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Madonnina
Opinion

McCarrick report shows a church infected with unchecked clericalism

McCarrick Report Sick Church Title: McCarrick report shows a church infected with unchecked clericalism Author: Lisa Fullam Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 29DEC2020 The Vatican’s report on defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick revealed sexual abuse of adults and minors by a Catholic cleric and its cover-up by church officials — more of the same pattern we’ve

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Pope Francis abolishes pontifical
Opinion

Hand Washing or Social Distancing in the Time of Pell

Pope Social Distance Pell Title: Hand Washing or Social Distancing in the Time of Pell Author: Gail Freyne Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls & Irritations Date: 02NOV2020 The parish priest, Jorge Bergoglio could afford the luxury of welcoming with open arms an old colleague whom he believed to have been falsely accused of sexual abuse.

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Madonnina
Opinion

Analysis: What does Cardinal Farrell’s promotion say about the McCarrick report?

Cardinal Farrell McCarrick Report Title: Analysis: What does Cardinal Farrell’s promotion say about the McCarrick report? Author: JD Flynn Publisher: Catholic News Agency Date:  13OCT2020 Cardinal Kevin Farrell was appointed last week to lead a small committee charged with scrutinizing high-level Vatican financial decisions not governed by ordinary Vatican oversight norms. Because of Farrell’s background,

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Madonnina
Opinion

Guest Post: Book Review

Death Of Altar Boy Title: Guest Post: Book Review Author: Ann White Publisher: Father Mark White Blog Date: 10OCT2020 Death of an Altar Boy: The Unsolved Murder of Danny Croteau and the Culture of Abuse in the Catholic Church by E.J. Fleming, 2018. Reviewed by Ann White In 1972, thirteen year-old Danny Croteau was found

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Madonnina
Opinion

New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history

Dyan Elliot Corrupter Boys Title: New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history Author: Thomas P. Doyle Publisher: National Catholic Reporter Date: 10OCT2020 The “Catholic sex abuse crisis” is not a crisis. A crisis is a temporary period or series of events of an unstable and dangerous nature. It passes

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Madonnina
Opinion

Analysis: Two years after McCarrick investigation began, report not yet in sight

Where’s the McCarrick Report? Title: Analysis: Two years after McCarrick investigation began, report not yet in sight Author: JD Flynn Publisher: Catholic News Agency Date: 01OCT2020 Denver Newsroom, Oct 1, 2020 / 10:48 pm MT (CNA).-On October 6, 2018, the Holy See announced a review of its files and archives pertaining to Theodore McCarrick, the

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Madonnina
Opinion

Britain’s reckoning with past systemic child abuse is long overdue

Britain’s Child Abuse Reckoning Title: Britain’s reckoning with past systemic child abuse is long overdue Author: Caelainn Hogan Publisher: The Guardian Date: 26SEP2020 Ireland has started trying to rectify the wrongs of its history. The UK is lagging behind. When the pope said mass in Ireland in 2018, a vast field in Dublin’s Phoenix Park

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Opinion

Painful clergy sex-abuse reminders

Champion Attorney Mitchell Garabedian Title: Painful clergy sex-abuse reminders Author: Cliff Clark and Editorial Publisher: The Lowell Sun Date: 18SEP2020 Nearly two decades after the disclosure of widespread sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Boston that exposed a long history of that reprehensible behavior, victims of those unspeakable acts are still receiving some

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