. "There was no due process. The judge prevented me from studying the material and cross-examining witnesses," he said. Chen was convicted of abusing and assaulting helpless minors while causing serious injury as well as charges of physical and mental abuse. Judge Yoram Noam stated in the verdict: "The testimonies of the mother and children were reliable and faithfully described the events…a rough reality was depicted, indicating the children lived under a violent and cruel regime led by Chen, and were constantly beaten, abused and humiliated. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:47 PM

• Elior Chen found guilty of all charges against him ISRAEL The Jerusalem Post By DAN IZENBERG 11/30/2010 Self-styled rabbi convicted of perpetrating sadistic attacks on the children of a couple who became his followers; sentencing at later date. Elior Chen, who was dubbed "the king" by his followers and claimed to be in direct communication with God, was found guilty in the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday of abusing and committing violence against the eight children of a woman who became his disciple. Chen's lawyer, Ariel Attias, told reporters later that his client was "completely innocent" and that he intended to appeal the conviction to the Supreme Court. The reading of the verdict was an anticlimax to one of the most disturbing affairs in the country's history. Presiding Judge Yoram Noam took his seat, announced in a few words that he had convicted Chen, and then quickly left the courtroom. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:43 PM

• Israel convicts fugitive rabbi of child abuse ISRAEL Washington Post The Associated Press Tuesday, November 30, 2010 JERUSALEM -- An Israeli court has convicted a self-proclaimed rabbi of severely abusing eight young children and instructing his followers to do the same. Elior Chen was found guilty on Tuesday of hitting the children with a hammer, binding their limbs and burning body parts, among other acts. The incidents took place two years ago, and one child remains in a vegetative state. Chen was the spiritual leader of a Jerusalem group of four followers who believed in abuse as a way to discipline children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:40 PM

• Abusive 'rabbi' convicted in Jerusalem ISRAEL JTA JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A self-proclaimed rabbi who counseled his followers to commit acts of child http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 32 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM abuse was convicted of abusing several children who lived with him. Elior Chen was convicted Tuesday in Jerusalem District Court for abusing the eight children of the woman with whom he lived, a follower whose husband had given her over to the charismatic leader, according to reports. The conviction follows the sentencing of four of his followers to up to 20 years each in prison on similar charges. Chen fled Israel for Canada and then Brazil in 2008, and was extradited back to Israel several months later, after he counseled his followers to severely beat and burn the children in order to rid them of the devil. Some of the children were forced to drink alcohol and turpentine until they vomited, and to eat their own feces. They often were locked in suitcases and other small spaces. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:38 PM

• Brooklyn Rabbi Gershon Kranczer and sons accused… NEW YORK New York Daily News By Jonathan Lemire Daily News Staff Writer A Brooklyn rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of despicable crimes – sexually abusing four female relatives, police said Friday. Detectives believe Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, 58, sexually abused two underage relatives, while three of his sons – aged 24, 21, and 15 – routinely abused other young girls, police said. Investigators said Kranczer and his 21-year-old son Asher – who is legally blind – fled to Israel Monday night and remain at large. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:34 PM

• NY rabbi, sons accused of sexually abusing girls NEW YORK Wall Street Journal NEW YORK – police say a Hasidic rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing four female relatives. Police say the 58-year-old father and one son fled to Israel and are wanted for questioning. His 24-year- old and 15-year-old son were arrested on sexual abuse and rape charges. It's not clear if they have an attorney. Telephone calls to Brooklyn addresses listed for them weren't returned Friday. Police say the abuse came to light after the oldest victim, now 20, told a teacher that she had been abused. Other victims range in age from 8 to 19. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:28 PM

• SNAP blasts two Minnesota bishops WINONA (MN) MN SNAP via YouTube {video} Press conference at Diocese of Winona, Dec. 2, 2010. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:04 PM

• Scope reduced for former N.S. bishop's child-porn trial CANADA The Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA - The trial for a former bishop accused of possessing and importing child pornography has been shortened to three days next May. 's trial was originally scheduled to take nine days, beginning in late April. Lahey's lawyer, Michael Edelson, told Ontario Court Justice Lise Maisonneuve on Friday that he and the Crown had narrowed the issues and no longer required the extra six days. Lahey's trial is now set for May 4 to 6. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:57 PM

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Roman Catholic priest William Hodgson Marshall is facing two additional charges as of Friday. The 88-year-old was already facing abuse allegations in Windsor, Sudbury and Toronto. On Friday morning he turned himself in to a Toronto police station and was officially charged with two counts of indecent assault, one against a male and one against a female, said Const. Wendy Drummond. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:52 PM

• German study finds systematic cover-ups in Catholic priest abuse cases GERMANY Deutsche Welle An investigation into cases of sexual abuse in the German Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, where Pope Benedikt XVI was once archbishop, has revealed a "systematic system of cover-up" and a lot of missing paperwork. Germany's Catholic Church systematically covered up cases of sexual abuse within its own ranks for several decades, according to an expert study commissioned by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The lawyer heading up the investigation, Marion Westpfahl, said at a press conference on Friday that the available records pointed to huge gaps in the documentation between 1945 and 2009. She added this hinted strongly at a "systematic system of cover-up," in which few abuse cases were criminally prosecuted. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:09 PM

• Convicted Houston predator priest's resigns from panel; SNAP responds BAR HARBOR (ME) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) (NOTE - A Maine newspaper disclosed today that a priest who has twice been convicted of molesting kids - once in Houston - has resigned from a housing authority board. See link & story below.) We are grateful that Maine parents now know more about this predator priest. We hope this information will help safeguard kids from a dangerous and cunning clerical criminal. We also hope that others who saw, suspected or suffered Salisbury's crimes - in Texas, Maine, or anywhere - will come forward, get help, and call police so that he might be prosecuted again and so that kids might be better protected. We hope Salisbury is never again given any title or position of authority in any institution – secular or religious. Child predators use any honor or post to gain credibility and access to kids. We as a society must make it harder, not easier, for pedophiles to gain respectability. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:02 PM

• Pope's condom remarks: a step into the real world National Catholic Reporter (USA), An NCR Editorial UNITED STATES - Amid the welter of commentary, spin and shock at the few paragraphs Pope Benedict XVI spoke about condoms in his book-length interview, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times, one very telling paragraph in the Vatican's follow-up clarification has received little notice. But it says a great deal. In a statement released to clarify the pope's comments that condom use, while not a "real or moral solution" to the AIDS crisis, could be justified in some cases, Jesuit Fr. , director of the Vatican press office, first states that "the pope considers an exceptional situation in which the exercise of sexuality represents a true risk to the life of another." He then says: "In that sense, the reasoning of the pope certainly cannot be defined as a revolutionary shift. Numerous moral theologians and authoritative ecclesiastical personalities have sustained, and still sustain, similar positions. Nevertheless, it's true that until now they have not been heard with such clarity from the mouth of the pope, even if it's in a colloquial rather than magisterial form." We would dare to further reduce Lombardi's clarification to a sentence: In this instance, Benedict was being a pastor. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:59 PM • Vaticaan gaat pedo-schandaal onderzoeken [RCC] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 34 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Hbvl, BELGIE - Het Vaticaan gaat de pedofiliezaak rond de voormalige bisschop van Brugge, Roger Vangheluwe, onderzoeken. De instantie die bevoegd is voor de zwaarste inbreuken binnen de katholieke Kerk, is door de paus met die taak belast. "De paus heeft aan de Congregatie van de Geloofsleer gevraagd zich te buigen over het dossier van de Belgische ex-bisschop", verklaarde jezuïet Federico Lombardi, de woordvoerder van het Vaticaan. De beslissing zou enkele weken geleden genomen zijn. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:56 PM • German abuse victims asked for forgiveness News.com.au (Australia), GERMANY - THE archbishop of Munich and Freising has begged forgiveness for "everything those working for the church have done'' as he presented a report that showed more 250 priests and religion teachers abused children in a diocese that was once presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who commissioned the report, said the Catholic church in Germany would have to work to regain the trust that has been lost since reports of abuse at the hands of German priests broke earlier this year. "We want to learn from our bad mistakes and misconduct of the past,'' Marx said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:53 PM

• Priest accused of lewdness at adult video store HOUSTON (TX) Houston Chronicle By DALE LEZON Dec. 3, 2010 A local priest has been given a leave of absence from ministerial duties after he was arrested at a adult video store in southeast Houston Wednesday night. Alberto A. Maullon, pastor of St. Paul The Apostle Catholic Church in Nassua Bay, is charged with public lewdness, a misdemeanor, according to the Houston Police Department. He is free on $1,000 bond. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:16 PM • Vaticaan onderzoekt zaak-Vangheluwe De Morgen, BELGIE - De instantie in het Vaticaan die bevoegd is voor de zwaarste inbreuken binnen de katholieke Kerk is door de paus belast met de zaak van Roger Vangheluwe, de gewezen bisschop van Brugge die seksueel misbruik van zijn minderjarige neef heeft bekend. Dat heeft het Vaticaan vanavond bekendgemaakt. "De paus heeft aan de Congregatie van de Geloofsleer gevraagd zich te buigen over het dossier van de Belgische ex-bisschop", verklaarde jezuïet Federico Lombardi, de woordvoerder van het Vaticaan. Lombardi verklaarde aan het Franse persbureau AFP dat deze beslissing "enkele weken geleden" werd genomen, zonder een datum te preciseren. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:13 PM • Vaticaan onderzoekt dossier-Vangheluwe Knack BELGIE - De bevoegde instantie van het Vaticaan is door de paus gevat in verband met de zaak van seksueel misbruik door de voormalige Brugse bisschop Roger Vangheluwe. Dat heeft het Vaticaan bekendgemaakt. Woordvoerder Federico Lombardi van het Vaticaan verklaarde vrijdag tegenover het Franse persagentschap AFP dat de paus aan de Congregatie voor de Geloofsleer heeft gevraagd zich over het dossier van Vangheluwe te buigen. De beslissing werd volgens Lombardi al enkele weken geleden genomen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:08 PM • U.S. v. McGUIRE UNITED STATES Leagle UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.DONALD J. McGUIRE, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-1597. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued November 9, 2010. Decided December 2, 2010. Before POSNER, TINDER, and HAMILTON,

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Circuit Judges. POSNER, Circuit Judge. The defendant was convicted by a jury of traveling in interstate and foreign commerce for the purpose of having sex with a minor, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. His appeal argues that while he indeed had sex with minors on trips that crossed state and national boundaries, sex was not the purpose of the travel. He further argues that the judge should have excluded the testimony of other minors, besides the one whom he was charged with molesting, under Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, on the ground that the additional testimony was unduly prejudicial. He does not challenge his sentence. McGuire was a prominent Jesuit priest who in 1983 had begun serving as the spiritual director of Mother Teresa's order of nuns–the Missionaries of Charity–and as her confessor. A resident of Canisius House, in Evanston, Illinois, a dwelling for Jesuit priests, he led retreats all over the world modeled on the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order. In 1997, when his molestation of a boy named Dominick began, he was elderly–67–and suffering from a long list of diseases, including diabetes and asthma, and disabilities resulting from frequent surgeries. He recruited boys such as Dominick to accompany him on his travels to the retreats, explaining that he needed the boys to carry his bags, to provide him with medications, physical therapy, and massages, and to wash his feet. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:27 PM

• Sexual and other physical assaults by priests, deacons and other pastoral workers in the field of jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising between 1945 and 2009 GERMANY Archdiocese of Munich and Freising This links to an English language report on sexual abuse incidents in the archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:15 PM

• Die Erzdiözese München und Freising stellt Bericht zu sexuellem Missbrauch und anderen Übergriffen vor DEUTSCHLAND Ertzbistum Munchen und Freising {Zusammenfassung des Berichts durch Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl (PDF)} Die Erzdiözese München und Freising hat gemeinsam mit der von ihr beauftragten, aber unabhängigen Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Westpfahl, Spilker, Wastl das Gutachten „Sexuelle und sonstige körperliche Übergriffe durch Priester, Diakone und sonstige pastorale Mitarbeiter im Verantwortungsbereich der Erzdiözese München und Freising in der Zeit von 1945 bis 2009. Bestandsaufnahme – Bewertung – Konsequenz" vorgestellt. Auf einer Pressekonferenz am 3. Dezember 2010 fasste Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl das Ergebnis des 250 Seiten starken Berichts zusammen. Der Erzbischof von München und Freising, Kardinal Reinhard Marx, und Generalvikar Peter Beer nahmen ihrerseits zu dem Bericht Stellung. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:05 PM

• 159 Priester in sexuellen Missbrauch verstrickt DEUTSCHLAND inFranken Kirchen Die Erzdiözese München und Freising hat am Freitag ihren 250 Seiten starken Missbrauchsbericht vorgelegt. Demzufolge seien mindestens 159 Priester, von denen 26 wegen Sexualdelikten verurteilt wurden, und 96 katholische Religionslehrer in Fälle sexuellen Missbrauchs verstrickt gewesen, sagte die Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl in München. Alle in die Delikte verstrickten Personen seien bereits verstorben. Es müsse jedoch von einer sehr viel höheren Zahl von Missbrauchsfällen ausgegangen werden, da durch die Vernichtung wesentlicher Akten "der Ungeist der Vertuschung erfolgreich war", fügte Westpfahl an, die gemeinsam mit weiteren Gutachtern mit der Sichtung von 13.200 Akten beauftragt worden war. Untersucht wurde der Zeitraum von 1945 bis 2009, also auch die Amtsjahre von Josef Ratzinger, dem heutigen Papst Benedikt XVI. Aus dessen Amtszeit sei lediglich der Fall eines Priesters im Münchner Süden http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 36 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM dokumentiert, dem Ratzinger einen langen Brief geschrieben habe, er müsse die ihm angedrohten Sanktionen hinnehmen. Der Mann sei aus dem Priesteramt entlassen worden. "Nur dabei trat Ratzinger greifbar in Erscheinung", sagte Westpfahl. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:00 PM

• Kirche vertuschte Missbrauch systematisch DEUTSCHLAND sueddeutsche Lesezeichen hinzufügenDruckenVersendenVon M. Drobinski u. M. Maier-Albang Schwere Vorwürfe auf 250 Seiten: Im Erzbistum München sollen laut einem Gutachten Missbrauchsfälle systematisch vertuscht worden sein. Sogar Akten seien vernichtet worden. Joseph Ratzinger, der heutige Papst Benedikt XVI., kommt nur einmal vor in dieser Mittagsstunde im Sitzungssaal des Ordinariats. Ein Priester habe an den damaligen Erzbischof von München und Freising geschrieben, einer, der im Verdacht stand, Kinder sexuell belästigt zu haben. Er sollte suspendiert werden, sein Brief triefte vor Selbstmitleid. Ratzinger blieb hart: Der Mann durfte nicht länger Pfarrer sein. Die Journalisten fragen nach: Was ist mit dem Fall des übergriffigen Pfarrers Peter H., der im Frühjahr solche Wellen schlug? Zu ihm, der zu Ratzingers Zeit aus Essen kam und alsbald in München eingesetzt wurde, kann Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl nichts sagen. H. kommt nicht vor in den 13.200 Personalakten, die ihre Kanzlei gesichtet hat. Es bleibt nur die gute Geschichte vom heutigen Papst. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:58 PM

• Ein System der Vertuschung und Verharmlosung DEUTSCHLAND Welt Das Erzbistum München und Freising legt den Missbrauchsbericht vor. Es gab fast 400 Fälle seit 1949. Viele Akten wurden vernichtet. Schuldgefühle sind selten. Die ganze Wahrheit gab es nicht. Das 250 Seiten starke Gutachten zu den Missbrauchsfällen in der Erzdiözese München und Freising wird vorerst nicht veröffentlich. Aber allein schon die siebenseitige Zusammenfassung des Berichts, den Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl im Münchner Ordinariat vorlegte, ist schockierend genug: Wenn es um Verbrechen wie sexuellen Missbrauch ging, herrschte im Erzbistum ein System der Vertuschung und Verharmlosung. Akten wurden vernichtet, homosexuelle Kleriker erpresst. Desinteresse an den Opfern Die Täter zeigten selten Schuldgefühle, neigten aber zum Selbstmitleid. Mit am schlimmsten, so Westpfahl, empfand sie aber „die vollständige Nichtwahrnehmung der Opfer" durch das Ordinariat: „Es herrschte Desinteresse am Tatgeschehen und am Opferschicksal." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:55 PM

• Gutachten: Erzbistum München vertuschte sexuellen Missbrauch DEUTSCHLAND AFP München – Im Erzbistum München-Freising ist über Jahrzehnte sexueller Missbrauch bewusst vertuscht worden. "Wir haben es mit umfangreichen Aktenvernichtungsaktionen zu tun", sagte die vom Bistum beauftragte Gutachterin zur Aufarbeitung der Missbrauchsfälle, Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl, bei der Präsentation der Ergebnisse ihrer Arbeit. Außerdem hätten die Verantwortlichen in dem Bistum selbst gravierende Verdachtsfälle von sexuellem Missbrauch und körperlichen Misshandlungen unaufgeklärt gelassen, um Priester zu schützen. Westpfahl erhob keine Vorwürfe gegen den früheren Münchner Kardinal Joseph Ratzinger, den heutigen Papst Benedikt XVI, auch wenn aus dessen Kardinalszeit von 1977 bis 1982 Unterlagen fehlten. Bei der Bearbeitung von Verdachtsfällen liege die Verantwortung jeweils bei den Generalvikaren, sagte Westpfahl. "Die Generalvikare sind es viel mehr als die Erzbischöfe." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:53 PM

• German cardinal asks abuse victims for forgiveness GERMANY Seattle Times http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 37 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

By ANDREA M. JAUCH and MELISSA EDDY Associated Press MUNICH – The archbishop of Munich and Freising begged forgiveness on Friday for "everything those working for the church have done" as he presented a report that showed over 250 priests and religion teachers abused children in a diocese that was once presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who commissioned the report, said the Roman Catholic Church in Germany would have to work to regain the trust that has been lost since reports of abuse at the hands of German priests broke earlier this year. "We want to learn from our bad mistakes and misconduct of the past," Marx said. "And as archbishop, I also ask for forgiveness in the name of the Church for everything that those working for the church have done." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:49 PM

• DC Catholic officials should do more to monitor predator priests UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy, executive director 314 566 9790 [email protected] (NOTE: Today's Washington Post has a story about the whereabouts & status of DC area predator priests) Catholic officials can and should do more to supervise the pedophile priests they recruit, educate, ordain, hire, and often protect and quietly transfer. When clergy sex crimes and cover ups are uncovered, it's immoral for bishops to suddenly 'cut and run,' and feign powerlessness. For starters, for the safety of children, bishops in the DC area should do what 24 of their colleagues across the US have done: post on church websites the names of all proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics. Parents, parishioners and the public can't protect their kids from predators unless we know who those predators are. This is the bare minimum moral obligation of every Catholic prelate. Remember that priests have pledged to obey their bishops. In return, bishops provide priests – even most predator priests – with salaries, health insurance and a host of other benefits. Bishops can therefore order pedophile priests to live in supervised settings, like professionally-run treatment facilities for sex offenders. But virtually no bishop does this, preferring to instead take the cheap and easy way out, despite the obvious public safety risk involved. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:23 PM

• Fr. Alberto Maullon: Priest Gets Nabbed At Adult Bookstore, Doing What Comes Naturally HOUSTON (TX) Houston Press By Richard Connelly, Fri., Dec. 3 2010 ?The Houston Police Department, having dealt efficiently with drugs and violent crimes, has once again made time to tackle the huge, outrageous problem of guys doing it behind locked doors at adult bookstores. We hope you all feel safer. This week they nabbed a Catholic priest who was tending his flock in front of an undercover vice officer. Court documents show Fr. Alberto Maullon was masturbating "in a public place," meaning a Gulf Freeway adult bookstore. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:20 PM

• Houston-area priest accused of exposing self at adult book store HOUSTON (TX) KHOU by khou.com staff khou.com Posted on December 3, 2010 HOUSTON – A Houston-area priest was arrested and charged with public lewdness Wednesday after police said he was caught exposing himself in an adult book store. Father Alberto Maullon Jr. is the pastor at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Nassau Bay. He was arrested at a store in the 10100 block of the Gulf Freeway. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:18 PM

• Sexual abuse cases systematically covered up by church, study shows GERMANY Monsters and Critics http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 38 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Munich - Germany's Catholic church systematically covered up cases of sexual abuse within its own ranks for several decades, according to an expert study of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, presented Friday. The lawyer commissioned by the Archdiocese to conduct the study, Marion Westphal, said its records revealed huge gaps between 1945 and 2009. Westphal described a 'systematic system of cover-up,' in which few abuse cases were criminally prosecuted. 'Only 26 priests were convicted for sexual offences,' Westphal added. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:15 PM

• Priest arrested at adult book store HOUSTON (TX) KTRK HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston area priest is facing a charge of public lewdness after he was arrested at an adult book store. According to court documents, Alberto A. Maullon, 52, was arrested by Houston police for inappropriately touching himself in a public place at an adult book store on Wednesday. Bail for the misdemeanor charge is set at $1,000. Rev. Maullon is listed as the pastor of St. Paul Church on Point Lookout Drive, according to the website of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:12 PM

• Trial of Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey in child porn case set for May 4 CANADA Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA - Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey is set to face trial May 4-6 on child pornography charges. The trial was originally scheduled to begin in late April and run into May, but that was changed Friday during a court hearing. Lahey's lawyer, Michael Edelson, told the judge he won't need as many days as first thought. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:06 PM • Verraad en negeren van misbruik doet meeste pijn Friesch Dagblad, Door Frans Wijnands, NEDERLAND - Tot afgelopen woensdag konden mensen seksueel misbruik melden bij de commissie- Deetman, die het misbruik in katholieke instellingen grondig onderzoekt. Een voorbeeld van hoe het níét moet is de Ierse Rooms-Katholieke Kerk. Slachtoffer Colm O'Gorman beschrijft in zijn boek de frustratie van hoe hij genegeerd werd door de kerk. Het gezegde 'belofte maakt schuld' is ongetwijfeld ook in het Vaticaan bekend, en dus is het niet zó verwonderlijk dat paus Benedictus XVI besloten heeft een dozijn 'visitatori' aan het werk te zetten om het kindermisbruik in de Ierse Rooms-Katholieke Kerk te onderzoeken. Uit het Italiaans vertaald is een visitatore zowel een bezoeker als een visitator. De eerste kan gezellig zijn, de tweede zeker niet. En om dat laatste type visitator gaat het natuurlijk. Want de pauselijke onderzoekers komen in bisdommen en parochies, in kloosters en seminaries niet zomaar 'effe een bakkie doen'. Ze komen wel degelijk als inspecteurs, waarbij het er vooral om te doen is alle mogelijke praktische en controleerbare maatregelen voor te stellen om herhaald kindermisbruik door rooms-katholieke geestelijken te voorkomen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:03 PM • De marketing van de Blijde Boodschap - RKnieuws, BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - Het aantal kerkgangers bereikt een opmerkelijk laag peil, er komen amper nieuwe priesters bij en het slechte imago van de kerk wordt nog versterkt door de trieste berichten over seksueel misbruik. In zijn boek Kruis over de kerk? vraagt Hans Geybels zich af of de kerk niet wat meer aan marketing moet doen. Marketing omvat een heleboel technieken om de boodschappen beter over te brengen. Veel van die

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 39 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM technieken heeft het marketingwereldje afgekeken van het christendom en zelfs van de manier waarop Jezus communiceerde, bijvoorbeeld met verhalen. En omdat er zoveel geld mee te verdienen valt, hebben duizenden marketeers die technieken bestudeerd en geperfectioneerd. Is het nu niet aan de kerk om van die knowhow te profiteren? Als de kerk die moderne verkoopstechnieken aanwendt, wachten haar natuurlijk veel uitdagingen en valstrikken. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:37 AM • Frustration - Why doesn't the frum world focus on Incest? UNITED STATES - The Awareness Center, by Vicki Polin, MA, LCPC; I have to admit that I am very frustrated and have been for some time. There's a huge population of children and adult survivors who are being ignored. Why is it that the majority of those who call themselves "advocates" for Jewish survivors in the orthodox world ignore the fact that the majority of cases of child abuse occurs in the home. 46% of the cases of child sexual abuse involve the fact that the offenders are the victims mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents and cousins. Only a small fraction of cases happen in schools, camps, mikvah's and other locations. It's only 2% of all clergy that are sex offenders. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:34 AM

• Has the Catholic Church done enough? UNITED STATES Washington Post By Elizabeth Tenety Washington Post religion reporters Michelle Boorstein and William Wan reported Friday that many Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse 'simply vanish' from public view or accountability. In many cases, Catholic officials claim that they are no longer responsible for those priests who have left or been forced out of ministry. Boorstein and Wan's report published on the heels of a Deleware settlement where $30 million in damages was allotted by a jury to a man who suffered priest abuse as a child. Many victims groups continue to assert that the church has still not done enough to protect children and hold accountable the 5,768 American priests accused between 1950 to 2009. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:25 AM

• Lawyers for Roman Catholic bishop in court to confirm dates for child porn case CANADA AM 770 The Canadian Press OTTAWA - Lawyers representing Roman Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey are in court today to confirm trial dates in his child pornography case. Lahey himself did not appear. The case now is set for trial May 4-6. The former head of the diocese in Antigonish, N.S., was charged in September 2009 with possessing and importing child pornography. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:23 AM

• Former priest who is convicted sex offender resigns Bar Harbor board BAR HARBOR (ME) Bangor Daily News By Bill Trotter BDN Staff BAR HARBOR, Maine – A former Catholic priest resigned Wednesday from the Bar Harbor Housing Authority board after being told that his criminal past was being investigated, according to town officials. Walter Dayton Salisbury, 79, has been convicted twice of sexually abusing children, according to his former employer and Hancock County Sheriff William Clark. Terrance Kelley, the Bar Harbor Housing Authority's executive director, said Salisbury verbally resigned from the housing authority board Wednesday, after Kelley told him the Bangor Daily News was looking into allegations that Salisbury has a history of criminal sex offenses. In direct response, Kelley said, Salisbury http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 40 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM told him that he was resigning, effective immediately. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:19 AM

• Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says UNITED STATES The Raw Story By Daniel Tencer Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a "game". Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA's recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a "game" is potentially putting children in danger. Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is "one of the most common ways" that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:20 AM

• Stannies priest convicted of abuse AUSTRALIA Sydney Morning Herald David Marr December 4, 2010 ANOTHER priest has been convicted of abusing a boy at St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst. Father Kevin Phillips has pleaded guilty in the District Court to four counts of gross indecency with a child under the age of 18. Several other charges against the priest were dropped. Soon after becoming assistant chaplain at the boarding school run by the Vincentian Fathers, Phillips began to invite students to his room to drink and smoke. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:16 AM

• Benedict XVI's new pathological : "Pope in 1988 sought to remove abusers faster" Benedict XVI Ratzinger: God's Rottweiler Paris Arrow UNITED STATES - The pathological of Benedict XVI and his -spinners are incredible. Today they came up with another pathological lie that "Pope in 1988 sought to remove abusers faster" and "While a cardinal, pope asked for swift action against abusive priests". Now if he really did that in 1988, why did Benedict XVI take such a long time to apologize and admit to the "sins" of priests (refusing to call them pedophile priests)? Why does Benedict XVI keep blaming the Devil and others -- except himself when he had so much power as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith? He used his power to silence Liberation theologians like Jon Sobrino and Leonardo Boff but he never silenced or defrocked one pedophile priests among the thousands?? And why does he not defrock and excommunicate those 660 pedophile priests in Los Angeles whom Cardinal Mahony covered-up? Why does Benedict XVI not remove Cardinal Bernard Law (who admitted to transferring 80 pedophile priests from one parish to another) as of St. Mary Maggiore?? Why did he call the New York Times expose on his cover- up of pedophile priests as "Cheap Gossip' and went on to ridicule the media during Holy Week? And most of all why did he declare John Paul II a Venerable at the same time that priest was erupting in Ireland? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:11 AM • Vatican Defends Pope's Record On Sexual Abuse; SNAP responds UNITED STATES - Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (949 322 7434, [email protected]) Pope Benedict XVI has been a priest for 50 years. He first worked at the Vatican 40 years ago. He has been an archbishop for 33 years. For decades, he has been among a tiny handful of most powerful Catholic officials on the planet. So for decades he's known about many predator priest cases. But we see no evidence that even once he warned parents, alerted parishioners, called police, or urged other Catholic officials to do likewise. So somehow, one letter he wrote about the defrocking process is now somehow deemed significant? In the midst of a worldwide scandal involving the cover-up of hundreds of horrendous sex crimes across http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 41 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM the globe, he writes one letter expressing concern that it "sometimes takes a long while to defrock bad priests." And his defenders claim this somehow matters? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:09 AM

• Appeals court upholds priest's conviction; SNAP responds CHICAGO (IL) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement was made by Therese Albrecht (708 263 3050) We're grateful this dangerous and recent serial predator priest will remain behind bars. We're not surprised he's 'pulling out all the stops' and trying to exploit every legal technicality he can. But we are glad that this court, like so many others, understands that kids are safe from pedophiles only when pedophiles are imprisoned. We hope this news will inspire others who saw, suspected or suffered child sex crimes, by McGuire or others, to come forward, call police and start healing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 AM

• MN SNAP director on 2 bishops attacking a survivor MINNESOTA Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Bob Schwiderski 952 471 3422 [email protected], MN director of SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a support group Two Catholic bishops are using the same mean-spirited legal maneuver here. Last week, it was Twin Cities Archbishop John Neinstedt seeking $64,000. This week, it is Winona Bishop John Quinn seeking $68,000. Both prelates are trying to make the same victim pay church legal defense costs. Why? We believe it's because these two bishops want to: -- deter this victim from pursuing the truth in court -- force this victim to drop his effort to expose other predator priests, and -- intimidate other victims into staying silent. Shame on both bishops. This is a strong case by a credible victim against a proven predator and clearly irresponsible church officials who repeatedly ignored and hid terrible crimes while quietly shuffling the criminal to unsuspecting communities. It's on appeal. It's far from over. And we predict this brave victim will ultimately prevail in court. So to respond to this hurting man in such a cold-hearted way is unbecoming of any spiritual figure. Bishops can't have it both ways. They can't in public, claim to care, while in private, showing that they don't. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:03 AM

• Blogging Dr. Romo's Book: Healing the Sexually Abused Heart -- Who Am I? UNITED STATES The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing Virginia Jones I call Dr. Jaime Romo, Jaime, because I have met him twice when he has come to Oregon, and he is a nice guy who does not throw his intellectual weight around as a former professor of education at a university. Once I would have put him on a pedestal and called him Dr. Romo. In the last several years many people I have put on pedestals have fallen off. In any case, Jaime does not seem to put himself on a pedestal, so I won't. Jaime wrote his workbook, Healing the Sexually Abused Heart: A Workbook for Survivors, Thrivers and Supporters, as a clergy abuse survivor, for clergy abuse survivors. He gave me a couple dozen copies of the book as a donation to Compassionate Gathering and because I work with a number of clergy abuse survivors. When Jaime first gave me the book, I thought I was far enough along to not need to do the exercises. I started working the exercises anyway so I could understand the book and help others who might be interested in buying a copy from me, but I only did so when I had appointments I had to wait for. I very quickly came to the conclusion that Jaime's book was good for all survivors of abuse and not just clergy abuse or sex abuse survivors. I shared the book with someone who had been emotionally abused by his father but not abused in other ways, and he found that he identified with the exercises. Eventually I realized that I am still going through interpersonal interactions I am not sure how to handle and that I could use the http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 42 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM book to support and guide me through those interactions. I started taking Jaime's book with me on more occasions to peruse to see how it could help me heal my own wounded relationships. It didn't take me very long to decide to incorporate it into the support group Elizabeth and I run. Elizabeth is taking a break to support her son's family after the birth of a new grandchild, and I don't have as much experience running support groups as she does. Then I realized that people have a problem with inertia and people I support who had bought one of the books Jaime donated to me, had yet to begin. So I decided to blog my way through Jaime Romo's book to encourage others to start using the book more effectively. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:00 AM • Priest Suicide? KFI, {Audio} CALIFORNIA - I've been reporting on the case involving the assault of Father Jerold (Jerry) Lindner. He's the guy that was beat up recently at his home in the Los Gatos Jesuit Center near San Jose. William Lynch has been accused of the beating - Lynch says Lindner sexually abused him and his brother when they were young boys. Lindner was also a former teacher at LA's prestigious Loyola High School, where he chaired the English department for 16 years. Another bizarre twist in the life of Lindner…..the brother of a dead priest says Lindner had something to do with his brother's death. Father Jim Chevedden lived at Los Gatos. And, according to reports, Lindner was the last person to see Chevedden alive. Chevedden's brother, John, spoke candidly to me about how he thinks his brother died. On May 19, 2004, Chevedden was found dead on a patch of dirt next to a parking structure in downtown San Jose. Police say it was a suicide, Chevedden's brother says there were other powers at play. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:54 AM

• After child abuse accusations, Catholic priests often simply vanish UNITED STATES Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and William Wan Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 2, 2010 Ten years after the clergy sex abuse scandal first exploded in the United States, lawsuits have been settled, reports issued, policies overhauled. But even as the crisis has shifted to and the Vatican prepares to issue new guidelines on how to handle sex abuse cases, something glaring is missing in this country: the accused priests. Although the vast majority were removed from ministry long ago - barred from celebrating Mass in public, administering the sacraments, wearing their clerical collars or presenting themselves as priests - church officials say they have no way to monitor where the men are now. Nor do they keep official data on how many were defrocked, or stripped of their priestly status; how many were imprisoned or placed on sex- offender lists; how many are working; and how many are dead. The priests themselves have largely vanished from public view. Their fates are often a mystery to their victims, their parishioners and even their own lawyers. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:48 AM

• Clergy sex abuse protesters condemn Catholic leaders MINNESOTA LaCrosse Tribune By PATRICK B ANDERSON / [email protected] lacrossetribune.com | Posted: Friday, December 3, 2010 WINONA, Minn. - A national organization for victims of clergy sex abuse condemned Catholic leaders Thursday in Winona for trying to recoup legal fees from a man who says he was abused by a former Winona priest. Bob Schwiderski, state director of the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests, lashed out at the Winona Diocese and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for seeking about $132,000 from Jim Keenan. Keenan successfully sued the diocese and archdiocese claiming Thomas Adamson abused him between 1980 and 1982 while Adamson served at a church in Burnsville. The case was later overturned because the http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 43 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM statute of limitations had passed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM

• FLDS: Sect leader in Texas SAN ANGELO (TX) Standard-Times By Matthew Waller SAN ANGELO, Texas – Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamy sanctioning Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, walked into the Tom Green County courthouse for an arraignment with a gray sweater tucked into the chains that surrounded his waist, covering the top of the bright orange jumpsuit. He spoke so softly, presiding Judge Barbara Walther asked to have a microphone moved more closely to him. "I need more time," Jeffs said when asked by the judge whether he had a lawyer or whether he wanted one appointed for him. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:37 AM

• Bishop in court today on child porn charges CANADA The Chronicle-Herald OTTAWA – Bishop Raymond Lahey is to appear in court again today on possession of child-pornography charges. Lahey was charged in September 2009 with possessing and importing child pornography. The 70-year-old bishop was arrested after border agents searched his laptop at the Ottawa airport as he arrived from Britain. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:31 AM

• A second prelate now wants thousands from alleged victim UNITED STATES National Survivor Advocates Coalition For immediate release: Thursday, Dec. 2 For more info: Kristine Ward 937-272-0308 [email protected] David Clohessy 314 566 9790, [email protected] A second prelate now wants thousands from alleged victim That brings the total sought by church staffers to $132,000 Winona's bishop says he's owed $68,000 by Twin Cities man (And last week, Twin Cities prelate separately sought $64,000) Four national groups blast Catholic officials for "intimidating legal maneuver" (Nienstedt "postpones" his maneuver but SNAP says it should be "dropped for good") For the second time in a week, a Minnesota Catholic bishop has filed a legal motion seeking to force an alleged victim of a predator priest to pay thousands to the church in defense costs. Yesterday, leaders of a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, learned of the move by Winona Bishop John Quinn. It seeks $68,000 and follows on the heels of a similar request last week by Minneapolis-St. Paul Archbishop John Nienstedt for $64,000. SNAP and three other national organizations are blasting both prelates. They are BishopAccountability.org, a Boston-based research and archival group, and two Catholic reform organizations: the Chicago-based Call To Action and the Dayton-based National Survivors Advocacy Coalition. The move has been described by one Catholic official as "a routine legal maneuver." "In fact, it is a hardball tactic that is rarely used and always reprehensible," said Terence McKiernan, President of BishopAccountability.org Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:27 AM

• Diocese lambasted for seeking legal fees from man who sued MINNESOTA Winona Daily News By PATRICK B. ANDERSON | [email protected] winonadailynews.com | Posted: Friday, December 3, 2010 A national organization for victims of clergy sex abuse condemned Catholic leaders Thursday in Winona http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 44 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM for trying to recoup legal fees from a man who says he was abused by a former Winona priest. Bob Schwiderski, state director of the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests, lashed out at the Winona Diocese and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for together seeking about $132,000 from Jim Keenan. Keenan successfully sued the diocese and archdiocese claiming Thomas Adamson abused him between 1980 and 1982 while Adamson served at a church in Burnsville. The case was later overturned because the statute of limitations had passed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:18 AM

• Ernest Lorch, founder of Riverside Church hoops program… NEW YORK/MASSACHUSETTS New York Daily News By Michael O'Keeffe DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Ernest Lorch, the founder of the famed Riverside Church basketball program who failed to show up at a Massachusetts court at an Oct. 27 arraignment on sex abuse charges, is scheduled to appear in state court in White Plains on Friday for an extradition hearing. The hearing will likely be adjourned until early January because Gov. Paterson has yet to sign the governor's warrant requesting Lorch's extradition to Massachusetts. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Westchester district attorney's office, said the hold up is simply an administrative delay and that Paterson is expected to sign the warrant soon. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:13 AM

• The pedophilia scandals: The punishing news never stops UNITED STATES Washington Post By Gustav Niebuhr Other than the election of Pope Benedict XVI five years ago, news stories about the Roman Catholic Church tend to cluster around a single, terrible subject--the sexual abuse of children and adolescents by individual priests (in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and even '90s) and the failure of those priests' bishops to stop it. December began with a report from Delaware that a jury in that state had awarded $30 million in compensatory damages to a man who asserted he had been molested more than 100 times as a youth by a priest. The jury has yet to get around to deciding what it will award in punitive damages. One can only imagine. Yes, the overall issue has been thoroughly well-studied by now, and many explanations offered about the ecclesiastical culture in which these took place. But it still remains confounding why the higher-ups in the hierarchy didn't yank these criminals out of ministry at the first report of their despicable transgressions. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:09 AM

• Paedophile's victims speak out SOUTH AFRICA IOL December 3 2010 By Luvuyo Mjekula Cape Town Former Catholic school teacher Ian Appleton leaves the Paarl Regional Court this week where he was convicted of raping a seven-year-old boy a few years ago. He now faces a barrage of allegations of sexual molestation by former pupils at Christian Brothers College more than 20 years ago. Photo: Jason Boud He came from a prominent Cape family. He was a teacher at a Catholic school and a scoutmaster. Now convicted paedophile Ian Appleton stands accused of sexually abusing a number of his former pupils. This follows an article in the Cape Times in October which reported on Appleton's conviction for raping a seven-year-old boy a few years ago. The boy was the son of a family friend. He pleaded guilty. … Appleton was a teacher at Christian Brothers College (CBC) in Green Point between 1976 and 1982. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:04 AM

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• New Life Bible Church sues sexual abuse victim's parents for leaving girl in the church's pastor's care MISSOURI The Pitch Michael J. Landy was a youth pastor with New Life Bible Church when he sexually abused a young girl left in his care by church missionaries. Landy pleaded guilty, and the victim sued Landy and the church. Now, the Star reports that the church is suing the victim's parents, arguing the parents were negligent for leaving their children with Landy and "breached their duty to provide for the proper care, custody and control of their daughter." Yeah, the parents totally should have known that there was a chance that the youth pastor would sexually abuse their daughter. According to the Star: The victim reported the abuse to St. Joseph police last year, saying it began in 1995 when she was 13 and lasted four years. Often she and her younger brother were left with Landy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 AM

• Child Sex Assault Suspect Arrested in Colorado Springs COLORADO KKTV Reporter: KKTV Email Address: [email protected] Police have arrested a man for sexually assaulting a teenage girl… And tonight, they're worried there may be more victims out there. A photo of the suspect, 21-year-old Joshua Amoroso, has not yet been released, but police say their Internet Crimes Against Children unit picked him up Wednesday inside the Chapel Hills Mall in Colorado Springs. Investigators accuse Amoroso of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl back in October on multiple occasions in locations across the city. The investigation initially began on October 18. This was at the same time Amoroso was apparently working as a youth pastor at a local church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:58 AM

• Ratzinger requested a 'more rapid' process to punish abuser priests in the 1980s ROME LifeSite by Hilary White Thu Dec 02, 2010 ROME, December 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In 1988 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, then-head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, attempted to bring reforms to the Code of Canon Law that would have forced local bishops to observe proper juridical procedures against priests accused of sexual abuse, and impose specific penalties against them if they were found guilty. In an article published today by the Vatican's press office, Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, shows that Pope Benedict XVI has for decades attempted to reform the process by which "graviora delicta," or grave crimes, including sexual abuse of minors by clerics, are tried in the Church. Bishop Arrieta writes, "The initiative {for reform} sprang from a deeply-held conviction of the Pontiff, the fruit of years of personal experience, and from his concern for the integrity and the consistent application of Church discipline." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:54 AM

• Priest guilty of sex offences against boy AUSTRALIA 9 News A Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to sex offences against a 16-year-old boy at a NSW boarding school in 1990. In the NSW District Court in Sydney on Friday, the 60-year-old priest, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to four counts of committing an act of gross indecency with the boy between May and December 1990. According to agreed facts, the priest was assigned in April 1990 to be the boy's mentor for evening prayer http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 46 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM sessions. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:47 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Fri December 03, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sat December 04, 2010 edition: • Rabbi's son accused … [Years. Rabbi Gershon Kranczer -NEW*, Yechezkel Kranczer (24) -NEW*. Judaists. ? 4 ? female relatives.] New York Daily News, By Matthew Lysiak and Jonathan Lemire, Staff Writers, NEW YORK - As the manhunt continued for the Brooklyn rabbi accused of sexually abusing female relatives, one of his sons was charged with a series of sickening attacks – and ordered to stay away from his underage victims. Yechezkel Kranczer, 24, posted $10,000 bail and left Brooklyn Criminal Court Saturday afternoon after he was arraigned on charges of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. He was instructed to not contact his 13- and 16-year-old victims. Kranczer, two brothers and his father, Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, are together accused of abusing four relatives for years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:01 PM

• Entschädigung für Heimkinder nur im Einzelfall Spiegel, ~ December 04, 2010 DEUTSCHLAND - Opfer von Gewalt in Kinderheimen sollen in Deutschland nicht mit einem Pauschalbetrag entschädigt werden. Gezahlt werden soll laut SPIEGEL-Informationen nur dann, wenn sich Betroffene nachweisbar "in schwierigen Lebenssituationen befinden". Berlin - Geht es nach den Experten vom "Runden Tisch Heimerziehung", wird es keine generelle Entschädigung für misshandelte ehemalige Insassen von Kinderheimen geben. Das will das Gremium nach zweijährigen Beratungen auf seinem letzten Treffen Ende der Woche offenbar in einem Endbericht festschreiben. Der Runde Tisch Heimerziehung wurde im Februar 2009 gegründet und steht unter dem Vorsitz der ehemaligen Vizepräsidentin des Deutschen Bundestages, Antje Vollmer (Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen). Hier sind Mitglieder des Bundestages, Vertreter von Kirchen, Stiftungen und Wohlfahrtverbänden sowie ehemalige Heimkinder und Experten aus verschiedenen Ministerien vertreten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:05 PM, December 04, 2010 [TRANSLATION of first sentence: GERMANY: Victims of force in children's homes are not to be compensated in Germany with a lump sum. ENDS.]

• Former Fenland priest facing prison after admitting possession of child porn [To ~ June 2010. Ex-Fr John Shannon (58) -? NEW*. RCC clergy-training lecturer. Child pornography.] Cambs Times Saturday, 4 December, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - A FORMER Roman Catholic priest from Fenland is facing jail after admitting making and possessing child pornography. John Terence Paul Shannon, 58, of The Elms, Chatteris appeared at Durham Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to 16 counts of making indecent photographs of a child and one charge of possessing an unconfirmed number of indecent images of children. Shannon was suspended from his duties as a lecturer at the 200-year-old St Cuthbert's Seminary, at , near Esh, County Durham, in June. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:41 PM

• 41 thousand news articles in 24 hours: Interview w/Gary Bergeron re Reformation Day 2010 and

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Vatican meeting that followed ALBUQUERQUE (NM) - City of Angels By Kay Ebeling December 3, 2010 Next Events: Washington, D.C. June 25, 2011; Rome, Italy, October 30, 2011 "Lombardi seemed uncomfortable during the whole meeting," said Gary Bergeron of Survivors Voice. "I think that fear surrounds this subject from both sides, a fear so real and so visceral that it's tough for people to sit down and just have a conversation about it. And I honestly think the only way that progress is going to be made is for those conversations to be had." Bergeron said there were "41 thousand news articles in 24 hours" about the the Survivors Voice march in Rome last October that led to the meeting with Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. Survivors Voice organized Reformation Day in St. Peter's Square to bring attention to hundreds of thousands of victims of pedophile Catholic priests worldwide who continue to seek justice. "Every major news outlet in every major country had an article about this event," Bergeron added. "They told us this was the first time any event like this was being covered in Rome. The European press are much more aggressive than the U.S. press to begin with." City of Angels Blog interviewed Bergeron this week about the Reformation Day event, which will be repeated next year on the last Sunday in October, the 30th. Posted by Terry McKiernan at 12:54 PM

• Generation of Hopis damaged, Navajo town named for child , more memories from former Fr. Pious about pedophile priests in New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE (NM) City of Angels By Kay Ebeling December 2, 2010 In one of several conversations, Oso Pious told me, "One day, I suppose, the survivors of all this abuse will speak out or maybe not." The former special ed teacher has been in touch with City of Angels Blog several times since we last reported on his recollections of the time he spent as Father Pious, working alongside Father Gerald Fitzgerald at Servants of the Paraclete in 1965. Pious says he recently found letters and notes with Fr. Gerald's handwriting, and CofA hopes to scan those papers here soon. "I just remembered, the Navajo name for the town near where Father McNeill had his school," Pious spoke breathlessly in the phone a few days ago. "It's Anna' Task Ai I." (He spelled the name out carefully). "That translates in Navajo to 'The Place Where the Little Girls Spread their Legs.' In other words, there was so much there." The town is known today as Grants, NM. Pious emphasized, "Everything I'm telling you is true." Today known as "Oso Pious," he's emailed and phoned City of Angels Blog several times, and some of the information he's poured out is reproduced in this post. Oso Pious reports firsthand on a pedophile ring that would meet in locations with easy access to Native American children in New Mexico. Oso Pious says recent stories at City of Angels Blog have triggered this outpouring of memories. He emailed the other day: Kay: In today's Albuquerque Journal on page C-2 there is an article about a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, concerning Father Clement Hageman." {Article is scanned here as Abq Journal is not online.} "I worked as a special education teacher on the Navajo Reservation in the early 1970s when both Father Douglas McNeill and Father Jose Rodriguez were abusing Navajo youngsters in Thoreau and in Gallup. Father McNeill started his own school for Navajo children and in 1994 he was finally caught." Posted by Terry McKiernan at 12:41 PM • Gospel Today Readers Irate Over Bishop Eddie Long Cover Story [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] Afro, UNITED STATES - The faith-based magazine Gospel Today is facing subscriber criticism after featuring embattled Bishop Eddie Long on the cover of its November/December Issue, according to Blackvoices.com. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 48 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Readers are accusing the accompanying article, entitled "Bishop Eddie Long at the Center of the Scandal That Rocked the Church World," of downplaying allegations against him of sexual coercion brought by four male members of his New Birth Missionary Church in Georgia in September. Subscribers also said they believe the magazine is nurturing a conflict of interest with the story, as Long serves as the chair of the magazine's board. "The best thing:" for Gospel Today "was to not comment, but I do understand why you did," one subscriber wrote on the magazine's Web site. "God is not pleased with all the hypocrisy going on with these leaders and the things people will say and print just for MONEY!!!!" The magazine's publisher, Teresa Hairston released the following statement on Gospel Today's Web site: "Whether Bishop Long is guilty or not; whether the young men are guilty or not, the BODY OF CHRIST must handle this situation according to the Word of God! The mainstream press has painted a hideous picture; some have even called for Bishop Long's resignation! They're not even members." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:35 PM • Gospel Today's Explosive Cover Story regarding Bishop Eddie Long [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] Gospel Today, By Dr. Teresa Hairston, Is GOSPEL TODAY "Sugar-Coating"? Is the Word of God "not enough?" UNITED STATES - Recently, readers of Gospel Today Magazine got the new November/December issue in their mailboxes. One reader wrote back to the publisher: "I got my latest issue of Gospel Today; with {Bishop} Eddie Long on the cover. I read the article and said to myself hmmmm seem like some sugar coating going on. Turned back to the 1st page and saw where the Bishop of his Church in NC is on your Board of Directors, I looked down and also saw that Eddie Long is on your Board of Advisors, I said all of that to say this. The best thing your magazine should have did was to not comment, but I do understand why you did. God is not pleased with all of the hypocrisy going on with these leaders and the things people will say and print just for MONEY!!!! Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:32 PM • Drama in Documents: New Theater Production comprised of words in Pedophile Priest Files that were released by U.S. Supreme Court Order last year [STAGE PLAY] City of Angels, By Kay Ebeling, November 29, 2010 ALBUQUERQUE (NM) - The drama is in the documents, as proven again in a play constructed from pedophile priest files the Archdiocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to release December 2009. After a year-long effort, VOTF Bridgeport brought "Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned," to the stage earlier this month. … Producer of the event, John Marshall Lee, said in a recent phone call, "What I found most curious was that the great newspapers who spent their money to press the legal case against the diocese- New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Hartford Courant- were alerted about the performance in New Haven and chose not to report on it. We sent press releases, I called." … "Everyone pitched in, but three people were key to the effort: Anne Pollack, who built a vast spreadsheet that put the chaotic jigsaw puzzle of the file together so that it could be read; Joe O'Callaghan, who created a beautiful script by painstakingly piecing together statements by survivors and their parents, depositions of bishops, and diocesan letters and memos; and John Marshall Lee, who kept the project going and acted as producer for the event." Posted by Terry McKiernan at 12:24 PM

• The Pedophile's Guide Is Another Sign of Our Moral Decline UNITED STATES American Thinker By Anthony W. Hager A novice sailor will notice when a large vessel veers drastically from its charted course. But even experienced seamen may not realize the change when course deviations are slight. Societies react to cultural variations in similar fashion. People will balk when the moral code is abruptly altered. But when the transition is slow, over several generations, the original course is lost before the change is perceived. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 49 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Philip R. Greaves' book, The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct, indicates another change in America's moral bearing. It should shout "Warning!" at the top of its lungs, for it illustrates how a society can adapt to moral degeneration. The first step is to rationalize the irrational and defend the indefensible until deviant behavior is mainstreamed. Greaves is willing to give it a whirl. He claims his book doesn't endorse pedophilia, but establishes guidelines for pedophile relationships. Injurious acts are off-limits, and certain principles must be adopted to ensure safety for the child. Greaves explained, "I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals." Apparently, since pedophilia undeniably occurs, it should be woven into our cultural fabric. Notice the change? Child-molesters are no longer twisted pedophiles, but "pedosexuals." The word lends legitimacy to the act, similar to how "homosexual," "bisexual," and "transsexual" have legitimized behaviors once considered immoral. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:40 AM

• US Vatican Embassy condemns 'harmful' WikiLeaks ROME EWTN By Kevin J. Jones, Staff Writer The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See has condemned "in the strongest terms" the unauthorized disclosure of State Department cables possessed by WikiLeaks. Disclosure of the cables' contents could be harmful to individuals and international relations, the embassy said in response to questions from EWTN News. More than 800 cables in the WikiLeaks "Cablegate" project appear to involve the Vatican. More than 700 were labeled as originating at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, a EWTN News analysis of preliminary data found. The cables' subject labels indicate they involve issues regarding intelligence, national security, the Vatican's internal governance, and Vatican relations with the U.S. State Department. Human rights and religious freedom were among the most numerous subject labels. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:10 AM

• NYPD hunting B'klyn dad & sons who abused women in their family NEW YORK New York Post By JAMIE SCHRAM Last Updated: 7:06 AM, December 4, 2010 A Brooklyn father and three sons sexually abused four female members of their large family over a 15 year period, police said today. Now, former Yeshiva teacher Gershon Kranczer, 58, and his legally blind son Asher Kranczer, 21, are being sought by The NYPD after they fled to Israel on Nov. 29, when the oldest victim, 20, finally reported the sick, twisted situation, sources said. Police are investigating whether Gershon allegedly sodomized and sexually abused two of his daughters, ages 20 and 19. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:43 AM

• Pope, gay priests, abuse UNITED KINGDOM / UNITED STATES Guardian Andrew Brown One of the nastier and more powerful ideas lurking in discussions of gay Roman Catholic clergy is the claim that the child abuse crisis was a consequence of allowing gay men into the priesthood. This is, I think, largely an American view, and connected with the American cult of virility. I still remember the difficulty I had in suppressing a fit of the giggles in a radio interview when a leading American right wing Catholic intellectual lowered his voice to a pitch that would make a mantelpiece quiver and told me that what the Church needed now was manly men in the priesthood. None the less, it is clearly true that the great majority of "child abuse" in the US was directed at adolescent boys or those just pre-adolescent; girls of any age made up only one fifth of the victims. There is a case to answer here. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 50 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

The "official" answer given to US Catholic bishops' college by the independent researchers of the John Jay College, who compiled these figures, is not an entirely convincing one. This is that homosexual acts and homosexual identity are not the same thing: there are well-known situations such as prisons, and traditional public schools in which otherwise enthusiastically heterosexual men will do things with each other which would be gay if done by gay men. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:39 AM

• Gutachterin legt Finger in die Wunden der Kirche DEUTSCHLAND Stern Die Missbrauchsaffäre in der katholischen Kirche sorgt weiter für Zündstoff. Systematische Vertuschung und Aktenvernichtung - eine Gutachterin in München zieht schonungslos Bilanz. Auch Papst Benedikt XVI. entgeht der Kritik nicht. Schonungslos legt Gutachterin Marion Westpfahl den Finger in die Wunden der Kirche. Sie sollte im Erzbistum München und Freising die Missbrauchsfälle in den kirchlichen Reihen seit 1945 untersuchen. Und ihr Urteil ist vernichtend: Sie spricht von systematischer Vertuschung durch Kirchenmitarbeiter, falsch verstandenem "brüderlichen Miteinander" und völliger Missachtung der Opfer. Westpfahl gilt als eine Frau, die kein Blatt vor den Mund nimmt. Und so bekommt auch Papst Benedikt XVI. sein Fett weg, der 1977 bis 1982 Erzbischof von München und Freising war. Die Feststellungen zur katastrophalen Aktenpflege im Ordinariat gälten auch für Joseph Ratzingers Münchner Amtszeit, sagt die frühere Staatsanwältin und Richterin. Aber sie habe nur ein einziges Dokument gefunden, in dem Ratzinger selbst mit einem Missbrauchsfall befasst war. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 AM

• Nach Missbrauchsaffäre: Ruf nach kirchlicher Neuausrichtung DEUTSCHLAND Evangelisch Konsequenzen - Das spektakuläre Münchner Gutachten zur systematischen Vertuschung von Missbrauchsfällen in katholischen Einrichtungen zeigt nach Ansicht der Reformbewegung "Wir sind Kirche", dass eine umfassende Neuausrichtung der Amtskirche notwendig ist. Es reiche nicht aus, die Prävention zu stärken und mit verbesserten Strukturen künftig eine Vertuschung zu verhindern, sagte "Wir sind Kirche"-Sprecher Christian Weisner in München. Denn natürlich müsse man von einem Zusammenhang zwischen der Missbrauchsaffäre einerseits und der Priesterverpflichtung zur Ehelosigkeit sowie der problematischen kirchlichen Sexualmoral andererseits ausgehen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM

• The Getaway MASSACHUSETTS Boston Magazine By EILEEN MCNAMARA FORGET THE "CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND." If we cared that much about "inappropriate relationships" between powerful men and young subordinates, Bill Clinton wouldn't continue to be such a big draw. Forget the humiliated wife, a stroke survivor in late middle age. If we cared that much about narcissistic husbands dumping ailing spouses, Newt Gingrich's name wouldn't be uttered in the same breath as "prospective presidential candidate." No, what is so absorbing about the Paul Levy story is less what it says about one preening hospital executive's peculiar idea of workplace propriety than what it says about us, about Boston, where a self- aggrandizing media darling sold himself as the savior of struggling local institutions while ducking any scrutiny for conduct decidedly unbecoming a messiah. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:26 AM

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BY TIM TOWNSEND | [email protected] > 314-340-8221 A lawyer for a Catholic priest said Friday that his client bears no responsibility for a $60,000 shortfall at St. Anthony's Catholic Church that has divided the Sullivan parish and triggered a reimbursement from the Archdiocese of St. Louis. John Kilo, a lawyer who represents the Rev. Dennis Zacheis, said the priest "denies any wrongdoing whatsoever." A prosecutor, meanwhile, said his decision not to bring criminal charges against the priest follows seven months of investigation in which the archdiocese cooperated fully. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:07 AM

• Former priest facing prison for possessing child porn [Ex-Fr John Shannon -?NEW*. RCC. Seminary lecturer. Child pornography.] The Northern Echo, By Helen Smithson, Reporter (Wear Valley), UNITED KINGDOM - A FORMER Roman Catholic priest is facing jail after he admitted making and possessing child pornography. John Terence Paul Shannon, 58, a former lecturer at St Cuthbert's Seminary, at Ushaw College, near Esh, County Durham, appeared at Durham Crown Court yesterday. Shannon, of The Elms, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, who was also a priest at the Diocese of East Anglia, admitted 16 counts of making indecent photographs of a child and one charge of possessing an unconfirmed number of indecent images of children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:04 AM • Brooklyn Rabbi Gershon Kranczer and sons accused … NEW YORK New York Daily News BY Henrick Karoliszyn and Jonathan Lemire DAILY NEWS WRITERS A Brooklyn rabbi and three of his sons are accused of preying on four female relatives - and the sexual abuse may have started as many as 15 years ago. Detectives suspect Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, 58, abused two underage relatives, while three of his sons - ages 24, 21 and 15 - repeatedly attacked other girls, police said. Investigators said Kranczer and his 21-year-old son, Asher, who is legally blind, fled to Israel Monday and haven't been found. The rabbi's 24-year-old son, Yechezkel Kranczer, turned himself in to the NYPD Thursday, and the 15- year-old - whose name is being withheld - surrendered to police the day before. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 AM

• Police: Brooklyn Rabbi, Sons Sexually Abused Family Members For 15 Years NEW YORK NY1 {with video} A Hasidic rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing at least four female relatives, police officials tell NY1. Investigators say the four sisters from a Brooklyn family were abused sexually for 15 years by their father and brothers. Two of the brothers were arrested -- one of whom was taken into custody in Brooklyn on East Fourth Street. Police say their father and another brother fled earlier this week to Israel and were apparently driven to the airport by the mother. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 AM

• Brooklyn rabbi, sons charged with sexual abuse NEW YORK Reuters By Chris Michaud NEW YORK | Fri Dec 3, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn rabbi and former Yeshiva school principal and three of his sons, http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 52 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn rabbi and former Yeshiva school principal and three of his sons, including one aged 15, were accused of sexually molesting the family's daughters over a period of several years, including one girl as young as eight, police said on Friday. Gershon Kranczer, 58, fled to Israel with a 21-year-old son earlier this week and was being sought there. New York City police said they are working with Israeli officials on the case. Authorities said that four sisters, ages 20, 19, 17 and eight, were all sexually abused numerous times over several years variously by their three brothers or father. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:53 AM

• Former Yeshiva Principal Sought on Abuse Charges NEW YORK The New York Times By KAREEM FAHIM and AL BAKER Published: December 3, 2010 A former Brooklyn yeshiva principal and three of his sons sexually abused four of the principal's other children, molesting one of the victims over 15 years, the authorities said Friday. The police are still looking for the man, Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, 58, and one of his sons, Asher Kranczer, 21, who they believe fled to Israel earlier this week. Another son, Yechezkel Kranczer, 24, turned himself in to the police on Thursday and has been charged with 70 counts of sexual abuse and 2 counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The third son, a 15-year-old whose name was withheld by the authorities, was brought in for questioning on Wednesday, made statements implicating himself in the abuse and was arrested, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:50 AM

• Erzbistum München soll Missbrauch systematisch vertuscht haben DEUTSCHLAND Spiegel {Zusammenfassung des Berichts durch Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl} {See also an English translation of the summary of Westpfahl's report.} {See Google's English translation of this article from Der Spiegel.} Die katholische Kirche soll Missbrauchsfälle systematisch vertuscht haben. Ein nun veröffentlichtes Gutachten meldet aus dem Erzbistum München und Freising "umfangreiche Aktenvernichtungsaktionen". Auch zur Amstzeit von Joseph Ratzinger habe es eine "katastrophale Aktenpflege" gegeben. München - Die Ergebnisse eines unabhängigen, kirchlich bestellten Gutachtens für das Erzbistum München und Freising sind erschütternd: Die katholische Kirche soll Missbrauchsfälle in den eigenen Reihen über Jahrzehnte hinweg systematisch vertuscht haben. In dem Erzbistum seien in der Vergangenheit immer wieder Akten offenkundig vernichtet worden, um Missbrauch zu verheimlichen, sagte die Gutachterin und Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl. "Wir haben es mit umfangreichen Aktenvernichtungsaktionen zu tun", sagte Westphal bei der Vorstellung ihrer Untersuchungsergebnisse für die Jahre 1945 bis 2009. Statt an das Leid der Opfer zu denken, hätten viele Kirchenmitarbeiter in erster Linie einen Skandal vermeiden wollen. Zum Teil seien Akten in Privatwohnungen weggebracht worden, zum Teil seien sie im Ordinariat für Unbefugte zugänglich gewesen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:46 AM

• Appoints New Public Relations Director MASSACHUSETTS PRLog FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 03, 2010 – Voice of the Faithful, the 30,000-strong organization committed to Roman Catholic Church reform, has appointed Nick Ingala of Mansfield as the organization's public relations director. Ingala comes to VOTF from Publicity Inc. a Boston public relations and marketing communications agency founded in 1946. He joined the firm in 1978 and was named president in 1995. Publicity Inc. has worked for clients in business, industry, government, healthcare, education, entertainment, professional sports and non-profit arenas. He began his public relations career as information officer for the engineering http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 53 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM and science curricula at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. "We welcome Nick to our team and look forward to the opportunity his expertise and experience bring to helping us fulfill our mission," said Donna B. Doucette, VOTF executive director. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:43 AM

• BACKGROUND: Father Brian Joseph Spillane, Australia AUSTRALIA By a Broken Rites researcher Broken Rites Australia has gathered the following information about the career of Father Brian Joseph Spillane, who has spent most of his working life as a Catholic priest in the Vincentian religious order (also called the Congregation of the Mission). A part of his career was spent as a priest working at St Stanislaus College – a Catholic day and boarding secondary school for boys, located at Bathurst, in the central west of New South . Father Spillane also ministered in Catholic parishes in Sydney and Queensland and he toured other states in Australia, visting various parishes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 AM

• Priest admits indecency against a schoolboy AUSTRALIA Broken Rites By a Broken Rites researcher An Australian Catholic priest, Father Kevin Francis Phillips, was convicted in Sydney on 3 December 2010 of abusing a 16-year-old boy at St Stanislaus boys' boarding school at Bathurst in central-west New South Wales. Father Kevin Phillips, 60, pleaded guilty to four counts of gross indecency with a child under the age of 18. Several other charges against the priest were dropped. After his conviction, the court released Phillips on bail. Sentence proceedings were scheduled for early 2011. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:33 AM • Vatican investigates ex Bishop of Bruges - De Redactie, Sat 04/Dec/2010 The Vatican in Rome intends to consider the case of the former Bishop of Bruges who admitted that he had been involved in child sex abuse. Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to examine the case centring on the West Flemish cleric Roger Vangheluwe. The former Bishop of Bruges earlier admitted repeated sexual abuse of his nephew, who was a minor at the time. In April Pope Benedict accepted the Bishop's resignation. For a while it seemed like the matter would end like that, but the Roman Catholic Church's failure to act in this case triggered a storm of indignation among Catholics in Belgium. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:27 AM • Sorry, bishop: Gov serves the citizens [RC leader talks of "authority." Civil union legalised in Illinois.]

Chicago Sun-Times, BY CAROL MARIN, [email protected] , December 4, 2010 ILLINOIS - It's way past time for Catholic bishops to stop lecturing elected public officials about whom they serve. As you know, the Illinois House and Senate made history this past week by legalizing civil unions. Senators and state representatives did so despite heavy lobbying by the Catholic Conference of Bishops and by Cardinal himself. The president of the Illinois Senate, John Cullerton, is Catholic. The speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan is Catholic. Both supported the measure. As does Gov. Quinn, also Catholic, who promises to sign the bill and make it law. That pledge provoked a stern lecture from Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, head of the Springfield Archdiocese. Paprocki wrote: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 54 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Archdiocese. Paprocki wrote: "If the governor wishes to pursue a secular agenda for political purposes, that is his prerogative for which he is accountable to the voters. But if he wishes to speak as a Catholic, then he is accountable to Catholic authority, and the Catholic Church does not support civil unions or other measures that are contrary to the natural moral law." The operative word in Paprocki's dressing down is "authority." A church that should be chastened by the failure of its authority to protect children from sexual abuse, a church misusing its authority to conduct the current inquisition of the faithfulness of Roman Catholic sisters, is instead evermore consumed with its authority. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:24 AM • Youth Pastor Accused Of Sexual Assault On Teenager COLORADO SPRINGS (CO) TheDenverChannel Deb Stanley, 7NEWS Producer COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- After a six-week investigation, Colorado Springs police arrested a youth pastor Wednesday on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Joshua Amoroso, 21, worked as a youth pastor at Gateway Church in Colorado Springs. Church officials said Amoroso was terminated Oct. 18 when the investigation started. Police said a 14-year-old girl told them that she had had sexual contact with Amoroso at multiple locations around Colorado Springs. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:21 AM

• Joshua Amoroso, Gateway Church youth pastor in CO Springs, bused for sexual assault on a child COLORADO Denver Westword By Michael Roberts, Fri., Dec. 3 2010 By definition, a youth pastor has access to lotsa young folks. And Joshua Amoroso, 21, who served in this capacity at Colorado Springs' Gateway Church, is accused of violating the trust required by someone in that position in the worst possible way -- with a fourteen-year-old girl. As detailed by the Colorado Springs Police Department, the first complaint against Amoroso surfaced in October, and the CSPD fears there may be more victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:18 AM

• Late minister named in sex abuse suit CANADA The Record December 03, 2010 By Frances Barrick, Record staff A late, retired Cambridge minister is at the centre of a $2.1-million sexual abuse lawsuit against the United Church of Canada. Rev. Robert Duthie, a minister at Lincoln Avenue United Church in Cambridge in the 1980s, died in May in Cambridge. He was 71 and had retired in 2003. In 2008, a judge in Chatham found Duthie not guilty of sex charges dating back to the 1970s in Chatham. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:00 AM

• National audit shows Catholic Diocese of San Angelo to be in full compliance SAN ANGELO (TX) Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo 12/02/20100 During the month of August 2010, the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo completed an audit of its Safe Environment Programs with auditors of the Gavin Group of Boston, an independent firm commissioned by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB), to insure compliance with the USCCB Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The Charter, originally adopted by the USCCB in November 2002, sets forth specific requirements which enable dioceses across the country to establish safe environment programs to protect children and youth from sexual abuse. During this audit, Diocesan Safe Environment Policies; Safe Environment Programs for church personnel, parents, and children; as well as procedures for assisting victims of abuse were examined. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 55 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

As Bishop, I am happy to report that the Gavin Group has informed the Diocese that, based on the analysis of the audit results, the Diocese will continue it's status of being in compliance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People for 2010. Since implementation of the Charter, the Diocese has undergone six previous annual audits in which we were found to be in full compliance with all articles of the Charter. I am pleased with the results of this audit and grateful for the hard work of so many people throughout our diocese; , deacons, religious, and lay leaders; to provide a safe environment for all of our children and youth in the many programs through which we minister to them. Once again, this audit has given us a great opportunity to step back and see what we have accomplished and explore areas where we can make adjustments or improvements. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:56 AM

• Abilene churches pass audit ABILENE (TX) Reporter News Abilene's four Catholic churches are among 73 churches in the Diocese of San Angelo that passed their latest annual audit to achieve compliance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The charter was adopted in 2002 by the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops to "enable dioceses across the country to establish safe environment programs to protect children and youth from sexual abuse." Bishop Michael Pfeifer of San Angelo said Friday that the 2009 audit marks the seventh consecutive year that the diocese has been in full compliance with all articles in the charter. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:53 AM

• Diocese passes audit on youth safeguards SAN ANGELO (TX) Standard-Times SAN ANGELO, Texas – The Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, which encompasses 29 counties, completed an audit of its Safe Environment Programs and was found to be in compliance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The charter was established in November 2002 by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops to ensure dioceses across the country establish safe environment programs to protect children and youth from sexual abuse. The Gavin Group of Boston, an independent firm commissioned by the bishops' organization, conducted the annual audit on the San Angelo diocese in August. The audit looked at diocesan Safe Environment policies, the Safe Environment Programs for church personnel, parents and children, as well as procedures for assisting victims of abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:50 AM

• Loser Pay Or More Victim ? UNITED STATES The Injury Board Posted by Mike Bryant December 04, 2010 I ran across another update from Jeff Anderson that should be of great concern for anyone looking for justice for sexual abuse victims. Basically, in October a Ramsey County District Judge dismissed a case against the Catholic Church leaders, finding that what happened was beyond statute of limitations. The court didn't find that the assault never happened, nor did they find that former priest Thomas Adamson isn't a pedophile that the church hid or moved around with knowledge of his abuses. There have been 20 people who claim Adamson abused them when they were children at church parishes in both the Winona diocese and Twin Cities archdiocese. Many of the cases have already been settled out of court. In 1990, a jury awarded one of Adamson's victims $3.5 million, which was later reduced to $1 million. Defendants included the archdiocese and the Winona Diocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:48 AM

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• Antigonish diocese sells two properties CANADA The Chronicle-Herald By MICHAEL GORMAN Truro Bureau Sat, Dec 4 {Church Property Sales Web site} {FINANCIAL AND LEGAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE} The Diocese of Antigonish has sold two properties and has pending sales on 16 others as it tries to raise money for a settlement with victims of alleged sexual abuse. A website created to list real estate available in the seven counties covered by the northeastern Nova Scotia diocese features 31 properties. Of those, 16 are listed as pending sales. If all the sales go through, they would bring in about $1.24 million, based on the prices listed on the website. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:40 AM

• Dismissal of lawsuit against priest is upheld TOLEDO (OH) Toledo Blade By DAVID YONKE BLADE RELIGION EDITOR A state appeals court, citing statute of limitations laws, Friday upheld the dismissal of a woman's suit against Toledo priest Gerald Robinson claiming the cleric sexually abused her in satanic rituals when she was a child. The Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals said it was not addressing whether the allegations were true, only that the woman did not file her complaint soon enough. The woman, who sued anonymously as Survivor Doe, contacted The Blade Friday and said it is unlikely she will pursue her case further in the courts. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:37 AM

• Munich Church hid abuse allegations for decades GERMANY The Local {the report in English} {the report in German} A report on abuse by clergy in Pope Benedict's former Archbishopric of Munich shows that at least 159 priests were suspected of sexual or physical abuse while the actual number is thought to be considerably higher. Marion Westphal, the former judge who compiled the report for the Catholic Church from files and interviews of people who worked there, said files had been systematically destroyed over decades in order to hide the abuse. The role of Pope Benedict XVI while archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982, could not be clearly defined, said Westphal, but she described the record keeping during that time as catastrophic. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:26 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sat December 04, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sun December 05, 2010 edition: • Burke woman leads awareness campaign on clergy sexual abuse [~ 1960s Mons. William Reinecke ? NEW*. RCC. Girl (10).] Washington Post, By Derek Kravitz, Staff Writer, Sunday, December 5, 2010 VIRGINIA - As a 10-year-old girl, red-haired Becky Ianni said she thought William T. Reinecke, a newly ordained pastor at the Ianni family's Alexandria church, was gentle and warm. Families vacationed with him, kids loved him and female parishioners thought he was handsome. In the late 1960s, Reinecke gave the Iannis their first color television. Then, she said, the molestation started in the basement of Ianni's home and in the vestry of the church. She http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 57 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Then, she said, the molestation started in the basement of Ianni's home and in the vestry of the church. She wouldn't speak about the abuse for decades. "I didn't tell anyone what happened," she said. "I was basically told that I'd go to hell if I did." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:31 PM • Abus sexuels: l'Eglise n'a jamais envisagé d'indemniser les victimes Le Vif, BELGIQUE (Belga) - L'Eglise n'a jamais envisagé d'indemniser les victimes d'abus sexuels commis par des prêtres, a expliqué mercredi Godelieve Halsberghe, présidente de la Commission interdiocésaine chargée de cette question de 2000 à 2009, devant la Commission parlementaire sur les abus sexuels commis dans une relation d'autorité. Le 28 août 2000, Mme Halsberghe a reçu un courrier d'un collaborateur de l'archevêché de Bruxelles- Malines indiquant qu'il était exclu de payer des dommages-intérêts pour deux raisons: sur un plan pratique, une telle décision aurait entraîné la multiplication des plaintes et, sur le plan juridique, la reconnaissance d'une faute de l'Eglise. Mme Halsberghe, magistrate qui exerçait cette mission à titre grâcieux, a également jeté le trouble dans la Commission en affirmant que l'Eglise aurait caché des dossiers relatifs à ces abus. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:02 PM • Lumière du monde " sort en : le pape en version originale [RCC] FRANCE La Voix du Nord Non, le pape ne parle pasque du préservatif… Le livre, dont la publication de quelques extraits a provoqué l'emballement médiatique il y a huit jours, arrive cette semaine dans les librairies en France. Benoît XVI n'esquive aucune question : célibat, abus sexuels, Pie XII, Ratisbonne, contraception… Il brise même le tabou de sa démission. Qui a dit que le Vatican ne savait pas communiquer ? La publication dans le journal du pape, L'Osservatore Romano, des bonnes feuilles de " Lumière du monde. Le pape, l'Église et les signes des temps ", un samedi à 17 h, en pleine réunion des cardinaux du monde entier, a provoqué un sacré buzz. Seulement, la reprise de six lignes des pages 159 et 160 ne doit pas occulter la diversité des sujets abordés et la clarté des réponses de Benoît XVI (que l'on connaît habituellement plus docte), dans ce qui constitue une grande première en 2 000 ans d'histoire chrétienne : un entretien personnel et direct d'un pape avec un journaliste (l'Allemand Peter Seewald). " J'ai eu le sentiment qu'il souhaitait s'expliquer car ces propos ont été parfois épouvantablement interprétés ", a expliqué le journaliste, ajoutant qu'il avait pu poser toutes les questions qu'il souhaitait, durant les six heures d'entretien, fin juillet. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:59 PM

• Tir ami sur Benoît XVI. Par la faute d'un préservatif ROME E.S.M. par Sandro Magister Le 01 décembre 2010 - Eucharistie Sacrement de la Miséricorde - Comme on pouvait le prévoir, ce que Benoît XVI a dit du préservatif dans son livre-entretien "Lumière du monde" a provoqué une discussion très vive au sein de l'Église catholique. Dans deux précédents articles, www.chiesa a présenté les propos du pape d'une manière qui a suscité les réactions immédiates de personnalités catholiques importantes dans le domaine de la morale sexuelle. Les critiques ne se sont pas concentrées uniquement sur www.chiesa et sur le professeur Martin Rhonheimer, le théologien de l'Université Pontificale de la Sainte Croix dont un essai avait été reproduit par www.chiesa. Ni même sur "L'Osservatore Romano" ou sur le père Federico Lombardi, accusés d'avoir favorisé un malentendu sur la pensée du pape. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:50 PM • La lente transformation de l'Eglise catholique irlandaise La Croix, IRELANDE - Un an après la publication du rapport Murphy qui déclencha une vague de colère dans l'Église catholique irlandaise, les fidèles sont partagés entre indifférence et découragement La crise budgétaire sans précédent et maintenant la tourmente politique que traverse l'Irlande ont au moins cela de bon pour les catholiques du pays : les médias leur accordent un certain répit.

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De fait, depuis un an, avec la publication le 26 novembre 2009 du rapport Murphy qui révélait le silence de la hiérarchie irlandaise sur les abus sexuels commis par des prêtres, il n'est pas un jour où les scandales de pédophilie dans l'Église n'aient trôné en bonne place dans la presse irlandaise. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:41 PM • Abus sexuels: Le Vatican en conciliabule Le JDD VATICAN - Depuis vendredi matin et jusqu'à la fin du week-end, les cardinaux catholiques tiennent congrès au Vatican, autour du pape Benoît XVI. L'occasion de mettre tous les sujets sensibles sur la table, y compris la question des abus sexuels sur mineurs perpétrés par des religieux. "Benoît XVI est le pape des occasions manquées", lâchait en mai dernier le théologien Hans Küng dans le JDD , alors qu'il évoquait le scandale des prêtres pédophiles. Le pape pourrait lui donner tort depuis qu'il a repris le dossier en main – bien tardivement, disent ses détracteurs. Après être monté au créneau plusieurs fois cette année, Benoît XVI réunit pendant trois jours en son Etat les quelques 200 cardinaux catholiques. Vendredi, pour leur première journée "d'étude et de réflexion", la question des prêtres pédophiles a été inscrite à l'ordre du jour. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:38 PM • AARTSBISDOM MÜNCHEN VERDOEZELDE MISBRUIK Kerknet DUITSLAND (KerkNet/Katholisch.de) – Het Duitse aartsbisdom München en Freising stopte decennialang seksueel misbruik in de doofpot. Dat blijkt uit een rapport dat vrijdag werd gepubliceerd. Delen van dossiers werden soms doelbewust vernietigd om rechtszaken te voorkomen. De Duitse Juriste Marion Westphal kreeg inzage in meer dan 13.200 dossiers uit de periode 1945 tot 2009. Daarin werden 159 geestelijken beschuldigd van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen. 26 priesters werden daadwerkelijk veroordeeld. Volgens Westphal staat van 17 andere geestelijken vrijwel vast dat ook zij zich aan seksueel misbruik schuldig maakten. Daders waren meestal tussen de 45 en 65 jaar en hun misbruik ging vaak hand in hand met alcoholproblemen. De kerkleiding bekommerde zich nauwelijks om de slachtoffers. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:35 PM • Former Santa Rosa Diocese leader John Steinbock dies at 73 SANTA ROSA (CA) The Press Democrat By BOB NORBERG THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Bishop John Steinbock, who led the Diocese of Santa Rosa for four years before becoming the leader of the Diocese of Fresno, died Sunday morning. Steinbock, 73, had been diagnosed with lung cancer in August. He died at 3:15 a.m. at the St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, according to the diocese. A native of Los Angeles, Steinbock was the bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa from 1987 to 1991, during a tumultuous time for the diocese that was being rocked by allegations of sexual abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:20 PM • Nieuwe onderzoeksrechter voor Operatie Kelk [RCC] RKnieuws, BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - Operatie Kelk, het gerechtelijk onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de Kerk, heeft een nieuwe onderzoeksrechter: Colette Callewaert. Callewaert neemt de fakkel over zolang het wrakingsverzoek tegen Wim De Troy niet is behandeld. Dat meldt het weekblad Humo op zijn website. Op 22 december beslist de Brusselse kamer van inbeschuldigingstelling dat de huiszoekingen en inbeslagnames die onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy een half jaar geleden in en om de Mechelse Sint- Romboutskathedraal liet uitvoeren, ongeldig waren. Het Hof van Cassatie vernietigde het arrest. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:26 PM • The Catholic church is out of touch with modern Scotland The Observer Kevin McKenna The Observer, Sunday 5 December 2010 SCOTLAND - Some people are born victims; others though, seek victimhood, and when they find it they cling to it. Like Tam O'Shanter's wife, Kate, "gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm", they remain vigilant and alert to any evidence of scurrility. Last week, Peter Kearney, the director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, penned an incendiary article in which he excoriated Scotland for being a nation where Catholics continue to suffer "deep, wide and vicious hostility". Mr Kearney, an

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 59 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM otherwise reasonable and skilled media operator, was responding to the forced resignation of Hugh Dallas, the head of referee development at the Scottish Football Association. Mr Dallas, a former FIFA referee, had been found to have passed on a ribald and satirical picture email about the Pope on the occasion of his visit to Scotland on 16 September. Previously, Mr Kearney had called on the SFA to sack Dallas after implying that the organisation had been dilatory in pursuing its investigation into the email affair. This is when I began to feel distinctly queasy for the blood was high, the night was clear, the crosses were burning brightly and a good old witch-hunt was underway. There can be no doubt that Kearney had made his demand fortified by the authority of the Catholic church in Scotland. As such, it was only a matter of time before Dallas would be forced out. I am a practising Catholic, who still feels the urge to genuflect when there is incense, candles and the glimpse of a lacy black mantilla. I believe in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:11 AM • Prep sends letter to alumni about possible abuse by Jesuit priest SCRANTON (PA) - The Times-Tribune BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL (STAFF WRITER) Scranton Preparatory School has sent a letter to alumni who graduated from 1961 through 1989, alerting them their former science teacher may have abused children in the Scranton area. Jesuit officials in Maryland announced last week they are looking into allegations that the Rev. Neil McLaughlin, who also has ties to the University of Scranton and St. Thomas More Church in Lake Ariel, sexually abused minors while in Scranton. "Although we are told that no allegation against (the Rev.) McLaughlin has been received from a Scranton Prep graduate, I am sending this letter to all former Scranton Prep students who were at the school at the same time that (the Rev.) McLaughlin worked here," Prep's president, the Rev. Herbert B. Keller, S.J., wrote in the letter dated Nov. 30. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:04 AM • Newark archbishop shielded at least 4 priests accused of sexual abuse The Star-Ledger Jeff Diamant/The Star-Ledger, Sunday, December 05, 2010 NEWARK (NJ) - Eight years ago, Newark Archbishop John J. Myers stood among the nation's bishops at a landmark gathering in Dallas and helped craft a policy intended to cleanse the priesthood of pedophiles and restore trust among shaken American Catholics. In ratifying the Dallas Charter, Myers and his colleagues promised a new era of reform and transparency. Allegations of sexual abuse against priests would no longer be hidden from parishioners or police, and any priest believed to have molested a child would be permanently banned from ministry. In the years since, Myers and his aides say the archdiocese has taken aggressive measures to identify abusive priests. But a Star-Ledger review of the archbishop's record since 2002 shows Myers on at least four occasions has shielded priests accused of sexual abuse against minors and one adult. In the four instances, the priests have either admitted improper sexual contact, pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct or been permanently barred from ministry by the archdiocese after allegations of sexual misconduct. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:59 AM • Reconnecting to Spirit: Survivor Leads Labyrinth Walk in Portland, Oregon OREGON - The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing Virginia Jones On Monday, December 6, 2010, Elizabeth Geoke, a survivor of an assault by a priest that foreshortened her career as a nun will do something she might have done if she had remained a nun. She will lead an Icon Labyrinth Walk to begin the Advent season. Elizabeth's journey to this event has not been an easy one. In 2002, almost 40 years after leaving her religious life, Elizabeth returned to her former Mother House. Another former nun asked her, Of all the young nuns, I thought you were the most likely to remain a nun. What happened?" Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:54 AM • Gutachten zum Sonntag Telepolis, {Zusammenfassung des Berichts durch Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl} {in English} DEUTSCHLAND - Das Erzbistum München-Freising vertuschte Kindsmissbrauch durch das "besondere Erpressungspotenzial" sexuell tabuisierter Themen, "umfangreiche Aktenvernichtungsaktionen" und eine http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 60 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

"katastrophale Aktenpflege" In einem letzte Woche vorgestellten, aber nicht veröffentlichten 250 Seiten starken Gutachten kommt die Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl, der im Auftrag der katholischen Kirche Missbrauchsfälle in Oberbayern untersuchen sollte, zu dem Ergebnis, dass unter anderem eine "katastrophale Aktenpflege" im Erzbistum München-Freising, dem von 1977 bis 1982 der jetzige Papst Josef Ratzinger vorstand, dafür verantwortlich ist, dass Verbrechen aus der Vergangenheit nur noch sehr bedingt ermittelt und aufgeklärt werden können. Darüber hinaus seien durch "umfangreiche Aktenvernichtungsaktionen" mögliche Beweisstücke und Indizien unwiederbringlich verloren. Zumindest Teile der Akten wurden der Einschätzung der Gutachterin nach offenbar absichtlich vernichtet, um Missbrauchsfälle zu vertuschen. Trotzdem fand die Rechtsanwältin Hinweise auf mindestens 365 Missbrauchsfälle nach 1945. Allerdings geht Westpfahl, davon aus, dass dies nur die Spitze eines Eisbergs ist und die Dunkelziffer deutlich darüber liegt. Von 159 in den Akten verbliebenen "auffälligen" Priestern wurden 26 als Sexualstraftäter verurteilt, obwohl ein Missbrauch in deutlich mehr Fällen nachgewiesen wurde. Auch 96 Religionslehrer sind immer noch aktenkundig. Aus dieser Gruppe verurteilte man nur eine einzige Person. Andere körperliche Misshandlungen von Religionslehrern, die nach Ansicht der Gutachterin in 24 Fällen erwiesen sind, führten nicht zu gerichtlichen Konsequenzen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:22 AM • Missbrauch-Sumpf: Guckte der Papst weg? [270 known. RCC] Berliner Kurier MÜNCHEN, Deutschland - Die Katholische Kirche im Missbrauch-Sumpf. Schonungslos deckt ein Schock-Gutachten auf, wie das Erzbistum München und Freising systematisch sexuelle Übergriffe vertuschte, über Jahrzehnte sogar Akten vernichtete. Auch aus der Amtszeit des heutigen Papstes fehlen etliche Unterlagen. 159 Priester, 15 Diakone, 96 Religionslehrer im Kirchendienst – sie alle wurden von 1945 bis 2009 im Erzbistum München-Freising wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs oder Misshandlungen auffällig. Und fast alle Verbrechen blieben unbestraft (nur 26 Verurteilungen). Das 250-Seiten-Gutachten von Anwältin Marion Westpfahl im Auftrag des Bistums könnte nicht vernichtender sein. Darin befürchtet sie, die Zahl der Täter liege "wesentlich höher", prangert ein System aus Verharmlosung und Vertuschung an – und "umfangreiche Aktenvernichtungsaktionen". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:19 AM • Missbrauchsbericht: Lob für Offenheit OVB MÜNCHEN, Deutschland - Der Missbrauchsbericht der katholischen Kirche im Erzbistum München und Freising sorgt mit seiner schonungslosen Aufarbeitung vergangener Jahrzehnte weiter für große Aufmerksamkeit, Die aufgedeckten Vertuschungsmechanismen in der Kirche müssten aber nicht nur in München, sondern in ähnlicher Form auch bundesweit aufgearbeitet werden, forderte der Sprecher der Reformbewegung "Wir sind Kirche", Christian Weisner. Der Münchner Erzbischof und Kardinal Reinhard Marx versprach, dass aus dem Bericht die nötigen Konsequenzen gezogen würden. Eine neue Kultur des Hinsehens sei nötig, sagte Marx am Samstag in einem Radiobeitrag für den Bayerischen Rundfunk (BR). "Achtet besser aufeinander, seid aufmerksam, wenn Ihr den Eindruck habt, dass irgendjemandem Leid geschieht." Aus dem Bericht über sexuelle und andere körperliche Übergriffe in den vergangenen sechs Jahrzehnten im Münchner Erzbistum müssten Konsequenzen gezogen werden. "Und das tun wir auch, damit möglichst nie wieder Menschen Missbrauch und Gewalt erleiden müssen. Denn die Kirche soll ja ein Ort der Gewaltlosigkeit und Liebe gerade für die Kleinen und Schwachen sein", sagte Marx nach Angaben des Erzbischöflichen Ordinariats. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:15 AM • Profiteers, predators tarnish black churches [Reformed Churches] NJ.com , Milton W. Hinton Jr., Published: Sunday, December 05, 2010 UNITED STATES - There is increasing evidence that should not be ignored that the black church, historically the cornerstone of the community, is being hijacked by entrepreneurs. Making matters worse is the fact that many congregants see this travesty taking place right before their eyes, yet remain silent. I refuse to do so any longer because too many vulnerable people, both young and old, are being victimized. The sexual misconduct and promiscuity with which Catholic clergy have been http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 61 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM associated now appear to have arrived front pew-center in a number of predominantly black denominations. Not all, but some religious leaders, particularly those leading mega-churches which take in large amounts of cash, choose to lead a highly visible, opulent life with no moral barometer. Purchasing million- dollar homes and exotic automobiles, and accepting million-dollar salaries provided by the daily labor of congregants struggling to survive is not just wrong, but immoral. It is past time to speak up about this. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM • Catholic Bishop : A profile The Plain Dealer Michael O'Malley, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio – Even before he was officially installed as the 10th bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, Richard G. Lennon talked about the need to close churches here. "As painful as a funeral is, it's there that you commend your loved one to God," Lennon told a news conference announcing his appointment five weeks before his installation in May 2006. Those words, coming from a man who had just closed scores of churches in Boston, sounded a death knell for dozens more in Northeast Ohio. And those closings unleashed a small but shrill backlash from Catholics throughout Cleveland's eight-county diocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM • Possible victims of priest sought [RCC] Go Lackawanna By Mark Guydish [email protected] , Education Reporter SCRANTON (PA) – The Diocese of Scranton issued a notice Tuesday stating the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus – the Jesuits – is seeking any information from possible victims abused as minors by one of the Society's priests. Jesuit priests who serve within the 11-county diocese do not answer to the bishop, but to their province. The priest in question, Neil McLaughlin, was ordained in 1959 and served in Scranton for much of his religious career. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sun December 05, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 06, 2010 edition: • Missing chapter of child abuse must be published [1970s-80s Fr Tony Walsh. RCC] The Irish Times, ANALYSIS: The latest priest child rapist from the Dublin archdiocese was named yesterday, thanks to the persistence of his victims, writes IRELAND - THE BAD, the ugly and, somewhat surprisingly, the good – or at least what passed for good in the morally bankrupt culture of the Archdiocese of Dublin at the time – are all to be found in the tale of Tony Walsh, one of the most notorious of the city's paedophile priests, convicted yesterday for his repeated rape of one small boy and his sexual assaults on two others during the 1970s and 1980s. He is the subject of the missing chapter 19 of the Murphy report, redacted so as to not prejudice the trial which concluded yesterday. To glean some insight into the enormous damage done by this priest, it is worth remembering again what the victim called "David" had to say on the RTÉ Prime Time programme in 2002: "When I have a dream, I am basically being raped again and again and again and I could not under any circumstances overstress the word 'raped'. I am being raped in my sleep. It mightn't happen every night of the week but it happens at least two or three times a week and I just don't sleep because I just, the minute I close my eyes and get back into the sleep I'm getting raped again so I stay awake and I … What they do, they give me drugs to put me to sleep, or I take a bottle of whiskey if I don't want to go near the doctor." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:16 PM • Victims reveal their suffering at the hands of 'singing priest' IRELAND - The Irish Times FR TONY Walsh was best-known for his Elvis act as part of the All-Priests Show, a groin-thrusting, hip- shaking performance. It was good-humoured, light entertainment in the parish halls of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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But for three boys, whose childhoods were destroyed over three decades ago, it had the most horrible connotations. Yesterday, former priest Tony Walsh (57) was jailed for 16 years for abusing three young altar boys in Ballyfermot, Dublin. One of the boys was repeatedly raped over several years between the age of seven and 12; and he indecently assaulted the two other boys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:11 PM • Judge jails 'serial offender' former priest for sex attacks on boys IRELAND - The Irish Times COURT REPORT: A FORMER Dublin priest who was previously jailed for sexually abusing six boys has been sentenced to 16 years, with four suspended, for abusing a further three victims. Media restrictions on identifying the victims apply in this case. Tony Walsh was sentenced yesterday for abusing three young boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:08 PM • Court to decide on Murphy report chapter IRELAND - The Irish Times, PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent, THE HIGH Court will this morning consider publishing chapter 19 of the Murphy report following the jailing yesterday of former priest Tony Walsh for 16 years, four suspended, for the sexual abuse of three boys. On October 15th, 2009, Mr Justice Paul Gilligan of the High Court ruled chapter 19, which deals with abuse by Tony Walsh, and 21 other references to him, should not be published pending the outcome of three court cases then pending. The Murphy report investigated how clerical child sex abuse allegations involving 46 priests in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese were handled by church and State authorities between 1975 and 2004. Chapters 19 and 20 of the report were withheld when it was published on November 26th, 2009, pending the outcome of proceedings involving Walsh and another man. Proceedings in the other case are ongoing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 PM • 'He'd keep me in my room for 15 minutes. he would then give me crisps or sweets' IRELAND - The Irish Times, Victim impact statements "DAVID" At the age of 12 – after five years of being molested and raped – David first realised what was happening to him was wrong. An altar boy in Ballyfermot, David was just seven when he first met Tony Walsh. The cleric was well known as an Elvis impersonator and part of the All Priests Show. Having ingratiated himself with David's family, Walsh brought the boy back to the parochial home on a regular basis. He would play Elvis records for him or help him with homework. Then the abuse started. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:03 PM • Statement: Archbishop The Irish Times, IRELAND - Tony Walsh, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, was sentenced today for the grievous sexual abuse of three people when they were still only children. My first thoughts go to these victims and their families. I hope that the finality of the legal process will help bring them some sense of justice, of healing, of closure and hope for the future. Tony Walsh, however, abused many more children, the numbers are truly shocking. For some of these he has already served sentence. He caused untold destruction in the lives of numerous children. Today's news will sadly have reignited the ordeal of many of his victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:01 PM • Slachtoffers misbruik kerk willen nu hulp De Gelderlander, NEDERLAND, NIJMEGEN - Het wordt tijd dat de slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de rooms katholieke kerk praktische hulp wordt geboden bij het verwerken van hun trauma's. De kerk moet zich daarvoor verantwoordelijk te stellen door die hulp te vergoeden.

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Dat stelt Mark Klabbers van de Groep Misbruik Canisius. De oud-leerling van de Nijmeegse kostschool spreekt ook namens de slachtoffers van klooster Don Rua uit s' Heerenberg, internaat Eikenburg uit Eindhoven en de stichting Mannenhulp na seksueel misbruik door de kerk. De vier slachtoffersgroepen hebben zich verenigd. Donderdag verschijnt het tussenrapport van de commissie Deetman, dat de seksschandalen in de Nederlandse Katholieke kerk onderzoekt. Verwacht wordt dat ook Deetman deze aanbeveling doet. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:59 PM • Milwaukee Priest: Greater Truth in Sex Abuse Matters [Vice-chancellor at cathedral called on bishop to let the truth out.] America Magazine, Author: James Martin, S.J. Posted Monday, December 06, 2010 MILWAUKEE (WI) - Dotcommonweal has the surprising story about the vice-chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and his response to the sex abuse crisis: "Last week, Fr. James Connell, vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, stood on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and called on his bishop to release documents related to the local sexual-abuse crisis: 'I am absolutely convinced that we need the truth. Justice requires that the truth be known.' His appearance was a surprise to SNAP, which organized the press conference." Today Fr. Connell released an open letter to priests asking them to "raise our united voices" in calling for greater truth regarding the crimes of sexual abuse. (CW has posted a PDF of the letter on their site.) Some excerpts: Surely, everyone wishes that this crisis would be resolved for the good of all. Unfortunately, however, I find that some people are saying that the victim/survivors should simply forgive and move on with life. Yet such an expectation overlooks what seems to me to be the necessary sequence of events for forgiveness and peace to happen: (1) knowing and understanding the whole truth; (2) doing justice based on the whole truth; (3) allowing healing to blossom over time; (4) then granting forgiveness that releases one from bondage; and (5) finally welcoming the peace that comes from healing and forgiveness. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:44 PM • Fomer priest jailed for sexually abusing boys [1978-79, and 1984-85. Ex-Fr Tony Walsh*. RCC. 16yrs prison. 3 boys.] The Journal, IRELAND - A FORMER PRIEST who served a jail sentence for sexually abusing six boys has been jailed again for 16 years after being found guilty of abusing a further three victims between 1978 and 1985. The final four years of his sentence were suspended. Tony Walsh, 56, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a boy in west Dublin between November 1978 and April 1979. He also pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting another boy in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985, the Irish Times reports. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:33 PM • Complete Statement of James Goodness, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Newark

The Star-Ledger, {Newark archbishop shielded at least 4 priests accused of sexual abuse} "What the Star Ledger Story Didn't Tell You About Our Commitment to Communication and to Protecting Children" NEWARK (NJ) - Jeff Diamant's Dec. 5 story makes a number of statements and draws conclusions about the commitment of Archbishop John Myers and the Archdiocese of Newark to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. These statements and conclusions are either misleading or outright wrong. Over close to a year and a half, I worked with this reporter on this specific topic. I outlined steps that the Archbishop and the Archdiocese had taken in each of the cases that he cited in his story, as well as in others. However, most of the information I supplied was not incorporated into the story. As a result, his reporting was, at best, incomplete, and at worst, deceptive. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:28 PM [COMMENT: A reporter did it! The dog ate my homework! ENDS.] • Archdiocese of Newark condemns Star-Ledger report on handling of priest sex abuse cases

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The Star-Ledger, NEWARK (NJ) – The Archdiocese of Newark issued a five-page response today blasting a report in the Sunday Star-Ledger detailing Archbishop John J. Myers' compliance with the church's charter on priest sexual abuse since 2002. The statement by James Goodness, spokesman for the archdiocese, condemns the conclusions in the report as "misleading or outright wrong." The Star-Ledger found Myers has on at least four occasions since 2002 shielded priests accused of sexual abuse against minors and one adult. Goodness said the archdiocese is complying with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, a document that outlines how the church should deal with sexual abuse claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:24 PM

• An Open Letter from One Catholic Priest to All Other Catholic Priests Regarding the Need for the Revelation of Truth Concerning the Priest Sexual Abuse Scandal MILWAUKEE (WI) dotCommonweal December 6, 2010 Dear Brother Priests, Soon after Christmas 2009 a group of priests here in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee met to begin what has become an effort to provide some pastoral outreach to victim/survivors of sexual abuse of minors by priests. Quickly we expanded our group to include some victim/survivors and others who support them. Together we initiated an ongoing series of simple candle vigil services for prayer and talking. The effort is making a difference. A question that is asked by some victim/survivors is where have all the good priests been? No doubt our presence now is warmly appreciated, but this challenging question has caused me to reflect on my own accountability. During my homily on the weekend of November 13 & 14, I explained that I had not been where I should have been. I was not standing with people in pain who needed the public presence of a priest. I had been inattentive when I should have noticed. I apologized. Of course, I cannot reverse time, I told my parishioners, but I can be different going forward, especially by standing publicly with those who seek the revelation of the complete truth regarding the priest sexual abuse scandal in the Church. The reaction of my parishioners has been powerfully supportive. Surely, everyone wishes that this crisis would be resolved for the good of all. Unfortunately, however, I find that some people are saying that the victim/survivors should simply forgive and move on with life. Yet such an expectation overlooks what seems to me to be the necessary sequence of events for forgiveness and peace to happen: (1) knowing and understanding the whole truth; (2) doing justice based on the whole truth; (3) allowing healing to blossom over time; (4) then granting forgiveness that releases one from bondage; and (5) finally welcoming the peace that comes from healing and forgiveness. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:20 PM • Bishop Eddie Long Agrees to Mediation [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] The Huffington Post, Morris W. O'Kelly, GEORGIA - With little fanfare or news coverage, the four sexual coercion lawsuits confronting Bishop Eddie Long had the first hearing recently, with both sides opting for mediation to avoid a trial. Why no major news outlet or editorial columnist has discussed the implications of such a move is nothing less than egregious in nature. Despite the initial media crush and coverage and the incessant analysis of Bishop Long's statement on his website and "sermon," there's been nary a peep in response to the quest for mediation. Granted, if the future mediation in February does not solve the dispute, there is a tentative trial date set for July 11, 2011. This could still end up being resolved in a courtroom. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:14 PM • A priest speaks out. [RC Fr James Connell wants the truth to be released by the RCC.] DotCommonweal, Posted by Grant Gallicho 3:59 pm December 6, 2010 {Father Connell's letter} http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 65 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM {Father Connell's letter} MILWAUKEE (WI) - Last week, Fr. James Connell, vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, stood on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and called on his bishop to release documents related to the local sexual-abuse crisis: "I am absolutely convinced that we need the truth. Justice requires that the truth be known." His appearance was a surprise to SNAP, which organized the press conference. According to Milwaukee News Buzz: SNAP called the press conference Tuesday after learning that lawyers for the archdiocese and Auxiliary Bishop Richard Sklba have asked a judge to seal a sworn statement given by Sklba in a local court case regarding priest sex abuse cases. (…) There is some irony in Connell linking arms with Isely. About a year ago, Connell was the subject of another press conference in which Isely called on the priest to step down from the internal church board that hears sex abuse allegations. Isely pointed out that Connell had investigated allegations against Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest who abused scores of deaf children, according to church records. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:09 PM • Paedophile ex-priest sentenced to 16 years [Tony Walsh] Irish Examiner, Monday, December 06, 2010 IRELAND - A former Dublin priest who was previously jailed for sexually abusing six boys has been sentenced to 16 years for abusing a further three victims. Tony Walsh (aged 56) pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin church between November 1978 and April 1979. He pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985. He was convicted by a jury last month of a further nine counts of indecent assault and five counts of buggery on the third boy between June 1, 1979 and June 30, 1983. He had denied all the charges. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:42 PM • Diocese drops request for court fees from Twin Cities man MINNESOTA Winona Post By Sarah Elmquist The state director of an advocacy group supporting those abused by members of the clergy visited Winona Thursday, taking aim at the Winona Diocese for seeking legal expenses related to a lawsuit from an alleged victim of former Winona diocesan priest Fr. Thomas Adamson. But by Friday, a statement issued by the Winona Diocese stated that it had stepped back from its suit requesting legal expenses. The Diocese issued a one sentence statement: "When the plaintiff filed for bankruptcy, all related actions were automatically stayed." Both Minneapolis-St. Paul Archbishop John Nienstedt and Winona Bishop John Quinn were named in a civil case filed in 2006 by a Twin Cities man, Jim Kennan, who says he was repeatedly molested by Fr. Thomas Adamson. The civil case asked that the church publicly expose the names of child molesting archdiocesan clerics, but was tossed out last month because of the statute of limitations. Kennan filed an appeal, and both Bishop Quinn and Archbishop Nienstedt filed a request for Kennan to reimburse the church's legal expense in defending itself to the tune of $132,000. Both the Minneapolis-St. Paul Diocese and the Winona Diocese have since pulled back on the requests for funds. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:41 PM • Former priest jailed for 16 years for abusing altar boys IRELAND - The Irish Times A former priest has been jailed for 16 years for 17 counts of indecently assaulting three altar boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Tony Walsh (56) of Bunratty Road, Coolock, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last week to two counts of indecently assaulting a boy in a west Dublin church between November 1978 and April 1979. He pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting a boy in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985. Walsh was ministering as a priest in Ballyfermot during the period. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:38 PM • Inside the priests story: Searching for the abusers

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Washington Post, By Michelle Boorstein, UNITED STATES - The story started the way some of the best ones do, with a basic sort of question, the kind of question someone tosses out casually at the dinner table: What ever happened to the Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse in our area? Literally, where are they -- are they still in ministry? How were their cases handled? What happened to their faith? After years of the subject being on The Post's back burner, new scandals were emerging this spring in European parts of the church and questions were being raised about Pope Benedict's connections to old cases – the subject was in the news, which led us on The Post's religion staff to have this dinner- table-like conversation one day this spring. Little did we know what we were ourselves getting into. Eight months later, our attempt to answer that question ran on The Post's Web site and in the paper this weekend. It was one of the most convoluted reporting challenges I've had in my nearly 20 years on this job, and in truth, reporter Willian Wan and I weren't able to comprehensively answer our own question. This is due to several major factors: church secrecy, basic privacy rights, priests being either dead or unwilling to be interviewed, and the simple passage of time. People forget details. Records get lost. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:25 PM • Former priest jailed for abusing three boys RTE News, IRELAND - A former Dublin priest has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for abusing three young boys in the 1970s and 1980s. The final four years of the sentence were suspended. Tony Walsh was convicted by a jury at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last month of indecently assaulting and raping a boy over five years when his victim was between seven and 12 years old. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:22 PM • Gutachten zu Missbrauch im Erzbistum München vorgelegt Der Standard (Osterreich), Akten - 159 Priester wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs oder Gewalt auffällig DEUTSCHLAND - Im Erzbistum München und Freising sind einem Gutachten zufolge in den Jahren 1945 bis 2009 mindestens 159 Priester wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs oder körperlichen Misshandlungen auffällig geworden. Die tatsächliche Zahl sei aber wahrscheinlich "wesentlich höher", sagte die Rechtsanwältin Marion Westpfahl. Ihre Kanzlei erstellte das Gutachten auf Basis von Akten und Gesprächen mit Mitarbeitern des Erzbistums in dessen Auftrag. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:54 AM • Ex-priest to be sentenced for abuse IRELAND - The Irish Times, A former priest is to be sentenced today for indecently assaulting three altar boys in the 1970s and 1980s. Tony Walsh (56) of Bunratty Road, Coolock, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last week to two counts of indecently assaulting a boy in a west Dublin church between November 1978 and April 1979. He pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting a boy in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985. Walsh was ministering as a priest in Ballyfermot during the period. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:46 AM • 'Stel waarheidscommissie in voor claims seksueel misbruik' Nu, AMSTERDAM NEDERLAND - De overheid zou een waarheidscommissie in het leven moeten roepen die claims van slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk onderzoekt. Dit zegt advocaat Richard Korver, voorzitter van het Landelijk Advocaten Netwerk Zeden Slachtoffers (LANZS), maandag in reactie op de wens van een aantal slachtoffers om een parlementair onderzoek naar het misbruik in te stellen. De Tweede Kamer voelt daar nog niets voor, zo bleek zondag. Een meerderheid wil het advies van de commissie-Deetman afwachten. Dat zal donderdag worden gepresenteerd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:04 AM • Paedophile Tony Walsh faces life term after guilty plea in abuse case http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 67 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Irish Examiner, Monday, December 06, 2010 IRELAND - Notorious paedophile Tony Walsh is facing up to life imprisonment for sexually abusing three young boys while he served as a priest in Ballyfermot in Dublin. The 56-year-old with an address at Bunratty Road, Coolock, has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two of the boys and was last month convicted by a jury on separate charges of buggering and sexually abusing the third boy between 1979 and 1983. Nicknamed "Fr Filth", Tony Walsh was one of the priests investigated by the Murphy Report into clerical sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:57 AM • Former Dublin Priest Facing Sentencing Today For Indecent Assault IRELAND - East Coast FM, A former Dublin priest investigated by the Murphy Report into clerical sexual abuse is due to be sentenced today for indecently assaulting 2 males in the 1970s and 80s. 56 year old Tony Walsh with an address at Bunratty Road, Coolock was last month convicted by a jury on separate charges of raping and sexually abusing a young boy between 1979 and 1983. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:55 AM • AN OPPORTUNE TIME FOR THE ROCKAWAY PENINSULA TO BE EDUCATED, NOT AGITATED Voice from the Desert, By Rev. Robert M. Hoatson, Ph.D.; (The writer is Co-Founder and President, Road to Recovery, Inc.) NEW YORK - It is clear that the clergy sexual abuse scandal has disappointed, disillusioned, and disengaged many Catholic faithful, especially the young. It has also energized many faithful Catholics to action, among them the Rockaway chapter of Voice of the Faithful, which has as its first goal the support of victims of clergy sexual abuse. This small but committed group has ensured that victims of clergy abuse will not be abandoned and that any and all victims who wish to tell their stories will be guaranteed a compassionate and listening ear. They continue to assist victims and their advocates through what appears to be a lull in widespread media coverage and reports of cases of abuse. I urge the Rockaway Peninsula not to be deceived by such developments, since cases of abuse in Rockaway continue to emerge despite the seeming dearth of news reports of such. Recently, Thomas Trager, a Marianist religious brother and director of St. John's Home in Rockaway Park, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy who was in his care. His arrest has resurfaced more dramatically the issue of sexual abuse by religious figures in the Rockaways, in particular. The Rockaways has had its share of sexual abuse by clergy and religious persons, and it behooves all residents to resist being agitated by these reports of what they sometimes perceive as anti-Catholic bias or Church-bashing. Instead of being agitated by these reports, Rockaway residents should commit themselves to being educated about clergy sexual abuse in their backyard and beyond. The Brother Thomas Trager arrest provides an opportunity for all on the Peninsula to learn more about sexual abuse of minors, its causes and effects, and its prevention and elimination. There is a tendency for citizens of a community such as The Rockaways to "circle the wagons" when a trusted and respected member of that community is arrested for a heinous crime such as child sexual abuse. The temptation is to deny the crime, defend the perpetrator, and blame the victim. It is also tempting to distract others from being educated about the seriousness of the act of child sexual abuse. It is my hope that the good people of The Rockaways will resist these temptations in the matter of Br. Thomas Trager. While there has been no determination of guilt or innocence in the case, it is incumbent upon all to remain open to the possibility that, indeed, sexual abuse did occur at or near Saint John's Home and that the perpetrator was a respected religious authority. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:49 AM

• Faithful celebrate Lady of Guadalupe at Stockton festival STOCKTON (CA) The Modesto Bee By Kerry McCray - [email protected] STOCKTON – More than 10,000 people, many from Modesto, paraded through downtown Sunday, paying tribute to Our Lady of Guadalupe in an event marked with colorful costumes, lively mariachi music http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 68 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM and an address by a guest who has stirred up a bit of controversy. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who served as a bishop of the Stockton Diocese in the early 1980s, returned for a parade and a Mass in celebration of the Virgin Mary. … A handful of protesters carriedsigns, objecting to Mahony's participation in the festival. In the past decade, Mahony's work on social justice issues, such as higher pay and better conditions for migrant workers, has been overshadowed by church sex-abuse scandals in the Stockton, Fresno and Los Angeles dioceses. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 AM

• Accused priests not tracked, monitored UNITED STATES UPI {Washington Post story} WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Catholic priests accused of child abuse often vanish from public sight and even the church doesn't know where they've gone to, victims' rights groups say. The vast majority were removed from their posts long ago, but church officials say they have no way to monitor where the men are now, The Washington Post reported. Additionally, the church does not keep official data on how many priests were defrocked, how many were imprisoned or placed on sex-offender lists, how many are working or how many are now dead, the newspaper said Saturday. … Joe Maher of Opus Bono Sacerdotii says priests have been sacrificed to the church's rush to fix a broken system and that even guilty clergy deserve compassion. "The Catholic Church is all about redemption and hope, so we have to live that on Earth," Maher, who regularly circulates e-mails from priests in dire financial straits, says. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:58 AM

• Speakers say Catholic laypersons are key PHILADELPHIA (PA) Philadelphia Inquirer By David O'Reilly Inquirer Staff Writer With American Roman Catholics leaving their church in record numbers, it will be up to laypersons - not just bishops and priests - to revitalize the faith, a panel of speakers told an overflow audience Sunday at St. Joseph's University. "The church has acted like a lazy monopoly," the Rev. Thomas Reese told the crowd at Mandeville Hall, noting that one in three baptized Catholics now leaves the church in adulthood. Reese, a senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at and former editor of the Jesuit magazine America, was one of three panelists invited by the university to discuss "The Future of the Church." … Reese, who is a Jesuit priest, laid much of the blame for the erosion of Catholic identity on what he described as a "culture of clericalism" in the church. Too many priests and bishops seem to believe that "we know better" than the "and we don't need to listen to them." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 AM

• WESTERN NEW YORK: New Episcopal Bishop Spun Role as Victim in Walkabout over Berkeley/Yale Scandal UNITED STATES Virtue Online By David W. Virtue and Mary Ann Mueller www.virtueonline.org December 5, 2010 The Rev. R. William Franklin, who had been a priest for just five years in a Philadelphia parish before being elected Bishop of Western New York was forced to resign in December of 2001 after a Yale-initiated audit showed he had misappropriated Berkeley funds. Franklin, now 63, was of Berkeley Divinity School, an Episcopal seminary affiliated with Yale Divinity School at that time. He is presently senior associate priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He was recently elected the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Western New York on the seventh http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 69 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM ballot. He edged out the Rev. Barbara J. Price, of St. Peter's Church in Amherst and the only local candidate in the four-person race in a tally in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM

• John Steinbock, Former Pedo-Priest-Protecting Diocese of Orange Bishop and Current Fresno Bishop, Now Rotting in Hell CALIFORNIA Orange County Weekly By Gustavo Arellano, Mon., Dec. 6 2010 John Steinbock, the bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, no longer has to suffer through the hell that is cancer after passing away yesterday, but he can now look forward to an eternity of Satan for his lifetime of protecting pedophile priests. And before some apologist comments that I shouldn't judge lest I be judged, may I remind them that I never let a notorious child rapist take off to Tijuana ahead of the cops. I'll just rehash my post from two years ago to remind people about Steinbock's true ways instead of the whitewashing the Fresno media is already giving him--but what else would we expect from Fresno? Learn the truth, apologists: Sex-abuse victims remember Steinbock for protecting Father Eleuterio Ramos, the most prolific pedo- priest in Orange County history. When Ramos admitted to Steinbock--then auxiliary bishop and Bishop Michael Driscoll (now Bishop of Boise) that he molested a boy while serving at St. Anthony Claret in Anaheim, it was Steinbock who suggested Ramos get sent to "vacation immediately" instead of turning him over to the cops; Ramos would go on to minister to children in Tijuana and never served a day in jail for molesting at least 25 boys. Steinbock also knew about pedophile allegations lodged against Richard Coughlin when the Archdiocese of Boston sent him to Orange but didn't do anything about them; here, Coughlin continued his boy-buggering ways. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:23 AM • 10,000 at celebration for Virgin Mary in Stockton [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony.] The Record, By Jennie Rodriguez, December 06, 2010 STOCKTON (CA) - Thousands of Latino Catholics gathered Sunday in downtown Stockton to honor their most beloved mother, the Virgin Mary. Presided over this year by Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles and former bishop of the Diocese of Stockton, the event was a festive occasion for an estimated 10,000 people - with the exception of a few protesters who objected to Mahony's presence, blaming him for having protected priests accused of child molestation. … Amid the festivities Sunday was a small disapproving group who felt Mahony should not have been recognized in such an important event. A few demonstrators with the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests stood outside Stockton Arena, where Mass was celebrated after the parade, handing out fliers and blaming the cardinal of covering up child abuse at the hands of priests, including former Lodi priest Oliver O'Grady. The 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary film "Deliver Us From Evil" deals with Mahony's decisions to reassign O'Grady after learning of his conduct. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:17 AM • Kamer: geen parlementair onderzoek misbruik [RCC] De Pers, NEDERLAND - De Tweede Kamer voelt nog niets voor een parlementair onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk. Een meerderheid wil het advies afwachten dat de commissie-Deetman, die het misbruik onderzoekt, donderdag presenteert. Pas daarna kan mogelijk worden beoordeeld of de commissie zijn werk goed heeft gedaan. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:14 AM • Zit Roger Vangheluwe in Nijlen? Hbvl, BELGIE - In het Antwerpse Nijlen doet het hardnekkige gerucht de ronde dat Roger Vangheluwe (74), voormalig bisschop van Brugge, zich zou verschansen bij de plaatselijke paters. Die ontkennen in alle

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 70 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM toonaarden. Na de publieke bekentenissen over jarenlange feiten van pedofilie in zijn familie, verschijnt Roger Vangheluwe (foto) niet meer in het openbaar. Na een verblijf in de abdij van Westvleteren gaf hij aan dat hij ergens 'in het verborgene' zou gaan leven. "Hij verbergt zich in Nijlen", wordt door alsmaar meer Nijlenaars verteld. Volgens de hardnekkige geruchten zou hij in 'de Picardie' langs de Bouwelsesteenweg verblijven, bij de Paters van de Heilige Familie. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 AM, December 06, 2010 • "Gerucht dat Vangheluwe in Nijlen is" De Morgen BELGIE - In Nijlen gaat het hardnekkige gerucht dat ex-bisschop Roger Vangheluwe zich momenteel aldaar ophoudt, met name bij de paters van de Heilige Familie. Dat schrijven de Coreliokranten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:09 AM, December 06, 2010 • Poster crusade urges sex abuse victims: Don't suffer in silence Manchester Evening News, Alice McKeegan, December 06, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - A hard-hitting campaign was launched today to encourage victims of rape not to suffer in silence. Posters were going up across Greater Manchester to try to raise awareness of the support available to people suffering sexual abuse. Police have teamed up with the city centre's St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre to launch their Report Rape and Take Control campaign. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 AM, December 06, 2010 • Moving target The Lawyer, ~ December 06, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - Recent cases are changing the landscape of vicarious liability claims but have introduced less, not more, certainty. Rosalind Coe QC and Patricia Leonard report The doctrine of vicarious liability has been developing in recent years, particularly in claims for historic sexual abuse. While this development is to be welcomed, the parameters of the doctrine are now less clear. In Various Claimants v The Catholic Child Welfare Society and The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (2010) - known as 'the St William's litigation' - the Court of Appeal (CoA), developing the principle in Lister v Hesley Hall Ltd (2010), confirmed that there can be dual vicarious liability and dismissed the argument that this is limited to employment relationships. In Nevertheless, on the facts the court did not apply the doctrine to members of an institute of lay brothers. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 AM, December 06, 2010 ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Mon December 06, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 07, 2010 edition: • Decision on Murphy report chapter due next week [RCC] The Irish Times MARY CAROLAN and PATSY McGARRY IRELAND - THE HIGH Court will deal with issues surrounding publication of chapter 19 of the Murphy report into clerical child sex abuse in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese on December 15th, this day week. Yesterday, Mr Justice Paul Gilligan said that due to a misunderstanding there had been media reports that the court would deal yesterday with publication issues following the jailing on Monday of former priest Tony Walsh for the sexual abuse of three boys. On October 15th, 2009, Mr Justice Gilligan ruled that chapter 19 of the report, which deals with abuse by Walsh, and contains 21 other references to him, should not be published pending the outcome of the court cases. The judge said yesterday that the court was acutely conscious of the position of victims and it should be made clear that it was never intended to deal with chapter 19 of the report until December 15th. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:00 PM • Church honors advocate for abuse victims [Baptist] Associated Baptist Press, By Bob Allen, Tuesday, December 07, 2010

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ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) - A sometimes-controversial black Southern Baptist preacher recently honored an also-outspoken advocate for victims of sex abuse by Baptist clergy. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, presented Christa Brown of StopBaptistPredators.org with an award Nov. 21 for sacrificial service by a Christian woman. The Phoebe Award is named for a woman mentioned in the Book of Romans as "a servant of the church" and "helper of many." McKissic's church gives it to a woman "who has made a difference in our world" or "someone who stands up for truth and right," said Veronica Griffin, Cornerstone's minister of communications and special events. She said the award is presented every three to five years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:30 PM • New abuse reports in 2010 led pope, Vatican to refine policies U.S. Catholic, By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service, Tuesday, December 7, 2010 VATICAN CITY (CNS) - New revelations about clerical sex abuse cases, particularly in Europe, led Pope Benedict XVI and his top aides in 2010 to look for ways to refine policies for handling accusations and strengthening child protection programs. In a pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland, at a Mass marking the end of the Year for Priests, in speeches and in meetings with victims of abuse in Malta and in Great Britain, Pope Benedict acknowledged the horror of abuse and the shame of a slow church response. As 2010 drew to a close, he called the to a meeting at the Vatican where the church's response to the scandal was one of the topics and where U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced the Vatican was working on new guidelines to ensure a "coordinated and effective program" for dealing with accusations and protecting children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:27 PM • 'Kerk tilde niet zwaar genoeg aan pedofiliefeiten' RKnieuws, BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - De kerk tilde in het verleden minder zwaar aan het seksueel misbruik van kinderen door geestelijken dan ze dat had moeten doen. Dat zei kardinaal Godfried Danneels dinsdagavond in het televisieprogramma "God en klein Pierke" (Eén) in zijn eerste interview over de zaak- Vangheluwe. Het interview werd in oktober in de abdij van Orval afgenomen. De kardinaal getuigde dat hij nog altijd lijdt onder het misbruik van de gewezen bisschop van Brugge Roger Vangheluwe, die hij als vriend beschouwde. Volgens de kardinaal had de kerk geen idee van de omvang van het misbruik door geestelijken. Hijzelf was als bisschop maar drie- of viermaal geconfronteerd geweest met pedofilie gepleegd door priesters in zijn bisdom. Wel kreeg hij een aantal brieven van feiten gepleegd door geestelijken van ordes waarover hij geen zeggenschap had of van feiten die buiten zijn bisdom gebeurd waren. Destijds tilde men daar niet zwaar genoeg aan, want pedofilie is dubbel zo erg als dat in de kerk gebeurd, aldus nog Danneels. Maar de tijden zijn veranderd en nu erkent men het probleem. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:24 PM • Eerste getuigeverhoor in misbruikzaak rk-kerk [RCC.] Trouw, NEDERLAND - Een 34-jarige man die is misbruikt door een inmiddels 88-jarige pater is dinsdag als getuige opgetreden in zijn eigen zaak. Hij is de eerste die in een voorlopig getuigenverhoor rond deze misbruikzaak binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk (RKK) is gehoord. Het is ook de eerste rechtszaak sinds in februari de stroom aan berichten op gang kwam over seksueel misbruik binnen rooms-katholieke instellingen. Pater Jan N., een in 1990 veroordeelde salesiaan, was ook opgeroepen als getuige. Hij kwam echter om gezondheidsredenen niet opdagen. De zaak draait om Dave ter Hoor, die via een civiele procedure een schadevergoeding wil van het bisdom Breda. Die was werkgever van pater Jan N. In 1980 werd een zaak tegen hem in verband met misbruik geseponeerd, ondanks een bekentenis. Vier jaar later werd hij pastoor in Terneuzen, maar in 1990 kreeg hij oneervol ontslag na een veroordeling wegens ontucht met drie minderjarige jongens. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:04 PM • Moraaltheoloog legt link tussen celibaat en misbruik [RCC]

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RKnieuws, LEUVEN, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - Volgens Roger Burggraeve, emeritus hoogleraar moraaltheologie aan de K.U.Leuven, kan het celibaat wel degelijk leiden tot seksueel misbruik. In een uitgebreid interview met het Knack praat moraaltheoloog Roger Burggraeve deze week over de crisis in de kerk. Zo doet hij opmerkelijke uitspraken over het verband tussen het verplichte celibaat en het seksueel misbruik in de kerk. 'Als je geen intieme relatie mag beleven, ontstaat het risico dat je je helemaal concentreert op je eigen lichaam, onder meer via masturbatie, of op minder menswaardige vormen van seksualiteitsbeleving', zegt hij. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:59 PM • Calif man pleads not guilty in priest assault case [RCC.] San Francisco Chronicle, CALIFORNIA (AP) - A Northern California man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to assaulting a Jesuit priest he has said molested him more than three decades ago. Will Lynch, 43, of San Francisco previously said he intends to take the case to trial so he can expose the alleged molestation and raise awareness about clergy abuse. "He's very resolute, he's very determined and he's going forward," Lynch's attorney, Pat Harris, said after the brief hearing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:55 PM • Man pleads not guilty to beating Los Gatos priest he says molested him SAN JOSE (CA) Mercury News By Tracey Kaplan [email protected] Determined to ''out'' the Jesuit priest he claims molested him, the man charged with the revenge beating of the cleric pleaded not guilty Tuesday, a move that brings the case closer to what is sure to be a highly publicized trial. Will Lynch, 44, clad in a navy blue suit, entered his plea in a decisive voice to one count of felony assault. His lawyer, Pat Harris, said outside the courtroom Lynch is ready to testify about the alleged attack in May on the Rev. Jerome Lindner at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. "The plan is to go to trial,'' Harris said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:52 PM

• Residential school survivors speak CANADA Saanich News Residential school survivors met with members of Anglican, Presbyterian, United and Catholic churches from Dec. 3 to 5 as a part of Open Hearts, Clear Minds: a Road to Reconciliation forum organized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and Aboriginal Neighbours of Victoria. Approximately 250 survivors and parishioners met at the University of Victoria's First People's House and participated in discussions around aboriginal residential schools once operated primarily by members of the four churches. Both sides were represented equally in the event aimed at fostering healing for the victims. "It accomplished what we set out to do, which was have the survivors' stories heard by non-aboriginal people," said Ruth D'Hollander, vice chairperson of Aboriginal Neighbours. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:50 PM

• Pontifical Irish College rector ponders Pieta in light of sexual abuse crisis The B.C. Catholic, By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News OTTAWA, CANADA (CCN)–When the rector of Rome's Pontifical Irish College ponders the devastation left by the sexual abuse crisis in Ireland, he remembers Michelangelo's Pieta, of "Our Lady holding her dead son." Msgr. Liam Bergin describes the statue, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, is an image of "great brokenness" but notes that the Blessed Mother is in no hurry, as she is "holding and loving her dead son," to give up his body to Joseph of Arimathea for burial. "We proclaim Christ who died and rose again," he said in an interview in Ottawa, where he participated in the rededication of the Sean O'Sullivan Room on Parliament Hill Nov. 24. "We have to stay with people http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 73 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM the rededication of the Sean O'Sullivan Room on Parliament Hill Nov. 24. "We have to stay with people who are suffering." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:46 PM

• A Second Opinion on Oprah's "200 Men" Shows UNITED STATES Mind Parts As some of you know, The Oprah Show, did a two-part special on childhood sexual abuse of males. I basically panned the first show in Why I Did Not Appreciate Oprah's "200 Men" Show because I felt it was overly sensationalistic and focused mainly on men telling of their graphic abuse details. I was only able to watch the second show last week, and it was significantly better than the first. Probably it has done a good service to male survivors and their loved ones as many important themes were touched upon. To the uninitiated, to someone who has not started to heal, to spouses who are lacking closeness, I saw this as progress. So, for that I am thankful for the show. While the first episode is online in its entirety, the second is not. But I will do my best to summarize the show here as well as provide my own commentary. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:37 PM • Behind image of the singing priest … beast who raped little boys Herald, By Charlie Mallon, Tuesday December 07 2010 IRELAND - TONY Walsh was once a popular priest, a Fr Trendy of his time. Gyrating during Elvis Presley imitations with the All Priests Show, the 56-year-old was a big hit in parishes in the Ballyfermot-Cherry Orchard area of Dublin. But away from the stage act, he was one of the most notorious clerical sex abusers, who raped and sodomised dozens of young boys in the 1970s-1990s. In 1992, with allegations against Walsh on the increase, Archbishop set up a tribunal to investigate him which eventually recommended that he be defrocked. But Connell kept its findings secret. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:07 PM • Top Catholic educator concealed abuse knowledge MINNESOTA Seattle Times By PATRICK CONDON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – Kevin Price was struggling with memories of the sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of a high school teacher, so he reached out to the religious order that runs the Catholic school he attended. De La Salle Christian Brothers, which educates more than 1 million students around the world, apologized for Price's pain and sought to reassure him. The order's Midwest leader said the brother in question had been forbidden from contact with anyone under 18 and was working in a prison. But in a 1995 letter obtained by The Associated Press, the leader neglected to mention something: The prison was for males from age 10 to 21. The writer of that letter, Brother Thomas Johnson, is now the second-ranking official in the worldwide order. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:57 PM

• Feds fighting sex abuse cycle in rural Alaska ALASKA Alaska Dispatch Craig Medred | Dec 6, 2010 Hooper Bay, a village in far Western Alaska, is home to about 1,100 people, half of whom are under the age of 18. The village, located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim rivers delta, is home to 25 sex offenders, according to Alaska State Troopers. The sex offender ratio there -- 1 for every 44 people -- is about seven times greater than in Anchorage, the state's largest city. But with so many minors in Hooper Bay, the official ratio underestimates the scope of the problem. The number of sex offenders in the adult population comes to a ratio of something more like 1 in 22. … Over the years, Catholic priests from Outside have been implicated in sex abuse here, but so too businessmen and respected Native elders. And too often, the people leading the villages have been the perpetrators. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:03 AM

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• Clergy's professional reputation hovers in the middle UNITED STATES The Christian Century (RNS) What do nurses, soldiers, pharmacists, elementary school teachers, doctors, and police officers have in common? Americans say they are all more ethical and honest than members of the clergy, according to a Gallup survey released on Friday (Dec. 3). Slightly more than half of Americans (53 percent) rate the moral values of priests, ministers and other clerics as "very high" or "high." That percentage is a slight bump from 2009, when only 50 percent of Americans said men and women of the cloth are ethical paragons, the lowest number in Gallup's 32 years of measuring professional reputations. Before the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in 2002, two-thirds of Americans had regularly approved of ministers' morals, according to Gallup. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:00 AM

• SNAP blasts Cardinal Burke's view of abuse crisis UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) Cardinal Raymond Burke's recent comments about the church's ongoing clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis are hurtful, not helpful. They encourage complacency, not vigilance. And they are deceptive. Let's look specifically at three comments he made: 1) "most of the cases are older. They haven't happened in the last, let's say, 10 or even 20 years." -- there always has been & will be a long lag time between when victims are hurt and when they disclose. So at best, it's disingenuous and naïve to assume the rate of clergy sex crimes is going down. At worst, it's reckless and deceptive. Only time will tell. There's just too little data now. -- The Vatican could, of course, collect such data but doesn't. (There's a good starting point for Benedict: just start compiling world-wise numbers on abusive priests… ) -- Four percent of the world's Catholics are in the US. The US, as best we can tell, is the only nation in which Catholic bishops have adopted a zero tolerance policy. (Never mind that it's followed only sporadically – at least it exists on paper though.) So in 96% of the world, Catholic bishops haven't even pledged to oust child molesting clerics (much less do background checks, train folks, etc.) Given this, how can Burke possibly claim clergy sex crimes "haven't happened in the last, let's say, 10 or even 20 years." -- For what it's worth, roughly once every other week we hear from/about a current or very recent clergy child sex abuse case in the US… Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:05 AM

• Victims to NJ Archbishop "House predator priests in 'secure treatment center'" NEWARK (NJ) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy, executive director 314 566 9790 [email protected] (NOTE: Yesterday's Newark Star Ledger has a story about 4 predator priests protected by Archbishop Myers) Yesterday's Newark Star Ledger, in a lengthy page one article, disclosed several instances of recent deceit and recklessness by Archbishop John Myers. The newspaper found that, on "at least four occasions," Myers: " shielded priests accused of sexual abuse against minors and one adult. In the four instances, the priests have either admitted improper sexual contact, pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct or been permanently barred from ministry by the archdiocese after allegations of sexual misconduct. The archdiocese also wrote a letter of recommendation for one of the priests, a week after it learned he was accused of breaking into a woman's home in Florida and possibly assaulting her." In light of these revelations, and for the sake of public safety, we call on Archbishop Myers to take these steps: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 75 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

1) Myers should do what 24 of his colleagues across the US have done: post on church websites the names of all proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics. Parents, parishioners and the public can't protect their kids from predators unless we know who those predators are. This is the bare minimum moral obligation of every Catholic prelate. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:01 AM

• Ex-Peoria bishop still protects predator priests; SNAP responds NEWARK (NJ) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy, executive director 314 566 9790 [email protected] (NOTE: Yesterday's Newark Star Ledger has a story about 4 predator priests protected by Archbishop Myers) Yesterday's Newark Star Ledger, in a lengthy page one article, disclosed several instances of recent deceit and recklessness by Archbishop John Myers (who spent `14 years as a bishop in Peoria). The newspaper found that, on "at least four occasions," Myers: " shielded priests accused of sexual abuse against minors and one adult. In the four instances, the priests have either admitted improper sexual contact, pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct or been permanently barred from ministry by the archdiocese after allegations of sexual misconduct. The archdiocese also wrote a letter of recommendation for one of the priests, a week after it learned he was accused of breaking into a woman's home in Florida and possibly assaulting her." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:58 AM

• Calif. man to be arraigned in priest assault case SAN JOSE (CA) Mercury News The Associated Press Posted: 12/07/2010 SAN JOSE, Calif.–A Northern California man charged with assaulting a Jesuit priest he says molested him more than three decades ago is making another court appearance. Will Lynch of San Francisco is scheduled to enter a plea Tuesday in Santa Clara Superior Court on a count of assault. He is accused of beating up 65-year-old Jerold Lindner earlier this year. Lynch's attorney, Pat Harris, says the 43-year-old plans to plead not guilty. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:47 AM • High Court to consider Murphy Report chapter IRELAND - RTE News, The High Court will deal with the publication of a chapter in the Murphy report into child sex abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on 15 December. The chapter deals with former priest Tony Walsh who was sentenced to 16 years in prison yesterday for the abuse of three boys. Last year Mr Justice Paul Gilligan ruled chapter 19, which deals with Walsh and 21 other references to him, should not be published until all the pending court cases had been completed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:45 AM • Wien entschädigt 32 Gewaltopfer OSTERREICH - Wiener Zeitung, Wien. Wien wird 32 Opfer von Gewalt in städtischen Heimen entschädigen. Das hat Jugendstadtrat Christian Oxonitsch (SPÖ) am Freitag bekanntgegeben. In einer Ausschusssitzung seien die dafür benötigten Mittel beschlossen worden, diese müssen am 15. Dezember noch im Gemeinderat abgesegnet werden. Zudem hat die Stadt eine Forschergruppe eingesetzt, welche die Geschehnisse aufarbeiten soll. Ergebnisse soll es im März 2012 geben. Die ersten Auszahlungen an Opfer sollen ab Jänner 2011 erfolgen. "Wir sind uns unserer Verantwortung für die schrecklichen Ereignisse, die einigen Menschen in Heimen der Stadt Wien widerfahren sind, bewusst", betonte Oxonitsch. Insgesamt hätten sich bisher 165 Opfer beim Weißen Ring gemeldet. "Das

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 76 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM sind die Fälle, die uns namentlich bekannt sind", berichtete Marianne Gammer, Geschäftsführerin des Weißen Rings. Der Verein ist für die Betreuung der Opfer sowie für der Aufarbeitung ihrer Geschichte zuständig. Die Fälle werden anschließend anonym einem Gremium vorgelegt, das über Entschädigungszahlungen entscheidet. Den Vorsitz des Gremiums hat Udo Jesionek, Präsident des Weißen Rings, inne. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:41 AM

• What's the Real Meaning of the Season? UNITED STATES Healing and Spirituality Dr. Jaime Romo I saw a billboard this week that read, 'Jesus is the ONLY reason for the season.' This whole contest about reasons for this and every season makes me laugh. You've heard about the atheist group that put up a billboard in New Jersey that reads, 'You know it's a myth.' And then the Catholic League put up one that says, 'You know it's real.' These billboard are more entertaining than meaningful when it comes to real issues like ending religious authority sexual abuse (RASA) and promoting healing for the generations who have known RASA. Does it really matter what we believe, if that does not lead to a concrete action? Particularly if what we believe is so wrapped up in sentimentality about the sacredness of children represented in the tragic nativity story that a god-child, magical in origin and spectacular in purpose would not be welcomed and left out in the cold. Well, that little child is alive today and has been abused and continues to be neglected by religious authorities and those who continue to focus on 'is the story true or not?' I think that a more useful question is 'What does it mean if the story is true?' or 'What does it mean if the story is a myth?' In either case, the implication is that we have a responsibility to live up to our best and highest potential and to extend safety and care to all around us, particularly children and vulnerable adults. A further implication is that we must speak up and intervene when church leaders do or have done wrong. This is what long time advocates like Gustavo Arellano, continue to do to expose and end RASA. There is finally a public move by some priests to speak up for survivors. Thank you. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:38 AM • Advocaten tegen verlenging verjaringstermijn seksueel misbruik Vandaag BELGIE - De Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik in de Kerk hoorde maandag twee Franstalige advocaten die slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk verdedigen. Ze waren het erover eens dat de verjaringstermijn voor dit soort affaires niét verlengd kan worden. Maar over de rol van assisen verschilden ze sterk van mening. De ene wil àlle zaken van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen voor assisen brengen, de andere niet. Beiden pleitten wél voor een circulaire van de procureurs-generaal om een nultolerantie in te voeren voor seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen. De Brusselse advocaat Pierre Chomé verdedigt niet alleen enkele slachtoffers in het dossier-Kelk in Brussel, maar ook die van Joël Devillet, een kandidaat-priester. Hij werd tot einde 1991 ernstig misbruikt door een priester en beklaagde zich daarover. Hij werd zelfs als slachtoffer erkend in de Kerk. Hij eiste dat de priester-dader uit zijn ambt zou verwijderd worden, zodat recidive onmogelijk was. Hij wilde ook een financiële tussenkomst in zijn therapie en hij wou dat hij zelf op het seminarie werd toegelaten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:26 AM • Advocaten vallen uit tegen Walter Van Steenbrugge Vandaag BELGIE - In de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik hekelde advocaat Pierre Chomé achter gesloten deuren de praktijken van Walter Van Steenbrugge (foto). Dat zeggen meerdere onafhankelijke bronnen. Chomé pikte het niet dat Van Steenbrugge allerhande cliënten van overal in het land gaat ronselen om zich in Brussel bij onderzoeksrechter De Troy burgerlijke partij te stellen. "Deze klachten waren in behandeling bij de plaatselijke parketten. Nu komen ze in een mammoetdossier, waar ze misschien zullen verdrinken in de rest. Of misschien komt er van het hele dossier-Kelk wel helemaal niets meer terecht. De slachtoffers hebben geen baat bij dit systeem", aldus Chomé, die http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 77 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM suggereerde dat hij namens meerdere advocaten sprak. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:18 AM • Vatican must hear 'anger and hurt' of American nuns, official says National Catholic Reporter (USA), By JOHN L. ALLEN JR., ROME - Rome must acknowledge the "depth of anger and hurt" provoked by a visitation of American nuns, the Vatican's number two official for religious life has said, saying it illustrates the need for a "strategy of reconciliation" with women religious. Archbishop Joseph Tobin, Secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of and Societies of Apostolic Life, said that he does not expect any "punitive" fallout from the visitation, and that before any decisions are made, women's communities should have a chance to know the results and to respond. That addresses a central concern of many women religious, who have objected to what some perceive as the secrecy of the process. Tobin said that as a matter of "justice and charity," he will "strongly advocate" for feedback and a right of reply. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:15 AM

• Vatican official speaks of a 'strategy of reconciliation' with women religious National Catholic Reporter (USA), By John L Allen Jr Dec. 07, 2010 {Read the Interview: Vatican must hear 'anger and hurt' of American nuns, official says} ROME -- Rome must acknowledge the "depth of anger and hurt" provoked by a visitation of American nuns, the Vatican's number two official for religious life has said, saying it illustrates the need for a "strategy of reconciliation" with women religious. Archbishop Joseph Tobin, Secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, said that he does not expect any "punitive" fallout from the visitation, and that before any decisions are made, women's communities should have a chance to know the results and to respond. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:11 AM

• Statement of James Goodness, Director of Communications of the Archdiocese of Newark Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark "What the Star Ledger Story Didn't Tell You About Our Commitment to Communication and to Protecting Children" NEWARK (NJ) - Jeff Diamant's Dec. 5 story makes a number of statements and draws conclusions about the commitment of Archbishop John Myers and the Archdiocese of Newark to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. These statements and conclusions are either misleading or outright wrong. Over close to a year and a half, I worked with this reporter on this specific topic. I outlined steps that the Archbishop and the Archdiocese had taken in each of the cases that he cited in his story, as well as in others. However, most of the information I supplied was not incorporated into the story. As a result, his reporting was, at best, incomplete, and at worst, deceptive. Mr. Diamant claimed in the fourth paragraph of his story that the Archbishop and the Archdiocese were not abiding by the Charter, but then buried elsewhere in the story that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has found regularly that the Archdiocese complies with the Charter in both the letter and spirit of the law. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 AM

• Newark Archdiocese Responds To Cover-Up Accusations NEWARK (NJ) MyFox NY {video} MYFOXNY.COM - A report published in the Star Ledger on Sunday accused Newark Archbishop John J. Meyers of shielding priests accused of sexual abuse. Communications Director James Goodness spoke with Good Day New York on Tuesday about the claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:04 AM

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• Integrating Sex Offenders At Church UNITED STATES Today Marian V. liautaud | posted 12/05/2010 In a recent survey of nearly 3,000 church leaders, an overwhelming number said they believe churches should welcome known sex offenders, despite their criminal pasts. Nearly 80 percent said sex offenders should belong to a church, while only 3 percent thought they should be completely excluded, according to the "Sex Offenders in the Church" survey conducted by Christianity Today International, Your Church Today's publisher. The purpose of the research, which took place online in April 2010, was to learn the attitudes and actions churches are taking to help integrate known sex offenders into their faith communities. The 2,864 people who participated in the survey included ordained church leaders (15 percent), church staff (20 percent), and lay leaders (43 percent). Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:00 AM

• Revenge attack on priest calls attention to statute of limitations on sex cases CALIFORNIA Mercury News By Tracey Kaplan [email protected] Will Lynch, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is finally getting his day in court -- but not the way he hoped. He's the one who must appear before a judge today on criminal charges, not the Jesuit priest he says raped him and his brother when they were little boys. Prosecutors were barred from charging the Rev. Jerome Lindner with child molestation, even though the Catholic Church eventually paid the brothers a settlement, because by the time Lynch reported the abuse -- about two decades after it occurred -- the six-year statute of limitations in effect at the time of the alleged sex assault had run out. Lynch now faces an assault charge on suspicion of tracking down Lindner and severely pummeling him in May in a bout of revenge against the priest. The case has led to passionate debate and called attention to the thorny legal issue of how long victims who were assaulted as children -- and often intimidated into silence - - have to seek justice in criminal court. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:51 AM

• Archdiocese of Newark denounces Star-Ledger report on sex abuse cases NEWARK (NJ) The Star-Ledger Monday, December 06, 2010 {Read the complete 5-page statement by the Archdiocese of Newark} {Newark archbishop shielded at least 4 priests accused of sexual abuse} Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger NEWARK – The Archdiocese of Newark issued a five-page statement Monday denouncing a Sunday Star-Ledger story as "incomplete" and "deceptive" for concluding that Archbishop John J. Myers shielded priests accused of sexual abuse on at least four occasions. The Star-Ledger reviewed records dating back to 2002 that showed the archdiocese failed to notify the public about clergy accused of molesting children and wrote letters on behalf of another priest after learning he was accused of assaulting a woman. James Goodness, a spokesman for the archdiocese, called the story's conclusions "misleading or outright wrong" and said Myers is complying with a U.S. bishops charter outlining how the church should deal with sexual abuse claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:47 AM • Victims of abuse praised by judge for bravery IRELAND - Irish Independent, By Dearbhail McDonald, Legal Editor, Tuesday December 07 2010 A VICTIM of defrocked priest Tony Walsh yesterday described the life sentence he had imposed on him following years of sexual abuse when he was an altar boy. Walsh, who received a 12-year jail term for abusing three boys, now in their 30s, sat impassively as one of his victims told the Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin that he smoked crack cocaine and became a heroin http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 79 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM addict as a direct result of being abused by Walsh. Judge Frank O'Donnell described the now 38-year-old as an "absolute stalwart" after he read out a harrowing victim impact statement in which the victim disclosed that he had first tried to commit suicide at the age of 16. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:44 AM • Statement of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on sentencing of Tony Walsh IRELAND Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin Tony Walsh, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin was sentenced today for the grievous sexual abuse of three people when they were still only children. My first thoughts go to these victims and their families. I hope that the finality of the legal process will help bring them some sense of justice, of healing, of closure and hope for the future. Tony Walsh, however, abused many more children, the numbers are truly shocking. For some of these he has already served sentence. He caused untold destruction in the lives of numerous children. Today's news will sadly have re-ignited the ordeal of many of his victims. The Archdiocese of Dublin failed these children. It was too slow in recognising recognise that Tony Walsh was a predatory paedophile. When the extent of his paedophile activity was identified this dangerous man was allowed to continue in ministry for many years with the consequent damage visited on children. We now know he may have been abusing children even during his seminary formation. He was finally dismissed from the priesthood on the insistence of Cardinal Desmond Connell. It was a tragedy however, that Tony Walsh was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin and thus had privileged access to children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM • Archbishop apologises as 'paedophile predator' jailed IRELAND - Irish Independent By Anne-Marie Walsh and Conor Gallagher Tuesday December 07 2010 THE Diarmuid Martin last night apologised to the victims of a "predatory paedophile" who was jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing three boys. Dr Martin admitted the church failed the victims of former priest Tony Walsh by being "too slow" in recognising his "grievous" abuse while based in a parish in Ballyfermot. He was speaking after Walsh (57), who was named in the Murphy Report on abuse in the Dublin diocese, was sentenced to 16 years, with four suspended, for the abuse of three boys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM • Plaintiff calls for St. Elizabeth penalty [1960s+ Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. Boy + others. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 7, 2010 DOVER (DE) - An attorney for plaintiff John Vai told a jury set to decide on punitive damages in Vai's priest sex abuse lawsuit to "send a message of deterrence … to make sure this never happens again" with its ruling. Attorney Stephen J. Neuberger told the Kent County Superior Court panel of 12 on Monday that this phase of the case "is no longer just about John Vai" but is also about other children who were abused by now-defrocked priest Francis DeLuca - and the people in the Roman Catholic parish of St. Elizabeth who covered up for DeLuca and hid his decades of sexual abuse. Parish attorney Colleen Shields decried the "conspiracy of secrecy and silence" that surrounded DeLuca's crimes and allowed him to quietly retire to Syracuse, N.Y., in 1993. "That wasn't right," she said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM • Priest played Elvis music to drown child's screams Irish Central, By JAMES O'SHEA, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer, Published Tuesday, December 7, 2010 IRELAND - A Dublin priest who raped a seven-year-old young boy on the altar after tying him up with chords from his sand played Elvis Presley songs to drown his screams was sentenced to 16 years for abusing young boys. Tony Walsh, 57, was a famous member of a priests' music group known for his Elvis impersonations. He was a serial molester whose activities were known to senior figures in the Dublin archdiocese who overlooked his crimes. Walsh's activities took up an entire chapter in the recent Murphy report on priestly abuse in the Dublin archdiocese. He was not actually named in that report as his case was continuing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 80 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM archdiocese. He was not actually named in that report as his case was continuing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:25 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Tue December 07, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Wed December 08, 2010 edition: • Lawyers earn €157m from cases [Irish RCC spends €157m so far on lawyers.]

Tribune, Ken Foxe, Public Affairs Correspondent, December 05, 2010 IRELAND - Some €157m has been paid in legal fees to barristers and solicitors who worked on behalf of victims of institutional abuse. The costs make up more than 15% of all the money paid out as part of the redress scheme for thousands of people who suffered sexual and physical abuse in industrial schools and other institutions. Six firms of solicitors have earned at least €1m for their work on the cases while the maximum award paid to a victim was just €300,000. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:55 PM, December 08, 2010 • Slachtoffer seksueel misbruik eist geld van bisdom Breda Breda Journaal, NEDERLAND - Een slachtoffer van seksueel misbruik binnen de rooms-katholieke kerk eist geld van het bisdom Breda. De 34-jarige Dave ten B. is in de jaren negentig misbruikt door een pastoor in Terneuzen. De werkgever van de pater is het bisdom Breda. De dader is veroordeeld tot een werkstraf, maar het slachtoffer probeert nu via een civiele procedure een schadevergoeding van het bisdom te krijgen.Het is voor het eerst, sinds het grootschalige misbruik van de kerk in Nederland aan het licht kwam, dat een slachtoffer voor de rechter een schadevergoeding eist. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:52 PM • Het Grote Lijden van de kardinaal [RCC] , Auteur: MARK EECKHAUT, donderdag 09 december 2010 BELGIE - Het moet zijn dat de tekstweergave, geschreven, niet weergegeven heeft wat er in feite gebeurd is daar.' Het timbre van zijn stem, zijn lichaamstaal, het grotere kader: al die elementen zijn volgens kardinaal Danneels verloren gegaan bij de publicatie van de zogenaamde Danneels-tapes in deze krant eind augustus. En zo kreeg de lezer, aldus Danneels, een compleet verkeerd beeld van wie de kardinaal écht was en hoe hij zich écht had gedragen bij zijn ontmoeting met het slachtoffer van bisschop Roger Vangheluwe, waarvan de letterlijke weergave op 28 augustus in deze krant verscheen. Dat is de verklaring die de kardinaal dinsdagavond op Eén gaf aan tv-maker Martin Heylen in de serie God en Klein Pierke op de vraag hoe het kwam dat hij in de geschreven neerslag van de tapes in De Standaard zo 'wereldvreemd en uit een ivoren toren' overkwam. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:47 PM • Jury awards $30 million more in priest abuse case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The News Journal, December 8, 2010 DOVER (DE) - A jury today ordered defrocked priest John DeLuca to pay an additional $30 million in punitive damages and St. Elizabeth Parish to pay an additional $1. Last week. the jury awarded John Vai $30 million in damages for the years of abuse he suffered in the late 1960s at the hands of DeLuca – an associate pastor at St. Elizabeth at the time – and held the parish responsible for $3 million of that award. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 PM • DeLuca owes $30 million in punitive damages; St. E's $1 [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] WDEL, {with audio}, By Amy Cherry, DELAWARE - John Vai's priest sex abuse trial against defrocked priest Francis DeLuca and St. Elizabeth's parish wraps up. The jury ordered DeLuca to pay Vai $30 million in punitive damages. That's in addition to the $27 million they've already ordered DeLuca to pay. 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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:39 PM • Jury awards punitive damages in Del. priest abuse case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)] The Daily Times, By RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press, December 8, 2010 DOVER (DE) – A Superior Court jury on Wednesday assessed punitive damages of $1 against a Roman Catholic parish in Wilmington in a priest child sex abuse case after witnesses testified that a big award could devastate the church community. While assessing only token damages against St. Elizabeth's parish, the jury returned a punitive damage award of $30 million against former priest Francis DeLuca, equal to the $30 million in compensatory damages it awarded abuse victim John Vai last week. The jury last week found that St. Elizabeth's was negligent in not preventing DeLuca from sexually abusing Vai in the 1960s. It ordered that the parish pay $3 million of the compensatory damage award. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:36 PM, December 08, 2010 • Discrete ontboezemingen in de abdij van een suspecte kardinaal [RCC.] NRC Handelsblad, door Hans Beerekamp, woensdag 8 december 2010 BELGIE / NEDERLAND - Sinds maandag zijn mijn televisieavonden weer een stukje vrolijker geworden, dankzij De allerslimste mens ter wereld, een dagelijkse reeks om de supercup van de meest succesvolle kandidaten in de Vlaamse kennisquiz. Er zijn veel redenen aan te wijzen waarom het Vlaamse origineel zo veel aanstekelijker is dan de alweer gestopte Nederlandse namaak. Belgen houden van quizzen en waarderen mensen die meer weten dan een ander. Iedereen doet mee, van charmezanger tot oud-premier. Presentator Erik van Looy is een droge en gevatte en op de juiste manier onopvallende gastheer. … Gisteren doorbrak bij Heylen kardinaal Godfried Danneels een maandenlang stilzwijgen, na onthullingen over zijn doofpotstrategie rond seksueel misbruik door de Brugse bisschop Roger Vangheluwe. In België is de golf van onthullingen over rooms misbruik harder aangekomen dan hier. Er is meer en harder bewijs van betrokkenheid van de top en het land was langer vroom dan wij. Vooral kardinaal Danneels was alom geliefd, in de woorden van Heylen „een monument van de moderne kerk dat na dertig jaar van zijn sokkel is gevallen." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:51 PM, December 08, 2010 • Marr pleads guilty to theft [2007-09 Fr Thomas Marr - ? NEW*. RCC. Guilty plea. Money.] Daily Times, By Steve Sharp of the Daily Times staff, Wednesday, December 8, 2010 JEFFERSON, WISCONSIN - Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Weston on Tuesday accepted former Watertown priest, the Rev. Thomas Marr's guilty pleas to charges of theft in a business setting and theft by fraud. The matter was then adjourned for completion of a presentence investigation report. The maximum possible penalty for theft is a term of imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a $10,000 fine, or both, relating to each count. Marr, 64, is a former priest at Watertown's St. Bernard Catholic Church. A criminal complaint in the matter stated that, between 2007 and 2009, Marr took money from various parish accounts. In addition, Marr also allegedly solicited funds from members of the parish, family members, other clergy and friends, representing that he intended to use the funds to assist parish members in financial distress. Marr promised that he would repay these people quickly. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:29 PM, December 08, 2010 • Parish seeks to avoid damages for priest abuse [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation. (No defendant or defence lawyer present)]

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NECN, ~ December 08, 2010 DOVER, Del. (AP) – School administrators for a Catholic parish in Wilmington are urging jurors not to slap the parish with punitive damages in a priest child sex abuse case. The jury last week found that St. Elizabeth's parish was negligent in not preventing former priest Francis DeLuca from sexually abusing John Vai in the 1960s. The jury awarded Vai $30 million in compensatory damages, with St. Elizabeth's responsible for $3 million of that amount. Leaders of St. Elizabeth's high school and elementary school testified Wednesday that an award of punitive damages could be devastating to the parish. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:26 PM, December 08, 2010 [PONDER: About the finances: My kingdom is not of this world. (John 18:36). What the parish ought to have done: Put away that wicked one from among yourselves (1 Corinthians 5:13). ENDS.] • Bishop Eddie Long agrees to mediation [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] The Statesman, By Joshunda Sanders | Wednesday, December 8, 2010 GEORGIA - Morris W. O'Kelly makes good points at the Huffington Post on developments in the cases against Bishop Eddie Long, who may avoid a trial by agreeing to mediation in the four sexual coercion lawsuits filed against him. The Christian Post first wrote about lawyers on both sides "wanting to resolve the matter quickly" in November. Here's O'Kelly's take: Granted, if the future mediation in February does not solve the dispute, there is a tentative trial date set for July 11, 2011. This could still end up being resolved in a courtroom. Bishop Eddie Long agreeing to mediation of sexual coercion charges is an end-run around the universally accepted moral and ethical responsibilities of any ecumenical leader. Mediation of sexual allegation grievances is tantamount to an admission of "some" guilt, "some" form of ministerial misconduct. Innocent folk don't make deals if the claims against them are baseless and untrue. Mediation for the accused is a forfeiture of the right to ever claim innocence, and readers should be absolutely clear on this point. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:23 PM • Bishop Eddie Long Seeking Settlement [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] KTBS, GEORGIA - A major development and in the case of the preacher of an Atlanta-area mega-church. Bishop Eddie Long is accused in civil lawsuits of inappropriate sexual relations with several young men. He says he's done nothing wrong. He vowed to fight. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:20 PM • Priest abuse lawsuit against Green Bay diocese can proceed [1978 Feeney] Post-Crescent, By John Lee, December 8, 2010 APPLETON (WI) – A civil trial against the Diocese of Green Bay by two brothers who were sexually assaulted by a priest can proceed, an Outagamie County judge has ruled. Judge Nancy Krueger rejected a motion by the diocese to dismiss the case filed by Todd and Troy Merryfield, saying there is adequate evidence the diocese knew Feeney was a threat to children when it placed him in several parishes where he continued to have contact with children. In denying the diocese's request to dismiss the case, Krueger also rejected the defense claims that the six- year statute of limitations had expired since the case occurred in 1978. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:18 PM • Judge Rejects Catholic Diocese's Arguments to Dismiss Lawsuit [Fr John Feeney] WISCONSIN - WBAY An Outagamie County judge ruled against the Green Bay Catholic Diocese in a child sex abuse case, and will allow a lawsuit to proceed. In 2004, a jury convicted former priest John Patrick Feeney of sexually assaulting brothers Todd and Troy Merryfield while serving at a parish in Freedom in 1978. A judge later sentenced Feeney to prison. During the criminal trial, the Merryfields discovered the diocese allegedly knew about other sexual assault allegations against Feeney. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:15 PM • Vatican Bank mired in laundering scandal [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized. Another secrecy system.]

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Ventura County Star, By Nicole Winfield, Victor L. Simpson, Associated Press, Posted December 8, 2010 VATICAN CITY (AP) – This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it's under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in September. Critics say the case shows that the "Vatican Bank" has never shed its penchant for secrecy and scandal. The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a "misunderstanding" and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti- laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital." The documents also reveal investigators' suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:11 PM • Danneels: "Ik lijd nog altijd onder het misbruik van Vangheluwe" [RCC] Vandaag 22:07, 7 december, 2010 BELGIE - Volgens kardinaal Danneels tilde de kerk in het verleden minder zwaar aan het seksueel misbruik van kinderen door geestelijken, dan ze dat had moeten doen. In zijn eerste interview over de zaak-Vangheluwe zegt Danneels dat hij "verrast" en "ondersteboven" was toen de zaak losbarstte. De kardinaal voelt nog altijd een diepe pijn over wat gebeurd is. Godfried Danneels zegt geen wrok te voelen, maar zal de gewezen bisschop van Brugge niet meer opzoeken. Hij getuigde in het televisieprogramma 'God en klein Pierke' dat hij nog altijd lijdt onder het misbruik van Vangheluwe, die hij als vriend beschouwde. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:52 PM • Devlies: "Class action voor slachtoffers seksueel misbruik kan niet" Hbvl, BELGIE - "De slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk kunnen geen class action opstarten, want dat bestaat wettelijk gezien niet in België". Dat zei staatssecretaris voor Justitie Carl Devlies (CD&V) in de Kamer aan Raf Terwingen (CD&V) en Sophie De Wit (N-VA). Hij floot daarmee advocaat Walter Van Steenbrugge terug. Die zegt dat hij met slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk een "class action" opstart bij de Brusselse onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy. Een class action is een rechtszaak waarin meerdere slachtoffers, die allen een soortgelijke schade hebben geleden, hun eisen bundelen. Dat resultaat moet tot een vonnis leiden dat ook geldt voor alle soortgelijke slachtoffers die niet aan deze rechtszaak hebben meegedaan. De vorige regering was van plan om in België een class action mogelijk te maken, vooral naar aanleiding van de grote gasramp in Gellingen. Maar door de val van de regering kwam er niets van in huis. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:49 PM • Merryfields' lawsuit can continue WLUK APPLETON, WISCONSIN - A judge has denied the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay's request to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by two abuse victims. Former priest John Feeney was convicted in 2004 of molesting Todd and Troy Merryfield in 1978, while Feeney was assigned to a parish in Freedom. After Feeney was sentenced, the Merryfields sued the Diocese for fraud, claiming the Diocese knew Feeney had a history of abuse and did not warn parishioners or remove him from ministry. The Diocese asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing the statute of limitations had expired and that the Merryfields did not provide sufficient facts the Diocese had knowledge of Feeney's conduct. However, in a ruling dated last week, Outagamie County Judge Nancy Krueger denied the Diocese's motion. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:18 PM

• Child exploitation probe nets 57 arrests CANADA CBC News

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Police have filed more than 200 charges and arrested 57 men in Canada and overseas after infiltrating a child pornography network. Twenty-five of those men are Canadian and together face a total of 131 charges, Toronto police Det. Paul Krawczyk said at a news conference Wednesday. The men come from all over Canada, including Vancouver and Conception Bay South, N.L. Seven of those arrested are from Toronto, Krawczyk said. The man from Conception Bay South is 51-year-old Robin Barrett, a former Anglican priest who pleaded guilty in September to owning and distributing pornography featuring children as young as six months. He will serve 2½ years in prison. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:15 PM

• PippiLeaks: Pope John XXIII praises Servants of Paraclete aid to 'priests fallen prey to insidious snares of evil' ALBUQUERQUE (NM) City of Angels By Kay Ebeling December 6, 2010 The Vatican claims ignorance of peophiles in the priesthood until recent years, yet Pope John the 23rd gave a special commendation to Servants of the Paraclete in the 1959 document scanned here: "Our pastoral heart was greatly consoled when we learned of your very commendable apostolate among the Lord's own anointed, who, while bearing the 'heat of the day and burden' (Matt. XX. 12) have fallen prey to the insidious snares of evil that beset the path of priests." The Papal decree is the fourth entry in today's edition of PippiLeaks, which stands for Papal Insider Pedophile Priest Information Leaks, at City of Angels Blog. {See also a PDF of the Vatican document.} {Other C of A posts: - PippiLeaks: 1952 Fitzgerald letter says priests who 'tamper with virtue of young' should be secluded in monastery for life - PippiLeaks: Fitzgerald recommends Matrimony for priests who cannot remain celibate, in 1961 letter to Bishop of Manchester re J. T. S. - PippiLeaks Pictures of Servants of Paraclete Leaders - Destruction of Documents: Outstanding quotes from Munich Diocese where Pope was bishop} Posted by Terry McKiernan at 8:56 AM

• Ex-priest Resigns After Past Comes to Light BAR HARBOR (ME) Fenceviewer Written by Robert Levin Wednesday, December 08, 2010 BAR HARBOR – A former Catholic Priest resigned abruptly from the board of the Bar Harbor Housing Authority (BHA) on Dec. 1, after his convictions on charges of child sex abuse came to light. W. Dayton Salisbury, 79, had been a resident commissioner on the BHA board for at least 10 years. He lives at the BHA's Malvern-Belmont apartments at 80 Mount Desert St. Mr. Salisbury, a native of Bar Harbor, was twice convicted of sexual molestation charges while working out of state as a Roman Catholic priest. In 1979, Mr. Salisbury pleaded no contest to indecency with a child in Houston, Texas. He received three years of probation. In 1993, in Washington, D.C., Mr. Salisbury pleaded guilty to a charge of assault, and was convicted of committing an indecent act on a minor, for which he was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended, and one year of probation. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:23 AM • Several Fargo Child Sex Cases Settle vs. Catholic Church Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]), UNITED STATES - We are grateful to the brave North Dakota men who publicly exposed Brother Raimond Rose, a dangerous child molesting Catholic cleric who taught in Fargo. Because of their courage and compassion, thousands of Catholic parents now understand that they should keep their kids away from Rose and that they cannot trust the hierarchy of the Christian Brothers. We hope the settlements bring a measure of comfort and closure to these deeply wounded men. They http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 85 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM certainly deserve it. Often, victims do feel some degree of validation when they successfully force complicit employers to finally take some responsibility for terrible crimes committed by their sick employees. At the same time, however, no amount of money can ever restore or 'un-do' a stolen childhood or shattered psyche. So we urge every child sex abuse victim to stay in therapy and support groups, no matter what may or may not happen in the legal arena. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:20 AM

• Sixteen child sex cases against cleric settle CHICAGO (IL) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests WHAT Holding signs and photos at a news conference, clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters will --disclose/discuss 16 recent settlements involving child molesting cleric who worked and lived recently in Chicago, --announce that he's been moved to an undisclosed location in , --blast a top Catholic official who lied and helped the predator get a job where he molested again, and --urge the Pope to discipline that official. WHEN Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2:30 p.m. WHERE Outside the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Chicago, 835 N Rush Street , north of Chicago Ave Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:18 AM

• Hugh Dallas appeals sacking with SFA Evening Times Matthew Lindsay SCOTLAND - Hugh Dallas has lodged an official appeal against his sacking as the SFA head of referee development. Former World Cup whistler Dallas and four other SFA employees were dismissed for forwarding an e- mail which linked the visit of the Pope to Scotland with the child abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Church. Under the governing body's disciplinary procedures, the five staff members had until yesterday to appeal against the sanction. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:05 AM • Joliet Diocese names interim bishop JOLIET (IL) Daily Herald By Elisabeth Mistretta As the Joliet Diocese waits for Pope Benedict XVI to name its new bishop, diocese leaders named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Siegel as its administrator. Siegel was elected by the College of Consultors just days after former Bishop Peter Sartain left to become the Archbishop of Seattle on Dec. 1. Advertisement Sartain's elevation was announced in September, and diocese officials anticipated that Siegel would be named as his interim successor. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM

• Professor accused of child sex abuse NAPERVILLE (IL) Naperville Sun BY BILL BIRD [email protected] Dec 7, 2010 The man charged with sexually abusing a child earlier this year in Naperville is an adjunct professor at a community college and, reportedly, a minister. James W. French, 63, of upstate Dakota, remained Tuesday in DuPage County Jail in Wheaton on a $250,000 bond. He faces trial on a felony charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Naperville police on Thursday arrested French at his home and seized what Sgt. Gregg Bell characterized as "pertinent evidence to the investigation." Police on Nov. 16 began looking into French's activities after being contacted by officials of the DuPage County Children's Advocacy Center, which investigates molestation allegations involving children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:53 AM

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• Stateline Pastor, RVC Adjunct Professor Accused of Child Sexual Abuse NAPERVILLE (IL) WIFR NAPERVILLE (WIFR) -- A stateline pastor and part-time professor at Rock Valley College is currently in a DuPage County Jail… facing charges of sexually abusing a child. 63-year old James French was arrested at his Dakota home on Thursday, accused of having a sexual encoutner with a minor at a residence in Naperville. The alleged incident was reported on November 15th According to his autobiography, French was the founding pastor of Indian Grove Country Church serving from 1987-2008. French was also a full time teacher at Aquin High School in the late 80's, a Stephenson County Board member from 1989-to-1992, and the Founding Chairman of the Stephenson County 9-1-1 Board from 1990-92. He's been teaching Western Civilization and U.S. history at Rock Valley since 2008. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:51 AM

• Fresno Bishop John Steinbock dies at 73 CALIFORNIA The Kansas City Star By MITCHELL LANDSBERG Los Angeles Times John Steinbock, the Roman Catholic bishop of Fresno, Calif., who presided over a period of tremendous growth in his diocese and was known as a strong administrator, a down-to-earth cleric and a hole-in-one golfer, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 73. A former parish priest in Los Angeles, Steinbock had led the Diocese of Fresno since 1991 and was credited with turning around its finances and welcoming the immigrants who accounted for an increasingly large proportion of its flock. Under his leadership, the diocese, encompassing most of the San Joaquin Valley, grew from about 350,000 worshipers to more than 1 million, according to diocesan officials. … Like many Catholic bishops, he faced strong criticism over his handling of cases of sexual abuse by priests, although some praised him for taking a relatively forthright approach. In one recent case, a Sacramento attorney dropped a lawsuit against the diocese after discovering that Steinbock had removed the priest from the ministry and notified his previous parishes of the alleged crimes. "I've filed a lot of these cases, and I've been almost uniformly critical of the handling of the cases, but it seemed to me that he'd responded in a reasonable and appropriate manner," said the lawyer, Joseph George. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:47 AM

• Richmond man alleged sexual abuse by teacher RICHMOND (VA) Richmond Times-Dispatch By From staff and wire reports Published: December 08, 2010 A Richmond man who says he was sexually abused by a high school teacher in North Dakota is one of 21 men who have filed lawsuits against the teacher, Brother Raimond Rose, for cases dating back to the 1960s. Kevin Price, 47, who moved to Richmond 10 years ago and raises money for nonprofits, said he was struggling with memories of the abuse by his religion teacher his freshman year at Shanley High School in Fargo, N.D. The lawsuit Price joined, filed by a former classmate, was settled this summer with the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, which ran the school, and the religious order that provided teachers, De La Salle Christian Brothers. Price declined to release details of the settlement because he signed a confidentiality agreement. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 AM

• N.J. Senate to consider relaxing limits on sex abuse lawsuits NEW JERSEY NJ.com Wednesday, December 08, 2010 Matt Friedman/Statehouse Bureau TRENTON – When a 26-year-old man known as "R.L." sued his former stepfather for allegedly sexually abusing him when he was 10 years old, he had to fight all the way to the state Supreme Court just to get the http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 87 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM case heard. New Jersey has a two-year statute of limitations on lawsuits for sexual abuse, which means victims have only two years to sue after they realize they were damaged by abuse. "It was far more arduous than it should have been," said Victor Rotolo, an attorney who represented "R.L.," whose identity remains protected. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill that would eliminate any statute of limitations on when sex abuse victims can sue – and allow them to take action against clergy, educators and others who knew about abuse and did nothing to stop it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:30 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Wed December 08, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 09, 2010 edition: • Legion Begins to Revise Constitutions [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Zenit DEC. 9, 2010 ROME, Italy, (Zenit.org).-The Legionaries of Christ have announced the members of the central committe for the revision of the constitutions. On Wedneday, the general directorate of the Legion reported that the pontifical delegate, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, will preside over the commission, and that the committee will be made up of six priests. Two non-Legionaries will act as personal advisors: Jesuit Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, Father Agostino Montan of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. Four Legionary priests were also named to the committee: Father Roberto Aspe Hinojosa, Father Anthony Bannon, Father José García Sentandreu, and Father Gabriel Sotres. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:30 PM • Commissie misbruik: Rooms-katholieke hulp deugt niet [RCC] Elsevier, 12:55, donderdag 9 december 2010 NEDERLAND - De commissie-Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen Rooms-katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, wil af van Hulp&Recht. Het bestuur van het Rooms-katholieke meldpunt laat in een reactie weten dat het bereid is op te stappen. Oud-minister Wim Deetman heeft zijn eerste adviezen over de hulpverlening aan misbruikslachtoffers donderdagochtend in Den Haag gepresenteerd. 'Toen de hausse aan klachten binnenkwam, was de organisatie daar volstrekt niet op voorbereid,' constateert Deetman. 'Toen de klachtenstroom aanhield was er enige verbazing en hulpeloosheid over hoe nu verder.' Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:21 PM • Kerk snel om de tafel over advies Deetman [RCC] Nieuws NEDERLAND (Novum) - De katholieke kerk wil snel in overleg met de kerkelijke instelling Hulp & Recht om de adviezen van de commissie-Deetman te bespreken. Dat laten de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) donderdag weten. Beide organisaties gaven opdracht voor het onderzoek van Deetman. Die kraakte donderdag kritische noten over de hulpverlening door Hulp & Recht aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in katholieke instellingen. In reactie daarop bood het bestuur van Hulp & Recht zijn ontslag aan. De bisschoppen en KNR danken Deetman voor het deskundige advies dat 'veel stof tot reflectie' biedt. Zij willen nu snel praten over de consequenties van het rapport en de uitvoering van de adviezen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:19 PM • Deetman uit kritiek op misbruik stichting RTV, UTRECHT, NEDERLAND - De commissie Deetman adviseert de hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen ingrijpend te verbeteren. Daarbij zou geen rol meer zijn voor de Utrechtse stichting Hulp en Recht.

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Die kerkelijke stichting is nu het enige loket voor hulpverlening en juridische stappen voor slachtoffers en dat moet veranderen. Deetman vindt dat de stichting Hulp en Recht tegengestelde belangen dient van zowel de kerk als de slachtoffers. Die moeten voortaan worden doorgestuurd naar de juiste hulpverlening, vindt Deetman. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 PM • Deetman bepleit reorganisatie Hulp&Recht RKnieuws UTRECHT, NEDERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - De afhandeling van meldingen van seksueel misbruik in de kerk moet vooral 'openbaar en transparant' zijn. Dat stelde Wim Deetman, tijdens de presentatie van de eerste onderzoeksresultaten van de misbruik-commissie Deetman. Deetman leverde kritiek op het functioneren van Hulp&Recht, de kerkelijke organisatie die meldingen afhandelt. Hulp&Recht kon vanwege verschillende aandachtspunten haar taken niet goed uitvoeren, aldus Deetman. Onder andere het gemis aan onafhankelijkheid en het onduidelijke takenpakket waren "een belasting voor het goede functioneren van de organisatie". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:13 PM • Chesal en Dohmen Journalist van het Jaar 2010 [RCC] Metro, AMSTERDAM, NEDERLAND (ANP) - Robert Chesal van Radio Nederland Wereldomroep en Joep Dohmen van NRC Handelsblad zijn door Villamedia uitgeroepen tot Journalist van het Jaar 2010. Beide journalisten zijn verkozen vanwege hun berichtgeving over seksueel misbruik in de katholieke kerk, maakte de hoofdredacteur van het vakblad donderdag bekend. Bij de prijs hoort een beeldje van de Haagse kunstenaar Loek Bos dat beide prijswinnaars in januari krijgen uitgereikt in sociëteit Nieuwspoort in Den Haag. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:09 PM • Statement Regarding the Late Fr. Czeslaw Szymanski, O.S.P. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, For Immediate Release Contact: Kelly Lynch, [email protected] , (617) 391-9639, December 9, 2010 {Further information: Newspaper story on the priest's death; obituary from the Lowell Sun; notice of the funeral service.} (BRAINTREE, Mass.) …The Archdiocese of Boston today issued the following statement relating to complaints of sexual abuse of a minor being brought against the late Fr. Czeslaw Szymanski, O.S.P: "We are troubled and saddened any time new allegations are brought to our attention and, today, we extend our concern and prayers for the individuals and parish communities impacted by this difficult news. We have notified law enforcement of these allegations and are awaiting additional detail from the claimants." "The Archdiocese will work to resolve these claims against the late Fr. Czeslaw Szymanski, O.S.P in accordance with its policies. The Archdiocese has offered counseling to the individuals who have come forward and will proceed in a manner that is just and respectful of survivors' pastoral needs. ..." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:45 PM

• Diocese responds to Outagamie Co. court ruling WISCONSIN Fox 11 GREEN BAY - The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay is responding to a ruling that a lawsuit brought by two abuse victims can proceed. Former priest John Feeney was convicted in 2004 of molesting Todd and Troy Merryfield in 1978, while Feeney was assigned to a parish in Freedom. After Feeney was sentenced, the Merryfields sued the diocese for fraud, claiming the diocese knew Feeney had a history of abuse and did not warn parishioners or remove him from ministry. The diocese asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing the statute of limitations had expired and that the Merryfields did not provide sufficient facts the diocese had knowledge of Feeney's conduct. The diocese released the following statement Thursday: "We are grateful to have had the opportunity to present to Judge Krueger our Motion for Summary Judgment in which we provided numerous documents," says Deacon Tim Reilly, Diocesan Director of Administration. "For 32 years, we have fully cooperated with each investigation and provided thousands of http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 89 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Administration. "For 32 years, we have fully cooperated with each investigation and provided thousands of documents from our files. In our view, there is no indication that any diocesan official had knowledge of sexual molestation prior to the Merryfields' case in 1978. We believe that we demonstrated there was never any fraud, and we trust that we will prevail as the legal process unfolds." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:41 PM • Deetman: nieuwe organisatie voor slachtoffers misbruik De Volkskrant, AMSTERDAM, NEDERLAND - Een nieuw 'kwaliteitscentrum' voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de katholieke kerk moet er voor zorgen dat de hulpverlening aan die slachtoffers flink wordt verbeterd. Ook moet er een collectieve regeling voor schadevergoedingen komen, ook als de zaak is verjaard. Dat zei voorzitter Wim Deetman, bij de presentatie van het eerste rapport van de commissie die onderzoek doet naar het misbruik binnen de kerk. De commissie beveelt 'met klem' aan om het beroep op verjaring niet leidend te laten zijn in de behandeling van meldingen van slachtoffers. Deetman had kritiek op Hulp&Recht, de kerkelijke instantie die tot dusver klachten in behandeling nam namens de kerk. Die organisatie was volgens de commissie niet voorbereid op het enorme aantal meldingen van seksueel misbruik. Hulp&Recht zou volgens de commissie omgevormd moeten worden tot een organisatie die bestaat uit een klachtencommissie, een meldpunt en een professioneel kwaliteitscentrum. Bij dat centrum moeten klagers eenvoudig en op deskundige wijze worden doorverwezen naar de juiste hulpverlening. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:38 PM • Deetman wil af van Hulp en Recht De Gelderlander, DEN HAAG, NEDERLAND - De onderzoekscommissie-Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, wil zo snel mogelijk af van het huidige katholieke meldpunt Hulp & Recht. Dat heeft oud-minister Wim Deetman donderdag bekendgemaakt in Den Haag. Daarnaast adviseert de commissie aan de opdrachtgevers, de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) dat een beroep op verjaring bij de vraag naar schadevergoedingen niet leidend mag zijn. Deetman zei verder dat het denkbaar is dat de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk een collectieve regeling aanbiedt aan slachtoffers. Ook adviseert Deetman aan de bisschoppen en de KNR een kwartiermaker in te stellen, 'omdat het advies op korte termijn veel werk met zich mee zal brengen'. De kwartiermaker zou dan de aanbevelingen van de onderzoekscommissie kunnen uitwerken. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:35 PM • Commissie-Deetman kritisch over slachtofferhulp Nu, {met video}, AMSTERDAM, NEDERLAND - De onderzoekscommissie-Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, wil zo snel mogelijk af van het huidige katholieke meldpunt Hulp&Recht. Dit heeft oud-minister Wim Deetman donderdagochtend in Den Haag bekendgemaakt bij het eerste advies over de hulpverlening aan de slachtoffers. De onderzoekscommissie pleit niet voor onafhankelijke slachtofferhulp, los van de katholieke kerk. "Er geldt geen overheidsverantwoordelijkheid voor wat in eigen kring fout is gegaan. Dat komt voor verantwoordelijkheid voor de betrokkenen, voor de dader." Hij stipte daarbij aan dat de slachtofferhulp ook gefinancierd moet worden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:32 PM • Deetman: RKK moet hulp verbeteren [RCC] Reformatorisch Dagblad, DEN HAAG, NEDERLAND – De Rooms-Katholieke Kerk in Nederland moet een kwaliteitscentrum oprichten voor hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. Daardoor kan de hulp aan slachtoffers en de behandeling van klachten „ingrijpend verbeterd" worden. Dat staat in het donderdagmorgen verschenen advies van de commissie-Deetman, die op verzoek van de RK-Kerk en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen onderzoek doet naar misbruik binnen rk-instellingen. De commissie staat onder leiding van oud-Kamervoorzitter Deetman. De commissie adviseert om de huidige instelling die klachten behandelt, Hulp & Recht, om te vormen tot een organisatie die bestaat uit een klachtencommissie, een meldpunt en een professioneel kwaliteitscentrum. Dit Kwaliteitscentrum Seksueel Misbruik moet mensen die hulp nodig hebben, doorverwijzen naar de juiste instanties. 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5:29 PM • Harde kritiek op kerkelijke hulp aan slachtoffers misbruik [RCC] NRC Handelsblad 9 nov. 2010 Den Haag, Nederland - Het katholieke klachtenbureau Hulp en Recht is tekort geschoten in de hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. De Rooms-Katholieke Kerk moet de hulp en de behandeling van misbruikklachten ingrijpend verbeteren. Ook moet er een collectieve schadevergoedingsregeling komen, waarbij de Kerk zich niet moet beroepen op verjaringstermijnen. Dat schrijft de commissie-Deetman in haar vanmorgen gepresenteerde advies Naar hulp, genoegdoening, openbaarheid en transparantie. De commissie doet in opdracht van de Kerk onderzoek doet naar seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen binnen de Kerk. Volgens Deetman faalde het bestuur van Hulp en Recht toen dit voorjaar een grote stroom slachtoffers van pedofiele priesters en religieuzen zich meldde. Het bestuur wachtte te lang met het professioneel opvangen van de bijna 1.800 meldingen en klachten. „Het bestuur is verantwoordelijk, was op de hoogte van de ernst van de situatie, reageerde onvoldoende adequaat en schoot dan ook tekort". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:26 PM • Bestuur Hulp & Recht stapt zonodig op De Telegraaf, UTRECHT, NEDERLAND - Het meldpunt van seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen Hulp & Recht trekt zich de kritiek van onderzoekscommissie-Deetman „zeer aan". Dat heeft de woordvoerder van het meldpunt donderdag laten weten. Het bestuur is bereid om op te stappen, mochten de bisschoppen en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) dat verlangen. „Ze zullen er alles aan doen om de nieuwe organisatie goed te laten verlopen." De commissie die het seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, heeft de bisschoppen en de KNR donderdag geadviseerd Hulp & Recht om te vormen tot een nieuwe organisatie. Die zou moeten bestaan uit een klachtencommissie, een meldpunt van seksueel misbruik en een professioneel 'kwaliteitscentrum'. Dat centrum verwijst melders van seksueel misbruik die professionele hulp nodig hebben dan door naar de juiste hulpverleningsinstellingen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:23 PM • 'Kerk faalt bij hulp misbruikslachtoffers' [RCC.] Joop, NEDERLAND - Het katholieke klachtenbureau Hulp en Recht heeft gefaald in de hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. De behandeling van meldingen van misbruik moet dan ook ingrijpend verbeteren. Dat schrijft de commissie-Deetman in haar vanmorgen gepresenteerde advies Naar hulp, genoegdoening, openbaarheid en transparantie. Dat meldt NRC Handelsblad. De commissie Deetman doet in opdracht van de Kerk onderzoek doet naar seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen binnen de Kerk. Deetman schrijft dat Hulp en Recht volstrekt inadequaat reageerde op de 1800 klachten die vanaf afgelopen voorjaar binnen kwamen, zo meldt NRC. "Het bestuur is verantwoordelijk, was op de hoogte van de ernst van de situatie, reageerde onvoldoende adequaat en schoot dan ook tekort", aldus Deetman. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:20 PM • "Hulp aan slachtoffers misbruik verbeteren" [RCC] De Redactie, NEDERLAND - In Nederland adviseert de commissie-Deetman om de hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen ingrijpend te verbeteren. De commissie heeft bijna 2.000 meldingen van misbruik binnengekregen. De commissie-Deetman ging in de lente van dit jaar aan de slag nadat er in korte tijd ook in Nederland honderden meldingen binnenkwamen van seksueel misbruik binnen de katholieke kerk. De bisschoppen besloten daarop dat er een onafhankelijk onderzoek moest komen naar die klachten. Dat onderzoek werd geleid door de voormalige minister en oud-burgemeester van Den Haag, Wim Deetman (foto). De bisschoppen beloofden mee te werken Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:14 PM • Kritiek op hulp misbruikslachtoffers [RCC] De Telegraaf, Den Haag, Nederland - Het katholieke klachtenbureau Hulp en Recht is tekort geschoten in de hulp aan http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 91 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik en moet in de huidige vorm zo snel mogelijk verdwijnen. De Rooms- Katholieke Kerk moet de hulp en de behandeling van misbruikklachten ingrijpend verbeteren. Dat is het advies dat de commissie-Deetman donderdag heeft gepresenteerd. De kerkelijke stichting Hulp en recht is nu het enige loket voor hulpverlening en juridische stappen en dat moet volgens de commissie veranderen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:11 PM • Deetman bekritiseert Hulp en Recht [RCC] NOS, {met video}, NEDERLAND - De commissie-Deetman adviseert de hulp aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen ingrijpend te verbeteren. De kerkelijke stichting Hulp en Recht is nu het enige loket voor hulpverlening en juridische stappen, en dat moet veranderen. Deetman vindt dat de stichting Hulp en Recht tegengestelde belangen dient, door zowel voor de slachtoffers als voor de kerk te werken. Slachtoffers moeten in het vervolg worden doorgestuurd naar de juiste hulpverlening, stelt Deetman. Deetmans commissie heeft bijna 2000 meldingen ontvangen. Eind volgend jaar brengt de commissie zijn eindverslag uit. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:09 PM • Commissie-Deetman presenteert eerste rapport Nu, DEN HAAG, NEDERLAND - De commissie-Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, presenteert donderdag haar eerste advies in Den Haag. Dat zal gaan over de hulpverlening aan de slachtoffers. De bedoeling is dat het eindrapport van de commissie in november volgend jaar wordt uitgebracht. In totaal zes verschillende slachtoffergroepen, uit plaatsen als Eindhoven, Maastricht en Nijmegen, pleitten de afgelopen week bij de Tweede Kamer voor onafhankelijk onderzoek. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:40 PM • 'Simonis wist het echt wel' [RCC] Spits, NEDERLAND - EenVandaag liet vanavond documenten zien waaruit blijkt dat kardinaal Simonis wel degelijk van het misbruik op de hoogte was, ondanks zijn eerdere, beladen uitspraak in Pauw&Witteman: „Wir haben es nicht gewusst“ . Joke, een van de slachtoffers, vertelde dat „haar haren te berge rezen“ toen Simonis deze uitspraak deed. „Hij wist er echt wel van“ , bevestigde zij deze onthulling. Ook anderen verklaarden dat de kardinaal op de hoogte was. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:35 PM • Victims claim '80s abuse by late Mass. priest [1982-87 Fr Czeslaw Ssymanski* (died 1987). RCC. 3 altar boys (6-19)] Boston Herald, Associated Press, Thursday, December 9, 2010 BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS – Three former altar boys have accused a now-deceased Lowell priest of repeatedly sexually abusing them in the 1980s just before they'd perform their duties at Mass. The alleged victims say they were between ages 6 and 10 when the Rev. Czeslaw Szymanski fondled them in a room where priests and altar boys don robes. The abuse allegedly happened between 1982 and 1987 when Szymanski worked at Holy Trinity Parish. Szymanski, ordained in by the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit, died in a 1987 car accident. The alleged victims' attorney, Carmen Durso, said his clients believe there could be up to 20 other victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:14 PM • Attorneys for Archdiocese Demanded Recusal of Gay Judge, Records Show ST. LOUIS (MO) - Riverfront Times By Chad Garrison, Thu., Dec. 9 2010 ?The note from Missouri Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Mooney to former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke was just three sentences long. Written on Court of Appeals stationary and dated October 2, 2007, it read: Dear Reverend Burke, I received your invitation to the Law Day Mass. Because of the Catholic Church's chronic abuse of gays and lesbians, I do not feel welcome in your church. I decline to attend. Very truly yours, Lawrence Mooney Two years later -- in October 2009 -- that private correspondence between judge and archbishop would

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 92 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM make its way into a court filing involving a protracted legal battle between the Archdiocese of St. Louis and members of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish over control of the church's property. For attorneys representing the archdiocese, the note suggested that Mooney's "impartiality might reasonably be questioned." For the attorneys for St. Stanislaus, the note -- originally filed under seal and reported here for the first time -- demonstrated just how low the archdiocese will stoop to gain control of the traditionally Polish church north of downtown. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:54 PM

• Lawsuit against Green Bay archdiocese to move forward WISCONSIN Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Dec. 9, 2010 A civil fraud lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay will move forward in a case involving a now-defrocked priest in prison for molesting two brothers in 1978, an Outagamie County judge has ruled. In rejecting the diocese's motion to dismiss, Judge Nancy Krueger said there was sufficient evidence to suggest the diocese knew of Father John Patrick Feeney's sexual involvement with children as far back as the 1960s, and that the case was within the statute of limitations for fraud. The lawsuit was filed by Troy and Todd Merryfield, who allege that Feeney sexually assaulted them when he was assigned to St. Nicholas Parish in Freedom. Feeney, 83, was convicted in 2004 in a criminal trial and is serving a 15-year prison term. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:50 PM

• Report: Myers 'shielded' sex abuse in Church NEWARK (NJ) Setonian By Brian Wisowaty Editor in Chief Published: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 A Sunday Star-Ledger article reported that Newark Archbishop John Myers has "shielded" priests accused of sexual abuse. Myers is both the chair of the Board of Trustees and president of the Board of Regents at Seton Hall. The piece, written by Star-Ledger religion reporter Jeff Diamant, followed a review of Myers' record with handling sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Newark. It says that four priests involved with misconduct, either after admitting to it or being convicted of related crimes, received treatment from Myers that did not reflect the Dallas Charter. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:47 PM

• Few churches with sex offenders have restrictions, survey shows UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) A recent survey by Christianity Today addresses sex offenders in churches. SNAP's response: We're alarmed that fewer than one in four churches with known sex offenders put restrictions on them. Given the wide-ranging, long-standing and on-going abuse and cover up crisis in the Catholic church, we would have hoped that more denominations and congregations would take action to better safeguard their flock. The inadequate steps taken by most church officials is especially worrisome given survey results that show that "Nearly 80 percent said that a registered sex offender should be allowed to attend church under continuous supervision and with appropriate limitations." Church authorities can't have it both ways – welcoming, but not monitoring, sex offenders. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:45 PM

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NETHERLANDS Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) We applaud each of the 2,000 brave men and women who report having been sexually violated as children by priests in the Netherlands. It takes real courage to disclose these horrific crimes and the Netherlands is no doubt a safer and healthier nation because of these caring individuals. At the same time, our hearts ache when we think about such widespread, and largely preventable devastation. We firmly believe, based on our 22 years of experience, that the actual number of victims in the Netherlands is much higher than 2,000. Research shows that only a very small percentage of child sex victims ever report their suffering, and few are willing to talk about such horrors with church officials, whether paid or volunteer, ordained or lay people. It's distressing to read the commission head expressing a desire to "restore trust" in the church. That should be their least concern. When bishops take decisive and consistent steps to safeguard the vulnerable and heal the wounded, trust will automatically be restored. Until then, Catholics and citizens will continue to rightly feel betrayed by and skeptical toward a callous, reckless and deceptive church hierarchy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:42 PM

• More "inexcusable" Secrecy by Maine's Bishop; SNAP Responds MAINE Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) Around 2003, bishops first began to believe they had weathered the worst of the church's on-going clergy sex abuse and crisis. Since then, they have, for the most part, consistently backpedalled on and ignored their earlier pledges to be more open about child sex cases and put the safety of kids first. Today's news – that Maine's bishop is hiding the identity of seven recently accused predator priests – is further proof that it's "business as usual" in the self-serving church hierarchy. Bishop Malone's irresponsible secrecy benefits one person most: him. It also benefits child molesting clerics. Everyone else – parents, police, parishioners and the public and those who've been assaulted – are hurt by this callous and reckless move. In two cases, Malone explains he refuses to disclose the name of the accused priests because they are "dead and have already been named publicly because of previous abuse allegations." If they're dead, Malone's being honest with the parishioners and the public can't hurt the wrongdoers. But such honesty could help those still living – some, perhaps dozens, of victims of those two clerics. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:31 PM

• Catholic church must improve help for abuse victims NETHERLANDS Dutch News The Catholic church in the Netherlands is falling short in its duty towards the victims of sexual abuse and should come up with a collective compensation scheme, according to a government commission investigating the scandal. The commission, under the leadership of CDA parliamentarian Wim Deetman, says the church's complaints office Hulp en Recht needs far-reaching improvements to its treatment of complaints. Transparency and standards of service must be improved and any compensation should be open to everyone, no matter how long ago the abuse took place, the commission says. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:26 PM

• Catholic sex abuse report published in the Netherlands NETHERLANDS Radio Netherlands A report into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in the Netherlands recommends organising help for http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 94 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM the victims as quickly as possible and providing compensation. The Deetman report presented in The Hague earlier today, fiercely criticises an organisation set up by the church to help victims. The executive board of Hulp & Recht (Help and Justice) has offered to stand down in response. The commission, which itself was set up by the church, recommends setting up an independent organisation to help the victims. The reports of sexual abuse by priests in Catholic institutions began last February. Since then, 1975 cases have been brought to light. In some cases the abuse took place as long as 50 years ago. Shortly before the preliminary findings of the report were due to be published, victims called for a parliamentary inquiry, so that people could be heard under oath. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:22 PM

• Catholic sexual abuse report calls for swift help for victims NETHERLANDS Radio Netherlands Victims of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church should receive compensation and the church cannot relinquish its responsibility towards victims due to the lapse of time. These are two of the conclusions drawn by Wim Deetman after months of research into cases of sexual abuse in Catholic institutions in the Netherlands. The preliminary findings of the Deetman Commission were presented in The Hague on Thursday. Other recommendations are that the church itself should not become involved in the handling and evaluation of damage claims and that the victims should receive help as soon as possible. Far-reaching measures A total of 1975 complaints about sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands were submitted. Over 1300 people contacted the committee directly, 600 complaints were passed on via church organisation Hulp & Recht (Help and Justice). Mr Deetman believes help for the victims should be organised as quickly as possible. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:18 PM

• Dutch sex crime panel urges collective payment of damages NETHERLANDS Expatica A Dutch panel investigating alleged sex crimes by members of the country's Roman Catholic clergy said Thursday victims seeking compensation should be paid collective reparations. "In the interest of plaintiffs who seek punitive damages and compensation … the Dutch Catholic Church may offer collective reparations," a panel statement said. Such financial compensation should be awarded even if the offence falls under the statute of limitations, said the panel which was set up by the Dutch Church. It published a first report on the issue, more than three months after launching its investigation, on Thursday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:17 PM

• Factbox: European Catholic sex abuse cases in 2010 EUROPE Reuters (Reuters) - A report into sexual abuse of Dutch minors by Roman Catholic priests showed the Netherlands ranked second only to Ireland in the known extent of the scandals rocking the Church in Europe. Here are some details of the major developments in the Roman Catholic Church scandals in Europe this year. * AUSTRIA: -- Aug 10 - A record 100,000 Austrians expected to leave the Catholic Church in 2010 because of sexual abuse scandals rocking the Church in Europe, a newspaper reports. -- June 28 - Pope Benedict rebukes Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn for accusing a senior Vatican official, Cardinal , of covering up sexual abuse cases. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:14 PM

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The Associated Press Thursday, December 9, 2010 THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The head of a Dutch inquiry into child abuse in the Catholic church school system says yearly complaints are up 100-fold since allegations emerged of worldwide abuse. Wim Deetman said Thursday that between 1995 and 2009 an average of 20 people each year complained to the Catholic organization Help and Law that they had been abused, but in the past year 2,000 people made such allegations. Deetman - who was asked by the Dutch Catholics Bishops Conference to begin the independent Deetman Inquiry in March - said Help and Law had been swamped by the number of complaints. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:12 PM • Dutch Panel Found 2,000 Church Abuse Claims The New York Times, By STEPHEN CASTLE, Published: December 9, 2010 BRUSSELS, Belgium – The Roman Catholic Church, battered by sexual abuse scandals from the United States to Belgium, is facing a new set of allegations now in the Netherlands. Figures released Thursday by an investigative commission showed that almost 2,000 people have made complaints of sexual or physical abuse against the church, in a country with only 4 million Catholics. "The Roman Catholic church has not faced a crisis like this since the French Revolution," said Peter Nissen, professor of the history of religion at Radboud University, of the growing abuse scandal. With one legal case starting this week, and accusations against two former bishops, the reaction of the church appears to have fueled the crisis. Nearly all of the cases are decades old, with probably no more than 10 from the last 20 years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:08 PM • Rome's checkbook strategy on women religious National Catholic Reporter (USA), Just Catholic, by Phyllis Zagano on Dec. 08, 2010 UNITED STATES - Seems the Vatican heard how Catholics are incensed over its inquisition of U.S. women religious. Some say Pope Benedict personally asked Archbishop Joseph Tobin, the new Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, to undo the mess caused by his Congregation's Apostolic Visitation of U.S. women's institutes. Make no mistake; it's not only 59,000 or so women religious watching this movie. It's more like 69 million Catholics hanging on to their checkbooks, wondering what in the name of God is going on. Now, taking direct aim at his foot, Tobin, a Redemptorist from , is quoted by NCR senior correspondent John Allen as saying there is "need for a strategy of reconciliation." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:53 AM

• Extreme world: Is Sweden as clean as it seems? BBC News The world is considered a more corrupt place now than it was three years ago, a poll suggests. Some 56% of people interviewed by Transparency International said their country had become more corrupt. The organisation put Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq and India in the most corrupt category, followed by China, Russia and much of the Middle East. Meanwhile, a BBC poll suggests that corruption is the world's most talked about problem. … Religious bodies experienced a sharp rise in people regarding them as corrupt - 28% in 2004 increased to 53% by 2010. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:14 AM • Grace under fire [Global sins. RCC. Hullerman case.] Maclean's by Brian Bethune on Thursday, December 9, 2010 CANADA - There is always, in the spiritual and political life of the Roman Catholic Church, a fire smouldering somewhere: minority Christians under here, an initiative in a Catholic country there, rebellious laity, scandalous clergy. So Pope Benedict XVI had no particular reason, on New Year's Day, to foresee that the long-running clerical child sexual abuse scandal would suddenly burn white- hot, and spread far outside the confines of his Church. But as the penitential season of Lent began in February, hundreds more victims surfaced with their harrowing stories, not only in Ireland and the U.S., the

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 96 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM epicentres of the scandal, but across Europe, including Benedict's native Germany. This time it was more than the original crimes that angered the faithful and outsiders alike. The focus was increasingly on the cover-up–the swearing of victims to secrecy, the shuffling of pedophile priests to fresh starts (and fresh opportunities) in unsuspecting parishes–and the way that cover-up touched the papacy itself. Questions were raised in the media and among Catholics about Benedict's role, before he became pope, in determining the Vatican's treatment of predatory clergy, a response widely condemned as ineffectual at best and criminally negligent at worst. Benedict found himself launched on an annus horribilis that would prove as awful as any experienced by a pope in modern times. In March, the Pope became caught up in the German part of the scandal. As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, archbishop of Munich in 1980, he had reportedly approved the transfer of confessed pedophile priest to therapy. After being treated for only a few days, Hullermann returned to pastoral duties and abused more children. He was finally convicted of sexual abuse in 1986. Benedict's defenders, who dismissed the Hullermann allegations as an attempt to smear the Pope's reputation, were left reeling when it emerged in mid-March that Hullermann, now out of jail, was still practising as a priest. (He was immediately suspended from his duties.) Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:50 AM

• Child porn ring cracked CANADA Winnipeg Free Press By: Pat Hewitt TORONTO -- A clown, a former Anglican priest, a university researcher and a convicted pedophile were among 25 Canadians arrested after authorities cracked an international child porn network in a year-long investigation, police said Wednesday. They said 25 children victimized by the network were rescued, including a dozen in Canada. They said the Canadian children were from three provinces -- Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador -- and the youngest was four years old. Toronto police Det. Paul Krawczyk said the network was trading images and video of children online and the motive wasn't financial gain. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:10 AM • Charity clothing Haitian witnesses in sex abuse case [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] Waterbury Republican-America, WATERBURY (CT) – A local charity is helping a number of young Haitian men who will arrive in Connecticut this month to testify at the sentencing of the school director who they say sexually abused them. Acts 4 Ministry is providing winter coats and other warm clothing for the six men who will speak of their victimization at the Dec. 21 sentencing hearing of Douglas Perlitz, a 1992 graduate of Fairfield University who pleaded guilty in August to sexually abusing one boy at the Project Pierre Toussaint school in Cap- Haitien, Haiti, where he was director. Many more boys have said he coerced them into sex acts with gifts and threatened to expel them if they refused. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM • Former Geneva minister charged with sodomizing teen boy [? NEW*] ALABAMA Dothan Eagle By Matt Elofson Published: December 08, 2010 Geneva police arrested a 74-year-old retired minister and charged him with molesting a teenage boy from Florida. Lt. Ricky Morgan said police arrested Edward Earl Davis and charged him with felony second-degree sodomy. Morgan said the arrest was the result of a month-long investigation into a report of sexual abuse of the teen boy. "He just basically baited, lured him in and befriended him," Morgan said. "He met the victim in church. He met him in a church in Holmes County." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:54 AM

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FINLAND Helsingin Sanomat The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland has agreed to change its rules on confidentiality of pastoral care and confession. Under the new rules, members of the clergy will be required to report to police any knowledge of sexual abuse of children that comes to their attention. Previously, confidentiality could only be broken in cases of aggravated abuse. Representatives of the church agreed in talks with Minister of Social Services Paula Risikko (Nat. Coalition Party), Minister of Culture Stefan Wallin (Swed. People's Party), and Minister of Justice Tuija Brax (Green), that pastors would no longer have to evaluate if an act of abuse falls into the category of "aggravated". "With our new interpretation, we are confident that the interests of the child go ahead all other considerations", says Risikko, who convened the group. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:50 AM

• Allegations of priest abuse still reported MAINE Kennebec Journal By John Richardson [email protected] Staff Writer PORTLAND – Nine years after the Catholic Church's sexual-abuse scandal erupted in New , reports of abuse committed by priests decades ago continue to trickle in to Maine's diocese. And church leaders are still being criticized for not providing enough information. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland announced last week that, for the fifth consecutive year, it is in full compliance with the church's national child-protection policies and standards. The standards include reporting and investigating complaints, and screening and training employees. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:48 AM

• Chris Hardie: Given the chance, here's what we would have asked Cardinal Burke WISCONSIN LaCrosse Tribune By CHRIS HARDIE | [email protected] lacrossetribune.com | Posted: Thursday, December 9, 2010 What question would you ask one of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church? Cardinal Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura – in layman's terms he's the Catholic Church's highest-ranking judge – returns to La Crosse for the first time since being named a cardinal Nov. 20. Burke is here through Saturday, attending various events and raising money for the $25 million-plus Shrine of Our Lady Guadalupe. The La Crosse Tribune requested an interview with Burke but was told – through a shrine spokesman – that the cardinal does not want to do interviews and wants to just enjoy the celebration. I think that's unfortunate, because there are lots of issues in the church that serves 200,000 people in our region and more than 1 billion in our world that deserve discussion. Who better to talk about the church – local, national and international – than Burke, who served as bishop in La Crosse from 1995 to 2004? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:44 AM • 25 Canadians in worldwide child-abuse bust [2000s Rev. Robin Barrett (51) - ? NEW*. Anglican (C of E / Episcopalian communion. Child pornography conviction.] Edmonton Journal, By Ken Meaney, Postmedia News, December 9, 2010 CANADA - A total of 218 charges of child exploitation, sometimes involving victims as young as four years old, have been laid against 57 men, including 25 Canadians, the Toronto Police Service said Wednesday. Det. Paul Krawczyk of the force's sex crimes unit told a news conference the charges were laid worldwide. "That's important to note -- it's boys and girls, of all ages. In this case, we believe the youngest to be four," he said. … Police infiltrated the ring after the arrest of an Anglican priest, Robin Barrett, 51, of Conception Bay South, N.L. He has since been convicted of possession and distribution of child pornography. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 98 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

"It was information gathered during the arrest and after that arrest that allowed us to infiltrate this network," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM • Clergy abuse in Delaware: St. E ordered to pay damages of $1 [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation.] The News Journal, By SEAN O'SULLIVAN, December 9, 2010 DOVER (DE) - A Kent County jury ordered defrocked priest Francis DeLuca to pay an additional $30 million in punitive damages to sex abuse victim John M. Vai on Wednesday, on top of last week's $30 million award for compensatory damages. The jury also ruled that the actions of St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Parish were reckless enough in its apparent failure to supervise DeLuca that a punitive damage award was warranted. But the panel of 12 ordered the parish to pay only an additional $1 on top of the $3 million the jury ordered it to pay in compensatory damages last week. The jury was apparently moved by the pleas for mercy from St. Elizabeth's officials and their attorney, who warned that any additional, substantial award would "destroy" the 100-year-old parish and force closure of its two schools. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM • Dutch want Catholic Church to address abuse [RCC.] Times LIVE (South Africa), Reuters, 2:20 PM, Dec 9, 2010 NETHERLANDS - Almost 2 000 people have declared themselves victims of sexual and physical abuse while they were minors in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, an independent commission says. The investigation into abuses dating back to 1945 shows that the Netherlands ranks second worst behind Ireland in a scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in Europe and the United States. It has also forced Pope Benedict to apologise to victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. The church-appointed commission's findings were requested by the Dutch bishops' conference after cases surfaced involving paedophile priests in the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Canada and the United States. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM • Priest, parish to pay damages in 1960s sex abuse case [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation.] Dover Post, By Antonio Prado, Posted Dec 09, 2010 Dover, Del. – A Kent Count jury ruled Dec. 1 that St. Elizabeth Parish in Wilmington was negligent in not preventing former priest Francis DeLuca from sexually abusing John M. Vai, 58, in the late 1960s. The jury levied $30 million in compensatory damages for Vai, including $3 million levied against St. Elizabeth and $27 million against DeLuca. "The legal system in Delaware works and can render justice to all survivors of childhood sexual abuse," Vai said in a statement released by The Neuberger Firm and Jacobs & Crumplar. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:29 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Thu December 09, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Fri December 10, 2010 edition: • Lutheran church changes sex rules; Abuse victims respond [Lutherans.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) FINLAND - While we applaud this move, we're also cautious about assuming widespread change in long- standing practices. Old habits die hard, and we've seen many, many church policies about abuse that look great on paper but are often, in reality, ignored. This is a good step. But much more must be done to overturn decades of timidity and secrecy about clergy sex crimes and cover ups. We also urge Lutheran officials in Finland to clearly and repeatedly remind their flocks that known and

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• Cruel crimes of the singing priest [1978-83 Fr Tony Walsh. RCC. 123yrs sentence. Boy (7-12)] The Irish Times, PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent, IRELAND - Tony Walsh's abuse of one boy from 1978 to 1983 was so extreme that he was sentenced this week to a total of 123 years. On Wednesday the High Court is expected to release an unpublished Murphy report chapter dealing with Walsh. It contains shocking material THE EXTENT OF Tony Walsh's abuse of one young boy over the five years from 1978 to 1983, when the child, "David", was aged between seven and 12, can be gleaned from the sentences imposed by Judge Frank O'Donnell in the Circuit Criminal Court last Monday: a total of 123 years. Five of the 13 counts, for buggery, attracted sentences of 10, 12, 14, 16 and 16 years each. The remaining counts, for indecent assault, brought sentences ranging from four to nine years. As Walsh is to serve his sentences concurrently, 16 years is the maximum time he will spend in jail. It is the most severe sentence ever imposed on a clerical child sex abuser in the State. (Four years were suspended, as a psychologist's report said it was unlikely Walsh would offend again.) With good behaviour Walsh could be out of jail in 2019. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:28 PM

• New lawsuit against convicted pedophile priest WLS December 10, 2010 CHICAGO (IL), (WLS) - A 25-year-old Chicago man filed a lawsuit Thursday against Daniel McCormack and the Archdiocese of Chicago. It claims the ex-priest repeatedly molested him while he was a freshman in high school between January and October of 2001. McCormack received a five-year prison term after pleading guilty in 2007 to charges he fondled five boys at St. Agatha Parish and Our Lady of the Westside school. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:20 PM

• New lawsuit targets dioceses in LA, Mexico LOS ANGELES (CA) Mercury News The Associated Press LOS ANGELES–A man who claims he was molested years ago by a Mexican priest in a Los Angeles rectory has sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a Mexican cardinal. Plaintiff Oscar Negrete of Los Angeles says in the suit filed Friday he was 12 when he was sexually abused by now-defrocked Nicholas Aguilar Rivera, who had been temporarily assigned to Los Angeles from Tehuacan, Mexico. This suit and three others filed in the last 18 months allege church leaders in Los Angeles and Mexico City knew about the priest's conduct but failed to properly investigate him. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:17 PM

• WikiLeaks: Scandal caused deep rift in Vatican-Ireland relationship CNN, By Tim Lister, December 10, 2010 UNITED STATES (CNN) - Relations between the Vatican and Ireland deteriorated sharply as the Holy See appeared to ignore a commission looking into complaints of physical and sexual abuse of children by Irish priests, according to U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. One cable from earlier this year says the Vatican was angered by the way the Murphy Commission - which was looking into the how complaints of abuse had been handled by the Church and Irish government - sidestepped normal diplomatic channels. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:14 PM

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• WikiLeaks: Sex Abuse Panel "Offended" Vatican UNITED STATES CBS News Vatican officials were angry when their fellow priests were summoned from Rome to testify before an Irish commission investigating allegations of priests abusing children. In a cable to Washington, U.S. diplomats wrote that requests from the commission to the church "offended many in the Vatican," the Guardian newspaper of reported Friday evening. The disclosure comes from the trove of secret State Department cables released to a number of news outlets by the document-dumping website WikiLeaks. Without much cooperation from the Vatican, the commission eventually concluded some bishops attempted to cover up incidents of abuse. Between 1975 and 2004, 320 people complained of child sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese, according to the commission's report. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 PM

• St. Gregory pastor removed while investigation occurs ALASKA KCAW SITKA, ALASKA (2010-11-29) The pastor of St. Gregory Catholic Church in Sitka has been removed from public ministry while authorities investigate questionable material found on parish computers. Fr. Edmund Penisten arrived at St. Gregory church in October, after eight years in Ketchikan. Diocesan officials were alerted to a possible problem about two weeks ago. "A computer program that had been installed on the computers at St. Gregory's indicated that some questionable material had been accessed," said the Rev. Pat Travers, vicar general of the Diocese of Juneau. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 PM

• Bishop discusses priest's removal ALASKA KRBD SITKA, ALASKA (2010-12-10) The priest removed from his post at St. Gregory Catholic Church in Sitka is scheduled to leave Alaska tomorrow (12-11-10) for evaluation at a location in the lower-48 states. Father Edmund Penisten resigned the pastorship of St. Gregory shortly after he was suspended by Bishop Edward Burns, leader of the Juneau Diocese, which oversees the Sitka parish. The move came after church leaders received notice that pornographic material might have been accessed on parish computers. Juneau Diocese Bishop Edward Burns made two trips to Sitka to conduct weekend Masses and talk to parishioners at St. Gregory Catholic Church about the removal of their pastor. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:04 PM

• Cables Show Vatican Tensions and Diplomacy The New York Times By RACHEL DONADIO Published: December 10, 2010 ROME – Recently released diplomatic cables show the Vatican fighting to shore up its eroding control over sexual abuse scandals in the United States and Ireland, highlighting complex tensions between the Vatican hierarchy, local bishops and civil authorities. The cables were obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to The New York Times and other news organizations. They do not appear to contain any bombshells about the Vatican, but provide a telling glimpse of how American diplomats often rely on the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide network of prelates for intelligence. Some cables read in part like thrillers, like when Opus Dei, the powerful religious order, took pains to distance itself from – but not disown – one of its members: Robert P. Hanssen, an agent of the F.B.I. who in a dramatic case in 2001 pleaded guilty to being a longtime Russian spy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:50 PM

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• Children's Rights are Human Rights National Catholic Reporter (USA), NCR Today, by Maureen Paul Turlish, on Dec. 10, 2010 UNITED STATES - United Nations member nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948. That event is commemorated on different dates throughout this month. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the U.N. general assembly on Nov. 20, 1989, and Children's Day or the International Day of the Child, is commemorated on various dates in different countries. We do not – as yet – however have a comparable universal pledge to defend children from sexual abuse and exploitation and a day to commemorate that pledge. Why not? This is the season when Christians worldwide celebrate the incarnation of one very special child, Jesus, the Christ Child. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:44 PM

• Historische Verantwortung DEUTSCHLAND sueddeutsche Wahrscheinlich nicht, und doch ist die Antwort ungenügend. Die Heimkinder hatten keine Chance, ihre Rechte wahrzunehmen. Sie lebten mitten im Rechtsstaat im faktisch rechtsfreien Raum, unter staatlicher Aufsicht, mit staatlicher Billigung. Der Staat, der gerade erst die Menschenwürde an den Anfang seines Grundgesetzes gestellt hatte, versäumte es, fahrlässig und gedankenlos, die Träger der Heime zur Achtung dieser Menschenwürde anzuhalten. Daraus erwächst die historische Verantwortung aller Beteiligten an dieser Heimerziehung, darin besteht auch die historische Verantwortung all derer, die sexuelle Gewalt an Schulen, Internaten und anderen Einrichtungen bagatellisierten und verschwiegen, bis die Opfer sich nicht mehr selbst Recht verschaffen konnten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 PM

• Heimkinder können auf Entschädigung hoffen DEUTSCHLAND sueddeutsche Von M. Drobinski 120 Millionen Euro für traumatisierte Heimkinder: Während die Betroffenen die Kirchen für ihr Verhalten loben, wächst die Kritik an Unions-geführten Ländern: Sie sind in der Entschädigungsfrage unentschlossen. Sie waren fest entschlossen zu gehen und alles platzen zu lassen, nach zwei Jahren Beratungen. Die Summe des Fonds, aus dem künftig ehemalige Heimkinder entschädigt werden sollen, erschien ihnen viel zu niedrig, die Hürden, um an Geld zu kommen, zu hoch, und der Abschlussbericht nannte aus ihrer Sicht nicht so recht beim Namen, was den Kindern in den 50er und 60er Jahren in den Heimen widerfuhr; das Wort vom "System Heimerziehung", das sich noch im Zwischenbericht fand, fehlte diesmal. "Wir kamen uns wieder einmal vor wie die Bettler", sagt Sonja Djurovic, eine der Vertreterinnen der Heimkinder. Also blieben sie draußen vor der Tür, und erst als Antje Vollmer, die Moderatorin des "Runden Tisches Heimerziehung", ihnen ins Gewissen redete, sie dürften doch nicht am vorletzten Tag der Beratungen alles kaputt machen, da setzten sie sich doch zu den anderen, zu den Vertretern des Bundes, der Länder, der Kirchen und der Wissenschaft. "Mit sehr gemischten Gefühlen", wie Sonja Djurovic sagt, "aber es ist besser, ein bisschen zu erreichen, als gar nichts zu erreichen". Am Montag kann Antje Vollmer nun den einstimmig beschlossenen Abschlussbericht vor der Bundespressekonferenz vorstellen. "Ein einstimmiger Bericht ist immer gut", sagt sie erleichtert am Ende der Beratungen in Berlin. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:37 PM

• WikiLeaks cable blames Pope's mobile phobia for 'muddled messaging' Guardian Robert Booth guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010 UNITED KINGDOM / VATICAN CITY -The Vatican is suffering from "muddled messaging" partly as a result of cardinals' technophobia and "ignorance about 21st century communications," America's deputy http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 102 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM chief of mission to the Holy See reported. The pope's inner circle has only one Blackberry between them, used by papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, and few have email accounts, said Julieta Valls Noyes in a cable in January 2009 on why the Vatican is failing to deliver Pope Benedict XVI's message. "Most of the top ranks of the Vatican, all men, generally in their seventies, do not understand modern media and new information technologies," Noyes said. Instead, they tend towards old-fashioned communications written in "coded" language which are so hard to decipher that when the Vatican sent the Israeli ambassador a statement that was supposed to contain a positive message for his country, it was so veiled he missed it, even when told it was there. The problems mean the Pope's "moral megaphone" is operating at reduced volume, said Noyes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:28 PM • US embassy cables: Vatican's 'moral megaphone' is faulty UNITED KINGDOM Guardian guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010 Friday, 20 February 2009, 16:00 C O N F I D E N T I A L VATICAN 000028 EO 12958 DECL: 2/20/2029 TAGS PREL, ECPS, PHUM, PGOV, KPAO, KIRF, VT SUBJECT: THE HOLY SEE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE REF: VATICAN 25 AND PREVIOUS (NOTAL) CLASSIFIED BY: Julieta Valls Noyes, CDA, EXEC, State. REASON: 1.4 (b) Summary The Holy See's communications operation is suffering from 'muddled messaging' partly as a result of cardinals' technophobia and ignorance about 21st century communications. Only one key papal adviser has a Blackberry and few have e-mail accounts. It has led to PR blunders on issues as sensitive as . Key passage highlighted in yellow. 1. (C) Summary: Together with other flaps, the recent global controversy over the lifted excommunication of a Holocaust denying bishop (reftel) exposed a major disconnect between Pope Benedict XVI's stated intentions and the way in which his message is received by the wider world. There are many causes for this communication gap: the challenge of governing a hierarchical yet decentralized organization, leadership weaknesses at the top, and an undervaluing of (and ignorance about) 21st century communications. These factors have led to muddled, reactive messaging that reduces the volume of the moral megaphone the Vatican uses to advance its objectives. This is especially true with audiences whose view of the Vatican is informed largely by mass media coverage. There are signs that at least some in the Vatican have learned their lessons and will work to reshape the Holy See's communications structure. Whether they'll prevail remains to be seen. End Summary. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:26 PM

• WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry UNITED KINGDOM Guardian Heather Brooke guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 December 2010 The Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating the clerical abuse of children and was angered when they were summoned from Rome, US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks reveal. Requests for information from the 2009 Murphy commission into sexual and physical abuse by clergy "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations", a cable says. Despite the lack of co-operation from the Vatican, the commission was able to substantiate many of the claims and concluded that some bishops had tried to cover up abuse, putting the interests of the Catholic church ahead of those of the victims. Its report identified 320 people who complained of child sexual abuse between 1975 and 2004 in the Dublin archdiocese. A cable entitled "Sex abuse scandal strains Irish-Vatican relations, shakes up Irish church, and poses challenges for the Holy See" claimed that Vatican officials also believed Irish opposition politicians were making political hay from the situation by publicly urging the government to demand a reply from the Vatican. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:21 PM

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• Prügel im Haus zum Guten Hirten UNITED KINGDOM - Guardian Friday, 26 February 2010, 16:32 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 VATICAN 000033 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 2/26/2035 TAGS PREL, PHUM, SOCI, KIRF, VT, EI SUBJECT: SEX ABUSE SCANDAL STRAINS IRISH-VATICAN RELATIONS, SHAKES UP IRISH CHURCH, AND POSES CHALLENGES FOR THE HOLY SEE VATICAN 00000033 001.2 OF 003 CLASSIFIED BY: Julieta Valls Noyes, DCM, EXEC, State. REASON: 1.4 (b) 1. (C) Summary: The November 2009 report of cover-up by local bishops of revelations of physical and sexual abuse of children by Irish clergy appalled Catholics and others worldwide. Vatican and Irish officials' first concern was for the victims, but that reality was sometimes obscured in the events that followed which also cast a chill on Irish- Vatican relations. The Vatican believes the Irish government failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations. Much of the Irish public views the Vatican protests as pettily procedural and failing to confront the real issue of horrific abuse and cover-up by Church officials. The resulting profound crisis in the Irish Church, meanwhile, required intervention by Pope Benedict, who met with Irish Church leaders in December 2009 and in February 2010 to discuss next steps. Although the Pope will address a pastoral letter on the situation to Irish Catholics in the next few weeks, both the Vatican and the local Catholic Church agree that further follow-up should be handled domestically in Ireland. The Vatican's relatively swift response to this crisis showed it learned key lessons from the U.S. sex abuse scandals in 2002 but still left some Catholics - in Ireland and beyond -- feeling disaffected. The crisis will play out for years inside Ireland, where future revelations are expected, even as new clerical sex abuse allegations are being made in Germany. End Summary. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:11 PM

• CATHOLICS, , BLACKS AND MUSLIMS [Judaists too order secrecy.] Catholic League, December 10, 2010 NEW YORK - Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers the latest evidence of duplicity on the part of the media and civil libertarians: A nun is accused of embezzling $1.2 million from Iona College, a Catholic institution outside New York City. A rabbinical court in Brooklyn orders its members not to report crimes to the police. Two New York stories: one about Sister Marie Thornton, the alleged thief; the other about the Beth Din of Crown Heights. Which one interests the media? The story on the nun is being carried on the front page of Google's "New York" section, and has been picked up by Yahoo!, the AP, UPI, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, and dozens of other media outlets. The story on the rabbinical court has been picked up by the New York Daily News and Gomathist.com. That's it. The story about the Jewish court is a week old; the one on the nun broke today. In an edict to its 10,000 members, the Beth Din of Crown Heights warned against creating bad relations with the police. Fine. But it also said {click here and see #4} that "No one shall bring to any media outlet, information about any resident that could, if publicized, lead to an investigation or intensified prosecution by any law-enforcement agency." In other words, if a rabbi a kid, no one is to report it to the cops. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:01 PM

• Third person claims sexual abuse by Valley priest CONNECTICUT New Haven Register By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, Naugatuck Valley Bureau Chief A third person is claiming in a lawsuit that he was sexually abused as a youth by a priest who most recently served at St. Augustine Church in Seymour. The man, identified as "John Doe" in court documents, filed the lawsuit Friday in Superior Court in Waterbury against the priest, Stephen Bzdyra of Seymour, the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocese, and the Meriden-based St. Stanislaus Church and St. Stanislaus School. Attorney Joel Faxon of New Haven, who represents Doe and two other individuals who previously filed http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 104 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Attorney Joel Faxon of New Haven, who represents Doe and two other individuals who previously filed claims alleging abuse by Bzdyra, said the abuse happened while Doe attended the St. Stanislaus School in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:41 PM

• Two More Suits Alleging Reardon Sex Assaults Filed CONNECTICUT CTNow By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY, [email protected] The Hartford Courant WATERBURY – Two more lawsuits filed Friday in Superior Court accuse St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center of allowing the late Dr. George Reardon to sexually assault children under the guise of doing a growth study. One of the lawsuits alleges that the abuse to the plaintiff, who was a boy at the time of the alleged assault, was a factor in her subsequent sex change. "They were very young and in the formative stages of their lives when Reardon attacked them, and it has damaged them beyond description," said Joel T. Faxon, whose firm has filed 60 of about 150 lawsuits. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:17 PM

• 3rd sex abuse lawsuit filed against Conn. priest NEW HAVEN (CT) The Oklahoman Published: December 10, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A third man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused by a Connecticut priest, saying he was threatened with expulsion from school if he did not comply. The 40-year-old man, identified only as John Doe, says he was repeatedly sexually abused by the Rev. Stephen Bzdyra (BIZ'-der-ah) at St. Stanislaw Church in Meriden when he was 10 or 11. Another man has a lawsuit alleging Bzdyra molested him repeatedly when he was an altar boy. It accuses the priest of paying hush money and threatening to report the alleged victim's mother to the welfare department for having too many jobs if he revealed the abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:10 PM

• "The American River Ganges" Rising UNITED STATES First Things Dec 10, 2010 Melissa Musick Nussbaum and L. Martin Nussbaum The cartoon below appeared, with an accompanying article, in Harper's magazine. The article is entitled "The Priests and the Children." The cartoon shows a group of children huddled behind a single adult protector along the banks of a river. The children are weeping. Some are down on their knees in supplication. Some are peeking out from behind their lone defender's back. All of them look fearful. The children are trapped on the shore as strange reptile-human hybrids emerge from the water. They are Roman Catholic bishops, crawling onto land with stubby legs; their stippled like alligator hide. Their miters are maws, opening to reveal a double row of sharp teeth dripping with water–or, perhaps, blood. Above each gaping snout, a single jeweled eye shines, alive, but not human. The faces of the bishops beneath the mouth-miters are not, however, reptilian, but simian. Their features are dark and heavy, their brows low. The cartoon suggest that these monsters have come to devour the children. When do you think this editorial cartoon and its accompanying article appeared? In 2002, when the articles and cartoons about the Catholic sex abuse crisis reached a crescendo? They are, rather, from the September 30, 1871 issue of Harper's. Thomas Nast drew the cartoon. Eugene Lawrence wrote the article, addressing the threat to America's children posed by the establishment and support of Catholic schools in New York City. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:04 PM

• Two More People Say Dr. Reardon Abused Them HARTFORD (CT) NBC Connecticut By LEANNE GENDREAU http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 105 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Two more people have come forward, accusing the late Dr. George Reardon of sexual assault during a study concerning the sexual development of minors at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford. One plaintiff, referred to in court papers as "John Doe," 47, said Reardon assaulted him in the 1970s, and "Jane Doe," 43, said Reardon assaulted her in the 1970s and/or 1980s. The suit accuses St. Francis Hospital or carelessness and negligence for failing to protect the minors from sexual assault, battery and exploitation and are seeking damages in excess of $15,000. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:01 PM • PvdA: parlementair onderzoek misbruik kerk [RCC] Parool, DEN HAAG, NEDERLAND - De PvdA wil een parlementair onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen. Dit onderzoek zou meer boven water kunnen krijgen dan de commissie-Deetman, vindt PvdA-Kamerlid Khadija Arib. VVD en CDA zien niets in een parlementair onderzoek. Volgens Arib kunnen de slachtoffers zich niet herkennen in de commissie-Deetman. Een parlementair onderzoek zou aan het licht kunnen brengen wat er is gebeurd, wie er in had kunnen grijpen en hoe het toezicht was geregeld. Ook zou er gekeken kunnen worden naar kindermishandeling. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:55 PM • Hulp en Recht bereid tot opstappen NOS, NEDERLAND - Het bestuur van Hulp en Recht, het loket voor hulpverlening bij seksueel misbruik in de kerk, kan zich vinden in de adviezen van de commissie-Deetman. Bestuursleden van de stichting zijn bereid hun functies neer te leggen om zo ruimte te maken voor een betere organisatie. Volgens de commissie-Deetman schiet de hulpverlening nog ernstig tekort en zijn vooral de slachtoffers de dupe. Hulp en Recht zegt zich het stevige oordeel van de commissie zeer aan te trekken. De stichting realiseert zich dat er "grote inspanningen moeten worden verricht om de aanbevelingen te verwerken". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:53 PM • Bisschoppen bieden excuses aan voor misbruik Reformatorisch Dagblad UTRECHT, NEDERLAND – De Nederlandse bisschoppen en religieuze oversten hebben donderdag opnieuw hun „diep gevoelde medeleven" en excuses aangeboden aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk. „Er kan en mag geen ruimte zijn voor seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk", schrijven de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR). „Misbruik staat haaks op het Evangelie en de waardigheid van de menselijke persoon en de onaantastbaarheid van het kind." De kerkbestuurders reageren daarmee op het rapport dat de commissie-Deetman donderdagmorgen in Den Haag presenteerde. De commissie, die op hun verzoek het seksueel misbruik in rooms-katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, staat onder leiding van oud-Kamervoorzitter en voormalig minister Deetman (CDA). Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:50 PM • Bisschoppen KNR reageren op rapport Deetman [RCC] RKnieuws, UTRECHT, NEDERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - De Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) hebben vandaag kennis genomen van het rapport Naar hulp, genoegdoening, openbaarheid en transparantie van de Commissie van Onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de Rooms-katholieke Kerk (Commissie Deetman). De bestuurders van de KNR en bisschoppen hechten er aan om commissievoorzitter drs. W.J. Deetman, de leden en de onderzoekers te danken en complimenteren voor de snelle en deskundige behandeling van deze eerste onderzoeksopdracht betreffende de hulpverlening aan slachtoffers. De bisschoppen en de bestuurders van de KNR onderstrepen nogmaals dat zij iedere vorm van seksueel misbruik krachtig veroordelen. Er kan en mag geen ruimte zijn voor seksueel misbruik binnen de Kerk. Misbruik staat haaks op het Evangelie en de waardigheid van de menselijke persoon en de onaantastbaarheid van het kind. Aan alle slachtoffers bieden religieuze oversten en bisschoppen opnieuw hun diep gevoelde medeleven en excuses aan. Maar excuses alleen zijn niet genoeg. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:48 PM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 106 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Duizenden slachtoffers in misbruikschandaal kerk [RCC] HvNL, {met video}, NEDERLAND - Schokkende feiten in het misbruikschandaal in de katholieke kerk. Donderdag heeft de onderzoekscommissie onder leiding van oud-burgemeester Wim Deetman bekend gemaakt, dat er bijna 2-duizend gevallen zijn gemeld van seksueel misbruik door katholieke geestelijken. Ook is de hulpverlening aan slachtoffers enorm tekort geschoten.12:44 PM • Parachutemoord en Vangheluwe halen Amerikaans jaaroverzicht De Standaard, BELGIE - De parachutemoord, waarbij Els Clottemans veroordeeld werd tot 30 jaar cel voor de moord op haar liefdesrivale Els Van Doren, prijkt namelijk op nummer vier. De zaak had volgens Time.com alle ingrediënten om eruit te springen als misdaadverhaal: geheime ontmoetingen, drogredenen, een gecompliceerd liefdesverhaal en een gesaboteerde parachute. Vanaf de eerste dag domineerde het proces zowel de binnenlandse als buitenlandse media. De zaak veroorzaakte ophef omdat Clottemans is veroordeeld zonder materiële bewijzen. 'Er was geen bekentenis, er werden geen vingerafdrukken gevonden, laat staan een schaar', aldus Time.com. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:41 PM • Priest sentenced in $2.7M real estate scheme [? 2000s "Father Barney" Byron Canada -NEW*. US $2.7m. Pretended to be RC linked to UND.] Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – A northern Indiana man who defrauded real estate developers and churches of more than $2.7 million while presenting himself as a priest associated with the University of Notre Dame has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Sixty-two-year-old Byron "Father Barney" Canada of Berrien Springs was sentenced Thursday in federal court in South Bend. … Authorities have said Canada is an ordained Orthodox-Catholic priest, but other churches he has claimed connections with have denied his claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:24 AM

• Nun Is Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $1.2-Million From Iona College NEW YORK The Chronicle of Higher Education By Andrea Fuller Sister Marie E. Thornton, a former vice president of finance for Iona College and a nun, was arrested on Thursday on charges of embezzling more than $1.2-million from the Roman Catholic college over the course of 10 years. Federal prosecutors collaborated with the Department of Education in bringing the charges, which were announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan in a news release issued Thursday evening. According to the release, Sister Thornton surrendered Thursday morning and was presented in federal court in Manhattan. It was not immediately known how she will plead. According to the news release, Sister Thornton allegedly diverted college funds for her own use by turning in false vendor invoices for reimbursement and submitting credit-card bills for personal expenses to the college. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:15 AM

• Iona nun charged with embezzling $1.2 million NEW YORK The Journal News {court document} By Candice Ferrette • [email protected] • December 9, 2010 MANHATTAN – The nun who was Iona College's top financial officer has been formally charged with embezzling $1.2 million over the last decade, federal investigators announced tonight. Marie E. Thornton, allegedly diverted money from the college for her personal use by using false vendor invoices and submitting credit card bills for personal expenses to be paid by Iona College, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 107 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Attorney's Office said. "Sister Susie," as Thornton was known on campus, surrendered this morning and was presented in Manhattan federal court today. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:10 AM

• Catholic nun and former VP of finance at Iona College busted for embezzling $1.2 million NEW YORK New York Daily News BY Scott Shifrel DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, December 10th 2010 A Catholic nun who served as the vice president of finance for Iona College was arrested Thursday for allegedly embezzling more than $1.2 million from the school. Sister Marie Thornton, 62, was charged with stealing from the New Rochelle-based Catholic school over a 10-year period beginning in 1999 by submitting false invoices and using a college-issued credit card, prosecutors said. It took officials until May 2009 to notice that something was amiss with school finances, according to media reports. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:06 AM

• Nun charged with embezzling $1.2M from Iona NEW YORK New York Post By BRUCE GOLDING A nun known as Sister Susie was charged yesterday with embezzling more than $1.2 million from a Catholic college in Westchester County. Sister Marie Thornton, 62, allegedly stole the money over the course of a decade while serving as vice president of finance at Iona College in New Rochelle. Court papers say her unholy scam included getting reimbursed for phony vendor invoices and having the college pay "credit-card bills for personal expenses." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:03 AM • What did they know? GetReligion, Here's the New York Times' latest piece about sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Europe. It's brief but unbelievably sad. Here's the lede: NETHERLANDS – The Roman Catholic Church, battered by sexual abuse scandals from the United States to Belgium, is facing a new set of damaging allegations in the Netherlands. Figures released Thursday by an investigative commission showed that almost 2,000 people had made complaints of sexual or physical abuse against the church, in a country with only four million Catholics. "The Roman Catholic Church has not faced a crisis like this since the French Revolution," Peter Nissen, a professor of the history of religion at Radboud University in the Netherlands, said of the growing abuse scandal. With one legal case starting this week, and accusations against two former bishops, the reaction of the church appears to have fueled the crisis. Nearly all of the cases are decades old, with probably no more than 10 from the past 20 years. I had to highlight these paragraphs. They're well written and tightly composed. The news is devastating and hints at something more interesting to come ("the reaction of the church"). But that last line is just good journalism. I can't imagine what it's like for 2,000 people to come forward in a country with only four million Catholics or what it's like to have bishops so accused. But it's also important to know that the bulk of these cases – the vast majority, in fact – came from the 1980s or earlier. One of the things I've criticized stories for is failing to properly contextualize abuse claims in terms of time. This story does that well. And it doesn't take away from the drama or news. Indeed giving full information adds to it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:18 AM • Our view: Bad publicity: What's it worth to Winona diocese? MINNESOTA Winona Daily News How much publicity could you buy with $134,000? http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 108 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Probably a whole lot less than the Diocese of Winona and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis got for free last week. The two dioceses decided to seek attorneys fees from a man who apparently was molested by a priest, Thomas Adamson. Let's review: Adamson is no stranger to the Diocese of Winona. The diocese had to pay more than a million dollars because he had committed sexual abuses while working as a priest for the diocese. He scurried to the archdiocese where the abuse continued. A victim decided to sue the diocese two years ago. He won in trial, but an appeals court later said the statute of limitations prevented him from winning a judgment, handing both dioceses a technical victory. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:03 AM

• N.J. Senate to consider relaxing limits on sex abuse lawsuits; SNAP responds NEW JERSEY Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell) First, I want to thank the sponsors of this legislation and the brave men and women who were abused as kids who are here today to help prevent future child sex crimes and expose current and former child sex crimes. Our message today, to citizens and Catholics, is simple: Don't believe the hype, spin, threats and self- serving rhetoric of a couple of bishops. Protect children, not predators. Deter deceit, don't reward deceit. Call your lawmakers and tell them that vulnerable kids need protection. Shrewd pedophiles and corrupt supervisors do not. This bill will help safeguard kids from predators in three key ways. First, it will help publicly expose child molesters, through the time-tested, proven, open justice system. Second, it will help publicly expose irresponsible supervisors who ignored or concealed child sex crimes. And third, it will help deter future recklessness, deceit and callousness by some employers, again, using the time-tested, proven, open justice system. In the ideal world, every child molester would be locked up. But that isn't happening and can't. Many in law enforcement estimate that 80% of those who sexually assault kids are never convicted and imprisoned. That means there are hundreds of dangerous child predators in every state who are molesting kids today. The sad and simple truth is that we don't have and may never have adequate police, prosecutors and prisons to charge, convicted and jail these predators. So the next best approach is to publicly expose them, so parents, neighbors, relatives, co-workers and employers know of their crimes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 AM

• Minister arrested for child sex crimes; SNAP responds ALABAMA Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) This tragic case highlights two important but often overlooked facts: even those with respected positions and titles can be child molesters and there's no magic age at which a sex offender stops offending. It's tempting but reckless to assume that child molesters are obvious social misfits who are easily spotted and give one "the creeps." They aren't. Most often, child predators are charming, charismatic, warm and outgoing. They seem as normal as can be. That's how they fool both kids and adults. And that's why we must be vigilant, especially around those with prominent jobs and titles, because child molesters gravitate toward these positions to win the trust of adults and to gain access to kids. It's also tempting but reckless to assume that elderly people can't be dangerous. Wrong again. To be a successful car-jacker, one must be fast. To be a successful bar fighter, one must be strong. But to be a successful child molester, one must be clever and cunning. Sadly, with age, many child sex offenders get even more skilled at picking kids who won't tell or believed from families that can't or won't contact police. So even though they may wear thick glasses, be stoop-shouldered and walk slowly, elderly molesters are http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 109 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM just as dangerous, or more so, than younger ones. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:04 AM

• Victims appeal to new Fresno diocese head FRESNO (CA) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging the new head of the Fresno Catholic diocese to suspend a priest who was found by a jury to have molested a boy but still heads a local parish. Leaders of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are writing Monsignor Myron J. Cotta about Fr. Eric Swearingen, who leads Holy Spirit Church in Fresno. (Cotta has temporarily taken over the Fresno Diocese in the wake of Bishop John Steinbock's recent death.) In 2006, after hearing witnesses and examining evidence during a civil trial, a jury voted 9-3 that Swearingen was "more than likely" to have abused A former altar boy when the child was between 12 and 15 years old. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:01 AM

• Vatican has "no comment" re 2,000 Victims; SNAP Responds NETHERLANDS Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (949 322 7434, [email protected]) It's cold and irresponsible for Vatican officials to say and do nothing in response to news that 2,000 once- trusting and devout Catholics have been sexually victimized by Netherlands' clerics. Pope Benedict, like his predecessor, clearly finds it convenient to ignore this on-going crisis until it erupts slowly, country by country, and then defer entirely to local bishops to supposedly enact reform. Instead, he needs to take decisive global action – not apologies, meetings, or gestures – that effectively protect kids right now. At best, it's silly, and more accurately, it's callous for Benedict to passively wait and watch as deeply wounded victims speak up en masse, then "punt" and claim the very bishops who caused the scandal will somehow completely reverse course and fix it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:59 AM

• Group praises 3 Boston-area victims of newly-outed priest MASSACHUSETTS Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) We are deeply grateful to the brave men who report having been molested by Fr. Czeslaw Szymanski. It takes real courage to disclose and discuss horrific childhood trauma, especially at the hands of a trusted cleric. We hope their taking action will bring them some measure of healing and closure. We also hope their courage will inspire others who saw, suspected or suffered Fr. Chet's crimes to come forward, get help, expose wrongdoing and start healing. When victims, witnesses and whistleblowers come forward, there's a least a chance for healing, justice and prevention. But when victims, witnesses and whistleblowers stay silent, predators walk free, kids get hurt and victims suffer in silence. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:56 AM

• Former altar boys accuse dead Lowell priest of sex abuse MASSACHUSETTS Boston Herald By Marie Szaniszlo Friday, December 10, 2010 Three men are alleging a priest who is now dead repeatedly molested them in the 1980s while they were altar boys at a Lowell parish, and claim they saw him abuse at least 10 other boys. The men allege they were between 6 and 13 years old when the Rev. Czeslaw Szywmanski abused them before Mass in the sacristy of Holy Trinity Parish until he left in 1987, said Carmen Durso, the alleged victims' attorney. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 110 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Szywmanski belonged at the time to the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit. The order did not return a phone call yesterday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM

• 'I feel like the church let me down' UNITED KINGDOM - This is Today By owen evans [email protected] A SEX abuse victim has spoken out about her torment at the hands of a priest. Ex-Oxted resident, Polly Aitken-Vinall, contacted the Mirror after reading our story last month, about a campaign against paedophile priests by Lucy Duckworth, a fellow former Oxted School student. Mrs Aitken-Vinall, 43, has waived her right to anonymity to explain how she was also abused as an 11- year-old and is willing to support Miss Duckworth's protests. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM • Morning Star joins diocese in mediation effort WASHINGTON The Spokesman-Review John Stucke The Spokesman-Review A mediation effort designed to resolve ongoing legal problems faced by the Catholic Diocese of Spokane now includes the Morning Star Boys Ranch, according to court records. It sets up the possibility that a far-reaching agreement would sew shut most if not all of the outstanding clergy sex abuse litigation that continues to the plague the two Catholic ministries a decade after the scandal broke in Spokane. The upcoming mediation will be led by U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, of Oregon. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM

• Cardinal appoints commission to revise Legion of Christ constitution ROME Catholic News Agency Rome, Italy, Dec 10, 2010 / 01:42 am (CNA).- Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the pontifical delegate to the Legion of Christ, has appointed the members of the commission which will oversee the revision of the constitution of the troubled religious congregation. The committee will include two of the cardinal's personal advisors, Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., and Fr. Agostino Montan, C.S.I. Four Legion priests will also be on the commission: Fr. Roberto Aspe Hinojosa, Fr. Anthony Bannon, Fr José García Sentandreu and Fr. Gabriel Sotres. None of the Legionaries on the commission are from its current leadership. Cardinal De Paolis will preside over the commission, which will initiate and guide the revisions of the Legion of Christ's governing constitution. The process will involve all Legionaries and will last several years, the Legion of Christ reports on its website. The revision will conclude with an extraordinary general chapter to examine the proposed changes and present them to the Holy See for approval. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:32 AM

• They Should Have Known NETHERLANDS First Things David Mills Speaking in German, a Dutch cardinal told a tv audience "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" (we knew nothing) about the sexual abuse of children and young people by Dutch clergy, now (finally) coming to light. The allusion to the post-war German claim – the excuse – was obvious, and apparently intended, though the New York Times story is not entirely clear about this. If so, it was an important admission of guilt, and of a particularly embarrassing and humiliating kind of guilt – a kind of laziness or worse, moral sloth, a refusal to choose the good and therefore a choice to let the innocent suffer. In any case, as the newspaper reports: Figures released Thursday by an investigative commission showed that almost 2,000 people have made complaints of sexual or physical abuse against the church, in a country with only 4 million Catholics. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:23 AM

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• Retired minister charged in sexual abuse of boy GENEVA (AL) WSFA GENEVA, Ala. (AP) - South Alabama police have charged a 74-year-old retired minister with molesting a teenage boy from Florida. Geneva police Lt. Ricky Morgan said that Edward Earl Davis has been charged with felony second-degree sodomy. Morgan said the charge comes after a monthlong investigation into allegations that Davis sexually abused the boy. Morgan said Davis met the boy at church in Holmes County, Fla., and then "lured him in and befriended him." Morgan said the alleged abuse happened in both Florida and Alabama. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:17 AM

• Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse UNITED STATES Religion Dispatches By Paul Berger A manhunt has been underway this week for Brooklyn Rabbi Gershon Kranczer and his 21-year-old son Asher in connection with the sexual abuse of four of the rabbi's female relatives. Two more of the rabbi's sons, Yechezkel, 24, and a 15-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons, have already turned themselves in to police. The case is certainly odd. 58-year-old Rabbi Kranczer, of Midwood, has 14 children and the abuse, according to the New York City Police Department, has been limited to incidents within the rabbi's family. But the hunt for Kranczer comes at a time when federal agencies are taking a more proactive approach to prosecuting abuse in the Orthodox community. In Brooklyn last year, about 25 Orthodox men were arrested on sex abuse charges. This year in Lakewood, New Jersey, a predominantly Orthodox community, the local prosecutor has launched 29 sex crime investigations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:15 AM

• Dutch inquiry gets 2,000 Catholic Church abuse claims NETHERLANDS BBC News Almost 2,000 people in the Netherlands have raised complaints in the last year of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church, according to a special commission. Most of the alleged abuses took place decades ago within the Catholic Church school system. The commission was set up by the Church in March 2010, after a growing number of cases surfaced in the Netherlands. An interim report said the church had not done enough to help victims or investigate abuse allegations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 AM

• Dakota man charged with sex abuse to appear in court DAKOTA (IL) The Journal-Standard By Travis Morse The Journal-Standard Posted Dec 09, 2010 Dakota, Ill. – A 63-year-old Dakota man is set to appear in DuPage County Circuit Court next week on charges he sexually abused an underage girl in Naperville on Nov. 12. James W. French, 63, of Dakota was arrested at his home by Naperville police on the morning of Dec. 2. He was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and assigned a bond of $250,000. Officials at DuPage County Jail in Wheaton say French posted $25,000 bail, or 10 percent of his bond, on Wednesday and was released. His next court date is on Dec. 16 before Judge Daniel P. Guerin in DuPage County, according to the Naperville Sun newspaper. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:06 AM

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NEW JERSEY NJ.com Matt Friedman/Statehouse Bureau TRENTON – After three hours of testimony from childhood sexual abuse victims, legal experts and a representative of the New Jersey Catholic Conference, a Senate panel approved a bill today that would give those who were molested as children more time to sue their abusers and the institutions that harbored them. The bill (S2405), which cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee 9-0, would repeal the state's two-year statute of limitations on lawsuits for child sexual abuse. Currently, adult victims of the childhood abuse have two years to bring suit from the point when they realize it damaged them. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), called it "the final chapter to trying to bring final justice for those victims." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:03 AM

• Maine Voices: Victim of clergy sexual abuse deserves early clemency hearing MAINE The Portland Press Herald ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stan Moody of Manchester, a former state representative and most recently a chaplain at Maine State Prison in Warren, is a prison reform advocate. He is pastor of the Meeting House Church in Manchester. MANCHESTER - It was Aug. 20, 1987. The prosecution asked the court to sentence 23-year-old Jeffrey Libby to 50 years for murdering his grandfather in a fit of rage. The judge, now deceased, sentenced him to 60 years, saying, "There is nothing in this case that can be seen as a mitigating circumstance." On April 23, 2010, the Maine Governor's Board on Executive Clemency denied Libby's petition for a clemency hearing despite a growing list of distinguished supporters. Guidelines for hearing a petition for commutation are that 50 percent of the sentence be served. Libby has served 24 years. Unknown to the court at his sentencing but fully documented in the Petition to the Board on Executive Clemency was that Jeff was sexually abused by a Connecticut priest at ages 13 and 14. Forensic reports from distinguished psychologists in Maine and Connecticut clearly traced the sexual abuse to the murder nine years later. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:00 AM

• Dutch Catholic church faces almost 2,000 abuse allegations NETHERLANDS Lexington Herald-Leader By Stephen Castle - New York Times News Service BRUSSELS – The Roman Catholic Church, battered by sexual abuse scandals from the United States to Belgium, is facing a new set of damaging allegations in the Netherlands. Figures released Thursday by an investigative commission showed that almost 2,000 people had made complaints of sexual or physical abuse against the church, in a country with only 4 million Catholics. "The Roman Catholic Church has not faced a crisis like this since the French Revolution," Peter Nissen, a professor of the history of religion at Radboud University in the Netherlands, said of the growing abuse scandal. With one legal case starting this week, and accusations against two former bishops, the reaction of the church appears to have fueled the crisis. Nearly all of the cases are several decades old, with probably no more than 10 from the past 20 years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:57 AM • Don't let future generations bear burden of sex scandal [1960s Ex-Fr Francis DeLuca. RCC. US $30m + $30m. Boy. Parish as well as priest to pay compensation.] The News Journal, December 10, 2010 DELAWARE - On Wednesday, a Kent County jury wisely acknowledged that parish congregations are also victims of the crime of clergy sex abuse. Defrocked priest Francis DeLuca was ordered to pay an additional $30 million in punitive damages to victim John M. Vai, on top of last week's $30 million award for compensatory damages. This is an acceptable conclusion to the sexual terror, made possible by the secrecy of inept church hierarchy, which allowed DeLuca to continue. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:54 AM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 113 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Imprisoned priest faces another lawsuit [Fr Daniel McCormack] CHICAGO (IL) Southtown Star December 10, 2010 A former Catholic priest imprisoned for fondling five boys has been accused of sexual abuse in a lawsuit filed Thursday by a 25-year-old Chicago man. The man, identified in the suit as John F. Doe, claims Daniel McCormack sexually touched or abused him more than 15 times at St. Agatha Church and its gym on Chicago's West Side between January and October 2001. The boy was a freshman at St. Joseph's High School at the time of the alleged abuse, according to the suit. He also claims church officials negligently failed to tell child welfare or governmental authorities about abuse allegations made by him or other minors. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:51 AM

• Green Bay Diocese to fight priest abuse lawsuit WISCONSIN Post-Crescent By Michael Louis Vinson and John Lee • Post-Crescent staff writers • December 10, 2010 APPLETON – The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay is pushing back against allegations of fraud after an Outagamie County judge green lighted a lawsuit that claims the diocese knew a former priest posed a threat to children. "We believe that we demonstrated there was never any fraud, and we trust that we will prevail as the legal process unfolds," said Deacon Tim Reilly, diocesan director of administration. Judge Nancy Krueger rejected the diocese's motion to dismiss the case filed by Todd and Troy Merryfield, who were sexually assaulted by John Feeney in the late 1970s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:44 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Fri December 10, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sat December 11, 2010 edition: • Norfolk former Baptist pastor jailed for sex assaults [~ 1980s Ex-Pastor Malcolm Hoare*. Baptist. 2yrs prison. Girl (13-15).] EDP 24, By Christine Cunningham, Saturday, 11 December, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - The victim of sex abuse at the hands of a former pastor of a Norfolk church has spoken of finally being able to have closure on her ordeal after he was jailed for two years and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years. Malcolm Hoare, who belonged to the King's Lynn Baptist Fellowship, was found guilty following a trial of five counts of indecently assaulting the girl when she was aged between 13 and 15. The offences took place about 30 years ago but the victim only recently decided to come forward about the matter after undergoing counselling as she also wanted to make sure that nothing like this happened to anyone else. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:09 PM, December 11, 2010 [LOOK BACK: Sep 2010, Oct 2010.] • Victims urge Pope to lean on 2 key Catholic prelates Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, UNITED STATES / MEXICO – In an unusual move, clergy sex abuse victims are urging Pope Benedict to make two Mexican bishops accept service of a lawsuit charging them with ignoring and concealing child sex crimes by a fugitive priest. And today a new civil lawsuit involving the same priest is being filed in Los Angeles. It charges that three top Catholic officials in LA and Mexico are responsible for the child sex crimes of Father Nicholas Aguilar- Rivera who police estimate molested at least 26 children in East Los Angeles. … In June of 2009 and April 2010, two other men have filed similar lawsuits involving Aguilar-Rivera. Those suits are still pending but are languishing because two accused wrongdoers – both Mexican prelates - are refusing service. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:27 PM

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• Ireland "caved" to Vatican on sex abuse; SNAP responds Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) IRELAND - These troubling revelations diminish both Irish and Vatican officials. It's of course shameful that church figures refused to even answer questions about devastating, decades-long child sex crimes and cover ups. But it's equally shameful that Irish officials "caved" to pressure from self-serving Catholic bureaucrats who wanted, and still want, to keep this horrific scandal under wraps. This unwarranted deference by secular authorities to church authorities is a key reason that tens of thousands of children across the globe have been sexually assaulted for decades by child molesting Catholic clerics. If kids are to be safe and crimes are to be prevented, police, prosecutors and politicians must pursue those who commit and conceal child sex crimes, no matter who they are or what titles they have. Keep in mind what Irish authorities sought – not money or jail time or concessions or reforms, just simple answers to questions about this crisis by church officials. That's all. Still, the Vatican was intransigent and refused, and Irish officials backed down. So top Catholic staff learned an unhealthy lesson here – if you are belligerent enough, this pesky sex abuse scandal can be postponed and ignored even longer. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:24 PM, December 11, 2010 • Randy pastor defiles 4-year-old girl [2010, Nov 27. Unnamed pastor (39) -NEW*. Christian sect. Girl (4).] Daily Sun, From HENRY CHUKWURAH, Port Harcourt; Saturday, December 11, 2010 NIGERIA - A 39-year-old leader of a church in Port Harcourt has been arrested for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl. The girl's parents are members of the pastor's church located at Emole Street, Mile Two, in the Diobu area of the Rivers State capital. The pastor (names withheld) was said to have lured the little girl into his office and defiled her on November 27. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:14 PM, December 11, 2010 • Third man accuses Seymour priest of sexual abuse at Meriden church Waterbury Republican-American, ~ December 11, 2010 SEYMOUR (CT) - A third man has accused a local Roman Catholic priest of sexually molesting him as a child at a Meriden church. The victim, 40, who was only identified as John Doe, filed a lawsuit Friday in Waterbury Superior Court against the Rev. Stephen Bzdyra. Bzdyra has been suspended from his role as pastor of St. Augustine Church, 35 Washington Ave. He lives in New Haven County. According to a release by his attorney, Joel T. Faxon of New Haven, the man was sexually abused repeatedly by Bzdyra in a storage room at St. Stanislaus Church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:06 PM, December 11, 2010 • Vatican urges prudence in reading leaked embassy cables Catholic News Agency 01:44 pm, Dec 11, 2010 VATICAN CITY / (CNA/EWTN News).- director, Fr. Federico Lombardi, has asked for careful evaluation and "great prudence" in the examination of confidential files leaked by WikiLeaks to media outlets. The content of sensitive internal U.S. State Department cables concerning the Vatican, written by representatives from the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, was made public Dec. 11. In a statement that day, Fr. Lombardi stressed that the reports "reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them." He emphasized that the cables "cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself, nor as exact quotations of the words of its officials. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:37 PM, December 11, 2010 • The US embassy cables: The documents The Guardian, UNITED KINGDOM - Most recent US embassy cables: Vatican's 'moral megaphone' is faulty 10 Dec 2010: Cable sent 20/02/2009 C O N F I D E N T I A L VATICAN 000028 US embassy cables: Vatican used sovereign status in face of

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Irish child abuse investigation 10 Dec 2010: Cable sent 26/02/2010 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 VATICAN 000033 US embassy cables: UK ambassador to Vatican feared anti-Catholic violence in UK over Anglican rift 10 Dec 2010: Cable sent 30/11/2009 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 VATICAN 000123 Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:35 AM • Vatican, U.S. Embassy Respond to Wikileaks National Catholic Register, by Edward Pentin, Saturday, December 11, 2010 UNITED STATES - Cables from the U.S. embassy to the Holy See are contained in the latest Wikileaks revelations. They report on a wide range of issues, including the Holy See's reaction to investigations into clerical sex abuse in Ireland, internal Vatican communications, British embassy concerns over the reaction to Anglicanorum coetibus, and the Holy See's approach to: Venezuela, the Copenhagen accord on climate change, and Poland and the E.U.. The cables also contain the Pope's approach to Turkey and how he helped release 15 British Royal Navy sailors captured by Iran in 2007. Although quite sensational, none of the details actually come as any real surprise. On the Iranian story, I reported at the time on the key role the Pope and Holy See diplomats played in securing the sailors' release, but sadly such good news about the Pope or the Church rarely makes headlines in the mainstream media. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:31 AM • Put not your trust in leaky cables UNITED STATES / UNITED KINGDOM - America Magazine, Author: Austen Ivereigh Posted Saturday, December 11, 2010 The Guardian carries news today of the latest WikiLeaks disclosure of US embassy cables -- this time, relating to the Vatican. The cables, which are more than a year old, mention the Murphy Commission into Dublin clerical sex abuse, the Vatican's help in releasing British hostages in Iran, the "technophobia" of curial officials, and Rome's lobbying in favour of the EU constitution including God. Nothing new, in other words, but not without interest: there are things known within certain circles but not outside them; and there are some insights, at least, into how US diplomats view Rome. The New York Times summarizes here, John Allen analyzes here. But there is one item which seems quite extraordinary, which in the UK is leading the reporting of this story: the alleged claim by Francis Campbell, UK ambassador to the Holy See, that Pope Benedict's creation in September last year of a church structure for the reception of groups of Anglicans risked the worst crisis in Anglican-Catholic relations in 150 years. Even more bizarrely, he is reported to have told the US deputy chief of mission to the Holy See, Julieta Valls Noyes, that the move could lead to "violence" against Catholics. As I told BBC News this morning -- watch here -- I knew, reading this, it wasn't true: not just because I know Francis Campbell, and his reaction to Pope Benedict's initiative; but because no UK diplomat with any sense -- and Francis has more than many diplomats put together -- would have said something so lurid and exaggerated. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:27 AM

• Ireland granted immunity to sex abuse church officials under pressure from Vatican, says WikiLeaks [RCC] IRELAND - Daily Mail (United Kingdom) By Tamara Cohen Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the investigation of decades of sex abuse by its clergy, newly released WikiLeaks documents have shown. Requests made by the Irish government for information 'offended many in the Vatican' who believed they had 'failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigation'. But even without assistance from Rome the Irish were able to substantiate claims of abuse between 1975 and 2004. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:23 AM • Vatican hits back against WikiLeaks revelations VATICAN CITY - Sydney Morning Herald December 12, 2010 The Vatican hit back Saturday after cables released by WikiLeaks indicated it had refused to cooperate

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• Vatican fury over Irish challenge in child abuse probe IRELAND Herald By Clodagh Sheehy Saturday December 11 2010 A furious Vatican refused to reply to requests from the Murphy Commission about complaints relating to clerical child sex abuse here. Relations between the Vatican and Ireland deteriorated sharply as a result, according to the latest US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. One cable from earlier this year says the Vatican became angry at the way the Murphy Commission sidestepped normal diplomatic channels and directly sought a meeting with the Vatican's representative in Ireland. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:19 AM

• COMUNICATO DELLA SALA STAMPA DELLA SANTA SEDE A PROPOSITO DELLA DOCUMENTAZIONE DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI STATO DEGLI STATI UNITI D'AMERICA RESA PUBBLICA DA WIKILEAKS Bolletino CITTA' DEL VATICANO – Senza entrare nella valutazione dell'estrema gravità della pubblicazione di una grande quantità di documenti riservati e confidenziali e delle sue possibili conseguenze, la Sala Stampa della Santa Sede osserva che una parte dei documenti resi pubblici recentemente da Wikileaks riguarda rapporti inviati al Dipartimento di Stato degli Stati Uniti d'America dall'Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti presso la Santa Sede. Naturalmente tali rapporti riflettono le percezioni e le opinioni di coloro che li hanno redatti, e non possono essere considerati espressione della stessa Santa Sede né citazioni precise delle parole dei suoi Officiali. La loro attendibilità va quindi valutata con riserva e con molta prudenza, tenendo conto di tale circostanza. … TRADUZIONE IN LINGUA INGLESE Press release on the subject of the US Department of State documents published by Wikileaks. Without venturing to evaluate the extreme seriousness of publishing such a large amount of secret and confidential material, and its possible consequences, the Holy See Press Office observes that part of the documents published recently by Wikileaks concerns reports sent to the U.S. State Department by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See. Naturally these reports reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them and cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself, nor as exact quotations of the words of its officials. Their reliability must, then, be evaluated carefully and with great prudence, bearing this circumstance in mind. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:12 AM

• Holy See urges 'prudence' in reading Vatican-related cables VATICAN CITY - CNN By Tim Lister, December 11, 2010 (CNN) - The Holy See's press office Saturday urged the public to read the latest Vatican-related diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks with "great prudence," claiming the allegations cited in the documents reflect only the view of their writers. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 117 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Without going into specifics on a number of allegations that emerged with the U.S. cables, the Holy See Press Office said that the reports "reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them and cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:09 AM

• Blogging the WikiLeaks: Weekend Edition! UNITED STATES The Nation Greg Mitchell As I've done for the previous 13 days, god help me, I will be updating news & views on all things WikiLeaks all weekend. All times added at top are ET. For more follow me at Twitter. Read about my latest book here. 9:30 Published Wiki cables, in running count at their site, has creeped all the way up to…. 1,295. Only 249,000 to go. 9:15 New cables: The Pope wanted Muslim Turkey out of European Union -- and also lobbied against Hugo Chavez. 9:10 Thank god, we now have Piers Morgan involved! 8:50 The Guardian with several pieces on cables related to the Vatican, including big sex abuse cases in Ireland. The Vatican can't transfer those stories back into hiding, so it urges caution in reading. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:04 AM

• Spokane man files lawsuit claiming abuse by a Seattle Benedictine priest WASHINGTON The Seattle Times By Seattle Times staff A 42-year-old Spokane man filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle Friday claiming he'd been abused in the 1970s by the Rev. John Forrester, a Benedictine priest who had served in the Seattle area. According to the lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court, the man, identified as G.K., met Forrester when he attended St. Francis of Assisi parish and school in Burien. G.K., who served as an altar boy for Forrester, was 10 when the abuse began, the suit says. The suit names as co-defendant the American-Cassinese Congregation, a Catholic association of Benedictine monasteries. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 AM

• Runder Tisch empfiehlt Entschädigungsfonds DEUTSCHLAND Frankfurter Allgemeine Mit Hilfe eines Fonds sollen Therapien für die Opfer der „schwarzen Pädagogik" in Kinderheimen der Nachkriegszeit ermöglicht werden. Nach F.A.Z.-Informationen einigte sich der Runde Tisch am Freitag auf ein Volumen von 120 Millionen Euro. Von Reinhard Bingener 11. Dezember 2010 Zur Entschädigung von ehemaligen Heimkindern soll ein Fonds mit einem Volumen von 120 Millionen Euro gegründet werden. Bund, Länder und Kirchen sollen dazu mit je einem Drittel beitragen. Das ist das Ergebnis des vom Deutschen Bundestag eingesetzten Runden Tisches Heimerziehung, der am Freitag in Berlin seine Arbeit abschloss. Dem Abschlussbericht, den die Moderatorin des Runden Tisches, die frühere Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Antje Vollmer (Grüne) am Montag vorstellen soll, stimmten sowohl Bund, Länder und Kirchen als auch die Vertreter der ehemaligen Heimkinder zu. Letztere hatten noch am Donnerstag gedroht, die Verhandlungen scheitern zu lassen. Sie hatten wesentlich höhere Entschädigung gefordert. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:29 AM

• Tabula rasa am Runden Tisch Frankfurter Allgemeine Von Reinhard Bingener, Frankfurt; 09. Dezember 2010 http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 118 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Frankfurter Allgemeine Von Reinhard Bingener, Frankfurt; 09. Dezember 2010 Ein politisches Experiment des Bundestages geht zu Ende: der Runde Tisch zur Heimerziehung. Die moralische Pflicht scheint die Herzen von Bund, Kirchen und Ländern zu öffnen - beim Öffnen der Taschen tut man sich schwerer. DEUTSCHLAND - Zwei Jahre Zeit hat sich der Runde Tisch Heimerziehung mit Vertretern von Bund, Ländern, Kirchen, freien Trägern und Betroffenen genommen, um die Folgen der sogenannten schwarzen Pädagogik der Nachkriegszeit in den Heimen für Kinder und Jugendliche in Westdeutschland aufzuarbeiten. Es geht um etwa 800.000 Menschen, die in ihren frühen Lebensjahren einem Heimwesen ausgeliefert waren, das oft auf Arbeitszwang und Misshandlung beruhte - sowie der fortwährenden Bedrohung, in eine noch schlimmere Einrichtung weitergereicht zu werden. Viele Kinder haben in den Heimen zwar durchaus auch Zuneigung und Fürsorge erfahren, doch nicht wenige leiden bis heute unter den Folgen einer lieblosen Erziehung in einem Heimsystem, das ihnen Bildungschancen nahm, statt sie zu eröffnen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:17 AM

• Wikileaks: Vatican forced Govt to grant immunity to clergy [Irish State caved in.] Irish Examiner, Saturday, December 11, 2010 IRELAND - The latest documents published by the Wikileaks website suggest the Government was forced to grant Vatican officials immunity from testifying to Murphy commission. Published in November last year, the Murphy report into the handling of clerical abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese accused four former archbishops and a host of clergy of a cover-up. The report in today's Guardian newspaper claims the Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before the Murphy Commission . Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:10 AM

• Poll: Was the Vatican right to refuse the Murphy Commission? IRELAND - The Journal {reader poll} THE LATEST WIKILEAKS documents show that the Vatican was "offended" by how the Murphy Commission had asked it to help in its inquiries, believing the contact was an "affront to Vatican sovereignty". The Vatican – or, officially, the Holy See – considers itself an independent state, and therefore said it would only help with the inquiries if the request had come from the Irish government itself, and not from a legal inquiry. Today we want to know – do you think the Vatican was right to take the stance it did? Is the Holy See a true independent entity – and even if it is, should it still have refused to help? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:08 AM

• Vatican was 'offended' by requests for information from commission IRELAND - Irish Examiner Saturday, December 11, 2010 Wikileaks documents published today show requests for information from the Murphy Commission "offended" many in the Vatican. The commission investigated the handling of clerical abuse allegations in the Dublin Archdiocese. … Clerical abuse survivor Andrew Madden says he's not surprised by the revelations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:05 AM

• VATICAN: WIKILEAKS REPORTS DO NOT EXPRESS HOLY SEE STANCE ROME - AGI News (Italy) AGI) Rome - The Vatican defined Wikileaks reports as a grave publication of files that do not correspond with the See's position. The Holy See invited the public to assess the reliability of files involving reports sent to the US Department of State from the US embassy to the Vatican, claiming they must be judged with

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• WikiLeaks: Vatican refused requests from Murphy Commission [RCC] Breaking News, 11/Dec/2010 IRELAND - The latest documents published by the Wikileaks website suggest the Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before the Murphy investigation into clerical abuse of children. The leaked cable suggests that many in the Vatican were offended by requests for information from the Commission, which they saw as an affront to Vatican sovereignty. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM

• Abuse probe offended Vatican - Wikileaks RTE News {US embassy cables: Vatican used sovereign status in face of Irish child abuse investigation} Disclosures by Wikileaks have shed new light on the tensions between the Government and the Vatican during the Murphy investigation into clerical child abuse. IRELAND - Disclosures by Wikileaks of diplomatic cables have shed new light on the tensions between the Government and the Vatican during the Murphy investigation into clerical child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. A leaked cable from the US Embassy to the Holy See suggests that many in the Vatican were offended by requests for information from the Murphy Commission, which they saw as an affront to Vatican sovereignty. The publication of the Murphy report in November 2009 caused much controversy, not least because it revealed that the Vatican had failed to reply to a request from the Murphy Commission for information relating to reports of clerical child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:53 AM

• Vatican refused to help Irish sex abuse probe: cable VATICAN/IRELAND AFP LONDON – The Vatican refused to cooperate with an Irish probe into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Dublin because the requests were not made through official channels, a leaked US cable showed Saturday. Requests for information by the 2009 Murphy commission "offended many in the Vatican… because they saw them as an affront to Vatican sovereignty", according to a cable from the US embassy in Rome, leaked by WikiLeaks. The Murphy commission's findings, published in November 2009, caused shock across Ireland and the worldwide Catholic community by detailing how Church authorities covered up for paedophile priests in Dublin for three decades. Dated February 26 this year, the US cable -- published by The Guardian newspaper -- records the observations of US diplomat in Rome Julieta Noyes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:46 AM

• Vatican 'shunned' Irish abuse probe VATICAN CITY/IRELAND - Al Jazeera, The Vatican refused to help an Irish investigation into child sex abuse by Catholic priests because the requests were seen as "an affront to Vatican sovereignty," leaked diplomatic cables have shown. The documents, which were released to the UK's Guardian newspaper by the WikiLeaks website, reveal that the Catholic Church blocked its officials from testifying before an Irish commission because the request was not made through official channels. A classified dispatch from the Vatican's embassy in the US said that the church received requests from the Murphy commission in 2009 but did not comply, instead insisting that communication with the inquiry took

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• Murphy requests 'offended' Vatican IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent Requests for information from the Murphy Commission "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the (Commission) investigations", US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed. A cable entitled "Sex abuse scandal strains Irish-Vatican relations, shakes up Irish church, and poses challenges for the Holy See" claimed that Vatican officials also believed Irish opposition politicians were making political hay from the situation by publicly urging the government to demand a reply from the Vatican following publication of the Murphy report in November 2009. In September 2006 the Murphy Commission, which was investigating the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese between 1975 and 2004, wrote to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith seeking information on reports of clerical child sex abuse sent to it by Dublin archdiocese over the period. It also sought information on the Church document 'Crimen Sollicitationis', which deals with clerical sex abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:37 AM

• Inside the Vatican with Wikileaks DotCommonweal, Posted by Paul Moses, 12:44 am, December 11, 2010 UNITED STATES - U.S. embassy cables from Vatican City have been released through Wikileaks, and while The New York Times says they "do not appear to contain any bombshells about the Vatican," anyone interested in what goes on inside the Vatican will want to look at them. For the moment, there are details available about Vatican objections to Ireland's Murphy Commission investigation into clergy sexual abuse in a cable that cites an American priest in the Vatican as a source. There is a look back at Pope Benedict's XVI's outreach to dissident Anglicans, with the British ambassador to the Vatican, Francis Campbell, who is Catholic, telling an American diplomat that it was so inflammatory that it might lead to violence against British Catholics. The one I've found most interesting at this point is an American diplomat's critique of the Vatican's communications and of the decision-making process in general. Here is an excerpt (by way of the Guardian, which has links to a number of the cables): More broadly, critics point to a lack of generational or geographical diversity in the Pope's inner circle. Most of the top ranks of the Vatican – all men, generally in their seventies – do not understand modern media and new information technologies. The blackberry-using Father Lombardi remains an anomaly in a culture in which many officials do not even have official email accounts. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM

• Cables Show Ireland Ceded to Vatican Pressure VATICAN CITY (AP) - ABC News (United States) By FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Pres December 11, 2010 Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the government probe of decades of sex abuse by Irish clergy in the predominantly Catholic nation. That the Holy See used its diplomatic immunity status as a tiny-city state to try to thwart Ireland's government-led probe has long been known. But the WikiLeaks cables, published by Britain's The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, contain delicate, behind-the-scenes diplomatic assessments of the highly charged situation.

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The Vatican press office declined to comment on the content of the cables Saturday, but decried the leaks as a matter of "extreme gravity." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:33 AM

• Vatican refused to help Irish sex abuse probe: cable VATICAN CITY/IRELAND Radio Netherlands The Vatican refused to cooperate with an Irish probe into child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Dublin because the requests were not made through official channels, a leaked US cable showed Saturday. Requests for information by the 2009 Murphy commission "offended many in the Vatican… because they saw them as an affront to Vatican sovereignty", according to a cable from the US embassy in Rome, leaked by WikiLeaks. The Murphy commission's findings, published in November 2009, caused shock across Ireland and the worldwide Catholic community by detailing how Church authorities covered up for paedophile priests in Dublin for three decades. Dated February 26 this year, the US cable -- published by The Guardian newspaper -- records the observations of US diplomat in Rome Julieta Noyes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:27 AM

• Vatican "offended" at being asked to assist Murphy Inquiry – WikiLeaks IRELAND The Journal {US embassy cables: Vatican used sovereign status in face of Irish child abuse investigation} THE VATICAN was "offended" when the Murphy Inquiry directly summoned Catholic officials to answer questions, believing the actions of the inquiry were an "affront to Vatican sovereignty", it has emerged. The revelation is contained in the latest tranche of documents published by WikiLeaks, which has obtained copies of over 250,000 diplomatic cables sent to and from US ambassadors worldwide. In one of the documents dated February 26 of this year, Julieta Valls Noyes – the US's ambassador to the Holy See – wrote that the Inquiry, operating outside of the official umbrella of the state, had sidestepped the usual diplomatic procedures of going through the Irish embassy – but that the Holy See was greatly put out by this tactic, refusing to respond. Such was the Vatican's opposition to being directly contacted that it accused some in Ireland of "making political hay" of the situation by asking the Irish government to demand a Vatican response to the inquiry's questions. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:24 AM

• WikiLeaks: Pope refused to cooperate in sex abuse investigation VATICAN CITY/IRELAND - msnbc Pope Benedict refused to allow Vatican officials to testify in an investigation by an Irish commission into alleged child sex abuse by priests, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, The Guardian newspaper reported. Benedict was also reportedly furious when Vatican officials were called upon in Rome, The Guardian reported Saturday. The Murphy Commission of Inquiry into sexual and physical abuse "offended many in the Vatican," according to a cable dated February 26, 2010. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:20 AM

• WikiLeaks bares even tiny Vatican's diplomatic soul The Economic Times (India) VATICAN CITY: The Vatican may be the world's smallest state but even its diplomatic soul has been laid bare by WikiLeaks cables covering everything from sex abuse and media blunders to old "technophobic" cardinals. Cables sent from the US embassy to the Vatican to the State Department depict Pope Benedict as http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 122 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM sometimes isolated as aides try to protect him from bad news, and say his number two is seen as a "yes man" with little credibility among diplomats. The cables were published by the Guardian newspaper, one of several news organisations with have been given access to the leaked cables from US embassies around the world. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:14 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sat December 11, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sun December 12, 2010 edition: • Days of genuflection [RCC] The Irish Times, IRELAND - THE INSTITUTIONAL face of the Catholic Church, as represented by the Vatican, has been left in a dark place of its own creation because of its hopelessly inadequate response to clerical child abuse. And the more we learn about its behaviour, the more it appears to dig itself into a deeper mess, increasingly obscuring the values it might be expected to espouse. The latest disclosures – via US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks – suggest that requests for information from the Murphy Commission, which was investigating the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese between 1975 and 2004, "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the Irish Government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the {Commission} investigations". The views, attributed to the Vatican by US diplomats, chime with much of what we know about how the Church, as an institution, deals with such matters and did so in this case. And it is not simply an issue of diplomatic etiquette – the Vatican, in seeking to assert its sovereignty, is adhering to a calculated and consistent defence aimed at protecting the Church and its assets from litigation arising from clerical child abuse in dioceses around the world. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:48 PM

• Vatican says leaks do not reflect views of Holy See VATICAN CITY - The Independent (United Kingdom) By Christopher Corbishley Monday, 13 December 2010 The Vatican described the most recent leaks from US cables yesterday as a matter of "extreme seriousness". The cables from the US embassy at the Vatican describe its leadership as out of touch, and criticise their refusal to allow officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating child abuse by clerics. Cables have revealed that information requested by the 2009 Murphy Commission – which reported on allegations of abuse within the Catholic Church in Dublin – "offended many in the Vatican", who felt that the Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations". The deputy chief of mission at the US embassy to the Vatican, Julieta Valls Noyes, stated that an attempt to involve the Vatican in the Irish child-abuse investigation was "an affront to Vatican sovereignty". A statement released by the Vatican over the weekend said: "Naturally these reports reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them and cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself, nor as exact quotations of the words of its officials. Their reliability must, then, be evaluated carefully and with great prudence, bearing this circumstance in mind." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:45 PM

• Minister dismisses abuse cable 'sideshow' IRELAND - The Irish Times HARRY McGEE and PATSY McGARRY THE WIKILEAKS disclosure that the Government did not press the Vatican to co-operate with the inquiry into the Catholic Church's handling of child abuse was yesterday dismissed as a "sideshow" by the relevant Minister. There has also been strong reaction to the disclosure from victims of clerical sexual abuse. Fianna Fáil had been too close to the Catholic Church through the recent years of clerical child sex abuse revelations and

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 123 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM this had inhibited it from doing what should have been done, Dublin abuse victim Andrew Madden said last night. He was commenting after weekend WikiLeaks disclosures that requests to the Vatican for information from the Murphy commission "offended many" there who felt the Irish Government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the (commission) investigations". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:42 PM • Archbishop Martin apologises over Walsh child sex abuse in Ballyfermot IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent PRELATE'S ADDRESS: CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has apologised unreservedly to the people of Ballyfermot in Dublin following the abuse of children there by former priest Tony Walsh, "and about the way this abuse was hushed up by people with responsibility in the parish and in the diocese". Speaking during Mass at the Church of the Assumption in Ballyfermot yesterday, he said: "I came here this morning to renew my apologies to the people of this parish for the facts that this week have emerged." He was referring to the jailing of Walsh for 16 years last Monday, four suspended, following his conviction of the sexual abuse of three boys from Ballyfermot during the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:39 PM

• Nothing new in latest documents, says Vatican The Irish Times PADDY AGNEW in Rome ROME - CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE VATICAN'S senior spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, last night played down any potentially damaging impact of the latest revelations from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks concerning the Holy See. Fr Lombardi argued that in the overall context of the vast body of documents released by WikiLeaks, those concerning the Vatican were of little significance. "There's nothing new, nothing that wasn't abundantly well known. I don't think that anyone has discovered America with these documents {about the Holy See}." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:33 PM • Defrocked priest charged with possession of child pornography [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] Tribune, Ali Bracken and Mark Hilliard, IRELAND - Defrocked Irish cleric Oliver O'Grady was yesterday charged with possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two. He was granted bail at Dublin District Court despite garda objections. Judge James McDonnell heard that 65-year-old O'Grady was arrested at his Dublin hostel on Friday morning just after 7am. The material confiscated included images and videos on a USB key, an external hard drive and a laptop. Det garda Johanna Doyle told the court: "We are talking about thousands upon thousands of images of child pornography. Children from the age of two and three up to teenage boys and girls." Defending solicitor Dara Robinson told the court that his client had difficult personal circumstances and did not have financial means. "His personal circumstances are very unfortunate; he is a highly educated man who has had a very serious fall from grace. He has significant estrangement from his family and his social circumstances have changed." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:29 PM • Notorious CA/Irish predator arrested-Sex abuse victims respond [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Nancy Sloan, SNAP Stockton co-director & victim of Oliver O'Grady. (707) 631-7654 [email protected] ; (NOTE-Irish law enforcement officials have arrested Fr. Oliver O'Grady on child porn charges. He has molested numerous kids in California and was recently found living in the Netherlands) IRELAND - We're thrilled this extremely dangerous predator priest has been arrested and hope he will soon be locked up for a long time. That's the only way to really protect kids.

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Once a child sex offender is arrested, it's tempting for many to become complacent and assume he'll be convicted and jailed. But that often doesn't happen. Child predators are usually cunning men who hire top notch lawyers and exploit technicalities and get off with little or no jail time. So it's crucial that every single person who saw, suspected or suffered O'Grady's crimes contact law enforcement immediately, so he can be effectively prosecuted, convicted, and kept away from kids for the rest of his life. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:25 PM • Vatican Bank 'allowed clergy to act as front for Mafia' [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized. Mafia allegations.] The Independent (United Kingdom), By Victor Simpson, Associated Press, in Vatican City; Monday, 13 December 2010 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.25m) in September. The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a "misunderstanding" and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But fresh court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti- laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital". The documents also reveal investigators' suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia. The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew €650,000 from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:20 PM • Diocese receives 'credible' abuse allegation against Rev. Dennis J. Shaw [1970s Fr Dennis J. Shaw -? NEW*. RC. Minor.] Catholic Courier NEW YORK - The announced Sunday, Dec. 12, that it has investigated and deemed "credible" an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor dating back to the late 1970s against the Rev. Dennis J. Shaw. Father Shaw was serving at the now-closed St. Francis of Assisi Church in Rochester at the time the abuse allegedly occurred. Father Shaw, who most recently has been serving as parochial administrator of Holy Family Church in Auburn, has been placed on administrative leave and his priestly faculties have been withdrawn. He can no longer exercise public ministry in any capacity. Father Shaw was ordained March 22, 1974. After ordination, he served at Blessed Sacrament Church in Rochester from 1974-1977; St. Francis of Assisi Church in Rochester, 1977-1987; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Rochester, 1987-1993; Community of Hope (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel/St. Michael's/Holy Redeemer/St. Francis) from 1993-2005; and at Holy Family Church, Auburn, since 2005. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:34 PM • Auburn priest removed for alleged sexual abuse NEW YORK Auburnpub The Catholic Diocese of Rochester said today that it has removed the priest at Holy Family Church in Auburn for allegedly sexually abusing a Rochester child more than 30 years ago. According to a statement released by the Diocese of Rochester, the Rev. Dennis Shaw "has been placed on administrative leave and his priestly faculties have been withdrawn. He can no longer exercise public ministry in any capacity." The alleged incident dates to the late 1970s, according to the statement. Shaw was then serving at the now-closed St. Francis of Assisi Church in Rochester. The diocese said it investigated the allegation and deemed it "credible." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:25 PM

• Martin highlights Church malaise [RCC] The Irish Times, IRELAND - The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said the Catholic Church grew self-

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• Finding Forgiveness and Healing in Thunder Bay CANADA Truth and Reconciliation Commission Survivors of the Residential Schools experience who came forward to share their often painful, emotional truths with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at a community gathering in Thunder Bay, Ontario took another important step this week on the journey of healing and finding forgiveness. "Tapachimoda - Lets Tell Our Stories" was organized in part by the Nishnawbe Aski Nation that focused on hearing from survivors and their families who are coming to terms with their experiences. As many as 200 participants gathered for the three day event. TRC Commissioners present at the gathering participated in sharing circles with survivors. Through tears and at times, laughter, they described their school experiences. Those that were not able to share their statements with the Commission were reminded of other ways and opportunities to do so. For more information on statement gathering, click here. One survivor, upon reflection of the gathering, commented that people are starting to focus on what they require to move forward and that they don't want to hang on to what has happened to them. Instead, it's about finding a healthy way of letting go. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:56 PM

• Vatican notes "extreme seriousness" of WikiLeaks breach The Journal (Ireland) VATICAN CITY - THE VATICAN has dismissed the latest publications by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, which include a series of cables sent to Washington by the US embassy to the Holy See, implying that the publication of "secret and confidential material" is a matter of "extreme seriousness". In a release published last night, the Holy See's Press Office said that while it noted the publication of the documents, it would not venture to "evaluate the extreme seriousness of publishing such a large amount" of classified documents, "and its possible consequences". The press release adds that the Vatican believed the leaked documents "reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them and cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself, nor as exact quotations of the words of its officials." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:43 PM

• 12/12/2010 Homily at Ballyfermot Mass Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin,

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Third Sunday of Advent 2010 MASS IN BALLYFERMOT PARISH Homily notes of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin Church of the Assumption, Ballyfermot 12th December 2010 IRELAND The Gospel of this morning's Mass recalls that great figure: John the Baptist. John's task was to announce the coming of Jesus. He was called to reawaken a sense of expectation among a people that had grown tired and distant from God. He was called to bring renewal to institutional expressions of religion which, at the time, had so often become fossilised into mere formulae or external ritual. John's work was extraordinary. He attracted thousands to come out into the desert to see him. He wrought conversion on a vast scale. John was a man who stood out. His strange dress - the wild camel hair and the leather girdle - was not chosen as a publicity gimmick or a trademark. His message was one that spoke of rising above conventional ways of thinking, conventional expectations and attitudes. He shunned the external amenities of a comfortable life because he wanted to show his absolute dependence on God. His detachment from life's comforts gave him the freedom to truly recognise the message of Jesus. The figure of John serves as a warning to us today, to all believers, to the Church and to Church organizations of every age of our need to draw our strength from Christ alone, rather than from identifying with the cultural patterns and fashions of the day, which in any case come and go. The Church is there to proclaim and live out the message of Jesus. It is not there in any way to be inward looking and self protecting. The Church is called to renewal, to tear itself away from conventional expectations, attitudes and superficialities. The Church in every age must become like John the Baptist, an uncomfortable reminder of how we must repent and allow the truth of Jesus to break into and enlighten the darkness that can at any moment enter into our lives or the life of the Church. The Church's message must be a message of hope. That is the message of the first and second reading: The prophet Isaiah wrote "Do not be afraid, look your God is coming"; and Saint James wrote: "Do not loose heart, because the Lord's coming will be soon". I came here this morning to renew my apologies to the people of this parish for the facts that this week have emerged one step more clearly about the abuse of children in Ballyfermot by the former priest Tony Walsh and about the way this abuse was hushed-up by people with responsibility in the parish and in the diocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:34 PM

• Martin: Catholic Church self-centred and arrogant over abuse scandal Irish Examiner Sunday, December 12, 2010 IRELAND - One of Ireland's highest ranking Catholics today denounced the Church for having grown self-centred and arrogant in the wake of the clerical child abuse scandals. Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, second only to Cardinal Sean Brady in the hierarchy, said the cover-up of paedophile priests was a symptom of a deeper malaise in the church. Saying the church was "called to renewal", Archbishop Martin declared it had allowed itself to drift into a role in Ireland that was beyond legitimate. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:31 PM

• Commissie Deetman meldt 5 zaken aan bij OM Openbaar Ministerie, Openbaar Ministerie, 9 december 2010 NEDERLAND - De Commissie Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen de katholieke kerk onderzoekt, heeft 5 zaken aangemeld bij het OM. Het gaat om geanonimiseerde meldingen. Deze meldingen zullen door het OM worden beoordeeld. Als de zaak niet verjaard is kan er in principe een strafrechtelijk onderzoek volgen. Het OM verzoekt dan de Commissie Deetman de melder te informeren. Het is uiteindelijk aan de melder om te beslissen of hij of zij aangifte doet. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:42 AM

• Gardai find no cover-up in 1970 murder of girl [1970. Unknown person. Girl (10) dead in bog.]

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Irish Independent, By MAEVE SHEEHAN, Sunday December 12 2010 IRELAND - A GARDA review of the investigation into the murder of 10-year-old Bernadette Connolly 40 years ago has found no evidence of a cover-up. The child was murdered and her body dumped in a bog in Collooney, Co Sligo, in 1970 - but 40 years on the killing remains unsolved. The latest review was prompted by concerns that detectives had been hampered in their original investigation because the suspects included a priest who is now dead. But the review has now concluded that there was no evidence that the murder investigation was "impeded or inhibited in any way". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:34 AM

• Catholics see priest scandals as human weakness, look to God for strength Eagle-Tribune By Mike LaBella [email protected] MASSACHUSETTS - For generations, many Catholics trusted their parish priest more than anyone else. He counseled couples preparing for marriage. He tried to ease the pain of families who lost a loved one to death. He listened to people's confessions – their deepest failings and regrets. But the sex scandal that emerged in 2002 shook the Catholic community so deeply that some members left the church. Some who remained wondered whether they could ever have trusting relationships with priests again. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:31 AM [TEACHING: If a man cannot preside properly over his own family, how can he preside over the congregation of God? ENDS.] • JACQUES MARITAIN ON THE CHURCH'S MISBEHAVING CLERICS Cross Currents by Bernard Doering Sacramental function, pastoral dysfunction BERNARD DOERING is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He has published four books and numerous articles on Jacques Maritain. In recent months the rash of disturbing revelations concerning sexual abuse of children by priests that dates back over many years has resulted, for a great number of Catholic laity and their priests, in a serious crisis of confidence in the institutional Church. The daily accounts in newspapers of clerical sexual abuse and of hierarchical secrecy and cover-up to protect the reputation of the institution have led the laity to question the nature of their relationship to their priests and to the hierarchy of their Church. In this tragic situation it may be of considerable benefit to recall the insightful reflections of Jacques Maritain during his last years concerning the priests and the hierarchy of the Church he loved and revered. Six years after the closing of Vatican II, when the Pope placed in the hands of Jacques Maritain the Council's message to the intellectuals of the world, and two years before his death at ninety-one, the aging philosopher published his last book On the Church of Christ. This book is a free and loving meditation on the Mystery of the Church, from his own perspective as a philosopher and an "inveterate" layman, as he liked to call himself. In the first half of his book, the author meditates on the "Person" of the Church because he felt that it was only after having shed a clear light on the supernatural "personality" of the Spouse of Christ that he could turn, in the second half of the book, to making the necessary distinction between the "Person" of the Church and its "Personnel." The title Maritain chose for the first chapter of the second half of his book is "The Person of the Church is Indefectibly Holy; Her Personnel is Not." He defined the "Personnel" of the Church as "that body of men who, by the fact that they belong to the secular or the regular clergy, are the officially appointed servants of the Church, and in particular those among them who, from the top to the bottom of the hierarchy, have the responsibility of authority over the Christian people." This Personnel, he writes, is neither indefectibly holy nor always free from error. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:24 AM

• Deetman verliest behoeften slachtoffers uit het oog Joop, Zij willen erkenning voor wat hen is aangedaan en ze willen daarmee weer als mens, als individu in ere worden hersteld http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 128 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM worden hersteld NEDERLAND - Toen Wim Deetman bij de start van zijn commissie aankondigde dat het deelrapport over hulp aan slachtoffers niet pas aan het einde zou verschijnen maar al veel eerder, was ik daar blij mee. Hij maakte ermee duidelijk dat de zorg en aandacht voor de slachtoffers centraal moest staan. Nu dit eerste rapport verschenen is, ben ik precies op dat punt teleurgesteld, want het is een – op zich nuttig – puur bestuurlijk-organisatorisch verhaal geworden. En dat is pijnlijk voor de slachtoffers. Hadden we dat kunnen zien aankomen? Ik schreef bij het installeren van de commissie: "Ik ben {…} blij met de breedte van de beoogde onderzoekscommissie, al ben ik wel benieuwd naar de redenen voor de bemensing. {…} Het zijn vast goede mensen en wetenschappers, maar ik kan bij de heren {de dames zijn meer thuis in de thematieken} niet ontdekken wat hun bijzondere expertise is voor dit onderwerp. Dat geldt natuurlijk ook voor de voorzitter, Wim Deetman zelf. Een kundig bestuurder, breekijzer soms, die ook in staat is een betrokken pastorale toon neer te zetten. En handig op het snijvlak van kerk en politiek. Dat is natuurlijk allemaal van belang voor een voorzitter. Maar dan is het toch wat vreemd dat er geen mensen in zitten die specifiek verstand hebben van het grensgebied tussen religie en seksueel misbruik, van de psychologische kanten van priesterschap en celibaat." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:21 AM

• Vaticaan weigerde steun aan misbruikonderzoek

VATICAAN / IERLAND / LONDEN – Het Vaticaan weigerde vorig jaar mee te werken aan een Iers onderzoek naar kindermisbruik door katholieke priesters. Dat meldde de Britse krant The Guardian zaterdag, op basis van een Amerikaans diplomatiek bericht. Het Vaticaan was boos omdat informatieverzoeken niet via de officiële diplomatieke kanalen door de Ierse ambassade werden ingediend, maar direct door de Murphy-commissie die een groot misbruikschandaal in de Ierse katholieke kerk onderzocht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:18 AM

• Felle kritiek op meldpunt misbruik kerk Limburgs Dagblad De commissie-Deetman, die het seksueel misbruik binnen katholieke instellingen onderzoekt, wil zo snel mogelijk af van het huidige katholieke meldpunt Hulp & Recht. Dat heeft oud-minister Wim Deetman donderdag bekendgemaakt in Den Haag. Van onze verslaggevers NEDERLAND - Het bestuur van Hulp & Recht heeft de nieuw aanpak niet afgewacht en stelde donderdagrmiddag in een eerste reactie onmiddellijk zijn functies ter beschikking. Het wil zo 'ruimte maken voor de nieuw omstandigheden'. Deetman wil het meldpunt omvormen tot een organisatie die bestaat uit zowel een klachtencommissie, een meldpunt van seksueel misbruik en een professioneel kwaliteitscentrum. Dat laatste verwijst melders van seksueel misbruik door naar de juiste hulpverlenings?instellingen. Vooral door slachtoffers wordt veel geklaagd over het meldpunt van de kerk. Zo zijn er twijfels over de onafhankelijkheid. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:14 AM • Vier procent Amerikaanse katholieke geestelijken pleegde seksueel misbruik op minderjarigen

Vandaag, 20:32, 10 december, 2010 VERENIGDE STATEN - Het aantal geloofwaardige meldingen van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen in de Amerikaanse Kerk is vorig jaar met een derde gedaald. Het gaat om 398 meldingen, ongeveer de helft van de meldingen in 2004. Dat schrijven de Amerikaanse bisschoppen in hun jongste jaarverslag over seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen door geestelijken in de Kerk. In de VS houden ze uitvoerige statistieken bij en zo krijg je een goed zicht op wie de clerici zijn die minderjarigen seksueel misbruikten. In totaal werd nu 4% van de Amerikaanse katholieke geestelijkheid beschuldigd van seksueel misbruik. Wat staken deze geestelijken uit? In 44,9% van de gevallen ging het om aanrakingen onder de kleren van het slachtoffer, in 25% werd het slachtoffer uitgekleed, in 14,3% was er wederzijdse masturbatie, in 26%

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• Een RK koude kermis NEDERLAND NRC Handelsblad Volgens George Bernard Shaw is zwijgen de volmaaktste uitdrukking van minachting. Maar in het geval van seksueel misbruik kan de houding van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk beter worden gezien als diep ongemak. Gecombineerd met de onmacht om de eigen verantwoordelijkheid te erkennen. Nu is de hand in eigen boezem steken voor iedereen moeilijk. Maar van de grootste christelijke kerk, gebaseerd op naastenliefde, verlossing en erfzonde, zou op dit terrein toch iets meer competentie mogen worden verwacht. Gisteren publiceerde de onderzoekscommissie-Deetman een tussenadvies waarin de kerkelijke instelling Hulp en Recht voor slachtoffers werd geëvalueerd. Deze instelling was in 1995 het antwoord van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk op het groeiende schandaal van seksueel misbruik door priesters. Dit klachtenbureau is op een vrij dramatische mislukking uitgelopen, zo blijkt. De opzet was „verlammend en verwarrend". Er was sprake van „botsende belangen" en „tegengestelde structuren". Toen het schandaal recent vaart kreeg en de slachtoffers toestroomden, stortte dit bureau in. De administratie veranderde in een chaos, de kwaliteit van de opvang liep nog verder terug en het bestuur greep niet in. Hoewel het de ernst van de toestand kende. Van effectieve hulpverlening, door de Kerk of Hulp en Recht, kon niet worden gesproken, zo oordeelt de onderzoekscommissie. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:07 AM

• Strenger regime voor Assange Nd LONDEN - WikiLeaks-oprichter Julian Assange is vrijdag overgebracht naar een afdeling met een strenger gevangenisregime in Londen kort nadat de klokkenluiderswebsite onthulde, dat het Vaticaan weigerde mee te werken in een onderzoek naar kindermisbruik door katholieke priesters in Dublin. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:04 AM • "Wrakingsverzoek kardinaal Danneels onontvankelijk" Vandaag BELGIE - Het Brusselse parket-generaal wijst het wrakingsverzoek van kardinaal Danneels tegen onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy af. Volgens advocaat-generaal De Bruyne is het onontvankelijk. Maar er is nog niets definitief beslist, want het Hof van Beroep van Brussel moet later nog beslissen na iedereen te hebben gehoord. Zoals geweten hebben de advocaten van kardinaal Godfried Danneels een verzoek ingediend om onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy van het onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de Kerk te halen. Zij vinden de onderzoeksrechter te partijdig. Ze dienden dit verzoek in namens kardinaal Danneels, maar ook namens het aartsbisdom Mechelen-Brussel zelf. De zaak loopt momenteel voor het Brusselse Hof van Beroep. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:00 AM • Als de dominee een relatie krijgt Kerknieuws NEDERLAND - Hoe moeten pastores omgaan met persoonlijke relaties met gemeenteleden of parochianen? Moeten pastores altijd inzetbaar zijn, of mogen ze privé-tijd claimen? Jarenlang moesten religieuze professionals het doen zonder beroepsethiek, terwijl er veel vraag naar is. In 2008 verscheen het boek 'Beroepsethiek voor pastores'. Onlangs kwam de tweede druk van het handboek uit bij uitgeverij Damon. Auteur Jacques Schenderling schreef het boek. Hij is zelf predikant in de Protestantse Kerk en zag om zich heen de hunkering naar een beroepsethiek; pastores zaten met steeds meer vragen. "In Amerika en Duitsland bestaat al een beroepsethiek, en ook andere beroepsgroepen zoals de psychologen beschikken er over", aldus Schenderling. "Zeker nu, in een snel veranderende en kritisch

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• Disney's 'Tangled' Takes On the Serious Issue of Emotional Child Abuse UNITED STATES Politics Daily Jeffrey Weiss A week or so ago, thousands of Facebook users changed their identifying photos to cartoon characters in a vague attempt to "raise awareness" of child abuse. Ironically, at the same time a new hit movie was using animation to focus on the same subject in a more sophisticated manner. The movie? Disney's "Tangled." No kidding. Slipped inside the gorgeous images, entertaining songs and fairy-tale narrative is a clear-eyed look at the way predatory abusers maintain control of their victims. The villain may be Disney's skin-crawlingly nastiest because her evil is so un-magically human. {SPOILER ALERT: I'm not going to reveal much more than you'd get in a good movie review, or than you'd learn from the first five minutes of the film. But if you're the type who wants to learn no details in advance, go see the movie first. I'll wait. (And btw, it's a splendid flick if you appreciate animated films. And maybe even if you don't.)} "Tangled" is a substantial reworking of the Brothers Grimm story of Rapunzel. … David Clohessy hasn't seen the movie but he knows something about abuse and abusers. He's the national director of SNAP, the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests, and a survivor of abuse. His organization was formed in 1989 to respond to the scandal of sexually predatory Catholic priests but has since given its attention to other abusive clergy and to broader issues of abuse. The "Tangled" fantasy, he said, sounds like it manages to avoid some of the dangerous myths about abusers. Abusers can seem normal and even attractive to other people. That's how they gain access to their victims and maintain their power. "If you go to a party and there's one guy sitting over in a corner sitting by himself and gives you the willies, that's not the child molester," he said. "The child molester is the guy giving the party." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:48 AM

• Ruim helft wil parlementair onderzoek kerkmisbruik NEDERLAND Nu AMSTERDAM - Ruim de helft (56 procent) van de bevolking is voorstander van een parlementair onderzoek naar misbruik binnen de katholieke kerk. Van de katholieken is 47 procent voor zo'n door slachtoffers gewenst onderzoek. Dat blijkt uit een zondag gepubliceerde peiling van Maurice de Hond. De commissie-Deetman die het misbruik binnen de kerk onderzoekt presenteerde vrijdag een tussenrapport, waarin werd geadviseerd de hulp aan misbruikslachtoffers 'ingrijpend' te verbeteren. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:39 AM

• Vatican 'offended' by requests from sex abuse inquiry [RCC] Irish Independent By DON LAVERY, Sunday December 12 2010 IRELAND - THE Vatican was more concerned about its diplomatic sovereignty as a mini-state than with helping the Murphy Commission investigate appalling sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese, http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 131 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM newly leaked cables from the American embassy to the Holy See show. The documents, released by WikiLeaks, show that requests from the Murphy Commission "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the Irish Government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations", a cable said. Last year Judge 's independent commission investigating the Catholic Church's handling of abuse allegations in the Dublin Archdiocese said the Vatican had failed to acknowledge a number of written requests for information. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:31 AM

• Dutch public believes Church covered up abuse-poll NETHERLANDS Reuters Sun Dec 12, 2010 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A large majority of the Dutch public believes Roman Catholic Church authorities covered up sexual abuse, a poll found Sunday, revealing the extent of the damage to the Church's reputation in the Netherlands. An independent commission said Thursday 1,975 people have declared themselves victims of sexual and physical abuse while under the care of the Church since 1945, ranking the Netherlands second worst behind Ireland in a scandal that has rocked the Church in Europe and the United States. The Maurice de Hond poll showed 82 percent of respondents believe most Church authorities knew about the problems, while 81 percent believe the pope also knew. Some 78 percent said they were "extremely disappointed" by the abuses. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:27 AM

• WIkiLeaks reveals Vatican refused to take part in Irish pedophile investigation Irish Central By ANTOINETTE KELLY , IrishCentral.com Staff, Published Sunday, December 12, 2010 IRELAND - US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks revealed that the Vatican would not allow its officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating child abuse by clerics, according to The Guardian. The cables revealed that the 2009 Murphy commission's requests for information "offended many in the Vatican," who felt that the Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations." The commission substantiated many of the abuse claims despite the lack of co-operation from the Vatican, and in a report, identified 320 people who complained of child sexual abuse between 1975 and 2004 in the Dublin archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:23 AM

• The Record: Extending justice NEW JERSEY The Record Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Record UNDER current state law, victims of sexual abuse in New Jersey have only two years after they realize the abuse has caused them emotional or psychological harm to file a civil lawsuit. The state Senate is considering a bill that would abolish the statute of limitations on those types of lawsuits, S-2405, which cleared the Judiciary Committee 9-0 on Thursday. Lawmakers should pass this important legislation, which would give victims the time they need to prepare themselves to take a case to court. As it now stands, the clock starts ticking for state residents from the moment they understand that the sexual abuse they suffered perhaps years ago is responsible for their injuries, like depression or post- traumatic stress disorder. The clock may be paused for several reasons, including a victim's mental state, but even so it is too rushed and too complicated a process just to start the legal ball rolling. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:14 AM

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• European Catholic sex abuse cases in 2010 EUROPE The Malta Independent A report into the sexual abuse of Dutch minors by Roman Catholic priests showed that The Netherlands ranked second only to Ireland in the known extent of the scandals rocking the Church in Europe. The following are some details of the major developments in the Roman Catholic Church scandals in Europe this year. Austria • 28 June: Pope Benedict rebukes Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn for accusing a senior Vatican official, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of covering up sexual abuse cases. • 10 August: A newspaper reports that a record 100,000 Austrians are expected to leave the Catholic Church in 2010 because of the sexual abuse scandals rocking the Church in Europe.

Belgium • 23 April: Bruges Bishop Roger Vangheluwe resigns and goes into hiding after admitting he had sexually abused his own nephew for years. • 24 June: Police raid Church offices and the flat of Cardinal Godfried Danneels – who stepped down as Brussels archbishop in January – and confiscate files and computers from the panel probing abuse cases. The raid occurs during a meeting of the country's bishops, who are held by the police for nine hours. The Vatican sharply criticises the Belgian authorities for the raids. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:12 AM

• When will the church come clean on abuse? NEW JERSEY The Star-Ledger Tom Moran/ The Star-Ledger My son, Patrick, was 8 years old and studying for his First Communion at St. Cassian Church in Montclair when I decided to place the call. I was polite, but I can't say it was a friendly call. Because, by then, the sexual abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic church had spread way beyond Boston. And nearly every time, the story followed the same horrifying pattern. A child is abused by a priest. The church hierarchy responds by protecting the church, not the children. The priest is transferred, and finds another child to abuse. As the number of victims piled higher and higher, into the thousands, I decided it was time to call St. Cassian and ask what officials were doing to protect my boy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:05 AM

• In N.J. Senate testimony, Bayonne man says prominent Jesuit scholar abused him as a child TRENTON (NJ) The Star-Ledger RENTON – It was another day of endless hearings in Trenton. The Senate Judiciary Committee was taking testimony on a proposed bill that would do away with a two- year statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging child sex abuse. There were a few dozen spectators in the gallery – and one reporter. Then a 48-year-old man leaned into a microphone. And delivered a bombshell. "My story began in 1976, St. Paul's Church in the Greenville section of Jersey City," said Keith Brennan. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:58 AM, Dec 12, 2010] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sun December 12, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 13, 2010 edition:

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• Former priest sentenced to jail for sex assaults Toronto Star, By JOHN VESSOYAN, QMI Agency, ~ Dec 13, 2010 HAMILTON, Ont., CANADA - Former Roman Catholic priest Donald Grecco was sentenced Monday to 18 months in jail for molesting three teenaged altar boys in the 1970s and 1980s in two Ontario communities. He will also face a two-year probation when he is released and be on the national sex offender registry. Grecco pleaded guilty in March to three counts of gross indecency after he was arrested in 2008 in the history cases. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:26 PM, Dec 13, 2010] • Ex-priest jailed for 18 months for molesting altar servers Hamilton Spectator, CANADA - Ex-Roman Catholic priest and altar boy molester Don Grecco is going to jail. But Ontario Superior Court Justice Kathryn Hawke's 18-month sentence and two-year probation term for the former St. Catharines diocesan priest infuriated his victims and their families. An emotional Mike Blum, one of Grecco's victims, left in tears along with his wife. Jim Hennessy Sr. came to the hearing on behalf of his son, Jim Hennessy, who was also abused by Grecco. "It was just a waste of time," Hennessy Sr. said. "I think it is just a travesty of justice. Three years in a penitentiary would have been fairer." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:21 PM • Ein Fonds als Kartenhausmodell Frankfurter Allgemeine, Von Reinhard Bingener, Berlin, 13. Dezember 2010 Ehemalige Heimkinder, die zwischen 1949 und 1975 Unrecht erlitten haben, können auf Entschädigungen hoffen. Der „Runde Tisch Heimerziehung" empfiehlt nach zwei Jahre langen Beratungen die Einrichtung eines Fonds. Doch die Einigung ist wacklig wie ein Kartenhaus. DEUTSCHLAND - Die zwei Sichtweisen auf das Ergebnis des „Runden Tisches Heimerziehung" prallen im Foyer der Bundespressekonferenz aufeinander: Während die eintreffenden Emissäre aus Politik und Kirchen mit Jackett und Krawatte die Treppe die Stufen zu den wartenden Kameras hinaufsteigen, lassen unten frühere Heimkinder ihrem Unmut über das aus ihrer Meinung nach magere Ergebnis freien Lauf. Es sind Männer und Frauen um die Sechzig, manche tragen T-Shirts, auf denen ein weinendes Kind abgebildet ist, andere Winterjacken in grellen Farben, gekauft augenscheinlich in Läden, in denen man vergeblich nach Herrenanzügen sucht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:18 PM • Ehemalige Heimkinder können auf Entschädigung hoffen Frankfurter Allgemeine, 13. Dezember 2010 DEUTSCHLAND - Ehemalige Heimkinder, die zwischen 1949 und 1975 in westdeutschen Kinder- und Jugendheimen untergebracht waren, können auf Entschädigungen hoffen. Der vom Deutschen Bundestag eingesetzte „Runde Tisch Heimerziehung" empfiehlt nach zweijährigen Beratungen einstimmig die Einrichtung eines Fonds, der mit 120 Millionen Euro ausgestattet werden soll. Das Geld soll zu gleichen Teilen von Bund, Länder und Kirchen aufgebracht werden Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:13 PM • 13.12.2010: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz begrüßt Lösung des Runden Tisches Heimerziehung Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, „Einrichtung des Fonds darf nicht verzögert werden", DEUTSCHLAND - Der Vorsitzende der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, Erzbischof Dr. Robert Zollitsch, hat die Ergebnisse des Runden Tisches Heimerziehung begrüßt. „Ich bin erleichtert, dass nun eine Lösung gefunden wurde, die zentrale Anliegen ehemaliger Heimkinder berücksichtigt: das Bedürfnis nach Aussprache, der Wunsch nach Anerkennung, das Angebot von Beratung und therapeutischer Hilfe sowie finanzielle Hilfen für diejenigen, die sie brauchen." Gleichzeitig bedauerte der Erzbischof, dass in den 50er und 60er Jahren junge Menschen, die der katholischen Kirche anvertraut worden waren, in deren Heimen großes Unrecht erfahren mussten. „Ich bitte die Betroffenen von Herzen für diese traurigen Ereignisse um Verzeihung. Gerade mit Blick auf den Anspruch, den kirchliche Einrichtungen an sich selbst stellen, ist es nicht nachvollziehbar, wieso Mittel und Instrumente genutzt wurden, die dem christlichen Menschenbild und christlichen Wertvorstellungen zutiefst widersprechen." Zollitsch sagte, seine Gespräche mit ehemaligen Heimkindern über ihre verstörenden Kindheitserlebnisse hätten ihn für die Problematik sensibilisiert und sehr bewegt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:10 PM • Bisschoppen getuigen in Kamercommissie Seksueel misbruik

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RKnieuws BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - In de Kamercommissie die zich buigt over dossiers van seksueel misbruik hebben maandag drie bisschoppen getuigd. Het gaat om de bisschoppen die door de Kerk waren aangesteld als aanspreekpunt voor gevallen van misbruik door geestelijken. Zowel oud-bisschop van Gent Arthur Luysterman als de bisschoppen (Doornik) en (Antwerpen) maakten hun opwachting. Luysterman stond destijds mee aan de wieg van de eerste initiatieven voor het behandelen van klachten over seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk. Een telefoonlijn in 1997 was de eerste stap, drie jaar later volgde de eerste commissie onder leiding van Godelieve Halsberghe. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:07 PM • Das moralisch Nötige Frankfurter Allgemeine, Von Reinhard Bingener, 13. Dezember 2010 Das Ergebnis des „Runden Tisches" zur Entschädigung von Heimkindern kann sich sehen lassen. Die Summe von 120 Millionen Euro, mit denen der Fonds ausgestattet werden soll, scheint angemessen. Sie vereint das politisch Mögliche mit dem moralisch Nötigen. DEUTSCHLAND - Werden jetzt alle entschädigt – das Bauernmädchen für die Rübenernte, der Arbeitersohn für den prügelnden Vater und das Bürgerkind, weil es an Weihnachten in die Kirche musste? Den Weg in eine Opfergesellschaft, die für jedes Übel einen Verantwortlichen sucht, hat der „Runde Tisch Heimerziehung in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren" ausdrücklich nicht beschritten. Ihm ging es um Kinder und Jugendliche, deren Rechte auf ungeheuere Weise verletzt wurden, obwohl sie sich in der Obhut des Rechtsstaates befanden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:04 PM • Defense Claims Fairfield Priest Abused Perlitz [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] The Mirror, By: Mirror Staff, December 13, 2010 {Defendant's memorandum in aid of sentencing} FAIRFIELD (CT) - Less than two weeks before Douglas Perlitz is scheduled to be sentenced, his defense filed a memorandum stating he is a victim in the charges against him for illicit sexual conduct in Haiti. The "Defendants' Memorandum in Aid of Sentencing" cited that the deep relationship with Fairfield mentor and priest is one of the leading factors that lead to Perlitz's illegal behaviors in Haiti. In the 32-page document filed to the District Court of Connecticut, the defense describes "a priest" having a significant role in Perlitz's emotionally unstable status in the "Personal Background" section. The document does not name Paul Carrier, it only describes him as "the priest" who began a long-lasting relationship with Perlitz soon after his first days as an undergraduate at Fairfield University. The document also specifies that the priest played a key role in all of Perlitz's work in Haiti. The defense states that this priest accompanied Perlitz on his first trip to Haiti as part of a campus group trip and remained an authority figure for the duration of his time at Fairfield. Recorded evidence shows that Paul Carrier is the priest in this relationship who played a key role in Perlitz's emotionally unstable status. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:58 PM • Vatican and its observers find little to react to in WikiLeaks cables [RCC.] Catholic News Agency, 04:34 pm Dec 13, 2010 ROME, Italy, / (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican officials are reacting "serenely" to the latest dump of cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks disclosure. That according to Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the semi-official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. The "stolen" documents "reveal exactly nothing," he told the Italian daily, La Stampa. "If anything," he explained, "the cables demonstrate scarce initiative on the part of whoever prepared them and show instead, an excessive zeal in referring to opinions circulating in different environments, especially from Italian journalists." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:55 PM • Legion Adopts New Norms Regarding Founder [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Zenit, DEC. 13, 2010 ROME, Italy, (Zenit.org).- The Legionaries of Christ and its lay movement Regnum Christi will no longer

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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:52 PM • No charges for LDS members aware of man's crimes; SNAP responds Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) IDAHO - Ever wonder why church members and officials ignore and conceal child sex crimes? This is one reason: because timid law enforcement officials often "go easy" on religious groups in child molestation cases. Frankly, we find it hard to believe that the Ada County Sheriff's hands are completely tied in this case and that he's powerless. At least 15 complicit church members knowingly endangered children by their silence and their refusal to call police about an admitted child molesting colleague. And nothing can be done? We don't believe that all 15 of these adults learned of Stephen R. Young's crimes through "confession" covered by some "clergy privilege." If indeed, the Ada County Sheriff honestly believes this, he should be walking the halls of the legislature today lobbying hard to see this predator-friendly law reformed. In our experience, often, "where there's a will, there's a way." We strongly suspect that local law enforcement could find a way to pursue at least some criminal charges against at least some of these callous, reckless church members and officials who kept quiet about horrific child sex crimes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 PM • Controversial Catholic group takes "tiny step," SNAP responds [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Statement by Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, (312-399-4747, [email protected]) TUNITED STATES - his is a tiny, belated, and begrudging step that should have been taken at least four years ago, when Vatican officials finally slapped Maciel's hand for molesting dozens of children.' Legion officials and defenders will no doubt try to depict this as some significant reform. It is not. It's a paltry and long-delayed reaction to horrific revelations of massive misdeeds by a corrupt man. No other institution would treat a disgraced serial child molester with such honor, respect and deference for years. It speaks volumes about the mind-set of top Catholic officials that even this small step takes years to happen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:43 PM • State Supreme Court agrees to hear abuse case WRCB Associated Press - December 13, 2010 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a lay minister and community activist who sued the Diocese of Memphis after alleging he was abused by a Roman Catholic priest during the 1970s. The Tennessee Court of Appeals threw out Norman Redwing's lawsuit against the church earlier this year, saying that Redwing filed his lawsuit 29 years past the statue of limitations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:40 PM • Another hearing scheduled for suspended Blessed Sacrament priest WALPOLE (MA) The Walpole Times By Keith Ferguson Wicked Local Walpole Posted Dec 13, 2010 WALPOLE – Suspended Blessed Sacrament priest Emile Boutin appeared in Stoughton District Court briefly on Friday, Dec. 10 before another hearing was scheduled for next month. Boutin, known as Fr. Mike to his parishioners, pleaded not guilty in June to a charge of indecent assault and battery after he was accused of inappropriately grabbing a 21-year-old man in a sexual manner behind a http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 136 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM and battery after he was accused of inappropriately grabbing a 21-year-old man in a sexual manner behind a Rte. 138 parking lot in Canton. Boutin previously met before a Stoughton judge in October for a pretrial hearing but his attorney requested time to review case evidence. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:37 PM • Hearing of class-action suit alleging sexual abuse by Holy Cross brothers delayed CANADA Montreal Gazette The hearing of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of victims of alleged sexual abuse at Collège Notre Dame in the 1970s and 1980s by brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross has been postponed to Dec. 30 to allow time for mediation and a possible out-of-court settlement. The delay was granted by Superior Court Justice Claude Auclair as two more plaintiffs were added to the list, along with that of the family of the late René Cornellier Jr. L.R.A. alleges he was sexually assaulted by one of the brothers at the Queen Mary Rd. school. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 PM • Presbyterians sued over alleged sex abuse [Presbyterian Church.] The Courier-Journal, By Peter Smith, [email protected] , December 13, 2010 LOUISVILLE (KY) - A California man sued the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Monday, saying the church failed to protect him and other children from an alleged sexual predator who assaulted him in 1988 in a Congo mission boarding house. The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, comes two months after the church issued a 546-page report documenting sexual or physical abuse involving its overseas missions between 1950 and 1990. Most of the victims were identified as children of missionaries serving in Africa and Asia. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:29 PM • Da müssen wir uns schämen" Spiegel, Von Peter Wensierski, {Heimerziehung in den 50er und 60er Jahren} {Pressekonferenz via YouTube} DEUTSCHLAND - Mit 120 Millionen Euro aus einem Hilfsfonds sollen Hunderttausende Menschen entschädigt werden, die als Kinder in Heimen misshandelt wurden. Die Opfer sind verbittert: Es könnte noch Jahre dauern, bis die Summen ausgezahlt werden - für viele kommt das Geld bereits zu spät. "Man hat etwas erreicht, aber nicht das, was man will", so sei das ja oft in der Politik, sagte die SPD- Politikerin Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, Moderatorin der Pressekonferenz des Vereins ehemaliger Heimkinder, als sie nun - nach langjährigem Ringen um Wiedergutmachung und Entschädigung - ihr Fazit zog. 120 Millionen Euro, so das Verhandlungsergebnis des Runden Tisches Heimerziehung, sollen in einen Finanztopf für die Opfer von Misshandlung in Kinderheimen fließen. Andere Staaten hätten ihren Opfern mehr gegeben, meinte Matthäus-Maier, "da müssen wir uns schämen". [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:47 PM] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Mon December 13, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 14, 2010 edition: • The Vatican Unsure How To Plug WikiLeak The Huffington Post, Francis X. Rocca, Religion News Service, Dec 14. 2010 VATICAN CITY (RNS) - A U.S. diplomat's confidential analysis of Vatican communication failures, recently published as part of the latest WikiLeaks release, highlights the unique challenges facing an ancient and traditionally secretive institution in the age of the Internet. The cable was written amid heated controversy over Pope Benedict XVI's decision to readmit an ultra- traditionalist bishop who turned out to be a public Holocaust denier. Benedict himself has called the move a mistake and a failure in "public relations." The Vatican lacks any "comprehensive communication strategy," wrote Julieta Valls Noyes, the No. 2 official at the U.S. embassy to the Holy See in a February 2009 cable back to Washington. Noyes characterized the Vatican's approach to public relations as a "hit-or-miss proposition," and said "decision making" is divorced from "public spin." The result, she wrote, is that the "church's message is often unclear." 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• I-Team: Bishop Eddie Long Church Break-in [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. 4 youths.] My Fox Atlanta {with video}, By Dale Russell, ATLANTA, GEORGIA - There was new evidence Tuesday about the mysterious break in at Bishop Eddie Long's private church office. Two young men were accused of stealing jewelry and iPad computer equipment from Bishop Eddie Long's office at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. One would later sue Bishop Long, alleging sexual misconduct. A FOX 5 I-team investigation found that the main purpose of the break-in was to gather evidence against Bishop Long. The investigation found that more than $100,000 in jewelry was left behind. It was Sunday night or early Monday morning, when two men wearing dark hooded tops and white gloves headed down the street toward the church and eventually, Bishop Long's private office. The men were caught on a church security camera. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:09 PM • Disgraced Anglican bishop removed [Bishop Ross Davies. Anglican ( / Episcopalian communion). Protecting an accused of sex misconduct, etc.] ABC News, Dec 13, 2010 AUSTRALIA - The of the Anglican Church of Australia, Reverend Phillip Aspinall, has officially approved the removal of disgraced South Australian bishop Ross Davies from the Murray diocese. The former bishop's conduct was the subject of a church tribunal hearing in Adelaide in September. It found him guilty of eight of nine church charges brought against him, including protecting another archdeacon who was accused of sexual misconduct. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:32 AM, December 14, 2010 • Knights of Columbus Denies Lawsuit Allegations [Knights of Columbus. RCC.] PRNewswire, Dec. 14, 2010 {Knights of Columbus Youth Protection Program} NEW HAVEN, Conn., /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - The Knights of Columbus vigorously denies allegations made in a pair of lawsuits filed by a Florida trial lawyer in federal court today. "Although we have not yet been served with the lawsuits, we have obtained and reviewed copies of the complaints, and we emphatically deny the allegations that have been made," spokesman Patrick Korten said. "The allegations date back to the 1970s and 1980s and involve a former member of the Knights of Columbus in Brownsville, Texas named Julian Rivera," Korten continued. "We first became aware of allegations of sexual abuse against him only one year ago, in December 2009. We acted immediately, removing him from any responsibility involving youth programs, and referring the case to Brownsville law enforcement authorities." Rivera terminated his membership in the Knights of Columbus in January 2010. In 2003, the Knights of Columbus formalized its policies involving youth activities in its "Youth Protection Program," which describes in considerable detail the organization's policies designed to protect children from any form of abuse. It admonishes Knights to act "not only in the most honorable and respectful manner toward children," but to be "alert at all times to any type of inappropriate activity that may be directed at a child by others." Knights, it says, must "avoid even the appearance of any impropriety." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:18 PM • Knights Of Columbus Sued Over Two Cases Of Child Sexual Abuse [Knights of Columbus. RCC.] Lez Get Real, by Bridgette P. LaVictorie, Dec/14/10 NEW HAVEN (CT) - The Roman Catholic men's fraternity Knights of Columbus has been one of the leading advocates against same-sex marriage often claiming that gay men prey upon children and that society had to stop same-sex marriage from happening in order to not have children being preyed upon by gay men. Now, something of the truth has come out with a lawsuit filed in Texas against the Knights of Columbus. Two men are alleging that they were sexually molested by Juan Rivera, leader of the K o C youth group Columbian Squiers, during the 1970's and 1980's. The two have been identified as Jim Denanny and "John Doe No. 1?, and each of them is seeking $5 million in damages. Columbian Squires is the official youth organization of the Knights of Columbus, and is open to boys between the ages of ten and eighteen. The lawsuit states that the organization was made aware of the abuse back in 1986, but that they "concealed this report of abuse and intimidated the vitim into not making the

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Pritchard*. Church of England (Anglican-Episcopalian communion). Kept operating as vicars.] BBC News, December 14, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM -- A former senior judge is to investigate how two vicars were allowed to work at East Sussex churches following serious sex abuse allegations. Roy Cotton worked as a priest in Brede, near Rye, in the 1990s despite being convicted of a sexual offence in 1954. Collin Pritchard served as the vicar of St Barnabas, Bexhill, until 2007 after being arrested over sex abuse claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:51 PM, December 14, 2010 • Bisschoppen: 'Kerk heeft nood aan systeem voor schadevergoedingen' Het Nieuwsblad, BRUSSEL, BELGIE - In de bijzondere Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik zijn maandag de eerste bisschoppen over de vloer geweest. Concrete toezeggingen kwamen er niet, maar op verschillende momenten klonk het wel dat de kerk zal moeten nadenken over excuses, schadevergoedingen en de invoering van een meldingsplicht. De Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik is met haar hoorzittingen intussen bij de bisschoppen aanbeland. De drie bisschoppen die aangesteld zijn als aanspreekpunt binnen de kerk beten daarbij de spits af. Zowel oud-bisschop van Gent Arthur Luysterman als de bisschoppen Guy Harpigny (Doornik) en Johan Bonny (Antwerpen) maakten hun opwachting. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:45 PM, December 14, 2010 • New Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits Filed Against Knights of Columbus PRNewswire, {with links to the lawsuit court documents}, Dec. 14, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn., /PRNewswire/ - The Miami law firm of Herman, Mermelstein & Horowitz announces the filing of two new child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus, one of the world's largest organizations for Catholic men. The Knights of Columbus operate a youth program, known as the Columbian Squires, for Catholic boys between the ages of 10-18. Two former Columbian Squires alleged today that they were sexually abused by the adult leader of their Columbian Squires group in Brownsville, Texas. This is believed to be the first time the Knights of Columbus have ever been sued for child sexual abuse allegations. The suits allege that the two boys were sexually abused on multiple occasions by Julian Rivera, the leader of the Columbian Squires in Brownsville, Texas. One victim claims that Rivera sexually abused him at gunpoint, and also threatened to kill his family if he did not comply with Rivera's demands. Both Plaintiffs allege that Rivera provided them with alcohol and pornography to "groom" them before the physical contact began. One suit alleges that Rivera "shared" his young victim with another Columbian Squires leader, who also sexually abused him. According to the Complaints, Rivera was a leader in the Columbian Squires youth program until very recently, despite a 1986 report to two different Knights of Columbus officials that Rivera sexually abused a member of his Squires group. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:00 PM, December 14, 2010 • Lawsuits filed against Knights of Columbus NEW HAVEN (CT) - New Haven Register, These are copies of lawsuits provided by the law firm of Herman, Mermelstein & Horowitz, P.A. of Miami, Fla., against the Knights of Columbus. The law firm claims two new child sex abuse lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus are by men who allege they "were sexually abused by a leader of their Columbian Squires group." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:58 PM, December 14, 2010 • Knights of Columbus sued; charge is child sex abuse NEW HAVEN (CT) - New Haven Register {Click here to read copies of the lawsuits} NEW HAVEN - A nationally-recognized attorney for survivors of sexual abuse, Jeffrey Herman, will announce the filing of two new child sex abuse lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus this morning at the Knights' headquarters in New Haven. The Knights is one of the world's largest and most-recognized organizations for Catholic men. The lawsuits allege that two boys were sexually abused by the leader of their Columbian Squires group

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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:51 PM • 2 Sue Knights Of Columbus Over Abuse Allegations NEW HAVEN (CT) CT Now {with video} By EDMUND H. MAHONY, [email protected] The Hartford Courant 11:18 a.m. EST, December 14, 2010 Two men are suing the Knights of Columbus, claiming they were sexually abused during 1970s and '80s by a Texas man who was a leader in the Roman Catholic fraternal organization's youth group for boys, the Columbian Squires. Both suits claim the Knight's national organization, headquartered in New Haven, knew that its youth group was a target of pedophiles but failed to act on the knowledge and concealed at least two complaints about alleged abusive behavior by the Texas youth group leader, identified as Juan Rivera. One of the men, who is suing anonymously, claims Rivera "shared" him with other youth counselors at meetings of Columbian Squires groups. The victim, who now lives in Kansas, also claims that the national Knight's organization tried to trick him into signing a waiver a year ago that would have barred him from suing for damages over the alleged abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:42 PM • Papal emissary will meet sex abuse victims IRELAND The Mayo News The Apostolic Visitation to Ireland to assist the Irish Church in a healing process following the crisis caused by the sexual abuse of children by some priests and religious centres on the 56-parish Archdiocese of Tuam this week. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Canada, who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Archdiocese, said he was available to meet with those who have been harmed by abuse in the Tuam archdiocese who may wish to speak to him about their experience. "My hope is to share with them the sorrow of a contrite church and the pastoral care which Pope Benedict and the church hold out to them. As well I will be in touch with officials in Tuam to evaluate how well the Guidelines for Safeguarding Children have been implemented and are working," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:36 PM • The Legionaries of Christ remove references to Marcial Maciel [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. No longer "Our Father." US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Rome Reports, {with video} December 14, 2010 ROME - From now on the Legionaries of Christ will not refer to Marcial Maciel as "Our Father." He will be called 'the founder of the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi' or more simply as 'Father Maciel'. Along with this the Legion will no longer place photos in their homes of Marcial Maciel, displaying him alone or with a pope. They also plan to stop selling his personal writings and lectures in their publishing houses and centers of the Order. It is part of a decree signed by Father Alvaro Corcuera, director general of the Legionaries of Christ. Significant dates in the life of Maciel such as his birth or baptism will not be observed. Although, the day of his death on January 30, will be devoted to prayer. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:33 PM • Legionaries forbid display of founder's photo [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 141 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] National Catholic Reporter (USA), By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service Dec. 14, 2010 ROME - With the authorization of a papal delegate, the Legionaries of Christ have formalized in a new decree a number of reforms regarding the depiction of the order's founder, the late-Father Marcial Maciel Degollado. "The decree formalizes in broad strokes what has for the most part already been general practice," said a statement posted Dec. 11 on the Legionaries of Christ website. Legionaries Father Alvaro Corcuera, director general of the order and of the order's lay association, Regnum Christi, issued the norms following authorization by Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the papal delegate in charge of governing the Legionaries and helping reform the order. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:29 PM • Knights of Columbus sued over sexual abuse claims Monterey County Herald The Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Two men have sued the Knights of Columbus alleging they were sexually abused decades ago by a leader of the Catholic fraternal organization's youth program. Jeffrey Herman, attorney for the men, said he believes the lawsuits are the first against the Knights of Columbus, the largest lay Catholic organization in the world, to allege sexual abuse of children. The lawsuits allege Juan "Julian" Rivera, a former leader of the Columbian Squires in Brownsville, Texas, abused the men in the 1970s and '80s when they were boys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:25 PM • Standing Silent UNITED STATES 2011 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival About The Film An insular Orthodox neighborhood in is scandalized after a journalist uncovers generations of child molestation at the hands of prominent . Unrelenting in his pursuit despite terrible personal repercussions, Baltimore Jewish Times reporter Phil Jacobs is determined to break the silence of victims and expose the predators, trusted and powerful religious leaders. Expecting community support and action, Jacobs is stunned to find himself ostracized by those who would cover up decades of abuse lest they bring shame to the rabbinate and themselves. Through a multiyear investigation, Jacobs confronts not only the Orthodox establishment, but demons from his own past. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:22 PM • MEDIA ALERT: Two New Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits Filed Against Knights of Columbus NEW HAVEN (CT) Herman, Mermelstein & Horowitz Lawsuits allege abuse of two boys in Knights' youth program, Columbian Squires First Time Knights Have Been Publicly Sued for Child Sexual Abuse WHAT A sidewalk news conference to announce the filing of two new child sex abuse lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus by men who claim they were sexually abused by a leader of their Columbian Squires group WHEN TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM WHERE Public park near Knights of Columbus' National Headquarters, located at 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, Connecticut (at the corner of Church and George Streets). DETAILS A nationally-recognized attorney for survivors of sexual abuse, JEFFREY HERMAN, will announce the filing of two new child sex abuse lawsuits against the KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS one of the world's largest and most-recognized organizations for Catholic men. The lawsuits allege that two boys were sexually abused by the leader of their COLUMBIAN SQUIRES group during the 1970s and 1980s. The Columbian Squires are the official youth organization of the Knights of Columbus, open to boys between the ages of 10 and 18. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:10 AM • For 5th time, serial predator priest gets a delay; SNAP responds MISSOURI Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) Ever wonder why more victims of child sex crimes don't call law enforcement? This is one reason: because our justice system often gives interminable delays to alleged criminals, especially in child molestation cases. 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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:04 AM • Predator priest case goes to TN Supreme Court TENNESSEE Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]) It's sad to see a religious figure trying to exploit every legal technicality to stop a child sex abuse victim from having his day in court. We hope this court will follow the lead of so many other courts across the country which have been making it easier, not harder, for child sex victims to expose predators in court. If Bishop Steib thinks this accused child molesting cleric is innocent, why not defend the case on its merits, rather than hide behind archaic, predator-friendly notions like the statute of limitations? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:58 AM • Child sex victim settles case vs. ex-Boston big shot Jesuit UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) (On Sunday, the Newark Star Ledger disclosed that a six figure settlement was paid in 2008 by Catholic officials to a man who was molested by a priest who worked in Boston as recently as 2007. The cleric, who now holds a prominent post with the church in Rome, hasn't ever been publicly accused before.) Two years ago, New Jersey Catholic officials secretly paid a six-figure settlement to a man who he molested as a boy by a Catholic employee. Later, that employee became a priest. And today, despite the child sex allegation against him and the settlement, that priest is a prominent Jesuit priest who continues to work for the church in Rome. We call on officials at and the Boston archdiocese to use their vast resources to aggressively seek out others who may have been hurt by this predator in Massachusetts. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:54 AM • Idaho predator priest ousted; Sex abuse victims respond IDAHO Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (312-399-4747, [email protected]) Gould was first suspended for sexual misconduct in 1989 (though church officials kept that secret until just months ago). He was suspended again for the same reason in 2005. Now, supposedly, he's ousted for good. We hope so. Over a 45 year career, one wonders how many other sexual crimes and misdeeds Gould may have committed. This predator still walks free, however. So it's crucial that people with information about his crimes contact law enforcement. Victims, witnesses and whistleblowers have a moral and civic duty to do anything they can that might help protect innocent children. Boise Catholic officials also have an added duty here. They recruited, educated, ordained, hired, trained, supervised, transferred and repeatedly protected this sexually troubled man. They can't now suddenly distance themselves and claim they have no responsibility to safeguard others from his predatory behavior. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:44 AM, December 14, 2010 • Megachurch Leaders Linked To Controversial Mortgage Venture [2000s "Bishop" Eddie Long* (married, 4 children). "New Birth Missionary Baptist" megachurch. Anti-homosexual negro leader. (Rev Martin L. King Jr's daughter is a pastor at Atlanta.) 4 youths.] [Matrix Capital. Pay $1500 to cheapen mortgage -> evictions.] CBS Atlanta, {with video}, Controversial Mortgage Venture, Wendy Saltzman, CBS Atlanta Investigates, ~ December 14, 2010 ATLANTA (GA) - CBS Atlanta News has found Bishop Eddie Long and another local megachurch http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 143 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM leader, Gary Hawkins, are linked to a questionable mortgage venture that is being investigated by the feds. CBS Atlanta was the first to report on Matrix Capital's long list of victims. The company promised to lower people's mortgages for $1,500 upfront. Police say thousands of homeowners paid Matrix money, but according to investigators, most of them ended up in bankruptcy and losing their homes. So many people trusted Matrix Capital front man Fred Lee because he made promises of lowering people's mortgages in the sanctity of their local church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:30 AM • Too Painful to Remember, or to Forget [BOOK] The New York Times, By DAVID GONZALEZ, Dec 14, 2010 UNITED STATES - One by one, the stories stun and stagger. Children barely young enough for school, raped by the priests who befriended them. Teenagers, invited to sleepovers at the rectory. Seminarians, manipulated and seduced by their confessors. Their stories are at the heart of "Crosses – Portraits of Clergy Abuse," a book by Carmine Galasso, who traveled throughout the United States to document the devastated lives of men and women who were betrayed by the very Roman Catholic priests and nuns they had once admired and trusted. Mr. Galasso, 59, a photographer for The Record in New Jersey, was casting about for a personal project almost 10 years ago. He was drawn to the reports of abuse that were then coming to light in Boston. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:57 AM, December 14, 2010 • The Irish John the Baptist tells it straight America Magazine, Author: Austen Ivereigh, Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2010 IRELAND - On Sunday the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmiud Martin, made a profound apology to the former parish of a priest jailed last week for sexually abusing three boys (the priest had long since been laicised after serving a previous conviction for abusing six others). THe archbishop, who has waged an at times lonely campaign to put the Dublin church in sackloth and ashes, deplored the arrogance and self- centredness of a Church that stood so far apart from society that it couldn't hear the cry of victims. The homily was especially moving because Archbishop Martin had once been a parishioner at Ballyfermot, at a time when "I was exactly at the age of many of the children who were abused by Tony Walsh and sadly by a number of other priests who worked in this parish over the years. I apologize unreservedly." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM, December 14, 2010 • Zwartboek 'de KERKSTAAT'! Mea Culpa United Blog, ~ December 14, 2010 NEDERLAND - Wij stellen voor dat de bisschoppen en KNR niet met een globaal bedrag komen om overlevers schadeloos te stellen. Alleen in zware, levensomstandigheden waarin mensen niet langer op steun of hulp kunnen wachten, moet gelijk een bedrag voor worden uitgekeerd. De commissie Deetman heeft veldwerk verricht en ook wij, en andere lotgenoten organisaties kunnen snel uit het archief mensen voorstellen die voor deze hulp in aanmerking komen. Wij, MCU, zetten een streep onder het verleden, niet langer staan wij te wachten op commissies die vervolgens met zeer afstandelijke, tendentieuze adviezen komen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM, December 14, 2010 • Market bumps raise concerns about church pensions [Christian sects] The Christian Century by G. Jeffrey MacDonald Dec 13, 2010 UNITED STATES - (RNS) Religious denominations have long provided retired clergy and staff with secure pension payments - more secure, in some cases, than corporate retirement plans. But some recent bumps have drawn attention to the vulnerabilities of so-called "church plans," which are exempt from federal regulations aimed at safeguarding retirement funds for private-sector retirees. ... -- In October, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington (Del.) said it had just $8.5 million available to pay $52 million in pension liabilities. The diocese, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because of the clergy sexual abuse scandal, is assuring pensioners it will meet its obligations. -- In August, the Archdiocese of Boston informed employees their pension plan -- funded at just 79 percent -- is "unsustainable." The archdiocese will keep paying its obligations, according to spokesman Terrence Donilon, but a new market-based plan involving 401(k) or 403b accounts will take effect Jan. 1, 2012, funded through individual and employer contributions. -- About 12,000 Lutherans are seeing their pension payments shrink by 6 to 9 percent annually from 2010 through 2012. The defined benefit program of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was only 61 http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 144 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM percent funded in February 2009, and has been closed to new participants since Jan. 1. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:21 AM, December 14, 2010 • Man sues Presbyterian Church over sexual abuse LOUISVILLE (KY) San Francisco Chronicle (12-13) 14:59 PST Louisville, Ky. (AP) -- A California man contends in a lawsuit filed in Louisville that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) should be held accountable for not protecting children of missionaries from sexual abuse. Lawyers for Sean Coppedge say he is seeking damages for emotional distress, lost wages, counseling costs and other injuries in the lawsuit filed Monday in Jefferson Circuit Court. The church issued a report in October documenting sexual or physical abuse involving its overseas missions between 1950 and 1990. Most of the victims were identified as children of missionaries in Africa and Asia. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:19 AM • Idaho law protects clergy from divulging confidential information [LDS (Mormon)] KTVB {with video}, by Ty Brennan BOISE (ID) - Several months after a former Boise Police officer turned himself in for crimes against children, prosecutors have decided that members of his church, who knew about the crimes but didn't come forward, will not face charges. Stephen Young was sentenced in September to 25 years in prison for one count of sexual battery with a child. After the crimes had been committed Young confessed to 15 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But, because of a little known Idaho law, they will not face charges. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 AM • Sex abuse claim filed against Presbyterian Church USA [Presbyterians.] WAVE, Posted by Charles Gazaway, LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A California man is suing Louisville-based Presbyterian Church USA claiming it should be held accountable for not protecting children of missionaries from sex abuse. Sean Coppedge says he was molested by an older teenager when his parents were missionaries in the Congo in 1988. Coppedge says he reported it, but little was done. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:13 AM • Two years for Lynn pastor [1980s for 2½yrs, Pastor Malcolm Hoare* (68). Christian. 2yrs prison. Female teen.] Lynn News, Published on Tuesday 14th December 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - "I REALLY thought there would be a sorry from all of this." These are the words from the woman who was indecently assaulted by a pastor when she was just a teenager, almost 30 years ago. The churchman she trusted, Malcolm Hoare, 68, of Whitefriars Road, Lynn, was sent to prison for two years at Norwich Crown Court on Friday. He was found guilty of five offences of indecent assault over a two-and-a-half-year period. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 AM • Bishop removed for disgraceful conduct [Ex-Bishop Ross Davies. Anglican (Church of England / Episcopalian communion)] Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, by Jane Still 14/Dec/2010 AUSTRALIA - The former Bishop of the Diocese of the Murray is no longer "a priest in good standing in the Anglican Church," after a tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia handed down a judgement finding him guilty of disgraceful conduct charges. The Special Tribunal, which has power to hear grievances over bishops' conduct, found that the charges made against Mr Ross Davies were proven on the balance of probabilities. The charges included a complaint that he subverted the Professional Standards processes in the Diocese by failing to follow up on recommendations over allegations against a senior cleric in the Diocese of sexual abuse. The tribunal found that Mr Davies displayed a lack of commitment to the Anglican Church and acted at times in an abusive manner "inconsistent with his pastoral role as a Bishop of the Diocese". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 AM

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• Police: Defrocked priest has thousands of child porn images [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] The Modesto Bee By Sue Nowicki, [email protected] IRELAND / CALIFORNIA - Notorious defrocked pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady was arrested at his hostel in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday and charged with possession of thousands of images of child pornography. According to published reports, O'Grady posted bail of about $750 – about the amount of his monthly annuity provided by the Stockton Diocese – and will return to court on Friday. Meanwhile, a hearing in a civil lawsuit filed in 2008 will be held in Modesto on Tuesday to determine whether the action can proceed even though the statute of limitations for filing such claims has ended. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 AM • TN Supreme Court will Hear Sexual Abuse Lawsuit My Fox Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The state's highest court will hear the lawsuit from a Memphis minister who sued the Diocese of Memphis. Norman Redwing filed the suit against the diocese claiming he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest during the 1970's. Earlier this year, that same suit was thrown out, but today the Tennessee Supreme Court agreed to hear the more than 29-year old case. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 AM • Attorneys say Perlitz victim of "abusive" relationship with priest [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] CT Post, Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer Published: 01:01 a.m., Tuesday, December 14, 2010 {Court document} CONNECTICUT - Douglas Perlitz's descent into sexually abusing homeless Haitian street boys he set out to help is linked to "a dark and abusive relationship," both "physical and spiritual," that he developed with a Fairfield University priest shortly after his arrival on campus in 1988, according to a document filed by his lawyers. Nowhere in any of the documents is the priest identified by name. The attorneys claim this relationship, along with Perlitz's struggles with homosexuality, the stress of living up to the iconic standards expected of him, the sudden death of his father and a battle with alcoholism all played a role in what happened with at least eight male teenagers on the campus of Project Pierre Toussaint in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second largest city. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 AM • Defrocked Irish priest charged with possession of child pornography [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] Irish Central, IRELAND - The defrocked cleric, Oliver O'Grady, was charged with the possession of thousands of pornographic images of children at the Dublin District Court on Friday last. Some of the children are as young as two-years-old. Despite police objections he was granted bail by Judge James McDonnell. The court heard that the 65- year-old former priest was arrested at a Dublin hostel on Friday morning. The police confiscated images and videos on a USB key, external hard drive and a laptop. Detective Johanna Doyle said "We are talking about thousands upon thousands of images of child pornography. Children from the age of two and three up to teenage boys and girls." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:51 AM, Dec 14, 2010] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Tue December 14, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Wed December 15, 2010 edition: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 146 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Legion of Christ delegate calls members to follow God's will for renewal [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Catholic News Agency, 03:56 pm, Dec 15, 2010 ROME, Italy, / (CNA).- The papal delegate for the Legion of Christ, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, is exhorting members of the order to embrace the will of God as their renewal process moves forward. In a letter dated Dec. 10, Cardinal De Paolis explained that the work of revising the Legion's constitution "demands interior freedom and discernment, so that we can follow the will of God. Our own ideas are not what should prevail or what will ensure success," he said. This process entails "heeding the will of God, in the school of the Church, in order to correctly re-read the history of the institute and of each one's vocation." The cardinal said that in doing so, the "best choices" will be made "according to God's design." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 PM, Dec 15, 2010] • PENNSYLVANIA: Standing Committee Turns Up Heat to Get Rid of Bishop Charles Bennison [Bennison. Episcopalian Church (Church of England / ).] Virtue Online, By David W. Virtue, www.virtueonline.org , December 14, 2010 PENNSYLVANIA - Despite repeated calls for returning Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison to resign, the disgraced bishop has steadfastly refused to heed calls for him to step down. On December 8, eight members of the Standing Committee drove to New York City to meet with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, her chancellor David Booth Beers, and Bishop Clayton Matthews, officer for Pastoral Development. According to a memo VOL received, the meeting was arranged at their request "to offer support and leadership for the diocese." TRANSLATION. We want your help to get rid of Bennison. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:07 PM • Alleged sex incident priests 'should lose ' [1984 Very Rev. Graeme Lawrence, and Rev. Graeme Sturt. Anglican. Teen males, in company.] &nb ABC News, By Giselle Wakatama, Updated December 16, 2010 AUSTRALIA - The Anglican Bishop of Newcastle has been urged to strip two priests of their holy orders, including one who has served in the upper echelons of the church. The Newcastle Diocese Professional Standards Board is holding hearings focussing on an alleged sex incident in a motel room at Narrandera, in southern New South Wales, in 1984. The Board found the former Dean of Newcastle, Graeme Lawrence, was involved in sex acts with a 19-year-old man. The Board found another priest, Reverend Graeme Leslie Sturt watched on, before making advances to a 17-year-old boy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:57 PM • Calif. diocese settles 2 more O'Grady abuse cases [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] Washington Post, The Associated Press, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 STOCKTON, Calif. -- The Roman Catholic diocese in Stockton, Calif., has settled two more lawsuits involving a defrocked priest who spoke openly in a 2006 documentary about molesting children. The diocese released a statement to the Modesto Bee on Tuesday confirming that it had agreed last June to pay $2 million to a brother and sister. The pair alleged Oliver O'Grady molested them in the early 1980s while they attended the Church of the Presentation and its school. The Bee reports that the diocese has now paid out almost $21 million to O'Grady's victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:54 PM • Cables of Confusion from the Heart of the Vatican [RCC] Spiegel, By Ulrich Schwarz GERMANY -- US diplomats seem bemused with the hierarchical structures and the lack of sophistication within the Vatican. Not only do most Catholic Church leaders lack an e-mail account, only a few "are aware of imminent decisions." A month after the German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in the , on April 19, http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 147 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

2005, the US Embassy to the Vatican sent a cable to the State Department in Washington providing its first readings on what the United States and the world at large should expect from the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI had been one of the closest associates of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. According to America's local Vatican watchers, it was "unthinkable" that he would at all deviate from the former's strict stances regarding ethical issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, contraception, cloning or homosexuality. The profile drawn up by the embassy noted that the new pope had no political experience and that, owing to his age, he couldn't afford the luxury of acquiring it. But US diplomats in the Vatican could not complain about being underemployed. During the last 10 years, they've sent a total of 729 cables back to the State Department. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:51 PM • Disgraceful diocesan dirty deeds; Readers sound off on JFK, Christmas joy [RCC seeking lawyers' fees from suspected victim.] Renew America, By Matt C. Abbott, MINNESOTA - It's rare – very rare – that I actually agree with a secular newspaper's editorial regarding some aspect of the Church. But I do in this case. From a Dec. 10 editorial in the Winona Daily News (excerpted; click here to read the full piece): How much publicity could you buy with $134,000? Probably a whole lot less than the Diocese of Winona and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis got for free last week. The two dioceses decided to seek attorneys fees from a man who apparently was molested by a priest, Thomas Adamson. Let's review: Adamson is no stranger to the Diocese of Winona. The diocese had to pay more than a million dollars because he had committed sexual abuses while working as a priest for the diocese. He scurried to the archdiocese where the abuse continued. A victim decided to sue the diocese two years ago. He won in trial, but an appeals court later said the statute of limitations prevented him from winning a judgment, handing both dioceses a technical victory. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:45 PM • Time continues misrepresentation on Pope Benedict UNITED STATES Catholic Culture December 15, 2010 In an issue that names Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook as the "Person of the Year," Time magazine lists Pope Benedict among other important newsmakers, with a short piece that contains several glaring errors. In reference to the Pope's much-discussed statement on condom use in Light of the World, the Time article by Kayla Webley reports that the Pontiff "said only that a male prostitute may choose to use a condom to prevent the spread of the HIV infection." That's not quite what the Holy Father said. But the next paragraph of the Time piece is spectacularly misleading. Time reports: It seems 30 years ago, during a brief tenure in Munich, the Pope, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, had transferred a known abusive priest to his own archdiocese, ostensibly for therapy. But just days after his arrival, the priest was allowed to serve among the flock and subsequent sexual assaults occurred. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:30 PM • Bisschoppen: "We hebben ernst van de situatie niet beseft" De Morgen, BELGIE - De bijzondere Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik had vandaag hoorzittingen met vijf bisschoppen op het programma staan. Verschillenden onder hen erkenden intussen dat de kerkelijke oversten de ernst van de situatie in het verleden onvoldoende beseft hebben. Wel benadrukten ze dat het bewustzijn ook in de brede samenleving pas na de zaak-Dutroux en bij de oprichting van de commissie- Adriaenssens echt vorm kreeg. "Ik denk niet dat we beseft hebben waar het fundamenteel over ging en welke verregaande gevolgen seksueel misbruik kan hebben", erkende bisschop , die bij het aftreden van Roger Vangheluwe in Brugge de fakkel overnam. Hij gaf bovendien toe dat "de onaantastbare positie van priesters in het verleden misbruik makkelijker heeft gemaakt, mogelijk heeft gemaakt en de condities ervoor heeft gecreëerd". Verschillende collega's van De Kesel lieten gelijkaardige geluiden horen, maar toch bleek op andere punten merkelijk minder bisschoppelijke overeenstemming. Zo bleek het uitkeren van schadevergoedingen http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 148 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM punten merkelijk minder bisschoppelijke overeenstemming. Zo bleek het uitkeren van schadevergoedingen een heikel punt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:27 PM • Ontario man files lawsuit claiming abuse by priest in Nova Scotia in 1950s [1950s] Global Lethbridge, ANTIGONISH, N.S., CANADA - An Ontario man has filed a lawsuit against Nova Scotia's Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, alleging one of its former priests sexually abused him as a child. The 69-year-old man alleges he was abused in the 1950s by Rev. Malcolm MacEachern, who was the priest of Mount Carmel parish in New Waterford, N.S., at the time. The plaintiff, who lives in Hamilton, alleges in the statement of claim that the abuse began around 1953. He says he was about 11 years old and an at the church at the time and he claims the abuse continued for about two years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:25 PM • Naamse bisschop ontving gisteren nog twee klachten rond seksueel misbruik De Morgen, BELGIE - De Naamse bisschop Remy Vancottem heeft gisteren twee klachten ontvangen over seksueel misbruik uit het verleden dat binnen zijn bisdom plaatsvond. Dat heeft hij gezegd in de bijzondere Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. Daar kwamen vandaag in totaal vijf bisschoppen getuigen over seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk. Elk van hen werd daarbij ook gevraagd naar de hen bekende gevallen in hun bisdom. De laatste in het rijtje bisschoppen vandaag was Remy Vancottem. Hij nam eerder dit jaar de fakkel over van André Léonard, toen die tot aartsbisschop benoemd werd. Vancottem sprak van acht dossiers over seksueel misbruik. Daarvan werden er hem vier overgemaakt door de intussen opgedoekte commissie- Adriaenssens. Drie van die vier namen waren toen al bekend bij het bisdom Namen. Daders op rust Gisteren kreeg Vancottem twee nieuwe brieven toegestuurd over miisbruik uit het verleden. Het gaat in beide gevallen om een melding door de familie van het slachtoffer, maar meer wilde de bisschop voorlopig niet kwijt. Wel benadrukte hij dat beide vermeende daders intussen al op rust zijn en geen contact meer hebben met kinderen "binnen een pastoraal kader". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:19 PM • Boston archdiocese to freeze lay workers' pensions The Boston Globe, BOSTON (MA) – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston says it will freeze pensions for about 10,000 church secretaries, parochial school teachers and other lay employees. The archdiocese, which has been struggling with financial problems, says the recent financial meltdown badly hurt its pension fund. Retirees' pensions will not be affected under the change, but workers who are already vested or become vested would see their benefits freeze on Dec. 31, 2011. They would be offered an alternative plan similar to a 401(k) investment plan. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:16 PM • Dodge City Bishop Ronald Gilmore retires early San Antonio Express-News, DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) – The Vatican has named a Catholic priest from the Wichita diocese to replace the bishop of Dodge City, who has announced plans to retire early. Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday announced that Rev. John B. Brungardt will become bishop of Dodge City, replacing Bishop Ronald Gilmore. The pope allowed Gilmore to retire at age 68 under church law that lets bishops retire early if they're sick or some other reason makes them unsuited for office. Normal retirement age for bishops is 75. The Dodge City Diocese did not answer phone calls Wednesday, but Gilmore said in a statement on the western Kansas diocese website that he considered being a bishop a "burden." 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Because of Walsh's impending trial, chapter 19 of the Murphy report was not permitted to be published before now. Walsh still has the right to appeal his sentence, however such an appeal would come before the Court of Criminal Appeal and would not involve a jury. Justice Paul Gilligan said this would mean there would be no prejudice to witnesses by reference to the person named in chapter 19, RTÉ reports. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:46 PM • Missouri sex assault case against former Jersey City priest is postponed again [Fr Gerald Howard, formerly Fr Carmine Sita. RCC. 1983-88 Sodomy of 3 boys.] The Jersey Journal Ron Zeitlinger / MISSOURI - The priest St. Aloysius Church parishioners knew as Father Carmine Sita, charged with sexually assaulting three boys in Missouri, had his hearing postponed yet again on Monday, a Missouri newspaper reported. Gerald Howard, who changed his name from Sita after pleading guilty and being sentenced to probation in 1983, is accused of sodomizing three boys from 1983 to 1988 while worked at a parish in Boonville, Mo. The pre-trial hearing has been postponed five times in the past six months, the Boonville Daily news reported. Cooper County Prosecutor Doug Abele told the paper that Howard's lawyers requested more time because he was collecting depositions from people all over the country. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:43 PM • Bisschop De Kesel: "Kerk moet taboes op seksualiteit laten varen" Gazet van Antwerpen BELGIE - De opvolger van Roger Vangheluwe in het bisdom van Brugge, bisschop Jozef De Kesel, pleitte tijdens de hoorzittingen in de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik voor een open houding van de Kerk tegenover seksualiteit en ook voor een meer collegiaal en minder autoritair bestuur van de Kerk. Bisschop Jozef De Kesel volgde Roger Vangheluwe op 10 juli 2010 op. Hij vond onmiddellijk al 11 klachten van kinderpsychiater Peter Adriaenssens op zijn bureau. In twee gevallen had de correctionele rechtbank zich er al over uitgesproken en daarvan was er één vrijspraak. "In totaal kon ik uit deze dossiers acht daders in mijn bisdom identificeren. Ik heb ze allemaal geconvoceerd en ook met de slachtoffers gesproken. Dokter Adriaenssens vroeg mij om die priesters op non-actief te zetten en dat deed ik ook". Zeven van deze klachten gingen naar het parket. "De achtste niet omdat er dertig jaar geleden al een minnelijke schikking was getroffen na een gerechtelijke tussenkomst. In dat geval ging het om één aanraking van één kind." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:40 PM • Two Women Given Grants By Fund Fighting Sex Discrimination In The Catholic Church UNITED STATES Lez Get Real 12/15/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Lynette Petruska is a former Roman Catholic nun and current St. Louis attorney, and last year she founded the Emily & Rosemary Fund. The aim of the fund is to support women "who lose employment in the Roman Catholic Church as a result of injustice or discrimination and to help women who are working to bring about justice and equality in the Church." Petruska has said that she experienced discrimination and injustice because she opposed sexual and sexual misconduct by priests at Gannon University in Erie, PA. She had been appointed there as the first female chaplain in 1999. She then filed suit against the university and the bishop of Erie. She ultimately failed in her suit because of Justice Antonin Scalia, but her fund is helping, and it has given out now the first of its awards. Last year when she founded the fund, Petruska stated "I was fortunate to have a profession to which I could return, but many women serving the church find themselves and their families at great risk when targeted by discriminatory practices or when they stand up to injustice." Two women have now been given the first $10,000 grands by the Voice of the Faithful's Emily & Rosemary Fund for Women in the Church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:37 PM • Person of the Year 2010 TIME People Who Matter, Pope Benedict UNITED STATES - Highs: While the Pope remains firm on his decree that ordaining women as priests is a grave crime (the same designation given to pedophilia), he was willing to loosen up – albeit ever so slightly – on another firmly-held edict. But while headlines around the world claimed Pope Benedict XVI

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 150 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM endorsed the use of condoms, what the Pope actually said was a bit different. He still strongly disapproves of condom use as contraception, and said only that a male prostitute may choose to use a condom to prevent the spread of the HIV infection. Lows: Accusations of sexual abuse first from Ireland and later mainland Europe smashed any remaining perception that predatory priests were an American anomaly and thrust the Vatican into its greatest crisis since the 2002 revelations of abuse in the U.S. The scandal brought the church's standing to a new low among believers in Europe and, in March when allegations surfaced in Germany, turned the spotlight on the Pontiff himself. It seems 30 years ago, during a brief tenure in Munich, the Pope, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, had transferred a known abusive priest to his own archdiocese, ostensibly for therapy. But just days after his arrival, the priest was allowed to serve among the flock and subsequent sexual assaults occurred. While Benedict has done a number of substantial things to deal with the crisis, including meeting with abuse victims and accepting the resignation of high-ranking clerics, he remains silent on his time in Germany. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:26 PM • In Plea for Leniency, Child Sex Abuser Says Relationship With Priest is Linked to His Pedophilia [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] , By Joshua Rhett Miller, Published December 15, 2010 CONNECTICUT - A Connecticut man who has confessed to sexually abusing several homeless boys in Haiti is claiming in his plea for leniency that a relationship he had with a priest while in college more than 20 years ago is linked to his pedophilia, according to a document filed by his attorneys. Douglas Perlitz, 40, pleaded guilty in August to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and he admitted to engaging in sexual acts with eight children as part of a plea deal. He could receive from eight to nearly 20 years in prison on Dec. 21 when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton. In an effort to get Perlitz a lesser sentence, his attorneys, David Grudberg and William Dow III, claim his relationship with an unidentified priest when he was a student at Fairfield University in Connecticut -- coupled with his sexual identity issues, the sudden death of his father and his struggles with alcoholism -- acted as "complex forces that led him to stray from his normally sound moral footing." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:21 AM • WikiLeaks upsets criminals at Vatican [RCC] OpEd News, By Bob Johnson UNITED STATES - Last week the Vatican's press office advised the public to read the diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks "with great prudence." They went on to advise that the content of the leaks are only the opinions of those who wrote them. In a vain effort to further distance themselves from the embarrassing contents of the leaks which reveal the Vatican, the Pope and high ranking Catholic Church bureaucrats care more about the shallow appearance of the Catholic Church and that they couldn't care less about their innocent victims. WikiLeaks reveals that the Catholic Church obstructed the Irish investigation into pedophile priests abusing Irish children between January 1975 and May of 2004. The Irish government's investigation concluded with the Murphy Report (PDF). The Guardian reported on Saturday that the Vatican was upset when the Irish government asked high ranking Catholic bureaucrats to come to Ireland and testify. The pompous clergymen were not at all concerned about the innocent children who fell victim to the sexual perversions of the Catholic priests. Instead, they were concerned that the Irish government "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations." The callousness of these self-righteous "holy" men is stomach turning! How can they even think of anything other than the welfare of the abused and hurting children??? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:55 AM • Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Gets Company Formed for His Proposed Cathedral Suspended by Franchise Tax Board [Huge cathedral is halted. RCC.] Orange County Weekly, By Gustavo Arellano, Wed., Dec. 15 2010 ORANGE COUNTY (CA) - Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown must be loving his holidays. Despite getting exposed as a pedophile apologist again and again, he's still the head of the second-largest Catholic diocese west of the Mississippi. Despite the building downturn, he's still pushing forward with plans to build his vanity project: Christ Our Savior Cathedral, just up the street from South Coast Plaza. He's

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 151 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM still desperately trying to raise funds for that, going so far as to...well, I'll save that for another post. The purpose of this one? To remind donors to the building of the cathedral that the charity fund created for that purpose was suspended by the California Franchise Tax Board back in May. Documents obtained by the Weekly show that on May 3 of this year, Christ Our Savior Cathedral Fund, Inc. - the corporation formed by His to assure donors that their money wouldn't go to settlements for those whiny sex-abuse victims - was suspended by the California agency in charge of collecting state taxes from individuals and corporations. Brown's company is classified as religious, meaning it's a non- profit and thus exempt from paying taxes - but they still have to turn in documents reporting who donates to them and how much. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:50 AM • Wichita priest John B. Brungardt appointed sixth bishop of the Dodge City diocese DODGE CITY (KS) Roman Catholic of Dodge City {press conference at 11 a.m.} Pope Benedict XVI announced today the appointment of the Reverend John B. Brungardt of Wichita as the sixth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, KS. Bishop-elect Brungardt is currently administrator of St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in St. Mark, KS., and Chancellor of the Catholic Diocese of Wichita. He will succeed Bishop Ronald M. Gilmore, who has served the Dodge City diocese since July, 1998. Bishop Gilmore plans to retire. "I am humbled by Pope Benedict XVI's appointment of me as the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. With trust in God, I hope to be a good shepherd to the people of southwest Kansas, from Odin to Elkhart, from Tribune to Kiowa," Bishop-elect Brungardt said this morning in a press conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City. "Building on the foundation of Bishop Gilmore and his predecessors, the priests, religious, and laity, I hope to carry on the mission of spreading the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to the people of the diocese." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:19 AM • OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS Vatican Information Service, 15 DEC 2010 VATICAN CITY (VIS) The Holy Father: ... Appointed Fr. John B. Brungardt of the clergy of the diocese of Wichita, U.S.A., chancellor and pastor of St. Mark parish, as bishop of Dodge City (area 59,547, population 229,000, Catholics 62,300, priests 44, permanent deacons 9, religious 81), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Salina, U.S.A. in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1998. He succeeds Bishop Ronald M. Gilmore, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:16 AM • The Legionaries of Christ are being rebranded: but Fr Maciel is still to be their private [...] [1940s- 90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] The Catholic Herald, By William Oddie on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - An update on the reform of the Legionaries of Christ has now been issued by Zenit, and it poses a number of questions. My readers may remember that some weeks ago I asked the question: what, after everything that has happened, is the point of the continued existence of the Legion? I suppose a better question would be, not what is the point of its existence (after all, I think we can accept the good the Legionaries themselves have done and continue to do), but what is the possibility of its continued existence? If the whole charism of a body is based on a particular individual's supposed sanctity, how – without going through a process of very radical change – does it continue after that individual is shown to be not holy at all but a very bad man indeed? Suppose St Francis were shown beyond peradventure to have been corrupt and vicious; how would you carry on being a Franciscan? It's a real question. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:13 AM • What is chapter 19? IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent The High Court has said the 29-page chapter 19 of the Murphy report can be published. Here's what it is expected to contain:

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Most of the report was published on November 26th last year. It detailed findings of the Murphy Commission following its investigation of the handling by Catholic Church and State authorities of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese, made between 1975 and 2004 and involving a sample of 46 priests. Two chapters, 19 and 20, were withheld, as court proceedings were pending against two men who were the subject of each. That remains the case where chapter 20 is concerned. With the jailing of Tony Walsh last Monday, however, the way now seems clear for publication of chapter 19, and of 21 other references to Walsh in the Murphy report. "David" has spoken to the commission about his abuse by Walsh. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:11 AM • Judge critical of church over paedophile AUSTRALIA - ABC News A judge says he cannot understand why the Anglican Church reinstated a paedophile priest after he was convicted in the 1970s. Wilfred Edwin Dennis, 75, is awaiting sentencing on his third set of child sex offences, and is currently serving a jail term that would have been due for parole in April next year. Dennis was first convicted in the 1970s for indecently assaulting altar boys, but was reinstated by the church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:53 AM • More Catholic parishes in Detroit to be shuttered The Detroit News Oralandar Brand-Williams / DETROIT (MI) – Another round of parish closings is in the works, and the effort may overlap with Mayor Dave Bing's proposed plan to shrink the city. For the past few months, Archdiocese of Detroit officials have met with city officials and population experts on whether to align closings with neighborhoods affected by Bing's Detroit Works Project. That plan, which is expected to emerge late next year, is expected to offer residents incentives to move to seven to nine neighborhoods from underpopulated ones. Fourteen parishes in Detroit have closed since 2005, and archdiocese officials said they're concerned many of the 55 remaining ones are plagued by plunging memberships and revenues. The archdiocese will recommend parish closures to Archbishop by July. "We've seen parishes that are struggling to maintain crumbling buildings," said Lory McGlinnen, director of the Department of Parish Life and Services for the archdiocese. "Often, parishioners are the last to know what kind of financial predicament (parishes) are in. It's very hurtful." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:50 AM • Justice not served CANADA - The Chronicle Editorial and Opinion By CATHY PELLETIER Mike Blum's dream of seeing justice served this week dissipated into one final nightmare. After four decades of suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder due to being abused as an altar boy at the hands of Donald Grecco, Blum was no doubt devastated to learn the former priest received a ludicrously lenient sentence: 18 months in jail and two years of probation. When you consider the courage it took for Blum and two former altar boys to come forward and reveal the atrocities that have decimated their lives so others wouldn't suffer the same fate, it's an outrage. A few months ago, The Chronicle sat with Mike and his wife at their Dunnville home, fighting tears the whole time he poured out his painful story. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:46 AM • Murphy Report chapter can be published IRELAND RTE News The High Court has ordered that a chapter of the Dublin archdiocese abuse report relating to former priest Tony Walsh can be published. The High Court has ordered that a chapter of the Dublin archdiocese abuse report relating to former priest Tony Walsh can be published. Mr Justice Paul Gilligan said that Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report can now be published following the conviction and jailing of Walsh last week on 17 counts of sexual abuse. Although Walsh has a right of appeal, that case would be before the Court of Criminal Appeal which does not involve a jury and therefore there would be no prejudice to witnesses by reference to the person named

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 153 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM in chapter 19, the judge said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:43 AM • Speaking Volumes About 'Hush' Of Sexual Abuse UNITED STATES The Jewish Week Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Hella Winston Special To The Jewish Week Early on in the deeply affecting new novel "Hush," (Walker Books) the book's narrator, a chasidic young woman named Gittel, finds herself sitting across from a social worker in the 66th Precinct in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Urged on by her only non-Jewish friend, a neighbor named Kathy, Gittel is there to give information about an act of sexual abuse she witnessed as a child – the rape of her best friend by the friend's brother. While Kathy has assured Gittel that God wants her to speak up and tell the truth after all these years, Gittel is plagued by doubt and guilt. "But Hashem did not want me to go. He had stated clearly in the Torah that it was a violation of the divine, a transgression of the commandments, to speak evil of other Jews. I was only here because of that, despite him." Gittel was unable to tell even her own parents of her plans to go to the police; they, too, had long known about the abuse, but they had chosen to keep silent. "I did not want to hurt them, to break them down, because it wasn't their fault, only Hashem's, how He allowed children to suffer." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:41 AM • Reorganisatie meldpunt misbruik voor juli klaar NEDERLAND Trouw De bisschoppenconferentie en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) willen voor 1 juli volgend jaar een nieuwe manier van hulpverlening en klachtafhandeling voor slachtoffers van misbruik binnen de kerk. Dat zeiden ze dinsdag in reactie op het advies van de commissie-Deetman die het misbruik onderzoekt. Het bestuur van Hulp & Recht blijft voorlopig in functie, terwijl het meldpunt wordt gereorganiseerd. Op 1 juli volgend jaar moeten de verbeteringen zijn doorgevoerd. De bisschoppen en het bestuur van KNR nemen de aanbevelingen van de commissie 'serieus ter harte'. Ze erkennen dat fundamentele verbeteringen nodig zijn in de werkwijze van de instelling van de kerk die de klachten afhandelt, stichting Hulp & Recht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:29 AM • Nieuw wrakingsverzoek tegen Wim De Troy Hbvl BELGIE - Volgende week dinsdag spreekt het Brusselse Hof van Beroep zich uit over de vraag of onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy moet stoppen met zijn onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik in de Kerk. Maar ondertussen is er al een tweede verzoek ingediend om De Troy te wraken, namelijk door slachtoffer Jan Hertogen. Dat werd vandaag nog niet behandeld. Vandaag ging het slechts over het verzoek van kardinaal Danneels. Meester Fernand Keuleneer, de advocaat van de kardinaal, wil De Troy wraken omdat het onderzoek volgens hem te partijdig wordt gevoerd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:27 AM • Hulp & Recht gaat op de schop RTV Utrecht, UTRECHT, NEDERLAND - Het bestuur van Hulp & Recht, het meldpunt van seksueel misbruik binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk, blijft voorlopig in functie. Wel wordt het meldpunt in Utrecht gereorganiseerd. De Nederlandse bisschoppen en de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) hebben dat dinsdag in Zeist bekendgemaakt. Op 1 juli volgend jaar moeten de verbeteringen zijn doorgevoerd en moet er een vernieuwde hulpverlening en klachtenafhandeling zijn voor slachtoffers. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:23 AM • Gambling nun accused of embezzling $850,000 NEW YORK Reuters (Reuters) - A Catholic nun with a reputation for gambling trips to Atlantic City was accused of embezzling more than $850,000 from a college where she oversaw the school's finances, officials said on Friday. Sister Marie Thornton, former vice president of finance at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, is

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The college of some 5,000 students has come under fire from alumni and donors for never reporting the missing money to authorities and only mentioning the theft in its 2009 tax filing sent in February to the Internal Revenue Service Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:21 AM • Brownsville Knights of Columbus Youth Leader Accused of Sexual Abuse, According to Federal Court Law BROWNSVILLE (TX) PR-USA WHAT A sidewalk news conference to announce the filing of two new lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus alleging sexual abuse in the Brownsville Circle of the Columbian Squires WHO One of the Plaintiffs, who will speak publicly for the first time about his allegations, and his attorney, a nationally-recognized attorney for survivors of sexual abuse WHEN WEDNESDAY, December 15, 2010 at 11:00AM WHERE Public sidewalk near Knights of Columbus Hall, 508 Old Port Isabel Rd., Brownsville (near intersection of Old Port Isabel Rd. and Columbus Dr.) DETAILS On Tuesday, nationally-recognized attorney JEFFREY HERMAN announced the filing of new lawsuits in Connecticut Federal Court by two men who allege they were sexually abused by the leader of their Brownsville, Texas, COLUMBIAN SQUIRES circle, JULIAN RIVERA. The men both allege that RIVERA sexually abused them multiple times during their involvement in the Columbian Squires, the youth program of the KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. Membership in the Squires is limited to Catholic boys ages 10-18. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:17 AM • Sitka Priest Leaves for Evaluation ALASKA Alaska Public Radio Network Tue, December 14, 2010 Posted in Alaska News Ed Ronco, KCAW – Sitka The priest removed from his post at St. Gregory Catholic Church in Sitka has left for evaluation at a location in the Lower 48. Father Edmund Penisten resigned the pastorship of St. Gregory shortly after he was suspended by Bishop Edward Burns, leader of the Juneau Diocese, which oversees the Sitka parish. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:08 AM • Most popular Flemish words of the year include 'tent slut' Telegraph (United Kingdom), By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels BELGIUM - The most popular Flemish word of the year is Tentsletje, or tent-slut, a word for a woman who has multiple sexual partners at a music festival, a popular summer pastime for young people in Flanders. The second most popular word chosen by a survey of 20,000 Flemish, or Belgian Dutch speakers, was "pedopriester" or paedo-priest in a year when the Belgian Roman Catholic Church was hit by child sex abuse scandals. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:05 AM • $10,000 Grants Awarded from Voice of the Faithful Emily & Rosemary Fund for Women in the Church UNITED STATES PRLog FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 14, 2010 – Lynette Petruska, formerly a Roman Catholic nun and now a St. Louis attorney, established the Emily & Rosemary Fund last year. The fund was established to support women who lose employment in the Roman Catholic Church as a result of injustice or discrimination and to help women who are working to bring about justice and equality in the Church. Petruska said she experienced injustice and discrimination after opposing and other sexual misconduct by priests at Gannon University, Erie, Penn., where she was appointed the first female chaplain in 1999. She filed a lawsuit against the university and Erie's bishop. "I was fortunate to have a profession to which I could return, but many women serving the church find themselves and their families at great risk when targeted by discriminatory practices or when they stand up to injustice," she said during a ceremony last year establishing the fund. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 155 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM to injustice," she said during a ceremony last year establishing the fund. In her grant application, Johnson said her position as a Graduate School of Religion assistant dean included helping to run and expand admissions and enrollment. After four months of sex discrimination and mistreatment, Johnson said, she filed a complaint with Fordham's equal employment opportunity office and was fired a week later. She will use the grant for legal fees and living expenses while she seeks another position. Expressing her gratitude to VOTF, Johnson said, "I am most grateful for the generous financial and moral support that Lynette Petruska and VOTF have extended to me and other women faced with the dilemma of risking their livelihoods by speaking the truth." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:02 AM • Irish government lagging in service to sex-abuse victims, doctor says IRELAND Catholic Culture An Irish doctor has complained that public services for children who are victims of sexual abuse are inadequate, citing inadequate funding for 24-hour counseling services. This complaint is directed against the government rather than the Catholic Church; it has received little publicity. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:00 AM • Dutch Bishops pledge firm action on abuse The Record (Australia) Wednesday, 15 December 2010 NETHERLANDS and OXFORD, England (CNS) - The Dutch Bishops' conference has pledged action after nearly 2,000 people complained of sexual abuse by Catholic priests during an inquiry by an independent commission. The complaints, dating to 1945, were received by a Church-appointed commission established by the Bishops to investigate abuse cases. "We're grateful to this commission for its prompt and professional recommendations, and we reiterate our condemnation of all forms of sexual abuse," said Pieter Kohnnen, spokesman for the Utrecht-based Bishops' conference. "When the Bishops asked for this investigation, they stressed that helping victims should have absolute priority, and that the research should be transparent and independent. This is very important if the Church is to avoid future abuse," he said of the findings by the commission headed by former education minister Wim Deetman, a Protestant. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:58 AM • Post Falls Predator Priest Ousted; Sex Abuse Victims Respond KHQ, BOISE, Idaho - A Catholic priest who served in Post Falls until this year has been sanctioned and stripped of his priestly duties. The Rev. William R. Gould had been placed on administrative leave while church officials investigated allegations of sexual misconduct with a teen boy while he was serving in Idaho Falls 29 years ago. Gould has denied the allegations. No criminal charges were ever filed, but a Vatican council reviewed an internal investigation submitted seven months ago. Its decision to sanction Gould was announced Monday after Pope Benedict XVI approved the decision. Gould had worked as a pastor and administrator of St. George's parish in Post Falls since 1990. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:55 AM • Sex abuse scandals have brought more training for leaders of youth groups NEW HAVEN (CT) New Haven Register By Ed Stannard, Register Metro Editor [email protected] The plague of child sexual abuse by clergy and volunteer leaders in the 1990s has brought in an era of vigilance to keep pedophiles away from vulnerable young people. As a result of the scandals, and the accompanying monetary settlements, religious groups, including the hardest-hit Roman Catholic Church, and youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America began to require background checks and training in sexual-abuse prevention. The Knights of Columbus, which was hit with two lawsuits Tuesday by men claiming they were abused by a youth leader, has had a written policy and guidelines since 2003 and conducts background checks on all volunteers, according to Patrick S. Korten, vice president for communications. 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Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] OpEd News, By Ezili Dantò, CONNECTICUT / HAITI - In the latest development, the defense team for convicted pedophile, Douglas Perlitz, is attempting to lessen the sentence by claiming, according to the court document , that Mr. Perlitz's ten year abuse of street boys in Haiti he raised monies to school and shelter was due to his struggles with homosexuality and the fact he was a victim of "a dark and abusive relationship," he developed with a Jesuit priest at Fairfield University shortly after his arrival on campus in 1988. (Defendant Perlitz motion to reduce sentence ; Attorneys say Perlitz victim of "abusive" relationship with priest ; Defense Claims Fairfield Priest Abused Perlitz ; Fr. Paul Carrier, S.J. Near The End Of The Line.) One can imagine how the children of Haiti must have suffered at the hands of these two predators in Haiti. Most Haitians know that sexual abusive by foreign tourist, charity workers and priest in Haiti is a pandemic. HLLN sources report that out of every 10 Haitian families, more than half, educated in Haiti, have been molested by a priest, a missionary or charity worker. This generation of Haitians must put a stop to this vile abuse and it begins right here on December 21, 2010 at the sentencing of pedophile, Douglas Perlitz. Recall that a year ago, referring to the Douglas case, HLLN wrote in the article entitled "The Collar of Impunity: Sexual abuse of Haiti children by Priests, Charity Workers," that: "A recent report about sexual abuse of children maintains that for 60 years Catholic priests systematically raped 36,000 Irish children. In another recent related revelation the headlines announced: "Abuse claims against Jesuits reach 500." If this level of sexual abuse is possible in Catholic Ireland or even in the United States, imagine what totally unregulated, ex-patriot [expatriate] Catholic priests have been doing in Haiti and Africa for centuries!... Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 AM, December 15, 2010 • Anglican Chruch of South Australia 'swept child sex abuse under carpet' [Rev. Wilfred Dennis -? NEW*. Anglican. Welcomed back 1yr after conviction. Altar boys.] Adelaide Now, Sean Fewster, Court Reporter From: AdelaideNow, December 15, 2010 AUSTRALIA - THE Anglican Church swept the sexual assault of altar boys "under the carpet" by allowing a convicted pedophile to work as a priest, a judge says. District Court Judge Paul Rice today said he was "at a loss" as to why Wilfred Dennis was welcomed back to the church in 1971 - just 12 months after he was found guilty of indecent assault. "So indecent assault is all right, is it?" Judge Rice asked. "That's the only conclusion one can come to: that the Anglican Church thought indecent assault was okay - but if it was something more serious, it may have a different view. ..." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM, December 15, 2010 • Stockton Diocese pays pair $2M [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] The Modesto Bee, Buzz up! By Kevin Valine, [email protected] , Dec 14, 2010 STOCKTON (CA) - The Stockton Diocese paid $2 million to a brother and sister to settle their claims that they were abused as children by Oliver O'Grady, the former pedophile priest who served at several Catholic parishes within the diocese, including Sacred Heart in Turlock. The brother and sister attended the Church of the Presentation in Stockton and Presentation Catholic School. The brother says O'Grady sexually abused him from 1983 to 1985, while his sister says O'Grady abused her from 1981 to 1984, according to their lawsuits filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court in 2006 and 2008. "Both of them were victims of Oliver O'Grady, and they were abused in the worst possible way," said Beverly Hills attorney Anthony M. Demarco, who represented the brother and sister. "He was taking them out of the classroom at the school and sexually assaulting them." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:39 AM, December 15, 2010 • Abuse report chapter cleared [Fr Walsh] Irish Times, PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent IRELAND - The High Court has today ruled that chapter 19 of the Murphy report into clerical child sex abuse in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese can be published.

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On October 15th, 2009, Mr Justice Paul Gilligan ruled that chapter 19 of the report, which deals with abuse by former priest Tony Walsh, and contains 21 other references to him, should not be published pending the outcome of court cases against him. Walsh was jailed on December 6th for the sexual abuse of three boys. He was sentenced to 16 years, with four suspended, on 17 counts of sexual abuse, including five counts of b*g*ery on one boy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:37 AM, December 15, 2010 • Murphy report chapter to be published [Fr Walsh] IRELAND - TV3 The High Court has cleared the way for the publication of another chapter of the Murphy report into abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin. The decision comes after the jailing of former priest Tony Walsh for the sexual abuse of three boys. In 2009 the court ordered that chapter 19 of the report not be published, pending the outcome of proceedings involving Walsh. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 AM, Dec 15, 2010] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Wed December 15, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 16, 2010 edition: • SNAP blasts 2 NJ bishops re 2 recently-outed predators [Thomas Stanford, Fr Keith Pecklers (Jesuit, and Church commentator). RCC.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) , Dec 16, 2010 NEW JERSEY - Two years ago, New Jersey Catholic officials secretly paid a six-figure settlement to a man who was molested as a child years ago by two Catholic figures, including • one who worked recently in Totowa and Wayne (in the Paterson Diocese),and • one who is a prominent Jesuit priest who continues to work for the church in Rome. Here's how the Newark Star Ledger (which disclosed the accusations and the settlement on Sunday) describes one of the predators: Until 2008, according to the Paterson Diocese, Thomas Stanford worked as manager of the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa and as a part-time music manager for Holy Cross Parish in Wayne. Here's how the Star Ledger describes the other predator: "Fr. Keith Pecklers … is now a prominent Jesuit scholar. A professor of liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has written, contributed to or edited nine books, according to his Facebook page, and is a frequent commentator on Vatican affairs for American media outlets – including the sex abuse scandals." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:44 PM, December 16, 2010 • New OK City bishop named; Sex abuse victims respond [Fr Benke. RCC. Boys.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected] ), Dec 16, 2010 OKLAHOMA - Beltran has handled clergy sex abuse and cover up cases with anything but openness and compassion. So we're glad he's stepping down. At the same time, however, we caution Oklahoma Catholics against becoming complacent. Complacency protects no one. Only vigilance protects kids. And given the belated, begrudging and often ignored "reforms" adopted by the church hierarchy on child sex abuse, vigilance is certainly appropriate. We know little about the new archbishop but we hope he will do more to reach out to others hurt by Fr. Thomas Benke, who worked in the Oklahoma City archdiocese for at least eight years and molested several boys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:41 PM, Dec 16, 2010 • Kerk kan niet iedereen vergoeden Nieuws, {met video}, Dec 16, 2010 BELGIE - Opschudding vanmorgen in de parlementaire commissie Seksueel Misbruik. De Luikse bisschop

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Jousten verklaarde dat de Kerk niet alle pedofilieslachtoffers kan vergoeden. Het is aan de rechtbank om schadevergoedingen te bepalen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:29 PM, Dec 16, 2010 • Gentse bisschop: 'Geen haast bij misbruikzaken over gepensioneerde priesters' De Standaard GENT, BELGIE - De Gentse bisschop Luc Van Looy heeft sinds het ontslag van de commissie- Adriaenssens zes brieven ontvangen over - volgens hem verjaarde - feiten van seksueel misbruik binnen zijn bisdom, maar stapte daarmee nog niet naar het gerecht. Dat zei hij woensdag in de bijzondere Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. Van Looy liet optekenen dat zaken over gepensioneerde priesters volgens hem 'minder haastig' mogen worden overgemaakt, tot verontwaardiging van heel wat Kamerleden. Van Looy is één van de vijf bisschoppen die woensdag voor een hoorzitting naar de Kamer zijn afgezakt. Gevraagd naar feiten binnen zijn bisdom liet de bisschop verstaan dat hij destijds zelf vijf brieven aan de commissie-Adriaenssens heeft overgemaakt. Sinds het ontslag van die commissie kwamen nog eens zes brieven aan, maar die heeft hij nog steeds in zijn bezit. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:26 PM, Dec 16, 2010 • Bisschop Van Looy gaf recente dossiers niet door De Redactie BELGIE - De Gentse bisschop Luc Van Looy heeft zes recente brieven over seksueel misbruik door priesters in zijn bisdom nog niet doorgespeeld aan het gerecht. Dat heeft hij gezegd in de speciale Kamercommissie over seksueel misbruik. Van Looy (foto, rechts) vond het niet dringend om naar het gerecht te stappen. Want voor zover hij zich herinnert, gaan de brieven over oude feiten die intussen verjaard zijn en over priesters die intussen niet meer actief zijn. Heel wat commissieleden reageerden verbaasd op dat nieuws, aangezien Van Looy aan de start van zijn betoog zelf had gesteld dat feiten best steeds aan justitie worden overgemaakt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:24 PM • Luikse bisschop Jousten: "Doe iets aan geweld in de media" Vandaag BELGIE - "Doe iets aan het geweld in de media en op het internet, want dat stimuleert dit soort zaken." Dat zei de Luikse bisschop Aloys Jousten in de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. De Kamerleden gingen er echter niet op in. Jousten is sinds 2001 bisschop van Luik. Hij had sinds dan 1 nieuw geval, nl. van een kloosterling die een minderjarige seksueel misbruikte. De gerechtelijke uitspraak in die zaak valt binnenkort. Onder de vertrouwelijke dossiers van het bisdom van Luik vond hij nog eens 15 zaken, die allemaal door het gerecht afgehandeld waren. De meeste daders zijn overleden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:22 PM, Dec 16, 2010 • Former priest jailed on indecency charges The Dominion Post NEW ZELAND - A former Marist brother who taught in Masterton in the 1970s has been jailed for two years and six months on indecency charges. The two victims each rejected a $10,000 emotional harm payment that Bede Thomas Hampton, 62, had hoped would keep him out of prison. In the High Court at Wellington today Justice Forrie Miller said the victims had been vulnerable as children, Hampton had seen that, and exploited it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:19 PM • Man convicted of sexually abusing children in Haiti threatened prosecutor, authorities say [2001- 2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] Fox 31, NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say a Colorado man who sexually abused children at a school in Haiti he founded also threatened to kill a prosecutor. Authorities cited the alleged threat in court papers Thursday as they argued Douglas Perlitz of Eagle, Colo., should be sent to prison for more than 19 years when he is sentenced next week. The 40-year-old Perlitz admitted in August to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with eight children. Posted

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http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 160 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM officer. He was also ordered to sign the sex offender's register for the next 10 years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:21 AM • Diocese of reassures worshippers after vicar is sentenced over child porn UNITED KINGDOM - The Lichfield Blog The has insisted that the church has "robust procedures" in place after a vicar was handed a suspended sentence for downloading child pornography. A court gave the Revd Dominic Stone 16 nine-month sentences, all to be served concurrently and suspended for two years. In addition he was subject to a two year supervision order and must complete a sex offender's treatment programme. He was also banned from seeking any employment or voluntary position which would bring him into contact with young people and banned from accessing the internet without the approval of his supervising officer. He was also ordered to sign the sex offender's register for the next 10 years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:18 AM • OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS Vatican Information Service, 16 DEC 2010 VATICAN CITY, (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Paul Stagg Coakley of Salina, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Oklahoma City (area 109,997, population 2,555,000, Catholics 116,619, priests 146, permanent deacons 92, religious 150), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Norfolk, U.S.A. in 1955, he was ordained a priest in 1983 and consecrated a bishop in 2004. He succeeds Archbishop Eusebius Joseph Beltran, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:06 AM • $2 million more paid to CA victim of Irish priest-SNAP responds Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, (949 322 7434, [email protected] ), CALIFORNIA - So much for all those promises by bishops to be "open" in child sex cases. Stockton's bishop pay $2 million this summer to victims of a predator priest but tells no one. The obvious question is how many other secret settlements has Bishop Blaire paid – large and small – that he's keeping hidden from his flock? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:15 AM • Knights of Columbus vigorously deny abuse cover up Catholic News Agency, Marianne Medlin, Staff Writer 05:33 pm, Dec 15, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn., (CNA).- The Knights of Columbus, the largest Catholic fraternal organization, is vehemently denying accusations that they willfully covered up reports that one of their members sexually abused minors several decades ago. On Dec. 14, the Miami law firm Mermelstein & Horowitz filed two lawsuits against the Knights national organization and its leader, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, alleging that Julian Rivera, who worked as a leader in Columbian Squires youth program in Brownsville, Texas, sexually abused two boys in the 1970s. One victim, who identifies himself as "John Doe," says Rivera threatened him with sexual demands at gunpoint when he was as young as 12 years old, telling him that he would kill his family if he did not comply. The abuse, which began in 1970, is reported to have continued for several years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:56 AM • Man who sued Knights of Columbus alleging sexual abuse comes forward BROWNSVILLE (TX) The Monitor December 15, 2010 Jazmine Ulloa BROWNSVILLE – One of two men who sued the Knights of Columbus this week, alleging a youth leader sexually abused them decades ago, revealed his identity Wednesday in Brownsville and described the pain of coping with the exploitation he said he endured as a boy over the course of six years. Hector Stone, 42, who filed his name as John Doe in court documents, denounced the world's largest Catholic lay organization for denying their allegations. He said he had been living in silence but decided to step forward to protect other children from going through the same abuse. "I was going to take this to the grave," he said. "I was not going to tell a soul. But I was destroying myself

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(CNS) -- The Knights of Columbus denied allegations made in two lawsuits filed Dec. 14 that the fraternal organization did not address claims that a former Knight abused two men decades ago when they were young and tried to conceal the allegations. The lawsuits claim that Juan "Julian" Rivera, a former leader of the Columbian Squires in Brownsville, Texas, abused the men in the 1970s and 1980s when they were boys. The Columbian Squires is a Knights- sponsored leadership group for boys 10-18. The suits were filed separately by two adults now in their 40s; one lives in Texas, the other in Kansas. Each suit seeks more than $5 million in damages. They were filed by a Florida lawyer in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, where the Knights has its headquarters. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:52 AM • Brownsville man at center of Catholic sex abuse scandal BROWNSVILLE (TX) Valley Central {with video} by Mary Avila Two former members of the Knights of Columbus youth group have come forward claiming they were sexually abused and even given drugs by their youth leader. For over 30 years, Hector Stone said he held back a gruesome secret. "I was going to take this to my grave, Julian Rivera sexually abused me for 6 years from the ages of 12-18 years old," said Stone. Hector Stone, now 42 years old, said his childhood as a member of the Catholic fraternity Knights of Columbus Brownsville Circle of the Columbian Squires was anything but holy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:49 AM • Child sex victim settles case vs. ex-NYC big shot Jesuit UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) (On Sunday, the Newark Star Ledger disclosed that a six figure settlement was paid in 2008 by Catholic officials to a man who was molested by a priest who taught religious studies at Xavier High School in New York City. The cleric, who now holds a prominent post with the church in Rome, hasn't ever been publicly accused before.) Two years ago, New Jersey Catholic officials secretly paid a six-figure settlement to a man who he molested as a boy by a Catholic employee. Later, that employee became a priest. And today, despite the child sex allegation against him and the settlement, that priest is a prominent Jesuit priest who continues to work for the church in Rome. We call on officials at Xavier High School and the New York archdiocese to use their vast resources to aggressively seek out others who may have been hurt by this predator in the New York area. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:48 AM • Takiego listu Ko?ció? nie mo?e zlekcewa?y? [Polish letters are the problem. The webmaster is still trying to master them.] Gazeta Wyborcza Katarzyna Wi?niewska POLSKA - Duchowie?stwo w 50 proc. jest zara?one ksenofobi?, a cz??? biskupów przyczynia si? do rozbijania Ko?cio?a - takie mia?d??ce ?wiadectwo wystawi? swojemu Ko?cio?owi o. Ludwik Wi?niewski. Wo?anie na puszczy? Czy mo?e tym razem co? z tego wyniknie? List dominikanina do nuncjusza apostolskiego mo?e by? prze?omem. Krytykom Ko?cio?a ?atwo http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 162 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM przykleja si? ?atk? antykleryka?ów i lewaków, nawet je?li s? zaanga?owanymi katolikami. Z kolei duchowni unikaj? jak ognia komentowania s?abych punktów Ko?cio?a - wyj?tki mo?na policzy? na palcach jednej r?ki. Takiej krytyki nie unikaj? eksksi??a, co natychmiast jest dezawuowane jako g?os odszczepie?ców. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:43 AM • Poland – church and state Via Integra Posted by Fr Mark on December 15, 2010 POLAND - A well-known Polish Roman Catholic priest, Ludwik Wisniewski, a leading former dissident and human rights campaigner in the communist period, has written a letter of searing criticism of the current state of the Church in Poland. In the letter, he accuses large numbers of the clergy of preaching xenophobia, nationalism and thinly-veiled anti-Semitism, and he says that the Church is increasingly out of touch with the wider society in Poland. (Google English translation follows the Polish original below) From Gazeta Wyborcza, 14.12.10: Dramatyczny list dominikanina: Winy mojego Ko?cio?a Episkopat rozbity, nie potrafi rozwi?za? problemu Radia Maryja, a po?owa duchowie?stwa jest zara?ona ksenofobi? – napisa? do abp. Celestina Migliore legendarny duszpasterz i opozycjonista List, który w?a?nie pozna?a "Gazeta", dominikanin o. Ludwik Wi?niewski wys?a? we wrze?niu do przedstawiciela Watykanu w Polsce. Na o?miu stronach przedstawi? niezwykle surow? diagnoz? stanu polskiego Ko?cio?a. "Pi?? lat temu zabrak?o Jana Paw?a II. Jeszcze za Jego ?ycia, po odzyskaniu przez Polsk? niepodleg?o?ci, zacz??o si? w naszym Ko?ciele dzia? co? niepokoj?cego" – czytamy. Oto najwi? ksze problemy, które opisuje o. Wi?niewski: * "Gorsz?cy podzia? w polskim Episkopacie". Objawia si? on przez popieranie "inicjatyw i dzie? formalnie katolickich, a w rzeczywisto?ci poga?skich, bo j?trz?cych i dziel?cych spo?ecze?stwo i Ko? ció?". Przyk?ad: cz??? biskupów publikuje w "Naszym Dzienniku", w którym "roi si? od oszczerstw". O. Ludwik wypomina niektórym biskupom, ?e poparli "nieracjonalny protest" tzw. obro?ców krzy?a przed Pa?acem Prezydenckim. "Czy?by nie wiedzieli, co czyni? i jak bardzo przyczyniaj? si? do rozbijania Ko? cio?a?". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM • Priest reveals sins of the Polish Church [RCC. Apologies, Webmaster can't copy Polish letters yet.]

Presseurop, Gazeta Wyborcza, 14 December 2010 POLAND - "The guilt of my church", reads the headline on Gazeta Wyborcza's frontpage. It refers to the letter to the Vatican's in Poland, archibishop Celestin Migliore written by father Ludwik Wi?niewski, a legendary priest in communist times. In the letter, Wi?niewski laments the condition of the Polish Catholic Church, stressing that some members of the episcopate support apparently Catholic initiatives which in fact are "pagan as they inflame and divide the society and the Church itself". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM • With Maciel Buried, His Centurions' Fires Are Burning Out [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] Chiesa, by Sandro Magister, December 16, 2010 The leaders who covered up the misdeeds of the "false prophet" continue to occupy their positions of command. But their end is in sight. Among the Legionaries of Christ, revolt is stirring. The slow but inexorable pace of the papal delegate ROME, – The order is binding. All the houses of the Legionaries of Christ must be emptied of photos of the founder, Marcial Maciel Degollado, the man of "foolhardy, wasted, bizarre" life whom Benedict XVI called in his recent book-interview "a false prophet." Not only that. They must no longer call him "Our Father." They must no longer celebrate his anniversaries, but only pray for him on the anniversary of his death. They must no longer display or sell his writings. In Cotija de la Paz, Mexico, where he is buried, his grave must no longer have any distinguishing marks. Next to the spiritual retreat house there must be built "a place dedicated to reparation and expiation." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:21 AM • Ex-vicar sentenced [sic] over child porn

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Bellshill Speaker, Published Date: 16 December 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - A married Staffordshire-based clergyman convicted of downloading hundreds of pornographic images of children is due to be sentenced by a crown court judge. Dominic Stone, who has since resigned from his post as a vicar in the area of Staffordshire, was found guilty of 16 specimen charges following a trial at Stafford Crown Court in November. Stone, then of Moisty Lane, Marchington, was ordered to register as a sex offender after being convicted of making indecent photographs and was granted bail pending the sentencing. Jurors took around three and a half hours to unanimously convict the 47-year-old, who was suspended in January 2009 after his computer was found to contain around 600 illegal pictures of children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:15 AM • Knights of Columbus in Brownsville Fight Sexual Abuse Allegations [Knights of Columbus allegedly covered it up.] KRGV, BROWNSVILLE (TX) - A national organization is defending itself against allegations of abuse by one of its former members. A lawsuit filed in Florida named the Knights of Columbus in Brownsville. The victims have kept quiet for years until now. A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday in New Haven, Conn., where the Knights of Columbus is based. Two former Brownsville men said they were part of the Columbian Esquires back in the 1970s and '80s. It was a youth group at the local Knights of Columbus in Brownsville. The attorney for the victims told CHANNEL 5 NEWS the abuse went on for decades and claimed the Knights of Columbus covered it up. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:13 AM • Man Says He's Still Haunted by Memories of Sexual Abuse BROWNSVILLE (TX) KRGV BROWNSVILLE – It's a sexual abuse lawsuit more than 30 years in the making. The man says his childhood is scarred. He kept quiet for years. Now he's fighting back. "I was gonna take this to my grave. I was not going to tell a soul," says Hector Stone. Stone says returning to this place brings back horrible memories. It's where, he says, emotional scars were made. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 AM • Uncomfortable for Dublin and Vatican The Irish Times, PATSY McGARRY, IRELAND - ANALYSIS: THE PSEUDONYM chosen for Tony Walsh in chapter 19 of the Murphy report was "Fr Jovito". So said Justice Paul Gilligan in the High Court yesterday. The name's alliterative associations with things jovial or joyful make it seem singularly inappropriate for this hip-swinging, Elvis-impersonating, frequently brutal child abuser. Apparently, however, in line with all other pseudonyms in the Murphy report, it was chosen at random. Like previously published chapters, chapter 19 will make for deeply uncomfortable reading for senior Catholic Church figures in Dublin who held high office at the time. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:05 AM • New investigation into abuse cover-up NORTHERN IRELAND - UTV {with video} Hundreds of children could have been saved from paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth had the sex abuse scandal been dealt with properly by the Catholic Church, a new UTV Insight Special programme reveals. The Resurrection of Brendan Smyth - to be aired on Thursday - follows the trail of broken lives left behind by the sex predator who raped and assaulted children in Ireland, Britain and America as the Catholic Church covered up his crimes. Journalist Chris Moore, who broke the Brendan Smyth child sex abuse story in a UTV documentary in 1994, believes many children were abused by the paedophile priest after allegations first emerged in the 1970s. His documentary in 1994 revealed Smyth's history of serial child sex abuse and how the church admitted it had known about it and had moved him around, where he was able to continue to abuse other children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:00 AM

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• Court lifts the lid on priest's sexual abuse IRELAND - Irish Independent By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Thursday December 16 2010 HORRIFIC details of how jailed paedophile ex-cleric Tony Walsh was allowed to abuse young boys for years will be published next week by the Government. Publication of the previously censored Chapter 19 of the Murphy report will show how Walsh, while appealing to the Vatican against his defrocking, sexually assaulted the 11-year-old grandson of a man whose funeral he attended dressed as a priest. Last night, victims' support groups warned Walsh's vile sexual abuse of children will further damage church authorities and expose their failures. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:57 AM • Stockton Diocese has settled another sex abuse claim STOCKTON (CA) - The Modesto Bee Kevin Valine - [email protected] The Stockton Diocese recently settled another sexual misconduct claim lodged against a priest who had served in Stanislaus County. The diocese paid $300,000 on Sept. 22 to resolve a claim against the Rev. Leo Suarez. The Catholic diocese said in a statement Wednesday that it paid half of the amount, with the other half coming from insurance proceeds. The diocese announced in January that Suarez had been removed from serving as a priest after he came forward with an admission that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor about 20 years ago while serving at St. Anthony's parish in Hughson. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 AM • Case could sink abuse suits DELAWARE The News Journal By SEAN O'SULLIVAN • The News Journal • December 16, 2010 DOVER -- The Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that could undermine, if not cripple, all 150 pending priest sexual-abuse lawsuits in Delaware. In the case of James Sheehan v. Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and Salesianum School, the religious order challenges the constitutionality of the Delaware Child Victims Act of 2007. In court briefs and in court, attorneys for the Oblates argued that the Legislature did not have the authority to suspend the civil statute of limitations, which allowed the vast majority of the priest sexual-abuse lawsuits to be filed seeking damages for abuse that took place as long as 40 or 50 years ago. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 AM • Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report will reveal information on the singing priest IRELAND Irish Central By CATHY HAYES, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer Ireland's High Court has announced that they will allow the publication of the missing chapter, Chapter 19, of "The Murphy Report" on clerical abuse in Dublin. One in Four, a survivors support group, says the chapter is likely to be published before Christmas. They say that this chapter will show that children were sexually abused by a known pedophile priest because the Archdiocese failed to act. The 29-page chapter will contain references and testimonies from the boys Tony Walsh abused. "David" one of the boys he abused spoke to the commission about Walsh. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:47 AM, Dec 16, 2010] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Thu December 16, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Fri December 17, 2010 edition:

• Priest steps down amid sex scandal [? NEW*] This is Sussex, By Lee Moran, [email protected] , UNITED KINGDOM - A CATHOLIC priest from Tonbridge has stepped down from his post over an allegation of sexually assaulting a child. Monsignor Michael Smith, parish priest at Corpus Christi Church for 19 years, was arrested on December 7 on suspicion of sexual assault.

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The Archbishop of Southwark Peter Smith and Bishop John Hine took charge of mass at the Lyons Crescent church over the weekend. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:36 PM

• Kerk dekte daden notoire pedofiele priester toe RKnieuws, DUBLIN, IERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - De Ierse katholieke Kerk heeft de wandaden van een oude priester die ervan verdacht wordt honderden kinderen misbruikt te hebben toegedekt. Dat blijkt uit een vrijdag gepubliceerd gerechtelijk rapport. In het rapport wordt priester Tony Walsh beschreven als een 'notoire pedofiel'. Het rapport bevat in verband met deze zaakscherpe kritiek op het Vaticaan, de Ierse bisschoppen en de Ierse politie. De meeste feiten die de geestelijke ten laste worden gelegd vonden plaats in de schoot van het koor waarvan hij deel uitmaakte. "Walsh werd verplaatst van de ene parochie naar de andere ' om een schandaal te voorkomen' en ging door met kinderen te misbruiken hoewel zijn oversten dat wisten", aldus het rapport. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:37 PM

• Church and gardai slated over abuse Belfast Telegraph, IRELAND - A cardinal, several bishops and gardai face damning criticism over revelations a serial paedophile priest was free to abuse for 16 years. A previously censored report revealed the Vatican wanted "Fr Filth" Tony Walsh sent to a monastery for 10 years, while Dublin's Catholic hierarchy wanted him ordered out of the church in the early 1990s. At one stage Cardinal Desmond Connell made an unprecedented plea to late Pope John Paul II to sack the showman abuser and Elvis impersonator. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:34 PM

• New Murphy report chapter released IRELAND - TV3 {with video} A chapter of the Murphy Report which details the crimes of former priest Tony Walsh has been released. Chapter 19 details not only how he ruined so many children's lives but also how his superiors covered up his crimes. The 57 year old's name could not be included in the original report because of a criminal case against him. That case ended last week and the previously unpublished chapter has been made public. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:31 PM

• Settlement talks falter between victims, archdiocese Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel, MILWAUKEE (WI) - Settlement talks between the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and 24 victims of clergy sex abuse appear to have failed, both sides said Thursday. Archbishop Jerome Listecki said in a letter posted on the archdiocese website that the victims' attorneys rejected a $4.6 million settlement offer. Plaintiffs' attorney Jeff Anderson blasted that characterization as misleading, saying victims told the archdiocese that they would not discuss monetary terms until the archdiocese had addressed their non- monetary demands, including the release of all documents related to abuse. "We told them from the start that our first priority was to address the child protection initiatives…?.?and they did nothing to discuss those," said Anderson. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:28 PM • SNAP wants Milwaukee archdiocese to be more open NECN MILWAUKEE (WI), (AP) – A group that represents victims of clergy sex abuse says the Milwaukee archdiocese's cash offer to settle lawsuits amounts to a bribe unless it also agrees to other concessions. The group is the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. SNAP spokesman Peter Isely (IZE'-lee) said Friday that victims also want the archdiocese to be more transparent. They also want every priest to sign a document saying he's never sexually abused a child. The archdiocese had offered $4.6 million to resolve lawsuits filed by 16 people. Isely says the settlement was rejected because money is secondary to the other concerns Posted by Kathy

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Shaw at 6:26 PM • Church covered up priest's sex abuses: Irish judge [Tony Walsh] IRELAND - Brisbane Times December 18, 2010 Roman Catholic authorities covered up the activities of a notorious former priest who sexually abused hundreds of children in Ireland over almost two decades, a report said on Friday. A judicial commission described Tony Walsh as "probably the most notorious child sexual abuser" to have come to its attention during a ground-breaking probe into child sex abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin, the country's biggest. The report strongly criticises the actions of the Vatican, the Dublin church authorities and the Gardai (Irish police) for their failures in dealing with Walsh, a "singing priest" whose speciality was Elvis Presley impersonations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:23 PM • The Murphy Report, Chapter 19: The Worst Case Yet? IRELAND - Slugger O'Toole Gladys Ganiel, Fri 17 December 2010 The 19th chapter of the Murphy Report on clerical abuse in the Dublin diocese was published today, more than a year after the release of the original report. The publication of chapter 19 was delayed because it concerned former priest Tony Walsh, who was facing legal proceedings. Eleven days ago Walsh was sentenced to 16 years in jail, clearing the way for chapter 19 to be made available to the public. I had recently begun to wonder if people on this island could become desensitised to the scale and severity of clerical sexual abuse. But Chapter 19 makes for still more harrowing reading; to the point that the Murphy Commission describes Walsh as the "most notorious child sexual abuser" it encountered. That's saying something. People already had a sense of Walsh's crimes due to extensive media coverage of the court proceedings, including a particularly disturbing depiction of his abuse written by Patsy McGarry in last week's Irish Times. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:05 PM • Investigation into how abuse vicar was allowed to work UNITED KINGDOM - Eastbourne Herald AN INVESTIGATION is to take place into how a vicar was allowed to work at an Eastbourne church following serious sex abuse allegations. Roy Cotton was priest-in-charge at St Andrew's Church in Seaside from 1974-76, vicar from then until 1984, and sexually abused young boys along with another priest Collin Pritchard who worked at Bexhill. Cotton died in 2006 before any charges could be brought against him but Pritchard was jailed for five years in 2008. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:15 PM • Report: Irish church leader 'begged' Vatican to dismiss abusive priest U.S. Catholic By Michael Kelly, Catholic News Service DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - A newly released chapter of the Murphy Report into the handling of clergy sex abuse allegations in the Archdiocese of Dublin between 1975 and 2004 shows Cardinal Desmond Connell "begged" Pope John Paul II to dismiss an abusive priest from the priesthood. Chapter 19 was withheld when the report of Judge Yvonne Murphy's commission was published in November 2009 because the abuser involved -- former priest Tony Walsh -- was awaiting trial. Walsh was sentenced to 16 years in prison for abuse in early December, clearing the way for publication. Referring to Walsh, the inquiry noted, "his pattern of behavior is such that it is likely that he has abused hundreds of children." The newly published chapter reveals that allegations of abuse made just days after Walsh's ordination in 1978 were largely ignored by church authorities and he went on to abuse freely for almost a decade, being moved him from parish to parish when fresh allegations emerged. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:09 PM • Catholic priest suspected of CROATIA - Croatian Times A Catholic priest from the eastern village of Ruscica (Klakar District, Brod-Posavina County) has been accused of domestic violence by his extramarital partner with whom he has two children. The 48-year-old Zeljko Zuanovic has allegedly sent threatening text messages to his partner of 15 years, 38-year-old K.Z. The messages allegedly referred to their two children. K.Z.lodged her report in Zadar where she has been hid, fearing violence. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:06 PM • On Wikileaks, face time with the pope, and Dolan National Catholic Reporter (USA), All Things Catholic, by John L Allen Jr on Dec. 17, 2010 UNITED STATES - One week ago today, behind-the-scenes alarm was percolating among American diplomats in Rome and in the Vatican, as word spread that the first major wave of "Wikileaks" revelations about U.S. / Vatican relations would run the next morning. By midday Saturday, it became clear that this

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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:04 PM • Vatican tried to protect paedophile priest, Dublin abuse report shows Guardian, Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent guardian.co.uk , Friday 17 December 2010 IRELAND - The Vatican tried to stop Irish church leaders from defrocking a paedophile priest whose abusive behaviour was known about from the early 1970s, a previously censored chapter from a report on clerical child abuse in Dublin revealed today. Father Tony Walsh, who was imprisoned for raping boys last week, is named in the report as one of the worst child abusers in the Dublin archdiocese. The chapter describes how church leaders ordered the defrocking of Walsh in 1993 after receiving complaints of abuse over 15 years. The Vatican overruled the verdict and ordered him to be sent to an Irish monastery instead. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:00 PM • Report slams Church and gardaí over priest paedophilia Irish Examiner Friday, December 17, 2010 IRELAND - A cardinal, several bishops and gardaí face damning criticism tonight over revelations a serial paedophile priest was free to abuse for 16 years. A previously censored report revealed the Vatican wanted "Fr Filth" Tony Walsh sent to a monastery for 10 years, while Dublin's Catholic hierarchy wanted him ordered out of the church in the early 1990s. At one stage Cardinal Desmond Connell made an unprecedented plea to late Pope John Paul II to sack the showman abuser and Elvis impersonator. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:58 PM • Irish priest's abuse covered up: judge SBS (Australia) IRELAND - Roman Catholic authorities covered up the activities of a notorious former priest who sexually abused hundreds of children in Ireland over almost two decades, a report said on Friday. A judicial commission described Tony Walsh as "probably the most notorious child sexual abuser" to have come to its attention during a ground-breaking probe into child sex abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin, the country's biggest. The report strongly criticises the actions of the Vatican, the Dublin church authorities and the Gardai (Irish police) for their failures in dealing with Walsh, a "singing priest" whose speciality was Elvis Presley impersonations Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:01 AM • Vatican and Irish church cover-up of worst pedophile priest finally laid bare Irish Central by Patrick Roberts IRELAND - The just released chapter in the Murphy Commission report on abuse in the Dublin archdiocese on abuser priest Tony Walsh reveals in horrific detail how the Vatican covered up for the man the Murphy Commission described as the worst abuser of all. It also described how the Archbishop of Dublin, , wrote a strong letter of approval for Byrne despite knowing he was a dreadful pedophile. It is hard to fathom the incredible cover up of a depraved monster and why, even now, some priests who knew but covered up, are not prosecuted. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:59 AM • Quotes from Chapter 19 IRELAND The Irish Times AOIFE CARR The following are quotes from Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report dealing with former priest Tony Walsh "Fr Tony Walsh is probably the most notorious child sexual abuser to have come to the attention of the Commission… His pattern of behaviour is such that it is likely that he has abused hundreds of children." - Introduction to Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report "Tony Walsh is extremely compulsive – there have been an awful lot of children involved. He is a very disturbed man. He is always going to be dangerous. He could not be let near schools, children, Confession without a grille…" - Psychiatrist who treated Tony Walsh in Stroud in the UK in 1988 Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:56 AM • Counselling service opens following Murphy Report revelations Breaking News 17/Dec/2010 IRELAND - Counselling service, Connect, will open this evening and over the weekend to provide telephone-based counselling and support, following today's launch of Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report. The service provides professional counselling to survivors of abuse at freephone 1800 477 477 from the Republic of Ireland and 00800 477 477 77 from Northern Ireland. The service is open tonight from 6-10pm and will also open on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:24 AM • Church played a toxic role in protecting pedophiles say Fine Gael Newswhip by Gerard Cunningham December 17, 2010 IRELAND - The government should hold a referendum on protecting children's rights http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 168 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM as soon as possible, a Fine Gael spokesman has said. Charlie Flanagan was speaking in response to the publication of Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report into clerical sexual abuse of children in the Dublin diocese. However, it is likely that a bill for a referendum will have to be introduced by Fine Gael, since there is little likelihood of a referendum before the general election, due in the Spring. Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report was withheld when the report was published because of pending legal cases, which concluded last week with the conviction of pedophile priest Tony Walsh. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:20 AM • Murphy Report Chapter on Rapist Priest Tony Walsh Bock the Robber By Bock Dec 17th, 2010 IRELAND - This is the redacted Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report. It concerns rapist priest, Tony Walsh, who was convicted and jailed last week. (I have replaced the pseudonym Fr Jovito with Walsh's own name). I'll have more to say about this in further posts, but for now, here it is. Read it and absorb for yourself the horror of what Walsh was up to and the disgraceful way the Catholic authorities facilitated his sexual abuse of children. This chapter brings shame and disgrace on the bishops and priests of the Dublin Archdiocese, who knew in 1978 that Walsh was a rapist and who failed to prevent him from raping children for a further 17 years. ______Chapter 19 Fr Tony Walsh 1 Introduction 19.1 In 1995 Archbishop Connell wrote that Fr Walsh "is a confirmed paedophile. He was ordained in 1978, but even before his ordination – as it subsequently appeared – he was engaged in paedophiliac activities with minors". 19.2 Fr Walsh is probably the most notorious child sexual abuser to have come to the attention of the Commission. The Commission is aware of more than 40 named people who have complained of child sexual abuse by him. He has admitted to abusing many others; while he may not use the term 'child sexual abuse', he has admitted to using children for sexual gratification once a fortnight over an eight-year period. That constitutes child sexual abuse. He claims he did not abuse after that eight year period but the evidence suggests that he continued in a similar pattern. His pattern of behaviour is such that it is likely that he has abused hundreds of children. He was convicted in respect of seven complainants. Civil settlements have been reached with 21 complainants. He was laicised in 1995 and is currently living in Dublin. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:17 AM • Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest Washington Post {Chapter 19} The Associated Press Friday, December 17, 2010 DUBLIN, IRELAND - A previously censored chapter from Ireland's investigation into church cover-ups of child abuse says the Vatican tried to stop Irish church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest. The chapter, released Friday, details how Dublin leaders ordered Catholic priest Tony Walsh defrocked in 1993 following 15 years of child-abuse complaints. But the Vatican overruled the verdict and ordered him sent to an Irish monastery instead. Rome relented in 1996 after police opened a criminal probe and Walsh attacked a boy in a pub restroom following a family funeral. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:58 AM • Sex abuse victims turn down payout New Zealand Herald NEW ZEALAND - Two victims of historic sexual abuse by former Marist brother Bede Thomas Hampton - jailed today for two and a half years - have refused his offer of an emotional harm payout. The men, now middle-aged, neither wanted nor would accept money from the 62-year-old. "They regard it as an insult - a way to buy yourself out of trouble," Justice Forrest Miller said at Hampton's sentencing in the High Court of Wellington today. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:56 AM • A former Marist brother who has been jailed for historic sex offences against two former pupils had his offer of reparation rejected NZCity 17 December 2010 NEW ZEALAND - The sister of one of the victims of a former Marist brother's indecent assaults says his expressions of remorse are hard to swallow. Bede Hampton has been sentenced to two years six months in prison for historic sex offences against two boys while he was a teacher at St Joseph's College in Masterton in the early 1970s. The 62-year-old was given a discount because his right to trial without delay was breached. The sister says an offer of reparation of $10,000 from Hampton was rejected because it was an insult rather than a comfort. "It's not about money," she said, "it's about Bede being responsible for what he's done and making sure that other children don't get put into that position." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:55 AM • Former Marist brother jailed for sex assaults on boys Radio New Zealand NEW ZEALAND - A former Marist brother has been jailed for two years and six months for indecent assaults committed on boys while he was a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in Masterton. 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Twardy Jr., Connecticut's former U.S. Attorney and now a partner in Day Pitney, a Stamford law firm, said he and his firm have been hired by Fairfield University to look into Carrier's actions at the school. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:50 AM • Clergy claim damages against diocese [Lawrence, Sturt. Anglican Church.] Newcastle Herald BY JOANNE MCCARTHY 18 Dec, 2010 AUSTRALIA - TWO Anglican priests, including retired dean of Newcastle Reverend Graeme Lawrence, will mount damages claims against Newcastle Anglican diocese in February after a NSW Supreme Court judge agreed yesterday that the diocese had a case to answer over its handling of disciplinary proceedings against the two men. The diocese agreed to an order not to proceed further with sanctions against Reverend Lawrence and Reverend Graeme Sturt until a hearing of the issues in February, following professional standards board hearings against four clergy and a church worker this week. The hearings against Reverend Lawrence and Reverend Sturt related to breach of trust issues. Both men denied the allegations. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:46 AM • Defrocked priest Tony Walsh abused "hundreds" of children The Journal IRELAND - ARCHBISHOP DIARMUID MARTIN has said he sleeps better knowing that notorious child sex abuser Tony Walsh is in prison "and not walking the streets of Dublin". The archbishop of Dublin was speaking on RTE Radio1?s News at One today shortly after the chapter of the Murphy Report into clerical sex abuse in the diocese relating to ex-priest Walsh was published. The chapter had not been previously published because Walsh was in court on sex offences. When he was convicted and jailed on 17 counts of sexual abuse at the start of the month, the High Court ordered that the chapter could be published. It contains harrowing detail of how Walsh abused serially and continually during his time as a Catholic priest. A complaint was made against him only two days after his first appointment to Ballyfermot parish in 1978, relating to the sexual abuse of an 8-year-old boy. That complaint was investigated by a Monsignor Glennon who said he believed Walsh was telling the truth and it was dropped Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:42 AM • Vicar General Br. Thomas Johnson connects children to serial molester MN SNAP via YouTube video UNITED STATES - Top official of De La Salle Christian Brothers, Br. Thomas Johnson, enables serial molester Raimond Rose to have access to children. Document proves Johnson enabled Rose to evade criminal prosecution while continuing to hide Rose and place children in harms way. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:40 AM • Church and State God. Family. Country. Boston Red Sox. December 14, 2010 UNITED STATES - ... The Newark Archbishop, John J Meyers protects pedophile priests (four of 'em if you are scoring at home)... Legislation sponsored by Senators Joseph F. Vitale and Nicholas P. Scutari which would eliminate the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse to sue their abusers, and would allow for the revival of cases which were dismissed because the state of limitations had lapsed, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week by a vote of 9-0. The bill now heads to the full Senate for consideration. Vitale and Scutari "get it" and it's about time some of these politicians do. Recently there has been a rash of court decisions that have opened up court records and diocesan records alike to reveal the names of credible accusations against clergy. Trenton has this "deal" as well. In this "deal" the Mercer County prosecutor agreed to "seal" the names of priest within the Trenton Diocese that had "credible" claims against them by those they abused. They were defrocked or dead or simply slipped out of site. The prosecutor said it was just a matter of the expiration of the statutes of limitations. Well, it's not that simple anymore and there are nine men and a whole lot of people at the Diocese office quacking in their cassocks today because of it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:32 AM • O'Grady may face more charges [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 170 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

The Irish Times IRELAND - More charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, a court heard today. Oliver O'Grady (65), with an address at a hostel, on Charlemont Street, in Dublin 2 was granted bail at Dublin District Court on Saturday following his arrest on December 10th last and he was remanded to appear again today. Defence solicitor Kieran Conway said there was consent to the case being adjourned pending directions from the DPP. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:15 AM • Paedo priest anger [Fr William Green. RCC.] Wigan Today UNITED STATES - VICTIMS sexually abused by a Wigan priest are demanding to know why he is still a clergyman – two years after being jailed. Fr William Green (pictured above), formerly of Holy Family RC Church in New Springs, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to 27 counts of sexual assault in 2008. Green, 69, abused six pupils aged 11 to 15 while working as a religious education teacher at St Bede's Boys' School in Whalley Range, Manchester, between 1975 and 1987. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:10 AM • Walsh a 'serial paedophile' - Martin The Irish Times AOIFE CARR IRELAND - Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said former priest Tony Walsh was another Brendan Smyth who should been dealt with much earlier. Dr Martin was speaking on RTÉ radio this afternoon. He said procrastination and negotiation were part of the climate in which paedophiles flourished. "Tony Walsh is an example of the classic serial paedophile on the same level as Brendan Smyth. The first lesson to be learned is the only way to deal with people like him is to stop them immediately. Procrastination and negotiation are part of the climate in which such paedophiles flourish," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:07 AM • Murphy Report reveals Vatican protected sex abuser BBC News IRELAND - The Vatican wanted an Irish priest to serve 10 years in a monastery for abusing children rather than force him out of the Catholic Church, a report has revealed. A previously censored chapter of the Murphy Report describes Tony Walsh as the "most notorious" paedophile to come to its attention. Walsh was jailed for 12 years earlier this month for abusing three boys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:05 AM • Catholic Church stepped beyond its legitimate role in Ireland, says Archbishop National Secular Society (United Kingdom) IRELAND - The second highest ranking clergyman in Ireland, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, launched a blistering attack last week on the corruption at the heart of his own church saying that it had overstepped the mark in Ireland and taken on a role that was illegitimate. Martin said that the child abuse scandal was only a symptom of a bigger malaise at the heart of the Church. He said it was self-centred and arrogant. Archbishop Martin made his remarks during mass at the Church of the Assumption in Ballyfermot, the former parish of ex-priest Tony Walsh who was jailed last week for sexually abusing three boys. They also came a day after the WikiLeaks revelations that the Vatican was offended by requests for information from the Murphy Commission into clerical sex abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:01 AM • Murphy Report chapter reveals 'most notorious' child sex abuser Newstalk [with audio] IRELAND - A previously unpublished chapter of the Murphy Report on clerical abuse in the Dublin archdiocese reveals Rome upheld an appeal against a priest who admitted using children once every two weeks for 8 years for "sexual gratification". Chapter 19 describes defrocked paedophile priest Tony Walsh as the most notorious child sexual abuser to have come to the attention of the Commission. It says whilst the Commission is aware of 40 of his victims Walsh is likely to have abused hundreds more Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:56 AM • Archbishop of Dublin renews apology over paedophile priest Irish Examiner Friday, December 17, 2010 IRELAND - The Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has issued an apology after an inquiry revealed today that the Vatican wanted paedophile priest Tony Walsh to serve 10 years in a monastery rather than force him out of the Catholic Church. Irish clerics wanted to dismiss Fr Walsh – jailed for 16 years last week on 17 counts of child abuse – but Rome urged that he be allowed to remain in the clergy. Nicknamed 'Fr Filth', he attacked a young boy in the toilet of a pub in Dublin in May 1994 after attending the funeral of his victim's grandfather as the Catholic hierarchy in Rome debated how he should be dealt with. Pope John Paul II dismissed Walsh in 1996 after a direct appeal for action by Cardinal Desmond Connell. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:54 AM • Statement of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on Publication of Chapter 19 of Murphy report Archdiocese of Dublin Murphy Report- Chapter 19 IRELAND - Chapter 19 provides additional specific evidence to the already horrendous narrative of the Murphy report. It reports the tragic and shocking story of http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 171 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM how a devious, predatory paedophile used the priesthood to gain access to young children and abuse them and how no-one stopped him for years. Over the last few days I have read and re-read this chapter of the report. What struck me particularly was the way in which parents came forward with no sense of vindictiveness towards the church, simply asking that the abuse stop, decisively and definitively. They weren't out to "get the church", but the church they loved and respected failed them. It was not just that the matters were not reported to the Gardai but the Archdiocese did not follow up its own commitment to stop the abuse. Tony Walsh was left in ministry, he was reassigned – he remained in contact with children, using his priestly dress and his membership of a priest's show, where he was shown off as a priest, giving him constant access to young people. Unfortunately, some priests mistakenly supported his remaining in ministry. Tony Walsh wriggled his way through every attempt that was made to contain him. The first lesson to be learned from this is that in the cases of serial compulsive paedophiles only decisive action is capable of stopping them. Cardinal Desmond Connell, to his credit, was among the first to recognise this. Procrastination and indecisiveness are a part of a climate in which paedophiles flourish. This is the importance of the current child safeguarding norms of the Church in Ireland which have to be supported by everyone. There is no room for revisionist thinking about these norms. Thankfully, there are hundreds of good people in our parishes who have gone through training programmes and give of their time to ensure that good child safeguarding procedures are making the Church the safe place that it is today. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:48 AM • Vatican wanted 'Fr Filth' to serve monastery sentence Irish Independent Friday December 17 2010 IRELAND - The Vatican wanted a dangerous paedophile priest to serve 10 years in a monastery rather than force him out of the Catholic Church, an inquiry revealed today. Irish clerics wanted to dismiss Tony Walsh - jailed for 16 years last week on 17 counts of child abuse - but Rome urged that he be allowed to remain in the clergy. Nicknamed Fr Filth, he attacked a young boy in the toilet of a pub in Dublin in May 1994 after attending the funeral of his victim's grandfather as the Catholic hierarchy in Rome debated how he should be dealt with. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:46 AM • Publication of Further Material from the Dublin Archdiocese Report Department of Justice and Law Reform IRELAND - On 15 October 2009 the High Court directed that certain specified passages in the report of the Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child sexual abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin be not published until the court otherwise directs. On 15 December 2010 the High Court set aside its direction. The passages are now available on the Department's website www.justice.ie Certain other passages in the report have not yet been published, following a separate High Court direction. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 AM • Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin Department of Justice and Law Reform IRELAND - Report by Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. ... Further portions of report by Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Further Portions (PDF - 156KB) Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:26 AM • Vatican sought deal on 'Fr Filth' The Press Association IRELAND - The Vatican wanted a dangerous Irish paedophile priest to serve 10 years in a monastery rather than force him out of the Catholic Church, an inquiry has revealed. Irish clerics wanted to dismiss Tony Walsh - jailed for 16 years last week on 17 counts of child abuse - but Rome urged that he be allowed to remain in the clergy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:23 AM • Main points from Murphy Report Chapter 19 RTE News Claims of 'persecution' IRELAND - In July 1992, Tony Walsh did not turn up at the Archdiocesan Library for a period of two weeks, the report says he was 'not getting on well' there. A priest from Westland Row contacted Monsignor Stenson informing him Walsh was spending some time in the parish. The Monsignor advised the priest to contact the Garda Superintendent on College Green and request he keep an eye on Walsh. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:20 AM • Abuse by Tony Walsh 'hushed up' by Church RTE News IRELAND - The newly released chapter 19 of the Murphy Report on the convicted Paedophile priest Tony Walsh describes him as probably the most notorious sex abuser to come to Commission's attention. 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Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:15 AM • Lichfield Diocese is critical of Stone for 'dragging out trial' [Church of England] Burton Mail UNITED KINGDOM - IN A statement issued after sentencing, Gavin Drake, director of communications for the Bishop and Diocese of Lichfield, said Stone resigned as team vicar of Marchington, Marchington Woodlands, Kingstone and Leigh following his conviction. Gavin DrakeHe consequently no longer held any Church of England position nor possessed a licence to serve or minister as a priest. But Mr Drake said: "His resignation does not remove him from the Church's disciplinary processes, and while not licensed he remains under the authority of the Bishop." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 AM • Vicar who kept stash of child porn on computer avoids prison sentence This is , By Claire Duffin, [email protected] , UNITED KINGDOM - A VICAR who had more than 600 child- porn pictures on his computer has been spared jail. The Rev Dominic Stone was found guilty of 16 charges of downloading indecent images from the internet following a trial last month. The 47-year-old appeared at Stafford Crown Court yesterday where he was given a nine-month jail term, suspended for two years, and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for ten years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 AM • Authorities: Haiti sex abuse defendant made threat [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] The Associated Press Thursday, December 16, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Federal prosecutors in Connecticut say a man who sexually abused children at a school in Haiti he founded also threatened to kill a prosecutor. Authorities cited the alleged threat in court papers Thursday as they argued Douglas Perlitz of Eagle, Colo., should be sent to prison for more than 19 years when he is sentenced next week. The 40-year-old former Connecticut resident admitted in August to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with eight children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:57 AM • NIreland government to probe child abuse cover-ups [Various "Christian" sects, and the State] Washington Post The Associated Press, Dublin, Thursday, December 16, 2010 NORTHERN IRELAND - Northern Ireland's government says it will investigate decades of cover-ups of child abuse in boarding schools and other institutions run by the Catholic Church, Protestant denominations and the state. The move mirrors a similar investigation in the Republic of Ireland, where two state-ordered probes in 2009 documented how tens of thousands of children in Catholic Church-run residential schools suffered sexual, physical and mental abuse from the 1940s to 1990s. First Minister Peter Robinson says the probe by Northern Ireland government agencies will identify the scale of past abuse and recommend counseling and other support for victims still alive today. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:52 AM • Sex abuse victims refuse emotional harm payout TVNZ NEW ZEALAND - Two victims of historic sexual abuse by former Marist brother Bede Thomas Hampton - jailed today for two and a half years - have refused his offer of an emotional harm payout. The men, now middle-aged, neither wanted nor would accept money from the 62-year-old. "They regard it as an insult - a way to buy yourself out of trouble," Justice Forrest Miller said at Hampton's sentencing in the High Court in Wellington today. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 AM • Former LDS youth leader sentenced in sex abuse case Standard-Examiner By Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner staff Last updated Thursday, December 16, 2010 OGDEN, UTAH - While the defense tried to argue that his offenses were not sexually motivated, the prosecution called Cory Clyde Campbell a spider waiting on his victims at slumber parties. The dueling scenarios came before a packed courtroom at his sentencing with as many supporters of Campbell on hand as there were for his four victims. "There needs to be a message sent to this community," Deputy Weber County Attorney Bill Daines urged Judge Michael Lyon, gesturing toward the windows that look out over Ogden from the fourth floor of the 2nd District Courthouse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:45 AM • More sex charges filed against former Bozeman High School track coach The Bozeman Daily Chronicle By JODI HAUSEN, Chronicle Staff Writer BOZEMAN (MT) - More charges have been filed

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 173 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM against a former Bozeman High School track coach accused of sending sexually explicit messages and photos to his teenage athletes. James Michael Evans, 29, was arrested Oct. 28 and charged with one count of felony sexual abuse of children and two counts of misdemeanor obscenity. ... The new information cites a third victim who was 15 when she and the coach began "texting and talking sexually" last summer, the document stated. The victim told police she met the coach through church and Christian athletics when she was in middle school. She said "she tried so hard to keep his attention because she liked it ... (he) always found a way to make her feel good about herself" and "made her feel important," according to the new charges. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:40 AM • Inquiry into child abuse News Letter Published Date: 17 December 2010 NORTHERN IRELAND - AN inquiry will be held into historic institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland, First Minister Peter Robinson has announced. Victims of alleged clerical wrongdoing have campaigned for months for a probe similar to that which unmasked widespread cases in the Republic. The Ryan Report found that rape and sexual molestation were "endemic" in Catholic church-run industrial schools and orphanages in the Republic last year. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:37 AM • U.S. wants Perlitz behind bars for almost 20 years [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] CT Post Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer NEW HAVEN (CT) - Federal prosecutors blasted Douglas Perlitz's explanations for his conduct with homeless Haitian boys, calling him "a sexual predator" who traveled to the impoverished country because that's where "some of the world's most defenseless children reside." The prosecution team is asking U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton on Dec. 21 to sentence Perlitz, 40, an honored Fairfield University graduate whose humanitarian works once led one of his supporters to call him "the face of Christ on earth," to 19 years and seven months in prison. On Monday, David Grudberg and William F. Dow, III, Perlitz's lawyers, dropped a bombshell in reasoning how their client came to sexually abuse students at his Project Pierre Toussaint, a program to educate, feed and clothe homeless street boys in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city. The reasons, the lawyers wrote, include a "dark and abusive relationship," both "physical and spiritual," with an unnamed Fairfield University priest that began in 1988 and continued through the Haiti years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:34 AM • Sentencing Date for Ohio Valley Priest Postponed [Owino] The State Journal By Laurie Conway WEIRTON, WEST VIRGINIA - The sentencing for a local priest accused of sexual assault is now delayed. According to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the sentencing date for Father Felix C. Owino has been moved to Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. The original sentencing date was set for Friday, Dec. 17. Owino entered a guilty plea to aggravated sexual battery in Virginia circuit court in Fairfax County on September 29. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:31 AM • Abuse chapter to be published The Irish Times IRELAND - Sections of the Murphy report which deal with former priest Tony Walsh will be published today. A Department of Justice spokesman said yesterday it was bringing forward publication of the 40 page Chapter 19 from Monday as the task had turned out to be less complex than expected. The Murphy report followed a statutory inquiry into the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by church and State authorities in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese between 1975 and 2004. Chapter 19, as well as 21 other references to Walsh in the report, were withheld by order of Mr Justice Paul Gilligan in the High Court on October 15th, 2009, prior to publication of the report on November 26th, 2009. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:26 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Fri December 17, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sat December 18, 2010 edition:

• I wanted to see history from multiple points of view, says Ken Follett [RCC] DNA (India), By Sumit Chakraberty | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA; Published 2:44 IST, Sunday, Dec 19, 2010 Ken Follett is one of the world's wealthiest authors, having sold more than 100 million copies of his http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 174 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM books. His first big success was The Eye of the Needle in 1978, a spy thriller, but he has been turning out bestsellers even after moving to historical fiction. His latest money-spinner is a trilogy, the first part of which is an 850-pager published by Pan Macmillan called Fall of Giants. It covers the First World War and the Russian Revolution, an unlikely setting for a pop novel, you would have thought, but there are apparently a lot of readers out there who like to learn about great historical events even as they enjoy a gripping yarn. In an interview with DNA, Follett explains how he manages to combine a history lesson with fast-paced action. … Is the discussion on religion in the book also a way of connecting with talking points of the day like paedophilia in the church, which figures in one of the conversations? There's a glancing mention of paedophilia in the book. When Lev and Grigori are orphaned, they go to a priest for help and he attempts to abuse them. That's in there because that's exactly the kind of thing that happens to orphans. In this horrible scandal about Catholic priests and sexual abuse of children, some of the victims are orphans in Catholic orphanages. I wasn't trying to get at the church in the book, but I do feel very strongly that when children are abused, our first duty is to help the child. What happens in church is that the focus is on the priest. Can he be forgiven? Will he promise not to offend again? That's the wrong focus. We shouldn't be worrying about the priest; we should be worrying about the child. At present, the child doesn't get help, the priest doesn't get punished, and the matter is not reported to the police. And that's Vatican policy. So the man's name doesn't go on the register of sex offenders, and many of these priests have gone on to offend again, we know that. This is a terrible situation and the Pope must change it. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:50 PM

• Parole officer praises paedo priest [Anglican Church] Adelaide Now Nigel Hunt, Emily Watkins From: Sunday Mail (SA) December 18, 2010 AUSTRALIA - AN ex-parole officer has admitted providing a reference for a paedophile priest to be reinstated. Paedophile priest Wilfred Dennis was reinstated by the Anglican Church after one of the state's most senior parole officers wrote a glowing letter of endorsement direct to the then Archbishop of Adelaide, it has been revealed. The reference, which has been obtained by the Sunday Mail, urges former archbishop Dr Thomas Thornton Reed to "give favourable consideration" to returning Dennis to the ministry following the completion of his parole. The reference was written by Robin Durant, then the senior probation and parole officer with the Adult Probation and Parole Service, which is now known as the Community Corrections Division of the Correctional Services Department. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 PM

• 'Medewerking Bisschoppenconferentie onverkort van kracht' RKnieuws UTRECHT, NEDERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - Naar aanleiding van de publicatie over het archief van het bisdom Den Bosch in het NRC Handelsblad van zaterdag, laat de voorzitter van de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie, Mgr. A. van Luyn, weten dat de op 11 mei 2010 toegezegde medewerking aan het onderzoek van de Commissie Deetman onverkort van kracht is. In de verklaring van de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) en de Bisschoppenconferentie van 11 mei 2010 hebben de bisschoppen 'hun volledige medewerking' toegezegd. Daarnaast beloofden zij 'zich zonder terughoudendheid' in te spannen 'om alle relevante informatie voor de onderzoekscommissie beschikbaar te maken'. In overeenstemming daarmee hebben de bisschoppen en alle emeriti-bisschoppen zich bereid verklaard om met de onderzoekers van de Commissie Deetman te spreken. Afspraken daartoe zijn of worden op korte termijn gemaakt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:39 PM

• New York priest defrocked for child sex abuse [1970 Mons. Charles Kavanagh. RCC. Dismissed from the clergy. Minor. CNN, By Megan Miller, CNN NEW YORK (CNN) -- A high-ranking New York priest has been found guilty by a church tribunal of http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 175 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM NEW YORK (CNN) -- A high-ranking New York priest has been found guilty by a church tribunal of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s, according to a statement obtained Saturday from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Monsignor Charles M. Kavanagh was dismissed from the priesthood following the decision Wednesday by the tribunal, which was acting on authority from the Vatican. The accuser, a former seminary student of Kavanagh's, brought the case to the Manhattan district attorney in 2002. He then wrote to Edward Cardinal Egan, the former Archbishop of New York, informing him of his claim, according to the Office of Communications for the Archdiocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:55 PM

• Priest quits from over 'sex attack' allegations [RCC] Mail on Sunday By Mail On Sunday Reporter UNITED KINGDOM - A Catholic priest has stepped down from his job after being arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child. Monsignor Michael Smith, 63, the parish priest at Corpus Christi Church in Tonbridge, Kent, was arrested on December 7 and has been bailed pending further enquiries. The Archbishop of Southwark Peter Smith, who took Mass at the church last weekend, told the congregation that it was 'with great sadness' that he had to inform them that 'an allegation had been made against Monsignor Smith concerning a young person'. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:52 PM

• Mgr. Bluyssen zegt medewerking Deetman toe RKnieuws DEN BOSCH, NEDERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - Mgr. Bluyssen, emeritus-bisschop van het bisdom Den Bosch, heeft zijn volledige medewerking toegezegd aan het onderzoek van de Commissie Deetman. Hij verklaart alle informatie die hij heeft aan de onderzoekers beschikbaar te stellen. Een gesprek tussen de emeritus-bisschop en de voorzitter van de onderzoekscommissie is op korte termijn voorzien. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:59 PM

• Venom-spitters and bile-spewers [Baptist.] Stop Baptist Predator Christa Brown UNITED STATES - "I happen to be a family member of one of the higher ups in this church." That's how the comment began, and it deteriorated from there. The church this "family member of one of the higher ups" is talking about is Eden Westside Baptist Church in Pell City, Alabama. It's a church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. What set-off this "family member of one of the higher ups" was this prior post I did about one of Eden Westside's ministers who pled guilty to sexual abuse of a 14-year-old. I'm always a bit amazed when people think they can come onto my own blog, call me ugly names, and flat-out libel me. On my own blog. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:56 PM

• Why was pervert priest allowed to study at city school for two years alongside our children? [RCC]

Herald, By Cormac Byrne, Saturday December 18 2010 IRELAND - PAEDOPHILE ex-priest Tony Walsh was allowed to do a two-year course at a Dublin secondary school - to the horror of parents. The sex fiend attended Colaiste Ide College for Further Education in Finglas, at a campus used by teenagers. An irate parent contacted the Herald to say that Walsh had attended the college for two years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:43 PM

• Report reveals abuse by priest Mearns Leader, Published on Sat Dec 18, 2010 IRELAND - Convicted paedophile priest Tony Walsh fulfilled his sexual gratification by abusing young

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 176 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM boys every fortnight for eight years, a report reveals. Nicknamed Fr Filth, investigators revealed the defrocked cleric was probably the most notorious child sexual abuser they uncovered in Dublin Archdiocese. A once-censored chapter in a sickening report showed the first complaint of an attack on an eight-year- old boy was made against him within 48 hours of being assigned to his first parish in the capital in July 1978. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:40 PM

• Former bishop decides to cooperate with Deetman commission Radio Netherlands, NETHERLANDS -- Former bishop Jan Bluyssen says he will cooperate fully with an investigation into sex abuse in the Catholic church after all. In a report in today's edition of Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad that he shredded documents containing evidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church he said he would not talk to the commission. The former bishop now says he will meet the chairman of the inquiry, Wim Deetman, soon. Earlier today news broke from Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad and Radio Netherlands that the former bishop of the diocese of Den Bosch destroyed documentation on sex abuse cases in the 1970s. This was already made known to the Deetman Commission in September. Another archive on sex abuse from the 1990s is also missing. It is not clear how many other documents may have been destroyed. It is possible that the archives no longer contain any evidence of the wide-spread sex abuse of children in Catholic institutions. Former diocese archivist Jan Peijnenburg told NRC Handelsblad on Saturday, the the Deetman Commission could "come to see him but it wouldn't get anything out of it. And it wouldn't find anything in the archive." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:34 PM

• No Settlement Between Abuse Victims and Archdiocese Today's TMJ By Shelley Walcott MILWAUKEE (WI) - Settlement talks between the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and 24 plaintiffs in this clergy sex abuse case have reached a stalemate. In a letter posted on the Archdiocesan website, Archbishop Jerome Listecki said plaintiff's lawyers rejected a $4.6 million dollar settlement. But a spokesperson for abuse survivors says money is not their motivation. Peter Isley, director of the midwest chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is calling for the public posting of offenders' names, the release of files on abusive priests, and signed certified letters from every priest and deacon saying that they have not molested children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:32 PM

• Bisdom vernietigde dossiers seksueel misbruik NRC NEDERLAND - Het bisdom Den Bosch heeft decennialang dossiers over seksueel misbruik door priesters vernietigd. De belastende informatie lag opgeborgen in geheime archieven. Dat schrijft NRC Handelsblad vandaag. Oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen (84) en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg (74) bevestigen in de krant dat de geheime archieven vernietigd werden. De commissie-Deetman, die in opdracht van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk het misbruik onderzoekt, is in september geïnformeerd over de praktijken door de Nijmeegse historicus Eric Theloosen. De commissie reageerde destijds niet. NRC Handelsblad en de Wereldomroep beschikken over de verklaring die Theloosen toen naar de commissie stuurde. De krant schrijft vandaag: In de jaren zeventig werd door monseigneur Bluyssen belastende informatie over geestelijken versnipperd. De documenten zaten in een klein, geheim archief samengesteld door monseigneur Bekkers, Bluyssens voorganger. In de jaren negentig hield het bisdom, toen in opdracht van bisschop Jan ter Schure, er opnieuw een geheim archief op na. Ook dat is verdwenen. Al in de jaren dertig liet toenmalig bisschop Arnold Diepen stukken documenten verdwijnen over priesters die verwikkeld waren in een zedenzaak in

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• John Paul II protected two of the most notorious pedophile priests in his JP2 Army JPIIPPA, John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, Paris Arrow UNITED STATES - John Paul II must never be called a "saint" by children in this generation and all generations to come because he did absolutely NOTHING during his lifetime and his 26+ years papacy to protect them. In life, John Paul II did not protect children and therefore in death he cannot protect them either. John Paul II protected only his pedophile priests and he never protected children away from them. Today we receive proof from Ireland's Murphy Report that between 1975 and 2004 (he became Pope in 1978 until one year before his death in 2005) John Paul II refused to remove the most notorious Irish pedophile priest Tony Walsh. A newly released chapter of the Murphy Report into the handling of clergy sex abuse allegations in the Archdiocese of Dublin between 1975 and 2004 shows Cardinal Desmond Connell "begged" Pope John Paul II to dismiss an abusive priest from the priesthood. Another notorious serial pedophile priest whom John Paul II protected was Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who sodomized his own biological son. John Paul II knew Fr. Maciel personally very well but he preferred to keep a blind eye over his sodomy. The "Holy See" of John Paul II was marred by the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the thousands of pedophile priets named aptly after him as the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:24 PM

• In brief: Sex case priest has bail denied [McCabe] Herald, Saturday December 18 2010 USA and IRELAND - A US federal judge has denied bail to a priest who is fighting extradition to Ireland where he is wanted on sex abuse charges. Authorities here accuse Patrick Joseph McCabe of molesting six boys from 1973 to 1981. The San Francisco judge agreed with prosecutors who argued that McCabe was a flight risk if freed. McCabe also is the subject of several lawsuits by alleged victims in California. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:18 PM

• 'We let a wolf in': He seemed like the perfect preacher -- until his flock discovered his murder conviction. [Church of Christ] Washington Post By Neely Tucker, Sunday, December 19, 2010 HARRISONBURG, Va. - The Harrisonburg Church of Christ is an unlikely setting for a bedtime horror story, the kind of Southern Gothic tale involving murder and mendacity and money and treachery and, by many accounts, the handiwork of Satan himself. Nestled in a small town in the scenic Shenandoah Valley, the church situated on seven acres is a homey, one-story red-brick affair with a white steeple. There's a grassy yard perfect for hosting dinner on the grounds, a fellowship hall and a gravel parking lot. The people of the nondenominational church are few and mostly conservative and elderly. In the fall of 2008, this modest assembly needed a new minister. Its governing elders -- Robert Thomas, a retired lieutenant from the Virginia Department of Corrections, and Gary Rexrode, a retired builder -- were delighted to find that a man such as William M. Drumheller III was eager to take the job at $600 a week with free housing in the parsonage.The 66-year-old Virginia native was an ordained minister, held a master's in divinity degree, had served in the U.S. Navy and had run his own medical supply business. Tall, trim and bespectacled, with closely cropped gray hair and a steady blue-eyed gaze, "Bill" appeared soft of voice but firm of religious conviction, quoting scripture and sprinkling his speech with biblical observations. He laughed readily and shook hands firmly, appearing if not gregarious, then highly personable. The elders hired him immediately, and Drumheller and his wife, Joyce, moved from their North Carolina home into the church's parsonage. The new minister brought to the little congregation his gentle homilies, with titles such as "Overcoming Discouragement," and amusing, self-deprecating tales about his golf game and family life. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:27 AM

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• Allowing evil to flourish Irish Independent Saturday December 18 2010 IRELAND - All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. And that is what happened with child abuse in this country and especially, on the basis of the latest chapter of the Murphy Commission, in the Dublin archdiocese. Only it was worse. They not alone looked the other way, they passed the buck. They avoided responsibility. They allowed innocent, decent children to be raped and put in unimaginable peril. Evil flourished. Let there be no doubt about that. Serial paedophile priest Tony Walsh left a stream of horror, pain and life-long anguish in his wake. Walsh destroyed young lives. He preyed like a monster on unsuspecting children. The Murphy Commission described him as the "most notorious child sexual abuser" to come to its attention. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:31 AM

• Vatican Dismisses Local Priest [Kavanagh] NY1 {with video} NEW YORK - A New York priest has been dismissed by the Vatican after a church court found him guilty of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s. The New York Archdiocese first learned of the allegations against Monsignor Charles Kavanagh in 2002, when the accuser wrote a letter in to Edward Cardinal Egan, the then-archbishop. Kavanagh was removed from his priestly duties pending an investigation and trial. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:29 AM

• Victims praise new Northern Ireland church abuse probe Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, [email protected]), NORTHERN IRELAND - We're thrilled by this news and are confident the investigation will lead to more healing and less isolation for hundreds of deeply wounded individuals, many of whom are no doubt still suffering in shame and self-blame. This probe is long overdue. The very least that secular authorities can do, in any country, is look into and document the horrific crimes and cover ups perpetrated by Catholic figures in virtually every diocese. We are grateful that the investigation will also consider abuse in Protestant institutions as well. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:01 AM

• Vatican must help new gov. abuse probe, victims say Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, (314 566 9790, [email protected]), NORTHERN IRELAND - We call on Vatican officials, from the Pope on down, to cooperate fully with the just-announced Northern Ireland government investigation into clergy sex crimes and cover ups in that country. We were appalled to learn that the church hierarchy shunned Irish governmental authorities during the probe of the horrors caused by child molesting clerics and complicit bishops in that nation. Such intransigence must not be repeated. Nothing a single church bureaucrat says or promises about abuse will mean anything unless top church staff helps with this investigation. Words or pledges about what will allegedly help in the future mean nothing. Unearthing the cover ups of the past and present are what matter now. And if Pope Benedict's staff won't lend a hand with this probe, it's hard to believe they'll take even harder steps later. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:58 AM

• Conrad Black: Catholics persevere, despite the perverts and the press National Post Conrad Black December 18, 2010 CANADA - As the year comes to an end, it is hard now to remember the hysteria generated by the tawdry

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 179 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM and often appalling scandal of clerical abuse of young men in the Roman Catholic Church, between February and July. The New York Times appeared to be offering free visits to New York with city tours of all boroughs, capped by five-course dinners in five-star restaurants for anyone who could recall an indiscreet clerical hand on the knee from decades before. I repeat that it is a grievous problem, and there were many disgusting and shameful incidents. But this does not alter or diminish the fidelity, dedication and self-discipline of the 99% of Roman Catholic religious personnel who have served through living memory, throughout the world, with unblemished devotion; nor blight the education and care they gave to an approximately equal percentage of the scores of millions of children confided to them. All bad news for the Roman Catholic Church brings that Church's enemies swarming out like hornets whose nest has just been squirted with a garden hose. These include the litigators, the editorial mudslingers, the deep, thick, serried ranks of militant skepticism, to whom Rome is a Satanic bumble bee that infests the brave, aging secular world of utilitarian progress and the methodical human march toward a plenitude of knowledge. Earlier this year, they thought they saw the end, at last, of Rome's ghastly, tenebrous, saturnine that defies all laws of nature and reason by not simply crashing to the ground as the endlessly proclaimed laws of rational aerodynamics require. They were, as always, mistaken. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:38 AM [COMMENT: Another apologist, who doesn't see that church buildings being shuttered and/or sold is a symptom of declining numbers believing what the perverts have been telling them. ENDS.]

• No bail for Irish priest accused of sex abuse The Jerusalem Post ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec/18/2010 SAN FRANCISCO (CA) – A US federal judge on Friday denied bail to a priest who is fighting extradition to his native Ireland where he's wanted on sex abuse charges. Irish authorities have accused Patrick Joseph McCabe of molesting six boys from 1973 to 1981. The San Francisco judge agreed Friday with prosecutors who argued that McCabe is a flight risk if freed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:35 AM

• Clerical abuse victims urged to seek help TV3 18.Dec.10 IRELAND - Hundreds of victims of the defrocked paedophile priest Tony Walsh are being encouraged to seek help by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It follows the publication of a further chapter in the Murphy Report, which reveals how Walsh abused children in the 70s, 80s and 90s despite the knowledge of many priests, bishops and an archbishop. The chapter, which describes Walsh as the most notorious abuser ever to the come to the Commission's attention, had been withheld pending the resolution of criminal proceedings against him. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:31 AM

• Survey infuriates victims The Longdon Free Press (Canada), By Randy Richmond CANADA - The Liberal government has infuriated male sexual abuse victims and advocates by using an online survey – not promised face-to-face meetings – for feedback on its controversial new counselling program. Conservatives also attacked the online survey Friday, and demanded the province delay plans for the new program until male survivors are properly consulted. "These men have already been through enough," said Tory MPP Steve Clark (Leeds-Grenville). "To be referred to a website is insulting." Hundreds of abuse survivors, such as those living in poverty or in jail, will be unable to respond, and many others simply won't provide personal information to nameless bureaucrats, critics said. Even if people respond, there won't be time for the province to revise its plan in time. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:10 AM

• A Monsignor Is Defrocked for Abusing a Student [mONS. Kavanagh. RCC. ? seminarian.] The New York Times By PAUL VITELLO, Published: December 17, 2010

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NEW YORK - A once-influential Roman Catholic monsignor who oversaw fund-raising for the Archdiocese of New York, running the annual Alfred E. Smith political dinner during the tenure of Cardinal John J. O'Connor, has been removed from the priesthood after an eight-year church review of sexual abuse accusations against him, the archdiocese announced on Friday. The monsignor, Charles M. Kavanagh, 73, has denied the charges, which were brought against him by a former student at the former Cathedral Preparatory Seminary in Manhattan. The monsignor contested an archdiocesan review board's finding of guilt in 2003, then asked the Vatican to authorize a formal trial by a tribunal of priests from another diocese. When that body also found him guilty, he sought an appeal from a second tribunal. On Wednesday, the second tribunal concluded its review, ruling that Monsignor Kavanagh should be defrocked, said Joseph Zwilling, the spokesman for the New York archdiocese. The announcement was made after two days, late on a Friday afternoon, because "we have not dealt with this kind of situation before," Mr. Zwilling said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:06 AM

• Archdiocese took 17 years to report abuse priest to gardaí [Vatican overturned 1993 Tony Walsh defrocking] The Irish Times, PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent, IRELAND - DUBLIN'S CATHOLIC archdiocese did not report child abuse allegations against former priest Tony Walsh to the Garda until 17 years after it first received a complaint. During that period, Walsh was likely to have abused "hundreds of children", according to a chapter of the Murphy report published for the first time yesterday. The report also reveals how a decision by an Irish church tribunal to remove Walsh from the priesthood in 1993 was overturned by the Vatican on appeal. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:04 AM

• 'He was in loads of houses in Ballyfermot and nobody knew' The Irish Times, GENEVIEVE CARBERY and JAMIE SMYTH, IRELAND - THERE WAS a strong sense of disgust and betrayal yesterday in Tony Walsh's former parish of Ballyfermot as the details of his abuse and the church's handling of it emerged. Angela Copley, a community activist who supported victims of Walsh, said it was a very emotional day for all the victims and their families. She said she had met people, who had lost relatives through suicide at the time and she feared some of them could have been victims of Walsh. Billy, a local man in his 60s who did not want to give his full name, recalled with anger the photos he had at home of Walsh standing with his children as they made their First Holy Communion. "I never knew what he was up to. He was just another priest, otherwise he would never have got into any photographs. He was in my house, He was in loads of houses in Ballyfermot and nobody knew." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:02 AM

• 'Unacceptable' failure by gardaí to pursue inquiry The Irish Times PAUL CULLEN IRELAND - GARDA: THE COMMISSION says it is unacceptable that two gardaí who had concerns about Tony Walsh in 1990 and 1992 failed to pursue a thorough criminal investigation. It says that when an investigation "of sorts" got under way in 1991, it was shelved because the church was carrying out its own penal process. "The commission recognises that there was no specific complaint before the gardaí at that stage but there were at least three instances of concern." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:58 AM

• Bishop defends role in handling of church inquiry The Irish Times, DAN KEENAN and JAMIE SMYTH IRELAND - CHURCH REACTION: THE GARDA knew in 1991 that allegations against Fr Tony Walsh were being investigated by senior clergy, Bishop Willie Walsh has said. He told The Irish Times last night he understood the Garda was investigating the case and he defended his http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 181 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM handling of a church inquiry that he chaired into Walsh. The canonical inquiry, which was set up in March 1991, recommended in August 1993 that Walsh be removed from the priesthood. This he described as the most serious action which could be taken against a priest and he was "taken aback" by the subsequent decision by the Vatican to commute the penalty in June 1994. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:56 AM

• Six bishops [RCC] The Irish Times, IRELAND - What the report says about their roles in dealing with Walsh Archbishop Desmond Connell WHILE THE report is critical of Catholic Church inaction in relation to Tony Walsh's abuse, it says archbishop Desmond Connell acted decisively once be became archbishop. Dr Connell, who was archbishop from 1988 to 2004, was one of the first bishops in the modern world to initiate canonical trials, it says. His initiative to personally petition the pope to have Walsh dismissed was "a novel one that created a precedent". In 1995, he wrote that Walsh was a confirmed paedophile who was abusing minors even before his ordination. The report says he worked to have Walsh laicised in spite of "interference of his judicial vicar and the ". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:54 AM [RECAPITULATION :-) "Roman rats," ooops, "Roman rota" :-) ENDS.]

• Complaint 'hushed up', according to local priest The Irish Times PAMELA DUNCAN, IRELAND - FR MICHAEL CLEARY and CANON VAL ROGERS: ONE OF the first complaints against Tony Walsh was "hushed up" according to the parish priest of Ballyfermot at that time. The mother of a 14-year-old boy contacted canon Val Rogers in 1979 seeking action after her son alleged that he was abused by Walsh in 1978 and 1979. Although the abuse ended after the boy told his mother, the only action taken, according to the report, was for Fr Michael Cleary to go to the boy's house to "educate him on issues of male sexuality". The boy's mother told the commission that Fr Cleary also apologised. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:51 AM

• Senior cleric investigating Walsh 'evaded' telling gardaí of abuse The Irish Times RONAN McGREEVY IRELAND - MONSIGNOR ALEX STENSON: A SENIOR cleric did not tell gardaí of paedophile priest Tony Walsh's past when they questioned him, the Murphy report reveals. Msgr Alex Stenson, who is now the parish priest of Killester in Dublin, had been investigating Walsh's paedophile tendencies for six years when gardaí sought to interview him about a complaint in 1991 made by the parents of a young boy who Walsh had attempted to abuse. When asked by a garda if Walsh had a record of paedophilia, Msgr Stenson replied: "I evaded that but told him to proceed with whatever steps he thought he should take." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:49 AM

• Notorious priest 'likely to have abused hundreds' IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent PROFILE: TONY WALSH is described by the commission as "the most notorious child sexual abuser" to have come to its attention. "It is likely that he has abused hundreds of children," the report says. Walsh was born in 1954, and ordained in 1978. He had been a seminarian in Clonliffe College during which, it emerged many years later, he abused children there and at the home of another abuser Fr , to whose house he had a key. Two days after Walsh took up his first appointment as a priest, in July 1978 as a in Ballyfermot, a complaint was received in Archbishop's House that he had sexually abused an eight-year-old boy. That was alleged to have taken place in June 1978 at Fr Reynolds's house. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:46 AM

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• Archdiocese criticised for delay in confronting child abuser IRELAND The Irish Times PAUL CULLEN CHAPTER 19 FINDINGS: THE DUBLIN Archdiocese should have taken action years earlier against Tony Walsh, probably the most notorious child sexual abuser among its priests, according to the commission investigating clerical child sex allegations in the archdiocese. In a section of its overall report published yesterday, the commission says it is aware of more than 40 named people who complained of abuse by the former priest and notes that he admitted to abusing many others. The report says it is likely that he has abused hundreds of children. The section says there is no doubt that the archdiocese should have taken action at a much earlier stage, in 1979 at the latest. Walsh was not laicised until 1995. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:44 AM

• Scale of Walsh cover-up by church breathtaking IRELAND The Irish Times MARY RAFTERY ANALYSIS: The list of senior clerics who knew of Fr Tony Walsh's serial sexual abuse of children and did nothing to stop it is virtually endless THE SCALE of the cover-up by the Catholic Church of the crimes of Fr Tony Walsh, as finally revealed in chapter 19 of the Murphy report, is breathtaking. It is more extensive than any other single case dealt with in the main body of the report. Archbishops, bishops, chancellors, vicars general, parish priests – the list of senior clerics who knew of Walsh's serial sexual abuse of children is virtually endless. From the very first complaints brought to the archdiocese, a bare two days after Walsh's ordination in 1978, and for the succeeding 17 years, these pillars of the church sat on their detailed knowledge of Walsh's abominable predations on children, shielding him from the law, deliberately deciding to keep his crimes hidden from the civil authorities. In the course of those 17 years, until the archdiocese finally decided in 1995 to co-operate with Garda investigations, Walsh abused well over 100 children according to the chapter published yesterday. Here we find out that archbishops Dermot Ryan, Kevin McNamara and Desmond Connell all had detailed knowledge of Walsh's criminal activities. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM

• Church's sins of omission IRELAND - The Irish Times IN 1988, 10 years after the first complaint about Fr Tony Walsh's sexually predatory habits, the danger he represented was described unambiguously to the Dublin church by a psychologist from the Stroud treatment centre. Chancellor of the archdiocese Monsignor Alex Stenson noted his comments: "{Walsh} is extremely compulsive – there have been an awful lot of children involved, he is a very disturbed man. He is always going to be dangerous. He could not be let near schools, children, Confessions without a grille, etc. . .". By that stage in Walsh's career not only did the archdiocese know he was a serial abuser – it had known that since 1985 – but also how dangerous he was. His "pattern of behaviour", the Murphy report says , "is such that it's likely he has abused hundreds of children". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:36 AM

• Dutch bishops destroy child sex evidence [RCC] NETHERLANDS Radio Netherlands

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Dutch bishops destroyed incriminating evidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Secret archives of the diocese of Den Bosch, which showed that priests had committed abuse, were shredded. A statement by a Dutch historian says that a 1990s investigation of the diocese's archives revealed that documents pertaining to sexual abuse were missing. Copies of the statement are in the possession of Radio Netherlands Worldwide and daily NRC Handelsblad. Historian Eric Theloosen reported his findings to the Deetman Commission in September. The commission, which is investigating child sex abuse in the church, never sent a reaction to the historian. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:33 AM

• Priest Sex Abuse Victims Turn Down Money, Want Full Disclosure MILWAUKEE (WI) WISN MILWAUKEE -- The victims of sex abuse in Milwaukee want the release of all the archdiocese's records relating to sexual abuse by priests. The archdiocese said it's released all relevant records, but the plaintiffs said it's not enough. On Friday, one of the archdiocese's highest-ranking officials broke ranks to support the plaintiffs. "It is an action that I'm personally appalled by. As a priest, as a Catholic, as a bishop that even any of this ever happened," Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki said of the sexual abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:31 AM

• Vatican Shielded Dublin Priest Until He Raped Boy in Pub, Inquiry Says The New York Times, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Published: December 17, 2010 DUBLIN, IRELAND (AP) – The Vatican tried to stop church leaders here from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a restroom at a pub, according to an investigation released Friday. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said he fully accepted the findings of the latest chapter in Ireland's investigation into child abuse by priests in Dublin who were shielded from the law by Catholic leaders. Archbishop Martin called the priest, Tony Walsh, an "extremely devious man" who should never have been ordained. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:29 AM

• Irish report exposes 'most notorious' sex-abuse case IRELAND - Catholic Culture December 17, 2010 A priest who was "probably the most notorious child sexual abuser" in the Irish Catholic community remained active for years after Church leaders were aware of his misconduct, an official report shows. Tony Walsh was accused of molesting hundreds of children before he was finally laicized in 1996, according to the "Murphy Report" on sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese. Walsh, who was convicted last week on sex-abuse charges, was the focus of "Chapter 19" of the Murphy Report, which had been withheld from publication until the legal charges against Walsh were resolved. The Murphy Report shows that complaints about Walsh's abuse of children began in 1978, but officials in the Dublin archdiocese continued to cover up evidence of his misconduct, and transfer him to new parish assignments, until finally in 1993 Cardinal Desmond Connell sought to strip him of his priestly status. When the accused priest fought that action in canonical court, the Roman Rota ruled that instead of being laicized, Walsh should be assigned to a monastery for 10 years. Three years later, after Walsh (who had obviously not been confined to life in a monastery) faced new charges, the Vatican approved his laicization. In their coverage of the Walsh case, and the release of the previously secret Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report, most secular outlets blamed the Vatican for the failure to rein in the notorious pedophile priest. But while the Vatican's decisions can certainly be questioned, the historical record shows that Dublin archdiocesan http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 184 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM officials were aware of Walsh's predatory behavior for 15 years before the Vatican was asked to rule on a request for his laicization. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:26 AM

• Priest abuse was hidden for 16 years IRELAND - Belfast Telegraph {Chapter 19} By Ed Carty Saturday, 18 December 2010 A cardinal, several bishops and gardai in the Republic faced criticism today over revelations a serial paedophile priest was free to abuse for 16 years. A previously censored report revealed the Vatican wanted 'Fr Filth' Tony Walsh sent to a monastery for 10 years, while Dublin's Catholic hierarchy wanted him ordered out of the Church. The state inquiry revealed the archdiocese was more concerned about a Garda investigation into Walsh than the gardai themselves. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:22 AM

• The life and crimes of a notorious paedophile IRELAND - Irish Independent Saturday December 18 2010 1978 -- Tony Walsh ordained a priest. Two days after he was appointed to Ballyfermot Parish, Archbishop House receives a complaint he abused an eight-year-old boy. 1979 -- A 14-year-old boy alleges he was abused by Walsh. 1985 -- Walsh meets Monsignor Alex Stenson and admits abuse. He agrees to see a psychiatrist. 1986 -- Moved to Westland Row. He admits to abusing three children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:19 AM

• Cardinal: I won't resign over Smyth IRELAND - Irish Independent Saturday December 18 2010 Cardinal Sean Brady will not resign over his swearing to secrecy of two child victims of notorious paedophile Brendan Smyth 35 years ago, his spokesman said last night. The renewed call for resignation came in a UTV investigation from the last woman to be abused by Smyth in 1993, some 28 years after the then Fr Brady interviewed children about Smyth. The woman, who was abused when she was aged 12, said she would not have been raped by "the devil Smyth" if Fr Brady "had done his job" and reported Smyth to the gardai in 1975. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:14 AM

• Priest in child porn case may face more charges [1970s - 1991 Ex-Fr Oliver O'Grady. ~ 25 boys. He became "Brother Francis". Lawyer Jeff Anderson exposed Roman Catholic pension $800 per month, protecting Cardinal Roger Mahony. 2010 Child porn charge in Ireland.] Irish Independent, By Tom Tuite, Saturday December 18 2010 IRELAND - Additional charges could be brought against a defrocked priest accused of possession of thousands of pornographic images of children, some as young as two, a court heard yesterday. Oliver O'Grady (65), with an address at a hostel on Charlemont Street, in Dublin 2, was granted bail at Dublin District Court last Saturday following his arrest on December 10 and he was remanded to appear again yesterday. Detective Garda Johanna Doyle of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation confirmed that the adjournment was for directions to be obtained and the possibility of "further charges". Judge Patrick McMahon remanded O'Grady on continuing bail to appear again on January 28. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 AM

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• Nothing positive about report -- victim [RCC] Irish Independent, By Kevin Keane, Saturday December 18 2010 IRELAND - Abuse survivor Andrew Madden said last night the latest revelations about Tony Walsh were just another example of how the Catholic Church has covered up abuse. "What's shocking here is that so many children were sexually abused after the first allegations about Tony Walsh came to light in 1978. And yet he was free to continue sexually abusing children," Mr Madden said. He added that there was nothing positive that could be taken from the report. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:07 AM

• Probe into gardai's handling of abuse IRELAND - Irish Independent, By Shane Phelan, Saturday December 18 2010 GARDAI say allegations that members of the force failed to adequately react to instances of clerical sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese are being investigated. Senior officers made the comments after two unnamed gardai were heavily criticised by the Commission of Inquiry for failing to follow through on concerns they had about notorious paedophile priest Tony Walsh. A team of around 10 detectives is examining whether bishops, gardai and state officials have criminal cases to answer arising from the Murphy Report. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:05 AM

• Predator still living in about the damage he caused IRELAND - Irish Independent Saturday December 18 2010 Connell faced strong church opposition in his efforts to have Walsh defrocked Right up to the end, Tony Walsh, the defrocked, predatory priest who may have abused hundreds of children, remains in denial about the staggering scale of his paedophilia. Just before he received a 16-year sentence for abusing three young boys, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that he denied ever abusing John**. John, now 38, was just seven when he met Walsh in 1978. Walsh, newly ordained, had just been installed as a parish priest in Ballyfermot, Dublin. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 AM

• Church 'failed hundreds of children' over Walsh inaction Irish Independent By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Saturday December 18 2010 {Chapter 19} IRELAND - THE Catholic Church in Dublin failed hundreds of children by allowing a "most notorious child abuser" to continue his pattern of depraved sexual abuse for nearly two decades after first receiving complaints. Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin said last night that the church was "loved and respected" by parishioners who raised concerns about the activities of ex-cleric Tony Walsh, but it in turn "failed them". The Dublin diocese "acted as a world apart. It had often become self-centred and arrogant", said Dr Martin as he again apologised for the appalling litany of failings laid bare in a newly published chapter of the Murphy Report. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:58 AM

• Archdiocese of New York Releases Financial Report NEW YORK Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 18, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK RELEASES

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FINANCIAL REPORT The Archdiocese of New York today released a financial report on the services provided by the Archdiocese for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2009. Archdiocesan services represents a combination of 15 entities providing health and social services; pastoral and educational programs; and financial, administrative, and program support to parishes, schools, and other organizations of the Archdiocese. The financial report, presented to and approved by the Archdiocese's Finance Council, shows that the stewardship provided by the faithful has been well spent towards a variety of ends: feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, providing counseling and monetary assistance whenever possible, education, and many other services and ministries of the Archdiocese of New York. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:53 AM

• Statement Concerning Charles M. Kavanagh NEW YORK - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 17, 2010 A church court empowered by the Vatican has found Charles M. Kavanagh, ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of New York in 1963, guilty of acts of sexual abuse of a minor in the 1970's, and dismissed him from the priesthood. A canonical trial requested by Kavanagh and approved by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was conducted in 2004. That trial, which took place outside the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of New York, found Kavanagh guilty and imposed the most severe penalty possible, dismissal from the clerical state. Again at Kavanagh's request, the decision was then reviewed by a church appellate court, also outside the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese. This appellate court announced this week that it had upheld the lower court's decision. This decision of the appellate court cannot be appealed, and concludes a process that began over eight years ago. Edward Cardinal Egan, then the Archbishop of New York, first learned of the allegation in mid- May 2002 by way of a letter from the accuser, who had already submitted his accusation to the Manhattan District Attorney. Promptly after learning of the allegation, and after a preliminary investigation was conducted according to the policies of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archdiocese of New York, Kavanagh's priestly faculties were removed pending a resolution of the matter. He was directed not to engage in active ministry or in any way to present himself as a priest. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:50 AM

• NY priest removed from clergy after being found guilty of abusing former student NEW YORK New York Post By TIM PERONE The highest-ranking New York priest ever accused of abuse has been bounced from the clergy after a church court found him guilty of sexually abusing a former student, Catholic officials said yesterday. Monsignor Charles Kavanagh, who was the chief fund-raiser for the Archdiocese of New York, committed two lewd acts toward Daniel Donohue when the victim attended Cathedral Preparatory Seminary in Manhattan between 1978 and 1982, the archdiocese said. "I would like to take this occasion to renew our apologies to all those who have been harmed by the sin and crime of sexual abuse, and in particular to the gentleman who was the victim in this case," Archbishop Timothy Dolan said yesterday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:44 AM

• Rev. Marc Piché, 68; priest urged Cardinal Law to resign [Brave clergyman ahead of his time.] The Boston Globe, By Judy Rakowsky, Globe Correspondent / December 18, 2010 MASSACHUSETTS - The Rev. Marc Piché was a popular parish priest who welcomed female and adult altar servers before it was officially sanctioned and was among a cadre of Catholic clergy who urged Cardinal Bernard F. Law to step down amid the sexual abuse scandal. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 187 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Known for listening carefully to parishioners and for giving considered advice, Father Piché died Tuesday of liver cancer at a relative's home in Avon. He was 68. [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:38 AM, Dec 18, 2010] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sat December 18, 2010 • Catholic 'cover-up' [1970s-80s. Fr Tony Walsh*. 16yrs prison for 3 boys. Overall hundreds of boys.]

Catholic ‘cover-up’ The Sunday Times (Perth, W. Australia), letters § sundaytimes newsltd com au ; p 66, Sunday, December 19, 2010 DUBLIN: Catholic authorities covered up the activities of a notorious former priest who sexually abused hundreds of children in Ireland over almost two decades, a report said on Friday. A judicial commission described Tony Walsh as "probably the most notorious child sexual abuser" to have come to its attention during a probe of child sex abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin. The report strongly criticises the actions of the Vatican, the Dublin church authorities, and the police. This month, Walsh was jailed for 16 years, with four suspended, following his conviction for the sexual abuse of three boys in the late 1970s and early 1980s. #

[LOOK BACK: December 14, 2010. ENDS.] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm#catholic_cover_up [Dec 19, 2010] Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sun December 19, 2010 edition:

• Murphy Commission Report – Chapter 19 Tony Walsh. Summary IRELAND Bock the Robber {includes a timeline} By Bock Dec 19th, 2010 I have tried to summarise chronologically the recently published chapter 19 from the Murphy Report on the serial sex-abuser priest Tony Walsh, so that it can be digested more easily. Sometimes, as I went through the report, I was so horrified or disbelieving that I highlighted something in boldface so that I could come back to it. For example, I was staggered at the evidence of a Garda in 1991 who, even though a priest had called to him about a church inquiry into a sex abuser, was able to say that no specific complaint of sex abuse had been made. This garda informed a priest that there was no question of a prosecution and subsequently gave evidence to a diocesan inquiry, but never tried to have the rapist arrested. As you read through this chronology, you might find yourself astounded at the inability of the bishops and priests to recognise that they were dealing with a serious criminal. You might be astounded at the attitude of Gerard Sheehy, a cleric who considered it outrageous that the bishop should consider telling the police a priest was raping children. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 PM

• Murphy report prompts concerns that five priests were part of Dublin paedophile ring IRELAND Sunday Tribune John Downes, News Investigations Correspondent A newly released section of the Murphy report has detailed for the first time how five of the country's most notorious clerical child abusers forged close links with one another as they raped and molested their victims. The revelation, which prominent abuse survivor Andrew Madden said "sends a chill down the spine", has prompted fresh concerns about the existence of a paedophile ring within the Dublin archdiocese at the time. The five priests involved are the Ballyfermot-based "singing priest" Fr Tony Walsh, who was the subject of chapter 19 of the report published last Friday, Fr Bill Carney, Fr Noel Reynolds, Fr Francis McCarthy and Fr Patrick Maguire. A previously unpublished section of the main Murphy commission report, which along with the whole of chapter 19 was

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• Vatican't is finished but true believers can still save faith IRELAND Irish Independent Sunday December 19 2010 AS the two-thousand-and-tenth birthday of Christ approaches, it seems worthwhile to examine the spiritual condition and worthiness of those who claim to represent Christ on our behalf, though they know well Christ doesn't need a representative. Early in the year we were scandalised by the Bishop of Ferns, who, in a suicidal act of luminous offence, actually dared to declare in a public statement that in the five years since the publication of the (which was our first real inkling of the horror), the diocese had had to fork out so much money to victims and lawyers that it was broke and the Irish people had "a God-given responsibility" to help pay. He actually dared to suggest that if we told him "go fuck yourself", that would not be true Christian behaviour! As if he had a right to talk about Christian behaviour. His house had to be re-mortgaged, he said to reporters. When the whole shagging country was in the same boat. Poor Diddums. There is not a chance on earth that "The Vatican't" (as I prefer to call it), so rich from little old ladies giving their last frightened pence, did not know of this plan. That was when we decided to stand up for ourselves. And I decided to stand up and fight for the honour of the Holy Spirit. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 PM

• Questions remain as eyes turn to two serving bishops and canon lawyers IRELAND The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent ANALYSIS: Chapter 19 reveals that by March 1985, seven priests were aware of concerns about Walsh TWO SERVING bishops have familiar questions to answer following publication last Friday of parts of the Murphy report which dealt with former priest Tony Walsh. They are John McAreavey and Auxiliary Bishop Éamonn Walsh. Bishop McAreavey, who as a canon lawyer sat on the tribunal which defrocked Tony Walsh in 1993, has remained silent since chapter 19 and relevant sections of chapter 4 of the Murphy report were published last Friday. He has yet to explain why he made no effort to report Walsh's known criminal behaviour to the gardaí then or afterwards. Others who served on the tribunal with him from January 1992 were the recently retired Willie Walsh and the late Fr Paddy Corcoran. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:31 PM

• Prayers said at Mass for victims IRELAND The Irish Times FIONA GARTLAND VICTIMS: PRAYERS WERE said for the victims of jailed former priest Tony Walsh at Mass yesterday in Ballyfermot, Dublin. At Our Lady of Assumption Church on Kylemore Road, parish priest Fr Michael O'Kelly asked the congregation to pray for all those affected by the revelations earlier in the week. Chapter 19 of the Murphy report into child sexual abuse in the Dublin diocese relating to Walsh was finally published last Friday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:28 PM

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• Support groups report rise in calls The Irish Times, KITTY HOLLAND, PATSY McGARRY and PADDY AGNEW in Rome IRELAND - ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING victims of childhood sexual abuse have reported a high volume of calls for help over the weekend, following publication of the Murphy report chapter about paedophile former priest Tony Walsh. Publication of the chapter was approved after Walsh, who was previously jailed for sexually abusing six boys, was sentenced to 16 years for abusing a further three victims. In Rome, the Holy See yesterday had no wish to comment on the previously redacted Murphy Report chapter. Senior Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said: "I have nothing to add to the comments made by the Archbishop of Dublin . . ." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:26 PM

• SFA SNARED IN NEW ROW OVER OFFENSIVE JOKE SCOTLAND - Express By Dean Herbert A NEW row is about to erupt at the SFA after it was alleged that bosses laughed at another e-mail joke about child abuse in the Catholic church. Staff sacked over an "insulting" e-mail about the Pope, say that senior managers circulated an even more offensive message containing a spoof advertisement. Four staff were recently fired by Scotland's football governing body for forwarding an e-mail branding the Pontiff a danger to children on the day of his visit to Scotland in September. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:22 PM

• Synodal Investigation Commission begins work CANADA/UNITED STATES Pokrov Date Published: 12/13/2010 Publication: Orthodox Church in America website SYOSSET, NY {OCA} -- The Investigation Commission mandated by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America to investigate allegations against His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim of Ottawa and Canada, met via conference call in early December 2010. His Grace, Bishop Tikhon of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, chairs the Commission, while Archpriest Richard Hawrish and Mr. David Grier serve as coordinator and secretary respectively. Other Commission members include His Grace, Bishop Melchisedek, Protopresbyter Mironne Klysh, Dr. Lila Amirali, and Dr. Thomas Kolivakis. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 PM

• SFA bosses are linked to 'even worse' e-mail than Pope slur Scotsman By Tristan Stewart-Robertson Published Date: 20 December 2010 SCOTLAND - ANOTHER sectarian e-mail row has erupted over messages allegedly circulated at the Scottish Football Association. Four staff sacked for passing a previous e-mail about the Pope will now appeal against the decision and claim their bosses laughed at an even more offensive message. A video clip, from a US comedy website, features a boy who suffers a sex attack by a priest but is then protected by "Priest Off" spray. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 PM

• LYNN PETRUSKA SPEAKS OUT [Nun was persecuted for exposing sexual misconduct.] Berger's Beat ST. LOUIS (MO) - Barrister Lynette Petruska, who works at Chet Pleban's law firm, is a former nun who once served as chaplain at Gannon University in Erie, PA. That's where she says she experienced injustice and discrimination after opposing sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct committed by priests at http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 190 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM the school. Last year, in cooperation with a lay Catholic reform group, The Voice of the Faithful (VOTF.org), Petruska set up the Emily and Rosemary Fund to "support women working in the Catholic Church who face financial hardship as a result of discrimination and injustice in the church." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:03 PM

• Defense downplays threats by Perlitz against two federal prosecutors [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] CT Post Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer Published: 02:31 p.m., Sunday, December 19, 2010 NEW HAVEN (CT) - Lawyers for Douglas Perlitz downplayed threats and disparaging remarks he, and a younger brother, made against two federal prosecutors in telephone conversations recorded last summer at the Wyatt Federal Detention Center in Rhode Island.. Instead, David Grudberg and William F. Dow, III, Perlitz's lawyers blamed the heated comments on emotion and frustration stemming from the defendant's arrest, detention and eventual conviction for sexually abusing homeless Haitian boys in a program he established to help them. "The fact remains, however, that the (criminal justice) process often is taxing and frustrating, especially for those in custody," explained Grudberg, who will try to convince U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton that Perlitz deserves much less than the nearly 20 year sentence prosecutors are demanding. "This frustration and emotion often leads parties affected by the process to vent in any number of ways -- against their lawyers, against the justice system or against the prosecution…it is vital to differentiate between expressions of frustration and a genuine plot to do harm." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:09 PM

• Zeichen setzen und Stachel im Fleisch der Gesellschaft werden Shatter Our Silence DEUTSCHLAND - Dazu dient diese Grafik. Sie verdeutlicht: Der Staat und die Kirchen haben sich ein zweites Mal an den ehemaligen Heimkindern vergangen. Der Tag ihres Vergehens ist fest markiert: 13. 12. 2010. Wo immer auch diese Grafik erscheint, wird an diese Schande erinnert. Denn das ist jetzt das wichtigste Anliegen der Täterseite: den Mantel des Vergessens um diesen Skandal zu legen. Sie wollen zur Tagespolitik zurückkehren und dieses Thema nie wieder im Munde führen. Auch die Presse soll den Sündenfall vom 13. Dezember ganz schnell abhaken. Drei schwache Opfervertreter von Vollmers Gnaden wurden öffentlich vorgeführt. Sie klammern sich an ein Versprechen, das im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ein Ver-sprechen ist. Dass der Fond keinen Deckel hat, bei Bedarf neu gefüllt werden kann, glauben nur einfältige Menschen. In fünf Jahren werden vielleicht noch einmal 10 Mio. Euro nachgeschoben, weil Pastorin Vollmer von ihrem Altersruhesitz aus noch einmal den Moralapostel spielt und an eine Zusage erinnert, die ein juristisches Windei ist; ein Rechtsanspruch besteht nicht. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:05 PM

• Tears of the Virgin Mary meet the Smoke of Satan Ministry Values, By Stephen Ryan, December 19, 2010 Tears of the Virgin Mary meet the Smoke of Satan - Were the Weeping Statues of Seton a prelude to the sex abuse crisis? "When tears shed by Marian images are declared miraculous by the church, they take on an almost cosmic significance. They show concern for events past and forewarn of dangers to come." Agostino Bono -The Catholic Herald UNITED STATES - Malachi Brendan Martin Ph.D. a Catholic priest, theologian, writer on the Catholic Church, and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute wrote in his 1990 non-fiction best seller "The Keys of Blood" that a "superforce" along with the smoke of Satan had entered the Vatican. He writes: "Most frighteningly for Pope John Paul II, he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops' chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the 'superforce.' Pope Paul VI had alluded somberly to 'the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary'. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia–rites and practices– was already documented among certain bishops and

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• High-Ranking NY Priest Defrocked For Molestation NEW YORK Gothamist The highest ranking New York-based priest accused of molestation was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager by a church tribunal last week. Monsignor Charles Kavanagh, who formerly led St. Raymond's parish in the Bronx, and was the chief fund-raiser for the Archdiocese of New York, was dismissed from the clergy following the guilty verdict on Friday. "I would like to take this occasion to renew our apologies to all those who have been harmed by the sin and crime of sexual abuse, and in particular to the gentleman who was the victim in this case," said Archbishop Timothy Dolan. In 2002, Daniel Donohue came forward after 30 years to accuse Kavanagh of abuse while he attended Cathedral Preparatory Seminary in Manhattan. Kavanagh was found guilty of two lewd acts against Donohue; Kavanagh allegedly jumped on top of Donohue while the teen was lying on a rectory couch, and climbing into his hotel bed, wearing just his underwear, while they attended a pro-life rally in DC in the '70s. Donohue told the Post that he had been haunted by the abuse for years: "My poor wife has seen my suffering and my screaming in the night." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:47 PM

• SNAP: Milwaukee Archdiocese Offer "Bribe" MILWAUKEE (WI) WHBL MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests calls a cash offer from the Milwaukee Archdiocese a bribe – unless the church agrees to other concessions. A spokesman for SNAP says the group also wants the archdiocese to be more transparent. And, it wants every priest to sign a document saying he's never sexually abused a child. The archdiocese had offered $4.6 million to resolve lawsuits filed by 16 alleged victims. The group says the settlement was rejected because money is secondary to other concerns. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:07 PM

• More German Catholics leave scandal-plagued flock GERMANY - Deutche Welle, Tens of thousands of German Catholics cancelled their church membership in 2010 - considerably more than in 2009 - taking their automatic tax donations with them. The recent abuse scandals motivated many church-leavers. Thousands more German Catholics have left their church this year than in 2009, with the recent string of sexual abuse revelations and other public scandals apparently motivating many people's decisions. Recent studies by the Frankfurter Rundschau daily and the dpa news agency concur that the country's Catholic churches have lost considerably more members in 2010 than in recent years. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:46 PM

• More cover-up allegations over paedophile priests Digital Journal IRELAND - It's being claimed that the Vatican prevented a dangerous paedophile priest from being

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• Father Vasile Susan Wins Critical Motions in Civil Suit [Orthodox Church of America] Pokrov, Date Published: Dec/17/2010 Related Document: Order 12-3-2010 Related Document: Garklavs Emails OCA Spends $20,000 Trying to Quash Subpoena UNITED STATES - On December 3, 2010, Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird ruled that the Chancery Court of Cook County, Illinois, had subject matter jurisdiction over the lawsuit filed by Father Vasile Susan against the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America (ROEA) and Archbishop Nathanial Popp. Kinnaird also refused to quash the subpoena that Susan's attorneys had served on the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), Jonah Paffhausen. Commenting on his victory, Susan told Pokrov.org, "In the USA the civil court proceedings and documents are showing transparency, openness and are records for the interested public. This is the reason why I think that it will be in the best interest of the ROEA and OCA membership, as clergy and laity, to know the hidden truth. We truly believe in God, and we trust our American Justice System. Our transparency demonstrates our openness for the truth which will set us free." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:50 AM

• Bishop Vikentios Levels Shocking Charges Against Metropolitan Paisios [Orthodox Christian. Own brother, nun.] Pokrov, Publication: The National Herald (USA), Author: Theodore Kalmoukos, Dec/19/2010 NEW YORK - Bishop Vikentios of Apameia has made stunning allegations about Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana tenure at the Saint Irene Chrysovalantou Monastery and its Dependencies in Astoria, N.Y., including charges that the Metropolitan sexually abused the Bishop's brother, Spyros Malamatenios, who was 17 at the time. In a long interview with The National Herald, Bishop Vikentios (Malamatenios), a close associate of Metropolitan Paisios (Loulourgas) for 40 years and co-founder of the Monastery, outlined a sordid tale of sex and other alleged wrongdoings. In the lengthy interview - which was taken on tape - live and unconditionally at the Headquarters of TNH in New York, Bishop Vikentios made revelations of alleged serious excesses by the Metropolitan, including that he was involved with people of both sexes, including the young nun, Christonymphi, who now has given up the Monastic vows and talked to the police. Bishop Vikentios also revealed that, according to his information, the former nun had been pregnant but did not know by whom. Simultaneously, Bishop Vikentios asked "forgiveness from the victims' of Paisios," at least one of whom, Andreas Georgiou, is already launching a lawsuit against the Monastery and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Other alleged victims are expected to follow. The Metropolitan left the Monastery after submitting two letters of resignation in October, citing health reasons, and returned to Athens, Greece. TNH called him at his residence there on Dec. 11 to give him the opportunity to comment on the allegations and the Bishop's entire interview, but when the Metropolitan heard who the call was from he hung up the phone. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:46 AM

• Archdiocese apologizes for Lowell pastor's criticism of abuse allegations LOWELL (MA) Lowell Sun By Lisa Redmond and Robert Mills, Sun Staff Updated: 12/19/2010 LOWELL -- On Dec. 11, Monsignor Stanislaw Kempa stood at the pulpit at Holy Trinity Church and http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 193 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM called several unidentified men "cowards" for accusing the church's former pastor of abusing them decades ago. Yesterday afternoon, a high-ranking bishop with the Archdiocese of Boston was sent to the parish to read a letter of personal apology from Cardinal Sean O'Malley. Bishop Peter Uglietto celebrated Mass in place of pastor Kempa in the church at 340 High St., reading the letter aloud before about 50 parishioners. He said O'Malley wished to read the letter himself but was unable to attend. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:57 AM

• Missbrauch und Mixa: Aderlass für die Kirche DEUTSCHLAND Mittelbayerische Frankfurt/Main. Nach Bekanntwerden des Missbrauchskandals sind dieses Jahr mehrere Zehntausend Gläubige aus der katholischen Kirche ausgetreten. Besonders groß ist der Aderlass nach einer Umfrage der Nachrichtenagentur dpa im Bistum Augsburg, wo der damalige Bischof Walter Mixa im Frühjahr einräumen musste, als Stadtpfarrer Heimkinder geschlagen zu haben. Hier verließen von Januar bis Mitte Dezember 11.351 Menschen die Kirche. Im Vorjahr waren es 6953 gewesen. Noch dramatischer ist die Entwicklung laut „Frankfurter Rundschau" im Bistum Rottenburg-Stuttgart, wo bis Mitte November 17.169 Katholiken ihrer Kirche den Rücken kehrten (2009: 10.619). Im Bistum Trier traten dem Bericht zufolge 7029 Mitglieder bis Mitte November aus (2009: 4583). Im Bistum Würzburg waren es laut dpa-Umfrage bis Oktober 5484 (2009: 3788) und im Bistum Osnabrück bis November 2817 (2009: 2100). Das Bistum Bamberg rechnet bis zum Jahresende mit rund 6000 Austritten (2009: 3991). Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:52 AM

• D: Missbrauchs-Fall im Erzbistum Berlin? Radio Vatikan, DEUTSCHLAND - Gegen den katholischen Pfarrer der Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde in Tegel gibt es einen Missbrauchsverdacht. Das teilte das Erzbistum Berlin an diesem Sonntag mit. Seit November sei der Priester nicht mehr in der Gemeinde tätig. Der Vorfall soll sich in den 90er Jahren ereignet haben. Nach Angaben des Erzbistums handelt es sich um einen „minderschweren Vorwurf". Den Vorwurf habe ein anonymer Anrufer über die Hotline der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz erhoben, sagte der Missbrauchsbeauftragte des Erzbistums, Dompropst Stefan Dybowski. Kardinal Georg Sterzinsky habe eine Untersuchungskommission eingesetzt und eine Voruntersuchung angeordnet. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:49 AM

• Fresh Catholic church abuse allegations, as leave in droves GERMANY Monsters and Critics Berlin - New allegations of sexual child abuse by Catholic clergy surfaced in Berlin on Sunday - as it emerged that thousands of Germans had left the church in the wake of this year's abuse scandal. A caller to an abuse hotline set up by the Catholic church alleged that a Berlin priest had abused minors in the 1990s, the church said. The diocese of Berlin had launched investigations and placed the priest on temporary leave, the diocese added. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:46 AM

• Perv priest slaps probe NEW YORK New York Post http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 194 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN The highest-ranking New York priest ensnared in the Catholic Church sex scandal was never asked for his side of the story by the district attorneys investigating him, the clergyman's sister claimed yesterday. Monsignor Charles Kavanagh -- defrocked Wednesday after the church concluded that he sexually abused a former student decades ago -- told his sister, Anne Mandt, that the neither the Manhattan, Bronx or Westchester DA ever contacted him. "If somebody had asked him these questions . . . they would have found out that it's a flat-out lie," Mandt said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM

• Het geheime archief in de kast van de bisschop NEDERLAND NRC Dossiers met meldingen van misbruik door priesters werden bijgehouden om vernietigd te worden Voor het eerst zijn er concrete aanwijzingen dat kerkelijke archieven in Nederland zijn geschoond. Meldingen van misbruik zijn zo verloren gegaan. Bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg was openhartig toen hij op 26 oktober 1990 met historicus Eric Theloosen sprak. Nijmegenaar Theloosen was in het bisschoppelijk archief in Den Bosch voor onderzoek naar de Heilig Landstichting in zijn woonplaats. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:38 AM

• A face likes his belies this kind of crime [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. Guilty plea. ? 18 boys.] CT Post, CONNECTICUT - Doug Perlitz has a face like "Christ on Earth." That's how Perlitz's lawyers say supporters describe him. Let's mull this over. This is an admitted child abuser. He traded food - basic human sustenance and shelter - to homeless Haitian boys, street kids, for sex. That's depraved. There's nothing Christ-like about that. All the while he ran the Project Pierre Toussaint school, Perlitz dispensed little that came without strings attached. He built a charity. And he used it to rake in donations from well-intending and unsuspecting supporters to feed what he craved: forcible sex with some of the poorest, most downtrodden and vulnerable children in the world. That's rape. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM

• 'Chapter 19' release sees same pain, and same excuses [RCC] Irish Independent, Sunday December 19 2010 IRELAND - The attitude of the church to clerical child abuse has not changed and it never will, says a furious Emer O Kelly It will never change. They have not changed, and will never change. The "missing" chapter of the report on how the Dublin Catholic Archdiocese enquired into child abuse by priests makes heartbreaking reading - the same, terrible, familiar heartbreak, the same helpless sense of being unable to offer comfort to those whose pain is weary and repetitive as they live their broken lives. The victims of those men in black who lived and smirked as they destroyed - all the while being protected by the other men in black supposedly dedicated to eternal truth and love - must go on weeping while excuses are made for the men who preyed on those victims. The predators are exemplified by the name Tony Walsh, a former "singing priest" and the chilling subject of Chapter 19 of Judge Yvonne Murphy's report, a chapter held sub judice until now because the State did not wish to prejudice its case for having the creature called Tony Walsh taken off the streets. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:32 AM

• Why Not Give Compensation to those Who Suffered?

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The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing; Virginia Jones, Friday, December 17, 2010 UNITED STATES - … And then my thoughts turn to another human made disaster - the disaster of abuse. My first thoughts were about clergy abuse survivors. Wikileaks revealed that the Vatican, while one side professing concern for survivors, took offense that they might be investigated by a commission investigating clergy abuse in Ireland. Once again the concern is for those who hold power and prestige and not those who are wounded. Jesus said, "What so ever you do for the least of these, you do for me." In the expanded version of that saying -- in the Gospel of Matthew 24: 35-46, Jesus actually says that you will go to hell if you don't give to those in need or visit those who are sick or in prison. I think many Catholics are afraid of losing their churches and their schools, but one of the most dynamic parishes I've ever seen was St. Juan Diego here in Portland, which managed without a church building for 6 years or so. The people of the parish lived the saying, "The church is the people." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:27 AM

• Scottish Football Association chiefs accused over second child abuse spoof Daily Record, Exclusive by Russell Findlay, Sunday Mail, Dec 19 2010 SCOTLAND - A SECOND email making jokes about child abuse will reignite civil war at the Scottish Football Association, we can reveal. At an appeal on Wednesday, staff sacked for passing on an email about the Pope will claim bosses laughed at an even more offensive message. One source said: "They are furious and think they are the scapegoats for this. The SFA tried to make it look as if they have acted decisively but it seems they have opened a huge can of worms instead. ..." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:23 AM

• Institutional child abuse and the making of amends Shatter Our Silence GERMANY - A shameful compensation offer for abused and exploited former German children and juvenile inmates of state and church correctional and industrial Homes and Institutions. Two generations of children and teenagers being confined in foster-home and correctional schools, confined in church institutions or state institutions of one kind or another, institutions for the detention of children and minors - an estimated 3,500 such institutions in total existed in postwar West-Germany in the late 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, up until the mid 1980s ! Even according to conservative estimates we have contributed billions of Euros to the GDP of Germany. This was done while we were children, working with our small bodies at great cost to our health, well being, education and our own prosperity. The vast majority of us were never allowed to go to good schools while we labored. As a result, we could not study or even learn a skill that would grant us the chance of gainful employment. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:20 AM

• Media's Double Standard Continues When Reporting Child Sex Abuse UNITED STATES NewsBusters By Dave Pierre | December 18, 2010 Here are two stories from this past week: 1. "A {newly released} General Accountability Office (GAO) investigation has found that people with histories of sexual misconduct are still getting hired by school systems across the {United States} … The biggest problem may be 'passing the trash.' These were cases GAO found in which school systems just let suspected sexual offenders resign, and even wrote them glowing letters of recommendation, so they could find teaching jobs elsewhere."

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2. "The Dublin (Ireland) Archdiocese should have taken action years earlier against Tony Walsh, probably the most notorious child sexual abuser among its priests, according to {a} commission investigating clerical child sex allegations in the archdiocese." The Church laicized Walsh (removed him as a priest) in 1995. Which story did the New York Times completely ignore? Which story returns 110 results and 507 news articles on Google News, while the other returns only 6 results and 43 news articles? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 AM

• Nederlandse bisschop vernietigde dossiers rond seksueel misbruik NEDERLAND hcvl Het Nederlandse bisdom van Den Bosch heeft jarenlang dossiers rond seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk vernietigd. Dat bekende oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen. De 84-jarige Bluyssen en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg (74) bevestigen aan NRC Handelsblad dat geheime archieven vernietigd werden. Bluyssen versnipperde in de jaren 70 belastende informatie. Ook in de jaren 90 werd een geheim archief verwijderd. "Ik heb het weggegooid. Het was voorbij, de zaken waren afgewerkt. Dat er nog een vraag over zou komen, daar heb ik toen niet bij stil gestaan. Maar er zat weinig interessants bij, daarom vond ik toen ook dat het wel weg kon. Ik zal niet ingaan op een verzoek hierover te spreken. Ik weet er verder ook weinig meer van", bekende Bluyssen in de Nederlandse krant. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:14 AM

• Nederlandse bisschop vernietigde dossiers rond seksueel misbruik NEDERLAND Gazet Van Antwerpen Het Nederlandse bisdom van Den Bosch heeft jarenlang dossiers rond seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk vernietigd. Dat bekende oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen. De 84-jarige Bluyssen en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg (74) bevestigen aan NRC Handelsblad dat geheime archieven vernietigd werden. Bluyssen versnipperde in de jaren 70 belastende informatie. Ook in de jaren 90 werd een geheim archief verwijderd. "Ik heb het weggegooid. Het was voorbij, de zaken waren afgewerkt. Dat er nog een vraag over zou komen, daar heb ik toen niet bij stil gestaan. Maar er zat weinig interessants bij, daarom vond ik toen ook dat het wel weg kon. Ik zal niet ingaan op een verzoek hierover te spreken. Ik weet er verder ook weinig meer van", bekende Bluyssen in de Nederlandse krant. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:11 AM

• Nederlandse bisschop vernietigde misbruikdossiers NEDERLAND Het Nieuwsblad Het bisdom van het Nederlandse Den Bosch heeft jarenlang dossiers rond seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk vernietigd. Emeritus-bisschop Jan Bluyssen gaf aan NRC Handelsblad toe dat hij de belastende informatie in de jaren zeventig versnipperd heeft. De informatie lag opgeslagen in geheime archieven. Oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen (84) en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg (74) bevestigen in de krant dat de geheime archieven vernietigd werden. Ook een ander geheim archief dat in de jaren negentig werd samengesteld is weg. 'Ik heb het weggegooid. Het was voorbij, de zaken waren afgewerkt', aldus de 84-jarige bisschop Bluyssen in NRC. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 AM

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Het bisdom van het Nederlandse Den Bosch heeft jarenlang dossiers rond seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk vernietigd. Emeritus-bisschop Jan Bluyssen gaf aan NRC Handelsblad toe dat hij de belastende informatie in de jaren zeventig versnipperd heeft. De informatie lag opgeslagen in geheime archieven. Oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen (84) en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg (74) bevestigen in de krant dat de geheime archieven vernietigd werden. Ook een ander geheim archief dat in de jaren negentig werd samengesteld is weg. 'Ik heb het weggegooid. Het was voorbij, de zaken waren afgewerkt', aldus de 84-jarige bisschop Bluyssen in NRC. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:06 AM

• Commissie Deetman bevestigt verdwijnen archieven NEDERLAND Kerknieuws De onderzoekscommissie-Deetman zegt dat er inderdaad een verklaring is binnengekomen over verdwenen spraakmakende archieven binnen het bisdom Den Bosch. De verklaring wordt betrokken bij het wetenschappelijk onderzoek onder leiding van oud-minister Wim Deetman. Dat zei de woordvoerder van de commissie zaterdag. Volgens de woordvoerder start de onderzoekscommissie "binnenkort" met het archiefonderzoek binnen bisdommen, congregaties en ordes. Volgens NRC Handelsblad stuurde historicus Eric Theloosen enkele maanden geleden een verklaring naar de onderzoekscommissie, waarin staat dat oud-bisschop Bluyssen spraakmakende dossiers vernietigde in de jaren zeventig. Emeritus-bisschop Bluyssen heeft dat toegegeven aan NRC. In de dossiers stond informatie over onder meer seksueel misbruik door priesters. Ook een geheim archief samengesteld door oud-bisschop Jan ter Schure in de jaren negentig is verdwenen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:04 AM

• Bisdom Den Bosch versnipperde dossiers seksueel misbruik NEDERLAND Blik Op Nieuws Den Bosch - Tientallen jaren lang heeft het bisdom Den Bosch dossiers over seksueel misbruik door priesters vernietigd. Dit schrijft NRC Handelsblad op basis van verklaringen van de 84-jarige oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris, de 74-jarige Jan Peijnenburg. Oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen versnipperde die belastende informatie in de jaren zeventig. Volgens Bluyssen heeft hij de dossiers weggegooid omdat de zaken waren afgewerkt. Hij zegt er nooit bij stil te hebben gestaan dat er nog vragen zouden kunnen komen. 'Maar er zat weinig interessants bij, daarom vond ik toen ook dat het wel weg kon.', aldus Jan Bluyssen in de krant. Jan Bluyssen was bisschop van Den Bosch tussen 1966 en 1983. In de krant staat verder dat ook een geheim archief uit de jaren negentig, samengesteld door oud-bisschop Ter Schure, weg is. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:01 AM

• Oud-bisschop wil praten over vernietigen stukken NEDERLAND Trouw (Novum) - Emeritus-bisschop Jan Bluyssen spreekt op korte termijn met voorzitter van de commissie die het misbruik binnen de katholieke kerk in Nederland onderzoekt Wim Deetman. Dat meldt het bisdom Den Bosch zaterdag. NRC Handelsblad schrijft zaterdag op basis van verklaringen van de 84-jarige oud-bisschop Bluyssen en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg van 74 jaar dat het bisdom Den Bosch tientallen jaren achtereen dossiers over seksueel misbruik door priesters heeft vernietigd. Historicus Eric Theloosen zou de commissie-Deetman in september over de kwestie hebben geïnformeerd. De krant zou samen met de Wereldomroep in het bezit zijn gekomen van die verklaring. Er waren al http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 198 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM langer geruchten dat kerkelijke archieven werden opgeschoond. Het is echter voor het eerst dat er concrete aanwijzingen over worden gemeld. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:54 AM

• OPROEP: Hoe beleeft u het rooms-katholieke geloof? NEDERLAND NOS Deze oproep is nu gesloten. We verwerken momenteel de gegevens die we van u kregen en hopen in de laatste week van dit jaar met berichtgeving te komen. Het was een roerig jaar in rooms-katholiek Nederland. Een priester in het bisdom Den Bosch weigerde een homoseksuele prins Carnaval de hostie. In Obdam organiseerde een priester een WK-mis. En na Amerika, Ierland en Duitsland kwamen ook in Nederland verhalen over seksueel misbruik door priesters en geestelijken aan het licht. De NOS wil graag weten wat deze gebeurtenissen met u als rooms-katholiek hebben gedaan. Wat heeft u ervan gemerkt in uw omgeving of juist niet? En wat betekent het voor uw persoonlijke geloofsleven? Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:51 AM

• Paus hoort bij belangrijkste personen van het jaar VERENIGDE STATEN Kerknieuws Paus Benedictus XVI is volgens het Amerikaanse tijdschrift Time één van de belangrijkste personen van 2010. Mark Zuckerberg, de oprichter van facebook, is volgens het tijdschrift de belangrijkste persoon van het jaar. De kerkvader stond vorig jaar niet in het overzicht van meest belangrijke personen van 2009. Dat hij er nu wel in staat, heeft Benedictus vooral te danken aan de vele gevallen van seksueel misbruik in de Rooms- Katholieke Kerk. De paus kwam hierdoor veel in het nieuws. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 AM

• 'Dit lijkt wel het proces van de Kerk' BELGIE De Standaard BRUSSEL - Advocaat Paul Quirynen, die de bisschoppen bijstaat in de Kamercommissie seksueel misbruik, is niet blij met de manier waarop zij worden aangepakt. 'Ik heb soms echt het gevoel naar een kruisverhoor te zitten luisteren dat grenst aan het populisme.' Van onze redacteur Goed een maand is de bijzondere commissie seksueel misbruik in de Kamer bezig. De voorbije week werden alle bisschoppen gehoord. Volgende week komen nog kardinaal Godfried Danneels en aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard aan bod. Paul Quirynen, die als advocaat de bisschoppen op de commissie heeft voorbereid, houdt zijn hart al vast voor dinsdag, wanneer Danneels wordt gehoord. 'De kardinaal zal zichzelf zijn', zegt Quirynen. 'Maar ik vrees dat de politici, nadat het gerecht dat deze zomer al heeft gedaan, hem een tweede keer aan het kruis zullen willen nagelen. Ik hoop dat ze Danneels niet als beschuldigde zullen beschouwen. De kardinaal heeft erg zijn best gedaan. Hij was het die gepleit heeft om de commissie Halsberghe op te richten. Ik verwacht van de politici ook dat ze respect tonen voor degenen die de titel van kardinaal en aartsbisschop dragen.' Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:45 AM

• Bisschoppen hekelen politieke heksenjacht BELGIE De Standaard BRUSSEL - Paul Quirynen, de advocaat van de Belgische bisschoppen, is niet te spreken over de manier waarop zij in de bijzondere kamercommissie seksueel misbruik worden aangepakt. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 199 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Van onze redacteur Het ging er de voorbije week bij momenten hard aan toe in de bijzondere commissie seksueel misbruik. Daar werden de Belgische bisschoppen een na een op de rooster gelegd. Volgens Paul Quirynen, advocaat van de Belgische bisschoppen, is dat niet met het grootste respect gebeurd. In een interview met De Standaard verwijt hij de commissie een gebrek aan kennis en inzicht, achterdocht en vijandigheid. Hij zegt ook dat details te veel worden opgeklopt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:43 AM

• Kloosters vangen minderjarige asielzoekers op BELGIE Het Nieuwsblad KNESSELARE/EEKLO - De Broeders van Liefde zijn van plan asielzoekertjes van twaalf tot veertien jaar op te vangen in kloosters in Knesselare en Eeklo. Nu de katholieke Kerk gebukt gaat onder een stortvloed aan schandalen van seksueel misbruik, doet dat heel wat wenkbrauwen fronsen. 'Maar wij kunnen die kinderen toch niet in de kou laten staan?' De Broeders van Liefde willen vijftig niet-begeleide asielzoekertjes opvangen in het gewezen nonnenklooster van de Zusters Kindsheid Jesu in Eeklo en in het klooster Bethanië van de Broeders van Liefde in Knesselare. Het gaat om jongeren van 12 tot 14 jaar, vooral uit Oost-Europa, Iran, Irak en Afghanistan. In Knesselare zijn ze vanaf eind dit jaar welkom, in Eeklo vanaf januari. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:37 AM

• Our Kinghts In Rusting Armor: K of C Hit With First Sex Abuse Scandal UNITED STATES OpEd News By Dan Vojir Holy hypocrisy! One of the most powerful lay organizations in the world has finally succumbed to a sex- abuse scandal: The Roman Catholic Church's own Knights of Columbus. Yes, that's right, the KofC, that bastion of money, male bonding and morals has gotten slapped with not one but two sexual abuse lawsuits. And due to the size of the organization, it's likely that more will follow. NEW HAVEN, CT, December 14, 2010 -- The Miami law firm of Herman, Mermelstein & Horowitz announces the filing of two new child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Knights of Columbus, one of the world's largest organizations for Catholic men… The suits allege that the two boys were sexually abused on multiple occasions by Julian Rivera, the leader of the Columbian Squires {youth group} in Brownsville, Texas. One victim claims that Rivera sexually abused him at gunpoint, and also threatened to kill his family if he did not comply with Rivera's demands. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:27 AM, Dec 19, 2010 ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sun December 19, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 20, 2010 edition:

• Pope is unsparing in analysis of sex-abuse scandal Catholic Culture, December 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY – In a powerful address to the Roman , looking back across the year 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said that the explosion of the sex-abuse scandal across Europe had gravely damaged and humbled the Church. He encouraged all prelates to ponder why and how it had happened, and what lessons could be learned. Each year the Roman Pontiff meets with officials of the in mid-December for an exchange of Christmas greetings. The Pope's address to the Curia has come to be regarded as one of the major papal

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• Pope Benedict: Church Must Reflect on Sex Abuse Scandals VATICAN CITY - AOL News, Theunis Bates Pope Benedict XVI today called on Vatican officials to examine why the Catholic Church allowed the sexual abuse of children by priests to continue unchallenged for so long, and to push through reforms to ensure such scandals never happen again. "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred," the pope said in his traditional end-of-year speech to Vatican cardinals and bishops. "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." Over the past year, the Catholic Church has been rocked by a series of child sex-abuse scandals in Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In many of these cases, it was discovered that high-up members of the clergy had covered up for pedophile priests and that for decades Vatican officials turned a blind eye to the crimes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:42 PM

• Church must repent, repair damage caused by clerical abuse, pope says Catholic News Service, By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In response to the "unimaginable" scandal of clerical sex abuse against minors, the church must reflect, repent, and do everything possible to rectify the injustices suffered by victims as it works to prevent such abuse from ever happening again, said Pope Benedict XVI. The pope said he and others were "dismayed" when, during a year dedicated to the world's priests, further cases of clerical sex abuse came to light "to a degree we could not have imagined." "We must accept this as an exhortation to truth and a call to renewal. Only the truth saves," the pope said Dec. 20 in his annual pre-Christmas address to the Roman Curia and cardinals who reside in Rome. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:40 PM

• "Opvang Vangheluwe was onze evangelische plicht" Zita BELGIE - "De opvang van Roger Vangheluwe in de Sint-Sixtusabdij in Westvleteren was onze evangelische plicht", zegt abt Manu Van Hecke. "Of we spijt hebben dat wij hem onderdak hebben gegeven? Goh, achteraf gezegd zou je kunnen zeggen: moest ik het allemaal geweten hebben, maar ik wist het niet allemaal…" "Het was toch een heel belangrijk persoon, zeker ook voor ons, en dan word je met zulke dingen geconfronteerd. Dat doet pijn en zorgt voor onbegrip", zegt Van Hecke in een interview met de regionale zender Focus-WTV. "Zijn verblijf in de abdij is zeker geen goedkeuring van zijn daden." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:37 PM

• Pope highlights UK visit, clerical sex abuse in 'state of the Church' address Catholic News Agency, 02:40 pm / Dec 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI gave what's considered the "state of the Church" address on Monday, highlighting his visit to the U.K., the Middle East synod, and the task of combating child sex abuse within the Church and in the world at large. On Dec. 19, the Pope addressed the College of Cardinals and representatives of the Roman Curia, at the annual gathering which reviews significant events of the year and gives status updates on the Church.

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The pontiff opened his remarks by reflecting on the Year for Priests – a prayer initiative he launched in June of 2009 – saying that there was a "great joy" and a "renewed awareness" within the Church of the beauty and gift of the priesthood. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:35 PM

• Arlington Diocese - Heed Pope Benedict XVI - "Repair the Injustice" UNITED STATES - Ministry Values By Stephen Ryan December 20, 2010 Today, from the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, in his annual Christmas speech to Bishops and Cardinals, forcefully said to his audience "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred," To repair the damage that the Holy See speaks of we strongly urge the Arlington Diocese to open an investigation into the events known as the Seton Miracles which manifested itself in the form of an extraordinary display of weeping statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The miraculous events were silenced by the Chancellor of the diocese of Arlington, an alleged pedofile with mulitple accusations, who committed suicide a few months after coldly ending the Catholic Church's role in the mysterious events. It is time for the diocese of Arlington, as the Pope urges the leadership of the faith, to repair this great injustive. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:32 PM

• Pope shares wise words about clergy sex abuse UNITED STATES Chicago Tribune The Rev. Bob Barron, priest and theology professor, University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein It is the custom of the Pope to offer Christmas greetings to his official family, the bishops and Cardinals who direct the various departments of the Roman Curia. But his words at this occasion are typically much more than mere pleasantries. They constitute, usually, a kind of review of the previous year from the perspective of the Bishop of Rome. The Christmas statement that Benedict XVI made just this morning to his official entourage was of particular gravity, precisely because it represents one of his most thorough and insightful assessments of the clerical sex abuse scandal. The Pope drew attention to an arresting vision experienced by the 12th century German mystic, Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard saw an incomparably beautiful woman, stretching from earth to heaven, and clothed in luminous vestments. But the woman's radiant face was covered in dust, her vesture was ripped on one side, and her shoes were blackened. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:23 PM

• Pope Benedict demands soul-searching from Catholic church on sex-abuse scandal Washington Post, By Jason Horowitz, Monday, December 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY - In a remarkable demonstration of public soul-searching, Pope Benedict XVI on Monday used a high-profile Christmas speech to Vatican cardinals and bishops to demand reflection on the flaws in the Church's very message and culture that permitted a global sexual-abuse scandal. "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred," Benedict said. "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." In his address, which Benedict has used to emphasize his priorities to the assembled hierarchy, the pontiff said the past year's revelations of decades of sexual abuse of children by priests had taken on an "unimaginable dimension" and amounted to a "humiliation" that should be accepted as an "exhortation to truth and a call to renewal." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:01 PM

• Man who wrote 'how-to' for pedophiles arrested [Philip Greaves. Book allegation.]

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FLORIDA CNN (CNN) -- The man behind a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was arrested in Colorado, officials in Florida said Monday. "You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship," said Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd as he described the Florida obscenity statute that officials used to charge Philip Greaves with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:56 PM

• Prayers for victims of abusive former priest [Walsh] Christian Today, by Brian Hutt, Posted: Monday, December 20, 2010 IRELAND - Prayers were said at Mass on Sunday for victims of former Catholic priest and paedophile Tony Walsh following the publication of Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report. The previously censored chapter of the report described Walsh as the "most notorious" paedophile encountered by the Commission of Inquiry and estimated his victims to run into the hundreds. The report also found that in spite of being a serious danger to children, the Vatican had wanted Walsh to serve 10 years in a monastery rather than force him out of the Catholic Church. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:54 PM

• Onderzoek naar archieven misbruik begint spoedig Friesch Dagblad, HAARLEM, Nederland - De onderzoekscommissie-Deetman start „binnenkort“ met het archiefonderzoek binnen bisdommen, congregaties en ordes. Dat heeft een woordvoerder van de commissie dit weekend meegedeeld. Zaterdag maakten NRC Handelsblad en de Wereldomroep bekend dat archieven binnen het bisdom Den Bosch vernietigd zijn. Volgens NRC Handelsblad stuurde historicus Eric Theloosen enkele maanden geleden een verklaring naar de onderzoekscommissie, waarin staat dat oud-bisschop Bluyssen dossiers vernietigde in de jaren zeventig. Emeritus-bisschop Bluyssen heeft dat bevestigd tegenover de krant. In de dossiers stond informatie over onder meer seksueel misbruik door priesters. Ook een archief, samengesteld door oud-bisschop Jan ter Schure, is in de jaren negentig vernietigd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:47 PM

• Danneels getuigt voor Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik Vandaag BELGIE - Morgen moet kardinaal Godfried Danneels getuigen voor de parlementaire Commissie Seksueel Misbruik in de Kerk. Woensdag is het dan de beurt aan aartsbisschop André Léonard. Eerder al hoorde de commissie alle andere bisschoppen. Die hadden elk weet van zo'n tiental zaken van seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen door hun priesters, die ze naar eigen zeggen doorverwezen naar de bevoegde instanties. Alleen de Gentse bisschop Luc Van Looy had daarmee wat getalmd en hij kreeg zware kritiek. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:45 PM

• Oostenrijkse katholieken verlaten massaal kerk RKnieuws, OOSTENRIJK - Oostenrijkse katholieke scholen hebben als gevolg dat dit jaar tienduizenden Oostenrijkse gelovigen de Kerk hebben verlaten. Dat zegt kardinaal Christoph Schönborn, aartsbisschop van Wenen, in een interview dat zaterdag in de Tiroler Tageszeitung verscheen. Volgens Schönborn kan het aantal uittredingen dit jaar oplopen tot 80.000. 'De laatste keer dat zoveel gelovigen de katholieke Kerk verlieten dateert uit de naziperiode', aldus de prelaat. In Oostenrijk bestaat een systeem van vrijwillige kerkbelasting. Sinds de onthulling van de

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• Westfalen-Blatt: Das WESTFALEN-BLATT (Bielefeld) zum Thema Kirchenaustritte Finanz Nachrichten Bielefeld, Deutschland (ots) - Die Verantwortlichen auf allen Ebenen der katholischen Kirche dürfen sich nichts vormachen: Es ist nicht nur der Missbrauchsskandal, der Gläubige an dieser Institution verzweifeln lässt. Womöglich haben die wochenlangen Schlagzeilen und Sondersendungen dazu zwar hier und dort letztlich den Ausschlag gegeben, aber die Entfremdung rührt vielerorts her. So beklagen Laien seit Jahren die geschlossene Gesellschaft, die die katholische Kirche darstelle. In den Diskussionen ums Zölibat und um die Rolle der Frau tritt der Vatikan aus Sicht vieler engagierter Katholiken, die sich auch um die personelle Zukunft ihrer Kirche sorgen, seit Jahren auf der Stelle. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:36 PM

• Kerk heeft samenvatting van vernietigde stukken Trouw, NEDERLAND (Novum) - De katholieke kerk heeft samenvattingen van vernietigde stukken over misbruik in het bisdom van Den Bosch. Dat meldt de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie naar aanleiding van berichten over het opschonen van het archief van het bisdom. Daarbij zouden dossiers over seksueel misbruik door priesters zijn vernietigd. NRC Handelsblad schreef zaterdag op basis van verklaringen van de 84-jarige oud-bisschop Jan Bluyssen en voormalig bisschoppelijk archivaris Jan Peijnenburg dat het bisdom Den Bosch tientallen jaren achtereen dossiers over seksueel misbruik door priesters heeft vernietigd. Historicus Eric Theloosen zou de commissie-Deetman in september over de kwestie hebben geïnformeerd. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:33 PM

• Vernietigde dossiers misbruik kerk samengevat NEDERLAND NOS Van de vernietigde dossiers over seksueel misbruik in het bisdom Den Bosch, zijn samenvattingen bewaard gebleven. Dat zegt de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie in een reactie op berichten dat geheime, kerkelijke archieven over misbruik zijn vernietigd. De bisschoppen hebben in mei aan de beheerders van de archieven gevraagd alle dossiers te bewaren. Gesprekken In mei begon de commissie-Deetman aan een onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik binnen de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk. De Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie benadrukt dat ze nog steeds volledig meewerkt met het onderzoek. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:31 PM

• Bisdom vernietigde zedendossiers NEDERLAND NOS Het bisdom Den Bosch heeft gedurende tientallen jaren dossiers over misbruik door priesters vernietigd. De dossiers lagen in geheime archieven, melden NRC Handelsblad en de Wereldomroep. De 84-jarige oud-bisschop Bluyssen zegt dat er geheime documenten verwijderd zijn. Zelf heeft hij belastende papieren laten vernietigen in de jaren 70. Die zaten in een geheim archief dat door zijn voorganger was samengesteld. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:25 PM

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Rooms-Katholieke Bisschoppenconferentie, {PDF} Utrecht, Nederland, – 18 december 2010 – Naar aanleiding van de publicatie over het archief van het bisdom Den Bosch in het NRC Handelsblad van heden, laat de voorzitter van de Nederlandse Bisschoppenconferentie, Mgr. A. van Luyn, weten dat de op 11 mei 2010 toegezegde medewerking aan het onderzoek van de Commissie Deetman onverkort van kracht is. In de verklaring van de Konferentie Nederlandse Religieuzen (KNR) en de bisschoppenconferentie van 11 mei 2010 hebben de bisschoppen 'hun volledige medewerking' toegezegd. Daarnaast beloofden zij 'zich zonder terughoudendheid' in te spannen 'om alle relevante informatie voor de onderzoekscommissie beschikbaar te maken'. In overeenstemming daarmee hebben de bisschoppen en alle emeriti-bisschoppen zich bereid verklaard om met de onderzoekers van de Commissie Deetman te spreken. Afspraken daartoe zijn of worden op korte termijn gemaakt. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:16 PM

• Magistrate says 23 million euros from Vatican bank to remain seized [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized.]

Monsters and Critics, ROME - An Italian magistrate on Monday upheld a preliminary confiscation of 23 million euros (30.3 million dollars) deposited from the Vatican's bank into an account of an Italian bank. The seizure of the money from a branch in Rome of the Milan-based Credito Artigiano, first emerged in Italian news reports in September. Investigative magistrate Maria Teresa Covatta on Monday rejected a request by lawyers representing the Vatican bank, the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), to have the money de-sequestered. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:59 PM

• Seizure of euro23 million in Vatican assets upheld [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized. Mafia allegations.] Forbes Associated Press, Dec.20.10 ROME - A judge has upheld the seizure of euro23 million ($30.2 million) in Vatican assets in a money- laundering probe involving the Holy See's bank, the second time the bank has been denied the return of the funds. Italian authorities seized the funds in September as part of a probe into whether Vatican banking had violated Italian laws mandating transparency in money movement - a key weapon in the war against organized crime and political and business corruption. News reports quoted Judge Maria Teresa Covatta as saying the intended beneficiaries of the transactions from the Vatican bank account at a Rome bank were still unclear. The Vatican bank is formally named Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, in Italian. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:56 PM

• On the crisis, does the pope have it right? National Catholic Reporter (USA), NCR Today, by John L Allen Jr on Dec. 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI's blunt language on the sexual abuse crisis in his annual address to the Roman Curia this morning is generating headlines around the world, especially the pontiff's unflinching insistence that the church must examine "what went wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." What Benedict said about the importance of better priestly formation, and the valuable role played by those who work to help victims, also will likely garner largely positive notice. Yet there's also an insider's subtext to Benedict's reflections this morning, one which suggests that while the pope may well "get it" in terms of the magnitude of the crisis, both his diagnosis of what went wrong and his implied cure remain open to debate. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:25 PM

• Pope: Church must reflect on what allowed abuse Houston Chronicle By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Dec. 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI told Vatican officials Monday that they must reflect on the church's culpability in its child sex-abuse scandal, but he also blamed a secular society in which he said the

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• Westvleteren: 'Zaak-Vangheluwe is bijzonder pijnlijk' Het Nieuwsblad BELGIE - De broeders van de Sint-Sixtusabdij in Westvleteren bestempelen de hele zaak rond Roger Vangheluwe als bijzonder pijnlijk en emotioneel. Dat zeiden ze maandag in een interview met de West- Vlaamse regionale zender Focus-WTV. De gewezen Brugse bisschop dook vier maanden onder in de abdij in Westvleteren, nadat de pedofiliezaak aan het licht was gekomen. Een 'evangelische plicht' zeggen de broeders daar nu over. Volgens abt Manu Van Hecke ervoer de gemeenschap een enorme pijn door wat er allemaal gebeurde. 'Het was toch een heel belangrijk persoon, zeker ook voor ons, en dan word je met zulke dingen geconfronteerd. Dat doet pijn en zorgt voor onbegrip', aldus Van Hecke. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:18 PM

• Church must admit paedophile mistakes: Pope [RCC] Hindustan Times (India), Agence France-Presse, Vatican City, December 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI called for the Church on Monday to scrutinise itself and root out the truth about mistakes made in order to prevent the paedophile abuse crisis from ever happening again. "We have to ask ourselves what was wrong in our preaching, in our entire way of configuring the Christian being, to allow something like that to happen," the pope said during a Christmas audience with the Roman Curia. In his speech the pontiff spoke of the "shame" the abuse crisis had caused the Church and added "we have take this humiliation as an exhortation for the truth and a call for renewal." The pontiff said the abuse of children by priests was "unimaginable," causing "deep wounds" in infancy that "scar" the victims for the rest of their lives. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:12 PM

• Church must reform after abuse scandal, pope says Reuters VATICAN CITY, ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Monday for a re-examination of the Church's message and practices to enable it to learn from the scandal of the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests. Presenting his annual Christmas wishes to cardinals, he said the reports of abuse by priests on an "unimaginable" scale had been a devastating shock to the Church and had to be used as a starting point for reform. "We must accept this humiliation as an exhortation to truth and a call for renewal. Only the truth saves," he said, according to an Italian text released by the Vatican. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:10 PM

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• Pope: Church must reflect on what allowed sexual abuse cases VATICAN CITY - USA Today Pope Benedict XVI said today the Catholic Church must reflect on what is wrong with its message and Christian life in general that allowed for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests. "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that transpired," the pope said in his annual Christmas message to the Vatican hierarchy. "We must ask ourselves what went wrong in our message, in our entire way of being Christians, so that such a thing could have occurred." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:07 PM

• Pope calls on Catholic church to 'repair injustice' of sexual abuse VATICAN CITY - Guardian (United Kingdom) Tom Kington in Rome guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 December 2010 Pope Benedict XVI today called on Roman Catholics to reflect on how sexual abuse exploded within the church's ranks in a Christmas speech. The pontiff also blamed the scandal on child pornography, sexual tourism and the moral relativism of the 1970s. In his seasonal speech to bishops and cardinals, Benedict rounded up highlights of his year, briefly mentioning his visits to Malta, Spain and before dwelling at length on his "unforgettable" visit to England and Scotland. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:04 PM

• Pope calls on Church to learn from abuse scandal VATICAN CITY - BBC News Pope Benedict has called for the Catholic Church to reflect on what allowed the sexual abuse of children by priests to happen. The number of sexual abuse cases had reached "an unimaginable dimension" in 2010, the Pope said. He also spoke of the "shame" the abuse crisis had caused the Church. The abuse scandal, which first surfaced in the US in 2002, erupted globally this year with a raft of allegations across Europe and beyond. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:02 PM

• Pope Says Sex Scandal Has Hit Unimaginable Dimension The New York Times By RACHEL DONADIO Published: December 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY, ROME – Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that the continuing sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church had reached a "degree we could not have imagined" this year, and that the Church must reflect on its failures, help the victims, and prevent abusers from becoming priests. "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred," the pope told the Vatican hierarchy in a pointed Christmas message. "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." In recent months, investigations in Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have found that clerics had sexually abused children in the past and that the church hierarchy was often found to have covered up the abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:00 PM

• Pope: sex abuse scandal 'humiliating' but society must share the blame VATICAN CITY - Telegraph (United Kingdom), The Catholic Church must examine the failures in its teaching that allowed the "unimaginable" sexual abuse of children by priests to continue unchallenged for so long, the Pope said yesterday. By Tim Ross, Social Affairs Editor The worldwide "humiliation" that the church has experienced as a result of the scandal must serve as a http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 207 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM spur to reform, Benedict XVI told his cardinals gathered in Rome. However, the pontiff argued that the abuse crisis must be seen in its social "context", suggesting that part of the blame lay with permissive attitudes in western society dating from the 1970s. Survivors of clerical sex abuse condemned the Pope's statement as another attempt by Church authorities to evade responsibility for the scandal. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:56 PM

• The Pope's Merry Christmas: "Only the Truth Saves" Chiesa, by Sandro Magister, December 20, 2010 In his pre-Christmas address to the curia, Benedict XVI is actually speaking to the whole world. Sexual abuse by the clergy, he says, is the effect of the inability to distinguish between good and evil. And he recalls the lesson of Newman: conscience is made to obey the truth ROME, – Wishing a happy Christmas to the Roman curia this morning, Benedict XVI in reality addressed the entire Church and the world. As in previous years, this time as well in the pre-Christmas address – which he himself wrote in its entirety – he wanted to emphasize the main outlines of his pontificate. In 2005, the focus of his address was the interpretation and implementation of Vatican Council II, and the relationship between continuity and renewal in the Church: Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:53 PM

• Thousands of Germans quit Catholic Church Telegraph (United Kingdom), By Matthew Day, Warsaw, GERMANY - Thousands of Germans have quit the Catholic Church in the wake of a series of sex and corruption scandals that have left the institution reeling. In one diocese alone, Rottenburg-Stuttgart, by mid December 17,659 had turned their back on the Church, compared to 4,563 for the whole of 2009, according to new research by the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper and the DPA press agency. Augsberg, reflecting a downward trend experienced by most dioceses, saw its flock decline as 11,351 left the Church in comparison to the 6,953 the year, while in Trier 7,029 people quit, a 2,500 increase on the previous year. "I have never experienced anything like this since my ordination in 1969," said Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann of Wurzburg, adding that "every single departure is one too many". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:48 PM

• Boston cardinal apologizes on behalf of monsignor LOWELL (MA) NECN LOWELL, Mass. (AP) – Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has apologized to parishioners at a Lowell Roman Catholic church after a priest called several men "cowards" for accusing the church's former pastor of abuse. Bishop Peter Uglietto on Sunday read a letter from O'Malley to parishioners at Holy Trinity Church. The Sun of Lowell reports that the letter was in response Monsignor Stanislaw Kempa who on Dec. 11 took to the pulpit to lash out at three former altar boys, now in their 30s, who alleged abuse at the hands of the Rev. Czeslaw Szymanski (shesh-LAV' sih-MAN'-skee) in the 1980s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:56 AM

• BENEDICT XVI, ROMAN CURIA EXCHANGE CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Vatican Information Service, 20 DEC 2010

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VATICAN CITY, (VIS) - Today in the Sala Regia of the Vatican , the Holy Father held his traditional meeting with the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, and members of the Roman Curia and of the Governorate of Vatican City State, in order to exchange Christmas greetings. Recalling the principal events of the past twelve months, the Pope noted how "with great joy we began the Year for Priests and, thanks to God, were able to conclude it with much gratitude, though it was very different to how we had imagined. Among us as priests and among the laity, also and especially the young, a renewed awareness arose of the great gift of the priesthood of the Catholic Church, which was entrusted to us by the Lord. One again we came to understand how beautiful it is that human beings are authorised to pronounce the name of God and, with complete authority, the word of forgiveness, and thus that they are able to change the world, to change life. How beautiful it is that human beings are authorised to pronounce the words of . … How beautiful it is to be able to remain, with the strength of Lord, close to mankind in his joys and sorrows". "Thus our shock was even greater when, precisely in this year and in a dimension that we could not imagine, we became aware of the abuse of minors committed by priests who distort the Sacrament into its antithesis: under the veil of the sacred they inflicted profound harm on human beings in their infancy, causing damages that lasts a lifetime. "In this context", the Pope added, "a vision of St. Hildegard of Bingen came to my mind, who disturbingly describes what we experienced this year". "In St. Hildegard's vision the face of the Church was soiled with dust, and this is how we saw it. Her vestments were torn, and the fault was of priests. Just as she saw and expressed her vision, so have we lived this year. We must humbly accept this humiliation as an exhortation to truth and a call to renewal. Only the truth saves. We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair, as much as possible, the injustice committed. We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our announcement, in our entire way of determining Christian existence, that such a thing could happen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:53 AM

• Pope urges reflection over abuse VATICAN CITY - The Press Association, The Pope has said the Catholic Church must reflect on what is wrong with its message and with Christian life in general that allowed for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests. He said the church must better train priests so that such abuses never occur again and must figure out how to help victims heal. The Pope made the remarks to Vatican cardinals and bishops gathered for his traditional Christmas speech, an eagerly anticipated address that he uses to press key issues he wants the church hierarchy to reflect on. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:29 AM

• Vatican: Pope calls for Church to reflect on what led to 'unimaginable' abuse AKI, VATICAN CITY (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI on Monday said the Catholic Church has to reflect on how the Christian lifestyle and the Vatican's message may have led to the sexual abuse of children. The pope said the Church must improve its training of priests to prevent further abuse. He also said the Vatican must understand how to help victims heal. Benedict spoke to cardinals and bishops who gathered at the Vatican for the traditional Christmas speech. The pope often uses the occasion to speak about important issues facing the Church hierarchy. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:26 AM

• Pope recalls "wounds" of child sex abuse scandal Monsters and Critics VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI on Monday, in his traditional Christmas address to top Vatican http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 209 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM officials, said recent child sex abuse scandals involving priests have left the Catholic Church with a 'soiled face and torn garments.' The pontiff usually devotes his annual speech to the Roman Curia - the Vatican's administrative body - to reflections on the past year's main events, including his trips abroad. But on Monday, he only touched briefly on his visits to Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Britain, choosing instead to concentrate mostly on the abuse crisis. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:24 AM

• Pope Urges Church to Reflect on Abuse The New York Times, By RACHEL DONADIO, Published: December 20, 2010 VATICAN CITY, ROME – Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that the Catholic Church must reflect on the failures in its message that allowed for the sexual abuse scandal and that it has to find a way to help heal victims and not ordain potential pedophiles. "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that transpired. We must ask ourselves what went wrong in our message, in our entire way of being Christians, so that such a thing could have occurred," the pope told the Vatican hierarchy in a pointed Christmas message. Benedict said that that in 2010, abuse cases had reached an "unimaginable dimension." In recent months, investigations in Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have found that clerics had sexually abused children in the past and the church hierarchy was often found to have covered up the abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:21 AM

• Again, Vatican delays defrocking serial predator, SNAP responds IRELAND - Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (949 322 7434, [email protected]) Sixteen years. That's how long it took the Vatican to finally defrock a notorious Irish predator priest who is accused of molesting at least 40 children. An Irish church official admits at least seven priests knew of the child molesting cleric. Still, it took 16 years to defrock him. According to the AP "Dublin leaders ordered Catholic priest Tony Walsh defrocked in 1993. But the Vatican overruled the verdict and ordered him sent to an Irish monastery instead. Rome relented in 1996 after police opened a criminal probe and Walsh attacked a boy in a pub restroom following a family funeral." According to the BBC, an Irish archbishop "wrote to the Vatican and begged the Pope to dismiss (Walsh). He was eventually defrocked in 1996 - 16 years after the first complaint." According to the Irish Times, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said Walsh likely molested hundreds of kids and that "at least seven priests in the archdioceses were aware of Walsh's behaviour," Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:18 AM

• Irish church still owes hundreds of millions of euros, SNAP responds Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP,(314 566 9790, [email protected] ), IRELAND - Yesterday, the Irish Independent ran a story about a notorious predator priest who was only defrocked after 16 year delay by Vatican officials. The article also included this revelation: Still further damage to the church's moral authority was revealed last night, with confirmation from the Labour Party that religious orders still owe the State hundreds of millions of euro in contributions that were promised after the abuse scandals in industrial schools and reformatories.

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The figures, obtained by education spokesman Ruairi Quinn, show that out of €348m pledged last year in cash and property after the Ryan Report, just 6pc has been handed over, and no property has been transferred. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:15 AM

• Abuse victims flood Irish support groups with calls Irish Central, By CATHY HAYES, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer, IRELAND - Irish support groups have received a "steady flow" of calls from survivors of clerical sexual abuse, and their friends and families, following the release of Chapter 19 of the Murphy report on pedophile ex-priest Tony Walsh. Walsh was previously jailed for the abuse of six boys. He has now been sentenced for the abuse of a further three boys. Dublin Rape Crisis Centre chief executive, Ellen O'Malley, said the flow of calls from victims and their family has been constant since the publication of Chapter 19. Many of the calls the group has received have been from the parents of the victims. She said many of the parents did not believe their children when they said they had been abused. She said "These parents are absolutely heartbroken" and explained that in some of these cases "their children have taken their own lives". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:12 AM

• Pope calls for re-think of Church's central message after abuse scandals VATICAN CITY - Breaking News (Ireland). The Catholic Church has to find what is wrong with its message and with Christian life in general following the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests, the Pope said today. He said the Church must better train priests so the abuse never happens again and must work out how to help victims heal. The Pope made the remarks to Vatican cardinals and bishops gathered for his traditional Christmas speech, an eagerly anticipated address that he uses to press key issues he wants the Church hierarchy to reflect on. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:45 AM [COMMENT: The "message" of Jesus had nothing about contraception and abortion, did not demand celibacy of His followers, and had a lot about humbugs and hypocrites wearing long robes. Perhaps the Pope and his clerics ought to realise that the "spoilsport" silliness of much of their teachings bears little relationship to what is recorded in the . ENDS.]

• John Cooney: Church leaders must pay for failing to act on abuse Irish Independent, By John Cooney, Monday December 20 2010 IRELAND - THE public mood in Ireland is for the prosecution and incarceration of church leaders who facilitated child clerical abusers by following canon law confidentiality, rather than the due process of civil and criminal law. This mood has hardened after a week in which Irish Catholics went through, yet again, the horror wringer with the delayed publication of chapter 19 of the Murphy report about how church authorities in the Dublin archdiocese failed hundreds of working-class children by allowing "the most notorious child abuser" Tony Walsh to rape for at least two decades. For the past six years the public has been put through this wringer with the Ferns report, the Ryan and Murphy reports -- and is bracing itself for the pending Commission report on ex-Bishop and the diocese of Cloyne -- but so far not one senior churchman has been brought to book as demanded by victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 AM

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• UDIENZA DEL SANTO PADRE ALLA CURIA ROMANA IN OCCASIONE DELLA PRESENTAZIONE DEGLI AUGURI NATALIZI , 20.12.2010 Catholic News Services, CITTA' DEL VATICAN - Alle ore 11 di questa mattina, nella Sala Regia del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI riceve in Udienza i Cardinali con i membri della Curia Romana e del Governatorato per la presentazione degli auguri natalizi. Nel corso dell'incontro, dopo l'indirizzo di omaggio al Santo Padre del Cardinale Angelo Sodano, Decano del Collegio Cardinalizio, il Papa rivolge ai presenti il discorso che riportiamo di seguito: DISCORSO DEL SANTO PADRE Signori Cardinali, venerati Fratelli nell'Episcopato e nel Presbiterato, cari fratelli e sorelle! È con vivo piacere che vi incontro, cari Membri del Collegio Cardinalizio, Rappresentanti della Curia Romana e del Governatorato, per questo appuntamento tradizionale. Rivolgo a ciascuno un cordiale saluto, ad iniziare dal Cardinale Angelo Sodano, che ringrazio per le espressioni di devozione e di comunione, e per i fervidi auguri che mi ha rivolto a nome di tutti. Prope est jam Dominus, venite, adoremus! Contempliamo come un'unica famiglia il mistero dell'Emmanuele, del Dio-con-noi, come ha detto il Cardinale Decano. Ricambio volentieri i voti augurali e desidero ringraziare vivamente tutti, compresi i Rappresentanti Pontifici sparsi per il mondo, per l'apporto competente e generoso che ciascuno presta al Vicario di Cristo e alla Chiesa. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:39 AM

• Pope: Church must reflect on what allowed abuse The Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI said Monday the Catholic Church must reflect on what is wrong with its message and Christian life in general that allowed for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests. Benedict said the church must better train priests so that abusers aren't ordained and must figure out how to help victims of pedophile priests heal. The pope made the remarks to Vatican cardinals and bishops gathered for his traditional Christmas speech, an eagerly anticipated address that Benedict uses to press key issues he wants the church hierarchy to reflect on. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:35 AM

• PEDOPHILES: POPE, PRIESTS' FAULT IF THE CHURCH IS TARNISHED AGI VATICAN CITY (AGI) - Pope says the image of the Church has been "tarnished", and it is priests' fault if "the image is torn". Benedict XVI thus describes the horrible 2010 of the Catholic Church, revealing that, in a vision, Saint Hildegard of Bingen said that "it was the priests' fault if Christ's wounds remained open". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:32 AM

• Church destroyed abuse documents but kept summaries [RCC] Dutch News Monday 20 December 2010 NETHERLANDS - Summaries of missing documents detailing sexual abuse within the Catholic church have been kept, church authorities said on Sunday. On Saturday, the NRC Handelsblad and Dutch world service reported that the former bishop of the diocese of Den Bosch destroyed documentation on sex abuse cases in the 1970s and that another file from the 1990s is also missing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:29 AM

• State urged not to wind down Redress Board

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IRELAND Irish Independent Monday December 20 2010 THOUSANDS of victims of sexual abuse will be denied compensation unless the government extends the life of the Redress Board, a leading charity has warned, writes Nick Bramhill. One in Four, the group that provides support to abuse victims, said it was concerned at the Department of Education's moves to wind down the Redress Board. The charity expressed concern that the findings in the Ryan Report in June last year will prompt many more former residents who suffered abuse, but who have yet to apply for compensation, to lodge claims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:27 AM

• 'No appetite in church to question priests over allegations' IRELAND Irish Independent By Louise Hogan Monday December 20 2010 A PRIEST who formerly served in the same parish where paedophile Tony Walsh served says there was "no appetite" in the church to question senior priests about child abuse. Fr Joseph Doran, who is attached to the Kilmacud Parish in Dublin, yesterday spoke out about the difficulties he encountered in his two years as a curate in Ballyfermot from 1994 to 1996 -- where ex-cleric Walsh had previously served. Fr Doran said he was disturbed as a young 25-year-old newly ordained priest to witness clergy going on camping weekends with young people from the parish. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:24 AM

• Cleric admits telling gardai of abuse 'wasn't on agenda' IRELAND Irish Independent By Louise Hogan Monday December 20 2010 ABUSE victims last night reacted with fury as a senior cleric in the Catholic Church revealed that informing gardai was not part of their "agenda" as they dealt with allegations of sexual abuse. Monsignor Alex Stenson -- who as chancellor in the Dublin Archdiocese met many victims of clerical abuse -- yesterday said there was not "so much a culture of secrecy but of very responsible confidentiality" within the church. The church in Dublin has come under fire after a hard-hitting report said it had failed hundreds of children by allowing "notorious child abuser" Tony Walsh to continue his attacks for nearly two decades after they were first reported. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:21 AM

• Paedophile Walsh told Stenson of incidents with boys IRELAND Irish Independent By Louise Hogan Monday December 20 2010 Former priest Tony Walsh is deemed the "most notorious child sexual abuser" to have come to the attention of the commission investigating abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. The earliest allegations against Walsh date to before his ordination in 1978 but these did not emerge until later. Two days after he was appointed to Ballyfermot parish in July 1978 a complaint was received that he had sexually abused an eight-year-old boy. This he denied. In 1979, the mother of a 14-year-old boy alleged he had been abused. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:19 AM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 213 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Church needs to be honest in abuse claims Auburn Citizen Michael Schillace / Auburn AuburnPub.com | Posted: Monday, December 20, 2010 NEW YORK - With another report of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, people want to know if it will ever end. The way to end the problem immediately is with radical honesty. If the Church were to demand every single priest who ever sexual abused anyone come forward, admit what they did, and face the consequences, perhaps these surprises that come up every few years would start to go away. The Church tells lay people to come forward and confess their sins and do penance. In the early years of Christianity, this was much more open and penance was done publicly. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:15 AM, Dec 20, 2010 ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Mon December 20, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 21, 2010 edition: • Letter from SNAP to US Attorney's Office GREEN BAY (WI) - WBAY Letter from Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests to the U.S. Attorney's Office, provided to Action 2 News; December 21, 2010 To: James Santelle, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin From: Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Re: Destruction of evidence by Green Bay diocese of child sex crimes by priests, concealment and transfer of known sex offender clergy Mr. Santelle, I am writing on behalf of childhood victims of rape, sexual assault and abuse by clergy sex offenders in Wisconsin and our families. SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org) is the oldest and largest self help organization of survivors of clergy sex crimes in the world. SNAP was founded in 1989 and currently has over 10,000 members in the United States alone. In February of 2005, a lawsuit was filed in Milwaukee County alleging fraud on behalf of the archbishop of Milwaukee and several senior managers of the archdiocese for concealing and transferring known sex offenders without notification to work with children and families in parishes and schools. That such a pattern and practice exists has been well established in thousands of now documented cases of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy around the United States. A national study by John Jay College of Criminal justice completed in 2004 and appended on a yearly basis, concluded that over 5,000 clergy have sexually assaulted children in the United States over the past decades; the vast majority were known to have committed these crimes by their superiors. Since 2005, cases on behalf of victims in the diocese of La Crosse and Green Bay have also been filed in civil courts alleging similar fraud. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 8:24 PM • De tragiek van de kardinaal BELGIE De Standaard woensdag 22 december 2010 Auteur: BART STURTEWAGEN Het waren sterke woorden waarmee kardinaal Godfried Danneels gisteren in de kamercommissie seksueel misbruik opende. Hij sprak over de schok en de afschuw die hij had ervaren bij de publicatie van het rapport-Adriaenssens. Daarin stonden tientallen en tientallen onthutsende getuigenissen, vaak decennia oud. Hij sprak erover hoe zijn gevoelens evolueerden van schaamte, over woede, naar de vastberaden wil om iets te doen. Hij bracht ook excuses naar voren, weliswaar niet over enige persoonlijke tekortkoming, maar 'als huisvader'. Hij erkende dat de Kerk meer aan zichzelf of aan de betrokken priesters dacht dan aan het leed dat de slachtoffers was aangedaan. Hij sprak ook zijn respect en bewondering uit voor die slachtoffers die de http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 214 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM dat de slachtoffers was aangedaan. Hij sprak ook zijn respect en bewondering uit voor die slachtoffers die de moed hadden opgebracht om hun pijn uit te spreken en naar voren te treden. Het belangrijkste was wellicht nog dat hij erkende dat het uiteindelijk om misbruik van macht ging. Dat daders zich binnen de Kerk onaantastbaar wisten en in staat waren om zwijgen af te dwingen. Daarmee kwam hij dichter dan voorheen bij het besef dat wat na het ontslag van de West-Vlaamse bisschop Roger Vangheluwe naar boven kwam, niet de gevolgen waren van spijtige misstappen door individuele daders - de rotte-appeltheorie - maar de nasleep van een benepen en gevoelsarme cultuur waarin dit soort zaken niet bespreekbaar of zelfs niet benoembaar was. Het was de peilloze onmacht daarover die zoveel jaren later nog zulke diepe wonden zichtbaar maakt. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 7:25 PM • De waarheid als voetnoot BELGIE De Standaard RIK TORFS is teleurgesteld over wat een spraakmakende zitting had moeten worden van de commissie seksueel misbruik: de kardinaal mocht zich te zeer gedeisd houden en de commissieleden misten de juiste scherpte. Vooroordelen zijn er om bevestigd te worden. Soms toch. Ik verwachtte niet veel van het verhoor door de commissie seksueel misbruik waaraan kardinaal Danneels gisterenmorgen werd onderworpen. En inderdaad, de kardinaal schitterde niet meteen. De commissie evenmin. De kardinaal De kardinaal kwam niet over als iemand die met grote daadkracht optrad. Hij is een kind van zijn tijd en zijn Kerk. Als iets discreet kan worden geregeld, waarom er dan veel poeha rond maken? De onderliggende gedachte was: afwezigheid van discussie wijst op een gezonde Kerk. Lang geloofden externe waarnemers dat. In Nederland kwam Danneels over als een wijs man, die de boel bij elkaar hield, terwijl de Nederlandse bisschoppen vechtend over de straatstenen rolden. Ik herinner mij hoe Siegfried Bracke, toen hij nog journalist was, de kardinaal geregeld loofde. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 7:22 PM • Misguided compassion fueled sex-abuse scandal in Ireland Catholic Culture December 21, 2010 IRELAND - The sex-abuse scandal in Ireland is partly attributable to a misguided compassion, which led Church officials to downplay the evidence of clerical misconduct, a leading Irish Catholic analyst argues. David Quinn notes Chapter 19 of the Murphy Commission report on abuse in the Dublin archdiocese shows the influence of Msgr. Gerard Sheehy, the top canon lawyer for the archdiocese, who argued persistently against disciplinary action in the case of Tony Walsh, a notorious pedophile. (Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report had been withheld from publication until the conclusion of criminal proceedings against Walsh. The chapter was made public last week after Walsh – who had served a previous jail term, and been removed from the priesthood because of his record of molesting children-- was convicted on new sex-abuse charges.) Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 7:20 PM • Seksueel Misbruik - Danneels …" BELGIE Focus-WTV Godelieve Halsberghe, de voorzitster van de commissie voor klachten wegens seksueel misbruik in een pastorale relatie, opereerde vooral alleen en overschreed het mandaat van haar commissie regelmatig. Nadat enkele leden om die reden ontslag hadden genomen, werd de commissie ontbonden en kwam kinderpsychiater Peter Adriaenssens aan het hoofd van een nieuwe commissie. Dat verklaarde kardinaal Godfried Danneels in kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. De commissie moest advies geven aan de bisschoppen, maar naar het einde toe legde Godelieve Halsberghe zelf schadevergoedingen op, wat niet de bedoeling was, zo benadrukte Danneels. Ze werkte ook vaak alleen. Dat alles waren redenen om de commissie te ontbinden en te vervangen door de commissie Adriaenssens. Heel wat commissieleden hadden vragen bij het feit dat de eerste commissie nauwelijks dossiers binnenkreeg van bisschoppen of slachtoffers, terwijl de commissie-Adriaenssens overstelpt werd met klachten. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 7:16 PM • Man gets nearly 20 years in Haiti sex abuse case [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. ? 18 boys.] Bloomberg, By DAVE COLLINS, Dec 21, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A Colorado man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 215 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM sexually abusing children at a school he founded in Haiti. A federal judge in New Haven, Conn., called Douglas Perlitz a serial rapist and molester as she imposed the 19-year, 7-month sentence on Tuesday. The 40-year-old from Eagle, Colo., admitted in August to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with eight children who attended the Project Pierre Toussaint School for street children in Cap-Haitien. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 6:09 PM • Group accuses bishop of destroying abuse-related files [RCC] "There was never an order issued by me - nor anyone else - to destroy documents or evidence contained in the files of priests accused of abuse while I served as bishop of Green Bay. To the contrary, it had been diocesan practice in Green Bay not to destoy documents in priest files - even after a priest had died - if there was litigation involving that priest or any pending claims. I reinforced that practice by having it formally written into the diocesan records retention policy in 2007." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 6:05 PM • Perlitz sentenced to nearly 20 years for sex abuse of Haitian student [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. Admitted and apologised. ? 18 boys.] CT Post, Michael P. Mayko and John Burgeson, Published: 05:51 p.m., Tuesday, December 21, 2010 NEW HAVEN (CT) - Douglas Perlitz was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in a federal prison Tuesday, the maximum sought by prosecutors for his sexual abuse of a Haitain boy at his charitable project. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton also gave Perlitz supervised probation for 10 years after his prison stint, and he would have to participate in various alcohol, substance abuse and sex offense programs. The judge reviewed videotaped testimony from 16 boys. She said it was obvious he abused a total of eight boys. In a packed courtroom that included several of Perlitz's Haitian victims as well as some of his supporters and family members, U.S. Attorney Krishna Patel argued for the maximum sentence for Perlitz. The 40- year-old Fairfield Univesity graduate took the stand and apologized to his victims, saying he betrayed their trust. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 5:58 PM • Pope Benedict, what the Church need are not more "reflections" but financial compensations for victims and a "Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests" [Devil blamed in June, Moral relativism blamed in December. RCC.] Benedict XVI Ratzinger: God's Rottweiler; Paris Arrow, UNITED STATES - Benedict XVI's series of blames and pathological lies go on and on. At St. Peter's Square last June, he blamed the Devil at the spectacular closing of the Year for Priests before 15,000 priests. Today at the pompous Sala Regia of the Vatican's apostolic palace before Vatican cardinals and bishops gathered for his traditional Christmas speech., he blames child pornography, sexual tourism and moral relativism of 1970s for "child abuse scandal" (a mild ambiguous terminology) for the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army which he and John Paul II personally covered-up for over a quarter of a century. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 5:54 PM • Antilliaans misbruikonderzoek kerk ligt stil Parool Dec 21, 2010 WILLEMSTAD - Het onderzoek dat de commissie-Koeijers doet naar seksueel misbruik binnen de Antilliaanse RK-Kerk, ligt al bijna twee maanden stil. Mensen die seksueel misbruik hebben gemeld, krijgen geen reactie van de commissie. Dat meldde de Wereldomroep dinsdag. De commissie-Koeijers is vergelijkbaar met de commissie-Deetman. De commissie doet op initiatief van het bisdom Willemstad onafhankelijk onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik binnen rooms-katholieke instellingen op de Antillen. Meldingen die bij de onderzoekscommissie in Nederland binnenkomen, worden doorgestuurd naar de Antilliaanse onderzoekers. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 5:51 PM • Antillaans onderzoek misbruik kerk ligt stil MSN Nieuws, ANTILLEN / NEDERLAND (Novum) - De commissie die op de Antillen onderzoek doet naar seksueel misbruik in kerkelijke instellingen heeft sinds half oktober niets gedaan. De twee meldingen die de

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Expatica, BELGIUM - The former head of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church said Tuesday that top bishops did not "consciously" cover up a child sex abuse scandal going back decades. Cardinal Godfried Danneels spent four hours being quizzed by Belgian lawmakers at a hearing into the scandal of nearly 500 cases of abuse by priests and church workers since the 1950s, including 13 victims who committed suicide. Expressing his "horror" at the revelations produced by a church-backed commission this year, Danneels, the church's chief between 1979 and 2009, said "there was no drive to consciously cover up the sexual abuse or deny it." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 1:11 PM [COMMENT: What, was the RCC consecrated leadership, worldwide, unconscious? Was God sleeping for 30 years? ENDS.] • Pope to Curia highlights horror of abuse and splendor of truth America Magazine, Author: Austen Ivereigh, Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2010 It was almost poetic, Pope Benedict's depiction yesterday in his speech to the Curia of the glories of the priesthood -- We realized afresh how beautiful it is that human beings are fully authorized to pronounce in God's name the word of forgiveness, and are thus able to change the world, to change life; we realized how beautiful it is that human beings may utter the words of consecration, through which the Lord draws a part of the world into himself, and so transforms it at one point in its very substance; we realized how beautiful it is to be able, with the Lord's strength, to be close to people in their joys and sufferings, in the important moments of their lives and in their dark times; how beautiful it is to have as one's life task not this or that, but simply human life itself – helping people to open themselves to God and to live from God. - which made its bathetic ending all the more powerful: We were all the more dismayed, then, when in this year of all years and to a degree we could not have imagined, we came to know of abuse of minors committed by priests who twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and under the mantle of the sacred profoundly wound human persons in their childhood, damaging them for a whole lifetime. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 1:08 PM • Some Burning Questions for the Pope

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The Huffington Post Sinead O'Connor This is an Open Letter to Pope Benedict on behalf of all victims of child sexual abuse by catholic priests; on behalf of all catholic people, and all honorable catholic clergy; on behalf of every media outlet under the sun; and on behalf of The Holy Spirit. Sir, Some burning questions arise from the following statement you made in your Christmas address to your cardinals on December 20th regarding how it came to pass that the house of The Holy Spirit became a haven for criminals of a sexual nature. "In the 1970's pedophilia was theorized {by the church} as something fully in conformity with man and even with children." Please deign to respond to this letter directly and personally and put aside all the pomp and titles and so- called 'proper channels' - all of which belong not in the 21st century but the 12th and are unbecoming of Christ. Exactly who held the theory that pedophilia was fully in conformity with man and with children? Please give us their names. Exactly when did they hold this theory? Exactly when if ever did they cease holding the theory?. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 1:03 PM • Judge, courtroom hear from Perlitz's victims at his sentencing [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. Admitted and apologised. ? 22 boys.] CT Post, Michael P. Mayko, Staff Writer, Published: 12:31 p.m., Tuesday, December 21, 2010 NEW HAVEN (CT) - A courtroom packed with about 135 people listened to two Haitian boys tell of how Douglas Perlitz repeatedly had sex with them, as a federal judge weighed sentencing for the former humanitarian convicted of one count of abusing a boy at the Haitian charity he founded. Prosecutors want U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to send Perlitz to prison for more than 19 years, saying he preyed on some of the world's most vulnerable children for years. The boys' testimony was so wrenching that one Haitian man in the gallery broke down in tears. One of the two boys, who were identified only by the initials of their names, said he believed Perlitz had sex with as many as 22 boys at his school and shelter. The boy testified he was pressured by staff there not to reveal the abuse. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 1:00 PM • Haitians Recount Abuses At Sentencing Of Charity's Founder [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. Admitted and apologised. ? 22 boys.] The Hartford Courant By ALAINE GRIFFIN, [email protected] NEW HAVEN (CT) – In dramatic fashion, about a half-dozen Haitians came forward, one by one, in federal court today to recount being victimized by Douglas Christian Perlitz, the founder of an internationally known charity for homeless boys who is being sentenced on a single charge of traveling abroad for illicit sexual purposes. The boys talked in front of a packed courtroom, detailing how Perlitz threatened to withhold basic necessities if they did not comply with his request for sexual favors. The sentencing session began this morning and, after two hours, was still proceeding at midday. Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison term of 19½ years. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 12:57 PM • Ex-Belgian church leader urges more humility [RCC] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, By RAF CASERT, The Associated Press BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – The former leader of the Catholic Church in Belgium on Tuesday called for more openness and humility within the church to make sure that child abuse scandals by priests did not happen again. Belgium's Catholic church was rocked by scandal this spring when a bishop was forced to resign after years of abuse of his nephew. Since then, over 500 witnesses have come forward with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that span decades. The abused included children aged between the ages of two and six years old. The abuse reportedly led to at least 13 suicides. Retired Cardinal Godfried Danneels told a parliamentary inquiry panel into child molestation by priests on

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Tuesday that often left the church aloof to abuse problems and the needs of the victims. Danneels called on the church "to look its dark side in the eyes" and step away from an arrogant age when "class mentality" made sure it "often thought too much and foremost about itself and its priests and not the victims." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 12:09 PM • Woman sues priest, Archdiocese of Chicago Renew America By Matt C. Abbott CHICAGO (IL) - Below is a copy of a complaint recently filed against the Archdiocese of Chicago and one of its priests. {The lawsuit} Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 11:50 AM • Is Immaculate Ejaculate in L.A. priest personnel files, as in new book by Albuquerque victim? ALBUQUERQUE (NM) City of Angels By Kay Ebeling December 15, 2010 {7:05 AM: Before saying you don't like the headline, read the story, as it suits the subject matter. Offensive? I was diddled between the legs by a priest when I was five years old and the Church still claims sovereignty. I'm beyond offense.*} "I was in hell and I couldn't tell anyone. Who do you tell that a priest said God wants you to ejaculate with him?" - Albuquerque victim "Roman Catholic dogma holds that its clergy are representatives of God and Christ on Earth." - defense attorney for pedophile priests. Two different items that came across my desk Tuesday show the current state of miscommunication between the Catholic Church and thousands of people who came forward as victims of pedophile priests in the past decade. So in this post, City of Angels Blog is running coinciding quotes from the two pieces. First source, yet another document in the Church's ongoing effort to prevent priest personnel files, promised in 510 abuse cases settled in L.A. in 2007, from even being turned over to a mediating judge for possible release to the public. Filed Dec. 15 in L.A. Superior Court, we have quotes from "Declaration of Donald Steier," attorney for L.A. Archdiocese who defends numerous priests in California. {See also the full Steier declaration.} Second source is a book published last month, by one victim of one priest in Albuquerque co-written with a local reporter. "Raped: Memories of a Catholic Altar Boy" delivers graphic accounts of Fr. Robert** John Smith's escapades with a teenage boy in New Mexico motel rooms in the 1970s. {Available from Amazon.} Posted by Terry McKiernan on December 21, 2010 8:55 AM • Re End-of-Year Excuse by Pope for Pedeophile Epidemic in Catholic Church ALBUQUERQUE (NM) City of Angels By Kay Ebeling December 21, 2010 Benedict now claims we should look at the "context" in which six thousand priests raped a hundred thousand children in the USA, saying, Look at all the crimes against children today, look at the child pornography. Yes, look at them. The Catholic Church is responsible for the epidemic of sex crimes against children in the world today, because pedophiles everywhere watched Catholic bishops and monsignors cover up these crimes. The predators became empowered thanks to the Catholic Church. Posted by Terry McKiernan on December 21, 2010 8:50 AM • Ex-Belgian church leader urges more openness The Associated Press, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (AP) – The former leader of the Catholic Church in Belgium is calling for more openness and transparency within the church to make sure that child abuse scandals by priests do not happen again. Cardinal Godfried Danneels told a parliamentary inquiry panel on Tuesday that power often made the church aloof to the abuse problem and the needs of the victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 21, 2010 8:47 AM • Rev. Czeslaw K. Szymanski – Assignment Record WALTHAM (MA) BishopAccountability.org

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Summary of Case: Szymanski was alleged on 12/9/10 to have sexually abused 13 altar boys in the Boston archdiocese in the 1980s, where he was listed in the Directory as an archdiocesan priest. He worked previously in a parish in the Providence diocese as a priest of the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit. Szymanski was apparently transferred in April 1987 from the Boston archdiocese to the Peterborough diocese in Canada, where the chancellor, Rev. Martin A. Wain, would later be convicted of sexual abuse. On 12/11/10, Monsignor Stanislaw Kempa, pastor of Szymanski's old parish in the Boston archdiocese, speaking from the pulpit, denounced the survivors of Szymanski as "cowards," a characterization that was repudiated on the following Sunday by Auxiliary Bishop Peter Ugglieto, who read a letter from Cardinal O'Malley. [Posted by Terry McKiernan on December 21, 2010 8:35 AM] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Tue December 21, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Wed December 22, 2010 edition: !!!: Wis. attorney who defended nun reprimanded [≤ 2008 Lawyer Nikola Kostich -NEW* representing the alleged victim and the alleged abuser.] WFRV, ~ December 22, 2010 MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin attorney who defended a nun convicted of sexually abusing two teenage boys has been reprimanded and fined for also initially representing one of the victims. The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday reprimanded attorney Nikola Kostich for what it called an egregious conflict of interest. Kostich defended Norma Giannini, a nun who was sentenced in February 2008 to one year in jail for sexually abusing two teens at St. Patrick's School in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 10:15 AM [COMMENT: As a journalist wrote a few years ago about the clergy's part in the sex-abuse saga, "I couldn't make this stuff up!"] • Bishop Zubik Speaks To WTAE About Abuse Accusations [? RCC.] WTAE {with video}, ~ December 22, 2010 PITTSBURGH (PA) - Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik is denying allegations made by an abuse survivors group that claims he was involved in destroying records concerning priests in Green Bay, Wis. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, also knows as SNAP, has called for a federal investigation, claiming Zubik ordered the destruction of records detailing sex abuse by priests when he worked in Green Bay. "I was stunned because my own leadership in the church has been to try to build up the credibility of the church, and I know that I would never destroy evidence that would go against the protection of people who have been abused or people alleged to have been abused," said Zubik. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 5:42 PM • 70 - That gave us a shoulder to lean on this year UNITED STATES MN SNAP via YouTube A pictorial glance at Minnesota's 2010 survivor support mountains. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 3:39 PM • Archbishop says it is up to courts to decide if compensation is needed for abuse victims< Winnipeg Free Press, The Associated Press, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - Belgian archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard says it is not up to the church to decide on any compensation for the victims of sexual abuse by priests but instead to the courts. The leader of the Belgian church appeared before a parliamentary inquiry committee into sexual abuse Wednesday in the wake of a yearlong scandal rocking the church. In April a bishop was forced to resign after years of abuse of his nephew. Since then, over 500 witnesses have come forward with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that span decades. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:19 PM • Ahern to receive 'damning' report on sex abuse IRELAND - Irish Independent By Tom Brady Security Editor Wednesday December 22 2010

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THE Government will today receive a top-level report into allegations of clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic diocese of Cloyne. The report is expected to contain some damning findings on how the claims were dealt with by church and state authorities. The commission of investigation, which was headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy, has completed its inquiries, which covered a 13-year period from January 1, 1996, and February 1, 2009. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:15 PM • Commission delivers clerical abuse report to Justice Minister Irish Examiner Wednesday, December 22, 2010 IRELAND - A report into clerical abuse allegations in the diocese of Cloyne will be delivered to the Justice Minister today. It is the product of work carried out by a commission of investigation headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:13 PM • Minister to get Cloyne report today IRELAND TV3 22.12.10 The report into allegations of clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic diocese of Cloyne is to be given to the Government today. The Murphy commission investigated claims of sex abuse made against 19 priests over a 13 year period, from 1996 to 2009. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:12 PM • Justice Minister to receive Cloyne report IRELAND RTE News The Report of the Commission investigating the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the Diocese of Cloyne is expected to be given to the Justice Minister today. The Report of the Commission investigating the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in the Diocese of Cloyne is expected to be given to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern today. The Murphy Commission investigated the handling by the Cloyne Diocese of allegations of abuse made against 19 priests over a 13-year period between 1996 and 2009. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:10 PM • Irish Church braces for new report on abuse in Cloyne diocese Catholic Culture December 22, 2010 IRELAND - Ireland's justice minister, Dermot Ahern, was due to receive a report today on sexual abuse by priests in the Cloyne diocese. The report, which could be made public early next year, is likely to re- ignite criticism of the Irish Catholic hierarchy. The Irish Church is still reeling from the effects of the "Murphy report," released last November, detailing the failure of Church leaders to restrain abusive priests. But the Murphy report covered only the Dublin archdiocese. The Cloyne diocese is the subject of a separate investigation, which covers a more recent time period: from 1996 to 2009. In March, Bishop John Magee of Cloyne resigned his post, apparently at the request of the Holy See. Bishop Magee – who had served at the Vatican, as personal secretary to three Pontiffs – had been severely criticized for failing to enact new standards for reporting and disciplining priests accused of sexual abuse. The new report from the Murphy commission will examine the charges against priests in Cloyne during Bishop Magee's tenure there. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 2:04 PM • Prominent Jesuit Scholar Accused of Abuse [1976+ Pecklers] Care2 posted by: Kristina Chew UNITED STATES - The sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church has reached a "degree we could not have imagined," according to a statement made by Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that was quoted in the December 20th New York Times. Indeed: Just recently, a prominent Jesuit scholar, Keith Pecklers, SJ, was accused by 48-year-old Keith Brennan of sexual abuse, as reported in the December 12th Star-Ledger. Pecklers is a professor of liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and widely regarded as

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December 22, 2010 10:08 AM • 'Vrijwilligers in kerk beschimpt' RKnieuws, ROERMOND, NEDERLAND (RKnieuws.net) - Medewerkers en vrijwilligers in de kerk worden als gevolg van de aanhoudende reeks onthullingen over seksueel misbruik door geestelijken steeds vaker onheus bejegend. Dit zegt de Roermondse bisschop Frans Wiertz in een exclusief gesprek met het Limburgs Dagblad. "De koster, de vrijwilliger in de parochie, de koorzanger, de trouwe kerkganger; ze worden door de publiciteit rond seksueel misbruik vaak scheef aangekeken. 'Wat? Hoor jij nog bij die kerk?', krijgen ze te horen. Alsof het iets verschrikkelijks is dat zij actief zijn in hun parochie. Natuurlijk moet onze eerste aandacht gaan naar de slachtoffers, die hebben onze volle steun en erkenning nodig. Maar het doet mij toch veel pijn dat zoveel mensen van alles naar het hoofd geslingerd krijgen. Die mensen kunnen zich vaak niet verdedigen tegen de agressiviteit en de hoon die hen ten deel vallen." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 10:06 AM • Eye Witness to Miraculous events that Haunt Justice Scalia - "Repair the Injustice" [RCC] Ministry Values By Jim Carney December 22, 2010 UNITED STATES - I saw nearly two dozen statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary weep in my home, at the rectory, in church, and elsewhere in 1992. The bishop and chancellor of the diocese of Arlington, John Keating and William Reinecke, saw their own statues tear before their eyes at the Chancery. The Blessed Mother wept on television. The Washington Post called the occurrences "unexplainable." Everybody close to the miraculous events of 1992 knows the truth. Yet for nearly twenty years the diocese of Arlington has stonewalled all inquiries into the matter. And now we know that the Chancellor of the diocese of Arlington, William Reinecke, who was undoubtedly instrumental in formulating the diocese's policy of silence toward the miraculous events – a position effectively ending the Catholic Church's interest in them – was sadly a man with multiple accusations of pedophilia. Pope Benedict calls on bishops and cardinals to repair the injustice Pope Benedict XVI last week told Vatican officials that they must reflect on the church's culpability in its child sex-abuse scandal. From the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, in his annual Christmas speech to Bishops and Cardinals, said "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred." In his traditional, end-of-the-year speech Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010 reached "an unimaginable dimension" that required the church to accept the "humiliation" as a call for renewal. "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen," the Pope said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 10:02 AM • Kindermisbruik: onthutsende cijfers [RCC.] Knack Weekend, BELGIE - Roger Vangheluwe. Misbruik in de Kerk. Robert Mikelsons in het Hofnarretje in Amsterdam. 2010 lijkt wel het jaar van de pedofilie te zijn. Een weldenkend mens kan dit niet bevatten. Seksueel misbruik van een tiener, een kind, een peuter, ja zelfs baby's. Met mijn verstand kan ik er niet bij hoe je deze kwetsbare wezens dit kan aandoen. En toch komt seksueel misbruik veel vaker voor dan we ons kunnen inbeelden. Studies over het probleem blijven relatief schaars. Voor ons eigen land zijn er cijfers beschikbaar uit 2003. In dat jaar registreerde Kind & Gezin 7.779 aangegeven gevallen van kindermishandeling. 1.742 maal ging het om seksueel misbruik. Dat doet Kind & Gezin besluiten dat in Vlaanderen jaarlijks 1,2 kinderen op duizend seksueel misbruikt worden. Een Nederlandse studie uit 2005 stelt dat voor hun 16de 19% van de meisjes en 4% van de jongens bij onze noorderburen slachtoffer wordt van seksueel geweld. Een Amerikaanse studie (2002) kwam tot de conclusie dat in San Francisco 16% van de meisjes voor hun 18de verjaardag slachtoffer werd van intrafamiliaal seksueel geweld (12% voor hun 14de). 31% van de meisjes gaf aan voor hun 18de slachtoffer te zijn geweest van extrafamiliaal seksueel misbruik (20% voor hun 14de). 38% van de meisjes had dergelijke ervaring binnen of buiten de familiale context voor hun 18de. Amper 2% van de gevallen van intrafamiliaal en 6% van de gevallen van extrafamiliaal geweld werd bij de

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PRLog, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Dec 21, 2010 UNITED STATES - PRLog (Press Release) – Fresh, seemingly daily, revelations of clergy sexual abuse continue roiling the worldwide Roman Catholic Church and have prompted Voice of the Faithful ( http://www.votf.org ) to reaffirm its 10-step program to help resolve the scandal and institute church reforms. Two recent revelations in particular demonstrate the scandal's broad extent and underscore the need to heed suggestions like those VOTF has made for resolving it, no matter what Church hierarchy claims about the sexual abuse scandal being behind us. In one such revelation, Newark Archbishop John J. Myers was cited in a Newark Star Ledger story earlier this month for "shielding at least four priests accused of sexual abuse" since 2002, when he and the nation's bishops gathered in Dallas to "craft a policy intended to cleanse the priesthood of pedophiles and restore trust among shaken American Catholics." In ratifying the Dallas Charter, the Ledger continues, he and "his colleagues promised a new era of reform and transparency. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 9:11 AM • IRELAND: Murphy Report Chapter 19 … IRELAND Startpagina Compiled by drs. Pieter Schultz, information professional, web editor, indexer & theologian (master thesis: conflict & religion) DUTCH •Gerechtelijk rapport: Kerk dekte daden notoire pedofiele priester toe {IE; Rorate / RKnieuws.net} http://alturl.com/u4a7g ENGLISH •Murphy Report chapter can be published {IE; RTE News} http://alturl.com/fv8gd •Murphy report chapter to be published {IE; TV3} http://alturl.com/mpafy •Abuse report chapter cleared / PATSY McGARRY {IE; Irish Times} http://alturl.com/kxo9r •Withheld Murphy Report chapter can now be published {IE; The Journal} http://alturl.com/68ukq •Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report will reveal information on the singing priest / By CATHY HAYES {IE; IrishCentral} http://alturl.com/dkxst Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 9:08 AM • "Wij hebben de waarheid nooit willen wegstoppen" [RCC] De Redactie, BELGIE - Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard heeft getuigd in de Kamercommissie over seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk. Net als kardinaal Godfried Danneels gisteren neemt hij geen persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid op. Léonard heeft wel maatregelen aangekondigd binnen de Belgische katholieke kerk. Na de getuigenis van kardinaal Godfried Danneels gisteren werd vandaag met heel wat aandacht uitgekeken naar wat aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard zou vertellen voor de commissie. Onder massale persbelangstelling nam Léonard plaats om zijn verklaring -alleen in het Frans- voor te lezen. "Ik zit hier vandaag in drie hoedanigheden, als voormalig bisschop van Namen, als aartsbisschop van Mechelen-Brussel en, in die functie, als voorzitter van de bisschoppenconferentie", vatte Léonard aan. Hij stelde nadien nadrukkelijk dat hij als aartsbisschop van Mechelen-Brussel alleen zeggenschap heeft over wat er in dat bisdom gebeurt, niet over de andere bisdommen. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 9:02 AM • Rik Torfs wil niet weten van laïcisering Vandaag BELGIE - Priesters die zich schuldig hebben gemaakt aan seksueel misbruik moeten uit hun ambt ontheven worden. Dat is de straf die heel wat mensen eisen. Die laïcisering, de terugkeer naar het lekendom, vindt CD&V-senator Rik Torfs echter een slecht idee. De kerkjurist vindt het logisch dat de geestelijke op non-actief moet worden gezet. "Maar door de laïcisering wordt de laatste band met het bisdom, met de kerk doorgeknipt", aldus Torfs op Radio 1. "Dan heeft niemand nog controle over hem. Zo zou het risico ontstaan dat de priester als een ongeleid projectiel in de maatschappij terechtkomt en dat hij nog meer slachtoffers maakt." Posted by Kathy Shaw on http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 226 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM in de maatschappij terechtkomt en dat hij nog meer slachtoffers maakt." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 8:58 AM • Pedophile priest in San Francisco denied bail before extradition to Ireland [McCabe. RCC. 6 boys in Ireland. Boys in USA] Irish Central, By CATHY HAYES, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer, SAN FRANCISCO (CA) - Patrick Joseph McCabe, a former Catholic priest and pedophile has been denied bail by a San Francisco federal judge. McCabe is awaiting extradition to Ireland on six counts of abuse while there are also mounting legal actions being taken over his abuse of schoolboys in his former Santa Rosa parish. McCabe, now aged 74, was arrested in California this year. He has been accused of abusing six boys in Ireland from 1973 to 1981. Now other American men have come forward claiming they were also abused by McCabe when he worked in their California parish. According California's Court House News Service McCabe has made six requests for bail. The court has said that he is "flatly mistaken in his interpretation of the law". However, McCabe argues that he deserves bail due to his bad health and because if he were in Ireland he would be given bail. He also claimed that the charges against him have been delayed. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:51 AM • Press Release: Mystery of Monsignor Accused of Molesting… [Book. Fiction] American Banking & Market News December 22, 2010 Torrance, CA, –(PR.com)– Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Book of Redemption by Evon Smith. The author's most recent book to date is a 5 x 8 paperback in the mystery and detective fiction category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. … An elderly priest has been found dead. The police investigation by the LAPD has begun to determine whether Monsignor Leland committed suicide or was murdered. Monsignor Leland had been accused of molesting young boys many years ago, though no charges were ever filed. A Los Angeles Times staff writer, Marco Vori, is writing an investigative series regarding the priest sex abuse in the Catholic Church when Monsignor Leland contacts him to provide information regarding his investigative series. Now the priest has been found dead and Marco Vori is missing. Days later, Marco's best friend, Elizabeth Pearson, begins receiving e-mails from the dead priest asking her if she's received "the book." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:47 AM • Bishop Zubik Denies Accusations Of Abuse Cover-Up PITTSBURGH (PA) WTAE PITTSBURGH -- An abuse survivors group is leveling accusations that Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik was involved in destroying records concerning priests in Green Bay. Channel 4 Action News' Amber Nicotra reported that a survivors network of those who allege they were abused by priests, also knows as SNAP, has called for a federal investigation, claiming Zubik ordered the destruction of records detailing sex abuse by priests in Green Bay. On Wednesday, Zubik spoke to Channel 4 Action News and defended himself against the accusations that he destroyed files and denied any kind of wrongdoing. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:41 AM • DUITSE BISSCHOPPEN KONDIGEN FINANCIËLE VERGOEDING AAN VOOR MISBRUIKSLACHTOFFERS DUITSLAND KerkNet BRUSSEL (KerkNet/DieWelt) – De referent voor misbruik van de Duitse bisschoppen, bisschop Stephan Ackermann van Trier, stelt een financiële vergoeding in het vooruitzicht voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik door geestelijken. De bisschop vermijdt bewust het woord 'schadevergoeding' en spreekt over 'een erkenning van het geleden leed'. Omvang van het bedrag en de criteria voor de vaststelling daarvan moeten volgens de bisschop vastgelegd worden door de werkgroep die Duitse Bondsregering daarvoor heeft opgericht. Bisschop Ackermann beklemtoont dat de financiële vergoeding slechts een van de maatregelen is die de Duitse bisschoppen aan de werkgroep hebben voorgesteld. 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BRUSSEL, BELGIE (KerkNet/IPID) - Als laatste van de Belgische bisschoppen werd vanmorgen ook mgr. André-Joseph Léonard, aartsbisschop van Mechelen-Brussel, gehoord door de Bijzondere commissie seksueel misbruik. Zoals kardinaal Danneels dat gisteren al deed, onderstreepte mgr. Léonard bij het begin van zijn betoog dat hij als aartsbisschop van Mechelen-Brussel (sinds 27 februari dit jaar) enkel en alleen bevoegd is voor zijn aartsbisdom en dat zijn rol als voorzitter van de bisschoppenconferentie beperkt is tot die van coördinator en een enkele keer inspirator van deze conferentie, die overigens geen beleidsorgaan is, maar in eerste instantie een adviserende bevoegdheid heef Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:35 AM • Kardinaal Danneels gehoord door commissie NOS Video BELGIE - De voormalig aartsbisschop van Belgie, kardinaal Danneels, heeft zijn excuses aangeboden voor het seksueel misbruik in de kerk. De verontwaardiging over al dit misbruik was zo groot, dat een parlementaire onderzoekscommissie werd opgericht. En die pakte vandaag de ex-aartsbisschop stevig aan. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:31 AM • 'Vrijwilligers in kerk beschimpt' Limburgs Dagblad, Door Wim Doesborgh, Medewerkers en vrijwilligers in de kerk worden als gevolg van de aanhoudende reeks onthullingen over seksueel misbruik door geestelijken steeds vaker onheus bejegend. Roermond NEDERLAND - Dit zegt de Roermondse bisschop Frans Wiertz in een exclusief gesprek met deze krant. "De koster, de vrijwilliger in de parochie, de koorzanger, de trouwe kerkganger; ze worden door de publiciteit rond seksueel misbruik vaak scheef aangekeken. 'Wat? Hoor jij nog bij die kerk?', krijgen ze te horen. Alsof het iets verschrikkelijks is dat zij actief zijn in hun parochie. Natuurlijk moet onze eerste aandacht gaan naar de slachtoffers, die hebben onze volle steun en erkenning nodig. Maar het doet mij toch veel pijn dat zoveel mensen van alles naar het hoofd geslingerd krijgen. Die mensen kunnen zich vaak niet verdedigen tegen de agressiviteit en de hoon die hen ten deel vallen." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:27 AM • "Kerk dacht te vaak aan zichzelf" [RCC] Metro Times, BELGIE - Onder massale mediabelangstemming benadrukte Danneels gisteren dat hij geschokt was door de vele verhalen over misbruik door pedofiele geestelijken. "Wat ik voelde, ging van schaamte over boosheid tot de vaste wil om iets te ondernemen", zei Danneels. "Als bisschop excuseer ik mij als een goede huisvader in de grote familie die de kerk is. Ik wil uitdrukkelijk hun leed erkennen en duidelijk mijn afschuw uitspreken voor wat de slachtoffers is aangedaan door dienaars van de Kerk." Hoewel de kardinaal zich verontschuldigde tegenover de slachtoffers voelt hij zich niet persoonlijk verantwoordelijk. De klachten waar hij weet van had, heeft Danneels naar de juiste mensen doorverwezen, verklaarde hij. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:24 AM • Victims blast diocese for destroying priests' psychological records Catholic Culture December 22, 2010 GREEN BAY (WI) - The Diocese of Green Bay destroyed some priests' psychological records in 2007 in order to comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the diocese's vicar general said in a recent deposition. A diocesan spokesman said that these records were destroyed only in cases in which priests were deceased and there was no pending court litigation related to abuse. "There was never an order issued by me - nor anyone else - to destroy documents or evidence contained in the files of priests accused of abuse while I served as bishop of Green Bay," insisted Bishop David Zubik, now bishop of Pittsburgh. "To the contrary, it had been diocesan practice in Green Bay not to destroy documents in priest files - even after a priest had died - if there was litigation involving that priest or any pending claims. I reinforced that practice by having it formally written into the diocesan records retention policy in 2007." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:22 AM • Nothing to See Here

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GREEN BAY (WI) The Fifth Column WBAY in Green Bay, Wisconsin reports that the Green Bay Diocese is being accused of having destroyed files associated with pedophile priests. The authorities frown on the destruction of evidence. Notice how the diocese denies the claim: "In 2006 the diocese issued a 146-page document that covered all diocesan departments. All files of every department are covered in this 146-page document. This was not done just to deal with clergy files; this was a matter of good management," Reilly said. "Our record retention policy clearly states that no documents are destroyed if there is pending litigation. That practice and policy has been completely adhered to," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:18 AM • Professor Rhonheimer Writes. And the Holy Office Agrees [RCC] Chiesa, by Sandro Magister, December 22, 2010 ROME – The discussion on sexual morality ignited by Benedict XVI in a passage of his book-length interview "Light of the World" keeps moving higher and higher. Yesterday afternoon, Professor Martin Rhonheimer, a priest of Opus Dei and a professor, in Rome, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, gave www.chiesa exclusive rights to an extensive reflection he wrote in elaboration and development on the sketchy comments offered by the pope. And at the same time, "L'Osservatore Romano" went to press with a note from the congregation for the doctrine of the faith on "the trivialization of sexuality, regarding certain interpretations of 'Light of the World'." A note published simultaneously in six languages on the Vatican website. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:14 AM • Time to remove those who turned blind eye to abuse [Fr Tony Walsh (Norbertine). RCC.] Belfast Telegraph, IRELAND - The public mood in the Republic is for the prosecution and incarceration of Church leaders who facilitated child clerical abusers by following canon law confidentiality, rather than the due process of civil and criminal law. This mood has hardened after a week in which Irish Catholics went through, yet again, the horror wringer with the delayed publication of chapter 19 of the Murphy Report about how Church authorities in the Dublin archdiocese failed hundreds of working-class children by allowing 'the most notorious child abuser', Tony Walsh, to rape for at least two decades. For the past six years, the public has been put through this wringer, with the Ferns Report, the Ryan and Murphy reports - and is bracing itself for the pending report on ex-Bishop John Magee and the diocese of Cloyne. But, so far, not one senior cleric has been brought to book. Last week, too, UTV's Insight programme broadcast the plea of a woman, raped in Cavan in 1993 when she was only 12 by 'the devil Brendan Smyth', for Cardinal Brady to resign as Primate of All Ireland. Her case is based on the fact her life would not have been ruined if 18 years earlier the then Fr Sean Brady had informed gardai about Smyth's criminality rather than swear to secrecy under canon law two of the Norbertine 's child victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:11 AM • Léonard: Kerk heeft waarheid nooit willen verbergen [RCC] Knack, BELGIE - Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard meent dat het momenteel niet aan de bisdommen is om in te staan voor schadevergoedingen aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik, maar dat het gerecht eerst zijn werk moet doen. Volgens Léonard heeft de kerk de waarheid nooit willen verbergen. Dat heeft hij woensdag gezegd in de bijzondere Kamercommissie seksueel misbruik. Léonard getuigde er woensdag, daags na kardinaal Godfried Danneels. Danneels stelde toen een initiatief van de bisschoppenconferentie inzake schadevergoedingen in het vooruitzicht, maar Léonard was voorzichtiger. De aartsbisschop verwees naar de oproep die hij na het ontslag van Roger Vangheluwe deed aan slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik om zich te melden bij het gerecht of bij de commissie-Adriaenssens. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:08 AM • Aartsbisschop: schadevergoeding zaak justitie De Telegraaf, wo 22 dec 2010

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BRUSSEL, BELGIE - De Belgische aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard vindt dat het aan justitie is om schadevergoedingen op te leggen aan het instituut dat verantwoordelijk is voor een dader van misbruik. Dat zei hij woensdag voor de commissie kindermisbruik in het Belgische parlement. Net als kardinaal Godfried Danneels dinsdag, nam Léonard geen persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid. Sinds hij aartsbisschop is, heeft hij geen enkele klacht over een priester van zijn bisdom heeft ontvangen, aldus Léonard . Wel kreeg hij een lijst van twintig vermeende daders van de commissie die het misbruik binnen de kerk onderzocht. Hij ontving slechts de namen want de dossiers zijn in handen van justitie. Als bisschop van Namen had hij weet van zeven gevallen van misbruik. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:05 AM • Verontschuldigingen alleen volstaan niet BELGIE Gazet van Antwerpen Kardinaal Godfried Danneels heeft gisteren in de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik een andere, veel nederiger toon aangeslagen over de misbruiken door pedofiele priesters dan na de onthulling van de tapes met zijn gesprek met een slachtoffer van de voormalige Brugse bisschop Roger Vangheluwe. Toen probeerde hij vruchteloos de imagoschade voor de Kerk te beperken en kwam hij bijzonder koel en arrogant over. Die houding kwam hem binnen en buiten de Kerk op scherpe en bittere kritiek te staan. In de commissie heeft Danneels zijn verontschuldigingen aangeboden aan de slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik in de Kerk. Hij erkende dat de Kerk veel te lang enkel aan zichzelf en de priesters heeft gedacht en niet aan de slachtoffers. Dat kan tellen, maar of dit volstaat om het gebrek aan daadkracht te verantwoorden is een andere kwestie. Het argument dat elke bisschop verantwoordelijk is voor wat er in zijn bisdom gebeurt en alleen daar initiatieven kan nemen is allerminst overtuigend en klinkt veeleer als een flauw excuus voor het lankmoedig optreden. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 7:02 AM • Politieke agenda's sturen Kamercommissie seksueel misbruik BELGIE RKnieuws BRUSSEL (RKnieuws.net) - Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard sluit vandaag de rij bisschoppen die op het appel verschenen in de Bijzondere commissie betreffende de behandeling van seksueel misbruik en feiten van pedofilie binnen een gezagsrelatie, inzonderheid binnen de kerk. De hoorzittingen in de Kamer brachten de politieke agenda's aan het licht. De bisschoppen gaven telkens eerst een overzicht van de meldingen en de aanpak van seksueel misbruik in hun bisdom en tijdens hun ambtsperiode. Nadien stelden de commissieleden vragen. Hun spervuur wekte soms de indruk van een tribunaal, waarbij enkele leden ook een oordeel vellen over wat de kerk en de bisschoppen zouden moeten doen. Het komt nochtans niet de staat toe te formuleren hoe de kerk zich dient te organiseren. De commissie moet daarentegen het functioneren van de staat en het gerecht controleren. Tot het vaste vragenlijstje van de commissieleden behoorden de vertrouwelijke dossiers uit het 'geheime archief', de samenwerking tussen de bisschoppen, de eventuele contacten tussen de bisdommen en justitie, de verhouding tussen burgerlijk en kerkelijk recht, de bereidheid om samen te werken met justitie, de bestraffing van priesters en de mate waarin daders na het volbrengen van probatievoorwaarden of therapie al of niet nog een taak in de kerk kunnen opnemen. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:58 AM • Slachtoffers willen schadevergoeding van kerk NEDERLAND RTV Oost Slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik uit Albergen en Arnhem gaan samen optrekken om een schadevergoeding te krijgen van de katholieke kerk. Het gaat om slachtoffers van een pastor uit Albergen, die ook kapelaan was in Arnhem. Gisteravond was er een bijeenkomst van de slachtoffers, waar is gepraat over 't misbruik. Wat opviel was dat de pastor in alle gevallen dezelfde werkwijze had. Op de bijeenkomsten vertelden ook veel slachtoffers over de psychologische problemen die zijn veroorzaakt door 't misbruik. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:55 AM • Danneels slaat geen mea culpa BELGIE Nieuws {video} Kardinaal Danneels heeft vandaag voor de parlementaire commissie seksueel misbruik geen mea culpa http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 230 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM geslagen. Hij heeft wel zijn excuses aangeboden in naam van de kerk. Vtm-journalist Barend Leyts geeft meer uitleg vanuit het parlement in Brussel. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:53 AM • Zubik defends action on priests in sex abuse GREEN BAY (WI) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, December 22, 2010 By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Victim advocates have accused Bishop David Zubik of destroying the records of sex-abusing priests when he was bishop of Green Bay, Wis., but the bishop says he was following medical privacy law, didn't single out abusers and didn't destroy records with legal action pending. "The accusations made by SNAP are totally without substance," he said in a statement. "There was never an order issued by me - nor anyone else - to destroy documents or evidence contained in the files of priests accused of abuse while I served as bishop of Green Bay. To the contrary, it had been diocesan practice in Green Bay not to destroy documents in priest files - even after a priest had died - if there was litigation involving that priest or any pending claims. I reinforced that practice by having it formally written into the diocesan records retention policy in 2007." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:48 AM • SNAP calls for federal investigation into GB Diocese GREEN BAY (WI) WLUK Reporter: Mark Leland GREEN BAY - The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is calling for a federal investigation into what it claims is obstruction of justice on the part of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay is being accused of destroying files on known pedophile priests. "This is a serious and deliberate act of evidence destruction that a corporation could possibly engage itself in," said Peter Isely, Midwest Director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:47 AM • SNAP Calling on Feds to Investigate Green Bay Diocese GREEN BAY (WI) WTAQ {Fr. John Doerfler deposition} GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Survivors' Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is calling for a federal investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. SNAP points to Father John Doerfler, who said that the diocese destroyed documents on some priests, while testifying in the case of convicted pedophile priest John Feeney. The Diocese's Deacon Tim Reilly responded to the claim. "We have a standing policy that, if there's any litigation that is pending, we do not destroy any documents," Reilly said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:42 AM • Haitians say they're relieved by Perlitz sentence [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. Admitted and apologised. ? 22 boys.] CT Post, John Burgeson, Staff Writer, Published: 12:14 a.m., Wednesday, December 22, 2010 NEW HAVEN (CT) - The 130 people who packed the stuffy federal courtroom remained transfixed through nearly seven hours of testimony Tuesday, as federal prosecutors constructed their case to keep Douglas Perlitz behind bars for nearly two decades. There was a contingent of about 30 Haitians in the courtroom, and all of them seemed relieved and happy when U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton agreed with prosecutors and sentenced Perlitz to nearly 20 years in prison. "This is a credit to the American government and the American people," said Louis Elneus, who works in Haiti's rural school districts. "The judge was thorough, thoughtful - and she's right. We're very happy that Doug is away, and at least his victims will find some sort of satisfaction from this." 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Luxembourg's Catholic community. The portal sokrates.lu, an initiative of the Liberté de conscience (Libco - "Freedom of conscience"), an organisation that celebrates the separation of church and state, guides members on how to leave the church if they feel they have lost faith. The website asks members to download and sign a letter available on the website fraiheet.lu and send it to Libco. It is then passed on to the archdiocese, the members' local parish and the Ministry of State. Libco has unregistered more than 2,500 members from the church since its inception, according to French daily L'essential. In total, it estimates that around 7,000 people have left the church across the country since 2009. History of Roman Catholicism in Luxembourg Christianity has always been incredibly popular in the Grand Duchy. Currently it is estimated that 87% of citizens are registered as Roman Catholics. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:24 AM • From Scandal to Catholicism [RCC] Catholic Culture, By Dr. Jeff Mirus | December 21, 2010 UNITED STATES - In one of his major statements of the year, the Christmas address to the Roman Curia, Pope Benedict XVI was (as our Catholic World News Service put it) unsparing in his analysis of the sex abuse scandal. By this we mean that he put full blame on all the bishops and priests who played any role in fostering or protecting a culture of abuse, as well as on those who were actually directly guilty of abuse. The Holy Father also had the courage to point out the moral failure endemic to modern culture, which ultimately infected the Church herself. Many commentators believe that we Catholics should not point out larger cultural problems, because it looks too much like special pleading. But in fact it goes without saying that clerical sexual abuse is an abomination, and it takes no moral courage at all to condemn it vehemently. The way of courage lies in pointing out what either is not obvious or is deliberately obscured, and in fact too many commentators still refuse – I use the word advisedly – to recognize the connection between priestly sexual abuse and the larger culture, just as they refuse to take their share of responsibility for the creation of a culture which is profoundly sexually abusive in general – a culture actually built to an astonishing degree on the quest for selfish sexual gratification. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:21 AM [COMMENT: Yes, somebody else is to blame! Not! ENDS.] • Parker Hill, ex-youth group leader sued by parents of molested boy PENNSYLVANIA The Times-Tribune By Joe McDonald (Staff Writer) The parents of a teenage boy who was molested by a former church youth group leader sued Parker Hill Community Church and the former youth leader Tuesday in Lackawanna County Court. The former youth leader, Joshua W. Landis, was sentenced in October by Judge Michael J. Barrasse to 12-to-60 months in state prison for unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of a minor. Judge Barrasse classified Mr. Landis as a sexually violent predator. The suit, filed by Scranton attorney Kevin P. Foley, claims the church fostered an atmosphere in which Mr. Landis "felt he could engage in sexual abuse of children without fear of being investigated, disciplined or referred for criminal prosecution." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:17 AM • Cardinal Daneels: Belgian Church must renounce self-centered mentality in response to abuse BELGIUM Catholic News Agency Brussels, Belgium, Dec 21, 2010 / 07:38 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Godfried Daneels has said that the Catholic Church in Belgium must "look its dark side in the eyes" and renounce a mentality which thinks more about itself and not about victims of sexual abuse. Cardinal Daneels, the retired Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, on Dec. 21 addressed a parliamentary panel investigating priests' sexual abuse of children. He said the Church should move away from an arrogant age of "class mentality," the Associated Press reports. It was once impossible for an abused child to tell his or her parents that a priest was the culprit, the cardinal said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:13 AM • Diocese's response to obstruction of justice claims GREEN BAY (WI) Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay GREEN BAY, Wis. (Dec. 21, 2010) – Amid allegations of obstruction of justice, the Diocese of Green http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 232 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Bay says it will vigorously defend itself and demonstrate its innocence when the Merryfield case, a pending civil case, moves on to a jury trial in Outagamie County. Attorneys for Troy and Todd Merryfield submitted a "Motion to Prevent Document Destruction" in Outagamie Circuit Court on November 15, 2010. Attorneys for the Diocese of Green Bay filed a brief in opposition to the plaintiffs' motion on November 23, 2010. The Diocese of Green Bay has reported every credible allegation of sexual abuse against a minor by a member of the clergy to the appropriate District Attorney of the county in which the alleged incident occurred. The Diocese cooperated completely with law enforcement authorities in every one of those cases. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:05 AM • Perlitz sentenced to nearly 20 years for sex abuse in Haiti [2001-2008 Pastor Doug Perlitz* - University and RCC backing. 19 7/12yrs prison. Admitted and apologised. ? 22 boys.] News Times, Michael P. Mayko, Published: 10:27 p.m., Tuesday, December 21, 2010 NEW HAVEN (CT) - It's a story filled with chapters on hope, dark desires, courage and persistence. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton wrote another one - on justice - sentencing Douglas Perlitz, the humanitarian turned sex predator, to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for his systematic and prolonged abuse of at least 16 homeless boys in a program he created to shelter, feed and educate them in Haiti. "Our country places a high value on defending citizens' individual dignity and protecting every child," Arterton told Perlitz, 40, Fairfield University's 2002 commencement speaker. "This was a horrific crime … In a country that's very hard to live in; he took away the childhood they were never able to have… ." But Arterton didn't stop there. She looked directly at Perlitz and told him: "Survivors of sexual abuse have unique, long-lasting permanent injuries - for these boys that's on top of being poor, hungry and homeless in Haiti. Now they have fingers pointed at them in derision." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 6:04 AM • Survivors group seeks investigation of Green Bay diocese [? 2000s Green Bay Diocese -? NEW*. RCC. Destroying evidence.] Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, By Annysa Johnson, GREEN BAY (WI) - Victims of clergy sex abuse on Tuesday asked federal prosecutors to investigate the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay for obstruction of justice, accusing it of destroying documents related to priests' sexual abuse of children. Members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, met with Assistant U.S. Attorney William Roach in the Green Bay office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin. They delivered a transcript of a November deposition in which Green Bay Chancellor Father John Doerfler detailed the destruction of documents on priests, beginning in 2007 - the same year the Wisconsin Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for victims to sue the church under the state's fraud statutes. "What they're doing is destroying evidence of child sex crimes. It's absolutely appalling," said John Pilmaier, SNAP's Midwest co-director, who took part in a news conference Tuesday outside the federal courthouse in Green Bay. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 5:59 AM • Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik denies cover-up of files GREEN BAY (WI) - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Bob Bauder Wednesday, December 22, 2010 A victims' advocacy group Tuesday called for a federal investigation into claims that Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik ordered the destruction of records detailing pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse by priests in Green Bay, Wis. Zubik denied the allegations. Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests cited a deposition given in November by a high-ranking Catholic Diocese of Green Bay official calling on U.S. Attorney James Santelle to investigate Zubik and Green Bay Bishop David L. Ricken. "Our first concern is the destruction of criminal evidence," Peter Isely, SNAP's Midwest director, said shortly before a news conference yesterday outside the federal courthouse in Green Bay. "We want (Santelle) to order them to stop doing it. We also want him to look for possible criminal charges." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 5:55 AM • SNAP Alleges Diocese Destroyed Documents http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 233 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM • SNAP Alleges Diocese Destroyed Documents GREEN BAY (WI) WFRV {with video} WFRV News GREEN BAY (WFRV) An organization for victims of priest abuse is accusing the Green Bay Catholic Diocese of destroying secret evidence on pedophile clergy. The survivors network of those abused by priests, also known as SNAP, wants federal attorneys to investigate the diocese for possible obstruction of justice. It points to a recent court deposition of Father John Doerfler. In that deposition Doerfler allegedly admits Bishop David Zubick ordered documents be destroyed concerning an unknown number of clergy who sexually assaulted children. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 5:49 AM • SNAP accuses Green Bay diocese of destroying evidence GREEN BAY (WI) - Press-Gazette {letter to the U.S. Attorney's office} {statement from the Green Bay diocese} By Paul Srubas, [email protected] , December 22, 2010 A group that represents victims of clergy sex abuse has accused the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay of embarking on a policy to destroy potential evidence in clergy abuse cases. "It's an intentional, deliberate act of destroying what's in the file," said Peter Isely, Midwest director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. "This is a potential record of crimes committed against us, and criminal evidence, and it's evidence of potential fraud, which is the concealment or transference of clerics" guilty of sexual abuse. The diocese denied the accusations Tuesday, saying it continues to be cooperative with victims of sex abuse cases but has been following a records management policy that has been in place for the last four years. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 22, 2010 5:40 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Wed December 22, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 23, 2010 edition: • NH church members sentenced in abuse-report case [? 2009-10 Pastor and two elders - ? NEW* "Valley Christian Church". US $2000 fines. Failed to report allegations. Girl (12)] The Boston Globe, Dec 22, 2010 CONWAY, N.H. – Three church members won't being going to jail after being found guilty of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child. WMWV-FM reports Judge Pamela Albee sentenced the pastor of the Valley Christian Church in Conway and two church elders to 30 days in jail, all suspended, plus probation and a $2,000 fine each. They were found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report they suspected a 12-year-old girl had been sexually abused by another church elder. No one has been charged. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:32 AM • Alleged abuse [Ex-Fr Stephen Cude -NEW*. RCC. ? child.] Oklahoma Gazette, By Clifton Adcock, Dec 22, 2010 OKLAHOMA - A former Oklahoma City Catholic priest has been accused of childhood sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of his former parishioners. The Rev. Stephen D. Cude is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma County District Court. The plaintiff's identity is not revealed in the filing. Cude did not return phone messages or e-mails from the Oklahoma Gazette. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 4:02 PM • Seksueel misbruik: groepsklacht Nieuws {video} BELGIE - De advocaten van de slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk hebben beslist om het vaticaan en de paus te dagvaarden. Ze gaan daarom een groepsklacht indienen. Op die manier staan ze

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 234 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM sterker. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 4:10 PM • Operatie Kelk: Keuleneer overweegt cassatieberoep HLN BELGIE - HLN update - De advocaat van het aartsbisdom en kardinaal Danneels, meester Fernand Keuleneer, overweegt cassatieberoep tegen het oordeel van de Brusselse kamer van inbeschuldigingstelling over "operatie Kelk". Hij blijft erbij dat de volledige huiszoekingen en inbeslagnames in Mechelen onwettelijk zijn. Keuleneer is wel tevreden dat de KI de huiszoekingen in Leuven nietig verklaarde. "Mijn cliënten drukken hun grote tevredenheid hierover uit. Dit is wat vele van de slachtoffers die zich in vertrouwen tot de Commissie seksueel misbruik gericht hadden, vroegen. De KI bevestigt hiermee opnieuw ons standpunt dat de invallen en massale inbeslagnames op 24 juni niet volgens de regels van de wettelijkheid verliepen." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 4:06 PM • Ook bisschop Johan Bonny werd als tiener benaderd door pedofiel Focus - WTV, Moere, Belgie - Johan Bonny, bisschop van Antwerpen en afkomstig uit Moere, blikt terug op crisisjaar voor de Kerk. Hij heeft het over Roger Vangheluwe, kardinaal Danneels en Léonard. Maar ook over z'n eigen jeugd, want ook Johan Bonny werd als tiener benaderd door een pedofiel. De Kerk in crisis, het was een van dé nieuwsfeiten van 2010. Pedofilieschandalen stuurden de geloofwaardigheid van het eeuwenoude instituut naar ongekende diepten. Zeker ook in Vlaanderen, waar in het zog van de gevallen Brugse bisschop Roger Vangheluwe honderden pedodossiers aan de oppervlakte kwamen. De Antwerpse bisschop Johan Bonny – die opgroeide in Eernegem en Moere, waar zijn moeder nog woont – trad de voorbije maanden regelmatig op het voorplan. Met hem blikken we terug op dit 'annus horribilis' voor de Kerk. Over de bekentenissen van Roger Vangheluwe : „Een grote schok. Vangheluwe was mijn professor geweest aan het Grootseminarie in Brugge, later werd hij er een collega en vanaf 1985 mijn bisschop. In al die hoedanigheden had ik hem leren kennen en waarderen. Het nieuws over seksueel misbruik was dan ook een donderslag bij heldere hemel." De maanden die daarop volgden barstte de bom en doken nog meer schandalen op. Dossiers stapelden zich op, soms over gevallen van tientallen jaren geleden. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 11:27 AM • Priest abuse group demands apology from Bar Harbor Bangor Daily News, By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff, BAR HARBOR, Maine – A national group sent a statement and letters Wednesday to local officials asking for an apology over the appointment of a convicted child abuser to the town's housing authority board. Town officials, however, said they had not received any statement or letters from the group, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The statement released Wednesday by SNAP asks town councilors and housing authority board members to "apologize for their recklessness" in appointing Walter Dayton Salisbury, 79, to the board and requests that Salisbury be banned from living in the authority's properties. Salisbury, a former Catholic priest, served as a resident member of the board from the late 1990s until Dec. 1, when he resigned two days before his criminal past was revealed in a Bangor Daily News article. Salisbury lives in a housing authority building for elderly residents in Bar Harbor. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 11:03 AM • Clergy sex abuse victims blast Bar Harbor officials MAINE - Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is criticizing Bar Harbor officials over a twice-convicted predator priest who lives now in publicly-financed housing and was, until two weeks ago, on a government housing panel. Leaders of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) are writing members of the Bar Harbor Housing Authority board and the Bar Harbor Town Council about Fr. Walter Dayton Salisbury. Earlier this month, the Bangor Daily News revealed that Salisbury is a twice-convicted child molester http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 235 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Earlier this month, the Bangor Daily News revealed that Salisbury is a twice-convicted child molester who has, for years, been living in public housing and serving on the housing authority's board. SNAP wants both bodies to apologize for their "recklessness" and to aggressively reach out to anyone who "may have seen, suspected or suffered" and crimes Salisbury may have committed in Maine. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:39 AM • Lawyer for predator nun is disciplined; Sex abuse victims respond WISCONSIN Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests Statement by Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (312-399-4747, [email protected]) It's shameful that a defense lawyer for a Catholic nun would betray a child sex abuse victim like this. It's hard enough for men and women who were assaulted as kids by clerics to come forward. This kind of egregious misconduct makes it even harder. We are grateful that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has disciplined Kostich and we hope that Wisconsin judges watch his future behavior carefully in case he breaches ethics in other ways. We're especially grateful to this brave victim, who helped expose and prosecute a child molesting cleric, and then went further, helping to expose and prosecute an unethical lawyer. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:37 AM • Time to prosecute abuse cover-ups in the Catholic Church IRELAND Irish Central The Sunday Tribune newspaper in Dublin reported that it was very likely a pedophile ring of at least five priests operated with impunity in Dublin during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The newspaper explained how the priest concerned divvied up the altar boys and other victims and how children suffered multiple rapes from the group's members. Their shocking revelation came after the jailing of Anthony Walsh, a defrocked priest who molested over 100 children during his infamous clerical career. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:25 AM • Flanagan calls for extension of Murphy Commission IRELAND Midlands 103 A Midlands Fine Gael TD says the remit of the Murphy commission should be extended to all Catholic diocese. The party's spokesperson for Children Charlie Flanagan says it clear that a national audit is needed because of the litany of horrors that have already been uncovered. The Murphy report investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in Dublin's Archdiocese and has just finished a probe into the Cloyne diocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:19 AM • Former Sullivan Priest Accused of Spending Sprees With Church Money MISSOURI Fox 2 {with video} By Andy Banker FOX2now.com SULLIVAN, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) – Amid the furor swirling around the spending practices of a catholic priest, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson visited a divided parish, St. Anthony's, in Sullivan, Wednesday night. The Archdiocese reported there were tens of thousands of dollars in question, spent at the Lake of the Ozarks and clothing stores like Abercrombie and Fitch, among other places. Carlson met with parish leaders and then held an open forum with members of the congregation. The meetings lasted for more than two hours. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:14 AM • Advocaten slachtoffers gaan paus dagvaarden RKnieuws, BRUSSEL, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - Meesters Walter Van Steenbrugge en Christine Mussche, die een aantal slachtoffers van misbruik door geestelijken verdedigen, zijn van plan om paus Benedictus XVI te dagvaarden. 'We zijn bezig met het voorbereiden van een claim lastens de paus omdat we zeggen dat hij de hoofdverantwoordelijke is van het misbruik.' Van Steenbrugge en Mussche hebben al contact gelegd met Amerikaanse confraters die het Vaticaan reeds hebben gedagvaard. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:10 AM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 236 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Sex abuse inquiry should cover all dioceses, says FG The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent IRELAND - THE REMIT of the Murphy commission should be extended to include all Catholic dioceses in the State, Fine Gael spokesman on children Charlie Flanagan has said. "It is clear from the litany of horrors that have already been revealed that a full national audit of all Catholic dioceses is required," he said. The Murphy commission investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations by church and State authorities in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese and has just completed a similar investigation into Cloyne diocese. Mr Flanagan was speaking yesterday in anticipation of the commission's Cloyne report being handed over to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern today. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:08 AM • Opnieuw commotie na uitspraken over homo's en ivf BELGIE HLN Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard veroorzaakt opnieuw ophef met enkele opmerkelijke uitspraken over homo's en kunstmatige bevruchting. Hij deed die aan het einde van de vragenronde in de bijzondere commissie Seksueel Misbruik. De Aartsbisschop stelt voor een solidariteitsfonds op te richten voor de slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik, niet alleen in een kerkelijke relatie maar ook in gezagsrelaties in onder meer de medische, verzorgings- of sportwereld. De aartsbisschop had er bewust voor gekozen om het heikele punt als laatste te behandelen in zijn antwoorden op de vragen van de commissieleden. De kerk heeft een traditie in generositeit - voor de derde wereld, natuurrampen, epidemieën, …- , maar moet de instelling financieel verantwoordelijk gesteld worden voor feiten die door haar leden gepleegd worden, vroeg hij zich af. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:05 AM • Léonard twijfelt aan nut van laïcisering BELGIE Vandaag Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard werd tijdens de namiddagzitting van de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik in de Kerk bestookt met vragen door de Commissieleden. Renaat Landuyt (sp.a): "Wat doet U met pedofiele priesters?" Léonard: "Ik kan alleen spreken voor de periode tussen 1991 en 2010 dat ik bisschop van Namen was. Want in Mechelen-Brussel had ik nog geen nieuw geval. Zolang er een gerechtelijk onderzoek liep, nam ik preventieve maatregelen. Ik zorgde ervoor dat recidive onmogelijk was door de priester een taak te geven waar hij niet met kinderen in contact kon komen. Als iemand zijn straf al volledig had uitgezeten en hij opnieuw een pastorale taak mocht opnemen, dan lichtten wij de parochie waar hij ging werken in en zorgden ervoor dat hij nooit alleen in de sacristie kon zijn." Waarom laïciseert U niet wat meer? Léonard: "Sinds 2001 moèten wij alle zaken van pedofiele priesters naar Rome sturen voor een intern kerkelijke sanctie. Dat kan laïcisering zijn. Rome wacht meestal tot het gewone strafgerecht een uitspraak heeft gedaan. Ik heb in Namen zo twee priesters 'naar Rome gestuurd'. Alleen Rome kan een priester opnieuw tot leek maken (laïciseren, nvdr.). Maar is dat altijd wel in het belang van het slachtoffer? Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 8:01 AM • Léonard: schadevergoeding zaak justitie BELGIE Trouw De Belgische aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard zei woensdag voor de commissie kindermisbruik in het Belgische parlement dat het niet aan de bisschoppen is om over een schadevergoeding voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik te beslissen. Léonard vindt dat het aan justitie is om schadevergoedingen op te leggen aan het instituut dat verantwoordelijk is voor een dader van misbruik. De aartsbisschop stelde wel voor om een 'solidariteitsfonds' op te richten, waar de kerk zich vrijwillig bij aan kan sluiten. Net als kardinaal Godfried Danneels dinsdag, nam Léonard geen persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:58 AM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 237 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Bad episode doesn't negate a fine career [Senator Marian Walsh] The Boston Globe, By Joan Vennochi, December 23, 2010 BOSTON (MA) - AS STATE Senator Marian Walsh leaves public office, a cushy job that she never took shouldn't define her legacy. When the clergy abuse scandal broke, Walsh was the only member of the state Legislature to call on Cardinal Bernard Law to resign, and urge that he be prosecuted. When the attorney general argued that no statute existed to hold Law accountable for knowingly putting children in harm's way, she championed legislation to protect them from future abuse. She stood up for gay marriage in a conservative district, where the political consensus ran overwhelmingly against it. And she was the only senator to say no to each of three seekers of corporate welfare: Raytheon, Fidelity, and the Boston Red Sox. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:54 AM • Wednesday, December 22, 2010 UNITED STATES - Outpatient Clinic Skip Shea Maybe the Pope finally gets it. In his traditional end of the year address, held on December 21st - The Winter Solstice - Benedict said revelations of abuse in 2010 reached "an unimaginable dimension" that required the church to accept the "humiliation" as a call for renewal. It is about time. He continued. "In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children," the pope said. "It was maintained – even within the realm of – that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a 'better than' and a 'worse than.' Nothing is good or bad in itself." What? In the realm of Catholic Theology, in the 1970's the church believed that pedophilia was normal? Why am I not surprised? Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:51 AM • 'Veel pijn en verdriet' Het Nieuwsblad BRUGGE, BELGIE - Voor Peter Rossel, de woordvoerder van het Brugse bisdom, was 2010 een regelrecht annus horribilis, na het ontslag van Roger Vangheluwe. 'Dit was zonder twijfel het allerslechtste jaar uit mijn carrière', zegt Rossel. 'Ik noem het zelf de Bisdombeving Brugge. Een beving die me persoonlijk veel pijn en verdriet heeft gedaan. Uiteindelijk heb je twintig jaar met een - voor ons - toffe man gewerkt, en dus is het logisch dat dit zijn sporen nalaat. Natuurlijk verdwijnt dit alles in het niets in vergelijking met het lijden van de slachtoffers.' Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:47 AM • "Wij hebben geen monopolie op misbruik" BELGIE De Redactie Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard heeft in de bijzondere Kamercommissie over seksueel misbruik gepleit voor een solidariteitsfonds waar op vrijwillige basis bijdragen kunnen worden gestort voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. Léonard liet daarbij enkele merkwaardige uitspraken optekenen. Na zijn betoog in de bijzondere Kamercommissie over seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk, heeft aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard nog geantwoord op vragen van commissieleden. Daarin werd vooral doorgegaan op de manier waarop de kerk bereid is om de slachtoffers bij te staan. Ook de eventuele schadevergoedingen kwamen ter sprake. In zijn verklaring had Léonard gezegd dat hij dat een bijzonder complexe materie vond en zich daar niet over wenste uit te spreken. "Het is aan het gerecht om te oordelen of een instituut, welk instituut dan ook, waarvan de verantwoordelijken niet persoonlijk bij de feiten betrokken zijn, daarvoor een schadevergoeding moeten betalen", bleef Léonard op de vlakte. Opvallend, want eerder hadden andere bisschoppen zich wel bereid verklaard om over te gaan tot die "geste". Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:44 AM • Léonard verwijst naar gerecht voor schadevergoedingen BELGIE HLN {met video} Aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard meent dat het aan het gerecht toekomt om schadevergoedingen op te leggen aan het instituut dat verantwoordelijk is voor een dader van misbruik. Dat zei hij deze voormiddag in http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 238 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM de bijzondere Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. Dinsdag had zijn voorganger, Godfried Danneels, een initiatief van de bisschoppenconferentie terzake in het vooruitzicht gesteld. Léonard was in zijn inleidende uiteenzetting duidelijk voorzichtiger dan Danneels. Hij verwees naar zijn oproep na het ontslag van Roger Vangheluwe aan slachtoffers om zich te melden en naar de brief van de bisschoppenconferentie van 19 mei, waarin zij excuses aanboden aan de slachtoffers voor het misbruik en de onaangepaste begeleiding. 20 vermeende daders Sinds hij aartsbisschop is, heeft Léonard geen enkele klacht over een priester van zijn bisdom ontvangen. Wel kreeg hij een lijst van 20 vermeende daders van de commissie-Adriaenssens, waarvan vijf over mensen die in het bisdom onbekend waren, zeven van geestelijken van een orde, drie over overleden daders en vier over gepensioneerde priesters. Léonard ontving evenwel slechts de namen, want de dossiers zijn nog altijd in handen van het gerecht. Op 23 april ontving hij op hun verzoek drie slachtoffers van oude feiten. Hij benadrukte dat niemand een schadevergoeding eiste, zoals ook in de meerderheid van de dossiers van de commissie-Adriaenssens het geval was. Ze vroegen alleen morele erkenning. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:42 AM • We owe it to abuse victims to fight for justice IRELAND Belfast Telegraph The scale of the crimes against children, and against humanity, committed by priests and other members of the religious orders over many decades is now a matter of historical record. Those who suffered don't need to read Chapter 19 of the Murphy report - nor did they read the report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. They know what happened. It happened to them. I have heard it said by well-meaning people that the 'victims can now hold their heads up high', they have been vindicated. It's not that easy. Lives have been destroyed, spouses, partners and children compelled to live with the impact of the nightmares inflicted on their loved-ones. I have seen men and women now in their sixties and seventies suffer such mental anguish that they have never been able to work and hold few friends dear. They are not even angry anymore, just beaten and defeated. They have a right to justice and for the Catholic Church and other state institutions to tell the whole truth. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:38 AM • Audition de Mgr A.-J. Léonard par la Commission spéciale du Parlement (22-12-10) BELGIQUE KerkNet 1. Mon intervention se situera à trois niveaux, puisque je suis ici entendu à un triple titre : celui d'archevêque du diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles, ce que je suis depuis le 27 février dernier ; celui de Président de la Conférence épiscopale belge, depuis la même date ; celui d'évêque de Namur, ce que je fus du 14 avril 1991 au 18 janvier 2010. 2. Je crois utile de rappeler que l'archevêque de Malines-Bruxelles n'est à la tête que de l'archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles. Il n'est en aucune manière l'archevêque de toute la Belgique, laquelle compte huit diocèses avec un évêque à la tête de chacun. Ainsi, par exemple, c'est simplement en tant qu'archevêque de Malines-Bruxelles que, dans mon homélie de Pâques, face aux scandales qui éclaboussaient l'Eglise catholique dans d'autres pays, j'ai dénoncé fermement le manque de rigueur avec lequel, dans le passé, on avait parfois traité certains cas d'abus sexuels sur des mineurs, préférant le silence et la discrétion à l'honneur des enfants abusés. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:35 AM • Intervention de Mgr VANCOTTEM devant la Commission pour abus sur mineurs BELGIQUE KerkNet Depuis les 5 mois que je suis évêque de Namur-Luxembourg, je me suis donné trois objectifs prioritaires : 1) Avoir le souci des personnes qui ont été abusées dès lors qu'elles prennent contact avec un responsable du diocèse. - d'abord les inviter à s'en référer à la Justice ; - rejoindre leur désir d'être écoutées et comprises ; - les informer des mesures pastorales prises à l'encontre des personnes qui ont abusé d'elles. 2) Tout faire pour éviter une récidive de la part des acteurs de tels actes en leur retirant toute charge pastorale. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:32 AM • Bijzondere commissie BELGIE KerkNet Patrick Hoogmartens bisschop van Hasselt Geachte Dames en Heren Volksvertegenwoordigers Geachte aanwezigen http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 239 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Ik dank u voor de gelegenheid die ik krijg om voor deze Bijzondere Parlementaire Commissie te getuigen over de aanpak van de problematiek van het seksueel misbruik in het bisdom Hasselt, in het verleden en vandaag. Ik deel daarbij de bekommernis van de hele Commissie om een helder inzicht te krijgen in deze werkelijkheid van het seksueel misbruik en in de wijze waarop beleidsmatig met deze problematiek, en in het bijzonder met de slachtoffers, werd omgegaan. Ik draag ook mee de bezorgdheid om toekomstgericht de juiste maatregelen te nemen om dit misbruik te vermijden en om slachtoffers bij te staan. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:29 AM • Bijzondere Commissie Seksueel Misbruik BELGIE KerkNet Bisschop Jozef De Kesel Bijzondere Commissie Seksueel Misbruik Parlement Brussel 15.12.10 Mevrouw de Voorzitter, Zeer geachte leden van het Parlement Geachte Vergadering, Allereerst wil ik u danken voor de gelegenheid die u me geeft, alvorens op uw vragen in te gaan, om enkele zaken te verduidelijken. Het is vooral mijnbedoeling om u te laten aanvoelen hoe ik zelf de hele problematiek heb beleefd, wat ik gedaan heb gedurende die eerste maanden van mijn ambtstermijn als bisschop van Brugge en waar ik bij de behandeling van concrete gevallen en dossiers ben gestoten op moeilijkheden en knelpunten. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:22 AM • Bijzondere commissie BELGIE KerkNet Luc Van Looy Bisschop van Gent Bijzondere commissie betreffende de behandeling van seksueel misbruik en feiten van pedofilie binnen een gezagsrelatie, inzonderheid binnen de Kerk. Hoorzitting over de manier waarop de bisschoppen in hun bisdom de problematiek van het seksueel misbruik hebben benaderd. Mevrouw de Voorzitter, Dames en Heren, Eerst en vooral hartelijk dank voor de uitnodiging naar deze hoorzitting. Het onnoemelijke leed van de slachtoffers van seksueel crimineel misbruik in de kerk schokt en raakt me diep. Het vertrouwen van slachtoffers in zichzelf en in anderen werd hen als kind brutaal ontnomen. Als mens, als gelovige, als priester en als bisschop schaam ik me hiervoor diep. Klein en onmachtig erken ik het verwoestende leed dat slachtoffers is aangedaan door geestelijken. Ik wil dan ook daadkrachtig werk maken van een Kerk die niet alleen in haar woorden, maar ook in daden kiest voor de gekwetste en lijdende mens. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:17 AM • Commission spéciale de la Chambre BELGIQUE KerkNet Aloys Jousten Évêque de Liège 15 décembre 2010 Madame la Présidente, Mesdames et Messieurs les Députés, Depuis quelques semaines, vous vous penchez sur un chapitre pénible et douloureux de notre société. Le drame de Julie, Melissa, Ann et Eefje a rendu la population de notre pays très sensible aux abus sexuels. Nous réalisons mieux aujourd'hui la gravité des faits et surtout les traumatismes durables causés par ces abus. Dans ce " nous " j'inclus évidemment les responsables de l'Église catholique, les prêtres et les évêques. Etant donné mon âge, je puis vous dire qu'il n'en fut pas toujours ainsi, ni dans la société en général, ni au sein de l'Église. Pendant longtemps, trop longtemps, faut-il encore le relever, la sexualité et les abus sexuels ont été des sujets tabous. À l'heure actuelle, nous payons les frais de ce grand et long silence. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:14 AM • Bijzondere Kamercommissie BELGIE KerkNet 18 november 2010 Mgr. Luysterman INITIATIEVEN VAN DE BELGISCHE BISSCHOPPENCONFERENTIE IN VERBAND MET SEKSUEEL MISBRUIK IN DE KERK TELEFOONLIJN VOOR MELDING MISBRUIK 1. In 1997 stelde kardinaal Danneels voor die telefoonlijn op te richten. Alle leden van de conferentie gingen akkoord. 2. De uitsluitende bedoeling was: het slachtoffers gemakkelijker maken klacht neer te leggen bij het gerecht of http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 240 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM eventueel bij een religieuze overheid. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:11 AM • Commission spéciale de la Chambre BELGIQUE KerkNet Guy Harpigny Evêque référendaire, depuis avril 2007, de la commission interdiocésaine pour les abus sexuels au sein de la relation pastorale Déclaration du 13 décembre 2010 I. De 2003 au 1er avril 2007 : Etat d'esprit de la conférence épiscopale - Mgr A. Luysterman devient évêque émérite de Gand en février 2004, mais il reste référendaire pour la Commission interdiocésaine pour les abus sexuels jusqu'en avril 2007. C'est au cours de sa mission de référendaire que le préambule et les statuts de la commission ont été approuvées en 2000 (Annexe I) et révisés en 2005 (Annexe II). Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:07 AM • BIJZONDERE PARLEMENTAIRE COMMISSIE BELGIE KerkNet Johan Bonny, Bisschop van Antwerpen 13 december 2010 Ik dank de voorzitter en de leden van de bijzondere Parlementaire Commissie voor de uitno- diging naar deze hoorzitting over de problematiek van seksueel misbruik in een pastoraal ver- band. Zoals gevraagd wil ik deze problematiek benaderen van uit mijn eigen ervaring, ener- zijds als bisschop van Antwerpen, anderzijds als bisschop-referent met Mgr Harpigny, meer bepaald voor het Vlaamse landsgedeelte. 1. Op 4 januari 2009 werd ik tot bisschop van Antwerpen gewijd. Nog tijdens dezelfde maand, op 23 januari 2009, veroordeelde de Rechtbank van Eerste Aanleg in Antwerpen een priester van mijn bisdom voor seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen. Op 27 april 2009 ver- hoogde het Hof van Beroep de strafmaat van zeven naar negen jaar gevangenisstraf. Het Hof bevestigde de respectievelijk tien en twintig jaar ontzettingen uit een aantal burgerrechten, maar voegde er een ter beschikkingstelling van de regering gedurende tien jaar aan toe. De dader werd ook veroordeeld tot het betalen van een schadevergoeding aan twee slachtoffers. In de maanden tussen het eerste vonnis en het vonnis in beroep heb ik meermaals mijn volle vertrouwen in het gerecht uitgesproken. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:03 AM • Merry Christmas with Mr. Brand: A Gift for Male Sex Abuse Survivors Who Struggle With Addictions UNITED STATES The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing Virginia Jones Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Six weeks ago I had no idea who Russell Brand was, but one morning as I was perusing the Internet when I found posted in humor section of the Huffington Post a segment from Conan O'Brien's new show -- an interview with British comedian, Russell Brand. I am a big fan of Conan O'Brien so I watched the segment. Within a minute or so I was an even bigger fan of Russell Brand. Within two minutes I was sure that Russell Brand was my all time favorite comedian. He was talking about the royal family and about the shiny hats they wear as well as how buxom the queen is -- foreshadowing what I was in store for as a virgin Russell Brand fan. I am a middled aged child sex abuse and rape survivor who is a dedicated mother and kind let a certain part of my life wither a bit. I don't think like a guy. I think like a lady who goes to church a lot. I didn't think about what Russell Brand's comedy might be like. I just thought about the fact he was just about the funniest person I had ever encountered in the media. As a mother I was also thinking that my 12 year old daughter has been creating jokes since not long after she was able to speak would also love Russell Brand. So I ran upstairs to get her to come see the segment I had just seen. We laughed uproariously together. That night we sought out more Russell Brand courtesy of You Tube and laughed some more. It turns out that Russell Brand's comedy is frequently R rated pushing the envelope towards X. But my daughter tells me that she's learned much more about sex from her teenaged stepsister than she has from watching R rated movies with me. I have no control over the stepsister, who is the daughter of my ex's new wife. So it is probably better that I talk about sex with my daughter to give her my counsel -- so watching Russell Brand videos is not bad as it might be. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 7:00 AM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 241 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Missbrauch: Tätermacht, Opferohnmacht DEUTSCHLAND Der Tagesspiegel Drei bittere Wahrheiten nehmen wir aus diesem Jahr mit: Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder lauert gerade dort, wo sie auf Schutz vertrauen. Institutionen, in denen Missbrauch stattfindet, neigen zum Vertuschen, die Gesellschaft will vergessen. Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder findet in der Gesellschaft, gerade dort statt, wo sie auf Schutz vertrauen, in Familien, Schulen, Vereinen, Kirchen. Institutionen, in denen Missbrauch stattfindet, neigen zum Vertuschen. Und die Gesellschaft, die davon erfährt, erschrickt, mit einer Hilflosigkeit, die zum Vergessen drängt. Bereits in den 80er und 90er Jahren war sexueller Missbrauch ein öffentliches Thema. Dass hermetische, autoritäre Männerwelten Kinderschänder anziehen, wusste selbst die katholische Kirche damals schon. Als Deckmantel für den Machtmissbrauch an Schutzbefohlenen taugt aber, wie wir jetzt unwiderruflich wissen, jedes Besonderheitsbewusstsein, auch das reformpädagogischer Internate. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:57 AM • Catholic priest Fr Paul Symonds abuse claim dismissed NORTHERN IRELAND BBC News A Catholic priest who was forced to step down from public ministry after an allegation of indecent assault is no longer the subject of a police inquiry. Fr Paul Symonds, 65, was being investigated by police about an allegation of abuse at a school in the county in the 1970s. Before he stood down in November 2009, he was awarded an OBE for his cross-community work in his Ballymena parish. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:54 AM • Ballymena priest cleared of child abuse NORTHERN IRELAND UTV A Ballymena priest, who was awarded an OBE for community work, is no longer being investigated over a child sex abuse allegation. Fr Paul Symonds, 65, was being investigated by police after an allegation of abuse was made against him relating to the time he spent at a Catholic boarding school in east Lancashire in the 1970s. Lancashire Constabulary has confirmed that it is no longer investigating the matter. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:51 AM • Diocese of Worcester Releases Annual Report for FY2010 WORCESTER (MA) Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester {consolidated financial statement} December 17, 2010, WORCESTER, MA -- Following a complete audit of its financial accounting, the Diocese of Worcester has issued online and printed editions of the annual report detailing activities for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2010. In his letter, the Most Rev. Robert J. McManus, S.T.D., , expressed his gratefulness to "the generosity of all our parishioners and benefactors, without whom our Diocese could not flourish." He noted that despite the significant economic challenges, the report demonstrated many strengths. "The Annual Partners in Charity Appeal raised $4,807,782." He also noted that "those who manage our departments and agencies were, for the most part, able to operate with balanced budgets last year" resulting in an operational gain of $161,293. The Diocesan Expansion Fund also ended the year on a positive note. Thanks in great part to its diversification of funds and unrealized gain, it reported revenue over expenses of $1,328,146. A continuing challenge that stands out in the Bishop's letter is Priests' Retirement care. Bishop McManus noted that, even with a $500,000 subsidy from Partners in Charity, "retirement programs for clergy were underfunded last year by $1,024,009." The only area he noted which receives greater support from Partners in Charity is seminarian education and related programs for Vocations to the Priesthood. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:43 AM • Diocese's year ends slightly up WORCESTER (MA) Telegram & Gazette By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF [email protected] http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 242 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

WORCESTER – The Diocese of Worcester has successfully navigated another turbulent economic year, but chancery officials are expressing concern about the escalating costs of caring for diocesan clergy who have retired or are in poor health. A financial report released recently by the chancery shows that most of the departments and agencies under the auspices of the local Roman Catholic Church broke even and that the diocese finished fiscal 2009-10 with an operating gain of $161,293. However, officials said the priests' retirement care account continues to pose "challenges" for diocesan financial planners. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:41 AM • Church reneging on Irish compensation payments IRELAND - National Secular Society (United Kingdom), A question asked in the Irish parliament has revealed that the Catholic Church has paid only a small fraction of the money it pledged to the State last year to help compensate the victims of clerical sexual abuse. Just €20m has been paid out of a total €348m pledged following the publication of the Ryan Report. None of the property that was included in the agreement has been handed over. In addition, €26m is still outstanding from a €128m deal that Catholic organisations struck with the State in 2002, which granted them indemnity from having to pay further sums for the compensation of abuse victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:35 AM • Why has the BBC become the official propaganda arm of the Vatican? [RCC] National Secular Society UNITED KINGDOM - The Vatican is desperate to rehabilitate its reputation. And well it might be. The past two years has seen one scandal after another come knocking on Benedict's door. The child abuse crisis is, of course, the worst of them. Tens of thousands of children have been casually used and abused by Catholic priests around the world. The scale of this horrific sexual exploitation is only now becoming apparent. There are few checks and balances in the developing world, so there is little knowledge yet of the scale of abuse there. Last week, the chapter of the Ryan Report that had been suppressed pending a court case was published. It revealed yet again a catalogue of deliberate and carefully orchestrated cover ups by the Church, both locally and in the Vatican. Children who might have been spared the trauma of sexual abuse were sacrificed in order that the Church could spare itself further criticism. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:28 AM • Kavanagh Case Tragic for New York NEW YORK The Huffington Post Marci Hamilton After an eight-year review by the Catholic Church of allegations of perpetrating childhood sexual abuse, Charles M. Kavanagh, an influential Monsignor who had overseen fundraising for the Archdiocese of New York, was defrocked last week We should all feel safer now that the powers-that-be have taken care of this problem priest, right? Wrong. Kavanagh may no longer use his collar to pave his way to children, but because the New York State statutes of limitation (SOLs) expired decades ago in this case, he remains free to cast his predator's net far and wide. And we have no secular ruling, so the Church's conclusions amount to nothing more than support for allegations of abuse in the civil sphere. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:25 AM • Zubik denies coverup accusation PITTSBURGH (PA) Beaver County Times By: Megan J. Miller Beaver County Times {letter to the U.S. Attorney's office} {statement from the Green Bay diocese} {Fr. John Doerfler deposition} PITTSBURGH – A victim advocacy group is pressing for a federal investigation of Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik over claims that his policies led to the destruction of evidence of sexual abuse by clergy in

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Wisconsin. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests on Tuesday asked U.S. Attorney James Santelle to investigate what it called obstruction of justice by Zubik because of a policy of destroying some personnel records for priests at his former diocese in Green Bay. "If you're destroying evidence, you're obstructing justice," said John Pilmaier, co-director or SNAP Wisconsin. "Whether it's psychological reports, handwritten notes, memos – these are all evidence of a crime that's taken place." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:22 AM • Paedophile priest sang as he abused me, says victim IRELAND Irish Independent By John Cooney Thursday December 23 2010 A VICTIM of jailed paedophile priest Tony Walsh yesterday spoke for the first time of how the depraved ex-cleric sang a song while sexually abusing him. Niall, not his real name, told the Irish Independent he was one of hundreds of working-class children abused in Ballyfermot, Dublin, by the "most notorious child abuser" to come before the Commission of Investigation led by Judge Yvonne Murphy. He broke his silence as Justice Minister Dermot Ahern received the Murphy Report on a litany of child abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne, Co Cork. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:19 AM • Bishop Zubik denies trashing records PITTSBURGH (PA) Pittsburgh Tribune-Review {letter to the U.S. Attorney's office} {statement from the Green Bay diocese} {Fr. John Doerfler deposition} By Jill King Greenwood PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, December 23, 2010 Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik on Wednesday said he worked to make sure church laws in Green Bay, Wis., specifically forbid the destruction of records detailing pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse by priests. Zubik said he was shocked by news that a victims' advocacy group this week called for a federal investigation into claims that he destroyed such records when he served as bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay before being transferred to Pittsburgh in 2007. "I was stunned because my time of leadership in the church is based on building up the credibility of the church," Zubik said. "I would never destroy anything, and I would always protect anyone who was abused." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:11 AM • Pope Benedict offers poignant Christmas message on scandal Youngstown Vindicator, Published: Thu, December 23, 2010 UNITED STATES - "We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred. We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." So declared Pope Benedict XVI in his Christmas message to the hierarchy of the Vatican. The "thing" is the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests around the world, which has caused a scandal that continues to rock the church to its foundation. The sexual molestation of young boys has been made all the more evil by bishops and archbishops protecting the criminal clergy. Last May, Pope Benedict admitted that the Vatican's strategy of stonewalling and criticizing the press has not worked and publicly pledged that the church would investigate allegations of sexual abuse by the clergy and bring to justice the perpetrators. His Christmas message, as reported by the New York Times, was clearly a mea culpa aimed at reassuring the victims and their families that the past actions by the hierarchy, including the cover up of the crimes, would not be tolerated. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:08 AM [COMMENT: But, isn't this "reform" about 2000 years too late to be an authentic Christ-like action? ENDS] • Pope aims to resolve church scandals Opelousas Daily World, December 23, 2010 UNITED STATES - The message came late – three decades late – but it was welcome, all the same. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 244 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI told officials at the Vatican they should reflect on child sex abuse scandals involving priests. A series of such scandals has plagued the Roman Catholic Church since the crimes of former priest Gilbert Gauthe in Vermilion Parish surfaced in the early 1980s. This pope's personal history includes advocacy of stern measures to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 23, 2010 6:03 AM [COMMENT: If the Pope took stern measures, why is a case recently reported as having occurred in 2007 and 2008? ENDS.] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Thu December 23, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Fri December 24, 2010 edition: • St. Mary's appeal to be heard by Vatican in February [RCC global court to hear appeal of St Mary's parishioners.] The Post Standard, By Elizabeth Doran, December 24, 2010 SYRACUSE (NY) - Parishioners at St. Mary's in Jamesville keep their faint hopes alive, against all odds, that the Vatican might reopen their church. The congregation met at the church for their annual Christmas service. At right is Colleen Latray who makes an announcement that they will have their day in court to make an argument for the reopening of the church. Since the Syracuse Diocese decided in 2007 to close St. Mary Roman Catholic Church in Jamesville, parishioners have been told over and over they have little chance of a successful appeal. Undaunted, a group of several dozen who worked to file an appeal have never given up hope. And now that persistence is paying off as St. Mary's will soon take an unprecedented step in its appeal to the Vatican. Where numerous other parishes have been turned down before getting to this stage, St. Mary's has been granted a court hearing Feb. 12 at the Vatican in Rome, when their formal appeal will be heard. The appeal will be heard by a panel of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican's supreme court. "This is highly significant because it's the first and only case to my knowledge from an American parish group that's made it all the way to be granted a full court hearing," said Peter Borre, chairman of the American Council of Parishes, a Boston-based advocacy group which helps parishes with their appeals. Posted by Terry McKiernan on December 24, 2010 1:25 PM • Letter to Bishop Lori VOTF in the Diocese of Bridgeport, December 17, 2010 Dear Bishop Lori: BRIDGEPORT (CT) - Each year, on December 28, just three days after Christmas, the Church celebrates the feast of the Holy Innocents in memory of the infants massacred by King Herod in his frantic search for the Christ Child (Mt. 2:16-18). In our day, sad to say, many innocent children have suffered a different kind of massacre at the hands of predatory priests. Although our children's lives were not taken away, their innocence was destroyed and many have endured severe trauma through their adult lives. This grievous tragedy weighs heavily on the Church today and all of us, as members of Christ's Body, must take responsibility for it. As a step toward acknowledging that responsibility, Voice of the Faithful in the Diocese of Bridgeport proposes that you designate the feast of the Holy Innocents as a special day of commemoration of the survivors of priestly sexual abuse. Posted by Terry McKiernan on December 24, 2010 1:09 PM • Foes say Diocese cooked the books at political church BROOKLYN (NY) The Brooklyn Paper By Aaron Short The Brooklyn Paper A church official cooked the books to suggest that a politically active Bedford-Stuyvesant parish that Brooklyn Diocese officials wanted to close was financially unstable. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Brooklyn Diocese announced his decision to shutter Our Lady of Montserrat Church by the end of January and move its parishioners to All Saints Church because it "could not support {Montserrat} financially" after providing nearly $400,000 in subsidies to the church over the past decade and forgiving $1.7 million debt in 2000.

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Church documents also claim that the Vernon Avenue church was $23,171 in the red for the year. But parishioners questioned those figures, claiming that the church's financial report on Montserrat willfully inflated the church's expenses and did not consider at least two sources of income from the property. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 9:13 AM • "Meine Sexualität kann ich bitte nirgendwo abgeben" Der Standard, 23. Dezember 2010 OSTERREICH - Seine Funktion sei "keine leichte Aufgabe" und Homosexualität im Priesterseminar könne "die Atmosphäre zum Kippen bringen", sagt der neue Wiener Generalvikar Nikolaus Krasa Standard: Missbrauchsskandal, befürchtete 80.000 Kirchenaustritte - es gibt wohl Angenehmeres als in Zeiten wie diesen zum Generalvikar ernannt zu werden, oder? Krasa: Sicher, da stimme ich Ihnen voll zu. Es ist wahrscheinlich keine leichte Aufgabe, aber ich denke, das gilt für alle Mitarbeiter in der römisch-katholischen Kirche. Standard: Haben Sie gehadert, als Kardinal Schönborn Ihnen den Job als "Geschäftsführer" der Erzdiözese Wien angeboten hat? Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 9:07 AM • What victims hear in pope's talk on sex abuse [RC bishops are accessories to the crimes.] National Catholic Reporter (USA), Examining the crisis, by Thomas P. Doyle, on Dec. 21, 2010 UNITED STATES - Every time Pope Benedict XVI says something about the never-ending sex abuse nightmare, he inches closer and closer to the dark reality that has been like a black cloud over the church for more than two decades. And although he is slowly moving forward, he always stops short of the most important and no doubt for him, the most painful issue: the complicity of the world's cardinals and bishops. With his talk to the assembled Vatican curia on Monday he showed courage in the presence of many who are still in denial, by admitting the extent of the violation of minors "to a degree we could not have imagined." I suspect that this admission was fueled in no small part by the explosive revelations in Europe especially the mishandling of a serious case during his very own watch as archbishop of Munich. After that blunt admission Pope Benedict unfortunately retreated to the same set of excuses we have been hearing for years. First, the focus is on the offending priests but never a word about the bishops whose culpability for the cover-up cannot be diminished because of a sexual disorder. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 9:05 AM • Benedict XVI and Tom Doyle on the crisis National Catholic Reporter (USA), All Things Catholic by John L Allen Jr on Dec. 24, 2010 UNITED STATES - By any objective standard, the sexual abuse crisis would have to rank as the top Vatican story of 2010. Though the crisis has been around for a long time, this was the year in which critical attention came to rest squarely on Rome, including the personal track record of Pope Benedict XVI. As fate would have it, two different assessments washed across the radar screen this week, both from people whom any court would sanction as "expert witnesses." The contrast suggests that while everyone can agree the crisis has been devastating, the questions of what caused it, and what to do about it, remain far from settled. One of those assessments came from the pope himself, in the form of his annual year-end address to the Roman Curia. The other is from a priest today seen as perhaps the church's most determined in-house critic on the crisis: Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle, who has decades of experience in documenting priestly abuse, working with victims, and consulting with plaintiffs' attorneys. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 8:59 AM • Christelijke gereformeerde predikant afgezet Kerknieuws, 09.21 24 dec 2010 NEDERLAND - De classis Leeuwarden van de Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken (CGK) heeft een dominee uit Leeuwarden afgezet als predikant. Dat meldt het Reformatorisch Dagblad op basis van berichtgeving in De Wekker, het landelijke blad van het kerkverband. In november schorste de kerkeraad van de Leeuwardense Bethelkerk haar dominee al vanwege het begaan van 'grove zonde': overspel met een gemeentelid. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 8:09 AM

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• Bob Oliva, former Christ the King basketball coach, could avoid prison in sex abuse case wi NEW YORK / MASSACHUSETTS - New York Daily News BY Michael O'Keeffe DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Friday, December 24th 2010 An attorney representing Bob Oliva, the former Christ the King basketball coach who faces life in prison if he is convicted on sex-abuse charges, has discussed a plea deal with Boston prosecutors that would keep him out of jail, sources close to the case have told the Daily News. Oliva, who pleaded not guilty to the charges in April, would presumably have to acknowledge in court that he sexually abused the victim during a trip to Massachusetts in 1976, when the coach took a 14-year-old family friend to Fenway Park for a Yankees-Red Sox doubleheader. Prosecutors have not identified the alleged victim, but a man named Jimmy Carlino told the Daily News in 2009 that Oliva abused him over the course of several years during the 1970s, beginning when Carlino was 11 years old. Prosecutors may require Oliva to register as a sex offender, attend counseling, give up coaching youth sports and stay away from children in exchange for avoiding prison. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 8:05 AM • Mgr. Léonard choqueert Kamerleden BELGIE RKnieuws BRUSSEL (RKnieuws.net) - De Kamerleden reageerden woensdag bijzonder ontgoocheld op het optreden van aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard. Zeker toen hij zei dat seksueel misbruik te vergelijken valt met slachtoffers van epidemieën en overstromingen. 'Ik ben echt gechoqueerd', zei Stefaan Van Hecke (Groen). Ook Carina Van Cauter (Open VLD) was zwaar ontgoocheld. 'Lieten de andere bisschoppen nog een opening naar solidariteit naar de slachtoffers toe, is de deur na zijn passage definitief dicht. Kardinaal Danneels koos voor de slachtoffers, deze man is duidelijk een andere mening toegedaan.' SP.A'er Renaat Landuyt vroeg zich dan weer af of de katholieke kerk niet als ultieme taak had om goed te zijn. 'Dat blijkt uit al wat ik hoor duidelijk niet. Hij wil duidelijk geen opening forceren.' Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 8:03 AM • Advocaten gaan paus dagvaarden BELGIE De Morgen {met video} Meesters Walter Van Steenbrugge en Christine Mussche, die een aantal slachtoffers van misbruik door geestelijken verdedigen, zijn van plan om paus Benedictus XVI te dagvaarden. "We zijn bezig met het voorbereiden van een claim lastens de paus omdat we zeggen dat hij de hoofdverantwoordelijke is van het misbruik." Van Steenbrugge en Mussche hebben al contact gelegd met Amerikaanse confraters die het Vaticaan reeds hebben gedagvaard. {summary} Lawyers for clergy abuse victims intend to summons the pope regarding legal action they are taking. They have been talking to the lawyers in the United States who have also attempted to depose Benedict XIV. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:56 AM • Erste Zwischenbilanz von Klasnic OSTERREICH Salzburger Nachrichten Missbrauch. 100 Mal Entschädigung bis Jahresende. 80.000 Austritte lassen Schönborn von größter Austrittswelle seit Nazizeit sprechen. Für Mittwochabend ist das letzte Treffen im heurigen Jahr angesetzt: Dann tritt die von Kardinal Christoph Schönborn eingesetzte und von Waltraud Klasnic geleitete Opferschutzanwaltschaft zum 13. Mal seit ihrer Konstituierung Ende April zusammen. Wieder sollen etwa 20 Entschädigungsbeschlüsse fallen. Zugleich wird es eine erste Zwischenbilanz geben. Stand der Dinge: Bis Ende vergangener Woche haben sich 720 Männer und Frauen an die Klasnic-Kommission gewendet und von Gewalt und/oder Missbrauch in kirchlichen Einrichtungen berichtet. Die meisten der geschilderten Übergriffe liegen Jahrzehnte zurück. Stand der Entscheidungen nach der letzten Sitzung am 3. Dezember: 78 Mal wurden Entschädigungen zugesprochen; nach der nächsten Sitzung am Mittwoch werden es rund 100 Entscheidungen sein. Es gibt – je nach Schwere des Erlittenen – vier Kategorien von Entschädigungszahlungen (5000, 15.000, 25.000 Euro und Beträge darüber). Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:45 AM • John Paul II kept for over 20 years Tony Walsh who sang as he raped hundreds of Irish boys http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 247 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

UNITED STATES JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army Paris Arrow How can John Paul II ever be called a `saint` by children when he was so callous as to have protected and kept the most notorious pedophile priest Tony Walsh who came to his attention during his 26 years papacy and he knew (what we are only learning now) that Tony Walsh the 'Elvis priests' sang as he sodomized hundreds of Irish little boys? The Nazis played Wagner as they placed Jews into the gas chambers and this John Paul II Pedophile Priest also sang as he sodomized little boys. John Paul II wrote the book Theology of the Body can only be burning in Hell with the biggest millstone hanging around his neck for condonning and aiding and abetting Tony Walsh for more than 20 years (wake-up Catholics!) that over a quarter of a century during his longest papacy since St. Peter. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:41 AM • Missbrauch: 100 Anzeigen, knapp 100 Entschädigungen OSTERREICH Die Presse Die Missbrauchsskandale haben das Jahr für die Kirche geprägt, nun ziehen die Ombudsstellen und die Klasnic-Kommission Bilanz: Mehr als 1000 Personen haben sich an die Stellen gewandt. Das Jahr 2010 stand für die katholische Kirche unter keinem guten Stern: Ab Jänner sind nach und nach immer mehr Missbrauchsfälle bekannt geworden, die Kirche stellt sich auf einen neuen Rekord bei den Austrittszahlen ein. Vor Weihnachten haben die kirchlichen Ombudsstellen und die Klasnic-Kommission Bilanz gezogen: Mehr als 100 Fälle von Missbrauch wurden zur Anzeige gebracht, in knapp 100 Fällen Entschädigungen zuerkannt. Mehr als 1000 Personen haben sich an die Stellen gewandt. Wie viele es genau sind, lässt sich schwer sagen, da es zu Überschneidungen kommt. Bis 31. Oktober haben sich 1142 Personen an die Ombudsstellen gewandt, bei der Klasnic-Kommission waren es 729. Bei den Opfern handelt es sich zu fast drei Viertel um Männer. Die Auswertung habe ergeben, "dass es bei 54 Prozent um sexuellen Missbrauch geht, 33 Prozent sind Fälle von Gewalt und 13 Prozent sind mutmaßliche Opfer von Gewalt und sexuellem Missbrauch", erklärte Johannes Wancata, Sprecher der Ombudsstellen. Etwa bei der Hälfte der Anrufe habe sich der Verdacht erhärtet. 106 Fälle seien zur Anzeige gebracht worden, um keinesfalls eine strafrechtliche Relevanz zu übersehen. Die Hälfte aller Fälle habe sich vor mehr als 40 Jahren ereignet, 46 Prozent betreffen demnach den Zeitraum von 1971 bis 1992. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:38 AM • Pope's 'peaceful and joyful' Christmas wish for Britain in historic radio recording Daily Mail, By Liz Thomas, UNITED KINGDOM - The Pope today wished Britain a 'peaceful and joyful' Christmas as he broadcast Thought for the Day on Radio 4. In a historic moment, the Pope gave his Christmas message to the nation during the 7.45am slot on the Today programme. It is the first time that the head of the Catholic Church has made the address – in which he reminisced with 'fondness' about his state visit in September. … However, the BBC has attracted criticism for allowing the Pope to 'lecture about morality', after he faced accusations of being linked to the child abuse scandals involving Catholic priests. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:33 AM • Sexual abuse settlement in jeopardy CANADA - CTV Some former students of Bishop's College, in Lennoxville, who were victims of sexual abuse say a settlement brokered last September could be in jeopardy. The problem is that not everyone is willing to accept the amount negotiated on their behalf. Bishop's College would give $1.5 million to the 43 former students who suffered sex abuse by a former teacher, Harold Forster. {Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:30 AM} • David Quinn: Pope is right on views of paedophilia in 1970s IRELAND – Irish Independent, Friday December 24 2010 EVERY year at this time the Pope addresses the Vatican diplomatic corps and wherever possible the media like to misinterpret what he says. Two years ago he is supposed to have compared the destruction of the rainforests with homosexuality, but

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 248 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM he didn't even mention homosexuality in that speech. This year he is supposed to have blamed the sex abuse scandals on the 1970s and to have suggested that we didn't really know child sex abuse was an absolute evil back then. The reporting this time was a little closer to the truth, but not by much because it gave the false impression that what he had to say was utterly ridiculous and unworthy of consideration. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:21 AM • "Wij leven niet op een andere planeet" BELGIE De Redactie De Brugse bisschop Jozef De Kesel geeft toe dat hij wist dat pedofilie binnen de kerk bestond, maar hij heeft het niet over concrete gevallen. De Kesel was te gast in "De Ochtend" op Radio 1, dat vanmorgen werd uitgezonden vanuit de Sint-Salvatorkathedraal in Brugge. "Ik wist natuurlijk dat dit bestond. Ik wist het al van vroeger. Ik ben lang geëngageerd geweest in de jeugdbeweging", zegt De Kesel. "Tussen weten dat iets bestaat, dat iets nu en dan gebeurt, en beseffen wat dat betekent, dat is nog een andere zaak", relativeert hij meteen. "Ik denk dat iedereen nu - niet alleen in de kerk - een veel beter zicht heeft op het fenomeen van pedofilie dan 20 jaar geleden." De bisschop van Brugge lijkt iets concreter dan kardinaal Godfried Danneels, eerder van de week in de Kamercommissie over seksueel misbruik. "Wij leven niet op een andere planeet", zegt De Kesel klaar en duidelijk, maar niets is wat het lijkt: "Als ik zeg dat ik het wist, dan heb ik het niet over concrete gevallen." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:15 AM • 'Kerk denkt wel na over vergoeding' BELGIE De Standaard vrijdag 24 december 2010 Auteur: Yves Delepeleire BRUSSEL - Nadat aartsbisschop Léonard het idee van schadevergoedingen heeft afgewezen, zet Paul Quirynen de puntjes op de i. 'In januari zitten de bisschoppen samen met experts. Daarna komen ze met een voorstel.' Van onze redacteur 'Ik was er een beetje bang voor', zegt Paul Quirynen over de nieuwe provocaties van André-Joseph Léonard. Die vergeleek woensdag in de bijzondere kamercommissie seksueel misbruik slachtoffers van misbruik met slachtoffers van natuurrampen en epidemieën. Hij vroeg zich ook af of straks ook kinderen van homoparen een schadevergoeding zullen kunnen vragen. 'Ik had hem aangeraden om niet uit te wijden over de aansprakelijkheid, omdat hij zichzelf toch zou verliezen. Dat is ook gebeurd', zegt Quirynen, die alle bisschoppen op de commissie heeft voorbereid. 'De vergelijking met homoparen ging niet op.' Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:10 AM • Antwerpse bisschop werd zelf benaderd door pedofiel BELGIE Metro Time (Belga) De Antwerpse bisschop Johan Bonny werd als kind zelf benaderd door een pedofiel. Dat vertelt hij in een interview met de Krant van West-Vlaanderen. Bonny vertelt in het interview hoe hij als jongen van 13 of 14 naar school fietste. "Naast mij stopte een wagen, een man stapte uit, deed zijn broek uit en probeerde me aan te spreken", zegt Bonny. "Ik was verbouwereerd en reed weg. Ik denk dat ik nog nooit zo snel naar school heb gefietst als die keer. Een surveillant heeft de politie verwittigd." De bisschop zegt in het interview ook dat Roger Vangheluwe, de voormalige bisschop van Brugge die toegaf een jongen te hebben misbruikt, zich nooit tot bisschop had mogen wijden. "De gevolgen voor hemzelf, voor het bisdom Brugge en voor de Kerk in België zijn dramatisch groot", stelt Bonny. {summary} Bishop Johan Bonny of said he was approached by a pedophile when he was about 13 or 14. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 7:07 AM • Extending Murphy Commission's remit wouldn't be fruitful, says Andrews IRELAND The Journal MINISTER BARRY ANDREWS has said he does not think the remit of the Murphy Commission should be increased beyond the Diocese of Cloyne, saying it would take a lot of time without returning much benefit, the Irish Times reports. Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan had called for the commission's remit to be extended to all Catholic http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 249 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM dioceses, Midlands 103 reports. Speaking at the presentation of the commission's report into clerical abuse in Cloyne, Andrews said: I'm not convinced the length of time and the expense would teach us any more than we know already. Anyone that has committed an offence can be prosecuted in the normal way. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 6:57 AM • Government nixes national inquiry into church child abuse IRELAND Irish Central By MOLLY MULDOON, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer Published Friday, December 24, 2010 The Irish government has rejected calls for the Murphy Commission to investigate every diocese in Ireland for child abuse following the sensational findings in Wexford and Dublin and major revelations expected in the just concluded investigation into the Cloyne diocese. Minister for Children Barry Andrews stated that "I'm not convinced the length of time and the expense would teach us any more than what we know already." However Fine Gael spokesman on children, Charlie Flanagan disagree strongly. Fine Gael is the main opposition party and is expected to form the next government. "It is clear from the litany of horrors that have already been revealed that a full national audit of all Catholic dioceses is required," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 6:54 AM • Crisis in de Rooms-Katholieke kerk ROME NOS Door correspondent Andrea Vreede, in Rome Eind 2009 kwam Benedictus XVI met de schrik vrij toen een verwarde jonge vrouw hem probeerde te bespringen tijdens de Kerstnachtmis in de Sint-Pieter. Wat de paus toen niet wist, was dat 2010 voor de Rooms-Katholieke kerk een waar crisisjaar zou worden. In de eerste maanden van het nieuwe jaar kwam er een niet-aflatende stroom schandalen op gang rond seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen door priesters en geestelijken. Na de misbruikschandalen van de afgelopen jaren uit de Verenigde Staten bleek nu Europa aan de beurt. Doofpot Het begon allemaal in februari. Toen hield de paus een spoedberaad met de Ierse bisschoppen naar aanleiding van twee rapporten waarin het systematisch in de doofpot stoppen van misbruikgevallen aan de kaak werd gesteld. Benedictus reageerde door een brief aan alle Ieren te sturen, waarin hij zijn gevoelens van schaamte en berouw uitsprak over de wantoestanden binnen de Ierse kerk. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 6:44 AM • Andrews opposed to extension of abuse inquiry IRELAND The Irish Times JAMIE SMYTH and PATSY McGARRY MINISTER OF State for Children Barry Andrews has said the Murphy commission's remit should not be extended to investigate other dioceses as it was unlikely to teach the authorities anything new. Speaking ahead of the presentation to the Government yesterday of the commission's report into the Diocese of Cloyne, Mr Andrews said extending the investigation to other dioceses would be a hugely time- consuming exercise without much benefit. "I'm not convinced the length of time and the expense would teach us any more than we know already. Anyone that has committed an offence can be prosecuted in the normal way. Any child exposed to risk will have to be protected by the HSE. I don't think any further inquiry will teach us anything new after Cloyne," he said. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 6:37 AM • Police drop abuse case against Northern Ireland priest NORTHERN IRELAND Belfast Telegraph A Catholic priest who was forced to step down from public ministry after an allegation of indecent assault is no longer the subject of a police inquiry. Fr Paul Symonds (65), who received an OBE for his cross-community work, was investi-gated by police after allegations were made against him which dated back to the 1970s. The allegations were of sexual abuse having been committed against a boy under the age of 16 in the Lancashire area, when Fr Symonds was living in England. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 24, 2010 http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 250 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

6:32 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Fri December 24, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sat December 25, 2010 edition: • Ecumenical Patriarchate Suspends Metropolitan Paisios and Bishop Vikentios Indefinitely [Orthodox Church in America] Pokrov, http://pokrov.org/display.asp?ds=Article&id=1536 , Author: Theodore Kalmoukos; Publication: The National Herald online http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/48407; Date Published: Dec/19/2010 ISTANBUL (CONSTANTINOPLE) and BOSTON -- The Ecumenical Patriarchate has levied the canonical punishment of an indefinite suspension upon Metropolitan Paisios of Tyana and Bishop Vikentios of Apameia, meaning that the two prelates are forbidden from celebrating the divine liturgy, holy sacraments, and any other holy services of the church. This decision was reached during an emergency meeting of the members of the Holy Synod residing in the Patriarchate's headquarters in Constantinople. Sources tell The National Herald that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew plans on revisiting the issue involving the the Patriarchal and Stravropegial Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou in Astoria, NY and its former leadership during the next meeting of the Holy Synod at the Phanar, which is scheduled for January 8, 2011. As has been reported by TNH, the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the entire Greek American Community have been rocked by the scandalous allegations which came to light at the St. Irene Monastery this past fall. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 9:40 AM [COMMENT: Celibacy (that is, no marriage and - officially - no sex) has again brought low the clerics, this time of the Orthodox Christian variety. ENDS.] • No jail time for church members [? 2009-10 Pastor* and two elders*. "Valley Christian Church". US $2000 fines. Failed to report allegations. Girl (12)] Concord Monitor, By Monitor staff and wire, December 24, 2010 NEW HAMPSHIRE - Three church members won't being going to jail after being found guilty of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child. WMWV reported that Judge Pamela Albee sentenced the pastor of the Valley Christian Church in Conway and two church elders to 30 days in jail, all suspended, plus probation and a $2,000 fine each. They were found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report that they suspected a 12-year-old girl had been sexually abused by another church elder. No one has been charged. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 6:37 AM • Former De La Salle teacher accused of sexual molestation by former students [1960s+ Bro. Raimond Rose. Roman Catholic Church (RCC). US $1m compensation. 21 more males.] San Francisco Chronicle, ~ December 25, 2010 CONCORD (CA) - Brother Raimond Rose, a former teacher at De La Salle High School in Concord, has already been sued once by former students in Concord, which ended in a $1.1-million settlement, and now, it's happening again, only in another state. Rose, who taught in Concord during the 1980s, is once again being accused of molestation by 21 different men in North Dakota, where Rose was a teacher off and on since the 1960 s. The settlement, which is undisclosed, was reached over the summer. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 7:37 AM • Sex abuse victims blast OK City archbishop's secrecy [Ex-Fr Stephen Cude*. RCC. Child.] Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests; Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]); Dec 24, 2010 {Alleged abuse - Oklahoma Gazette} OKLAHOMA CITY (OK) - Shame on Oklahoma City Catholic officials for keeping secret about a child sex abuse lawsuit against one of its priests. Remember all those pledges by bishops to be "open and

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Samengevat komen die arresten er op neer dat onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy als onderzoeksrechter mag aanblijven. Hij moet wel alle dossiers van de Commissie-Adriaenssens én de correspondentie tussen de Kerk en de pauselijke nuntius teruggeven, want die zijn op 24 juni 2010 onwettig in beslag genomen. De Troy mag voor de rest al wat hij in beslag nam in het Mechelse aartsbisdom behouden en bestuderen. Dat bewijsmateriaal blijft geldig. Hetzelfde geldt voor alle dossiers van Rik Devillé en die van de Commissie- Halsberghe. Wat zeggen de arresten? Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 6:49 AM • Journalist offers candid, insightful view of pope UNITED STATES Oklahoman "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," Pope Benedict XVI, a conversation with Peter Seewald (Ignatius Press, $21.95). Peter Seewald, a German journalist, interviewed Pope Benedict XVI in July 2010. Seewald asked the pope questions about the sexual abuse scandal, the uproar by Muslims over his Regensburg lecture in 2006, his talks about condoms and other topics of interest that have occurred during his five-year pontificate. The pope answers these and other questions in a pointed way. He apologizes for the sexual abuse but also reminds people that this kind of abuse is going on in society. He says this should not happen in the Church or anywhere. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 6:41 AM • Pope Delivers Christmas Wishes to English-Speakers [RCC] Third Age, Dec 24, 2010 UNITED KINGDOM and VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI delivered Christmas wishes on a BBC broadcast Friday in the first-ever appearance by a head of the Catholic Church on British radio. The Bishop of Rome participated in the "Thought of the Day" segment of Radio 4's flagship news program, "Today," UPI reports. … Opponents found fault with the BBC for not using the opportunity to challenge the Catholic Church's sex abuse record, AP reports. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 7:33 AM • Wisconsin on the Map to Pray With Mary [RCC] The New York Times, By ERIK ECKHOLM, Published: December 23, 2010 CHAMPION, Wis. – In France, the shrine at Lourdes is surrounded by hundreds of hotels and has received as many as 45,000 pilgrims in a single day. Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico, draws millions of fervent worshipers a year. Now, a little chapel among the dairy farms here, called Our Lady of Good Help, has joined that august company in terms of religious status, if not global fame. This month, it became one of only about a dozen sites worldwide, and the first in the United States, where apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been officially validated by the Roman Catholic Church. … "This is a gift to the believers," said the Rev. Johann Roten, director of the International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton. "It would be devious to say that this was somehow pulled out of the attic to exorcise the problems of the church today," Father Roten said in a telephone interview. "But hopefully this will have a beneficial impact on the people, showing them that there are ways of living with faith that are very pure." The Diocese of Green Bay is under fire from lawyers in an abuse-related lawsuit, who charge that it has obstructed justice by destroying potentially incriminating files on former priests. The diocese says it has cooperated fully with law enforcement and discarded psychiatric records of deceased priests as required by federal privacy laws. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 7:28 AM [COMMENT: Well, why don't these appearances of Our Lady (Mary, mother of Jesus) take place in the parliaments of the world and at the United Nations General Assembly? Why not in the palace of the bishop of Green Bay, to lead him along the right path? ENDS.] • Pope's Christmas Warning: 'The Future Of The World Is At Stake' [RCC hq] The Bulletin (United States), By JOHN-HENRY WESTEN, Friday, December 24, 2010 VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his traditional Christmas greeting to Vatican officials this morning, the Pope drew a link between the times of the fall of the Roman Empire and our own times, arguing that "the future of the world is at stake." Describing the decline of the Roman Empire he said, "The disintegration of the key principles of law and of the fundamental moral attitudes underpinning them burst open the dams which until that time had http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 253 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM protected peaceful coexistence among peoples. "The sun was setting over an entire world," he continued. "Frequent natural disasters further increased this sense of insecurity. There was no power in sight that could put a stop to this decline." Comparing those times to our own he said: "For all its new hopes and possibilities, our world is at the same time troubled by the sense that moral consensus is collapsing, consensus without which juridical and political structures cannot function. Consequently, the forces mobilized for the defense of such structures seem doomed to failure." The pope tied the priestly sexual abuse crisis, which he referred to as "the great tribulations to which we have been exposed during the past year," into the overall theme of the talk. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 7:14 AM • Pope Benedict Looks To The Fall Of The Roman Empire To Scare People [RCC] Lez Get Real, Dec/24/10, by Bridgette P. LaVictoire, ~ Dec 25, 2010 UNITED STATES - The Roman Empire was a decadent, corrupt, heartless, metropolitan civilization bent on conquering all that was within their ever expanding visage in order to try and bring their so-called civilization to the world. Then it collapsed. It collapsed because lo and behold, there was this new doomsday cult that gained acceptance throughout the Empire which said that the world's Savior was coming soon and it was alright if everything went to wrack and ruin. After all, if you believed, then your reward was in Heaven and not on Earth. Romans had little sense of community, nor any caring for the poor. Their Senate was the most corrupt that money could buy, and they enjoyed , gladiator fights, and subjugating anyone in their path. The[y] conquered cultures for whom warfare was about honor and not land. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 25, 2010 7:11 AM [COMMENT: This is one-sided! ENDS.] ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sat December 25, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Sun December 26, 2010 edition: • Storm over Pope's Thought for the Day as scores of listeners complain to the BBC Daily Mail By Mail On Sunday Reporter Last updated at 12:02 AM on 26th December 2010 UNITED KINGDOM - Scores of listeners have complained to the BBC over the Pope's historic Christmas Eve message on Radio 4's religious slot Thought For The Day. The Corporation said it had already received 60 formal complaints following its decision to grant Benedict XVI such a prominent platform, and there were dozens of hostile comments on BBC internet sites. … But critics said Benedict XVI should not have been allowed to present his views unchallenged when many people questioned his role in controversies such as clerical child abuse. Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society, said: 'I've got no problem with the message itself, but I think it's an extraordinarily bad choice for the BBC and I think it's actually a slap in the face for these hundreds of thousands of child- abuse victims.' Comments posted on the BBC's Radio 4 blogsite echoed his criticisms. One read: 'I hope that the Pope's message will provide some comfort to the great many children throughout the world who were raped and abused by Catholic paedophile priests.' Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 4:02 PM • Pédophilie: l'Eglise belge suggère une indemnisation "réaliste" et "juste" [RCC] AFP, BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE – L'archevêque belge André-Joseph Léonard a suggéré mercredi la possibilité d'une indemnisation "réaliste autant que juste" par l'Eglise des victimes de prêtres pédophiles, estimant toutefois que cette question "fort complexe" était du ressort des "autorités civiles". "C'est à l'autorité civile qu'il appartiendra de statuer, conformément au droit et compte tenu du bien commun, sur la pertinence d'un dédommagement imposé à une institution (…) dont les responsables ne sont pas personnellement impliqués dans les crimes perpétrés", a déclaré Mgr Léonard devant des députés belges.

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Il faudra que cette décision soit "réaliste autant que juste, alliant un sens authentique de la solidarité avec une juste conception des responsabilités effectives", a ajouté le primat de Belgique devant la commission "abus sexuels" de la Chambre des députés. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 11:11 AM • Mgr Léonard: des abus sexuels "particulièrement sordides" RTL, {avec video} BELGIQUE - L'archevêque de Malines-Bruxelles a célébré sa première messe de Noël en la cathédrale Saints Michel et Gudule. Sans surprise, il a abordé le sort des victimes d'abus sexuels commis par des prêtres. 25 Décembre 2010 11h25 Monseigneur Léonard a consacré samedi une partie de son homélie de Noël, prononcée en la Cathédrale des Saints Michel et Gudule, à Bruxelles, aux victimes d'abus sexuels commis par des prêtres. "L'Eglise continuera la mission qui est la sienne propre, à savoir écouter, sur le plan pastoral, les personnes qui souhaitent être entendues dans leur souffrance, mais sans jamais les détourner de s'adresser à la justice civile", a-t-il dit. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 11:05 AM • Le pape dénonce la pornographie et le tourisme sexuel Kipa/apic, 20 décembre 2010 ROME, (Apic) Benoît XVI, dans son traditionnel discours des vœux à la curie romaine, le 20 décembre 2010, est longuement revenu sur "l'humiliation" qu'avaient représentés les scandales de pédophilie ayant secoué l'Eglise catholique au cours de l'année écoulée. Une Eglise, a déploré le pape, dont le visage s'est "couvert de poussière" durant l'Année sacerdotale. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 11:01 AM • L'Eglise devrait indemniser les victimes d'abus sexuels [RCC] 7 Sur 7, BELGIQUE - La conférence des évêques va préparer durant les prochains mois, avec quelques experts, une proposition d'indemnisation des victimes d'abus sexuels commis au sein de l'Eglise, a indiqué vendredi Paul Quirynen, avocat des évêques belges, dans une interview accordée au quotidien De Standaard. Le primat de Belgique, Monseigneur Léonard, avait indiqué mercredi, devant la Commission spéciale de la Chambre sur les abus sexuels, qu'il revenait à la Justice de se prononcer sur l'opportunité de voir l'Eglise indemniser les victimes. L'avocat Paul Quirynen a fait savoir vendredi que l'Eglise devrait venir prochainement avec une proposition. "Personne ne souhaite fixer une échéance. Il me paraît opportun que quelque chose soit proposé avant que la Commission rende son rapport, fin avril", a-t-il indiqué au Standaard. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:58 AM • Pédophilie: un cardinal belge nie toute volonté d'étouffer des affaires [RCC] Romandie, BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE - Le cardinal belge Godfried Danneels a nié mardi devant des députés avoir voulu étouffer des affaires de pédophilie ayant éclaboussé l'Eglise catholique, exprimant son "horreur" à leur sujet tout en éludant la délicate question de l'indemnisation des victimes. "Il n'y avait pas de volonté d'étouffer consciemment les abus sexuels ou de les nier", a affirmé le prélat, qui a présidé la conférence des évêques de Belgique de 1979 à 2009, à une commission parlementaire spéciale consacrée aux abus sexuels commis au sein de l'Eglise belge. "Je veux ici explicitement reconnaître et exprimer très clairement mon horreur pour ce que (les victimes) ont subi de la part des serviteurs de l'Eglise", a-t-il ajouté. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:54 AM • Le pouvoir déviant: un évêque contre l'Église La Presse, Mathieu Perreault, CANADA - En 1994, l'évêque auxiliaire de Sydney, Geoffrey Robinson, a été chargé de coordonner le dossier des agressions sexuelles commises par des prêtres en Australie. Cette mission a ravivé en lui des blessures d'enfance. Et elle l'a amené à remettre en question l'Église telle qu'il la connaissait, du célibat clérical au Credo de Nicée, en passant par l'infaillibilité papale. Quelques semaines avant Noël paraissait en français le livre qu'il a tiré de ses réflexions, Le pouvoir déviant.

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"Benoît XVI a mieux réagi que Jean-Paul II aux histoires d'agressions sexuelles", explique Mgr Robinson en entrevue téléphonique. "Il a notamment rencontré des victimes. Il n'a pas hésité à revoir le traitement de ce type de plaintes, avant même de devenir pape. Mais il n'admet toujours pas que le fonctionnement même de l'Église est problématique. Il a attribué ces crimes à la sécularisation de la société. Ce n'est pas la cause principale. Il a parlé d'un crime commis contre Dieu, alors que les victimes sont des innocents. Il aurait dû inviter les victimes à se manifester et surtout, demander publiquement pardon." Le célibat n'est pas selon Mgr Robinson la cause des agressions sexuelles. Mais il contribue à fragiliser émotionnellement les prêtres. "Le problème, c'est le célibat obligatoire. Mère Teresa, par exemple, a choisi le célibat. Les prêtres arrivent trop jeunes au séminaire. Il faudrait attendre la fin de la vingtaine. S'ils ne sont pas arrivés à la maturité d'adulte quand ils font ce choix, ils peuvent développer une misogynie ou encore un complexe messianique qui les fait se sentir supérieurs aux laïcs. Et remettre publiquement en question le célibat permettrait de redonner confiance aux fidèles." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:51 AM • La bénédiction du pape, après une année difficile Radio Canada, VATICAN - Benoît XVI a prononcé sa bénédiction urbi et orbi devant des dizaines de milliers de personnes rassemblées devant la basilique Saint-Pierre, au Vatican, à l'issue d'une année difficile pour l'Église, marquée par des scandales de pédophilie. Le souverain pontife s'est exprimé dans plus de 60 langues. " Que le Christ sauveur vous garde dans l'espérance, qu'il vous fasse le don de la paix profonde ", a-t-il déclaré en français. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:46 AM • Epinglé par Wikileaks, le Vatican appelle à la prudence Le Figaro, VATICAN - Le Vatican a mis en garde samedi contre la crédibilité des informations divulguées par WikiLeaks, après la publication d'une note diplomatique américaine mettant en cause son attitude dans une affaire de pédophilie. L'Eglise catholique est à son tour visée par des révélations embarrassantes de Wikileaks. Selon une note de l'ambassade américaine à Rome, fournie au quotidien britannique The Guardian par le site, le Vatican a refusé de coopérer à une enquête irlandaise sur des abus sexuels sur des enfants par des membres du clergé de Dublin, au motif que les demandes irlandaises n'avaient pas respecté les procédures officielles. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:43 AM • "Die Kirche muss ihre Haltung zum Sex ändern" Der Tagesspiel Dass Priester missbrauchen, wird systematisch vertuscht – bis hoch zum Papst. Patrick Wall würde seine Tochter niemals auf eine katholische Schule schicken. Ein Interview mit dem ehemaligen Benediktinermönch. VEREINIGTE STAATEN / DEUTSCHLAND - Mister Wall, Sie haben als „Fixer" für die katholische Kirche gearbeitet, als eine Art Problemlöser. Erinnern Sie sich noch daran, wie es anfing? Oh ja, es war im August 1991, nach dem Morgengebet. Ich war Benediktinermönch in einem Kloster und gerade dabei, mir in meiner Zelle die Zähne zu putzen, als der Abt klopfte. Was wollte er von Ihnen? Es hatte in einer nahe gelegenen Gemeinde einen Missbrauchsfall gegeben, und der Priester dort sollte abgelöst werden – von mir. Ich packte meine Sachen und sechs Stunden später ging es los. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 10:38 AM • 'You are not forgotten about' Boston Globe FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS – Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley was just out of seminary when his friary sent him to serve as chaplain at the Butler, Pa., county prison. His first task was to preach to the inmates, but he had never given a sermon before, much less to such a tough crowd. He consulted his preaching textbook, which advised: "Speak into the horizons of your congregation.“ Inspired, O'Malley gave a lively account of the Bible's great escape stories: Daniel and the lion's den, St. Paul escaping over the walls of Damascus in a basket, St. Peter in chains. The inmates listened, rapt.

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"The problem was, that night, several prisoners escaped from the prison,“ O'Malley said with a laugh during a recent interview. "And I was afraid my first sermon was going to be my last. The superior was very unhappy.“ … O'Malley's prison visits have occasionally included clergy convicted of the sexual abuse of children and, once, Joseph Druce, the prisoner who strangled , a dismissed priest and convicted child molester who had been accused of sexually abusing more than 100 children. O'Malley called Druce "a pathetically sick man.“ "It was quite obvious that this man was not fully responsible for the crimes that he had committed,“ he said. He paused a moment when asked what he says to a person like Druce. "I try to talk to people about God's mercy.“ {comments} TerenceMcKiernan wrote: Thanks to Lisa Wangsness for this very touching article and video. Thanks especially to the women at MCI Framingham who were willing to be interviewed, and to the regular volunteers in the prison ministry there. Lisa Wangsness reminds us that there are Catholic priests in prison for sexually abusing children. But there are also many priests who have escaped punishment because their crimes were hidden by bishops until the statute of limitations lapsed. Indeed, Cardinal O'Malley continues to keep the names of credibly accused priests secret, although he promised in March 2009 to reveal them. Reading about Cardinal O'Malley in prison, I found myself thinking of how many bishops belong behind bars, instead of "just visiting." Bishop Thomas L. Dupre of Springfield was indicted in 2004 for rape of a child but did no time and is a free man today. There are 18 other bishops known to be accused of abusing children, and not one has gone to prison for his crimes. Many other bishops (two-thirds of them, according to the Dallas Morning News …) have enabled the sexual abuse of children. None has served time for that crime either. I applaud Cardinal O'Malley's prison ministry. But Jesus also spoke about our responsibility to children: "And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea." (Mark 9:42). On March 11, 2009, O'Malley promised to make public the names of priests who offended against children. We have waited nearly two years for him to keep his promise - in vain. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 8:46 AM • Advocaten slachtoffers seksueel misbruik willen paus dagvaarden [RCC] Focus - WTV, BELGIE - Christine Mussche en Walter Van Steenbrugge, advocaten van slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk, willen de paus en het Vaticaan dagvaarden. Volgens de twee advocaten draagt de paus een verpletterende verantwoordelijkheid. Volgens hen heeft de paus namelijk instructies gegeven aan bisschoppen en geestelijken wereldwijd om seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk stil te houden. Dat de paus dagvaarden niet makkelijk is, beseffen ze. Ze laten zich daarom bijstaan door advocaten uit Amerika. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:58 AM • Advocaten bereiden dagvaarding paus voor Knack, BELGIE - Walter Van Steenbrugge en Christine Mussche, de advocaten van een aantal slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik binnen de kerk, bereiden een dagvaarding van paus Benedictus XVI voor. De paus is de hoofdverantwoordelijke van het misbruik, zo argumenteren ze. Van Steenbrugge en Mussche hebben al contact gelegd met Amerikaanse confraters die het Vaticaan reeds hebben gedagvaard. In De Ochtend op Radio 1 verduidelijke Van Steenbrugge donderdag dat de Heilige Stoel in de zaak van het kindermisbruik binnen de kerk volgens hem 'een verpletterende verantwoordelijkheid' draagt. {summary} Lawyers for a number of victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic church are preparing a summons for Pope Benedict XVI. They argue the pope is primarily responsible for the abuse. The lawyers have been in contact with American colleagues who have already sued the Vatican. Lawyer Walter van Steenbrugge said Thursday on Radio 1 that the Holy See bears crushing responsibility http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 257 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM for the cases of child abuse. The Vatican had issued instructions on abuse to bishops and priests and made the mistake of taking on very large liability, he said. He realizes, however, that issuing a summons to the Vatican is a difficult matter. He also pointed to efforts by bishops to reject responsibility. He is counting on help of the American lawyers and lawyer Christine Mussche to help. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:48 AM • Léonard: "Ik heb geen spijt van uitspraken" Gazet Van Antwerpen BELGIE - Aartsbisschop Léonard wil zichzelf blijven. Hij is ook niet van plan zijn controversiële uitspraken van het laatste jaar terug te nemen. "Ik zal mezelf blijven, en mijn toon is altijd een toon van eerlijkheid. Ik zeg altijd wat ik denk en ik zeg het rechtstreeks, maar toch met veel nuances en gevoel voor humor", aldus Léonard na de middernachtmis. 'Eerlijk en oprecht' De voorbije week verzette hij zich tegen de schadevergoeding voor slachtoffers van seksueel misbruik. Hij blijft achter zijn standpunten staan. "Ik heb daar geen spijt van. Met afstand van de tijd zullen mensen goed begrijpen dat ik het altijd zeer oprecht en zeer eerlijk meen." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:25 AM • Seksueel misbruik: drie arresten en twee hoorzittingen Gazet Van Antwerpen 24 DECEMBER 2010 BELGIE - De voorbije week was de Kerk niet weg te branden uit de publieke belangstelling. Er vielen drie arresten over Operatie Kelk, het Brusselse onderzoek naar seksueel misbruik van minderjarigen in de Kerk. Die arresten wierpen een licht op nog onopgehelderde aspecten van Operatie Kelk. Bovendien kwamen kardinaal Godfried Danneels en aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard getuigen voor de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik. Léonard pleitte er voor een vrijwillig solidariteitsfonds van àlle sectoren waarin seksueel misbruik plaatsgrijpt. Uit de hoorzitting bleek verder dat slachtoffers van pedofiele pastoors momenteel al meer rechtsmogelijkheden hebben dan slachtoffers van andere pedofielen. Een kritische analyse. DE ARRESTEN OVER OPERATIE KELK Tijdens de voorbije week velde het Brusselse gerecht drie arresten over seksueel misbruik in de Kerk en over Operatie Kelk van 24 juni 2010. (Voor meer uitleg over deze operatie, zie: hier.) Samengevat komen die arresten er op neer dat onderzoeksrechter Wim De Troy als onderzoeksrechter mag aanblijven. Hij moet wel alle dossiers van de Commissie-Adriaenssens én de correspondentie tussen de Kerk en de pauselijke nuntius teruggeven, want die zijn op 24 juni 2010 onwettig in beslag genomen. De Troy mag voor de rest al wat hij in beslag nam in het Mechelse aartsbisdom behouden en bestuderen. Dat bewijsmateriaal blijft geldig. Hetzelfde geldt voor alle dossiers van Rik Devillé en die van de Commissie- Halsberghe. Wat zeggen de arresten? Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:23 AM • Paus Benedictus weert seksueel misbruik uit kerstboodschap Vandaag, VATICAAN - Paus Benedictus XVI heeft zaterdag tijdens zijn traditionele kerstboodschap duizenden gelovigen toegesproken vanaf het balkon van de Sint-Pietersbasiliek in Rome. Hij sprak geen woord over het seksueel misbruik in de Kerk, maar was wel bezorgd over christenen die "lijden". "Dat het licht van kerstmis opnieuw mag schijnen op deze aarde waarop Jezus geboren werd, en dat het de Israëli's en de Palestijnen mag inspireren in hun zoektocht naar een rechtvaardige en vreedzame manier om samen te leven", aldus Benedictus. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:16 AM • 2010: A Papal Year in Review Catholic.net , By Kevin M. Clarke, DEC. 25, 2010 SAN MARCOS, California, (Zenit.org).- With the calendar year coming to a close, the time has come to remember the voyage of 2010 for the Church. Benedict XVI has faced his share of troubles, but has endured daunting challenges with remarkable resiliency. He enters the new year perhaps all the stronger for his battles. Here's a look back at 2010. … Controversies and battles 2010 was not without its share of controversial stories. The sex abuse scandals continued to plague the Church, particularly in Ireland, leading to a type of "persecution" from within and giving the enemies of the http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 258 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM Church, particularly in Ireland, leading to a type of "persecution" from within and giving the enemies of the Church plenty of room to attack. Nonetheless, the Pope met the sorrowful revelations with words of comfort for victims and multiple apologies on the one hand and forthright words of accountability on behalf of the Church on the other. Media attacks upon the Pope reached their pinnacle in March, when the New York Times -- in bringing forward the case of Father Lawrence Murphy of Milwaukee -- thought they had unveiled the smoking gun that would finally link Cardinal Ratzinger with the sexual abuse scandals. Yet, despite the lengths the Times took to smear the Pope's name and disgrace the Church, no direct link to Cardinal Ratzinger could be established. Rather, Catholic commentators thoroughly exposed the errors and sloppiness of the Times' coverage. The sad irony in the media attacks were noted by Archbishop Timothy Dolan during Holy Week at St. Patrick's Cathedral: "No one has been more vigorous in cleansing the Church of the effects of this sickening sin than the man we now call Benedict XVI." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:12 AM • Ex sacerdote boliviano condenado a 22 años de prisión por violar a 19 menores BOLIVIA TeleSURtv El Tribunal Tercero de la Corte Superior de la ciudad boliviana de Cochabamba (centro) condenó a 22 años de prisión al ex sacerdote José Mamani Ochoa, de 50 años de edad por la violación de 19 niños y jóvenes de un albergue ubicado en esa localidad de país, informó este viernes la prensa local. La instancia judicial de esa región emitió el fallo este jueves, informó la directora de Género, Generacional y Familia de la Alcaldía de esa ciudad, Raquel Melgar. Mamani había sido destituido por la cúpula de Iglesia Católica de Cochabamba en julio de 2009 luego de que aparecieran las primeras denuncias en contra del sacerdote. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:09 AM • Piden elevar condena a sacerdote pedófilo en Bolivia BOLIVIA Semana LA PAZ El gobierno municipal de la ciudad de Cochabamba, en el centro de Bolivia, anunció que pedirá a la justicia una pena más dura contra un cura pedófilo condenado a 22 años de cárcel. Sábado 25 Diciembre 2010 La directora de Género de la alcaldía de esa ciudad, Raquel Melgar, dijo el sábado a medios locales que apelará el fallo en primera instancia y reclamarán 30 años de cárcel para el ex sacerdote boliviano José Mamani Ochoa por existir "agravantes". El Tribunal Tercero de Sentencia de Cochabamba declaró el jueves culpable a Mamani Ochoa, de 50 años, de la violación de varios menores en un internado rural y lo condenó a 22 años de prisión. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:06 AM • Víctimas y alcaldía pedirán mayor condena para ex cura pedófilo en Bolivia BOLIVIA El Nacional La directora de Género del municipio Cercado, Raquel Melgar, dijo que el ayuntamiento y las víctimas apelarán la decisión y exigirán una pena de 30 años de cárcel por la violación de niños y adolescentes en una casa de acogida La alcaldía del municipio de Cercado, en el centro de Bolivia y las víctimas del ex sacerdote José Mamani Ochoa, sentenciado a 22 años de prisión por pedofilia, anunciaron que pedirán a la Justicia el aumento de la pena, informó este sábado la prensa local. La directora de Género del municipio, Raquel Melgar, dijo que el ayuntamiento y las víctimas apelarán la decisión y exigirán una pena de 30 años de cárcel por la violación de niños y adolescentes en una casa de acogida. Según el periódico Opinión de Cochabamba, Melgar indicó que "hay muchos agravantes: él era un padre, un maestro, estaba encargado de proteger a los niños, pero además cometió otros delitos como la trata y tráfico de menores con fines de explotación laboral, falsificación de documentos, corrupción de menores". Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:03 AM • Defrocked Bolivian Priest Gets 22 Years for Sexual Abuse BOLIVIA Latin American Herald Tribune LA PAZ – A defrocked Bolivian priest has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for sexually abusing 19 children at a shelter in the central city of Cochabamba, the press reported. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 259 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

A court in that city handed down the ruling on Thursday, according to the head of the Cochabamba municipal government's gender, generational and family matters department, Raquel Melgar. Fifty-year-old Jose Mamani Ochoa was convicted of abusing the children aged five to 15 at the home, where he used to serve as director, and of falsifying documents, the daily Los Tiempos de Cochabamba reported Friday. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 7:01 AM • Aboriginal groups demand Feds re-instate money for healing fund CANADA - HQ Yellowknife It's the end of the line for a range of services for survivors of residential schools and their families. On April 1st, 134 projects across Canada including physical and mental health programs, grief, loss, and suicide counseling will be cut off, as the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's money dries up. The Chief of the Dene Nation, Bill Erasmus says he doesn't understand why the federal government won't continue funding the 12-year-old foundation. He says 12 years isn't enough to help people heal from the devastation they or family members faced in residential schools. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 26, 2010 6:56 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Sun December 26, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Mon December 27, 2010 edition: • Bishops hear concerns about past failings amid search for church renewal IRELAND - The Irish Times SÉAMUS FREEMAN RITE AND REASON: There was widespread disappointment among the faithful that in the pope's letter last March, sex abuse was not seen as a symptom of shortcomings in church structure WHEN POPE Benedict XVI wrote his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland in March 2010, Catholic primate Cardinal Seán Brady issued a wide invitation, asking people to respond to this groundbreaking initiative. Since then, a huge amount of work has been undertaken within the church to pave the way to a hopeful future. But this is a period which, with Dickens, we might call "the worst of times". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:28 PM • Pope's letter disappointed faithful, says bishop IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent THERE WAS widespread disappointment among the Irish faithful that in Pope Benedict's letter last March, "child sex abuse was not seen as a symptom of shortcomings in structure and function in the church", according to an Irish bishop. They felt there was "no critique of the role of the Vatican, and there is little or no acknowledgment of the exclusion of lay people from roles where they can make significant contribution", Bishop Séamus Freeman has said. After publication of the Pope's letter, Cardinal Séan Brady invited people to respond to it. Since then, "a huge amount of work has been undertaken within the church to pave the way to a hopeful future", said Bishop Freeman, who is chairman of the Bishops' Council for Pastoral Renewal and Adult Faith Development. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:25 PM • DPP out of step with abuse victims IRELAND - Irish Examiner By Claire O'Sullivan Tuesday, December 28, 2010 FOR the ten victims who have made Garda complaints about the horrific abuse they endured at the hands of 'Father B' in Cloyne, Co Cork, the expected publication later this year of the Dublin Archdiocese report is certainly another important milestone in their hard-fought battle for justice. The Church itself has investigated how it mishandled their abuse complaints {in the damning National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) report published two years ago}. And the state has also undertaken a forensic examination (the Dublin Archdiocese report) of how this abuser was enabled by the Church to continue his rampage of sexual abuse and rape. But nine criminal investigations into Father B's actions hit a brick wall with a thud once they reached the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) office. A http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 260 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM decision is still outstanding on the tenth file. For the women who were systematically groomed, abused and raped by this supposed pillar of the local community, the DPP's failure to take on any of these cases is not just frustrating or anger inducing, it just does not make sense. Top ranking gardaí who viewed the files before they went to Dublin all thought they were "rock solid", as did any lawyers involved with the cases. Yet, time after time, the same conclusion is flung at them and still Father B walks around his local town, sniggering at their hurt and anger. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:19 PM • Former head of Croatian Catholic Mission in New York suspected of misuse of funds NEW YORK / CROATIA - Croatian Times, The former head of the Croatian Catholic Mission in New York has allegedly used the community's money for improper financing of a friend's restaurant. The priest of Diocese of Krk Robert Zubovic has been in New York from 1998 to 2007, where he headed the Croatian Catholic Mission in Astoria, . Just six months before leaving the post, he is said to have paid 50,000 dollars of the Mission's money to the account of his friend Nada Bernic for the rental costs of her "Terrace in the Sky" restaurant in Manhattan. The Croatian daily Vecernji List writes that the money has never been returned to the Mission, despite both Bernic and Zubovic's claim of the contrary. Both have admitted the transaction had taken place, but claim that the money was deposited back onto the account. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:31 PM • Sexual Abuse Analysis from Germany Leon J. Podles: Dialogue December 27th, 2010 GERMANY - In March 2010 the head of a Jesuit school in Germany had begun receiving allegations of sexual abuse by Jesuit teachers in the school. He contacted alumni about it, and received numerous allegations of abuse by priests. In response to this situation, the German bishops set up a hotline (telephone and e-mail) in Trier. The first day it was opened, the telephone line froze because of the volume of calls it received. It is still getting 50-70 calls a week. The Germans, being orderly, have collected and analyzed the data from these calls in 1,100 sheets of statistics and have come up with interesting and unexpected patterns that contradict previously-held beliefs about sexual abuse. FAZ reports: · There were 18,500 attempts to reach the hotline the first week alone. · 90% of those calling in are Catholic. · A third were not abused in Church environments but wanted to seek help from the Church. · Many called in the hope that their reports of sexual abuse would help prevent it in the future. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:22 PM • POPE BENEDICT EXCUSES PEDOPHILES IN ADDRESS TO CARDINALS UNITED STATES - End 21st Century Slavery Patrick Wilkes Having heard/read some prurient snippets of POPE BENEDICT XVI's December 20, 2010 address to the Roman Curia, I thought surely the Pope didn't say that! So I decided to give the self-styled Holy Father the benefit of the doubt and peruse his own words in context. While not as inflammatory as portions cited by some bloggers and commentators, the entire section of his address dealing with clergy sexual abuse was very troubling. While Benedict lamented the stain of child sexual abuse by clergy on the image of the Church, his callousness and insincerity reared their heads immediately. Feigning ignorance of what his fellow priests and bishops had been up to until 2010, Benedict mused: "We were all the more dismayed, then, when in this year of all years and to a degree we could not have imagined, we came to know of abuse of minors committed by priests who twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and under the mantle of the sacred profoundly wound human persons in their childhood, damaging them for a whole lifetime." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:45 PM [COMMENT: "Feigning ignorance" indeed! The Roman Catholics of the Latin Rite have been suffering child sex abuse from the clergy for, probably 1700 years. It is condemned by council after council, yet somehow this "great theologian" is still pretending it is all a surprise! ENDS.] • Top 10 stories from 2010

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Rome Reports {with video} December 27, 2010. VATICAN CITY - ROME REPORTS has listed the ten most important news stories from the Vatican in 2010, with its short and long term impacts. … Benedict XVI "We promise we will do everything possible so that these types of abuses never happen again." The second biggest news story of 2010 is the search for solutions to address sexual abuses by priests. Following the publication of two investigations in Ireland which reported hundreds of cases of child abuse committed by dozens of priests and religious, the Pope ordered these cases be addressed with honesty and courage to bring them to an end and so they could no be repeated. He also wrote a letter to all Catholics in Ireland in which he personally asked for forgiveness from the victims. He said in these cases it's wrong to use silence when trying to protect the good name of the Church. (LINK HERE) Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:41 PM • Klacht tegen aartsbisschop Léonard uitgebreid [RCC] RKnieuws, MOERBRUGGE, BELGIE (RKnieuws.net) - Advocaat en SP.A-politicus Jean Marie de Meester uit Moerbrugge heeft zijn klacht met burgerlijke partijstelling tegen aartsbisschop André Léonard uitgebreid. Dat doet hij na Léonards verklaringen in de bijzondere kamercommissie seksueel misbruik in de kerk. In het kader van een vraag naar de schadeloosstelling van slachtoffers vroeg Léonard zich af wat er zou gebeuren mochten ook kinderen van ouders met hetzelfde geslacht - homoseksuelen dus - een schadevergoeding beginnen vragen. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:37 PM • Slachtoffers van pedofiele priesters beter af dan andere slachtoffers Hbvl, BELGIE - Update De slachtoffers van pedofiele priesters hebben meer mogelijkheden om een schadevergoeding te krijgen dan de slachtoffers van andere pedofielen. Dat is één van de besluiten die je uit de hoorzittingen van de Kamercommissie Seksueel Misbruik van de voorbije week kan trekken. Tijdens deze hoorzittingen riep aartsbisschop André-Joseph Léonard de slachtoffers op om gebruik te maken van de mogelijkheden die het kerkelijk recht biedt. Via dat kerkelijk recht kan een slachtoffer een schadevergoeding krijgen, ook als de dader door procedurefouten vrijuit ging bij de gewone strafrechtbanken of – in bepaalde gevallen – als de feiten voor de gewone rechters van de staat verjaard zijn. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 12:33 PM • Notre Dame: 'This investigation had integrity' South Bend Tribune By MARGARET FOSMOE Tribune Staff Writer SOUTH BEND (IN) – Breaking his silence, the Rev. John I. Jenkins is defending the integrity of the University of Notre Dame's investigation of a sexual battery allegation against a student football player by a female student who later committed suicide. "I cannot stand by and allow the integrity of Notre Dame to be challenged so publicly. The values at issue go to the very heart of who and what we are at Notre Dame," the university president said last week during an interview in his office. Notre Dame Security Police conducted a "thorough and judicious investigation that followed the facts where they led and exhibited the integrity that I believe characterizes this institution," Jenkins said. Notre Dame has been denounced in the media and the blogosphere in recent weeks by news reports and commentaries about the case concerning Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, 19, a Saint Mary's College student from Northbrook, Ill., who committed suicide Sept. 10 by overdosing on prescription medication. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:20 AM • Notre Dame president defends handling of sex case Rivals.com , SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Notre Dame's president says the university acted with integrity in its handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a football player by a St. Mary's College student who later committed suicide. Campus police conducted a "thorough and judicious investigation that followed the facts where they led," the Rev. John I. Jenkins told the South Bend Tribune for a story Sunday. "I cannot stand by and allow the integrity of Notre Dame to be challenged so publicly," Jenkins said. "The http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 262 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM "I cannot stand by and allow the integrity of Notre Dame to be challenged so publicly," Jenkins said. "The values at issue go to the very heart of who and what we are at Notre Dame." [Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:16 AM] • 2010 Religion Stories of the Year UNITED STATES - Religion Newswriters Association Dec. 16, 2010 For information contact Debra L. Mason 573-882-9257 New York Mosque RNA No. 1 Religion Story of the Year COLUMBIA, MO – Public debate and controversy over a planned Islamic community center and mosque to be built near New York's Ground Zero ignited a national debate about religious freedom that kept the story in the news for months. The story was voted the No. 1 religion story of 2010 in the annual Top 10 Religion News Stories of the Year poll of Religion Newswriters Association members. The center's leading proponent, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, was voted the 2010 Religion Newsmaker of the Year. Public opinion and outcry over the mosque reached a peak when a pastor of a small Florida church threatened to burn a Qu'ran in protest, a bravado that fueled fears of international backlash against the United States until the pastor backed down. As newsmaker of the year, Rauf beat out Pope Benedict XVI, the many faith-based workers helping victims of the Haitian government, and Sarah Palin, who devoted significant portions of her second best selling book arguing that candidates for office take a public Christian stand. The complete Top 10 Religion Stories of 2010, in order from first to tenth are: 1. A proposal to build an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero leads to a national debate on religious freedom, with strong statements on both sides as the 9/11 anniversary approached. A Gainesville, Fla., pastor, who vowed to burn copies of the Qu'ran in protest, backs down. 2. The catastrophic earthquake in Haiti sparks relief efforts by many and varied faith-based groups. One by Idaho Southern Baptists leads to child-smuggling accusations, as well as to examinations of others' practices. Leader Laura Silsby is imprisoned for four months. 3. Pope Benedict XVI is accused of delaying church action against pedophile priests in Ireland, Germany, the United States and other countries when he led the Vatican office in charge of discipline 1981 to 2005. Several bishops resign. Benedict continues to criticize the church's handling of past cases. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 9:03 AM • Eine Nummer gegen das Vergessen Frankfurter Allgemeine DEUTSCHLAND - Seit dem Frühjahr können Opfer sexueller Gewalt in der Kirche über ihr Leid der Lebensberatung im Bistum Trier berichten. Ihre Geschichten zeugen nicht nur von den lebenslangen Folgen des Missbrauchs. Sie erzählen auch viel über die Täter. Von Daniel Deckers, Trier 26. Dezember 2010 Im März ging alles ganz schnell. Annähernd vier Wochen hatten die deutschen Bischöfe gebraucht, ehe sie Ende Februar angesichts einer Kaskade von Berichten über sexuelle Übergriffe von Geistlichen auf Kinder und Jugendliche ihre Sprache wiederfanden. Nur vier Wochen später saßen schon Dutzende Mitarbeiter der Lebensberatung im Bistum Trier am Telefon. Im Auftrag der Bischöfe hielten sie sich bereit, in zwei Schichten an jeweils drei Tagen der Woche Opfern sexueller Gewalt in der Kirche zuzuhören und sie in ihrer Not zu beraten. Die Resonanz der telefonischen „Hotline" und der parallel angebotenen Beratung über Internet war im eigentlichen Sinn des Wortes überwältigend. Alleine in der ersten Woche wurden mehr als 18 500 Anrufversuche registriert, so dass es trotz des Einsatzes von bis zu zwanzig Beratern am Telefon und acht im Internet zunächst kaum möglich war, im ersten Anlauf einen Kontakt herzustellen. „Niemand hat damit gerechnet, dass sich so viele Opfer in so kurzer Zeit an die Hotline wenden würden", sagt Andreas Zimmer, der Leiter der Lebensberatung. Warum auch? Schon im Jahr 2002 war sexueller Missbrauch in der Kirche über Monate hinweg in vielen Medien ausführlich thematisiert worden. Doch so wenig die erstmaligen Enthüllungen sexueller Übergriffe von Lehrern der Odenwaldschule im Jahr 1999 die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit auf das jahrelange Treiben von Päderasten an einer reformpädagogischen Vorzeigeschule lenkten, so schnell erstarben im Herbst 2002 Mutmaßungen über Art und Ausmaß über Vergehen katholischer Geistlicher an Kindern und Jugendlichen. Die Bischöfe fragten nicht, die Opfer schwiegen. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 263 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 8:59 AM • Vita, truffe e galere di Don Gelmini, il prete di Silvio accusato di pedofilia Giornalettismo ITALIA - Ieri l'ultima delle telefonate alla comunità incontro del discusso sacerdote. Da Roma al Vietnam, guai giudiziari di ogni genere, prima della tegola definitiva: rinvio a giudizio per abusi a minori. L'ultima occasione pubblica è stata ieri. A Natale, si sa, siamo tutti più buoni. E anche il premier, Silvio Berlusconi, per sentirsi migliore non esita a dedicare il suo natale a chi ha più bisogno: luogo prediletto per un saluto di vicinanza e di beneficienza è, da anni, la comunità Incontro di Don Piero Gelmini, ad Amelia, in Umbria. Se non di persona, almeno telefonicamente il presidente del Consiglio non rinuncia mai ad elogiare pubblicamente il lavoro dell'amico Piero. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 8:44 AM • Italian President Talked with The Founder of Drug Addicts Community Home Daily News ITALY - Executive President of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi said in a telephone conversation with Italian priest Pierino Gelmini, 85, founder of the community for drug addicts, based in Terni (Central Italy), reported by local media. … The priest Gelmini, 85, will be tried for alleged sexual harassment of a dozen young men when they were housed in one of its sites. The priest has always maintained his innocence and insisted he acted properly with all the people who have been helped in their centers for drug addicts. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 8:38 AM • Church 'silent' on abuse reforms AUSTRALIA - The Age Nick McKenzie and Rafael Epstein December 28, 2010 MELBOURNE'S Catholic Archdiocese has failed to announce or fully implement changes requested by Victoria Police to the church's sexual abuse inquiry process, more than a year after serious deficiencies were exposed. The failure has sparked fierce criticism from victim groups and lawyers and comes with police recently launching two separate investigations into sexual abuse involving a serving and a former Victorian priest. Sources close to the church have said that police have requested it to revamp its inquiry process to ensure that priests under investigation for sexual offences by detectives are not in effect tipped off by the church's chief abuse investigator, Peter O'Callaghan, QC, that they are the subject of a police probe. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 8:36 AM • Vatican saga continues [I.O.R. RCC.] Manila Bulletin, By HECTOR R.R. VILLANUEVA, Former Press Secretary, December 27, 2010 "The violent manner of Roberto Calvi's death and the details of the Banco Ambrosiano's financial collapse would embroil the Vatican in years of controversy." – Philip Willan's "The Last Supper" or "The Killing of Roberto Calvi" MANILA, Philippines – In recent weeks, Rome police seized 23 million euros ($30 million) in Vatican assets for alleged money laundering and failure to explain the origin or destination of these monies from the Institute of Religious Works which actually operates like a bank. The Vatican bank, or the "Instituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), was once headed by Lithuanian– American Archibishop Paul Marcinkus at about the same time that Roberto Calvi was appointed President of Banco Ambrosiano which was not only the largest private bank in Italy at that time but was also the largest bank failure to-date in European financial history. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 7:06 AM • Few words for the abused [RCC] IRELAND Irish Independent Monday December 27 2010 THE Christmas period normally brings an upsurge in attendance at Mass as families seek to recognise the true spiritual meaning of the day. It provides an opportunity for reflection and to break away from the hustle and bustle of the last-minute gift shopping and the frenzy of food, drink and television that dominates the festive season in many

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 264 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM households. The larger numbers in the pews also provides an opportunity for the Catholic hierarchy to state their desire to learn from the child abuse scandals and introduce the necessary reforms to ensure there can never be a repeat of these. After a year dominated by the continuing fall-out from a horrific series of revelations about paedophile clerics and institutional abuse, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin made the only noteworthy mention of the biggest crisis for the future credibility of the church. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 6:54 AM • Smugness at root of sex abuse crisis, says Dr Martin IRELAND Irish Independent By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Monday December 27 2010 IT WAS the issue that dominated Catholic Church politics during 2010 -- but most bishops chose not to address clerical sex abuse during their Christmas homilies. In a year dominated by the fallout from the horrendous catalogue of paedophile clerics, personified by the imprisonment of ex-priest Tony Walsh, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was exceptional in his trenchant remarks on the biggest crisis yet to threaten the future credibility of the Irish church. Other senior clerics seized on the big freeze and the economic recession to deliver pious homilies about the message of redemption offered by the stable in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 6:51 AM • Sinister fixation UNITED STATES California Catholic Daily Los Angeles (CNA) -- A new study showing that teen girls are depicted sexually on prime-time TV more than adults has critics condemning the trend as a sinister fixation on underage young women. The Parents Television Council issued a report on Dec. 15 that found that in popular TV series, underage female characters appearing on screen increases the amount of sexual content in a given show. The council also found that teen girls demonstrate almost no negative response to being sexualized and that the vast majority of sexual incidents are depicted as occurring outside of a committed relationship. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 6:47 AM • On secular society, pope is right about one thing National Catholic Reporter (USA), NCR Today by Suzanne Morse on Dec. 23, 2010 UNITED STATES - Pope Benedict XVI's comments this week to the papal curia about the clergy sexual abuse crisis is sure to draw both condemnation and applause. This AP article has statements from Barbara Blaine of SNAP criticizing the pope's analysis because he appears to be blaming the clergy sexual abuse crisis on secular society. I certainly agree with Blaine's assessment that a culture of secrecy is, in large part, what led to the clergy sexual abuse crisis becoming so widespread and deeply-rooted a catastrophe for the Catholic Church. The sexual abuse of children is a Catholic church problem, one that reaches across ethnicities, cultures, and socio-economic status. The common denominator for the children (now, adults) who were abused was the church and the unfortunate fact that they crossed paths with an abusive priest who the institutional church should have removed but did not. Despite the hierarchy's failings to address these problems within the church, I don't think that the pope's willingness to highlight the impact of the scourge of sexual abuse can be dismissed. The pope is not entirely wrong in saying that the church's crisis must be put in context of the sexual abuse of children in secular society. He is right when he says "The psychological destruction of children, in which human persons are reduced to articles of merchandise, is a terrifying sign of the times." Just this week, Philip Greaves who wrote "The Pedophiles Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct," was arrested. It is estimated that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys face some sort of sexual abuse in childhood (some good information on sexual violence can be found at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Victims of Crime). Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 6:42 AM • Archbishop of Washington Talks Sexual Abuse, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" WLTX {with video} James Gilbert http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 265 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

WASHINGTON (DC), (CBS News) - Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl appeared on "Fox News Sunday," where he addressed the Catholic church's response to allegations of sexual abuse, and the religion's views on the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." "When we look back and we talk about sexual abuse, we're talking about something that happened 10, 20, even 30 years ago," Wuerl said. "We have succeeded in terms of the church and her response. We have succeeded in guaranteeing that if a priest is accused, and there is a credible allegation, he is simply removed from the ministry. That is reported to the authorities, and we begin to try to heal whatever was damaged in that abuse." Wuerl said, "I think it's one of the great accomplishments of the church. It recognized there was a serious problem. It dealt with it forthright and then moved on to see that we're in a much, much better place, a much safer place today." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:34 AM • Wuerl of Lies UNITED STATES Stephen Rivele's blog I just witnessed a sorry Christmas spectacle: the Archbishop of Washington being interviewed by Chris Wallace. Cardinal Wuerl's demeanor can only be described as milquetoast, and his performance as mealy- mouthed. As one of the authors of the Catholic Church's new guidelines on priest sexual abuse of children, he was asked if this has solved the problem. He replied that it was "one of the Church's great accomplishments." To behave as decent human beings? To prevent the rape of children? To act with basic humanity as an institution? To desist from facilitating the most heinous crimes against innocents? This is "one of the Church's great accomplishments"?! It is as if he were saying: "We no longer officially countenance, encourage, facilitate and cover up pedophilia and that is one of our chief moral accomplishments"! Not content with this shameful assertion, Cardinal Wuerl went on to characterize the sexual abuse scandal as being a phenomenon of "the past ten, twenty, even thirty years." This is a despicable lie, but one to be expected from a mouthpiece for an amoral institution. Priest sexual abuse of children goes back centuries, has occurred in generation of priests, and continues, doubtless, to this day despite the new guidelines. It has occurred at every level of the Catholic clergy, as was demonstrated by the admissions of hundreds of priests, the collusion of dozens of bishops and cardinals, and the alleged culpability of the present pope. To suggest, as Wuerl has done, that the new guidelines have extinguished the problem is pernicious nonsense. Written guidelines do not change pathological criminal nature. They may force it deeper into the shadows, but if Wuerl actually thinks that the problem has vanished he must be a fool. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:31 AM • Holy 'rolled' NEW YORK New York Post By KATHIANNE BONIELLO Sounds like this priest needs to go to confession -- or a good accountant. The Rev. John Kamas, 62, a Catholic cleric involved in half a dozen nonprofits, has been accused of lining his pockets while running one of them, a Jewish foundation, into the ground. The Upper East Side priest treated the Herman Lissner Foundation as his personal fiefdom, sliding into the presidency of the board of trustees in 2008, raking in $30,000 annually for part-time duties, running up expenses and directing the group's grant money to his pet charities, a lawsuit charges. While the other trustees want to fulfill wishes of the group's late founder and shut down the foundation, Kamas has allegedly fought to continue to live high on the hog, board members allege in court papers. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:29 AM • Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted defined by dedication ARIZONA The Arizona Republic by Michael Clancy - Dec. 27, 2010 The Arizona Republic When Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted called a news conference last week to announce that he was stripping Phoenix's oldest Catholic hospital of its Catholic status, it was a rare public appearance for a man who has long rebuffed media questions and avoided much of public life. Olmsted had already drawn public outcry for declaring that a surgery performed at the hospital was contrary to church teaching. He was asked about the further criticism he was likely to face. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 266 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

"I try to pray each day to find my identity in Jesus Christ," he said. "Praise or ridicule do not matter. I am called to be faithful to the church." … Olmsted appeared to deal effectively with the aftermath of a priest sex-abuse scandal. Today, the former leader of the local chapter of the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, now leads the diocese's child-protection office - a testament to Olmsted's success in the area. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:25 AM • Eeuwenoud, springlevend: Onderzoek de staat, niet de kerk BELGIE De Morgen De column - of liever: monoloog - van de Leuvense burgemeester, minister van staat en grand old man van het Vlaamse socialisme verschijnt wekelijks op vrijdag. Louis Tobback spreekt, Walter Pauli tekent op. "Ik volg de onderzoekscommissie rond seksueel misbruik in de kerk niet graag. Zelfs zonder de details te moeten horen walg ik van kindermisbruik. Het is een ondraaglijke gedachte dat er iemand rondloopt die kinderen van zes tot twaalf jaar heeft misbruikt en daarvan nu naar het schijnt 'gebroken' is, en daarom rustig 'in het verborgene' mag leven. En dan moet men mij niet komen zeggen dat de media-aandacht al een straf op zich is. Er zijn er veel die zo gestraft willen worden. "Maar het is niet omdat ik mottig word van Vangheluwe, dat ik daarom niet met enige zorg naar de onderzoekscommissie kijk. Niet dat ik in principe tegen een onderzoekscommissie ben. In elk democratisch land en dus ook in België heeft het parlement het recht onderzoekscommissies in te stellen. De grondwetgever gaf de onderzoekscommissie bovendien rechten die gelijk zijn aan die van een onderzoeksrechter: men kan bevelen tot huiszoekingen, getuigen onder ede ondervragen, zelfs politie vorderen om iemand te laten aanhouden. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:21 AM • Sexual Predator Awareness seminar set for Sharptown church NEW JERSEY Gloucester County Times By John Barna/Gloucester County Times PILESGROVE TWP. – A Sexual Predator Awareness Seminar will be offered at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Sharptown United Methodist Church. The seminar, sponsored by the state Parole Board, Salem County Prosecutor's Office and Mothers of Preschoolers, is the fourth in a statewide series that aims to educate parents, teachers, police and others on the ways to spot and avoid the dangers that sexual predators pose, whether they seek potential victims outdoors or on the Internet. The seminar is free to attend and open to all members of the public. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 27, 2010 5:10 AM ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Mon December 27, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 28, 2010 edition: • Archbishop: church not obligated to compensate abuse victims [RC archbishop adopts different tone.]

National Catholic Reporter (USA), By John A. Dick Dec. 27, 2010 BRUSSELS, Belgium – Appearing before a special parliamentary commission on sexual abuse of children three days before Christmas, Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels told the commission that he saw no reason for the church to compensate victims of sexual abuse. "The civil court must determine the compensation and the offender must pay," Léonard said. Commission members reacted with surprised amazement. Just the day before Léonard's appearance, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who retired as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels a year ago, had prepared the commission for a different kind of archiepiscopal response. Danneels had told the same commission that the church must react with humility and make some profound gestures, including compensation to victims. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 PM • Brussels Spouts America Magazine Author: Kevin Clarke, Posted Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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BELGIUM - Glad to see Michael's post below about the laudable Cardinal O'Malley because it may provide some balance for the following. The National Catholic Reporter this week captures the awesome rhetorical flourishes of Belgium's Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard. In a nation still reeling after revelations in September of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic clerics and at least 13 suicides, the archbishop told a startled special parliamentary commission on sexual abuse of children that Belgium's victims should seek compensation from their offenders, which in his mind does not include the church as an institution, just the priests who abused them. He then led a parade of unpleasantries through his testimony, if it can be so described, that left commission members sputtering in astonishment and calling for the termination with extreme prejudice of the government's long-standing fiscal support of the church. Just the day before Léonard's appearance, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who retired as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels a year ago, had prepared the commission for a different kind of archiepiscopal response. Danneels had told the same commission that the church must react with humility and make some profound gestures, including compensation to victims. "For too long," Danneels said, "the church thought only about itself and about its priests and now it is time to think about the victims of sexual abuse." … Most members of the parliamentary commission thought that Danneels' testimony was meant to open a door for Léonard, who has had stormy relations with government officials over the sex abuse crisis. The commission had expected Léonard to reveal a compensation package. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:54 PM • Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have To Compensate Sex Abuse Victims BELGIUM - Politics Daily (United States) David Gibson The controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate victims of sexual abuse by priests. "The civil court must determine the compensation and the offender {the accused priest} must pay," Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels told a parliamentary commission in testimony three days before Christmas. According to the National Catholic Reporter, which reported from Brussels on the testimony, commission members reacted with "surprised amazement" to Léonard's comments and the exchange with the archbishop deteriorated from there. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:51 PM • Things May Not be so Bad After All PHILIPPINES - Vox Bikol, By Father William Grimm, 3:33am, December 29, 2010 Each year, the pope gives Christmas greetings to the leaders of the Roman Curia. This year, referring to the expanding scandal of the sexual abuse of children by clergy that was covered up and facilitated by bishops and superiors and until recently pooh-poohed by Rome, Pope Benedict told them, "We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen." My first thought on reading his speech was to wonder if the self-appointed defenders of the faith who man the ramparts at any criticism of the Church will now hurl invective at the pope. Certainly, saying that something has gone wrong "in our whole way of living the Christian life" is a damning indictment, especially since the pope said "our whole way," not "their way" or "some people's way" or "part of the way." On second thought, I realized that things might not be as dire as the pope seems to think. His use of the past tense, though probably not significant in itself, may be a reminder that things can be headed in the right direction. There are three reasons for my confidence. The first, of course, is the resurrection of Christ, the proof that bad news will never triumph in the end, regardless of the painful way of the Cross we must travel. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:08 PM • Apparitions and distractions [Years. Fr Lawrence Murphy*. RCC. > 200 deaf boys.] [RC authorities*. Appearance in 1859 approved.] Pharyngula, PZ Myers, WISCONSIN - Lawrence Murphy was an evil man. He was a Wisconsin priest who molested over 200 boys, and just to make the story particularly deplorable, they were deaf children. Preying on the weakest and http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 268 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM most vulnerable was apparently his life's mission. Furthermore, this was the scandalous case that was reported directly to then Cardinal Ratzinger in his role as the Vatican enforcer; his enforcement involved shuffling the guilty around to hide their crimes and give them fresh opportunities in new hunting grounds. Well, the Vatican has finally found it in its black (but gold-plated!) and shriveled husk of a heart to do something for Wisconsin: they've blessed a ghost sighting as genuine. Woo hoo! That'll fix everything right up! The church has declared that a sighting in 1859 of a blond Mary hovering between two trees was real and worthy, and the local Catholic church is now busily expanding their parking lot to cope with the expected influx of gullible suckers pilgrims who will flock to the site to imagine a floating cheerleader for Jesus. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:26 PM • Religious still owe State €500m for survivors [RC religious orders owe > €500m in compensation.]

Irish Independent, By Katherine Donnelly, Monday December 27 2010 IRELAND - RELIGIOUS orders still owe the State more than €500m arising from the deal to compensate the thousands of children who were abused while living in their care. The 18 congregations involved pledged a total of €680m in cash and property to cover half the cost of the settlement with the victims. But so far, only €123m has actually been paid over, according to a new breakdown of figures. There were two separate deals between the State and the religious -- one in 2002 for €128m and another, in 2009, for €552m Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:21 PM • Pope Benedict XVI - The Church Must Investigate "Never in the History of the Catholic Church" [Alleged molesters stopped the RC backing of weeping statues.] Ministry Values By Stpehen K. Ryan December 28, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI - End the Injustice "Never in the History of the Catholic Church" UNITED STATES - As the year comes to an end, much of the news concerning the Vatican and Catholic Church has again been dominated by the sex abuse crisis. Pope Benedict XVI has called for an end to the "injustice". But there is another injustice that has simmered for nearly twenty years. The injustice stems from the diocese of Arlington's refusal to examine the religious events that occurred near Washington D.C. that are unprecedented in the history of the Catholic Church. The injustice was inflicted by deeply flawed, secretive, individuals who made up the leadership of the diocese of Arlington at the time of the miraculous occurrences. Summary of Events On March 6, 1992, a local television affiliate of CBS news aired a story about mysterious occurrences of weeping statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary taking place in Lake Ridge, Virginia, a quite suburb twenty miles south of the Nation's Capitol. The extraordinary events were mostly occurring at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church and its rectory. … So who were the men that silenced and ended the Catholic Churches association with these incredible events? Who ignored and dismissed "Our Lady's" tears? 1. The Chancellors office of the diocese of Arlington headed by alleged pedophile Monsignor William Reinecke signed the decree in March of 1992 ending the Church's association with the miraculous events. After signing the decree, Father Reinceke, a few months later, ended his own life in August of 1992 after being confronted by a victim of his molestation. Other accusers have come forward over the years. Monsignor Reinecke at the time of the miraculous events had been assigned the responsibility of monitoring other clerics and employees having a history of sexual abuse for the diocese of Arlington. 2. In 1998 Bishop Keating of the Arlington Diocese died suddenly in Rome a day after speaking with Pope John Paul II – The topic of their talk is still a secret. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:14 PM

• BBC gives child rape apologist air time UNITED STATES Pharyngula PZ Myers The Pope had a Christmas message for the world this year: we should forgive Catholic priests for raping http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 269 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM The Pope had a Christmas message for the world this year: we should forgive Catholic priests for raping children because everyone else was doing it. He invented a peculiar history that bears no resemblance to the late 20th century I lived in. "In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children," the Pope said. "It was maintained – even within the realm of Catholic theology – that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a 'better than' and a 'worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself." The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached "an unimaginable dimension" which brought "humiliation" on the Church. I grew up in the 1970s. Some of you did, too. Does anyone remember anyone influential saying that child- rape was a reasonable practice? How about anyone on the fringe making vague suggestions that children can give permission to participate in sexual activity? I don't know of any substantial culture at that time that would have endorsed such a thing; NAMBLA was little more than a freakish collection of perverts who got far more attention than their numbers warranted. If there was anything that was universally reviled, it was the creepy pedophile. So here's the Pope pretending that they were living in an environment that somehow condoned child abuse, so the priesthood somehow went along with it? Madness. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:52 AM

• National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) Calls for Honoring the Courage of Today's Innocents UNITED STATES National Survivors Advocates Coalition Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents which has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church since 485AD. For 15 centuries we have paused within the Christmas season to reverence the children upon whom evil unto death was inflicted. From the Gospel of Matthew we know both the perpetrator, King Herod the Great of Judea, and the victims, male Jewish children with two years of the estimated date of Jesus' birth. To honor the victims, we put them in a place of honor within the Church's keeping of the rhythm of the year. Simply put, they are on the liturgical calendar to get our attention. We didn't know these innocents, we never saw the gut churning terror of their parents held at bay while their children were sliced by soldiers' swords, we never looked upon their bloodied cribs or saw the spray of their blood drip from their snatched toys. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:26 AM

• Fr. Federico Lombardi, a year in review VATICAN CITY Vatican Radio Five overseas trips, four pastoral visits in Italy, an Apostolic Exhortation, a consistory, 45 general audiences, a book-interview. These just some of the event's that marked 2010 for Pope Benedict XVI. Twelve intense months, not without difficult times. A year, acknowledged the Pope in his address to the Roman Curia, marked by the scandal of abuse by clergy. Focusing on four main events in 2010, Director of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi begins his reflection with the painful tragedy of the sex abuse scandal: "The problem is not an entirely new one. Countries like the United States had already intensely experienced the problem a dozen years ago. In Ireland the problem dates back to the past and, in 2009, it was addressed by the Pope, together with some Irish bishops: the Pope announced a letter to the Catholics of Ireland on this issue. It 's true, however, that during the year the problem gathered strength in other European countries and this has generated a considerable response and dismay. The Pope has drawn up many acts and made many interventions on how, and with what spirit, to intervene on the issue, which have been exemplary. He demonstrated by listening to the victims on several occasions, an attitude of readiness to listen, to understand, to participate in their suffering. On various occasions he invited the Church to a profound renewal; let us not forget his closing address for the Year of the Priest, which touched us all very deeply. He has also concretely encouraged all those who are committed to prevention, and healing these http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 270 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM wounds. So we are in the right direction to overcome the tragedy of this scandal, which has deeply hurt many people, but one which must be seen as an occasion for a renewal, for a capacity to listen, to reflect in depth on all issues at stake. Not only the issue of priestly holiness, but also on issues of sexuality and respect for the person in the world today, where so often this respect is missing from the dimension of sexuality and realm of affections. I hope , this great tragedy will serve as an impulse for renewal and deeper commitment within the Church on the frontiers of service to human dignity and the sanctity of life". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:28 AM

• First Presbyterian pastor retains pulpit MANSFIELD (OH) News Journal BY LOU WHITMIRE • News Journal • December 28, 2010 MANSFIELD -- The Rev. Dennis Allison will remain in the pulpit as pastor of First Presbyterian Church, according to a Monday announcement on The Layman website. A year ago there was an attempt to oust Allison by a 2-to-1 vote by the presbytery, the church's governing board. However, the decision was appealed by members of his congregation, which led to a meeting in Canton on Jan. 9 to debate the issue. … Adding to the emotional tone of the meeting in Canton almost a year ago was the congregation had survived a highly publicized sexual abuse case involving children nearly 20 years ago. Allison shepherded the congregation through its recovery and the lawsuits that persisted for many years after that incident, according to The Layman. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:40 AM

• On Their Way Out UNITED STATES America Magazine What exit interviews could teach us about lapsed Catholics William J. Byron | JANUARY 3, 2011 Ever since Larry Bossidy, a former C.E.O. of Allied Signal and the Honeywell Corporation, raised the question of conducting interviews with lapsed Catholics, I have been giving it a lot of thought. Mr. Bossidy is a devout Catholic and the co-author (with Ram Charan) of a bestselling book, Execution, which Bossidy likes to explain is about effective management in business, not about capital punishment. He addressed a meeting of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management a couple of years ago and pointed out that if businesses were losing customers at the rate the Catholic Church in the United States is losing members, someone would surely be conducting exit interviews. His observation was prompted by data on declining church attendance released by the Pew Research Center. Immigration, largely Hispanic, is still shoring up the aggregate numbers for the Catholic Church in the United States, but there has been a dramatic decline in Sunday Mass attendance and church life among U.S.-born Catholics, not to mention the drift of Hispanic Catholics toward Pentecostal sects. The church in America must face the fact that it has failed to communicate the Good News cheerfully and effectively to a population adrift on a sea of materialism and under constant attack from the forces of secularism, not to mention the diabolical powers that are at work in our world. … Another woman who identified herself as "a cradle Catholic, educated exclusively in Catholic schools, married to a practicing Catholic, raised five children in the faith, taught C.C.D., was involved in the marriage preparation program in our parish – in short, one of the active practitioners of the faith," said she had opted out because of "the recent church teaching on end-of-life issues; the moving, instead of removing, of priests and bishops involved in the molestation of children; the headstrong opposition to the use of condoms in Africa to prevent the spread of AIDS; and the absence of any priest I can talk to." She added: "I've stopped going to Mass because I can't in good conscience say the Creed, as I don't think this is a 'holy' church, and I don't feel I can receive the Eucharist under these circumstances." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:35 AM

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• Victims appeal to Maine's congressional delegation MAINE Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is writing to Maine's congressional delegation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development seeking an investigation into why a twice-convicted child molesting cleric still lives in Bar Harbor public housing. Earlier this month, the Bangor Daily News disclosed that Fr. Walter Dayton Salisbury was on the Bar Harbor Housing Authority Board and lived in public housing there, despite having been found guilty of having sexually abused children in Texas and the District of Columbia. When questioned by a reporter, Salisbury resigned from the board but he still lives in public housing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:10 AM

• Bulgaria Slow to Hand Over Renegade Serbian Priest to Macedonia MACEDONIA/BULGARIA Novinite Authorities in Macedonia have been requesting the extradition of orthodox priest Jovan Branisovski, who was arrested in Bulgaria mid-November based on an international police order. According to Macedonian paper Vecer, although the insistence on the Macedonian side has been firm, up to now Bulgarian authorities have not confirmed whether they intend to deliver Vranisovski. … Vranishovski's actual 2.5-year sentence was nevertheless given for abuse with church money. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:00 AM

• Former Berkeley police officer charged with sexual abuse now missing BERKELEY (MO) KMOV {with video} (KMOV)-- The search is on for a former Berkeley police officer, now formally charged with sexually abusing a young girl. Dan Peterson was let go from the department after an investigation revealed evidence of the abuse against a 15-year-old. … Investigators say Peterson met the victim through a youth group at Risen Lord Community Church in St. Charles. No other victims have come forward Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:50 AM

• Irish ex-priest McCabe denied bail, extradition hearing set CALIFORNIA - The Irish Emigrant Patrick Joseph McCabe (74), a former Catholic priest wanted in Ireland on numerous charges of sexual abuse and currently fighting extradition from the U.S., was recently denied bail by a federal judge in San Francisco. McCabe was arrested in August on an extradition warrant which he has strenuously contested. His attorney has also sought to secure the ex-priest's release from the Santa Rita jail where he has been held since his arrest. McCabe is sought for prosecution in Ireland, facing charges of molesting six boys from 1973 to 1981. However, should he be successful in his attempt to defeat the extradition order, he will still face a slew of charges stemming from the time he spent as a priest in the Diocese of Santa Rosa, California. {{Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:39 AM}} ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Tue December 28, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Wed December 29, 2010 edition: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 272 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Priest and Nobel Peace Prize candidate, 85, admits child abuse 40 years ago BELGIUM Daily Mail (United Kingdom) By Richard Hartley-Parkinson A Belgian Catholic priest and would-be Nobel Peace Prize holder has admitted that he sexually abused an eight-year-old boy 40 years ago. The case only came forward when his cousin, the sister of his victim, came forward in reaction to a campaign to nominate Francois Houtart for the accolade. She told the Belgian church authority that looks into child abuse, the Adriaenssens commission, that the abuse on her brother happened in 1970 while he stayed at their house. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:37 PM

• Priests encouraged to co-operate with papal delegation's child abuse inquiry IRELAND The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY IRELAND'S Catholic priests have been encouraged by the Association of Catholic Priests to meet a delegation sent to Ireland by Pope Benedict as promised in his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland last March. The "apostolic visitors", who arrived in Ireland in recent weeks, are exploring how cases of sexual abuse of children by priests were handled by the church in Ireland. They have also been mandated to monitor the effectiveness of current procedures for preventing abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland and to seek possible improvements to them. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:34 PM

• Inclusion of abusers on church body criticised IRELAND The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent PSYCHOLOGIST DR Maureen Gaffney has described as "perversity on a breathtaking scale" the fact that the Catholic Church's Dublin Regional Marriage Tribunal included two known clerical child sex abusers when it was suggested that Tony Walsh also be appointed to it. On December 6th last, Walsh was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment, four suspended, for child sex abuse. Chapter 19 of the Murphy report, published before Christmas, dealt mainly with how church and State authorities handled allegations against Tony Walsh. He was described by it as "probably the most notorious child sexual abuser to have come to the attention of the {Murphy} commission". The report revealed that in 1989 it was suggested that Walsh, then an admitted child sex abuser, be appointed to the tribunal, which dealt mainly with annulments. This was not done but, as the Murphy report puts it, there were then "two known abusers … in the regional marriage tribunal …'' Those were Fr and a priest referred to as "Fr Cicero" in the report. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:32 PM

• "Damit Gemeinschaft nicht verfällt" DEUTSCHLAND Sueddeutsche In der SZ hatten Menschen aus Bayern Stellung bezogen, ob die Kirche nach den Missbrauchsfällen ihren Anspruch verspielt habe. Die Zuschriften nach dem Artikel zeigen, wie sehr das Thema die Leser bewegt. Die Frage war provokant, und sie hat ihr Ziel erreicht: In der Weihnachtsausgabe der SZ hatten mehr als zwanzig Menschen aus ganz Bayern - gläubige Christen wie Atheisten - Stellung bezogen, ob die Kirche nach all den ans Licht gekommenen Missbrauchsfällen ihren Anspruch in der Gesellschaft verspielt habe. Die Süddeutsche Zeitung wollte damit eine Debatte über die Zukunft der Kirchen anstoßen. Die vielen Zuschriften, die uns erreicht haben, zeigen, wie sehr das Thema unsere Leserinnen und Leser bewegt. Was kann sich verändern, was muss passieren? Die Statements, die wir hier in Auszügen dokumentieren, künden vor allem von einem: dem Wunsch, dass sich Kirche von innen her reformiert. Kirche ist kein Ort zum Rechthaben http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 273 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Hanns Peters, München: Jesus Christus hat zu seinen Lebzeiten ganz klar allem, was mit Hierarchie, Strukturen und vor allem Einstufungen menschlicher Daseins- und Entscheidungsberechtigung in von Menschen wiederum zum eigenen persönlichen Vorteil erdachten Kategorien zu tun hat, eine klare Absage erteilt. Diese Absage haben die religiösen Führungseliten seiner Zeit natürlich ahnen lassen, was auf sie zukommt, wenn dieser Jesus entsprechenden Zulauf erhält. Und deswegen haben sie seiner Botschaft dadurch eine klare Absage erteilt, indem sie verkündeten: "Wir haben ein Gesetz, und nach diesem Gesetz muss er sterben." Und dazu kam es. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:28 PM

• Parochies houden zich staande NEDERLAND NOS Door Liedeke Morssinkhof en Anne Marie Zimmerman Moeilijk was het wel, maar onoverkomelijk was het niet. Zo kijken 101 parochies terug op het afgelopen, roerige jaar in katholiek Nederland. Ze werkten in het dit najaar mee aan een onderzoek van NOS Net. Dat jaar begon met discussie over het wel of niet uitreiken van de communie aan de homoseksuele prins carnaval van het Brabantse Reusel. In april gingen de veel gezongen liederen van Huub Oosterhuis in de ban. De WK-finale eindigde voor de pastoor van Obdam in een schorsing, omdat hij tijdens de mis van die zondag meer aandacht leek te hebben voor Koning Voetbal dan voor Onze Lieve Heer. En het hele jaar door was er de kwestie van het seksueel misbruik door priesters en religieuzen. In februari zochten enkele slachtoffers de openbaarheid. In hun spoor vonden bijna 2000 mensen de weg naar de commissie-Deetman. Veel onrust De meeste deelnemende parochies hebben van de onrust die dit alles met zich meebracht veel gemerkt. Meestal niet omdat de problemen speelden in de eigen parochie, afgezien van de liederenkwestie. Maar wel omdat de media er veel over publiceerden. Dat leidde tot gesprekken bij de koffie na de mis. Over geloofsvragen, waar sommige parochianen tegenaan liepen. Over de vraag of de Nederlandse bisschoppen, of het Vaticaan, wel goed reageerden. Maar ook omdat de toon van de berichtgeving in de media soms pijn deed. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:26 PM

• Cijfers priesters en pastoraalmedewerkers NEDERLAND NOS Terugblik 101 parochies op het afgelopen, onrustige jaar in katholiek Nederland •Wat heeft uw parochie gemerkt van de onrust in katholiek Nederland? Veel 47% Een beetje 34% Weinig 17% Niets 2% •Heeft u zich over uw geloof moeten verdedigen tegenover derden? Ja: 56% Nee: 28% Geen antwoord: 16% •Zijn de problemen in katholiek Nederland van invloed geweest op het functioneren van priesters/ pastoraal werkers? Ja: 26% Nee: 34% Geen antwoord: 40% Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:23 PM

• "De kerk is voor ons de parochie ter plekke" NEDERLAND NOS Paul Vlaar, pastoor "Ik hoor van mensen dat ze het steeds moeilijker vinden te zeggen dat ze katholiek zijn. Maar zeggen ze: de kerk is voor ons de parochie ter plekke. Niet het bisdom of Rome. We kijken naar de functie die de kerk in ons dorp vervult en daar zijn we blij mee." Vice-voorzitter parochiebestuur "Een parochiaan is tijdelijk 3 weken niet in de kerk geweest. Opeens dacht hij het is toch Onze kerk. Toen is hij gewoon weer naar de kerk gegaan." Ton Cassee "Ruimschoots met mensen gedeeld dat wij als parochie niet willen denken in homo of hetero, in jong of ouder ,in blank of zwart. Wij willen denken in mensen." Bernard Höfte, pastoraal werker "Het valt nog als eens op dat mensen een onderscheid maken tussen de eigen geloofsgemeenschap – daar voelen ze zich thuis, blijven ze zich inzetten en die houden ze hoog – en de 'officiële kerk'." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:21 PM http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 274 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

• Les aveux de François Houtart BELGIQUE Le Soir Voici la lettre que le " chanoine rouge " nous a adressée, nous confessant qu'il avait abusé sexuellement d'un cousin, mineur, il y a 40 ans. Par Ricardo Gutiérrez Dans la réponse qu'il nous adresse, depuis Quito, en Equateur, François Houtart commence par expliquer les raisons du récent retrait de la campagne en faveur de sa candidature au prix Nobel de la paix 2011… Il confirme qu'une de ses cousines a exigé l'interruption de la campagne, " ce que le Comité ne pouvait accepter sans une décision de ma part ", précise-t-il. " Le message que je reçus en Amérique latine (où je me suis rendu sept fois cette année) fut certes un déclencheur de la décision d'arrêter la campagne, mais il n'enleva rien à l'importance des raisons avancées. Je n'avais accepté cette candidature que sur l'insistance du courant altermondialiste, pour mettre l'idée du changement possible en valeur. Je n'avais jamais cru en un résultat positif possible. Au fur et à mesure du développement de la campagne, je prenais conscience de ce que cela pourrait signifier, d'assumer un tel contexte alors que je serais proche de mes 87 ans, début 2012. Depuis l'été, je recevais en moyenne une demande d'interview par jour, surtout pendant mes déplacements en Amérique latine, en Asie et en Afrique. Le caractère personnalisé de la campagne me paraissait trop occulter le fait de l'effort collectif en jeu. Dès la fin de l'été, j'en avais parlé aux deux principaux membres du Comité, me demandant s'il ne valait pas mieux présenter un organisme tel le Forum social mondial. " Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:54 PM

• Sex abuse survivor says her love of Eucharist helped restore her faith ARLINGTON (VA) The Pilot By Katie Collins ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- Teresa Pitt Green sat in her car in the church parking lot. She watched parishioners walk up the steps to Mass. It was so easy for them, she thought. Unable to follow in their footsteps, she sat in the car and longed for the Eucharist. Men who consecrate the bread had betrayed her. Authorities in the church, who had entrusted the sacrament to the men, had failed her. From age 7 to 19, Green was sexually abused by multiple priests in her Northeast diocese. Her abusers worked at her school and visited her family in the evenings. In an interview with The Arlington Catholic Herald, diocesan newspaper, Green recently recounted how, though she "left the Catholic Church forever many times," her love of the Eucharist endured, and, with the support of Arlington diocesan priests, Office of Victim Assistance programs and Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde, she was able, eventually, to enter a church without fear and receive the body of Christ. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 5:51 PM

• Pope to Issue New Finance Rules VATICAN CITY Wall Street Journal By NATHANIA ZEVI And SABRINA COHEN ROME – The Vatican plans to unveil new rules intended to counter financial crimes and make its financial activities more transparent, following a probe by Italian prosecutors into whether officials of the Holy See's bank broke Italy's laws against money laundering. In a statement, the Vatican said that on Thursday it will create a financial watchdog, called the Authority of Financial Information, and set out regulations to prevent money laundering and terror financing. "The norms that will be adopted tomorrow deal with anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism, and these are the things for which we are being prosecuted by the Italian state," said Vincenzo Scordamaglia, a lawyer representing the Institute of Religious Works, the Vatican's bank, which is known by its Italian acronym IOR. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:08 PM

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VATICAN CITY Rome Reports via YouTube {video} The Pope has created the Vatican Central Bank to monitor all financial transactions of the only bank in Vatican City, the IOR, and international operations of financial institutions of the Holy See. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:06 PM • Vatican to tackle money laundering [I.O.R. RCC.] Financial Times By Giulia Segreti in Rome, Published: December 29 2010 ROME - The Vatican will establish a new authority to combat money laundering as the tiny state seeks the blessing of international regulators who have refused to include it on lists of countries compliant with international norms. In a papal document to be published on Thursday, the Vatican will promise to adhere to European rules targeting money laundering. The decree, or , will apply to all government bodies at the Holy See including the Vatican Bank, also known as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR). The Vatican's new Financial Information Authority will enforce rules "concerning the prevention of illegal financial activity" and join "the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing", the Holy See said in a statement on Wednesday. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:04 PM

• Priest sues Mt. Angel Abbey for more than $1 million… OREGON The Oregonian By Aimee Green, The Oregonian A Roman Catholic priest who says he was sexually mistreated as a teenager in the 1970s by a priest at Mt. Angel Abbey is suing the abbey for more than $1 million. The priest, who was ordained in 1986, is identified in the lawsuit only as Father X. One of his attorneys, Bill Barton, said he believes it is the first time that an active priest has sued an entity of the Roman Catholic Church for sexually inappropriate behavior. The suit claims that the late Father Emmanuel Clark hugged Father X with his pants unzipped; pressed Father X's head to his chest and told him that his heart beat with love for him; and encouraged Father X to go to adult book stores. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:58 PM • Vatican bank sets up money-laundering unit hoping to escape scandal [I.O.R. RCC.]

Guardian (United Kingdom), guardian.co.uk , John Hooper in Rome, Wednesday 29 December 2010 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican today announced new rules to make its financial dealings more transparent and bring it into line with international legislation designed to prevent money-laundering. The move came after an Italian court in September froze €23m (£19.6m) of the Vatican's money over claims that its bankers were trying to move the cash across international borders without identifying its source, destination or purpose. The head of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, and his deputy are still under investigation on suspicion of money-laundering, although no charges have been brought against the two men, who both deny wrongdoing. Full details of the new measures are to be released today. But a statement made clear they would include the creation of a new compliance authority and the introduction of legislation to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 3:53 PM • Belgische geestelijke bekent misbruiken neefje Elservier, BELGIE - De Belgische geestelijke François Houtart heeft bekend in 1970 zijn 8-jarige neefje te hebben misbruikt. De 85-jarige geestelijke treedt terug als bestuursvoorzitter van de ontwikkelingshulpclub Tricintinental Centre (Cetri), die hij opzette. Houtart heeft ook gevraagd de campagne stop te zetten om hem kandidaat te stellen voor de Nobelprijs van de Vrede in 2011, meldt de Vlaamse krant De Standaard. 'Ondoordacht en onverantwoord,' noemt Houtart het misbruik van zijn neefje in een interview met de Franse krant Le Soir. Verkrachting Het misbruik kwam aan het licht toen de zus van het slachtoffer een anonieme klacht indiende bij de commissie Adriaenssens, die het kindermisbruik in de katholieke kerk in België onderzoekt.

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Ze zei dat een kanunnik die bij haar ouders woonde twee keer de slaapkamer van haar broer binnenging om hem te verkrachten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:52 PM • TX Polygamist sect leader pleads not guilty SAN ANGELO (TX) Newswine Will Weissert, Associated Press SAN ANGELO – Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs stood mute during an arraignment on bigamy and sexual assault charges and a West Texas court has entered not guilty pleas on his behalf. The 55-year-old is scheduled to stand trial for aggravated sexual assault Jan. 24 and said during a pretrial hearing Wednesday that he intends to hire a Texas attorney but has yet to formally do so. Separate trials on other charges will come later. Jeffs sat and said nothing as prosecutors read charges that he had sex with a girl younger than 17. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:50 PM

• Protestantse kerk, neem conclusies Deetman over NEDERLAND Reformatorisch Dagblad De commissie-Deetman publiceerde deze maand haar rapport over de misbruikaffaires binnen de Rooms- Katholieke Kerk. Het zou de protestantse kerken niet misstaan om de conclusies van het rapport over te nemen, schrijft een lezer die vanwege de gevoeligheid van de materie anoniem wenst te blijven. Op verzoek van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk deed een commissie onder leiding van oud-Tweede Kamervoorzitter Deetman onderzoek naar het functioneren van kerkelijke organen betreffende de zaken van seksueel misbruik die aan het licht gekomen zijn. Deze maand maakte de commissie haar rapport openbaar, dat verstrekkende conclusies en aanbevelingen bevat. De commissie concludeert onder andere dat er bij niet-verjaarde zaken verplicht aangifte gedaan dient te worden door de kerkelijke organen en dat reeds verjaarde zaken te allen tijde gemeld dienen te worden bij het openbaar ministerie. Als er een vonnis volgt, moet er in het openbaar verantwoording afgelegd worden. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:47 PM • Gambling with history: Benedict and the Legion of Christ [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] National Catholic Reporter (USA), Analysis By Jason Berry, Dec. 29, 2010 UNITED STATES - Pope Benedict XVI's decision last July to take control of the Legionaries of Christ was a calculated risk. Amid a withering clergy abuse crisis, the pope chose an overseer to remake an international religious order built on the "charism" of a founder who sexually abused seminarians and fathered out-of-wedlock children, including two sons who claim they are incest victims. The late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, lionized for most of his 86 years, is now the scapegoat for nearly everyone drawn into the legal quagmire he left: the Legion and its lay group, Regnum Christi; the pope; Vatican officials; and high-profile Legion supporters who in the past strongly defended Maciel against charges of abuse. Just last month, the Vatican ordered Maciel's photo removed from Legion facilities and banned sales of his writing, among other restrictions. However, hammering the memory of Maciel, like some statue of a fallen dictator, does little to answer the serious questions that still linger from his life of deception. The story of the Legion of Christ and Maciel will continue to unfold in 2011. Interwoven into this story, however, has been a larger one, the story of the way the highest Catholic authorities entrusted to run the church reacted to the Maciel scandal, what decisions they made and what these decisions say about their own views of church and its mission. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 1:42 PM • Priest´s lawyer responds to daily´s article… NEW YORK / CROATIA Croatian Times The lawyer of the once New York-based Croatian priest suspected of having misused Croatian Catholic Mission's money has sent a letter to the daily Vecernji List in which he accuses the newspaper of publishing unconfirmed information.

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Paper has written that Don Robert Zubovic has given 50,000 dollars of the Community's money to his friend Nada Bernic for financing the rental of her restaurant in Manhattan. Both have claimed that the money had been returned. In his letter, Zubovic's attorney Davor Pliso writes: "It is not true that my client, Robert Zubovic, did not deposit the money that he received from Nada Bernic onto the account of the Croatian Community in Astoria and the Croatian Catholic Mission. As he told Mr. Zvonimir Despot (journalist with the paper that first published the story), he has the proof that the money in question has been deposited in its entirety to the relevant accounts. He has informed Mr. Despot that he could show these papers to him in person, but not send them via electronic mail or fax. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:42 AM • Pope to bar money laundering in Vatican [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] AFP, VATICAN CITY, ROME – Pope Benedict XVI will publish a decree on Thursday to fight money laundering in the Vatican, the Holy See said in a press release. The Wednesday announcement comes three months after an investigation was launched into two senior figures at the Vatican bank, the Institute for Religious Works (IOR). Benedict's 'Moto Proprio' document "regarding the prevention and opposition to illegal financial activity," will set up a new financial authority in the Vatican, the statement said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:38 AM • Pope To Issue New Bank Norms Amid Laundering Probe [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] NPR, The Associated Press, December 29, 2010 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican will issue new rules Thursday designed to make its financial transactions more transparent after a money laundering probe resulted in the seizure of €23 million ($30.2 million) from a Vatican account. A Vatican decree will create a compliance authority to oversee all Vatican finances, as required by EU and other international organizations involved in the fight against money laundering and terror financing, the Vatican said Wednesday in a statement. In addition, Pope Benedict XVI will issue Vatican legislation concerning the prevention of money laundering and terror financing, the statement said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:35 AM • Belgische priester en anti-Israëlactivist Francois Houtart bekent kindermisbruik [RCC] Joods Actueel, BELGIE - Na een klacht bij de commissie Adriaenssens heeft kanunnik Francois Houtart bekend dat hij een achtjarig jongetje in zijn slaapkamer "aan zijn intieme delen" aanraakte. De pedokanunnik noemt zijn eigen gedrag ondoordacht en onverantwoord. De aanklacht tegen hem spreekt evenwel niet simpelweg van aanraking maar van twee pogingen om te verkrachten op de slaapkamer van het jongetje toen diens ouders hem in hun woning lieten verblijven Houtart staat bekend als priester anders-globalist maar ook al notoir anti-israëlactivist. Hij was voorstander van het verwijderen van Hamas van de lijst van terreurorganisaties. Hij was eveneens lid van het zogenaamde Russel Tribunaal over Palestina dat berucht is omwille van de ongefundeerde beschuldigingen aan het adres van Israël waarbij zeer eenzijdige standpunten werden ingenomen om de Joodse staat van oorlogsmisdaden te kunnen betichten. Hij was ook de oprichter van het centrum Cetri, een NGO die eveneens bekend stond om de ononderbroken demonisering van Israël. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:32 AM • François Houtart: over de ambiguïteit van ons mens-zijn De Wereld Morgen, BELGIE - "François Houtart en kindermisbruik, het nieuws komt als een schok, zonder meer", is de eerste reactie van Francine Mestrum vanuit Marokko. Mestrum zit samen met Houtart in de Raad van het Wereld Sociaal Forum (WSF) en kent de man van nabij. Hieronder geeft ze haar eerste reactie op het feit dat Houtart 40 jaar geleden kindermisbruik heeft gepleegd. François Houtart en kindermisbruik, het nieuws komt als een schok, zonder meer. François Houtart, één van de grote helden van de andersmondialiseringsbeweging, de kanunnik van de bevrijdingstheologie, het grote voorbeeld voor duizenden mensen, wereldwijd.

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Zijn kandidatuur voor de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede had op enkele maanden tijd tienduizenden ondersteunende handtekeningen gekregen, van over de hele wereld. In eerste instantie, nog voor de schok is verwerkt, kan ik hier drie reacties op geven. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 11:30 AM • Convicted Houston predator priest causes controversy in Maine [Fr Walter Salisbury*. RCC. Twice convicted.] The Informer & Texas Freeman, David Clohessy, Mon, Dec 27, 2010 TEXAS - A twice convicted predator priest, who molested at least one Houston child, is causing controversy in Maine where he lives in public housing and served, until recently, on a public panel despite his criminal past. Twice this month, including yesterday, the Bangor Daily News has written stories about Fr. Walter Dayton Salisbury. We believe Houston's Cardinal Daniel DiNardo should aggressively seek out anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered Salisbury's crimes, so that he might be prosecuted again and so that those suffering in silence might find healing. For decades, Catholic bishops have passively sat back and done nothing, waiting for victims, witnesses and whistleblowers to step forward. Eight years ago, bishops adopted a new policy and pledged to work harder to protect kids and help victims. DiNardo can honor these pledges and use his websites, parish bulletins and pulpit announcements to seek out others who may have information about Salisbury's crimes. Or he can do what he and his colleagues have done for decades and irresponsibly do nothing. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:58 AM • The Dark Night of a Priestly Soul UNITED STATES Energy Publisher by Gordon MacRae Print"It seems to the soul in this night that it is being carried out of itself by afflictions … This night is a painful disturbance involving many fears, imaginings, and struggles within a man. Due to the apprehension and feeling of his miseries, he suspects that he is lost and that his blessings are gone forever." (St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night, Ch. 9, 5, 7) In his new book, Secular Sabotage (FaithWords, 2009), Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote masterfully of the front lines of the culture war between the sacred and the secular. More than at any other time of the year, these two forces face off in the Christmas season in a culture seemingly at war with its own soul. … NO CRUELER TYRANNIES On December 27th, every priest's worst modern nightmare was visited upon Father Richard Lower. He was informed by a diocesan official that a claim of sexual abuse had been lodged against him from thirty years earlier in 1972. Father Lower had never been previously accused. The accusation stood alone, but was enough – three decades later – to abruptly end a life of ministry and priestly self-giving. Based on the single, uncorroborated thirty-year-old claim, Father Lower was informed that the police would be notified. In accordance with the "zero tolerance" policy of the U.S. Bishops' new Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, he was suspended from ministry and told that he must immediately vacate the parish he had served for thirteen years. As was every priest in the Diocese of Manchester, Father Lower was also painfully aware of an announcement from his bishop and diocese made just weeks earlier. In an unprecedented agreement between the Diocese and the State announced in December, 2002, the files and details of every accusation against any priest – regardless from however long ago – would be included in a vast public release of documents in March of 2003. Any privacy rights of the individual priests under canon or civil law were summarily discarded and waived by the signing of this agreement. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:54 AM

• Elderly Belgian priest admits abusing cousin aged 8: report BELGIUM Asia One Wed, Dec 29, 2010 AFP BRUSSELS - An elderly Belgian priest who is a noted activist in the alter- globalisation World Social Forum has admitted abusing a minor family member 40 years ago, a Belgian daily reported Wednesday. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 279 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Francois Houtart, 85, told Le Soir he was the target of a complaint addressed to a Belgian Roman Catholic Church-backed commission that published in September details of hundreds of cases of child sex abuse, causing a major scandal. The sister of a boy aged eight at the time, a cousin of Houtart, claimed the priest twice entered the boy's room while staying with Houtart to "rape" him. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:16 AM

• New appointments expected for Roman Curia VATICAN CITY Catholic Culture A noted Vatican-watcher is predicting two new appointments to the Roman Curia, to be announced soon. Andrea Tornielli of Il Giornale, who has accurately predicted a number of Vatican developments during this pontificate, writes that Pope Benedict will soon name new secretaries for two Vatican offices. The Italian Msgr. Macello Bartolucci will become secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, he says, and the Spaniard Msgr. Celso Morga Uruzubieta will become secretary of the Congregation for Clergy. Both are already working on the staff of their respective ; both will be ordained archbishops as they assume their new roles. Tornielli writes that the appointments will be announced imminently. The current secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Archbishop Michele Di Ruberto, is already 76 years old: more than a year beyond the normative retirement age. The post of secretary at the Congregation for Clergy has been vacation since October, when the previous occupant, then-Archbishop , was appointed prefect of the Congregation; he was subsequently elevated to the College of Cardinals in November. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:12 AM

• OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS VATICAN CITY Vatican Information Service VATICAN CITY, 29 DEC 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed: - As members of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum": Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Archbishop Douglas Young S.V.D. of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea; Msgr. Manfred Ertl, currently consultor of the same dicastery; Laurence de la Brosse, president of the "Association Internationale des Charites"; Fr. Simon T. Faddoul, president of Caritas Lebanon; Michael Thio Yauw Beng, president of the "Societe de Saint Vincent de Paul ? Conseil General International"; Roberto H. Tarazona Ponte, "Asistente de la Oficina de Asesoria Pastoral de Caritas" in Peru; Henrietta T. de Villa, currently consultor of the same dicastery, and Carlos Augusto de Oliveira Camargo, currently consultor of the same dicastery. - As consultors of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum": Fr. Paolo Asolan, professor at the "Redemptor Hominis" Pontifical Institute of Rome's Pontifical Lateran University; Fr. Silverio Nieto Nunez, director of the "Servicio Juridico Civil" of the Spanish , and Paolo Luca Beccegato, head of the international unit of Caritas Italy. - As members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Cardinal S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and Cardinal , president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:10 AM

• Kanunnik François Houtart bekent misbruik neefje BELGIE Knack In een interview met de krant Le Soir heeft de bekende Franstalige kanunnik François Houtart (85) erkend dat hij in 1970 een van zijn neefjes heeft misbruikt. De jongen was toen acht jaar. Houtart heeft ontslag genomen als voorzitter van het Centre Tricontinental en aan zijn medestanders gevraagd om de campagne voor zijn kandidatuur voor de Nobelprijs van de Vrede 2011 op te schorten. Klacht Een van de nichtjes van Houtart diende een anonieme klacht in bij de commissie-Adriaenssens, aldus Le Soir. Ze verklaarde dat een kanunnik die werd gehuisvest door haar ouders, twee keer in de kamer http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 280 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM van haar broer kwam om hem te verkrachten. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:07 AM

• Belgische priester bekent misbruik neefje BELGIE AD BRUSSEL - De prominente Belgische priester François Houtart heeft toegegeven dat hij veertig jaar geleden een van zijn neefjes heeft misbruikt. Kanunnik Houtart heeft om die reden in november ontslag genomen als voorzitter van de door hem opgerichte organisatie voor ontwikkelingshulp Centre Tricontinental (Cetri). Dat zegt Cetri-directeur Bernard Duterme. De zaak rond het misbruik werd onder de aandacht gebracht door een nicht van Houtart, een zuster van het slachtoffer. Zij kwam in actie naar aanleiding van een campagne die tot doel had Houtart kandidaat te stellen voor de Nobelprijs voor de vrede. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:05 AM

• Cetri: "Misbruik van Houtart is ontoelaatbaar" BELGIE De Morgen 29/12/10, 13u29 Het seksueel misbruik van een minderjarige door kanunnik François Houtart is ontoelaatbaar en in tegenspraak met de waarden van het Centre Tricontinental (Centri). Dat heeft de directeur van de ngo, die in 1976 door Houtart werd opgericht, vandaag verklaard. Acht jaar De 85-jarige Houtart heeft Le Soir erkend dat hij in 1970 een van zijn neefjes had misbruikt. Het slachtoffer was toen acht jaar oud. "Dat zijn ontoelaatbare feiten die vanzelfsprekend in tegenspraak zijn met de waarden van emancipatie en sociale rechtvaardigheid, die door onze organisatie worden uitgedragen", aldus Bernard Duterme. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:03 AM

• Opnieuw erkent een Belgische priester misbruik van zijn neefje BELGIE NRC De bekende Belgische kanunnik François Houtart (85) heeft toegegeven dat hij in 1970 een neefje twee keer heeft misbruikt. De jongen was toen acht jaar. Dat meldt het ANP. "Ondoordacht en onverantwoord", zegt Houtart vandaag in de Belgische krant Le Soir. Houtart heeft ontslag genomen als voorzitter van ontwikkelingsorganisatie Centre Tricontinental (Cetri). In overleg met de ouders van het slachtoffer blijft hij priester en godsdienstsocioloog. François Houtart kreeg de bijnaam 'paus van de andersglobalisten'. Hij was professor sociologie aan universiteit UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve van 1958 tot 1990 en nam deel aan het tweede Vaticaans Concilie in 1962. Hij stichtte Cetri en was een dragende figuur van het eerste Wereld Sociaal Forum in Porto Alegre in 2001. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:01 AM

• Le chanoine Houtart avoue des abus sexuels BELGIQUE Le Soir Le " pape de l'altermondialisme ", François Houtart, a confessé au " Soir " avoir abusé d'un cousin, mineur, voici 40 ans. Le chanoine a demandé à ses partisans de suspendre la campagne en faveur de sa candidature au prix Nobel de la paix 2011. Il a également démissionné de son ONG, le Centre Tricontinental, à Louvain. Par Ricardo Gutiérrez Après l'évêque de Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, le 24 avril, c'est un prêtre " rebelle ", François Houtart, qui confesse avoir abusé d'un mineur, voici 40 ans. Le " pape de l'altermondialisme " est bien ce chanoine anonyme désigné par l'un des 475 témoignages d'abus recueillis par la commission Adriaenssens, entre le 19 avril et le 24 juin derniers. François Houtart l'a confirmé au " Soir ", mardi, depuis Quito, en Equateur. Une plainte anonyme a été déposée à la commission Adriaenssens par une des cousines de François Houtart. Celle-ci explique qu'un chanoine qui était hébergé par ses parents dans la région de Liège s'était introduit à deux reprises dans la chambre de son frère pour le violer. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 281 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Le prêtre indique de son côté qu'en traversant la chambre du garçon, il a " touché ses parties intimes à deux reprises ". M. Houtart qualifie l'acte " d'inconsidéré et irresponsable ". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:58 AM

• Le témoignage qui accable le chanoine Houtart BELGIQUE Le Soir Je voudrais ajouter ici deux témoignages. L'un perpétré sur mon frère par le chanoine A dont j'ai pu lire encore une fois un article plein d'éloges, il y a quelques mois. Mais cet homme a commis le crime du viol sur la personne de mon frère il y a 40 ans. Mon père décédé cette année avait le même âge que A et c'était son ami. Il le vénérait comme un grand homme, jusqu'à cette nuit où A reçu chez mes parents s'est introduit par deux fois dans la chambre de mon frère pour le violer. Avant la troisième fois, mon frère est allé le dire à ses parents qui l'ont gardé dans leur chambre. Mais le lendemain matin, ils ont reçu A à déjeuner comme si de rein n'était pour que celui ci puisse donner sa conférence à Liège. Mon frère, lui, avait été "déposé" chez un voisin Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:55 AM

• Vatican II peritus, potential Nobel Peace Prize winner, admits abuse BELGIUM Catholic Culture December 29, 2010 Father François Houtart, an 85-year-old Belgian activist priest who served as a peritus at the , has admitted twice abusing his cousin in 1970. His cousin was then an eight- year-old boy. The grandson of a Belgian prime minister and eldest of 14 children, Houtart participated in the resistance against Nazi occupation as a teenager during World War II. Ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Malines-Brussels in 1949, Houtart taught at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1958 to 1990. As a peritus at Vatican II, he assisted Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens and served as secretary of the subcommission that drafted the introduction to Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:51 AM

• Belgian activist priest admits sexual abuse BELGIUM Forbes By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER , 12.29.10, 07:33 AM EST BRUSSELS -- A Belgian priest has confessed to a child sex-abuse accusation that came to light during a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting globalization's impact on developing countries. The confession was published in a Belgian newspaper Wednesday and confirmed by the organization the priest founded, deepening a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the country. After a spate of accusations this year, the church in September published the harrowing accounts of more than 100 victims of clerical sex abuse, some as young as two when they were assaulted. In October, after supporters of 85-year-old Francois Houtart began working to nominate him for the Nobel, a woman contacted the nonprofit organization he founded and said the priest had abused her brother 40 years ago, according to its director, Bernard Duterme. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:49 AM

• Pope's Bank Accused Of Fiddling The Books VATICAN CITY Culture Clash Daily Locked in the vaults and protected by the Vatican walls is God's designated bank, the l'Istituto per le Opere di Religione. Since 1942 money from Catholic churches around the world have used the Pope's bank to transfer funds. This week The Independent published documents alleging that the bank had failed to account for 20 million Euros destined in part for Germany and the rest to another Italian Bank. It's not the http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 282 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM only instance which has come before the courts. In October the Sicily Police uncovered what is believed to have been a transaction involving a Catholic priest who's Uncle has been convicted of crimes associated with the Mafia. Police have asked for a legal explanation for 250 000 euro, allegedly illegally obtained from a regional government. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:45 AM

• Report: Vatican to adopt anti-fraud banking reforms VATICAN CITY Monsters and Critics Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI is set to introduce reforms to the Vatican's banking system to bring it in line with international measures aimed at curbing money laundering and fraud, reports said Wednesday. The pontiff will issue a document on Thursday for the creation of a centralised banking system that will govern the Vatican's financial affairs, the Holy See's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said. The initiative stems from agreements between the Vatican and the Organisation for Security and Co- operation in Europe (OSCE). It will allow the OSCE to monitor money transactions involving the Vatican's bank, the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), according to Italian newspaper reports. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 AM

• The DC Declaration: A Call To Moral Resposibility UNITED STATES Lez Get Real I am Dr. Paula S. Brooks, Publisher of LezGetReal.com. In a recent interview with Fox News Sunday, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of the District of Columbia, told Chris Wallace that the church had moved decisively in the Catholic Child Sexual Abuse Scandal… I will agree with him … the church has indeed acted decisively… not to protect children, but to limit the financial damage to the Church and to get the faithful move on to some other topic… before every moral parishioner flees, taking their checkbooks with them… In the decades-long cover-up of these despicable crimes and to maintain the secrecy surrounding the Church's responsibility and complicity in the sexual abuse of thousands of Catholic children… Dioceses in Delaware, Portland, Tucson, and Spokane have filed bankruptcy to get the victims to simply go away and the Churches lawyers have tried every legal trick in their very large books to see that the Church will not be held responsible for these crimes. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:39 AM

• Jeffs to declare plea at hearing SAN ANGELO (TX) San Angelo Standard-Times By Matthew Waller SAN ANGELO, Texas – Guilty, not guilty, no contest; Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamy- sanctioning Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, may choose one of those options today at 9 a.m. during a pretrial hearing in San Angelo. The charges against Jeffs include aggravated sexual assault and bigamy. Jeffs may also reveal whether or not he has chosen legal counsel. "We'll hear who will represent Jeffs," said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:36 AM

• We are sexually harassed – VOC staff SWAZILAND Times of Swaziland MBABANE – There are calls for a probe into the operations of the Voice of the Church (VOC) after about five female staffers have claimed to have been sexually harassed at work. It is alleged that these women are being sexually harassed by one staff member and despite that the issue has been going on for months now, no action has been taken. According to information gathered by this newspaper from sources within the popular Christian radio http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 283 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM channel, four of the women are aged above 30 years while one is in her 20s. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 AM

• Parents file suit against Parker Hill PENNSYLVANIA The Abington Journal By Don McGlynn [email protected] Reporter / Photographer Parents look to hold accountable Parker Hill Community Church for the part it may have played in the molestation of a minor. The parents of a minor who was molested are suing Joshua W. Landis and Parker Hill Community Church in Lackawanna County Court. Landis, a former youth leader at Parker Hill, was sentenced, after pleading guilty, to unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of a minor. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:31 AM

• Polygamist sect leader due back in Texas court TEXAS San Luis Obispo Tribune By The Associated Press Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is due in court for his final pretrial hearing with still no word on whether he has a Texas attorney. A pretrial hearing in the aggravated sexual assault case against Jeffs is set for Wednesday morning. The 55-year-old is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 24 but says he's had trouble finding in-state representation. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:25 AM

• Belgian activist priest admits sexual abuse BELGIUM The Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) – A Belgian priest and prominent Third World development activist has admitted he sexually abused a minor 40 years ago, the director of the development aid organization he founded said Wednesday. The case of 85-year-old Francois Houtart came to light after the priest's supporters started a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. The victim's sister contacted Cetri – a nonprofit organization working in the field of social justice and international development – in October to inform its members of the abuse, said Bernard Duterme, the organization's director. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:18 AM

////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Wed December 29, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Thu December 30, 2010 edition: • The Vatican Creates a Financial Watchdog VATICAN CITY - The New York Times By RACHEL DONADIO Published: December 30, 2010 VATICAN CITY – Amid a judicial investigation into its famously secretive bank, the Vatican created its own financial watchdog on Thursday and issued sweeping and tough new laws aimed at meeting international standards against money laundering and terrorist financing. In an apostolic letter dated Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI created a new internal body to make sure the Vatican's disparate financial entities comply with European Union standards of financial transparency. The new law answered implicit and explicit criticism that the Vatican's financial self-regulation has long been too loose, setting stiff penalties – including jail time and monetary fines – for any violators. The law, to go into effect by April 1, was greeted positively by anti-money-laundering organizations. In a year in which a sexual abuse scandal fomented intense debate over who has the power – moral or otherwise – to hold the church accountable for its actions, the new law appeared to acknowledge the importance of http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 284 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM adhering to civil standards. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:41 PM

• Spread This Around – My New Year's Resolution About Gossip UNITED STATES Spero News By Gordon MacRae The bigger scandal in the Catholic Church is the way pop culture has drawn us into a climate of gossip and ruined reputations. Is it time to stem that tide? It happens so easily, and sometimes even innocently. Very few of us are exempt from being both the victims and the proponents of gossip. As I wrote in "The Mirror of Justice Cracked," the first of a three-part post in October, I was once Director of Admissions for a treatment and spiritual renewal center for priests. I had been on staff there only a month when asked one day to give a tour to a visiting bishop. In the main corridor, we stopped to look at a display of Native American art from a local Pueblo. As the bishop backed up to view the display, he backed right into the lady's room door just as it opened and a secretary emerged. It was an awkward moment. I reached out to steady them both as they collided, and to lighten the startled secretary's embarrassment I said, "It's not a vision; it's just us." The next morning I was summoned to the facility director's office. The secretary had filed a complaint alleging that on the previous day I approached her as she emerged from the lady's room and said. "Oh, it's my vision of lust!" When I told the director what really happened, he inquired with the visiting bishop who corroborated my account exactly, but not before the secretary passed along her version to the rest of the office staff. I was new there, and for weeks afterward I had a creepy feeling that I was the subject of a lot of office gossip. Over time, once the staff got to know me better and a trust level developed, the incident just evaporated. Eventually even the offended secretary just brushed it aside with a casually mumbled, "I might have heard wrong." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 PM

• François Houtart: : een waardevol activist valt. BELGIE De Wereld Morgen François Houtart, Prijs Jaap Kruithof en machtsmisbruik: een waardevol activist valt De jury voor de Prijs Jaap Kruithof kon niet volledig geraadpleegd worden voor een standpunt over de zaak François Houtart zoals vandaag vermeld in de Belgische pers. We hebben geprobeerd zoveel mogelijk leden te bereiken en de twee organisaties die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de Prijs Jaap Kruithof hebben een voorlopig standpunt bepaald. De organisaties Democratie 2000 en VZW. Trefpunt nemen met ontstelling akte van de bekentenissen van kindermisbruik door François Houtart, laureaat Prijs Jaap Kruithof 2010, uitgereikt tijdens de Gentse Feesten Bij Sint-Jacobs op 21 juli 2010. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:32 PM • Truth and a call to renewal [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] National Catholic Reporter (USA), An NCR Editorial, Dec. 30, 2010 UNITED STATES - It is fitting that the final years of Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, the disgraced founder of the Legionaries of Christ, straddled the two papacies that have been deeply scarred by the ever expanding priest sex abuse crisis: that of John Paul II, the figure who did the most to promote Maciel and his order, and Benedict XVI, the highest-level curial figure to understand the dimensions of the crisis and who, as pope, is left to deal with its consequences. Maciel, who died in 2008, lived a monstrous double life and was a master manipulator of the powerful in the Vatican. He was skilled at winning over those who were influenced by cash and shows of obeisance. His slavish adherence, at least publicly, to orthodoxies and personal pieties provided him the cover he needed to maintain his status while hiding a life that included horrific abuse of young seminarians and fathering at least three children with two different women. Maciel embodied the arrogance, sense of privilege, lack of accountability and rot in the ranks of church http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 285 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM leadership of which the abuse crisis is merely the most glaring symptom. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:06 PM • Opposition grows to ban by rabbis of Orthodox blog that reports on child sex abuse [Orthodox Judaists.] Cliffview Pilot, Jerry DeMarco, 18:04, Thursday, 30 December 2010 UNITED STATES - A backlash has followed the decision by a group of rabbis to ban their followers from advertising, viewing or even patronizing the advertisers of an Orthodox Jewish news blog that reports on sexual abuse within their communities. Thirty six rabbis have condemned VosIzNeias.com as sinful, and the response has been sharp. "For many of the victims of abuse I know, the ban has created feelings of being re-traumatized," Rabbi Asher Lipner told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. "Most survivors feel that the community's stifling their voices has been more damaging emotionally than the actual molestation they have suffered." The communities for years have sought to handle such incidents within their own ranks, calling to mind the behavior of the Catholic Church. More recently, however, families of victims have begun turning to the secular justice system. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 4:00 PM [EXPLANATION: "Vos Iz Neias?" means "What's News?" in Yiddish, the eastern European Jewish language.] • George Weigel: Whitewashing history [1940s-90s - Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado*. RCC. US $10-15m. Money bought influence. ≥ 8 male seminarians (10-16), mistress/es, own children. Massages from young nuns. May have fathered 6.] National Catholic Reporter (USA), By Jason Berry Dec. 30, 2010 UNITED STATES - George Weigel, Pope John Paul II biographer and a leading conservative voice at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, has recently become a critic of the Legion of Christ, the scandal-racked religious order, after years of supporting it while dismissing complaints and charges against its founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado. Among high-profile U.S. Catholic conservatives who long defended Maciel while denigrating his accusers, Weigel alone has made a turnabout in urging Legion reforms. However, he continues to go out of his way, as he has for years, to excuse the late Pope John Paul II from any culpability in the Legion scandal. It was John Paul, more than anyone else, who backed Maciel and the Legion and elevated both in church status. "I have been deeply impressed by the work of the Legionaries of Christ in the United States, in Mexico, and in Rome," Weigel wrote on a Legion Web site in 2002. "If Father Maciel and his charism as a founder are to be judged by the fruits of his work, those fruits are most impressive indeed." Posted by Kathy Shaw at 2:47 PM • Facing financial scandals, pope creates new Vatican watchdog [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized]

National Catholic Reporter (USA), NCR Today by John L Allen Jr on Dec. 30, 2010 New law also criminalizes environmental pollution VATICAN CITY - Against a backdrop of criminal probes related to alleged financial misconduct both in the Vatican Bank and at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Vatican's wealthy missionary department better known as "Propaganda Fide", Pope Benedict XVI today created a new in- house watchdog to promote compliance with international rules against financing terrorism, money- laundering, insider trading and market abuse. The move amounts to a potential sea change for the Vatican, where traditionally the various departments have been largely autonomous in their financial dealings, with only a loose coordination provided by the office of the Apostolic Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA). By pledging cooperation with international monitoring agencies, the new laws also mark a break with the Vatican's traditional reluctance to open up its internal financial operations to outside scrutiny. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:08 AM • 'Schade door misbruik altijd vergoeden' De Standaard, SPECIALIST RECHT EN SLACHTOFFER MISBRUIK, Auteur: Nikolas Vanhecke, donderdag 30 december 2010 BRUSSEL, BELGIE - De scheiding tussen burgerlijke en kerkelijke rechtspraak doet in de discussie over schadevergoedingen niet ter zake, vindt professor Dries Simoens van de KU Leuven.

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Van onze redacteur De kamercommissie seksueel misbruik concentreerde zich tot hiertoe vooral op de schadevergoedingen voor slachtoffers. Een specifieke stem mengt zich in het debat. Dries Simoens (60), hoogleraar recht aan de KU Leuven, werd tijdens zijn jeugd zelf misbruikt door een geestelijke. In welke zin heeft dat misbruik u getekend? 'Mijn seksualiteit is erdoor verstoord. Toen ik op het college zat, worstelde ik met schuldgevoelens. Mijn ouders stelden voor om te rade te gaan bij een geestelijke. Die tientallen gesprekken met hem liet hij altijd op hetzelfde onderwerp uitdraaien: seksualiteit. De situatie escaleerde toen hij zijn geslachtsdelen herhaaldelijk liet zien. De gesprekken hebben me gehersenspoeld en mijn persoonlijkheid aangetast.' Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:23 AM • December 30 – The Question is Simple UNITED STATES - National Survivor Advocates Coalition Where is the Love: For the Money or the Children? The United Kingdom's Guardian newspaper reports: The Vatican today announced new rules to make its financial dealings more transparent and bring it into line with international legislation designed to prevent money-laundering. The move came after an Italian court in September froze €23m (£19.6m) of the Vatican's money over claims that its bankers were trying to move the cash across international borders without identifying its source, destination or purpose. Full details of the new measures are to be released today. But a statement made clear they would include the creation of a new compliance authority and the introduction of legislation to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. – This news story begs the question: For those who were raped and sodomized by priests and whose abuse was concealed by the bishops the Church selects, appoints, and keeps in power, bishops who moved priests from town to town, state to state, country to country shielding them and allowing them to continue to abuse, where is the swift and deliberate action of reparation or resolution of the crisis? Ah, but when the thawing of money is involved, we hear no voices that reform in the Church take time, the machinery grinds slowly, the deliberations are snail paced, there are so many factors to be considered, and there should be no expectation that will change in our respective lifetimes. As the Scripture tells us, where your treasure is, so you heart will also be. – Kristine Ward, Chair, NSAC Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:53 AM

• FR. LOMBARDI'S NOTE CONCERNING THE MOTU PROPRIO VATICAN CITY Vatican Information Service VATICAN CITY, 30 DEC 2010 (VIS) - Given below is the text of a note written by Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. on the Pope's Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" on the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the financial and monetary sectors. Fr. Lombardi's note is entitled "Transparency , honesty and responsibility". Today's publication of new laws for Vatican City State, for the dicasteries of the Roman Curia and for the Institutions and Entities dependent on the Holy See, is an important normative development, but also has far-reaching moral and pastoral significance. As of today, all organisations associated with the government of the Catholic Church - and with the Church's "support": Vatican City State - have, in a spirit of sincere collaboration, become part of that system of juridical principles and instruments which the international community is creating with the aim of guaranteeing just and honest coexistence in an increasingly globalised world; a world in which, unfortunately, economy and finance is not infrequently a field for illegal activities, such as the recycling of the profits of crime and the financing of terrorism, true threats to justice and peace in the world. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:50 AM

• COMMUNIQUE OF SECRETARIAT OF STATE ON POPE'S MOTU PROPRIO VATICAN CITY Vatican Information Service VATICAN CITY, 30 DEC 2010 (VIS) - Given below is the English-language text of a communique http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 287 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM issued by the Secretariat of State regarding the new legislation for the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the financial and monetary sectors: (1) Today, in implementation of the Monetary Convention of 17 December 2009 (2010/C 28/05) between Vatican City State and the European Union, four new Laws were adopted: - the "Law concerning the prevention and countering of the laundering of proceeds from criminal activities and of the financing of terrorism"; - the "Law on fraud and counterfeiting of Euro banknotes and coins"; - the "Law concerning the size, specifications, reproductions, substitutions of and withdrawals from use of Euro banknotes and concerning the implementation of measures to be taken against the irregular reproduction of Euro banknotes and the substitution of and withdrawal from use of Euro banknotes"; - the "Law regarding the face, unitary value and technical specifications, as well as the copyright of the designs of the national faces of the Euro coins destined for circulation". Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:48 AM

• MOTU PROPRIO ON ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR VATICAN CITY Vatican Information Service VATICAN CITY, 30 DEC 2010 (VIS) - Given below is the text of the Pope's Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" on the prevention and countering of illegal activities in the financial and monetary sectors: The Apostolic See has always raised its voice to exhort all men and women of good will, and especially the leaders of nations, to commit themselves to building - also through just and lasting peace in all parts of the world - the universal city of God, towards which the history of peoples and nations progresses {Benedict XVI, Enc. Let. 'Caritas in veritate' (29 June 2009), 7: AAS 101/2009, 645}. Unfortunately, peace in our time and in an increasingly globalised society is threatened by various causes, among them the inappropriate use of the market and the economy, as well as the terrible destruction of terrorist violence, which causes death, suffering, hatred and social instability. Quite rightly, the international community is increasingly equipping itself with juridical principles and instruments that enable it to prevent and contrast the phenomena of money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:46 AM

• Ex-Toledo chancellor honored; Sex abuse victims respond TOLEDO (OH) Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests {10 Toledo diocesan priests receive papal honor} Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, [email protected]) As a top ranking diocesan manager, Billian was a key part of a small group of Catholic officials who ignored and concealed child sex crimes. For Bishop Blair and the Pope to honor him with this exalted title is extraordinarily callous. It rubs salt into the already deep wounds of clergy sex abuse victims. And it sends a dangerous signal: if you act irresponsibly with the safety of children, you'll still get rewarded in the Toledo diocese. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:28 AM • Pope moves against Vatican money laundering [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Deutsche Welle, VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI is set to sign a decree meant to bring the Vatican Bank into line with international banking standards. The move comes amid an investigation into suspected money laundering at the bank. Pope Benedict XVI is set to sign a decree creating a new supervisory body to monitor transactions from the Vatican's central banking institution. The new Financial Information Authority is to operate in a similar way to the supervisory bodies which overseas many central banks. The decree would be legally binding and pertain to all economic activities of the church-state's financial institutions. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:10 AM • Vatican Outlines Rules to Fight Money Laundering [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Wall Street Journal, By SABRINA COHEN, MILAN, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI Thursday ordered the creation of a financial authority that will http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 288 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM supervise transactions to all government bodies at the Holy See, including the Institute of Religious Works, the Vatican's bank known as IOR. The Vatican is creating a financial watchdog, called the Authority of Financial Information, to control suspicious transactions that could involve financing terrorism as well as market rigging, insider trading and market abuse. The chairman of the Vatican authority will be named by the Pope and his mandate will expire after five years. He will also head a five-member executive committee named by the Pope. According to press reports, Cardinal Attilio Nicora is going to be the chairman of the authority. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:08 AM • Pope Benedict Commits Vatican to Upholding European Money-Laundering Laws [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Bloomberg By Lorenzo Totaro - Dec 30, 2010 VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI committed the Vatican to upholding European Union rules against money laundering and financial fraud amid an Italian probe into the Holy See's banking operations. In an apostolic letter published today on the Vatican's website, the pope said a special Vatican authority will begin work in January to implement legislation enforcing the European laws. The move comes amid a money-laundering probe by Rome prosecutors into the Vatican Bank and its top two executives. "Following the Monetary Convention signed by the State of Vatican City with the European Commission Dec. 17, 2009, I have approved the issue of the Law concerning the prevention and contrast of money laundering of proceeds of criminal activity and of terrorism funding," Benedict said in the letter. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:06 AM • Vatican sets up watchdog to combat money laundering [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] BBC News, VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has set up a new financial authority to fight money laundering and make its financial operations more transparent. The Pope has signed into law new rules to bring the Vatican's banking regulations in line with international efforts to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The move comes ahead of an EU deadline. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:05 AM • Vatican issues laws vowing financial transparency [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Reuters, By Philip Pullella, VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, whose bank is being investigated over money laundering rules, established laws on Thursday to bring it in line with international standards on transparency, prevention of terrorism, counterfeiting and fraud. It was the biggest single action ever taken by the Vatican to meet international demands for more financial transparency. Pope Benedict signed a "Motu Proprio," a form of executive order, in which the Vatican establishes a set of internal laws which promise that its bank and all other departments will adhere to regulations and cooperate with foreign authorities. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:03 AM • Vatican creates financial watchdog amid bank probe [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Richmond Times-Dispatch, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Published: December 30, 2010 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican today created a new financial watchdog agency and issued new laws to try to comply with international rules to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. The decrees were passed as Vatican's own bank remains implicated in a money-laundering investigation that resulted in 23 million ($31 million) being seized and its top two officials placed under investigation. Pope Benedict XVI signed the documents today, saying the Vatican wanted to join other countries that have cracked down on legal loopholes that have allowed criminals to exploit the financial sector. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:00 AM • Pope issues new Vatican banking rules to combat money-laundering [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized]

Monsters and Critics VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday issued new norms governing the Vatican's banking system, including placing it under a central authority to bring it in line with international measures to curb

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 289 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM money-laundering and the financing of terrorism. The move comes amid a legal tussle between Italian authorities and the Vatican's bank, the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), over the possible violation of an anti-money laundering convention. The Vatican has repeatedly described as a 'misunderstanding' the decision by magistrates in Rome to confiscate some 23 million euros (30 million dollars) deposited from the IOR into an account of an Italian bank, and to place the IOR's two top managers under investigation. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:55 AM • APOSTOLIC VISITATION TO TUAM UNDERWAY Galway Bay, December 30, 2010 IRELAND - The Association of Catholic Priests is encouraging priests to co-operate with the Apostolic Visitation which is underway in the Dioceses of Tuam, Armagh, Dublin and Cashel & Emly. The delegation has been sent to Ireland following a Pastoral Letter from Pope Benedict last March. Archbishop of Ottawa, Terence Prendergast is visiting the Archdiocese of Tuam, which is under the auspices of Dr. . Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:50 AM • LEGGE CONCERNENTE LA PREVENZIONE ED IL CONTRASTO DEL RICICLAGGIO DEI PROVENTI DI ATTIVITÀ CRIMINOSE E DEL FINANZIAMENTO DEL TERRORISMO [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Catholica (Vatican), 30 dicembre 2010 CITTA' DEL VATICANO, LA PONTIFICIA COMMISSIONE PER LO STATO DELLA CITTÀ DEL VATICANO - Visto il Trattato del Laterano, sottoscritto in Roma, fra la Santa Sede e l'Italia, l'11 febbraio 1929; - Vista la Legge Fondamentale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano 26 novembre 2000; - Vista la legge sulle Fonti del Diritto 1° ottobre 2008, n. LXXI; considerando: - che il riciclaggio dei proventi di attività illecite e, altresì, lo sfruttamento del sistema finanziario per trasferire fondi di provenienza criminosa o anche denaro di provenienza lecita a scopo di finanziamento del terrorismo minano alla base le fondamenta delle società civili costituendo una minaccia per l'integrità, il funzionamento regolare, la reputazione e la stabilità dei sistemi finanziari; - che il riciclaggio dei proventi di attività criminose ed il finanziamento del terrorismo avvengono sovente a livello internazionale e che, pertanto, le misure adottate esclusivamente a livello di singola giurisdizione, senza coordinamento né cooperazione internazionali, finirebbero per avere effetti limitati; Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:48 AM • STATUTO DELL'AUTORITÀ DI INFORMAZIONE FINANZIARIA (AIF) [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] CITTA' DEL VATICANO Articolo 1 Istituzione, finalità e sede § 1. E' eretta con Motu Proprio del Sommo Pontefice Benedetto Decimo Sesto del 30 dicembre 2010 l'Autorità di Informazione Finanziaria (AIF) avente compiti in materia di prevenzione e contrasto del riciclaggio dei proventi di attività criminose e del finanziamento del terrorismo. § 2. L'Autorità di Informazione Finanziaria è una Istituzione collegata con la Santa Sede a norma degli articoli 186 e 190-191 della Costituzione Apostolica Pastor Bonus. § 3. L'Autorità gode di personalità giuridica canonica pubblica e di personalità giuridica civile vaticana. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:46 AM • LETTERA APOSTOLICA IN FORMA DI "MOTU PROPRIO" … [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] CITTA' DEL VATICANO, La Sede Apostolica ha sempre levato la sua voce per esortare tutti gli uomini di buona volontà, e soprattutto i responsabili delle Nazioni, all'impegno nell'edificazione, anche attraverso una pace giusta e duratura in ogni parte del mondo, della universale città di Dio verso cui avanza la storia della comunità dei popoli e delle Nazioni {Benedetto XVI, Lett. enc. Caritas in veritate (29 giugno 2009), 7: AAS 101 /2009), 645}. La pace purtroppo, ai nostri tempi, in una società sempre più globalizzata, è minacciata da diverse

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 290 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM cause, fra le quali quella di un uso improprio del mercato e dell'economia e quella, terribile e distruttrice, della violenza che il terrorismo perpetra, causando morte, sofferenze, odio e instabilità sociale. Molto opportunamente la comunità internazionale si sta sempre più dotando di principi e strumenti giuridici che permettano di prevenire e contrastare il fenomeno del riciclaggio e del finanziamento del terrorismo. La Santa Sede approva questo impegno ed intende far proprie queste regole nell'utilizzo delle risorse materiali che servono allo svolgimento della propria missione e dei compiti dello Stato della Città del Vaticano. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:44 AM • Communiqué of the Secretariat of State regarding the new legislation … [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] VATICAN CITY, 1. Today, in implementation of the Monetary Convention of 17 December 2009 (2010/C 28/05) between Vatican City State and the European Union, four new Laws were adopted: - the "Law concerning the prevention and countering of the laundering of proceeds from criminal activities and of the financing of terrorism"; - the "Law on fraud and counterfeiting of Euro banknotes and coins"; - the "Law concerning the size, specifications, reproductions, substitutions of and withdrawals from use of Euro banknotes and concerning the implementation of measures to be taken against the irregular reproduction of Euro banknotes and the substitution of and withdrawal from use of Euro banknotes"; and the "Law regarding the face, unitary value and technical specifications, as well as the copyright of the designs of the national faces of the Euro coins destined for circulation". The process of drafting the above-mentioned Laws was conducted with the assistance of the Mixed Committee, established in Art.11 of the Monetary Convention, composed of representatives of Vatican City State and of the European Union. The European Union delegation is composed of representatives of the Commission and of the Republic of Italy as well as representatives of the Central European Bank. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 AM • "Transparency, honesty and responsibility" [I.O.R. RCC. €23m seized] Chiesa, VATICAN CITY - The "Motu proprio" by Benedict XVI for the prevention of and fight against illegal activities in the financial and monetary sector NOTE OF FATHER FEDERICO LOMBARDI, SJ Today's publication of new laws for Vatican City State, for the dicasteries of the Roman Curia and for the Organisations and Bodies dependent on the Holy See, is an important normative development, but also has far-reaching moral and pastoral significance. As of today, all organisations associated with the government of the Catholic Church - and with the Church's "support": Vatican City State - have, in a spirit of sincere collaboration, become part of that system of juridical principles and instruments which the international community is creating with the aim of guaranteeing just and honest coexistence in an increasingly globalised world; a world in which, unfortunately, economy and finance is not infrequently a field for illegal activities, such as the recycling of the profits of crime and the financing of terrorism, true threats to justice and peace in the world. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:39 AM • The Catholic Who's Anti-Catholic [RCC] Pewsitter, Pewsitter.com , By Matt Abbott December 29, 2010 UNITED STATES - One thing that's irked me in recent times is seeing self-identified Catholics bashing, and leaving, the Church using the clergy abuse scandal as an excuse to do so. Let me be clear: I'm not talking about the actual victims of clergy and , with whom I have a great deal of sympathy. I'm talking about those who condone the evils of abortion and/or the homosexualist agenda; or who desire to regularly, willfully and unremorsefully engage in immoral sexual practices that the Church rightly condemns – be it sodomy, contraception, masturbation, adultery or fornication – and who feign outrage at clerical corruption to make themselves feel better about abandoning Christ's Church. One example of the latter category can be found in an e-mail recently sent to the editors of PewSitter.com, one of the best websites, in my humble opinion, for Catholic news and views. The e-mail (slightly edited), printed below in italics, was sent by the editor/publisher of a left-wing "news and views" http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 291 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM (slightly edited), printed below in italics, was sent by the editor/publisher of a left-wing "news and views" website that PewSitter's editors link to on various occasions. I've decided to redact the name of the editor/publisher and the website so as to not give it further publicity. I am {name redacted}, publisher of {website redacted}. In a recent interview with Fox News Sunday, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of the District of Columbia, told Chris Wallace that the Church had moved decisively in the Catholic child sexual abuse scandal. I will agree with Wuerl: The Church has indeed acted decisively, not to protect children, but to limit the financial damage to the Church and to get the faithful move on to some other topic before every moral parishioner flees, taking their checkbooks with them. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:34 AM [COMMENT: The unnamed news and views website, in these first sentences, does seem to have a clear accurate idea of the Church's various and contradictory actions. Sadly, other religions, including Christian and non-Christian ones, act similarly - to protect the self-appointed leadership, NOT the followers. ENDS.] • Priests group welcomes dialogue aimed at renewal IRELAND - The Irish Times PATSY McGARRY THE ASSOCIATION of Catholic Priests has said its members "are more than willing" to be involved in a proposed "structured dialogue" within the Catholic Church in Ireland and "would hope for an early meeting with the hierarchy to begin the process" towards renewal of the church. It noted "with satisfaction" reference to the need for such dialogue by the Bishop of Ossory Séamus Freeman in last Tuesday's Rite and Reason column in this newspaper, "but we agree that the dialogue needs to be conducted at all levels. The time may well be right for some form of assembly or synod of the Irish church." The association also agreed "the examination of the structures of the church must include dialogue in relation to sexuality, clerical celibacy and the exclusion of women". It said many members believed church titles should be abolished. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:32 AM

• Church delay on Irish compensation payments to victims of clerical abuse IRELAND Ekklesia A question asked in the Irish parliament has revealed that the Catholic Church has paid only a small fraction of the money it pledged to the State last year to help compensate the victims of clerical sexual abuse, says the National Secular Society (NSS). In May 2009 Judge Sean Ryan, issued a 2600 page report on abuse in church run industrial schools and orphanages in the Irish Republic, following a nine year investigation. The enquiry found that rape and sexual abuse were"endemic" in boy's facilities. Girls suffered less sexual abuse but were subject to beatings and humiliation. The Ryan report also revealed that the church authorities had simply moved offenders to other institutions where they were free to abuse again. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:30 AM

• Priest files sex-abuse lawsuit against OREGON Statesman Journal A Roman Catholic priest is suing the Mount Angel Abbey for more than $1 million, alleging that he was sexually abused by a now-deceased priest when he was a teenage student at the abbey in the 1970s. The priest suing the abbey is identified only as Father X in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland. Father X, who was ordained in 1986, claims that he was sexually mistreated by the late Father Emmanuel Clark while attending the abbey's high school, Mount Angel Preparatory, between the ages of 14 and 17. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:28 AM

• Leading Belgian Catholic priest Francois Houtart admits sex abuse of cousin BELGIUM The Australian Rory Watson From: The Times December 30, 2010

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ANOTHER scandal has hit the Catholic Church in Belgium after a priest being promoted as a candidate for next year's Nobel Peace Prize confessed to sexually abusing his eight-year-old cousin 40 years ago. Francois Houtart, 85, called the "pope of alternative globalisation" for helping developing countries, yesterday admitted the allegations made by one of his cousins. He also confirmed that he had asked the World Social Forum, an organisation of groups opposed to neo-liberalism, to stop its nomination campaign for the prize. Canon Houtart told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir that after a conference he had stayed the night with relatives near Liege. "While walking through the bedroom of one of the boys in the family, I effectively touched his private parts twice. This woke him up and frightened him. It was obviously an inconsiderate and irresponsible act," he said in a letter sent from the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, where he is living. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:23 AM

• Tamil, Sinhala detainees clash in Vavuniyaa remand prison SRI LANKA TamilNet {TamilNet, Thursday, 30 December 2010, 02:15 GMT} Two were injured in a clash that erupted between detainees in the Vavuniyaa remand prison Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. when Tamil detainees assaulted a Mannaar-based Christian priest and a long-time humanitarian worker, who was recently held in remand over alleged charges that he had sexually abused Tamil girls displaced due to the Vanni war. Altercation ensued as a group of Sinhala detainees rushed in defense of the priest and started assaulting their Tamil detainees with pointed weapons and blades. The alleged sexual abuse of under-aged girls are said to have taken in a Home for Destitutes run by the priest at Murungkan in Mannaar district, legal sources in Mannaar said. On receipt of information from the prison police as the situation inside the prison was out of control, a riot squad of the Vavuniyaa police rushed and brought the situation under control, police said. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:16 AM

////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Thu December 30, 2010 Abuse Chronology: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm For good teachings to be heeded, a big clean-up is needed. #### Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker, www.bishop-accountability.org/ abuse tracker , Fri December 31, 2010 edition: • Victims want priest kicked off upcoming cruise UNITED STATES Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is urging a cruise line and a Catholic official to stop a priest who molested dozens of girls from taking a Caribbean and South American vacation in a few days. Leaders of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, have learned that Fr. George Neville Rucker is booked for a 79 day Discovery Grand South American cruise on January 3, 2011 out of Barbados with a company called "Voyages of Discovery." (For a copy of the documentation, please call Barbara 314 862 7688.) Rucker was arrested aboard a Holland America cruise ship in Alaska in 2002 by Los Angeles detectives. He was charged with molesting 12 girls. A year later, criminal charges against him and several other accused pedophile priests were dropped due to a US Supreme Court ruling (called "Stogner") relating to the statute of limitations. … Catholic officials have said that Rucker is supposed to be confined to a Catholic-run nursing home, Nazareth House, in Los Angeles. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:37 AM • New figures show "shockingly widespread" abuse in DE & MD DELAWARE/MARYLAND Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests {BishopAccountability.org: Accused Priests in Wilmington Parishes} A group that represents clergy sex abuse victims says that new figures show that more than 80 percent of the Wilmington Catholic diocese parishes had at least one accused predator priest worked in them. The statistics come from several sources, including a Boston-based research organization called http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 293 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

BishopAccountability.org, which documents the church's abuse crisis through compiling news accounts and tracking litigation. The numbers are higher than any other diocese in the U.S., according to a Chicago-based support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. "Almost all of the information about predator priests surfaces when courageous survivors find the strength to finally break their silence and speak up through legal action," said David Clohessy of SNAP. "Delaware citizens should be grateful that so many deeply wounded Delaware victims have come forward." In New Castle County, Del. – where the majority of the diocese's parishes are located – the percentage is 90.9 percent (30 out of 33 churches). Seventy five percent of the Wilmington diocesan parishes in Maryland had at least one accused priest assigned (12 out of 16 churches). Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:26 AM • The Progress We've Made -- and Haven't Yet Made -- on Child-Sex-Abuse Statutes of Limitations: 2010, the Year in Review UNITED STATES FindLaw By MARCI A. HAMILTON Thursday, December 30, 2010 Fortunately, the pace of legal reform regarding child-sex-abuse statutes of limitations did not abate in 2010. The logic of eliminating the statute of limitations ("SOL") for this heinous crime and tort -- and of creating an SOL "window" so that past victims can come forward and receive justice -- remains irrefutable. Study after study has proven that victims typically need decades to get to the psychological place where they can come forward to tell their stories in court, and that therefore, short statutes of limitations mean there will be no justice at all. Short SOLs also mean that perpetrators and their enablers remain cloaked in secrecy, which is just what is needed to perpetuate cycles of abuse; as the years pass with perpetrators and enablers unidentified, more and more children fall prey. Even when the need for reform is obvious from a public-policy perspective, however, the law moves forward in fits and starts. This arena is no different. In this column, I'll cover the top 10 SOL events of 2010. Some represent major steps forward; some, deeply unfortunate developments. The primary lesson of 2010, for this area of law, is that we are still in an age of experimentation regarding SOL reform, with states implementing a variety of approaches. The other moral of the story is that the Catholic Conferences of the states (the lobbying organizations for the Catholic bishops) are still spending millions to try to stop the inevitability of SOL reform. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:20 AM • Bishop Stang ministry director cleared of sexual misconduct charges DARTMOUTH (MA) SouthCoast Today By Brian Fraga [email protected] December 30, 2010 DARTMOUTH – The Bristol County District Attorney's office said there is "insufficient evidence" to criminally charge a Bishop Stang High School campus ministry director who had been accused of engaging in inappropriate sexual conduct with a student in the mid 1990s. Prosecutors told the Diocese of Fall River they reached that determination after a "full investigation" into the allegations against Jean Revil, 53, who has been on paid administrative leave since the alleged victim came forward in early October. The District Attorney's Office also said that any criminal charges would have been barred by the statute of limitations. The alleged victim, a former female student at Stang, said the incident occurred in 1994. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:17 AM • Bishop Stang teacher is cleared in sexual misconduct investigation DARTMOUTH (MA) Herald News By Grant Welker Herald News Staff Reporter Posted Dec 30, 2010 DARTMOUTH – A Bishop Stang High School teacher investigated for inappropriate sexual conduct with a student in 1994 has been cleared after the district attorney's office found insufficient evidence and that a statute of limitations had expired. The teacher, Jean Revil, had been put on administrative leave in October after Catholic Social Services received a report of allegations by a female student, who claimed sexual misconduct at the school. Revil, who has been at the school for more than three decades, will return to her position at an undetermined date, said the Diocese of Fall River, which oversees the Catholic school. "We are grateful for the patience by all involved while this difficult matter was handled," the diocese said http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 294 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM in a statement on Thursday. "We realize how trying these past months must have been, particularly for Ms. Revil." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:15 AM • 'Nee, Vangheluwe zit hier niet' BELGIE Het Nieuwsblad 31 december 2010 Abt Gilbert Degros kijkt eens gespeeld rond en schudt dan het hoofd: 'Nee, Vangheluwe zit hier niet. Indien hij hier wel zat dan zou ik het u oprecht vertellen. Ik weet ook niet waar hij is.' 'Hier in de abdij hebben wij ons eigen Vangheluwe-grapje. Het gaat zo: Jezus komt de aarde nog eens bezoeken. We weten dat hij vanuit de hemel met een vliegtuig zal landen op Zaventem. Er staat dus een hele batterij hoogwaardigheidsbekleders klaar: de koning, de eerste minister, aartsbisschop Léonard en misschien ben ik zelf ook wel geïnviteerd. Maar Jezus loopt ons allemaal voorbij en gaat direct naar Roger Vangheluwe om hem vergiffenis te schenken. Dat zou ik ook doen indien Roger hier aanklopte om onderdak te vragen.' Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:12 AM • Belgian journalist said Catholics scandalized by archbishop's remarks BELGIUM The Pilot (United States) By Jonathan Luxmoore OXFORD, England (CNS) -- A Belgian journalist who serves as spokesman for the nation's cardinal said Catholics in his country were "scandalized" by an archbishop's testimony to a parliamentary commission on sexual abuse by priests. In response to questions by commission members, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Mechelen- Brussels, president of the Belgian bishops' conference, said he feared the consequences of compensating victims, because payments could also be demanded for "unhappy children born via artificial insemination" or facing the "psychological impact" of being raised by same-sex couples. He also said he favored a "solidarity fund" for abuse victims when courts were unable to establish "direct responsibility" by institutions and said the church would contribute to the fund "in the same way that it already intervenes for victims of natural catastrophes or for the poor." Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:03 AM • Clergy abuse in Delaware: Parish may owe $6 million in interest DELAWARE The News Journal By SEAN O'SULLIVAN • The News Journal • December 31, 2010 WILMINGTON -- The pain could get worse for St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Parish. Post-trial motions indicate the city church -- which also has elementary and high schools -- may be liable for $6 million to $7 million more than the $3 million awarded to plaintiff John Vai on Nov. 30, because parish attorneys declined to settle the case before trial for $1.5 million. It is a legal wrinkle that raises stakes for other parishes, schools and religious orders facing priest abuse lawsuits allowed by the Delaware Child Victims Act, potentially exposing them to millions more in damages. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 7:00 AM • Playing Catholic politics with US healthcare UNITED STATES Guardian (United Kingdom) Becky Garrison guardian.co.uk, Friday 31 December 2010 Even though the Catholic hierarchy can take years to issue a reprimand against priests found to be guilty of sexual abuse, Sister Margaret McBride, a member of the ethics board at St Joseph's hospital in Phoenix, Arizona was reassigned and excommunicated in November 2009 after authorising an abortion in order to save the life of a 27-year-old mother of four. Bishop Thomas J Olmsted justified his actions by stating: "An unborn child is not a disease … the end does not justify the means." In December 2010, he stripped the hospital of its Catholic status, an ecclesiastical decision that renders the chapel unable to administer the eucharist. Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 6:58 AM • No-Contact Order Charges Dropped Against Former Pastor IOWA KCRG {with video} FAYETTE, Iowa - Charges against a former Fayette pastor for allegedly trying to contact his victim has been dropped. http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/ethcont179.htm Page 295 of 298 Clergy Child Molesters (179) - References / Archive / Blog 7/30/11 3:55 PM

Last week, Timothy Parker was sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. Parker was accused of attempting to contact the victim and family members by giving letters to Pastor Ronnie Koch, who was visiting Parker at the Fayette County jail. Koch, 44, of Fredericksburg still faces misdemeanor accessory charges for allegedly mailing the letters Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 6:54 AM • DA clears Stang teacher accused of sexual misconduct DARTMOUTH (MA) SouthCoast Today By Brian Fraga [email protected] December 31, 2010 DARTMOUTH – Sitting under an icon of St. Benedict, Jean Revil wore a Bishop Stang faculty sweater Thursday and talked about the anxiety she felt about once again teaching and interacting with adolescents. "Am I gonna be jumpy? Anytime a kid comes to approach me, am I going to freak out?" asked Revil, who will return to her job Monday as a theology teacher and campus ministry director at Bishop Stang High School. She has been on administrative leave since Oct. 7, a few days after a former student accused Revil, 53, of engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with her during a freshmen retreat in 1994. {{Posted by Kathy Shaw on December 31, 2010 6:46 AM}} ////////// End of Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker Fri December 31, 2010 SYMBOLS: * -- NEW*, and in later entries summarising the facts just an asterisk (*), signify predatory clergy whose offences were not known to the public, and probably/possibly not included in previous overall statistics and enumerations of the numbers of seducing etc. clergy. ≤ means "less than or equal to," and on this website might signify before or during that year or month, or, before or on that date. ≥ means "greater than or equal to," i.e., "at least," and on this website is given cognate meanings, such as "on or after". < means "less than," and on this website might also signify before a date. > means "greater than," and on this website might also signify after a date. < and >, or ( and ). At times, Internet addresses (URLs) or e-mail addresses in some situations might be marked off with "<" and ">" or with "(" and ")". ≅ means approximately equal to but alternatively on this website "~" is often used, both with an extra meaning of around that period = circa. FOR GOOD TEACHINGS TO BE HEEDED, A BIG CLEAN-UP IS NEEDED Clergy Sex Abuse Tracker www.bishop-accountability. org/ abuse tracker for current on-line The Boston Globe book: http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse USA Weblog starts: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethicscontents.htm Petition at: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/optional.htm Books list: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/carnalbooks.htm Overview at: www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/minilist.htm US Archive: www.BishopAccountability.org INTENTION: A challenge to RELIGIONS to PROTECT CHILDREN. Click for more explanation. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND U.S.A. ABBREVIATIONS, click USA memory jogger: AK = Alaska; CO = Colorado; IA = Iowa; MN = Minnesota; MO = Missouri; MT = ; NE = Nebraska. NEWSITEMS RECEIVED COVERING OTHER THAN RELIGIONS' CHILD AND/OR SEXUAL ABUSE

• Church's ex-lay administrator files federal lawsuit alleging retaliation [RCC. Brothel owner donated for church restoration.] Las Vegas Review-Journal, ~ December 06, 2010 RENO (NV) - A man suing the Diocese of Reno claims his termination as lay administrator was in retaliation for reporting alleged violations over a federal grant to restore the oldest active Catholic church in Nevada. Nick Nicosia contends his 2009 firing at St. Mary's in the Mountains church in Virginia City violated the retaliation provision of the False Claims Act, which is designed to combat fraud by government contractors.

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Nicosia's federal complaint says a $500 donation from former Mustang Ranch brothel owner Joe Conforte to the church project was among concerns he voiced about a $500,000 grant from the National Park Service. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:59 AM, December 06, 2010 • Watertown priest pleads guilty to stealing from church, tricking parishioners [~ 2000s Fr Thomas Marr. RCC. Money] Wisconsin State Journal, ~ December 07, 2010 DOUG ERICKSON | [email protected] | 608-252-6149 madison.com | Posted: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 WISCONSIN - A Watertown priest charged with two felonies for allegedly stealing church funds and deceiving people into giving him money pleaded guilty Tuesday to both counts. The Rev. Thomas Marr, 66, who led St. Bernard's Catholic Church in Watertown for 24 years, faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine on each count. However, prosecutors will recommend that Marr be "placed on probation for a period of years," according to the plea agreement. They also may request that he serve up to a year in jail, the plea agreement said. No sentencing date has been set. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:03 PM, December 07, 2010 • Wis. priest pleads guilty to theft charges [~ 2000s Fr Thomas Marr. RCC. Money] Fox 6, WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN (AP) – A Wisconsin priest accused of stealing church funds and tricking parishioners into giving him money has pleaded guilty to theft charges. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says a judge in Jefferson County on Tuesday accepted the Rev. Thomas Marr's guilty pleas to theft in a business setting and theft by fraud. Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:34 PM>, December 07, 2010 The END of Newsitems Received Covering Other Than Religions' Child And/Or Sexual Abuse

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