Topic: Spirituality
International Eucharistic Congress opens in Dublin
June 11, 2012 · By CWN, catholicculture.org
The 50th International Eucharistic Congress opened in Dublin on June 10 with an address by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and a Mass in a sports stadium, the RDS Arena.
Read More...CBCP condemns radioman’s slay
May 10, 2012 · By Jocelyn R. Uy, Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Wednesday condemned the murder of a Catholic radio reporter in Davao Oriental on Tuesday and urged government authorities to look into the incident, the third to occur against a member of the media in a span of 15 days. Nestor Libaton, a reporter of […]
Read More...Medics’ sex abuse may top Church scandals
March 7, 2012 · By Evelyn Ring
The scale of sexual abuse by medical practitioners against patients could be far worse than scandals that rocked the Catholic Church, it was claimed yesterday. Dignity 4 Patients, which supports more than 250 alleged victims, has demanded a state inquiry into patient abuse after allegations were made against consultants, doctors and nurses from all over […]
Read More...Clerical Abuse of Children Must Be Rooted Out
March 1, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The conference recently held at the Vatican’s Gregorian University brought together cardinals, bishops, priests from over 100 countries and the heads of thirty-three religious orders to tackle the sexual abuse of children by catholic priests.
Read More...Catholic archbishop urges new anti-abuse rules in Asia
February 9, 2012 · , Agence France-Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church in Asia has a “pressing need” for rules against child abuse by priests as the issue has been hidden by “a culture of shame,” the archbishop of Manila said on Thursday. “There is a pressing need to formulate national pastoral guidelines for handling such cases,” Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle […]
Read More...Alleged child sex abuse victim speaks out at Vatican
February 7, 2012 · By CNN Wire Staff
An Irish woman who detailed her own harrowing experience of child sexual abuse at the hands of a priest spoke out during a Vatican symposium on Tuesday, telling church officials that an apology was not enough. “Those fingers that would abuse my body the night before were the next morning holding and offering me the […]
Read More...Vatican prosecutor warns on Asia child abuse problem
February 6, 2012 · By Dario Thuburn, Agence France Presse
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s top anti-abuse prosecutor has warned that the Catholic Church in Asia is falling behind in the fight against pedophilia due to cultural differences over what constitutes child abuse. “The problem is very accentuated in Asia,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna told reporters
Read More...Leading priest predicts the end of celibacy in the Catholic Church
January 24, 2012 · By PATRICK COUNIHAN, IrishCentral Staff Writer
A leading missionary priest has claimed that celibacy will soon be a thing of the past – and described it as a ‘business arrangement’ for the Catholic Church.
Read More...Getting it straight on Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela
December 19, 2009 · , irishcatholic.ie
In 2001 the Vatican issued a document called Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela. This sets out how offences against the sacraments and offences against minors should be dealt with by the Church. Critics of the Church insist that this document instructed bishops to cover up allegations of clerical sex abuse and not tell the civil authorities. This is […]
Read More...Final farewell for campaigning Irish priest
May 6, 2004 ·
Published in The Irish Catholic Father Niall O’Brien’, whose funeral Mass was celebrated this week in Dalgan Park, Navan, said in a final interview his only crime was to help poor Filipinos get a decent wage to support their families. Jailed in the Philippines by the Marcos Government in 1983 he recalled that the reason […]
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