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The Count Me Out website is a source of information for those considering leaving the Roman Catholic Church (RCC).

For many who no longer practise, remaining "lapsed" is not sufficient; a clean break is needed.

So far 10889 people have completed a 'Declaration of Defection' and 500 emails have been sent. As at Sunday 25 July 2010

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Protest the Pope march through London on day of Hyde Park mass

Monday, July 26 2010 @ 02:54 AM EST

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The Protest the Pope campaign has announced its large-scale march through London on Saturday 18 September – the day that the Pope will be holding his outdoor mass in Hyde Park.

The protest march will assemble at 1pm at Hyde Park Corner – Piccadilly Downslip (full details will be made available nearer the time). It will then proceed through central London and arrive in the vicinity of Parliament Square (details currently being discussed with New Scotland Yard). Please put this date in your diary and make every effort to be there. Spread the news of this event as far as you can. Local groups might consider getting a coach party to come and if you’re coming from outside London and could offer a lift to someone in your area, please let us know and we’ll put you in touch.

Protest the Pope film season launched – buy tickets now

Monday, July 26 2010 @ 03:51 AM EST

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As part of the Protest the Pope campaign, the National Secular Society is presenting a short season of films which explore issues that the Catholic Church and the Government would prefer were kept under wraps during the papal visit.

The authorities in this country refuse to ask difficult questions of the pope – so we will do it for them. Each of these powerful films illustrates clearly why the Pope should be made to answer for the many sins of his Church. The showings will be at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL.

The False Memory Hoax: CIA Connections to the Mind Control Cults

Monday, July 26 2010 @ 02:26 AM EST

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By Alex Constantine

THE CIA & THE FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION (FMSF)• CIA Connections to the Mind Control Cults • The CIA, The False Memory Syndrome Foundation and the Politics of Ritual Abuse • The Devil Denuded • Friendly Fire • The Forgettable “Remembering Satan”

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[From Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, 1995]

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North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center

Monday, July 26 2010 @ 01:53 AM EST

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North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center — needs men and women to assist with efforts to alleviate the trauma suffered by sexual assault and child abuse.

Training sessions are two days a week for 10 weeks. Volunteers also needed for 24-hour hotline, fundraising, education programs and community outreach. Info: Lompoc, 736-8535; Santa Maria, 922-2994.

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Church blasts gay priests leading 'double life'

Sunday, July 25 2010 @ 02:41 AM EST

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By NICOLE WINFIELD (AP) –

ROME — The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.

The Diocese of Rome issued the strongly worded statement after the conservative Panorama newsweekly said in a cover story and accompanying video that it had interviewed three gay priests in Rome and accompanied them to gay clubs and bars and to sexual encounters with strangers, including one in a church building.

Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds ex-Jesuit priest Donald McGuire's assault conviction

Sunday, July 25 2010 @ 02:20 AM EST

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By RYAN J. FOLEY • The Associated Press

MADISON — The Wisconsin Supreme Court last week upheld the sexual abuse conviction of a once-prominent Jesuit priest who insisted he was unfairly prosecuted for acts dating to the 1960s.

Cardinal George accountable for abuse

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 03:09 AM EST

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Well, Cardinal George, once again the person you placed at St. Agatha's and failed to remove even when more allegations were made against Daniel McCormack is in the news.

You, the review board, Jimmy Lago, and all the others who were aware that Daniel McCormack had a history of abuse should have your names right up there in the headlines, for you are more guilty than McCormack even for endangering children with sexual abuse.

Caught on Film: Catholic Priests, in Gay Clubs, Having Casual Sex

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:55 AM EST

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by Kilian Melloy Edge.Boston

Italy, a devoutly Catholic country, has been shocked at reports of Catholic priests being filmed having sex in gay clubs by a magazine reporter, a July 23 article at U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail reported.

The reporter, accompanied by a "gay accomplice," spent two weeks at gay night spots. In the course of that time, he reportedly filmed three priests having sexual encounters. Two of the priests caught on video were reportedly Italian; one was French.

Two Redemptorist priests moved

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:51 AM EST

Tag: ireland

PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

TWO PRIESTS who are the subject of sex abuse allegations have been moved from the Redemptorist community at Esker in east Galway to another of the congregation’s communities which has no dealings with young people.

A new allegation against one of the priests emerged in recent weeks.

Losing my religion

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:50 AM EST

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A new website has made it easier for lapsed Catholics such as Michelle Dunne Breen, concerned about the church's teachings and scandals, to stage an official defection.

I was once told I'd never be able to leave the church. ''Once a Catholic, always a Catholic,'' was the saying. It got me thinking that there must be a way to return a membership taken out on my behalf when I was only two weeks old.

Court Rules Alleged Sex Abuse Victim Entitled to Redacted Copies of Police Records from Investigation

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:34 AM EST

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In Case Where Accused Priest Was Not Indicted by Grand Jury

State ex rel. Rocker v. Guernsey Cty. Sheriff’s Office, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-3288.
Guernsey App. No. 09-CA-4, 2009-Ohio-6336.

Judgment of the court of appeals reversed, and cause remanded to the court of appeals.

CASA offers tips on preventing child abuse

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:32 AM EST

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By Aaron Powers
Leesville Daily Leader

Leesville, La. —The Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) organization is concerned about the number of cases involving sexual abuse of children in local news stories.

"In working and serving cases, I have noticed an increase of sexually abused children," said Justin Ogle CASA advocate supervisor.

The organization wishes to alert parents and others to watch for signs of abuse or possible predators that could harm children.

In St. Catharines, it’s silence for the lambs

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:31 AM EST

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By Sandro Contenta Jim Rankin

DUNNVILLE, ONT.—Two months after Bishop James Wingle abruptly resigned and disappeared, word that he had been spotted in Jerusalem swept his St. Catharines diocese.

Parishioners and priests were hungry for news of the missing bishop. But officials temporarily running the Catholic diocese quickly moved to reassert a wall of silence.

Know the Marks of Cults

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:24 AM EST

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by Dave Breeze, (copyright 1975, SP Publications, ISBN 0-88207-704-x) Recently, I found this book online.

The author was a speaker and evangelist who passed away in 2002. More can be found about him here… http://christiandestiny.org/publicati...ther.shtml .

From what I can tell, he traveled extensively and had a heart to help people.

Suing the Pope

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:14 AM EST

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A British academic is planning to take Pope Benedict XVI to court for what he calls the long-term, systematic cover-up of child sexual abuse cases inside the Catholic Church. Inside Story asks what long-term implications the scandal could have for the Church?

Should The Pope Be Prosecuted For His Role In Priest Pedophilia Cover-Up?

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 02:10 AM EST

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The Pope hasn’t exactly been at the forefront of handling the criminality aspect of what many of his priests have been doing. Does his actions (or non-actions) make him criminally complicit?

Deliver Us From Evil – disturbing film worth watching

Saturday, July 24 2010 @ 01:48 AM EST

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I recently watched Amy Berg’s 2006 documentary focusing on former-Fr. Oliver O’Grady, one of the most notorious of sexual abusers. It has serious flaws: like many contemporary documentaries, it presents points of view or conclusions as though they were fact.

In this instance, there are logical leaps I’m not willing to take, and some misconceptions about how sex abuse cases were handled (and by what rules) at various points in time.

Aussie Political Party that is worth getting behind

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 05:59 AM EST

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A Senate candidate for the Australian Sex Party is calling for the Federal Government to hold an immediate royal commission into child sex abuse in religious institutions.

The party launched its federal campaign in Melbourne this afternoon.

Party president and Victorian senate candidate Fiona Patten admits some of the party’s policies are controversial but says there is a progressive policy vacuum in Australian politics.

Do YOUR stuff

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:55 AM EST

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The Irish Government and CORI two way secret deal has proposed a €110 million Statutory Trust Fund for victims of institutional child abuse to be legislated for in the Dáil in September 2010.

An Tánaiste Mary Coughlan TD, Minister for Education and Skills is the same person that agreed in principle to the intensely criticized 2002 Indemnity agreement between the State and the 18 religious congregations which includes the enormity of the State and its politician’s misconduct.

Statutory Trust Fund - Cast your vote

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:54 AM EST

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These representatives from CORI, the Govt. and Group Leaders are assuming we are still children and not just children, but that we're back in the institutions and therefore have to make our decisions for us!! What downright arrogance and shameful conceit!

Trusted, beloved, accused

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:45 AM EST

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By Tim Funk tfunk@charlotteobserver.com

Tears of sadness flowed that Sunday morning in June 1986. After nine years, parishioners at Charlotte's Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church were saying goodbye to the Rev. Joseph Kelleher - better known to them as "Father Joe," their pastor.

In the months leading up to this farewell Mass, many members of the church had written angry, frustrated letters to the bishop, protesting the reassignment of this charismatic priest with the Irish brogue to a parish in Asheville.

Feudal Catholic church at risk, says theologian

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:31 AM EST

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THE ROMAN Catholic Church is the last feudal institution in the Western world, a mediaeval bastion of secrecy and privilege that cannot survive in the modern world, according to a visiting theologian.

As the church is shaken to its foundations by the clergy abuse scandals - with the lid to be lifted in Asia next - bishops are vainly trying to maintain their plummeting credibility through authoritarian control, Donald Cozzens of John Carroll University, Ohio, said in Melbourne yesterday.

Bishop Peter Ingham apologises to sexual abuse victims

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:28 AM EST

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By VERA BERTOLA

IN a heartfelt and candid pastoral letter, Bishop of Wollongong Peter Ingham has admitted the leadership of the Catholic Church failed parishioners in the diocese by its tardiness to address child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy and lay members.

Bishop Ingham’s apology was read or watched on DVD in all churches across the Macarthur region, Southern Highlands, Illawarra and Shoalhaven on July 17. Stepping outside of the shadows of some of the church’s most shameful secrets and cover-ups, Bishop Ingham was unreserved in his regret.

Pastors To Turn Gays

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:19 AM EST

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Pastors in Ghana have recently developed an appetite for horrible scandals, ranging from fraud to sex abuse, and sensational fetish priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam says the nation should expect more pastors to get involved in worse scandals, especially homosexuality.

New twist to Donagh sex abuse scandal

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:17 AM EST

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A family has claimed they have been warned not to bring children into a hospital ward in Londonderry because paedophile brothers from Donagh are being treated there.

James and Owen-Roe McDermott, who are at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal in the Fermanagh village, voluntarily entered the Lakeview psychiatric unit for assessment on Thursday.

Theresa Maginnis' 21 year-old son, who has severe learning disabilities, is on the same ward as the McDermott brothers.

Sexual assault case involving Salinas priest continued

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:15 AM EST

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Monterey County prosecutor called back two police officers to clarify their testimony Thursday in a hearing for a Salinas priest accused of sexually assaulting a teen.

Arguments are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 16, followed by a ruling from Superior Court Judge Terrance Duncan.

Orthodox face 'double whammy' in reporting child sex abuse

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:11 AM EST

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OPINION: An Orthodox couple from Lakewood are very special and heroic people. When they found out that their son was molested by a rabbi, they confronted the rabbi and got him to admit it.

But when the rabbi became defiant and would not go to therapy or agree to leave the synagogue, they went to the police and had him arrested.

The Vatican & Benedict XVI never saved children nor excommunicated pedophile priests during last quarter of 20th Century

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:04 AM EST

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History does not lie. Not history in the end of the 20th century anyway. Not today with the Internet and Google in the 21st century. Today’s power figures and historians are scrutinized in their every word and insinuations. See our feature on "Cardinal Bertone, what we need is not “spiritual renewal” but “a Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests” to warn and protect children

Child porn case rocks St. Pat’s

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 03:00 AM EST

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By CHRIS HUBBUCH and ANNE JUNGEN | Lee Newspapers

Members of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Onalaska reacted with a combination of shock, suspicion, anger and forgiveness after their priest was arrested last week on child pornography charges.

SNAP raises concerns over concert

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:53 AM EST

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An Iowa activist protested outside the Dubuque Archdiocese offices Thursday afternoon against a chorale concert to be held at Sinsinawa Mound, Wis., this weekend.

Steve Theisen, director of the Iowa Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the Dominican sisters are hosting a concert by the Chorale Midwest choir.

The group's director, Bradley T. Barrett, is accused in a civil lawsuit of child sexual abuse. Theisen called it "stunningly careless for Wisconsin nuns and Madison's bishop to let any Catholic group bring Barrett into their diocese."

Former Episcopal Priest Accused of Sex Assault

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:36 AM EST

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By BOB CONNORS NBC.Connecticut

A man who claims he was sexually abused by an Episcopal Priest is suing the South Windsor Church where he says the abuse happened nearly 40 years ago.

Robert Gough was a middle school student, when he says Rev. Bruce Jaques lured him into his office and sexually assaulted him. The alleged abuse happened in the late 1970s, according to Gough's attorneys.

80% of Post-Traumatic Stress Sufferers Lost Symptoms After Taking Ecstasy -- Study's Results

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:17 AM EST

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By Craig K Comstock

Study's conclusion -- new drug could "offer sufferers a vital window with reduced fear responses where psychotherapy can take effect."

Child Abuse and the Catholic Church

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 02:04 AM EST

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There have already been a couple of BRIN news posts reporting British public attitudes to the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests and alleged cover-ups thereof. ‘Pope Benedict on the Back Foot’ (20 April) featured a YouGov poll undertaken on 12-14 April. ‘Ongoing Public Relations Problems for the Vatican’ (30 May) dealt with a Harris Interactive survey from 27 April to 4 May.

Now, buried among the pre-general election political opinion polls conducted by Populus for The Times, BRIN has unearthed three further questions touching on the abuse issue. They were put to a half-sample (of 742 adult Britons aged 18 and over) interviewed by telephone on 6 April 2010. The data tabulations, including breaks by demographics, will be found on pages 62-65 of the following document:

Catholic Archdiocese of Portland reports on child abuse prevention procedures

Friday, July 23 2010 @ 01:56 AM EST

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Nancy Haught, The Oregonian

Every year, Bridget Becker rounds up parents and children from St. Juan Diego Catholic Parish to reflect on boundaries and what to do if someone breaches them. Age-appropriate videos and lesson plans spark discussions about physical, emotional and behavioral lines that no one should cross.

Starkly put, the subject is sexual abuse, and the goal is to prevent it within the parish and the broader Catholic Church. The prompt was a devastating scandal that rattled the American church and the Archdiocese of Portland eight years ago.

Pope To Be Protected From Arrest On UK Visit

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 06:32 AM EST

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The Government has moved to prevent the possibility of an arrest warrant being issued against the Pope during his state visit this autumn.

Sky News understands that Whitehall officials have been "seriously concerned" that campaigners would use international criminal rules to try to detain the Pontiff while he is in the UK.

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC were among those campaigners reported to be looking at the options for bringing a private prosecution in relation to the Pope's alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Priest gets suspended sentence for child sex abuse

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 04:40 AM EST

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A court in southern Germany has convicted a Roman Catholic priest of sexually abusing three underage girls and handed him a suspended sentence of 10 months.

The state court in Weiden said Tuesday it found the cleric guilty of unduly touching young girls below the waist during religious education classes in an elementary school in four cases last year.

Priest allowed to say Mass despite sex abuse allegations against him

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:44 AM EST

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A SYDNEY-BASED Irish Catholic priest was allowed to say Mass two years ago in Ireland despite allegations of sexual abuse against him.

ABC television last night revealed that on at least eight occasions Fr Finian Egan was given exemptions to conduct weddings or funerals while supposedly banned from doing so and under investigation by the church.

Parishioners turn out for Warren pastor accused of sex abuse

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:43 AM EST

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Christine Ferretti / The Detroit News

Warren -- Parishioners and colleagues from a Baptist church in Warren filled a courtroom today for a preliminary hearing for their pastor, who is accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy and accosting two other boys.

Warren District Court Judge Matthew P. Sabaugh instead granted an adjournment in the case to allow the attorney for Antioch Baptist Church pastor Christopher Settlemoir more time to review evidence.

Settlemoir's attorney, Stephen Rabaut, took the pastor's case late last month. A new examination date was set for Aug. 17.

Ex-Catholic Priest Who Volunteered At Special Olympics Confesses To Committing Child Abuse

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:32 AM EST

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A former Roman Catholic priest who was part of a $5 million sex abuse settlement in Wisconsin two decades ago was suspended from a volunteer position with Special Olympics Missouri and has admitted some of the abuse.

Mark Musso, president and CEO of Special Olympics Missouri, said the former priest, Tom Ericksen, 62, of Kansas City, was suspended indefinitely last week after the organization learned of the 1989 settlement with the Diocese of Superior, Wis.

Priest Destroyed Child Porn, Parents Say

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:29 AM EST

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (CN) - When a Catholic church's choirmaster was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of a child, his supervising priest abruptly left a parish school board meeting and went to the choirmaster's apartment to destroy evidence of the crimes by deleting files from the man's computer, a girl's parents claim in Buncombe County Court.

Beneath the child abuse scandal

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 03:02 AM EST

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By A.W. Richard Sipe

Examining the Crisis

Many people, including bishops, date and lable the "Crisis in the Catholic Church" to Jan. 6, 2002 when The Boston Globe began publishing its series about sexual abuse of minors by priests and revealing the conspiracy of bishops in covering up crimes.

That was the flash point of a worldwide scandal. The crisis it epitomizes is more profound.

The secret secret of the Vatican

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 02:57 AM EST

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The Vatican's policy on paedophile priests was so secret that not even the bishops knew about it

Was there a centrally organised cover up of child abuse within the Catholic church? This is one of the main charges against the institution. I don't believe it myself; I think there were disorganised and decentralised efforts to conceal scandal, just as there are in almost any organisation which discovers paedophiles working for it, from Islington Council to the United Nations.

It doesn't excuse the efforts that were made, but it doesn't suggest, either, that the Vatican is a uniquely wicked institution.

Church needs a rapid response unit

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 02:21 AM EST

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By Andrew O'Connell

Friday, July 16, felt more like Friday the thirteenth for anyone following the Church's fortunes in the media. The day turned into a nightmare as news programmes discussed the new Vatican document which includes details of much tougher procedures to deal with clerical abuse.

What should have been a good news day for the Church turned into a hugely damaging debacle. In addition to stricter child abuse procedures, the Vatican document also listed a number of crimes against the sacraments, such as the throwing away of a consecrated host and the ordination of women. This was enough for some media outlets to suggest that the Vatican was equating child abuse and female ordination.

Former Colebrook altar boy says he was abused

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 02:14 AM EST

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By DALE VINCENT

MANCHESTER – A second civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by the late Rev. George St. Jean during his New Hampshire assignments was filed yesterday in Hillsborough County Superior Court North against the Diocese of Manchester and the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Province of the United States, based in Washington, D.C.

Standing Up for the Rights of Abused Children

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:42 AM EST

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by John Dela Rosa, Guam News Watch

Although no one showed up to testify at the public hearing for Bill Number 334, that requires members of the clergy to report allegations of child abuse, Vice Speaker Benjamin J. Cruz found an unlikely ally in the Roman Catholic Church.

Just days after the public hearing, the Vatican released its revised procedures on how priests must deal with child abuse allegations they hear.

German court drops investigation into Catholic bishop

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:40 AM EST

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Public prosecutors have dropped an investigation into allegations that the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany aided and abetted a priest known to have abused children by letting him get a new parish job.

The prosecutors' office in Konstanz in southwest Germany said in a statement issued late on Wednesday there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of the German Bishops' Conference.

Second person alleges sexual abuse by priest

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:30 AM EST

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Accuser says incident took place in 1981 while Kelleher served in Charlotte

The Rev. Joseph Kelleher, charged earlier this month with child abuse in Albemarle in 1977, has been accused of a second incident involving a minor 29 years ago at a Catholic church in Charlotte.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating the new allegation against Kelleher, which was made July 14, a spokesman for the police department, Rob Tufano, told The Charlotte Observer yesterday.

Child abuse victims meet NI leaders at Stormont

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:27 AM EST

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Victims of institutional and clerical abuse described their meeting as 'positive'

Victims of child abuse in Northern Ireland have met the first and deputy first ministers.

Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness met a delegation representing victims at Stormont.

Catholics angry as church puts female ordination on par with sex abuse

Thursday, July 22 2010 @ 01:14 AM EST

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Women’s groups describe Vatican’s decision on female ordination as ‘appalling’

It was meant to be the document that put a lid on the clerical sex abuse scandals that have swept the Roman Catholic world. But instead of quelling fury from within and without the church, the Vatican stoked the anger of liberal Catholics and women’s groups by including a provision in its revised decree that made the “attempted ordination” of women one of the gravest crimes in ecclesiastical law.

Marthasville woman helps victims of clergy sex abuse

Wednesday, July 21 2010 @ 04:50 AM EST

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Judy Jones runs a quiet little bed and breakfast on five wooded acres near Marthasville, but last week she jetted off to head a press conference in West Virginia in a case about a priest charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl.

As the Midwest associate director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, Jones regularly travels to Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to pass out leaflets, run support groups or appear on television.

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I, as a non-believer, am wondering where was this great god that christians talk about when a child was being buggered by a dirty rotten Vatican priest.
According to the 'believers', god orchestrates everything on the planet and other planets which the god-fearing never even heard of. So he orchestrated the buggering of a child...WHY?
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