Ex-priest incompetent to stand trial on sex assault charges
A former Roman Catholic priest who served in several Rhode Island parishes has dementia and is incompetent to stand trial on sexual assault charges, a magistrate ruled Friday.
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by bcadmin | Feb 12, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, clergy sex abuse, criminal justice, News, Rhode Island, trial | 0 |
A former Roman Catholic priest who served in several Rhode Island parishes has dementia and is incompetent to stand trial on sexual assault charges, a magistrate ruled Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 16, 2021 | Catholic News Service, clerical sexual abuse, News, seminary, trial, Vatican | 0 |
A Vatican prosecutor requested that Father Gabriele Martinelli, who is accused of sexually abusing a younger student at the St. Pius X Pre-Seminary, be sentenced to six years in prison if convicted.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Catholic news, Europe, finance, News, The Dispatch, Tommaso Di Ruzza, trial, Vatican, Vatican Finance, Vatican finance trial | 0 |
Tommaso Di Ruzza, right, speaks at a Vatican briefing alongside Alessandro Gisotti, center, and René Brülhart, left, May 21, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome, Italy, Jul 6, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
The indicted former director of the Vatican’s inte….
by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, London deal, News, Pope Francis, Secretariat of State, trial, Vatican, Vatican City State, Vatican criminal court, Vatican criminal justice, Vatican finances | 0 |
The Vatican has set a July 27 trial date for 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal and papal contender, on charges related to the Holy See’s 350 million-euro investment in a luxury London real estate venture.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | lead, London deal, News, Pope Francis, trial, Vatican, Vatican finances | 0 |
Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who oversaw the early stages of the London deal when he served as the substitute, or number two official, was indicted on Saturday along with nine others, including well-known Swiss lawyer René Brülhart, the former president of the Vatican’s financial watchdog unit.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 19, 2021 | Archbishop Hebda, Daunte Wright, Derek Chauvin, Featured, George Floyd, Justice, Local News, News, peace, prayers, trial | 0 |
As closing arguments began April 19 in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, Archbishop Bernard Hebda and priests across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offered special Masses for the Preservation of Peace and Justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2021 | archbishop bernard hebda, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Local News, News, police custody death, trial | 0 |
With the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer in the police-custody death of African American George Floyd set to begin March 8, Archbishop Bernard Hebda asked for prayers for peace and a commitment to justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Louis, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Murder, News, St. Louis, trial | 0 |
The trial has been delayed for a man accused of killing a woman and injuring two others at a suburban St. Louis Catholic supply store.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2020 | Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, News Analysis, Secretariat for the Economy, Theodore McCarrick, trial | 0 |
A close second in terms of who benefits from Tuesday’s acquittal of Cardinal George Pell is the Vatican, because the heavy lifting of evaluating the evidence has been done by someone else.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Church in Asia/Oceania, clerical sexual abuse, News, Secretariat for the Economy, trial | 0 |
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s highest court will deliver its ruling next week on whether to overturn the convictions of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse. The 78-year-old Pell is one year into a six-year sentence for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s
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