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Category Archives: Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
1 February 2012
Head of SNAP suggested that Card. Bevilacqua was faking it to avoid testifying
I just an interesting item on the site The Media Report. Apparently the head of SNAP, Mr. David Clohessy, was suggesting that Card. Bevilacqua was faking an illness to avoid testifying.
Less than 36 hours before Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua passed away … Continue reading
16 January 2012
Irish Times: Public decries closure of embassy to the Vatican
I didn’t expect this.
From the Irish Times:
Public decries closure of embassy to the Vatican
By Paul O’Brien, Political Editor
Monday, January 16, 2012
TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore’s decision to close the Irish embassy to the Vatican was met with overwhelming opposition from the public … Continue reading
3 January 2012
CBS: SNAP’s David Clohessy Could Face Jail Time
From CBS with my emphases and comments:
SNAP’s David Clohessy Could Face Jail Time
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–The director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests says he may faces fines or jail time for refusing to obey a judge’s order to … Continue reading
Posted in Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
Tagged D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, SNAP, transparency
16 Comments
12 December 2011
A reading tip – Catholic Priests Falsely Accused: The Facts, The Fraud, The Stories
Not exactly light reading, but this is an important topic… and not just for priests and bishops! Everyone should be concerned about this.
Check out David F. Pierre Jr.’s book Catholic Priests Falsely Accused: The Facts, The Fraud, The Stories.
It is … Continue reading
9 December 2011
John L. Allen on a case in Ireland: a priest, falsely accused, but the press doesn’t make corrections
While I have posted some items about dreadful pieces in the Fishwrap, to be fair there is a good piece by my friend the nearly-ubiquitous John L Allen, Jr. about the persecution of a priest falsely accused of abuse of … Continue reading
The Fishwrap attacks bishops: unintended consequences
Just to help you out of your Friday slump and into the weekend, the Fishwrap comes through again!
Here is an article in which the Fishwrap attacks Archbishops Chaput, Dolan, and Bp. Finn.
The time is now: childhood sexual abuse and statutes … Continue reading
26 November 2011
9 November 2011
Coach Paterno – WDTPRS POLL
UPDATE 10 Nov 0320 GMT:
I just saw a news flash that Penn State has sacked Joe Paterno effective immediately. I’ll close the poll, below.
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Hugh Hewitt tonight is covering the situation with Penn State and Joe Paterno. There is also a … Continue reading
8 November 2011
Catholic League on The curious choices of The Star and SNAP
From The Catholic League:
CATHOLIC LEAGUE
FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHT
KC STAR OMITS STORY ON TOP EPISCOPAL BISHOP
November 8, 2011
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
Yesterday, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a press conference in front … Continue reading
31 October 2011
KC Star refuses to report other side regarding Bp. Finn and Diocese. Refuses even to take paid ad.
How deep can anti-Catholic bigotry run in the mainstream press? Read on.
At Serviam I noticed this, in reference to the situation of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and the embattled Bishop Robert Finn.
I’ve said previously that the [newspaper – Kansas … Continue reading
23 October 2011
Archbp. Naumann (Archd. KC) on Bp. Finn (D. KC-St. Joseph) and the Kansas City Star
His Excellency Most Rev. Joseph Naumanm, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas – on the other side of the river from the homoynmous city in Missouri, has waded into the issue of the indictment level at Bp. Robert Finn of Kansas … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged anti-catholicism, Archbp. Naumann, Archd. Kansas City, Bp. Finn, clerical sexual abuse, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, Kansas City Star, yellow journalism
28 Comments
15 October 2011
About Bp. Finn in Kansas City – St. Joseph
I was sorry to read that His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City – St. Joseph is facing an indictment for the misdemeanor of not reporting to police a suspicion that one of the priests of that … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
Tagged Bp. Finn, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph
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22 July 2011
Australia: A bill to force priests to break the Seal of Confession
After I posted the story on a legislative attempt in Ireland to force priests to break the Seal of Confession, I had a few emails suggesting that I was panicking, that such a thing would never happen, that this was … Continue reading
19 July 2011
Ireland: priests will refuse to break seal of confession if proposal becomes law
In Ireland
From CNA comes:
Irish priests will refuse to break seal of confession if proposal becomes law [Really?]
By Katherine Veik
Dublin, Ireland, Jul 18, 2011 / 08:03 pm (CNA).- Catholic priests in Ireland are prepared to “strongly” resist a proposed law that … Continue reading
15 July 2011
Ireland: Law proposed to force priests to break the Seal of Confession
Biretta tips to Fr. Blake and to Sancte Pater who lead me to this story at The Irish Catholic and elsewhere.
Government proposal to break the seal of confession is without precedent
Thu, 14/07/2011 – 15:34
The Taoiseach, the Minister for Justice and … Continue reading
