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Unsealed Calif. Church Papers Show Abuse Allegations
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN DIEGO (Oct. 24) -- Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public Sunday, revealing at least one previously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego intervened. After a three-year legal battle over the Diocese of San Diego's internal records, a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late Friday that they could be made public. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who ...
Thousands Protest the Pope in London
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Sept. 18) - Pope Benedict XVI met Saturday with five people who were molested by priests as children and apologized to them, even as abuse survivors and thousands of people opposed to his visit marched in central London in the biggest protest of his five-year papacy. Benedict met for about 30-40 minutes with the victims at the Vatican's apostolic nunciature in Wimbledon, according to the Vatican and Bill Kilgallon, chairman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission - a church group that organized the encounter. Benedict "expressed his deep sorrow and shame over what victims ...
Letter Calls on Pope to End Priestly Celibacy
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(May 28) -- A group of Italian women claiming to have had affairs with Catholic Church officials has posted an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI calling for an end to priestly celibacy. A priest "needs to live with his fellow human beings, experience feelings, love and be loved," the letter said, according to The Guardian. The letter dismisses priestly celibacy as a "man-made" law that should be adapted to modern times. The letter was endorsed by a dozen women, but only three actually attached their names to it. One of these women was Stefania Salomone, who claims she had a five-year ...
Vatican's Handling of Clergy Sex Abuse Gets Failing Grade in Survey
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAmerican Catholics by a nearly 2-1 margin think the Vatican has done a "poor job" handling the clergy sex abuse crisis, a dim view that follows months of embarrassing revelations and reports of persistent inaction by top church officials, including then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. Yet there is some good news for Rome as perceptions of Benedict have improved markedly of late, with 43 percent of Catholics now saying they view the pontiff favorably, up from just 27 percent in March. ...
Priest Sex Abuse Survey: Catholics See Links to Celibacy, Homosexuality
By David Gibson - Politics DailyGays in the priesthood and the ban on married priests are significant factors contributing to the sexual abuse of children by clergy, according to American Catholics surveyed in a new poll -- though researchers note there is little evidence to support such views. In the CBS News/New York Times poll released Tuesday, 31 percent of Catholics said they thought celibacy was a major factor leading to sexual abuse, while almost the same number (30 percent) said they believed homosexuality played a major role. Some 28 percent called celibacy a "minor factor" and 23 percent said homosexuality was a ...
Pope Promises Action on Scandal; Crisis Moves to D.C.
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPope Benedict XVI publicly reiterated on Wednesday his vow made to eight victims of clergy sexual abuse he met last Sunday in Malta that he would take strong action to prevent such crimes in the future. "I shared in their suffering and, with emotion, I prayed with them, assuring action on behalf of the church," Benedict said in Italian during his weekly public audience in St. Peter's Square. And in another development Wednesday in the ongoing crisis, a controversial cardinal and former high-ranking colleague of Benedict's at the Vatican was reportedly asked by organizers of a special ...
It's the Priests vs. the Nuns -- Again
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyOn the issue of health care reform, it's the priests vs. the nuns, with a coalition of the Catholic sisters who lead 60 different religious orders backing the proposed law, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposing it. Both camps are strongly anti-abortion, mind you, yet read the reform differently on that issue. The split along gender lines -- an echo of the old Catholic school system of seating the girls on one side of the room and the boys on the other -- is certainly nothing new; in fact, women have been challenging their brothers in Christ at least as far back as Catherine of ...
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