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by bcadmin | Jun 10, 2021 | Cardinal Marx, Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, News, Opinion, Pope Francis, Responsibility Accountability Transparency, Top Story | 0 |
Whatever Cardinal Marx’s reasons for submitting his resignation, Pope Francis’s rejection of it makes the whole thing to appear thoroughly managed — orchestrated — choreographed.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 7, 2021 | Archdiocese of Louisville, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Congregation for Bishops, Diocese of Knoxville, Free Access, News, Pope Francis, Responsibility Accountability Transparency, Top Story | 0 |
There is a good deal more to the stories discussed here in broad strokes – likely more than enough to trigger a Vos estis investigation – and there is also more than enough in each, to trigger the desire of leading Churchmen to keep things tightly under wraps.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 3, 2021 | Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Come una madre amorevole, Justice, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vos Estis Lux Mundi | 0 |
The secrecy of the Church’s judicial processes hurts the innocent, while the opacity of her general practices tends to protect evildoers. Together, the Church’s secrecy and opacity undermine public confidence in her ability to deliver anything like justice.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | Americas, Catholic news, Catholic Schools, Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Diocese of Buffalo, Free Access, News, United States | 0 |
The Buffalo News reported that the diocese spent $3.8 million on bankruptcy-related expenses in its first year of bankruptcy. This amount nearly rivals its budget for the diocese’s 34 Catholic elementary schools.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | Catholic Church, Church in Germany, Church Reform, Clerical Abuse, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Europe, Free Access, German bishops, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg made his brief declaration live on YouTube March 18, saying: “I am of the firm conviction that taking responsibility is part of our duty to actively deal with this dark chapter in the best possible way and to move towards a better future for everyone, first and foremost for the victims themselves.”
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2021 | Archbishop Stefan Hesse, Björn Gercke, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Cardinal Ranier Maria Woelki, Church in Germany, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Europe, Free Access, Gercke Report, Germany, News, Vatican | 0 |
The report found more than 200 wrongdoers and more than 300 victims, most of them boys under the age of 14. Roughly half the allegations pertained to sexual abuse of different kinds and gravity, while the rest fell under the rubric of “boundary violation” or other misconduct of a sexual nature.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 3, 2021 | Church Reform, clerical abuse and coverup, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Europe, French Church, News, Vatican | 0 |
Jean-Marc Sauvé, the highly regarded 71-year-old career civil servant and former vice-president of France’s Council of State, told reporters on Tuesday that a June 2020 figure of 3,000 victims “is certainly an underestimate.”
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vatican reform | 0 |
A Vatican City criminal court heard two days of frequently gruesome testimony last week, in the trial of two clerics: 28-year-old Fr. Gabriele Martinelli and 71-year-old Fr. Enrico Radice. Martinelli, a former student at the St. Pius X minor seminary in the Vatican, is charged with sexual abuse of a junior boy when Martinelli was
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Church in Ireland, Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, Ireland, News | 0 |
“They need to hear from Church leaders like me,” Archbishop Martin says, saying also that it is “no wonder” so many victims of abuse find it difficult to forgive or to trust the Church.
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