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Published: 04/12/11

Vatican Sanctions Belgian Bishop Who Abused Nephew

By  not in system - AOL News
Vatican Sanctions Belgian Bishop Who Abused Nephew

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican has sanctioned a Belgian bishop who resigned last year after admitting he had sexually abused his nephew, saying he can no longer act as a priest in public and may risk further church sanctions. The Vatican on Tuesday clarified the punishment against the former Bruges Bishop Roger Vangheluwe after Belgian bishops reported over the weekend that he had merely been sent outside Belgium for spiritual and psychological counseling, a seemingly cushy punishment given the seriousness of the crime. Peter Maenhoudt, AP Bishop Roger Vangheluwe seen in Bruges, ...

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Published: 03/9/11

Philadelphia Archdiocese Accused of Covering Up Sex Abuse [VIDEO]

By  not in system - AOL News
Philadelphia Archdiocese Accused of Covering Up Sex Abuse [VIDEO]

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Published: 12/28/10

Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have to Compensate Sex Abuse Victims

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have to Compensate Sex Abuse Victims

The controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate victims of sexual abuse by priests. "The civil court must determine the compensation and the offender [the accused priest] must pay," Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels told a parliamentary commission in testimony three days before Christmas. According to the National Catholic Reporter, which ...

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Published: 07/23/10

Rome's Gay Priest Scandal Makes Everyone Look Bad

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Rome's Gay Priest Scandal Makes Everyone Look Bad

An Italian magazine that went undercover to report on the sexual hijinks of three gay priests in Rome is causing a major headache for Pope Benedict XVI at a time when his record on dealing with the sexual abuse of children by clerics was already an intractable crisis for the Catholic Church. But in this case there is actually enough blame to go around so that nobody should be pointing fingers. First off, there are the journalistic ethics of the tabloid news magazine, Panorama, which published its expose' on Friday. Panorama is owned by Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio ...

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Published: 06/22/10

Lawsuit: Legionaries of Christ Founder Raped His Son as Vatican Looked Away

By  Paul Wachter - Politics Daily
Lawsuit: Legionaries of Christ Founder Raped His Son as Vatican Looked Away

On Monday, Raul Gonzalez filed suit in Connecticut against the estate of his father, Roman Catholic priest Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Gonzalez claims that his father sexually abused him -- along with many other boys -- and while the Vatican was not named a defendant, the lawsuit said that "from at least the 1950s until 2002, the Legionaries, Fr. Maciel, the presiding Pope, the Vatican, and its officials engaged in a conspiracy to conceal their knowledge of Maciel's abuse of children." It's only the latest charge against Maciel, who founded the Legionaries ...

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Published: 04/8/10

Why I Could No Longer Be a Catholic

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
Why I Could No Longer Be a Catholic

An old friend of mine recently posted the following sentence on his Facebook page: "I know this is totally not a PC thing to say, but can someone please explain to me why anyone is still Catholic?" ...

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Published: 03/12/10

Questions Arise About Priest From Pope's Old Diocese

By  Dana Kennedy - AOL News
Questions Arise About Priest From Pope's Old Diocese

(March 12) -- The fallout from the growing Catholic sex abuse scandals finally reached as far as the pope Friday when it was revealed that Benedict XVI knew a priest was a pedophile in 1980 but approved a stint in therapy that allowed him to continue in the ministry, where he remains today. Benedict was an archbishop in Germany when the case began in 1980. The priest was accused of forcing an 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Friday night. Benedict approved a decision moving the priest, identified only as "H," to a rectory in ...

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Published: 03/9/10

Vatican Faces Widening Sex Abuse Scandals

By  Dana Kennedy - AOL News
Vatican Faces Widening Sex Abuse Scandals

(March 9) -- Sexual abuse scandals mired the Catholic Church on Tuesday as inquiries in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands intensified and the Vatican digested allegations that the Mexican founder of one of the church's most favored sects sexually molested his illegitimate sons. The new revelations come less than a month after Irish bishops were summoned to the Vatican to discuss decades of clerical sexual abuse in Ireland. A delegation of German bishops is scheduled to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on Friday about the growing crisis in Germany, where more than 170 students have claimed ...

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