Mississippi bishop: ‘Shattered lives’ amid clergy sex abuse EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS. Associated Press•March 19, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Mississippi on Tuesday released the names of 37 clergy members who it says have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children. Officials with the Diocese […]
West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Catholic Church allowed abusive priests to teach in schools. A bottomless pit of evil. MEGHAN KENEALLY. ABC News•March 19, 2019 West Virginia’s attorney general alleges Catholic Church allowed abusive priests to teach in schools originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The Catholic diocese allowed priests to serve in […]
Catholic Church scandal: 395 Illinois priests, deacons accused of sexual misconduct Aamer Madhani. USA TODAY•March 20, 2019 CHICAGO – Nearly 400 Catholic clergy members in Illinois have been accused of sexual misconduct, but church officials have only informed congregants of a fraction of those who have faced allegations, according […]
World Outrage over False Prophet’s decision to reject resignation of archbishop convicted of protecting predator priest Nick Squires. The Telegraph•March 19, 2019 Catholic campaigners condemned as “shocking” a decision by Pope Francis not to accept the resignation of a French archbishop who was given a suspended prison sentence […]
German Catholics accused of ‘stonewalling’ by child abuse victims Frank ZELLER. AFP•March 14, 2019 Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s under-fire Catholic Church admitted Thursday it must urgently confront its child sex abuse scandal, but victims accused it of continued “stonewalling”, especially on compensation. As in Australia, Chile, France, Ireland […]
Polish church admits clergy abused hundreds of children. In February, a charity supporting victims of paedophile priests in Poland released a groundbreaking report documenting nearly 400 cases of sex abuse by clergymen in the staunchly Catholic country AFP•March 14, 2019 Warsaw (AFP) – Poland’s powerful Catholic church on […]
Catholic archbishop in Brazil bans priests from being alone with children Tom Embury-Dennis. The Independent•February 9, 2019 A Brazilian Catholic archbishop has banned priests in his district from being alone with children. Manoel Delson, archbishop of the northeastern state of Paraiba, signed the decree on Wednesday following a court order forcing […]
Ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing. Priest who abused boys, made 1 confess, sentenced to prison Associated Press•January 11, 2019 BROOKVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys and making one of them say confession after the assaults was sentenced […]
‘We are witches’: Clerical abuse scandal divides parishes and politics in Poland By Marcin Goclowski and Andrew R.C. Marshall. Reuters•January 6, 2019 KALINOWKA, Poland (Reuters) – The former Catholic priest of the Polish village of Kalinowka is serving three years in jail for molesting five schoolgirls. But Marta […]
Blog note: Wolves in sheep’s clothing. Ravenous wolves among you. End of note. French cardinal to go on trial over child abuse cover up Pierre PRATABUY. AFP•January 4, 2019 Lyon (AFP) – The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France is to […]
