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Cardinal Mahony Scandal Heats Up Before Conclave CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 22, 2013 The scandal surrounding American Cardinal Roger Mahony for allegedly covering up priest sex abuse is heating up in Rome ahead of a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. On Monday, influential Catholic newspaper Famiglia Cristiana launched an online poll asking if Mahony, the former archbishop of Los Angeles, should participate in the conclave, which will take place days after he will be deposed as part of a clergy abuse ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/cardinal-mahony-scandal-heats-up-before.html
LA Church Adds Priests to Child Abuse List CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 17, 2013 ... dates of the abuse or where the clergy worked. The names were disclosed in a two-page report posted on the archdiocese's website last month, with 12,000 pages of records related to the internal handling of abuse claims. None of the named men is currently working as a minister in the archdiocese, according to the report. A lawyer for the archdiocese, J. Michael Hennigan, denied the church was attempting to bury the list by including it in the 12,000 pages of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/la-church-adds-priests-to-child-abuse.html
Belgian Church Reveals 300 New Child Sex Abuse Complaints CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 16, 2013 The Belgian Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012. Three quarters of the 307 dossiers opened were in northern Flanders, the staunchly Catholic Dutch-speaking and larger half of Belgium. The great majority of complainants were mature adults, having waited before coming forward after the Church fell into scandal over recent years and with compensation now an issue. Forty-six of the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/belgian-church-reveals-300-new-child_16.html
Belgian Church Reveals 300 New Child Sex Abuse Complaints CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 20, 2013 The Belgian Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012. Three quarters of the 307 dossiers opened were in northern Flanders, the staunchly Catholic Dutch-speaking and larger half of Belgium. The great majority of complainants were mature adults, having waited before coming forward after the Church fell into scandal over recent years and with compensation now an issue. Forty-six of the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/belgian-church-reveals-300-new-child.html
Proactive Pontiff Made Sure Child Protection Measures Improved CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 16, 2013 Sex abuse Where Ireland is concerned, Pope Benedict XVI will probably be best remembered for his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland in 2010, following publication of the Murphy report the previous November. The letter was unequivocal in its sympathy for victims of clerical child sex abuse and for what Irish Catholics had been through, but also in its criticisms of Irish church leadership. It was followed by ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/proactive-pontiff-made-sure-child.html
Catholic Church in UK Faces Child Sex Abuse Quiz CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 17, 2013 Cops are probing an alleged widespread child abuse cover-up in the Catholic Church in the UK, the Sunday People reports . A bishop is believed to be under investigation by officers from Operation Fernbridge – set up by the Metropolitan Police to look into historical cases of paedophilia. The detectives are examining claims that the prelate protected priests who were sexually abusing youngsters, investigative website Exaro and the Sunday People can reveal today. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/catholic-church-in-uk-faces-child-sex.html
'Sinners' Who Hid Sex Abuse Have Right to Vote for Pope: Ex-Prosecutor CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 1, 2013 ... protected predator priests should be allowed to take part in next month's papal conclave, the Vatican's former prosecutor on child sex abuse cases said Monday. Amid mounting criticism over the presence of such cardinals, notably Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, among the men who will choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, Monsignor Charles Scicluna said they had kept quiet "out of fear of scandal." Citing canon law, he said the cardinals "have the right and ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/sinners-who-hid-sex-abuse-have-right-to.html
Pope Benedict Resigns: Why Has There Never Been an Irish Pope? CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 15, 2013 ... (33-to-1); Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the Northern Ireland-born Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland (33-to-1); and Archbishop Diarmiud Martin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, (66-to-1), Then comes Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the English-born Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, who has an even less of a chance – 150-to-1, PaddyPower says. Part of the minimal chances given to potential popes from the Emerald ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/pope-benedict-resigns-why-has-there.html
Ireland: Benedict XVI a Teacher to the Very End NEWS.VA - February 16, 2013 (Vatican Radio) "We recall with immense gratitude his great affection towards Ireland", noted Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, as he reflected with Emer McCarthy on how Benedict XVI's pontificate impacted the Irish Church. Listen: Pope Benedict may have never made it to Ireland, but there can be little doubt that Ireland, the faith of the nation and its people, intensely engaged ...http://www.news.va/en/news/ireland-benedict-xvi-a-teacher-to-the-very-end
Pope Francis: U.S. Was 'Stupid' for Shuffling Around Pedophile Priests Instead of Firing Them CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 28, 2013 ... abuse and criticized previous cases in the U.S. where accused clerics were simply moved to other parishes, according to a book of conversations he had with Rabbi Abraham Skorka. During his 14 years as archbishop, Bergoglio ordered church officials to report all allegations to the police rather than simply moving them to avoid damaging the church. "That solution was proposed once in the United States ... switching the priests to a different parish. It is a stupid idea," ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope-francis-us-was-stupid-for.html
Caveat Emptor: Alex Gibney's "Documentary" on the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal VIVIFICAT! - February 4, 2013 Brethren, Peace and Good to all of you. As always, and just in time for Lent, the abominable sex abuse crisis triggered by fallen clergy and mismanaged by many bishops is now again on the fore, thanks to an HBO "documentary" produced by Alex Gibney. This documentary is titled "Mea máxima culpa" after the words of the Confiteor . I want to share with you some criticism of said work already published at TheMediaReport.com which you should all know, were you choose to ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cybercatholics/jrWV/~3/7hZgI9j8VMY/caveat-emptor-alex-gibneys-documentary.html
Cardinal Turkson Child Abuse Blunder May Damage Papal Prospects CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 25, 2013 Cardinal Peter Turkson may have badly damaged his prospects of becoming pope by suggesting that child sexual abuse is not a major problem in churches in Africa because homosexuality is looked on negatively. The remark is not only offensive but also reveals a dangerous ignorance that may undermine attempts to protect children. Since Pope Benedict XVI, now frail and in poor health, announced his resignation, there has been much media speculation about who would become the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/cardinal-turkson-child-abuse-blunder.html
Wary Catholic Church Ready to Talk CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 22, 2013 THE Pope's new ambassador to Australia says the Vatican is prepared to co-operate with Australia's child sex abuse inquiries. In the Holy See's first public response to the creation of a federal royal commission, the new papal nuncio, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, offered qualified assistance. "(We are) ready to respond to any legitimate request which is presented through proper diplomatic channels and respects accepted practice in accordance with the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/wary-catholic-church-ready-to-talk.html
David Quinn : Pope Benedict's Legacy in Ireland CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 16, 2013 ... Irish people, whether Catholic or not, to look at the Church, the 'institutional Church' at any rate, without first thinking of the child abuse scandals. Therefore Pope Benedict XVI will be assessed in part by how well, or badly, he dealt with those scandals. The crisis facing the Church here in Ireland occupied a considerable amount of the Pope's time during his eight years of office, especially following the publication of the Ryan report and the Dublin ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/david-quinn-pope-benedicts-legacy-in.html
Pope Francis Won't Change the Church's Path, Says Dublin City Councillor CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 2, 2013 ... school in Ireland, Flynn said he believes the church will continue down a perilous course. "You get people projecting onto the person that he's a very simple man, that he's a humble man, that he's broken with precedent, that he's doing everything differently. But it's the same make, same shape — only different color," Flynn said of the pope during a recent interview. "The idea that a man from Barcelona, or from Argentina or from Berlin is going to change the dynamics of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-wont-change-churchs-path.html
Child Sex Abuse Scandal Casts Shadow Over Conclave CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 26, 2013 ... Catholicism. The issue is bound to impact on the choice of a successor for Benedict XVI, and not just for what went on across the Atlantic. Yesterday, the media spotlight was back on Cardinal Godfried Danneels , who was investigated three years ago on suspicion of covering up hundreds of cases of child sex abuse. Some Catholics have again called for the resignation of Ireland's Cardinal Sean Brady , whom they accuse of failing to stop the many paedophile ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/child-sex-abuse-scandal-casts-shadow.html
New Pope Must Learn Lessons From Sorry Past CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 6, 2013 ... before stepping down, said the Catholic Church "had faced stormy weather" and "at times it felt like the Lord was slee ping". For victims of sexual abuse this was a sickening distortion of the truth. The Church, which claims to support family values, has turned a blind eye to the abuse of children in their care for generations. The institutional response was not to hand over priests to the police, but to relocate abusers thus allowing them to simply carry on. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-pope-must-learn-lessons-from-sorry.html
New Pope Must Learn Lessons From Sorry Past CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 3, 2013 ... before stepping down, said the Catholic Church "had faced stormy weather" and "at times it felt like the Lord was sleeping". For victims of sexual abuse thi s was a sickening distortion of the truth. The Church, which claims to support family values, has turned a blind eye to the abuse of children in their care for generations. The institutional response was not to hand over priests to the police, but to relocate abusers thus allowing them to simply carry on. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-pope-must-learn-lessons-from-sorry_3.html
God's Rottweiler or Benedict the Benign? (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 25, 2013 The visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland will always be seen as one of the most iconic events to have taken place on these shores for both those who remember it, those who were told about it, and indeed those who were consequently, a product of it. Ireland's lasting affinity with the late Pontiff obviously spilled from the visit. He called for the moral fibre of the nation to be preserved by continued devotion to the sacredness of life and the true sense ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/gods-rottweiler-or-benedict-benign.html
Johnny Fallon: Enda Kenny Must Swallow His Pride, Gather His Courage and Apologise to the Magdalene Survivors CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 6, 2013 ... practices enabled by people who consistently turned a blind eye. It was convenient to become convinced of the merits of such systems and it was all too easy to dismiss and abuse those who had no voice and could be shunned. The part the church and religious orders played in this revolting scheme went against everything Catholicism is supposed to stand for. If Christ had treated Mary Magdalene in the same fashion, scripture and history would be very different. But it is not just ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/johnny-fallon-enda-kenny-must-swallow.html
