Tag: Catholic Church

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Opinion

McCarrick report shows former cardinal’s character: ambitious, brazen, untouchable

Ambitious Brazen Untouchable McCarrick Title: McCarrick report shows former cardinal’s character: ambitious, brazen, untouchable Author: Fr. Peter Daly Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 08DEC2020 Seventeen! That’s the most shocking number in the Vatican’s 449-page report on ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. McCarrick appears to have molested 17 “postpubescent boys or young men” over the course of his

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George Pell

Post-punk maestros YFC reunite with a sonic middle finger to George Pell

YFC George Pell Knew Title: Post-punk maestros YFC reunite with a sonic middle finger to George Pell Author: Mike Hohnen Publisher: Blunt Magazine Date: 07DEC2020 Very few genres in and of themselves are utilitarian, but that’s not to say they are without their uses, or perhaps ‘purpose’ is a more correct word. Let’s look at

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Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Opinion

Opinion: Archdiocese must be held accountable for priest abuse

Geoff Drew Theodore McCarrick Title: Opinion: Archdiocese must be held accountable for priest abuse Author: TERESA DINWIDDIE-HERRMANN, JAN SEIDEL, DAN FRONDORF AND KATHY WEYER Publisher: Cincinnati.com (Enquirer) Date: 06DEC2020 After a two-year investigation, the Vatican recently released a 450-plus-page report about now-defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and how the Catholic Church hierarchy failed to stop his

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Madonnina
Opinion

Time for a reckoning: Church must confront, change old boys’ network exposed in Vatican’s McCarrick report | Faith Matters

McCarrick Report Reckoning Santora Title: Time for a reckoning: Church must confront, change old boys’ network exposed in Vatican’s McCarrick report | Faith Matters Author: Rev. Alexander Santora Publisher: NJ.Com (The Jersey Journal) Date: 06DEC2020 The report refers to her simply as “Mother 1.” A Manhattan woman with a large brood of mostly boys and

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Opinion

The Connection between Archbishop Gregory Aymond and St. John Vianney Prep

SNAP Archbishop Gregory Aymond Title: The Connection between Archbishop Gregory Aymond and St. John Vianney Prep Author: Kevin Bourgeois Publisher: Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Date: 03DEC2020 I am a proud graduate of St. John Prep’s final graduating class of 1985. My high school alma mater closed, we were told, because not

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The U.K. is reckoning with a clerical sex abuse crisis. Again.

United Kingdom Clerical Abuse Title: The U.K. is reckoning with a clerical sex abuse crisis. Again. Author: Ricardo da Silva, S.J. Publisher: America Magazine Date: 03DEC2020 Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of child sexual abuse and trauma.On the night before her confirmation, Sue Cox was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at a convent

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Opinion

New Supplemental Attorney General’s Report Shines New Light on Clergy Sexual Abuse in Colorado

Clergy Sexual Abuse Colorado Title: New Supplemental Attorney General’s Report Shines New Light on Clergy Sexual Abuse in Colorado Author: Mike Finnegan Publisher: Jeff Anderson & Associates Date: 02DEC2020 Nine additional perpetrators named in the new report, including celebrated Father C.B. “Woody” Woodrich (Saint Paul, MN) – We commend Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and

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Report uncovers 9 new abusive Catholic priests, 46 more victims; number of abused children climbs to 212

Clergy Abuse Reckoning Colorado Title: Report uncovers 9 new abusive Catholic priests, 46 more victims; number of abused children climbs to 212 Author: Seth Klamann Publisher: The Denver Gazette Date: 01DEC2020 A report released Tuesday by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office identifies nine new Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing juveniles in the mid-to late

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Sins of the fathers: Ireland’s sex abuse survivors

Ireland’s Clergy Abuse Survivors Title: Sins of the fathers: Ireland’s sex abuse survivors Author: Euronews Staff Publisher: Euronews Date: 27NOV2020 Revelations of sexual abuse inside the Catholic church shook Ireland to its core. Unreported Europe speaks to those who survived the paedophile priests and examines if the church has truly taken responsibility for the scandal.

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