Saturday, April 21, 2012

Priest Abuse

  • Philadelphia (CNN) - Its been four weeks since the beginning of the trial of the highest ranking U.S. Catholic Church leader charged with covering up the crimes of priests against children.
  • (CNN)
  • In another instance, the man allegedly abused at the farmhouse of the Rev. Stanley Gana said he confided to his mother years later about the abuse, only to be told she planned to remain friends with the priest.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia jury heard Tuesday about Catholic schoolboys who said they had to strip before a priest and endure whippings as they played Christ in a Passion play.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • After a week of interstate legal maneuvering, a West Virginia judge has ordered a Catholic church official in Wheeling to testify in the Philadelphia trial involving alleged sex abuse by some priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Should a judge find, however, that a plaintiff did not repress the memories, it would give a priest or diocese a bullet-proof defense against long-ago abuse, whether or not the alleged memory was true or accurate.
  • (Kansas City Star)
  • BOSTON — A longtime Jesuit leader has stepped down from the Boston College Board of Trustees amid allegations he failed to act against clergy abuse. Just as a demonstration against Rev.
  • (WBUR)
  • The Catholic priest who headed the diocese's Northern Virginia office responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse was placed on administrative leave Wednesday while he is investigated for alleged sexual misconduct with a teenage boy.
  • (Washington Post)
  • A heinous 1992 priest-abuse complaint fell through the cracks at the Philadelphia archdiocese, leaving the accused pastor to continue leading a suburban parish for three more years, according to testimony Thursday in a clergy-abuse trial.
  • (NBC Philadelphia)
  • An Irish priest found guilty of child abuse in California has fled home to his family in Ireland – and continued to plead his innocence.
  • (Irish Central)

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