Nothing has changed at St Stanislaus College in relation to reporting sex abuse despite being cleared by a NSW Parliamentary enquiry .
The current "Harassment Policy" makes no recommendation to notify the police or DOC'S for "Any student who is subjected to harassment from other students or from any member of the College community"
It's mind-boggling that Burlington's Catholic bishop tried to overturn a jury verdict in a clergy sex abuse case on patently flimsy grounds. ("Court to combine Vermont priest lawsuits," Feb. 3)
In the USA, over 900,000 children are victims of abuse & neglect every year. Child abuse is so common, yet shocking . Whether the abuse is physical, emotional, sexual, or neglect, the scars can be deep and long-lasting, often leading to future child abuse. Learning the signs and symptoms of child abuse can help break the cycle, finding out where to get help for the children and their caregivers.
I mentioned that I am reading James Carroll’s Practicing Catholic, which I am enjoying tremendously.
In talking about the clergy sex abuse scandal, Carroll suggests that there is plenty of blame to be spread around, including among ordinary Catholics. In his view, “each Catholic had reason to feel implicated.” I share the following paragraph fully recognizing that many people will have different views about some of the examples Carroll uses, because I think his underlying point is a valid and important one.
CONWAY — Four members of a New Hampshire church have been charged with failure to report suspected sexual abuse of a child.
Conway police have charged the associate pastor and three elders of the Valley Christian Church with a misdemeanor charge of failing to report that they suspected a 12-year-old girl affiliated with the church may have been sexually abused.
Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into the extent of child abuse in Northern Ireland institutions run by both the state and the churches.
Its NI executive director told the SDLP conference the government should comply with its "international obligations".
BERLIN -- The German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that the number of sexual abuse cases in Germany by Catholic clerics and laymen is much higher than was previously thought.
Shanley recovered memory case. Shanley lost the appeal in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Shanley was accused of sexual abuse in the 1960’s, the 1970’s, the 1980’s and the 1990’s. His church personnel records indicated he was transferred from parish to parish despite allegations of abuse. The Boston Herald (4/9/02) printed that Shanley “spoke in favor of sex between men and boys at a formative 1978 meeting in Boston of the “Man Boy Lovers of North America” and that he “admitted openly to raping and sodomizing minors when confronted by church investigators under Boston’s two past archbishops, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros and Law.”
Created in 1962, a now infamous document was issued in secret to bishops. Called
Crimen Sollicitationis, it outlined procedures to be followed by bishops when dealing with allegations of child abuse, homosexuality and bestiality by members of the clergy. It swore all parties involved to secrecy on pain of excommunication from the Catholic Church.
This document was reissued in 2001 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and sent to all bishops. Yet rather than ordering more openness and cooperation with the authorities as demanded by both law enforcers and the victims, he reiterated its policies and ensured that the Code of Silence be applied to all cases of child abuse involving a priest. Cardinal Ratzinger also instructed that all cases should now be referred to his office directly and that he would
maintain â€exclusive competence’ over the handling of allegations.
In ten days' time, the Vatican's most intense response yet to the global church's clergy sex-abuse crises begins as Pope Benedict spends two days in an unprecedented closed-door summit with Ireland's 30 active bishops, along with the expected release of a pastoral letter from the pontiff to the heavily-Catholic Isle, still reeling from November's harrowing conclusions of a state inquiry that chronicled the history of abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin, and the serial mishandling of accused priests by generations of its church leadership.
AS THE countdown begins to the forthcoming Vatican meeting between Pope Benedict, senior Curia figures and the Irish bishops, Vatican insiders have suggested the Holy See has been alarmed by recent signs of internecine strife within the Irish hierarchy.
Many commentators believe the Holy See intends the meeting, scheduled for February 15th and 16th, to serve as a starting point around which the Irish Catholic Church can unify as it strives to achieve closure on the pain inflicted, above all on the victims but also on the church, by Ireland’s prolonged clerical child abuse crisis.
Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland’s government concluded Thursday.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the three-year investigation, said he felt deep shame and sorrow for how previous archbishops presided over endemic child abuse — yet claimed afterward not to understand the gravity of their sins.
According to Eau Claire Police Chief Jerry Matysik, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki didn't tell the truth to legislators when he explained the La?Crosse Diocese notification policy for clergy sexual abuse allegations.
A judge set bail at $25,000 Thursday for a retired priest removed from his position with the Catholic Church after allegations of child sexual abuse in the mid-1970s surfaced.
On Jan. 22, a Frederick County grand jury indicted Thomas Roy Bevan, 73, on two counts of child abuse by a custodian, according to court documents made public Thursday.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has become “a source of division” among angry priests of the archdiocese of Dublin, the Irish Catholic newspaper claims.
In its weekly edition yesterday, Ireland's biggest Catholic newspaper published the minutes of a private meeting of Dublin priests held last month.
/EIN News/ -- A Jesuit teacher has confessed to sexually abusing boys in the 1970s and 80s at a top German Catholic school.
More than 25 alleged victims of abuse have made claims against three staff members of Canisius college in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s. The alleged victims have said they were punished by being spanked or caned on their bare buttocks, often while alone in a room with one of the men. Others said that they were asked embarrassing details about masturbation or ordered to masturbate in front of a teacher.
A Sydney court has heard a former Catholic priest plans to withdraw his guilty plea to some of the sexual abuse charges brought against him by former students.
In December, John Sidney Denham pleaded guilty to 29 child sex offences dating back to the 70s.
WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki is taking some heat over allegations of sex abuse; abuse that allegedly took place in Listecki's former diocese, La Crosse.
Frederick County authorities have filed child abuse charges against a retired Catholic priest for alleged offenses against an altar boy in 1976.
Monsignor Thomas Bevan, 73, of Cascade was released on $25,000 bail Thursday. He was indicted on two counts of child abuse Jan. 22 but the charges were kept sealed until Thursday, when an arrest warrant was served.
My long term, six year battle for justice & protection in the socialist-based province of SK Canada where this country is actually categorized as socialist,---is just the tip of the ice berg in terms of the destruction of our normal homes & families by gov’t design.
A former gym teacher at a Catholic high school is being held on a criminal sex assault charge in connection with having sex with a student once a week for several months last year, authorities said.
Wesley Cherniak, 32, of the 3800 block of N. Bernard St., was charged Thursday and Cook County Criminal Court Judge Donald Panarese ordered him held in lieu of $250,000 bail in a bond hearing today.
The Catholic Church has yet again used a legal manoeuvre to try to delay payment of compensation to victims of a sex abuse at a Catholic-run children’s home in Market Weighton, near York.
CUMBERLAND — Monsignor Thomas Bevan, former pastor of the Church of St. Patrick on Centre Street, has been charged by Frederick County authorities for child abuse against an altar boy in 1976.
The 73-year-old retired priest, of Cascade, was released on $25,000 bail Thursday. He was indicted on two counts of child abuse Jan. 22 but the charges were kept sealed until Thursday, when an arrest warrant was served.
The Devil may seem an archaic symbol of evil, but he is supposed to be alive in the world to this day with his Satanic conspiracies. From the 1960s onwards, one expression of him was the Church of Satan, set up in San Francisco by occultist, Anton La Vey.
Said to have perverted many a star, his ceremonies involved a naked woman as an altar and his philosophy was based on unbridled hedonism. The death of Jane Mansfield was even put down, by some, to their rituals.
US victims of child abuse have unearthed a direct link to scandals in Ireland, revealing that 70 irish priests who worked in the States have been accused of paedophile crimes.
This dramatic disclosure follows the admission by the archdiocese of Boston that the list includes the late Fr Brendan Smyth, who worked briefly in Arlington two decades ago.
AS THE countdown begins to the forthcoming Vatican meeting between Pope Benedict, senior Curia figures and the Irish bishops, Vatican insiders have suggested the Holy See has been alarmed by recent signs of internecine strife within the Irish hierarchy.
Many commentators believe the Holy See intends the meeting, scheduled for February 15th and 16th, to serve as a starting point around which the Irish Catholic Church can unify as it strives to achieve closure on the pain inflicted, above all on the victims but also on the church, by Ireland's prolonged clerical child abuse crisis.In such a context, the Holy See has been confused and alarmed by apparent factional in-fighting among the hierarchy.
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Frederick County authorities have filed child abuse charges against a retired Catholic priest for alleged offenses against an altar boy in 1976.
Seventy-three-year-old Monsignor Thomas Bevan, of Cascade, was released on $25,000 bail Thursday. He was indicted on two counts of child abuse Jan. 22 but the charges were kept sealed until Thursday, when an arrest warrant was served.
By LORNA COLQUHOUN New Hampshire Union Leader Correspondent
CONWAY – The pastor and three elders of a church in Redstone were arraigned yesterday on charges they failed to report an alleged case of sexual abuse when they became aware of it last summer.
The four men belong to Valley Christian Church, located on East Conway Road in a warehouse it shares with an automotive service shop.
A former rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Owego has been arrested by Pennsylvania State Police after he was accused of having oral sex with a boy.
Ralph E. Johnson, 82, was arraigned in Clifford, Pa., on 15 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, a felony; 15 counts of indecent assault, a misdemeanor; and 15 counts of corruption of minors, a misdemeanor, according to a police report.
goes to paying the legal fees for the plethora of Clergy Sexual Abuse cases? Here are some of the numbers for the USA. This is only a few. And only here in the USA.
BIG BEAR--A pastor who preached at churches in Big Bear City and Glendora is behind bars on suspicion of felony child molestation. Investigators disclosed Wednesday the arrest last weekend of Martin Richter, 48, at his home in Big Bear City.
This is an internet radio interview of Illuminati defector, 'Svali.' She talks about her life in the Illuminati, why she left, how the Illuminati has infiltrated world governments, (including the US government), and what the Illuminati 'New World Order' agenda is.
(CNN) -- The head of the largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States faced a grueling five-hour deposition last month, answering questions about his knowledge of abusive priests and his attempts to prevent the information from reaching police.
A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California, would not answer further questions about Cardinal Roger Mahony's deposition in a civil lawsuit.
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