Pope Needs To Practise What He Preaches Title: Pope Francis and practising what one preaches Author: Kieran Tapsell Publisher: Pearls and Irritations, John Menadue.com Date: 18OCT2024 Pope Francis has called upon Church authorities to cooperate with civil authorities in relation to child sexual abuse by Church personnel. When it comes to the Vatican cooperating, it
Dark Shadow of Scandal Title: The dark shadow of scandal still lurks four years after the Royal Commission findings Author: Francis Sullivan Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 08OCT2021 Unless all the implications of the sex abuse scandal are faced head-on, the Church will struggle to be identified for anything else. Thursday at
Time To Stand Up Title: Dear your graces and my lord bishops of Australia are you listening? Or like church mice. Author: Chris Geraghty Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 08MAR2021 Ok. That’s it. Time to stand up. The alarm has sounded. Rub the sleep from your eyes, take off your embroidered nightshirts,
Potiphar’s Wife Kieran Tapsell Title: Potiphar’s Wife: The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sexual Abuse Podcast Host: Ed Opperman Publisher: The Opperman Report via Radio.com Date: 20FEB2021 The ‘cover-up’ of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church has been occurring under the pontificate of six popes since 1922. For 1500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that clergy
Glen Walsh Heavy Price Title: Most viewed posts 2020: Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price (Sep 9, 2020) Author: Chris Geraghty Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 07JAN2021 The revelations never end about priests and brothers, of monsignors and bishops with their secret sexual lives, masturbating, buggerizing, sodomizing and raping boys and
Catholics For Renewal Australia Title: Waiting with hope for Church renewal. Author: Catholics For Renewal Publisher: John Menadue Date: 20DEC2020 “We begin to die the day we don’t act on things that matter.” – Dr Martin Luther King Jnr As of 10 December 2020, 297 days remain before the Opening of the 1st Session of
Pope Social Distance Pell Title: Hand Washing or Social Distancing in the Time of Pell Author: Gail Freyne Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls & Irritations Date: 02NOV2020 The parish priest, Jorge Bergoglio could afford the luxury of welcoming with open arms an old colleague whom he believed to have been falsely accused of sexual abuse.
Holy See clericalist obstinance Title: Holy See response to Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission: another example of clericalist obstinance Author: Des Cahill and Peter Wilkinson Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 10SEP2020 It is almost three years since the Royal Commission inquiring into child sexual abuse recommended that the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
RIP Father Glen Walsh Title: Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price Author: Chris Geraghty Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 09SEP2020 The revelations never end about priests and brothers, of monsignors and bishops with their secret sexual lives, masturbating, buggerizing, sodomizing and raping boys and girls – protected by an amoral hierarchy
Australian Catholic church finished? Title: Consumatum est: is the Australian Catholic church finished? Author: Garry Everett Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 23AUG2020 Can we save Jesus from the Church? Consumatum est was reportedly, the last expression of Christ on the Cross— “it is finished”. The same expression could be applied today to