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Evangelist Frankie Harris talk about the scandals facing the Catholic Church.
In his most thorough admission of the church's guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest persecution of the institution 'is born from the sins within the church,' and not from a campaign by outsiders. (May 11)
April 23, 2010 on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow - via www.AtheistMedia.com
Rachel talks with Sinead O'Connor about the long history of abuse by priests in Ireland & the organized cover-up by the Vatican. From MSNBC & msnbc.com
Sinead O'Connor talks with Rachel Maddow about her dissatisfaction with the pope's apology to sexually abused Catholics and what she believes the Vatican should do to make amends.
Contrary to Pope Benedict's assertion that the immorality of modern society is to blame for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, the church's own historical documents reveal that sexual abuse has been a problem that the Catholic Church has failed to properly deal with since its earliest days. The Church's first official document referring to the problem of sexual abusing children was in the year 60 AD. All of the documents referred to in this piece are real and have been fact checked. Original Video Here: www.youtube.com Subscribe To: www.youtube.com
Contrary to Pope Benedict's assertion that the immorality of modern society is to blame for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, the church's own historical documents reveal that sexual abuse has been a problem that the Catholic Church has failed to properly deal with since its earliest days. The Church's first official document referring to the problem of sexual abusing children was in the year 60 AD. All of the documents referred to in this piece are real and have been fact checked.
Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests' (www.thisislondon.co.uk Priest Says Pope Is 'Not Being Truthful' About Sex Abuse Cases Mass. Priest Calls for Pope to Resign Over Child Sex Abuse Accusations (abcnews.go.com
MOXNews.com April 13, 2010 CNN
CBS News Bob Schieffer on the sex abuse scandal facing the Catholic Church.
MOXNews.com April 12, 2010 ABC News
MOXNews.com April 11, 2010 ABC News
The Catholic Church in Europe has been rocked by a series of sex abuse scandals this year with victims from different countries.
The current president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights William A. Donohue defends the Catholic church in the wake of the Child abuse scandal engulfing the Vatican. Catholic Church sex abuse scandals around the world-news.bbc.co.uk Pope says his handling of sex abuse scandal is personal 'test'- www.timesonline.co.uk Britains most senior Catholic admits 'evil' clergy abuse has led to 'great public humiliation' of Church- www.telegraph.co.uk Catholic church hotline in meltdown over paedophile priests- www.telegraph.co.uk
Letter from the Pope to Ireland: www.vatican.va Article: www.guardian.co.uk Case against Pope dismissed: www.insurancejournal.com
Pope Benedict XVI made no direct mention of the sex abuse scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church in his latest public appearance at a special mass in St Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, but he did warn against being intimidated by gossip. As the Church observes Holy Week commemorating the last days in the life of Jesus Christ, it faces a growing crisis over the scandal and questions over Pope Benedict's leadership. VOA's Sonja Pace was at St. Peter's Square in Rome and filed this report.
MOXNews.com March 28, 2010 News Corp
MOXNews.com March 26, 2010 CNN
Jesus figure engaged in sex act with apostle via German monsignor's artwork, as uncovered in feature documentary Rape of the Soul - A Michael A. Calace film
The growing scandals might also curb the church's enduring role in European politics and public life. "When the Catholic Church comes out against biotechnology there will be Europeans that say, 'Why should we listen to you -- you put up with pedophile priests,'" said Philip Jenkins, a religion professor at Pennsylvania State University.
For Benedict, the sexual abuse revelations in Germany, where lawyers say that more than 300 cases of alleged abuse have emerged -- mostly since January -- are the most ominous. The archdiocese of Munich recently revealed that it had allowed a priest suspected of abuse to continue pastoring there in the early 1980s, when the pope -- then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- was archbishop. That priest was later convicted of abuse. The Munich archdiocese's number two official from the time has claimed full responsibility for the episode and no other cases that could implicate the pope have emerged. "If it's one case, it's embarrassing but survivable," says Allen. "If it becomes five or ten, a pattern emerges and it becomes something more serious."
Vatican watchers expect Benedict to step down over the growing crisis, charges of abuse in his native Germany are bringing the scandal closer to this pope than to any of his predecessors. "The scandals threaten his reputation in terms of how he governs the church," says Allen. "But there's also a threat to his personal reputation and moral authority."
Ireland, meanwhile, continues to wrestle with the fallout from years of revelations about abusive priests. It wasn't until this week that Ireland's top Catholic Cardinal acknowledged the church's response to the abuse had been "hopelessly inadequate." A letter from the pope responding to the Irish abuse is expected Saturday.
Pope Benedict XVI said he would soon send a pastoral letter to the Irish church and hoped it would promote "repentance, healing and renewal." Irish government investigations have found more than 15000 alleged victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Churc
In recent months the Catholic Church has been rocked by scandal. After widespread accusations of child abuse by priests in Ireland, similar claims have begun emerging from other European nations including Austria and the Netherlands. Now criticism in Germany is intensifying especially after the revelations that the current Popes' brother Georg Ratzinger knew about mistreatment of children in his Choir, although he claims no knowledge of sexual abuses.
NEW Catholic Church at Vatican Sex Scandal 1)Pope's brother will testify in German Catholic Church sex scandal www.abc.net.au www.ipsnews.net 2)Dutch church orders inquiry into sex abuse allegations news.bbc.co.uk www.americamagazine.org 3)Austrian arch-abbot admits child abuse news.smh.com.au 4)Pope Benedict lambasts Irish Catholic church over 'heinous' child sex abuse www.guardian.co.uk 5)Vatican chorister hired Male escorts and Choirboys for papal attendant: Report www.montrealgazette.com Vatican Enmeshed in Gay Sex Allegations www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2010 (2:18) The Vatican is dealing with another gay sex scandal among officials within the church. One choir member and a "Gentleman of His Holiness" have been accused of involvement with a prostitution ring.
Monsignor Eric Barr, Episcopal Vicar for Clergy and Religious for the Diocese of Rockford, IL, responds to the frequently asked question - "How has the Church changed after the abuse scandals?"
"We cannot forget the power of Christian conversion—that radical decision to turn away from sin and back to God—which reaches to the depths of a person's soul and can work extraordinary change." -Pope John Paul II
Police and Catholic Church Blasted Over Child Abuse Report www.vaticancrimes.us VaticanCrimes.us brings you the latest news from around the world, exposing the deceit, corruption, torture and gruesome crimes committed by the largest organized crime group in existence: THE VATICAN.
Damning Report into Abusive Priests in Dublin Archdiocese www.vaticancrimes.us VaticanCrimes.us brings you the latest news from around the world, exposing the deceit, corruption, torture and gruesome crimes committed by the largest organized crime group in existence: THE VATICAN.
For the latest news visit www.vaticancrimes.us and www.noticiadeimpacto.com RTÉ. 'Litany of abuse' in Dublin Archdiocese Catholic Church Sex Scandal: The report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin has said it has no doubt that clerical child abuse was covered up by the Archdiocese and other church authorities.
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Today 20/08/2009 the Irish authorities published their findings on institutional paedophilia from 1936 to date. It reflects what many of us have known, the whole of the Catholic Church worldwide is exercising a regime of corporal punishment, paedophilia and secrecy. Is the Vatican the left over remains of the Roman empire, the ultimate wolf posing in the ultimate sheep's clothing? Remember, we are in the middle of a credit crisis, the Vatican is a private unregulated bank. Should they be removed from the UN and investigated and audited internationally? If they'll do this to their followers children, what will they not do with their money?
Dyan Elliott presents the inaugural lecture of the Peter B. Ritzma Chair in the Humanities, March 10, 2009, at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University.
Paul Shanley, one of the scores of defrocked Catholic priests enveloped in the molestation panic that swept the church at the beginning of the decade, was sentenced to twelve to fifteen years in prison based largely on now discredited science of "repressed memory." JoAnn Wypijewski, who has followed the case since the initial indictment, talks about what has changed since Shanley was convicted and the media circus died down. Read Wypijewski's column here: www.thenation.com
Appearing on SiriusOutQ to discuss his demand to have the DNC rescind a gay bloggers credentials, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League tried to downplay the Catholic Church's ongoing sex abuse scandal and tried to blame it on gays and bath houses.
according to: cnn 'site www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/16/minister.sex.sting.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday. Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with Joe Barron, 52, of Plano for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police said. On May 6, Barron suggested meeting the girl in person. He eventually made the nearly 200-mile drive to Bryan, Texas, on Thursday, when he was arrested. Police said they found a Web-cam and condoms in his car. Barron was released Friday night from the Brazos County Jail on bond. Police were unsure whether he had an attorney. Barron is one of 40 ministers at Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26000 members. He ministers to married adults. Mike Buster, executive pastor, said in a statement that the church had no record or knowledge of previous improprieties or saw any inappropriate behavior in the 18 months Barron was on the church staff. Buster said church officials are fully cooperating with police
Pope Benedict XVI Addresses the American Church sex scandal during his Washington DC mass on 4/17/2008
wxyz's (channel 7 detroit) broadcast of kwame kilpatrick's apology to the city of detroit and his family on january 30 2008
Why is today's church facing scrutiny and scandal? Matt Sorger gives a timely prophetic word on God sifting the church in order to prepare a holy people for the return of Jesus Christ. www.mattsorger.com
Priest accused of gay sexual acts
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A settlement in a Portland, Oregon court means victims of childhood sex abuse in the Catholic Church will be compensated with millions of dollars, and secret files relating to pedophile priests in the Portland Archdiocese that span half a century will be publicly disclosed. More than 200 victims will share the amount that slightly tops $50 million. More than 89 lawyers were involved in the case at one time or another. All had high remarks for the judges who worked tirelessly in bringing the case resolution.
In January 2002, the Boston Globe publishes troves of once-secret documents surrounding the case of notorious Boston pedophile priest John Geoghan. News reporters and the public react with dismay and there are growing demands for the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. This news report is by David Boeri of WCVB TV Channel 5 in Boston.
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