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http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/
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Why are football coaches just like Catholic Bishops?UNITED STATES
Orlando Sentinel
Bill Press
Tribune Media Services
12:58 p.m. EST, November 10, 2011
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu, all over again."
Confronted with allegations of criminal activity on the part of its own leaders, a revered institution looks the other way, circles the wagons, maintains its silence -- and lets the crime continue. In one case, it was religion. Today, it's college football.
America is shocked by the news out of Penn State, and rightfully so. At the heart of its phenomenally successful college football program were a group of men who betrayed the trust placed in them by students and parents. One was an apparent serial sexual abuser of underage boys. The rest were his enablers.
Yogi Berra It's hard to imagine more disgusting behavior than what we've learned about defensive line coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually assaulting at least eight boys. In 1977, Sandusky founded a nonprofit organization, "The Second Mile," to assist under-privileged boys -- apparently, just so he could gain their confidence and take advantage of his access to them to abuse them sexually. But he would never have gotten away with it for so long without the help of his superiors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases
Catholic Sex Abuse Cases
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The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders.[1] These cases began receiving public attention beginning in the mid-1980s.[2] There have been criminal prosecutions of the abusers and civil lawsuits against the church's dioceses and parishes.
Sexual abuse of minors by priests receives significant media attention in Canada, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Belgium, France, and Germany, while cases have been reported throughout the world.
In addition to cases of abuse, much of the scandal has focused around members of the Catholic hierarchy who did not report abuse allegations to the civil authorities. In many cases they reassigned those accused to other locations where they continued to have contact with minors.[3] In defending their actions, some bishops and psychiatrists contended that the prevailing psychology of the times suggested that people could be cured of such behavior through counseling.[4][5] Members of the church hierarchy have argued that media coverage has been excessive.[6] In response to the widening scandal, Pope John Paul II emphasized the spiritual nature of the offenses. He declared in 2001 that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave sin, or delictum gravius."[7] With the approval of the Vatican, the hierarchy of the church in the United States said that it instituted reforms to prevent future abuse including requiring background checks for Church employees and volunteers, while opposing extensions of the statutes of limitations in sex abuse cases.[8]
Canada, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Belgium, France, and Germany
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The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Canada is centered in Newfoundland dioceses, although there has been abuse in most Canadian provinces.
The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland is a major chapter in the worldwide Catholic sexual abuse scandal. Unlike the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, the scandal in Ireland included cases of high-profile Catholic clerics involved in illicit heterosexual relations as well as widespread physical abuse of children in the Catholic-run childcare network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_by_country
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[edit] Africa
[edit] Kenya
In 2009 several people came forward with accusations of sexual molestation against an Italian priest working in the country. The Church gave assurances of an investigation, but this has not taken place. However Kenyan police say they found no evidence and believe Sesana is innocent.[1]In 2010 a young woman alleged that a Catholic priest had undertaken inappropriate sexual activity against her will, but the police & Church authorities had failed to follow up the allegations.[2]
The 2011 Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE) documentary "A Mission To Prey" brought to notice Kenya's clerical abuse cases, which should have been handled with more transparency. RTE has subsequently apologised for this programme and has stated that "Fr. Reynolds" was innocent of the charges stated. RTE has nevertheless left access to this programme even though upwards of 32 Slander & Lible cases are pending.
In 2011 a Dutch bishop was reported to be under probe over alleged sex abuse, The Bishop was alleged to have abused a minor when he served as a priest in Ngong diocese some 18 years prior to the report.[3][4]
[edit] Tanzania
St Michael's Catholic Boarding School, Soni, TanzaniaA prominent United Kingdom member of the order, Fr Kit Cunningham together with three other priests were exposed after Cunningham's death as paedophiles[5][6][7][8] While at Soni, Cunningham perpetrated sexual abuse that made the school, according to one pupil, "a loveless, violent and sad hellhole". Other pupils recall being photographed naked, hauled out of bed at night to have their genitals fondled and other sexual abuse.[9][10]Although known about by the Rosminians before Cunningham's death in 2010, the abuse was only publicly revealed by the media in 2011[11][12][13] [14] [15] [16][17]
http://protectthepope.com/?p=3069
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Week after JP II’s beatification religion editor of The Age seeks to blacken his reputation with lies
Barney Zwartz,the Religion editor of the Australian newspaper The Age,has written a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald about the sacking of Bishop Morris that seeks to blacken the reputation of Blessed John Paul II with misrepresentations so gross as to be considered calumny. Swartz writes:
‘At the same time,the Vatican has fast-tracked the beatification of John Paul II,the pope who denied that paedophilia was a problem in the church and gave great support and succour to serial abusers.’
Any half-decent,professional journalist would check his facts before writing something as damning as the above statement,but Barney Zwartz obviously isn’t interested in telling the truth about Blessed John Paul II.
A simple search of the section dealing with child sexual abuse on the Vatican website will show the following speeches made by Blessed John Paul II that express his horror at child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Here are a few extracts:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-religious-write/the-catholic-churchs-worst-enemy-resides-in-the-vatican-20110509-1eemy.html
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‘At the same time,the Vatican has fast-tracked the beatification of John Paul II,the pope who denied that paedophilia was a problem in the church and gave great support and succour to serial abusers.’
Any half-decent,professional journalist would check his facts before writing something as damning as the above statement,but Barney Zwartz obviously isn’t interested in telling the truth about Blessed John Paul II.
A simple search of the section dealing with child sexual abuse on the Vatican website will show the following speeches made by Blessed John Paul II that express his horror at child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Here are a few extracts:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-religious-write/the-catholic-churchs-worst-enemy-resides-in-the-vatican-20110509-1eemy.html
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