Read the article by Kristina Chew on Care2.com We welcome, and everyone should join us, the initiative of the Vatican to hold a 3-day symposium on the prevention of clergy child abuse in February 2012 at the Jesuit University, Gregoriana in Rome. We welcome the initiative and at the same…
Article in the Guardian – 28 July 2011 – Riazat Butt Original Title: “Pope’s UK visit prompts increase in sex abuse allegations against church” Link to the original article. Comment from Sue Cox I don’t know why I am still amazed by the audacity and duplicity of the catholic church.…
Sunday Mirror – July 31, 2011 by Geoffrey Lakeman, Sunday Mirror 31/07/2011 A child protection official for the Catholic Church has been caught with 4,000 pictures of child porn. Father-of-four Christopher Jarvis was arrested after uploading pictures of children being abused to a website. Married Jarvis, 49, a former social…
On the Dutch website “Startpagina / weblog” you can find an extensive list of news releases and links to documentation concerning the clergy childhood sexual abuse in the catholic diocese of Cloyne, Ireland. For someone who wants to dig into this particularly dirty part of the Irish history a ‘must’.…
Thanks to: Care2.com – The Human Rights Cause – July 24, 2011 by: Judy M. Victims of sexual abuse by priests will no longer be able to sue the Catholic church for damages if a landmark judgment rules that priests should not be considered as employees. Such a decision could…
Our comment – July 17, 2011 Before reading on, please watch here the Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, deliver his groundbreaking speech at the Irish parliament. Never before a head of state of a European or other country has openly criticised the Vatican in such clear and stringent words on…
RTTNews – July 17, 2011 – by RTT Staff Writer – Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Wednesday took the Catholic Church to task for trying to cover up cases of sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy, and warned that relations between the Church and the Irish…
I had bad experiences in a Catholic all-boys college in Zimbabwe. There are many Catholic colleges for secondary schooling in Zimbabwe which might still be implementing harsh physical punishments. In particular my place of education was called St George, and there was a form of punishment called the ‘ferular’ ,…
By Dorothee Moisan (AFP) PARIS — A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday. Catherine T., who asked not to be identified by her family name, said…
CBC News Posted: May 4, 2011 5:43 AM ET A Roman Catholic bishop has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography for the purposes of importation to Canada. Raymond Lahey, former head of the diocese of Antigonish, N.S., told an Ottawa court Wednesday that he possessed and imported child pornography…
