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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. ...
Debate: 4 Things the Pope Needs to Do
By not in system - AOL News(April 20) -- My entry for the topic "pedophilia" in the 2007 Encyclopedia of Catholicism states: "Nothing has damaged the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium more than the pedophile scandal. Many observers remain perplexed by the Vatican's continuing obtuseness toward the seriousness of the scandal." Unabated, the damage continues and the perplexity remains. And instead of addressing the problem, its leaders in the Vatican's inner sanctum offer lame explanations and excuses. _____________________ OPPOSING VIEWThere is no organization in the world that has admitted its mistakes, ...
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 ...
Wisconsin Church Abuse Victim: 'Never Give Up'
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsMILWAUKEE (March 25) -- Arthur Budzinski sits at a coffee shop, using sign language to talk about a new report that top Vatican officials knew about the priest who abused him and hundreds of other boys at a Catholic school for the deaf -- but failed to act out of fear of embarrassing the church. "This is nothing new for him," his daughter, Gigi Budzinski, said, interpreting her father's signs. "He's known for many, many years that people at the Vatican knew this and ignored it. His innocence was stolen from him when he was just a boy. Now he's 61 years old and he's still fighting this same ...
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