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Irish Soon to Publish New Report on Catholic Abuse
By not in system - AOL NewsDUBLIN -- A judge cleared the way Friday for Ireland to publish a new report into decades of Catholic Church cover-ups of child abuse - and how a Cork bishop kept crimes in his diocese secret long after the Irish church issued orders to start telling police. Dublin High Court Justice Nicholas Kearns ruled that only one chapter out of 27 in the upcoming Cork report required temporary censorship, because its subject is a priest about to face a criminal trial for rape and indecent assault. He said that chapter might be published as soon as July. Ireland's Justice Department, which sought the ...
Italy's Berlusconi: I'm Too Old for So Much Sex
By not in system - AOL NewsROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sat down with the enemy, telling an opposition newspaper that he is too old to have had all the sexual encounters he is accused of by Italian prosecutors. The 74-year-old faces trial in Milan next month over charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try to cover it up. In court documents, prosecutors have identified 33 women, including the Moroccan teenager, who allegedly prostituted themselves during parties at Berlusconi's villa near Milan. Andrew Medichini, AP Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said in a recent ...
Los Angeles Priest Ousted for Sex With Teen in 1960s
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- A Catholic priest who admitted having a sexual relationship with a high school girl more than 40 years ago was removed his position, and a high-ranking official who oversaw the background checks of priests resigned. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced Friday that the Rev. Martin P. O'Loghlen, who worked at Holy Name of Mary Church in San Dimas, was removed from any priestly activities. The archdiocese said it was reacting to inquiries from a New York Times reporter researching an article about O'Loghlen. The 74-year-old priest is accused of having a ...
Philly DA Charges Priests, Teacher With Assault
By not in system - AOL NewsPHILADELPHIA -- Two Roman Catholic priests, a former priest and a Catholic school teacher were charged Thursday with raping young boys, while a former high-ranking church official was accused of transferring problem priests to new parishes without warning anyone of prior sex-abuse complaints. The charges stemmed from a two-year grand jury investigation into priest abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the second such inquiry in the city. In the rare, if not unprecedented, move, the grand jury charged Monsignor William Lynn with endangering children in his role as secretary for clergy ...
John Edwards Engagement: 5 Reasons the Rumor Spread So Quickly
By Yelena Shuster - AOL NewsJohn Edwards, the man who was once considered a top presidential candidate, now seems relegated to a new role as fodder for tabloids and gossip. On Wednesday, less than a month after Edwards' estranged wife, Elizabeth, died from breast cancer, the National Enquirer ran a story suggesting that Edwards had proposed to his mistress and the mother of his love child, Rielle Hunter. Several reputable news organizations ran with the news, albeit with requisite disclaimers about the suspect nature of the Enquirer's journalistic integrity. While neither Edwards nor Hunter has personally denied the ...
Dutch Catholic Church Faces 2,000 Abuse Allegations
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- The Roman Catholic Church is still struggling to cope with the fallout of sex abuse scandals from Germany to the U.S., but it now faces a flood of damaging new allegations from the Netherlands. According to a report from an independent commission, almost 2,000 Dutch people have reported being sexually and physically abused by priests when they were children -- a huge number for a country with only 4 million Catholics. The church set up the investigative commission in March after scandals involving pedophile priests surfaced in neighboring Belgium and Germany. The panel published ...
Megachurch Pastor Denies Abuse Allegations
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ATLANTA (Nov.2) -- The megachurch pastor accused of luring four young men into sexual relationships categorically denied the allegations for the first time in a court filing Monday, saying he was only a mentor to the men who filed civil lawsuits against him. Bishop Eddie Long has for weeks vowed he would fight the lawsuits in court, and promised in church sermons he would not let the legal troubles prevent him from doing its work. While his attorney has denied the allegations on his behalf, Long had not refuted them publicly until he filed his legal response. He said in the filing that each ...
Supreme Court Declines Vatican Sex-Abuse Appeal
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review a lawsuit that challenges the Vatican's immunity from prosecution in clerical sex abuse cases. Minnesota lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who filed the case in 2002, called the high court's decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward "an enormous breakthrough for the movement of sex abuse survivors." "The Vatican has hidden behind a wall of immunity and acted as if they are above the law," Anderson told AOL News today. "Now we have a crack in that wall, and we will move forward in our fight against the Vatican." Anderson said the court's ...
Tiger Woods' Sex Scandal: The Video Game
By David Moye - AOL News(April 23) -- Tiger Woods' sex scandal may have tarnished his image, but it has made a new video game based on his off-the-course life a lot more exciting. Woods is now the star of "Tiger Woods Affair Tour 2010," a raunchy, sexually explicit video game that its creators describe as a mix of "Grand Theft Auto" and "South Park." Courtesy D-Dub Software D-Dub Software has just released "Tiger Woods Affair Tour 2010," an unauthorized and sexually explicit video game that lets players walk in Woods' golf shoes as he has sex with as many women as possible. Characterized as interactive parody, ...
Sex Scandals, Italian Style: Are Europeans Finally Becoming Prudes?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, guys, I think it's finally happened. After years of relentlessly mocking Americans for their prudish attitudes towards politicians' extramarital affairs, Europe finally has a sex scandal it wants to distance itself from. ...
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