June, 2018
Whale that died off Thailand had eaten 80 plastic bags
June 6, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
A pilot whale has died off southern Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags, Thai marine officials say. The whale vomited five bags during a vain attempt by conservation officials to save it in a canal in Songkhla province. The bags, weighing about 8kg (17lbs), had made it impossible for the whale to eat food, a […]
Read More...US bishops’ annual abuse audit highlights concerns about complacency
June 5, 2018 · By Brian Roewe for www.ncronline.org
The annual audit of the U.S. bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People revealed that the number of allegations and alleged victims “decreased significantly” from recent years, but also warned of “worrisome signs” of growing complacency in the prevention of child sexual abuse. The charter, also called the Dallas Charter, requires the […]
Read More...Deadline extended for Australian nun to leave the Philippines
June 5, 2018 · By Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Sister Patricia Fox gets a reprieve from the country’s Justice Department An Australian nun who has been ordered to leave the Philippines for alleged involvement in partisan political activities got a reprieve after the country’s Justice Department allowed her to extend her stay. Catholic missionary Sister Patricia Fox, however, said it was a “temporary victory,” […]
Read More...Canonization is right for Óscar Romero, a true Christian martyr
June 5, 2018 · By Charles E. Curran for www.ncronline.org
Óscar Romero was appointed archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, in February 1977. He was not the candidate of the previous archbishop, who thought he was not firm enough in opposition to the violence, oppression and injustice of the right-wing government. Romero himself thought he had to find balance or a middle road between support […]
Read More...Congressional candidate in Virginia admits he’s a pedophile
June 5, 2018 · By CNN WIRE for myfox8.com
FAIRFAX County, Va. – Nathan Larson isn’t just an admitted pedophile, he created a website that catered to their desires and allowed them to connect with each other. Now he’s running for Congress. Larson says he wants to fix problems in Washington. But he also says he doesn’t have a problem with pedophilia. The 37-year […]
Read More...Minnesota Archdiocese Reaches $210 Million Settlement With 450 Clergy Abuse Victims
June 4, 2018 · By VANESSA ROMOfor www.npr.org
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement agreement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of a bankruptcy reorganization, officials announced Thursday. At $210,290,724, it is estimated to be the second-largest payout by the Catholic church in the U.S., according to the Associated Press. It comes after […]
Read More...In letter to Chileans, Francis decries church’s ‘culture of abuse and cover-up’
June 4, 2018 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.orgu
ROME — Pope Francis has become the first leader of the Catholic Church to publicly decry a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the global institution, admitting in a strikingly blunt letter to the people of Chile that clergy sexual abuse has continued because church leaders have not taken victims seriously. In an eight-page May […]
Read More...Britain’s wealth was built on black backs. Windrush is a scandal of forgetting
June 4, 2018 · By Andrea Stuart for www.theguardian.com
Images of the 1948 arrivals still move black Britons like me. This moment is a chance for the UK to remember its debt to us I am sitting beside my mother, watching the Windrush coverage. Both of us are saddened by the reports of black Britons, who are still being treated so cavalierly by the […]
Read More...Outrage as man, 79, is sentenced to just 90 DAYS house arrest for raping a five-year-old girl
June 1, 2018 · By HANNAH PARRY for www.dailymail.co.uk
A wealthy business owner has been sentenced to just 90 days on house arrest for raping a five-year-old girl. Lyle Burgess, 79, of Stockton, California, will face no jail and does not even have to register as a sex offender, after he pleaded no contest to statutory rape. Burgess raped the little girl, the daughter […]
Read More...Child Abuse in the Church
June 1, 2018 ·
Child Abuse in the Church Fr. Shay Cullen 1 June 2018 We live in a new age of freedom of expression when the long history of suppression and cover up of the truth is breaking out and social and mainstream media have championed the voice of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. The […]
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