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Vatican Sanctions Belgian Bishop Who Abused Nephew
By not in system - AOL NewsVATICAN 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, ...
Clergy Sex Abuse Claims Lead Milwaukee Archdiocese to File Bankruptcy
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe financial fallout from the clergy sexual abuse scandal continues to mount as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee is announcing today that it will file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, the eighth diocese in the United States to seek such protection. The move comes after settlement talks with victims broke down, making it likely that the archdiocese would have to go to court and incur legal fees as well as payouts that would leave it unable to function. Abuse cases have already cost the Milwaukee archdiocese more than $29 million as it has addressed almost 200 claims over the past ...
Son of Hitler's Deputy Bormann Accused of Child Sex Abuse
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsMartin Bormann Jr., the eldest son of Adolf Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, has spent decades attempting to atone for his father's sins. He has served as a priest and a Catholic missionary and has lectured in Germany, Austria and Israel on the horrors of the Holocaust. But Bormann Jr.'s almost saintly reputation is now threatened after he was accused of violently and sexually assaulting young pupils while serving as a teacher at an elite Austrian boarding school in the 1960s. Bormann Jr. has denied any knowledge of the events. The allegations -- the latest in a flurry of sex abuse charges ...
Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have to Compensate Sex Abuse Victims
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe 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 ...
Calif. Man Accused of Beating Priest He Says Molested Him
By David Lohr - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- A California man has been arrested, accused of beating an elderly Catholic priest he says molested him and his brother more than 30 years ago. "They're saying it was pretty close to beating him to death," defense attorney Pat Harris told The Associated Press. "They're essentially saying that he waited all these years and then took out his revenge. It's sort of the ultimate revenge story." William Lynch, 44, of San Francisco, was booked Friday into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Roughly six hours later, Lynch posted $25,000 bail and was ...
Nun Who Was Excommunicated for Denouncing Sex Abuse to Become 'Patron Saint Of Whistleblowers'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPope Benedict XVI has for months been battered by criticism over his history of dealing quietly with sex abuse by clergy, but in October he could make his most eloquent response yet when he canonizes a 19th-century Australian nun who was once excommunicated in part because she complained about priests who molested children. Mother Mary MacKillop, co-founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, an order dedicated to the religious instruction of children and care for the poor, will be Australia's first native-born saint when Benedict canonizes her at a Mass at St. Peter's in ...
Preacher Eddie Long Faces Third Sex Abuse Claim
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Sept. 22) -- A third lawsuit has been filed accusing Bishop Eddie Long of coercing young men in his Atlanta megachurch into having sex in exchange for cash and cars. The suit was filed today in DeKalb County Superior Court, in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Earlier today, a spokesman for the pastor said the two other young men who have filed lawsuits against Long are out to stake their claim on his fortune and called the allegations baseless. The allegations against the leader of a 25,000-plus-member church are particularly explosive because of Long's outspoken views on ...
Episcopal Bishop Reinstated Despite Sex Abuse Failure
By not in system - AOL NewsTwo years ago an Episcopal church court defrocked the Bishop of Pennsylvania, Charles Bennison, after finding that in the 1970s he failed to act on information that his brother, while youth minister at his parish, sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the congregation. ...
Episcopal Bishop Reinstated Despite Sex Abuse Failure
By David Gibson - Politics DailyTwo years ago an Episcopal church court defrocked the Bishop of Pennsylvania, Charles Bennison, after finding that in the 1970s he failed to act on information that his brother, while youth minister at his parish, sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the congregation. But on Aug. 4, a church appeals board overturned that verdict and said Bennison could be reinstated as head of the Philadelphia-based diocese, in part because the 10-year statute of limitations on the charges against him had expired. The appeals panel overruled the original court on one of two judgments of "conduct unbecoming ...
Sex Abuse Critic to Pope: Swap White Cassock for Black, Lose the Red Shoes
By David Gibson - Politics DailyBefore this year, when Pope Benedict XVI became best-known for his questionable record in dealing with the sexual abuse of children by priests, the pontiff often made headlines for his fastidious attention to high-end clerical fashion. Soon after his election in 2005, for example, Benedict rummaged through the papal attic for ornate gold vestments last worn during the Renaissance, and he resurrected a 19th-century liturgical cape so wide is must be held up by two attendants. Benedict has taken to wearing ermine-trimmed capes and hats, as well -- to the chagrin of animal rights activists -- ...
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