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Vatican Says Leaked Sex Abuse Policy Letter Is No Smoking Gun
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsThe Vatican said today that a newly leaked 1997 letter written to Irish bishops warning them about reporting sex abuse to police was misinterpreted as evidence of the church trying to enforce cover-ups. The church denied the letter was a so-called "smoking gun," as described by some clerical sex abuse activists. But attorneys for victims of pedophile priests say it may embolden more to come forward and could help one day lead to successful lawsuits against the Holy See itself. Just last week, Jeffrey Anderson, the pre-eminent attorney for Catholic sex abuse victims in the U.S., opened a new ...
Police Block Sex Abuse Survivors Near Vatican
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ROME (Oct. 31) -- Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Sunday by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter's Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave letters from the abused at the Holy See's doorstep. The two also left a dozen stones near the obelisk in St. Peter's square to mark a symbolic path so other survivors might know they have company in their suffering. The candlelit protest was the first demonstration in the shadow of the Vatican by people who had been raped and molested by priests as children, and ...
Vatican: Ordaining Women a Crime Like Sex Abuse
By not in system - AOL News(July 9) -- New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law. ...
Future Pope Resisted Defrocking Pedophile Priest, Letter Shows
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (April 9) -- The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature. The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office. The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin ...
About That Vast Anti-Catholic Conspiracy . . .
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyOh Holy Father, I am going to tell you exactly what I told Hillary Clinton -- not that she wanted to hear it any more than you do. Because you were busy receiving mail from a monster named Father Lawrence Murphy in January 1998, you may or may not recall our then-first lady telling the "Today" show's Matt Lauer that her husband had not been carrying on with a White House intern. Nope, that was just another story being peddled by his enemies, as part of their unrelenting efforts to destroy him by any means necessary. "I do believe that this is a battle," she said. "I mean, look at the very ...
1963 Letter Indicates Pope Paul VI Knew of Abuse
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (March 31) - The head of a Roman Catholic order that specialized in the treatment of pedophile priests visited with the then-pope nearly 50 years ago and followed up with a letter recommending the removal of pedophile priests from ministry, according to a copy of the letter released Wednesday. In the Aug. 27, 1963, letter, the head of the New Mexico-based Servants of the Holy Paraclete tells the pope he recommends removing pedophile priests from active ministry and strongly urges defrocking repeat offenders. AP A 1963 letter sent to Pope Paul VI may indicate the then-pope knew ...
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