Pontifical Secret Transparency Scicluna Title: No secret that ‘pontifical secrecy’ is taking a beating at pope’s summit Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 23Feb2019 ROME – One hallmark of Pope Francis’s style is that during big moments, he prefers to have his friends and allies in the spotlight. That’s certainly the case during
Revelation ABC Barney Zwartz Title: Any wiser? Sarah Ferguson’s macabre journey into the mind of a paedophileAuthor: Barney ZwartzPublisher: The AgeDate: 10MAR2020 Father Vincent Ryan was a vile and depraved man, a sex abuser with no compunction, who was guilty of sexual assault of altar boys and even trying to make prepubescent boys have sex with
Transferring Priests Molest Children Title: ‘The church we so believed in abandoned us,’ mom of assault victim says at sentencing of Allentown Diocese priest Author: Laurie Mason Schroeder and Daniel Patrick Sheehan Publisher: The Morning Call Date: 24FEB2020 After the father of a 17-year-old Allentown Central Catholic High School student who was groped by an
Muytjens Clergy Dark Networks Title: Study identifies 16 child sex abuse rings in Victorian Catholic Church Author: Debbie Cuthbertson Publisher: The Age Date: 23FEB2020 A three-year research project into paedophile Catholic clerics in Victoria has identified 16 child sex abuse networks operating over six decades involving 99 priests and Christian Brothers.The investigation found that
Royal Commission Sexual Abuse Title: Health and Integrity in Church and Ministry: An ecumenical conversation on the task of rebuilding and renewal after the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Conference Papers Editor: Stephen Crittenden Publication: Franciscan Friars (Australia) Date: 27-29 August 2018 Melbourne, Australia Key excerpts: Recommendation 16.10 is formulated as follows:
Church and bad faith Title: The Church and bad faith Author: Alain Crevier Publication: Radio-Canada Date: 14FEB2020 Last spring, almost by accident, I came across the 30th anniversary of an event that deeply marked Canada. Strangely, it seems that the whole country has forgotten it. It must be said that the building was razed to the
Law Protection of Minors Title: Law No. CCXCVII on the protection of minors and vulnerable persons Author: The Holy Father Pope Francis Publication: Holy See Press Office Date: 26MAR2019 The Holy Father Pope Francis – recalling the Basic Law of Vatican City State, of 26 November 2000; – recalling the Law on the Sources of Law No. LXXI,
Prato Bishop Giovanni Nerbini Title: Priests in group shut down by Vatican accused of sex abuse Author: Nicole Winfield Publisher: Associated Press via Star Tribune Date: 29JAN2020 Nine priests and brothers of a Catholic group recently shut down by the Vatican are under investigation by Italian authorities for allegedly sexually abusing two brothers, officials and
Change Org petition Comensoli Author: Joolsmagools® Publication: Change Org website Date: 07FEB2017 Eileen Piper’s daughter Stephanie suicided one year after telling Catholic Church & police of her brutal rape by Catholic priest Gerard Mulvale. The Melbourne Archdiocese has never acknowledged Stephanie was raped. 94 year old Eileen is determined not to die & disappear before
Royal Commission Kieran Tapsell Title: Final Public Hearing into the Catholic Church in Australia Author: Kieran Tapsell Publication: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Date: 11JAN2017 Canon Law on Reporting: In contrast to the Church’s canon law since at least the 12th century, Pope Pius XI in 1922 imposed the strictest secrecy