The woman introduced herself as Sister Eileen Shaw, telling Cahill that she was out on a walk from her nearby convent. “She’s nice to me, which was confusing,” Cahill recalled. The two struck up a conversation, Cahill said, which led to an invitation for the teen to play guitar atContinue Reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman was raped by the president of the Missionary Training Center in Provo, UT. and a federal judge is refusing to dismiss a lawsuit by the woman alleging that the Mormon church allowed the man to oversee young missionaries in the 1980s despite aContinue Reading
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/11/kiwi-ex-priest-on-trial-for-sexual-assault.html A former Catholic priest has appeared in a Sydney court accused of sexually and indecently assaulting seven males aged between 14 and 20 in the late 1980s at a western Sydney school. New Zealander James Joseph Cunneen, 58, was arrested at his Hamilton home in July and extradited toContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/do-the-right-thing/201003/six-important-points-you-dont-hear-about-regarding-clergy-sexual 1 of 6. Catholic clergy aren’t more likely to abuse children than other clergy or men in general. According to the best available data (which is pretty good mostly coming from a comprehensive report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2004 as well as several otherContinue Reading
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/28/cardinal_abortion_is_worse_scandal_than_priest_abuse/ In his remarks, Pell was apologetic and specific in his acknowledgment of wrongdoing. “I don’t think many, if any, persons in the leadership of the Catholic Church knew what a horrendous widespread mess we were sitting on. There’s no doubt about it that lives have been blighted,” he said.Continue Reading
