Many of the most heinous acts were perpetrated by IRA members, powerful and feared individuals who behaved as though a licence for sexual rampage was a perk of the job. The public was also presented with a woefully inadequate response by a republican leadership more committed to avoiding bad publicity than protecting children. Sexual abuse seems to have been rife within the republican movement for decades. Sexual abuse is, of course, a corrupting feature of life in all sectors of society but the trauma inflicted on victims was greatly exacerbated by the peculiar circumstances of the Troubles.
Engagement of any kind with the RUC was forcefully discouraged within nationalist areas so sex crimes were seldom reported.
Offenders were moved around or told to lie low. Survivors were intimidated into silence. His late father, Gerry Adams Sr, subjected family members to emotional, physical and sexual abuse over many years. The elder Adams had been a revered figure in republican circles since the s. Gerry Adams did not speak publicly about the abuse until , when the media revealed that his brother was facing allegations. Liam Adams is serving a year sentence for sexually assaulting his daughter Aine who waived her right to anonymity.
The abuse was carried out between and when Aine was aged between four and nine. Ms Cahill, a member of a well-known republican family, told how she had been repeatedly raped during her teens by an IRA man. Mr Adams denied any suggestion that he conspired in a cover-up. The closing weeks of were a torrid time for the party, as pressure mounted over what its leaders knew. Mr Adams was accused of failing to provide to the authorities information about abusers. By way of explaining how the list had come into his possession, he said it had been posted through the letterbox of his Belfast home by an anonymous caller.
Already, it seems, the IRA and its abuse scandals have been reduced to a footnote. She has none of the baggage associated with armed republicanism and, for many, represents a clean break with the dark past embodied by Mr Adams. But, in order to fully vindicate this billing, she will have to distance herself from the toxic attitudes to sexual abuse that were also a trademark of former times. All of this leaves her vulnerable to accusations of double standards, especially in the current climate.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of students who were allegedly abused while attending a Catholic boarding school in Quebec. The lead plaintiff in the case, an unnamed year-old man identified in court documents as X, accuses Father Jacques Desgrandchamps of abusing him between and Posted on November 24, A priest who was jailed for 17 years after he was convicted of a campaign of sexual abuse of a teenage boy today won the first stage of his fight to clear his name.
Michael Higginbottom, 74, allegedly subjected the boy to repeated sex assaults while he was working as a teacher at a seminary in Lancashire in the s. The Catholic clergyman was accused of abusing the youngster in his living quarters at St Joseph's College, in Upholland, near Skelmersdale. He was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of eight serious sex crimes in April and jailed for 17 years.
But Higginbottom, of West Farm Road, Walker, Newcastle, continues to claim innocence and was today granted the right to an appeal by the UK's top judge. A Court of Appeal panel, led by lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, said Higginbottom has an "arguable" case that his convictions should be quashed. Police are investigating further reports of sexual abuse by a monk and another man on Caldey Island more than 30 years ago.
There have been several reports about offences committed by Father Thaddeus Kotik on the island off the Pembrokeshire coast between and Court documents seen by The Guardian say Kotik committed offences against the six girls between and The women have now launched civil proceedings against the Cistercian order, claiming personal injuries.
Daniel van Santvoort acknowledged that allegations made against Fr Thaddeus Kotik should have been reported to authorities, and apologised for any harm caused to alleged victims. The monk, who died in , allegedly abused at least nine children during the s and 80s. He was a member of the Trappist community that is situated on the island of Caldey, off the coast of southern Wales.
An Adelaide Catholic school has covered up a statue of a religious icon after it created a stir on social media because of its apparently unintended suggestiveness. The statue was recently installed at Blackfriars Priory School in Prospect and depicts a 16th century saint handing a bread loaf to a child's outstretched hand.
In the past 12 years, at least two former Blackfriars teachers — Stephen John Stockdale-Hall and Ronald William Hopkins — have been jailed for sexually abusing students at the school. On Wednesday the school said the design of its new statue looked fine on paper but acknowledged it could be interpreted in a more sinister way. See also the Facebook post by Simon Cobiac, the school's principal. Buzzfeed ran the headline: An Adelaide Catholic school has been forced to cover and cordon off a new religious statue after raising eyebrows because of its unfortunate design.
The sculpture showed St Martin de Porres handing a young boy a loaf of bread, which appears to have emerged from his cloak. The Advertiser understands the school was forced to cover the statue with a black cloth after students took photos of it on Friday and by this week, it had been cordoned off. These are just a few of the stories being told right now on Twitter using the hashtag ChurchToo: Started by Twitter users Emily Joy, a spoken word poet and yoga teacher, and writer Hannah Paasch, the hashtag is designed as space for people who have suffered from the structural sexism they see as embedded in many church cultures to speak about their experiences.
This article contains additional text, not included in the CBS version of the article, which Abuse Tracker posted on November 21, There are more than 22, registered madrassas or Islamic schools in Pakistan. Many more madrassas — small two- or three-room seminaries in villages throughout Pakistan — are unregistered, opened by a graduate of another madrassa, often without any education other than a proficiency in the Quran. They operate without scrutiny, ignored by the authorities, say residents living nearby. Madrassas are funded by wealthy business people, religious political parties and even donors from other countries, such as Saudi Arabia.
The teachings of the madrassas are guided by schools of Islamic thought, such as Shiite and Sunni. However, unlike the Catholic Church, which has a clear hierarchy topped by the Vatican, there is no central religious authority that governs madrassas. There is also no central body that investigates or responds to allegations in religious schools. Monsignor Hamill had acted up in his capacity as Vicar General of the Diocese of Dromore as the administrator when Bishop McAreavey took a temporary break from his duties in However this week Bishop McAreavey said: The Diocese of Dromore followed the National Child Safeguarding policies and procedures and the statutory authorities were informed.
He cooperated fully with the investigations. Larry Nassar, the former acclaimed USA Gymnastics team doctor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and admitted in a Michigan court to using his position to sexually abuse underage girls. Three of the charges applied to victims under 13, and three applied to victims 13 to 15 years old. Other charges were dismissed or reduced as part of a plea agreement.
All victims who reported assaults to Michigan State Police will be allowed to give victim impact statements at Nassar's sentencing in January, according to the plea deal. He particularly slammed Michigan State University and its administration, which was told repeatedly about Nassar's abuse and protected him, Manley said.
He likened their approach to that of the Catholic Church during the abuse scandals, and he called for them to release an internal report investigating the allegations against Nassar. Two former Presentation High School students on Wednesday alleged the prestigious Catholic girls school covered up sexual abuse reports against a longtime teacher for more than three decades and said many other students were victims of abuse over the course of several years.
Kathryn Leehane, who wrote about the experience in an Oct.
Posted on November 24, 9: One of Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes' latest appointments is drawing concern from a group of Catholics, which claims Msgr. Quitugua's alleged abuse of power as vicar general and judicial vicar under Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron makes him unworthy of holding any post in the chancery. Byrnes appointed Quitugua to serve as associate judge for the Archdiocese of Agana effective Nov. An associate judge assists the church's judicial vicar in deciding cases within the archdiocese.
Quitugua was a judicial vicar for the archdiocese's tribunal during Apuron's time. November 23, Opinion: He was often homesick and on Oct. They stayed at the cabin of the other boys' uncle before Chanie set out alone to walk home, unaware it was kilometres away. His frozen body was found beside railway tracks. He was 12 years old. These are the known facts, as explained at an inquest, in a Maclean's article that launched a national conversation on the morality of residential schools and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Final Report from Taken on their own, these sources provide all the evidence necessary to argue against Canada's residential school policy.
Regardless of the intentions of governments and churches in removing native children from their homes — and the policy was intended to improve their lives — the results were often discreditable, ignoble and fatal. Since , however, new and salacious details have been added to the short life of Chanie Wenjack. There's also a short Heritage Minute video by Historica Canada. All three make the unsubstantiated claim that Chanie was sexually abused at Cecilia Jeffrey school. Sexual abuse certainly did occur at residential schools in Canada, sometimes in Catholic-run schools.
But Cecilia Jeffrey was a Presbyterian residential school. And despite its name, it wasn't even a school. Chanie and the rest of the Indigenous children attended public school in Kenora with other children from town. Cecilia Jeffrey was merely a dormitory. Posted on November 23, 1: Lawyers defending Cardinal George Pell on historical sexual offences have requested documents from ABC journalist Louise Milligan and Melbourne University Press relating to a book about the senior Catholic published last year.
The book written by Milligan called Cardinal: The year-old is facing multiple charges of historical sexual offences involving multiple victims after an investigation by Victoria Police's SANO Taskforce. This article links to two ABC articles: Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God and Anglican Church offers formal apology to victims of domestic violence. Now the Anglican Church looks like it has a sex scandal of its own, as the ABC has revealed in an in-depth story about the abuse women are suffering at the hands of their priest husbands.
The women shared their stories of sexual and physical abuse with the ABC, with some claiming that the church had known for decades that some of its ministers were spouse abusers, but had done very little about it. One victim told the ABC that she was married to an Anglican priest who would demand sex and if she objected, would wait until she fell asleep before raping her — an abusive pattern that went on for years, she said. The victims told the broadcaster that their husbands cited passages in the Bible about submission to justify their behaviour.
The verse often cited was Ephesians 5: For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. Jaime Lara, a professor of medieval and Renaissance studies at Arizona State University, resigned after it was discovered that he was a defrocked priest who had been accused of sexually abusing minors years ago. The Dioceses of Brooklyn released a statement saying that Lara, who was ordained as the Rev. James Lara in , was removed from active ministry in Other former priests were also named.
The disclosure appears to be the first time the diocese has formally acknowledged the names of priests laicized, or defrocked, for child sexual abuse. At least five people who say they were abused by Lara have applied for compensation. The radio interview that this article summarizes is well worth listening to. The transcript of the broadcast is also useful but error-prone. And I also thought that I was the only one. These are the words of a New Brunswick man, using the pseudonym Pierre, who alleges that Catholic priest Camille Leger sexually abused him for half a decade as a child.
And almost every month for the past year, lawsuits have been filed against New Brunswick's Catholic Church by alleged victims seeking compensation for sexual abuse by priests. The recent wave of allegations follows an earlier conciliation process that led to settlements with nearly victims of sexual abuse by priests in New Brunswick. Michel Bastarche led a conciliation process that led to settlements with almost victims of sexual abuse by priests in New Brunswick. Bastarache process by the numbers: Posted on November 23, A former priest extradited from New Zealand on Wednesday is expected to appear via audio-visual link in a Sydney court.
A former Catholic priest is expected to apply for bail in a Sydney court following his extradition from New Zealand on historical child sex charges. The year-old's matter was mentioned briefly in the city's Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon. He's been charged with sexual and indecent assaults in the late s against seven males aged between 14 and He's also requested his name be suppressed due to the nature of the allegations and "potential prejudice" in the event he is granted bail.
Jacques Desgrandchamps, 85, a priest in the Servite Order, lives in residence at St. Anthony of Padua Church. He served as an assistant pastor at the Booth Street church until December Repeated incidents of abuse continued for two years until the victim left the school, the lawsuit alleges.
Fargo — A former Catholic priest who faces charges of sexually molesting two boys in North Dakota churches in the s may soon be extradited to the U. Sayasaya's case, and we pray for the healing of all involved," Folda said. A Catholic priest jailed for sexually abusing a teenage boy has been granted the right to appeal by a senior judge.
Michael Higginbottom, 74, from Newcastle, was found guilty of a series of sex assaults when he worked as a teacher at St Joseph's College, in Upholland, Lancashire, in the s. His lawyers told the Court of Appeal his convictions were unsafe due to an error in the trial judge's ruling on what evidence went before the jury. Higginbottom, of West Farm Road, Walker, denied eight counts of sexually abusing the boy when he was aged between 13 and 14, but was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court. During the trial the victim told jurors that "being left alone at Upholland" was "worse than death".
After hearing evidence from Higginbottom's lawyers, a Court of Appeal panel, led by Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett along with Mr Justice Teare and Mr Justice Kerr, ruled there was an "arguable point" as to whether details of a fraud charge should have gone before the jury. A Catholic priest convicted of repeatedly abusing a teenage boy at a seminary in the Wigan area has been given leave to appeal by law lords. Father Michael Higginbottom, 74, was jailed for 17 years in April after being found guilty of a catalogue of abuse concerning a boy, then aged 13 and 14, at St Joseph's College at Upholland in the s.
Court of Appeal officials have now confirmed that Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, sitting with Mr Justice Teare and Mr Justice Kerr, have given leave to appeal, after it was reported that a previous fraud charge should not have been admitted into evidence. No date has yet been fixed for the appeal, according to a court spokesman, and Higginbottom will remain in custody until the next hearing. Higginbottom, who was convicted of eight sexual offences, was a teacher at St Joseph's, which trained young boys wanting to become priests. Posted on November 23, 9: St Albans priest posthumously accused of abuse by two victims ST.
After contacting the parish, the victims were told several allegations had been against Fr Heley at his previous posting in Cork from onwards. November 22, Opinion: Like many other Catholic families, ours has been influenced by past clergy abuse, and felt its reverberations through subsequent generations. With Barbara Blaine gone, I worried that survivors might hold their stories tight, and keep those damaging secrets hidden, once again. Posted on November 22, Lawyer for sex abuse victims says Catholic Church has 'financial depth' The lawyer acting for victims of pedophile priests in the Archdiocese of Moncton is dismissing claims the church is running out of money.
Rob Talach is representing 26 people suing the church for failing to protect them from sexual abuse, in most cases at the hands of the now-deceased Rev. But Talach claims the Roman Catholic church has financial depth and points to its substantial real estate assets as one potential source of cash. AP - A former youth pastor and school volunteer has admitted to sexually abusing a young girl. The Kentucky Enquirer reports year-old Joseph Niemeyer pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of first-degree sodomy, all against a girl younger than 12 years old.
New Banklick Baptist Church pastor Tim Cochran says Niemeyer and his wife worked as youth pastors at the church in Walton, about 80 miles northeast of Louisville. He also volunteered at Independence's Twenhofel Middle School. Volunteer at Willow Creek molested boy with special needs in A Cook County judge has allowed an attorney to seek additional financial damages in a lawsuit against Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington on behalf of a special-needs boy who was molested there by an adult volunteer who admitted the sexual abuse.
Golden's case on behalf of the now year-old Fox Lake boy against the church and Robert Sobczak, the volunteer in question, began in Cook County circuit court in February In the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against film tycoon Harvey Weinstein who has denied accusations of nonconsensual sex , actress Alyssa Milano invited women to share their own experiences using the hashtag "Me Too.
Shortly after the hashtag took off, reports emerged that the original idea for "Me Too" came from activist Tarane Burke who started it as a grassroots movement to support people who had experienced sexual abuse. Now, another Twitter hashtag "Church Too" is up with survivors detailing sexual harassment and abuse in places of worship like churches. The hashtag started on Tuesday and was described by one Twitter user in these words, "There's a hashtag on Twitter right now called ChurchToo where people are sharing their stories of sexual harassment and abuse in religious primarily Christian settings.
It's a sobering, powerful, disturbing read. Many thanks to the brave people sharing their stories. Allegations of sexual abuse taking place in churches aren't new. Time and again, there have been media reports of misconduct and inappropriate behavior coming from priests and pastors. But hashtag "Church Too" gives the power and control over narration to the very people who have experienced such abuse. As of this moment, the hashtag has over 2, tweets and it seems like it will continue to grow. A Filipino ex-priest is facing extradition to the US for allegedly sexually abusing minors there in the s, authorities said on Wednesday.
Fernando Sayasaya, 53, was tracked down by police in a province outside Manila on Sunday nearly two decades after he fled the US and went into hiding in the Philippines. He was accused of molesting two boys in the state of North Dakota where he worked for the Catholic Church, police said. He was put on administrative leave in following the allegations, but a US court only issued an arrest warrant for Sayasaya in Before fleeing the US, Sayasaya apparently told his superiors he wanted to spend Christmas in the Philippines but never returned, Paras added.
The Philippine government is preparing to extradite to the United States a recently arrested Filipino Catholic priest who faces charges of sexually molesting two boys in North Dakota churches in the s, an official said Wednesday. Sayasaya is being detained at the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila and could not be reached for comment. He was charged in a North Dakota court over alleged sexual advances toward two underage siblings from to , including by separately touching and making them watch pornographic videos, in two North Dakota churches, according to Philippine Court of Appeals documents that cited a U.
A former Catholic priest will face court after being charged with the alleged historic sexual assault of seven youths at a Dundas educational facility. His arrest comes after allegations of a series of assaults during the late s were raised during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Police said the man, 58, was initially arrested at his Hamilton home in New Zealand on July 31 following a three-year investigation. At about 7am on Wednesday, November 22, Rosehill police travelled to New Zealand and extradited the accused to Australia.
The gold medalist joins more than women accusing the USA Gymnastics doctor. Gabby Douglas revealed on Tuesday that she was also a victim of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor who has been accused by more than women and girls of sexual abuse. This is the first time the Olympic gymnast has come forward with her own accusations of abuse. Douglas joins a growing number of gymnasts who have accused the year-old doctor of sexually abusing them under the guise of medical treatment, including her Olympic teammates Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Gabby Douglas opens up in Aly Raisman apology: Gabby Douglas added her name to the long list of female gymnasts who said they were victims of Dr. I wholeheartedly support my teammates for coming forward with what happened to them. By Chris Ramirez Editor's Note: This story is the second in a series called "Shattered Faith," in which KOB 4 Investigates examines the cases of three former Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe whose alleged widespread abuse of children decades ago not only went undealt with, but has contributed to what many mental health professionals call a mental health crisis for New Mexico.
The first story in this series, "A dangerous shuffle game," can be found here. The second part of this series, "The wide circle of silence," can be found here. Read on for the final part of "Shattered Faith. But talking about it, unpacking those emotions and memories, is important for the healing process. Many believe the hundreds, possibly thousands of acts of sexual acts perpetrated on children years ago have created a mental health crisis in New Mexico today.
A series of powerful men have been accused of serious crimes, with little legal accountability. Amid the latest wave of sexual harassment allegations, you might conclude, with some relief, that predators are finally being held accountable for long-repressed abuse. This makes many uncomfortable. Each story has its own particulars, but they all inspire demands for the same conclusion: Attorney Mitchell Garabedian says he is representing 34 women and one man who allege they were sexually abused by the Rev.
Adam Prochaski between and The victims were between the ages of 5 and 16 when they were allegedly abused. Father Jacques Desgrandchamps has been suspended from the weekly mass he gives in Ottawa A priest who taught history at a Catholic boarding school in the Eastern Townships has been suspended after an application for a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging he sexually assaulted at least one of his students. The man was 12 at the time. He has chosen to remain anonymous, but his lawyer, Robert Kugler, says a class action lawsuit was chosen in order to allow other potential victims to come forward.
Ron Vasek was on the way to becoming a permanent deacon in when he started opening up about his victimization as a child. The abuse incident occurred in , but Vasek had mostly been quiet about it — as sex abuse victims often are — until his time in seminary training for the permanent diaconate. In October , Bp. Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota met with Vasek privately and allegedly coerced him into pledging never to file a lawsuit about the abuse.
But in May this year, Vasek filed a civil suit against the diocese, accusing it of a cover-up. The seven charges in the ongoing civil suit fall under three claims: A former Roman Catholic priest told jurors he fled to Kosovo out of "cowardice and stupidity" after being accused of abusing boys at a Catholic school. Andrew Soper also known as Father Laurence Soper said his whole life had been "ruined" by the allegations over to his time as headmaster and senior priest at fee-paying St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London.
While on police bail over accusations dating back to the s and 80s, Soper went on the run in Kosovo - but was extradited back to England face trial at the Old Bailey. Ten former pupils have made allegations against him, including that he used the cane as a ruse to sexually assault and rape them. KGO -- Two former high school students are coming forward with their allegations of sexual abuse at a prominent South Bay high school. Kathryn Leehane and Cheryl Hodgin Marshall are asking for changes they say will protect students from sexual abuse.
Leehane wrote an article for the Washington Post back in October on her alleged sexual abuse experience back in at the all-girls Catholic school. She says that has sparked other former or current students to come forward about their sexual abuse by teachers. According to our media partner, the Mercury News, Presentation's principal, Mary Miller sent parents a letter about the allegations. She wrote, "These cases are being thoroughly investigated by the appropriate authorities and we will not be able to share the conclusions of these investigations because of privacy law, but we want you to know what is occurring to ensure rumors and false information do not make their way through the school community.
The flood of revelations about sexual harassment and assault, whether in Washington or Hollywood, is unlikely to stop anytime soon. The walls of denial built up by position and self-protective ignorance have been breached. Neither the church as a whole nor the editors of this review are in a position to prescribe a comprehensive remedy for the systemic patterns of harassment, abuse and denial. Philippines to extradite priest accused of abuse in U. Masseur Helene Baayen and relationship-expert Caroline Franssen launched a hotline where women can report sexual abuse by tantric masseurs and 'intimacy coaches'.
In a month and a half, 24 reports were received against nine masseurs, NOS reports. Tantra is a spiritual movement in Buddhism and Hinduism that is mainly associated with sexuality in the west. The nine tantric masseurs mentioned in the reports - all of them men - claim that they can help women overcome emotional blockages and sexual trauma. NOS spoke to nine women who filed reports against them. According to the victims, instead of help, the masseurs used the opportunity to sexually abuse them. They unexpectedly switched from massaging to sexual acts, in some cases escalating to penetration.
At least one masseur also engaged in long-term sexual relationships with vulnerable women who approached him for therapeutic reasons. Macsas , an organisation that supports survivors of clerical abuse, said an inquiry was needed to establish the extent of the alleged abuse. The fresh claims follow the disclosure in the Guardian last week that six women had brought a civil claim against the Cistercian order on the island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, alleging they were sexually abused as children by one of its monks, Father Thaddeus Kotik, who died in ADRIAN — Supporters of a woman who alleges sexual misconduct against her former high school instructor — now an Adrian College professor — three decades ago brought her message Monday to the college campus.
A dozen members of the public and the Red Light Initiative of Lenawee County — an organization formed to increase awareness of sexual assault, human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children in southeastern Michigan — held a vigil in front of the college to raise awareness and request the college dismiss one of its longtime employees, Thomas Hodgman. Joelle Casteix alleges that as a year-old student at a Catholic high school in California more than 30 years ago, Hodgman had a sexual relationship with her for approximately two years.
Hodgman was hired later by Adrian College. In a statement dated Nov. Hodgman was never convicted of a crime. Additionally, we are not aware of any evidence that Dr. Hodgman engaged in any subsequent similar activity Posted on November 22, 9: November 21, 7. With a call to continue to follow the issue of sexual abuse closely, the 7th conference of the German Bishops' Conference on sexual abuse has come to an end today. Stephan Ackermann, commissioner for questions of sexual abuse in the church and for questions of the protection of children and young people, about 90 Vicars General, personnel managers and the Abuse and Prevention Commissioner of the German dioceses and religious communities in Cologne have come together.
Der emeritierte Sozialpsychologe Prof. Posted on November 21, 5: Each time she begins to speak, she stops, swallows hard, wipes her tears and begins again. We need to be such a place. Bloomberg, which also carried the show on its TV service, has also dropped it. He frequently jetted off to land interviews with world leaders. CBS had moved quickly Monday to suspend Rose, 75, after the Washington Post reported that day that eight women said they were subjected to inappropriate behavior while working with him. The story said Rose made unwanted sexual advances, appeared nude in their presence or groped them.
His PBS talk show also was halted and there was no immediate update on the long-term status of the program. Now it is Mr. On Monday, a second woman said the senator touched her inappropriately, telling CNN that he grabbed her rear end as her husband took a photo of the two of them at the Minnesota State Fair in Franken said that he did not remember the episode but that he was contrite nevertheless.
The disclosure — just days after Leeann Tweeden, a radio news anchor in California, accused Mr. Franken of forcibly kissing and groping her while he was working as a comedian in — complicates an already tenuous situation for Mr. Franken, making it more difficult for him to carry out his senatorial duties and raising questions about whether his political career can survive as he is likely to face an ethics investigation. Sexual abuse of children has occurred in almost every type of institution in Australia where children lived or attended Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is to have a final public sitting in Sydney next month, on the eve of delivering its final report to Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on 15 December, to thank the community for its support.
The CEO of the Catholic Church's Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan, told a national meeting of Catholic secondary school principals in Adelaide that the final report — the delivery of which will mark the formal end of the Commission's work more than five years after then Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced its creation in November — was expected to comprise up to 17 volumes, at least three of which were expected to deal with the Catholic Church. However, it is not clear when the report will be made public as that normally occurs only after tabling in Parliament, but none of Australia's federal or state legislatures is due to sit between 15 December and Christmas, the start of Australia's summer holidays.
So the report may not be made public until early Royal Commission Chair Justice Peter McClellan told a Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science seminar in Melbourne on 14 November that the sexual abuse of children has occurred in almost every type of institution where children lived or attended and that "it is not a case of a few 'rotten apples'". The problems have been so widespread, and the nature of the abuse so heinous, that it is difficult to comprehend.
The funds will help the judiciary enhance sex offender registration and notification programs as part of an effort to protect the community from sex offenders with the use of the offender registry, the release stated. The courts also will use the funds to implement guidelines for sex offender treatment, digitizing records and expanding the database. Bordallo in the release said the grant provides critical federal assistant to Guam to monitor sex offenders. Posted on November 21, 2: Brouillard also allegedly tried to rape the boy, but the boy told the priest he'd do anything to avoid being raped because of the pain, says the lawsuit filed by a plaintiff identified in Superior Court documents only as A.
While Brouillard is accused in nearly 90 clergy sex abuse lawsuits that also named the Archdiocese of Agana and the Boy Scouts of America as defendants, this is the first time that a clergy member identified only as "Priest Jim" is named in a case. November 21, A clergy sex abuse lawsuit against the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and an Arizona school has been settled. Pastor, who represents the woman who filed the suit, says "the agreement has been finalized. Kelly II, the Phoenix attorney representing the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and the school, declined to comment on the settlement.
The national opera has warned staff it has a zero-tolerance policy towards bullying and discrimination and called for any people with concerns to come forward after a former Opera Australia chorus member was charged with historic child-sex offences. David Lewis will face a Sydney court on December 5 after being charged with four counts of aggravated indecent assault of a victim under the age of 16 and two counts of sexual intercourse with a person 14 or over and under I responsabili delle emittenti che legano il loro nome alla Madonna ricevuti da Bergoglio.
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But Bishop Fellay has continued to criticize [This is unclear: Since Summorum Pontificum or since the Conditions, which ask for a more positive tone? Also, there is nothing in the conditions that required the SSPX leadership not to criticize elements of Vatican II which Papa Ratzinger has done himself, extensively and sharply, in the past. In April Bishop Fellay said the time was not right for reconciliation with the Vatican, because church leaders have not taken steps to reverse the "crisis" introduced by Vatican II.
I think steps have indeed been taken. One source said the new Vatican offer signaled that the Vatican was not willing to continue dialogue with the traditionalist society indefinitely. I suggested that myself at the beginning. I also think that it is more likely that this is a matter of taking advantage of the intersection of circumstances.
First, it was twenty years precisely since the illicit consecrations by Lefebvre. Second, the people in leadership positions on both sides are the most positive toward unity we have seen in the interval. Third, no one is getting younger: The society broke with the Vatican in when its founder, the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained four bishops against papal instructions; Bishop Fellay was one of those ordained.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, explained to French television July 2 that, while the four bishops were excommunicated, the priests of the society are validly ordained [but suspended] and the laity who attend their Masses are considered Catholics. The following prayer was composed by John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, in He was made the first archbishop when his see of Baltimore was elevated to the status of an archdiocese. Americans among the readership might print it and bring it to your parish priests and ask them to use it after Mass on national holidays.
Who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy, that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of Thy Name. We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal, and sanctity of life, our chief bishop, Pope N. We pray Thee O God of might, wisdom, and justice! Through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment decreed, assist with Thy Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude the President of these United States, that his administration may be conducted in righteousness, and be eminently useful to Thy people over whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality.
Let the light of Thy divine wisdom direct the deliberations of Congress, and shine forth in all the proceedings and laws framed for our rule and government, so that they may tend to the preservation of peace, the promotion of national happiness, the increase of industry, sobriety, and useful knowledge; and may perpetuate to us the blessing of equal liberty.
We pray for his excellency, the governor of this state , for the members of the assembly, for all judges, magistrates, and other officers who are appointed to guard our political welfare, that they may be enabled, by Thy powerful protection, to discharge the duties of their respective stations with honesty and ability. We recommend likewise, to Thy unbounded mercy, all our brethren and fellow citizens throughout the United States, that they may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observance of Thy most holy law; that they may be preserved in union, and in that peace which the world cannot give; and after enjoying the blessings of this life, be admitted to those which are eternal.
Finally, we pray to Thee, O Lord of mercy, to remember the souls of Thy servants departed who are gone before us with the sign of faith and repose in the sleep of peace; the souls of our parents, relatives, and friends; of those who, when living, were members of this congregation, and particularly of such as are lately deceased; of all benefactors who, by their donations or legacies to this Church, witnessed their zeal for the decency of divine worship and proved their claim to our grateful and charitable remembrance. To these, O Lord, and to all that rest in Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, a place of refreshment, light, and everlasting peace, through the same Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior.
Praise ye him, O sun and moon: Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: This is in from Space Weather! Saturn, Mars and a slender crescent Moon are gathering together for a pretty sunset sky show over the 4th of July weekend. On the 4th of July, you will be farther from the sun than at any other time of the year.
Astronomers call this "aphelion. This provides scant relief from northern summer heat, however. Still, this is pretty interesting stuff! This is from the St.
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As a result of his judgment of the case, Archbishop Burke has also imposed the following canonical penalties upon Sister Louise Lears: Interdict prohibits the reception of the Sacraments. The prohibition of receiving any mission prohibits the holding of any Church position or the exercise of any apostolate of the Church in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The penalties are imposed for the purpose of bringing Sister Louise Lears to repentance for the delicts which she has committed and to reconciliation with the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Burke expressed his sadness in imposing the canonical penalties which were necessitated by the refusal of Sister Louise Lears, even after repeated admonitions, to withdraw her statements and repudiate her conduct which have constituted grave delicts in the Church. The Archbishop asks all of the faithful of the Archdiocese to pray for the reconciliation of Sister Louise Lears with the Church.
Get a load of this, a breaking story from the ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter with my emphases and comments:. For crying out loud! They call her a bright, energetic, compassionate and faith-filled woman. They see her as a creative, generous and selfless person, a highly effective parish minister. They say she is first rate teacher and preacher. They view her as a person guided by the gospels including an unwavering commitment to justice and the local poor. These seemingly universal accolades, however, were not enough to save Lears from a severe interdict by Burke who banished her from all Saint Louis church ministries last week.
Lears was shocked twice last week. But the other side of this is that when he imposes a censure, he probably knows what he is doing. Louis, and a coordinator of religious education in the archdiocese. I would never give scandal to the People of God. She would never give scandal? Is there that much war and torture going in in St. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University specializing in medical ethics and spirituality nonviolence.
Mark Chmiel, also an adjunct professor in the department, had this to say about his colleague:. I have seen how much thoughtful attention and encouragement she gives to her students at Saint Louis University in her popular course, Spirituality of Nonviolence. She also participated in our direct-action efforts to raise awareness and provoke responsible action about the U. In such wise, wherever she is, she continually nurtures a community of conscience as naturally as she breathes. Nonviolence is a true way of life and I learned if from Sr.
She taught me how to be a more loving and peaceful Christian, and I am so happy that I was able to learn from her. NCR contacted a number of her other colleagues who spoke with a mixture of outrage and mourning, anger at what they called the injustice of the action taken against Lears and sadness as they pondered the loss of her talents to the archdiocese. Sister of Saint Joseph of Carondelet Jean Abbott recalled the time Lears arrived to help her set up a center to receive victims of torture coming from Guatemala.
Abbott had found an old tavern, but it was Lears who imagined how it could be transformed into a vibrant center and set the wheels in motion. She brought the place to life. The Saint Cronan parish council last week seemed equally vexed and saddened. It saddens us deeply that she has been singled-out for prosecution in a church court.
Jerry King, a member of the parish and member of the Center for Theology and Social Analysis in Saint Louis, an organization he and Lears belong to, found irony in the Burke censure. King and others now worry the disaffected are now going to drop out altogether. Ellen Rehg, another member of the parish, disagrees. Especially interesting is the actual decree of Extra-Judicial Adjudication.
Try reading it aloud. For the sake of those of us lay women living out our vocations in part by the education of our children … would you please consider posting your articles on "What Does the Prayer Really Say"—with their translations of prayers from the Extraordinary Form— somewhat earlier? But to be useful as part of Mass preparation and as adjuncts to Latin lessons, we would have to have access to them a day, or even two, earlier than they are customarily posted on your blog.
But the blog grew into the monster that it is! Still, I go through streaks of posting my WDTPRS pieces on this blog even close before the upcoming Sunday especially to encourage your interest in subscribing to The Wanderer , for which I write those columns… for 8 years now. The Wanderer could use some subscribers, btw. With the way the US postal service has recently gouged small publications, and I mean gouged , you could be of real help. Check out the website. You can even subscribe to a full online edition, useful if you want your issue fast. Here is what the page with my column looks like, in the issue just published and going into the post today:.
You can look at individual articles on the screen, in text or in graphic form, and you can print them or e-mail them!
I was tipped to this via e-mai. However the dream was short-lived because [… he means business and this is not about being dreamy? THAT is the point. Williamson is held up. A few days previously, Bishop Fellay had met with Cardinal Hoyos in Rome, at which occasion the bishop received an ultimatum — the end of June — to accept five conditions or to face renewed condemnation and charges of schism. Perhaps this is what some SSPXers were putting around?
Is this a case of the "telephone" game? And this is impossible Non possumus we cannot. This item by Ignazio Ingrao was previewed on Dagospia.
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This very much concerns important work we did with WDTPRS a few years back, namely examination of the infamous pro multis question, and the proper translation of sacramental forms. The present official translation of pro multis in the formula of consecration of the most Precious Blood, in English is wrong. For years a debate raged, a war, about the translation of pro multis in various languages. To make long story of sweat and intrigue short, eventually Francis Card. Arinze told all the bishops in the world that His Holiness wanted pro multis to be translation correctly, in some form like "for many, for the many" and so forth.
There is no appeal. The Holy Father reserves to himself the approval of translations of sacramental forms AAS 66 — a circular letter dated 25 October Remember that all the sacraments have both matter and form, the form being the words spoken in the conferring or confecting of the sacrament. I am sure it has been very difficult to secure some agreement on the best way to do this in English as well as all the other languages through the whole world that need to be adjusted. Now we read this very significant bit my emphases and comments:. Benedict changes the Mass again — a study of the new liturgy entrusted to the Congregation for Divine Worship.
The Rite of Mass could change. According to some leaks, Benedict XVI has give the Congregation for Divine Worship the task of studying some modifications in the liturgy. In particular, it is said the Pope intends to reinstate the Latin for the formula of the Eucharistic consecration in Mass in the vernacular , i.
In addition the sign of peace among the faithful during Mass, which today takes place before the distribution of the Eucharist, could be moved forward as in the Ambrosian rite to the offertory in order so as not to disturb the recollection before Communion. But honestly, this leaves me a little troubled.
I would rather have it moved to before the Offertory if it is going to remain a group grope. But I would much rather leave it in its traditional place and then do it right , which might mean not inviting the congregation to do anything. Since the invitation to the Sign of Peace is an option left to the priest, I opt not to make the invitation.
These modifications would be joined to the changes to the liturgy and sacred vestments which the Pope, together with his Master of Ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini, has accomplished in these last few months, in order to recover ancient traditions: Worse than saying "for many" certainly must be to have to say it in… in… gulp … that other language! Seriously , I think if this is all true, and it really sounds like this could be a possibility, the problems of rendering certain things into the vernacular are simply not worth the risk of loss of content.
If this is so for the consecration, admittedly the most important part of the Eucharistic Prayer, there are lots of other important things being said in Holy Mass too! Why not have those in Latin too? If some liturgists and theologians like to argue that the whole Eucharistic Prayer is consecratory, and not just the "magic words" in the "institution narrative", then perhaps we had better do the whole Prayer in Latin.
And since the Preface is now considered part of the Eucharististic Prayer, and since the people speak part of that dialogue, should pastors of souls start teaching their people Latin responses that pertain to them? Yes… I believe I read that somewhere.
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It can be useful … in some occasions … for some parts of Mass, perhaps with children in the liturgy of the word or for catechumens. Yesterday there was officially announced the birth of a committee composed of politicians bipartisan , men of culture [Read: Papa Pacelli was in fact a modern Pope, his magisterium set the stage for the Second Vatican Council it is enough to consider the Encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu which opened the way to the use of the historical-critical method for the study of Sacred Scripture, or the Encyclical Mediator Dei on liturgy: The Committee, in view of the 50th anniversary of his death, next October, aims to foster an in-depth examination of the figure of Pius XII according to the hermeneutic of reform and not of rupture , which Benedict XVI said is the correct key for interpreting and reading Vatican II.
I am among those who have signed and I invite the visitors of the blog to support this. You will find the constitutive text of the Committee as a first comment on this thread. To support this, it is enough to send an e-mail with your proper name not nickname! On arriving he was greeted, as you might expect, by crowds. I had posted images from the Mass of the Feast of Sts.
Peter and Paul, and the text of the sermons , in Italian. I wanted to follow up with the English texts. Peter and Paul [ It was in the Basilica, not the square] on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, which was Sunday. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I was present at the ceremony.
Your Holiness and fraternal Delegates, Lord Cardinals, Venerable brothers in the episcopate and priesthood, Dear brothers and sisters. From the earliest times, the Church of Rome has celebrated the solemnity of the great apostles Peter and Paul as a single feast on the same day, June The blood of martyrs does not call for revenge — but reconciles. It presents itself as the power of love which overcomes hate and violence, founding, in this way, a new city, a new community. By their martyrdom, they — Peter and Paul — are now part of Rome.
Through martyrdom , even Peter became a Roman citizen forever. Through their martyrdom, through their faith and their love, the two apostles show us where true hope lies, and are the founders of a new kind of city, which must again and again form itself in the midst of the old city of man , [An Augustinian image. By virtue of their martyrdom, Peter and Paul are in reciprocal relationship forever.