Clergy Abuse Scandal

Source: blog.progressivedem.com --- 35 days ago
It seems never ending, doesn't it?  As the NYTimes reports: "After nearly three years of litigation, the Archdiocese of Denver said Tuesday that it would pay $5.5 million to settle more than a dozen lawsuits over sexual Abuse by priests. "The 16 lawsuits and two additional claims against the archdiocese were filed by people who said that as children, they were abused by priests from 1954 to 1981 and that the archdiocese concealed the crimes. "The settlements bring to 42 the number of Abuse claims the archdiocese has settled since 2005 against two priests, the Rev. Harold Robert White and the Rev. Leonard Abercrombie. A third priest, the Rev. Lawrence St. Peter, was accused in a 43rd case that was also settled. The amount of all the settlements totals more than $8.2 million. Two more Abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese have yet to be resolved. "The national director of the group Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests , David Clohessy, cautioned that sexual Abuse settlements did not represent “any fundamental challenge to the church’s longstanding patterns of recklessness and secrecy that got us into this mess to begin with.” Such settlements, he noted, enabled church officials to avoid testifying in open court. And this was just one archdiocese, Denver.  The list rolls on: Los Angeles, Boston, Phoenix, Louisville, Charleston.....  Some filed bankruptcy: Tucson, Portland (OR), Spokane, San Diego, Davenport.... The horror is not j ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 6 days ago
The state's highest court ruled today that a law enacted after the Clergy sex Abuse Scandal to penalize people who endanger a child applies to more than just sex Abuse cases. ...

Source: news.google.com --- 17 days ago
Times Online Pope meets with Clergy Abuse victims in Australia The Associated Press - 37 minutes ago SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, in a gesture of contrition and concern over a Scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church. Video: Pope's visit challenged in Australia - 20 July 2008 AlJazeeraEnglish Vatican: Pope met with victims of Clergy child sex Abuse in Australia International Herald Tribune Reuters  - Radio Australia  - ABC Online  - ToTheCenter.com all 6,058 news articles ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 19 days ago
SYDNEY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday led a key mass for Australian bishops and Clergy at which he was expected to raise the spectre of the sex Abuse Scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church. ...

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 28 days ago
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's top Roman Catholic cleric has denied trying to cover up a sexual Abuse case involving Clergy, attempting Tuesday to fight off an embarrassing Scandal just days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a visit. ...

Source: hosted.ap.org --- 112 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Feted at the White House on his 81st birthday, Pope Benedict XVI praised Americans for their deep religious beliefs Wednesday but later told the nation's bishops that the scourge of Clergy sex Abuse had sometimes been "very badly handled."... ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 112 days ago
WASHINGTON — Feted at the White House on his 81st birthday, Pope Benedict XVI praised Americans for their deep religious beliefs Wednesday but later told the nation's bishops that the scourge of Clergy sex Abuse had sometimes been "very badly handled." Benedict's comments, his toughest critique yet of the U.S. church's worst problem, marked the second day in a row that he addressed the Abuse Scandal. They came as he addressed the nation's bishops at the imposing Immaculate Conception shrine. He also reminded the prelates that religion cannot only be considered a "private matter" without any bearing on public behavior. The pontiff questioned how Catholics could ignore church teaching on sex, exploit or ignore the poor, or adopt positions contradiciting "the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death." "Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted," he said. Benedict's remarks came on a day when all of the five Catholic justices on the U.S. Supreme Court approved the most widely used method of lethal injection, and congressional representatives who support abortion rights said they planned to take Holy Communion on Thursday at a papal Mass. Benedict returned to the Clergy sex Abuse Scandal that has cost the American church more than $2 billion, most paid out to victims in the last six years, calling it a cause of "deep shame." He decried the "enormous pain" that ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 25 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI seeks to "wake up consciences" to the global climate crisis during his 10-day trip to Australia. He will also continue to address the Clergy sex Abuse Scandal. ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 29 days ago
SYDNEY - Australia's top Roman Catholic cleric has denied trying to cover up a sexual Abuse case involving Clergy, attempting Tuesday to fight off an embarrassing Scandal just days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a visit. Cardinal... ...

Source: www.charlotte.com --- 18 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday for the sexual Abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic Clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the United States to publicly atone for what he called evil acts by priests. The apology did not satisfy representatives of the victims. They said it must be backed by Vatican orders to Australian bishops to stop alleged efforts to cover up the extent of the problem and block attempts to win compensation. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured and I assure them as their pastor that I too share in their suffering," Benedict said in Mass in Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral. He said he wanted "to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt" and called for those responsible to be "brought to justice." He called the acts "evil" and a "grave betrayal of trust" and said the Abuse Scandal had badly damaged the church. The German-born pope has expressed regret before about the Clergy Abuse Scandal that has rocked the church in recent years - notably during a U.S. visit in April when he also met privately with a small number of victims. But the language of Saturday's apology was stronger than his comments in the United States. Ever since the pope's trip to Australia was announced two years ago, victims' groups here have been demanding he make an apology - something popes have historically been wary of doing. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pope added the wor ...

Source: www.charlotte.com --- 25 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Sydney to lead hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at the Roman Catholic church's youth festival. The pope was being greeted Sunday by officials including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the tarmac of a military air base on Sydney's outskirts, after a flight from the Vatican of more than 20 hours and a refueling stop in the northern city of Darwin. Benedict told reporters during the flight that he wants to help heal wounds caused by the Clergy sexual Abuse Scandal. Australian victims have demanded the pope make a formal apology for the Abuse. Benedict, 81, will rest for three days at a retreat in Sydney before joining the World Youth Day festival starting Thursday. ...

Source: www.charlotte.com --- 25 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he wants to wake up consciences on climate change during his trip to Australia. Benedict also told reporters that he would work for “healing and reconciliation with the victims” of sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy there “just as I did in the United States” earlier this year. There is a need to “wake up consciences,” Benedict said. “We have to give impulse to rediscovering our responsibility and to finding an ethical way to change our way of life.” Benedict said that politicians and experts must be “capable of responding to the great ecological challenge and to be up to the task of this challenge.” “We have our responsibilities toward Creation,” Benedict said, stressing, however, that he had no intention of weighing in on technical or political questions swirling around climate change. Benedict said he would address the problem of sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy. He reiterated his view that sexual Abuse is “incompatible with the behavior” required of priests. At the start of his U.S. pilgrimage, Benedict had said he was “deeply ashamed” of the Abuse Scandal and pledged to work to make sure pedophiles do not become priests. The 10-day Australia pilgrimage, the longest in his three-year-old papacy, will test the 81-year-old pontiff's stamina. Tens of thousands of young pilgrims are awaiting him in Sydney. World Youth Day will culminate July 20 with an open-air Mass expected to draw some 250,000 before B ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 31 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI will likely express regret for sexual Abuse committed by Roman Catholic Clergy when he visits Australia next week, the church's senior cleric in the country said Monday. Cardinal George Pell said the pope spoke about the church's sex Abuse Scandal during a visit to the United States earlier this year and he was likely to do something similar when he is in Sydney for the July 15-20 World Youth Day festival. "He handled it very well in the United States and I anticipate he'll do the same here," Pell told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Support groups for victims of church Abuse in Australia - whose numbers are not known but who activists say are in the thousands - have demanded the pope make a full and open apology for Clergy Abuse and do more to compensate victims and prevent future Abuse. "The apology is necessary but the apology must come with action," said Chris MacIsaac, a spokeswoman for Broken Rites, a support group for Australian victims of Clergy Abuse. ...

Source: www.breitbart.tv --- 111 days ago
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Source: www.kansas.com --- 18 days ago
Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual Abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic Clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims. The pope said he was "deeply sorry" for the sexual Abuse, delivering a strongly-worded apology that described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured and I assure them as their pastor that I too share in their suffering," Benedict said during an address at a Mass in Sydney. "Those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice," he said. The pope said the Scandal had badly damaged the church. ...

Source: hnn.us --- 16 days ago
Source: AP (7-20-08) Papal apologies have been few in the long history of the Vatican, though Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II in recent years have admitted errors by the church. Here are some examples: Pope Benedict XVI _ July 19, 2008: Said he was "deeply sorry for the pain and suffering" of victims of child sex Abuse by Clergy in Australia. _ April, 2008: Said he was "deeply ashamed" of the child sex Abuse Scandal in the church and that the issue had sometimes been "very badly handled" by church officials. _ September, 2006: Said he was "deeply sorry" for remarks in a speech that linked Islam with violence, triggering outrage in the Muslim world. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 25 days ago
Vatican that he would express regret about Abuse by priests, though victims' groups are demanding he go further and make a direct formal apology.The Clergy Abuse Scandal is a serious note in the pope'... ...