Today in Catholicism: An Ongoing Thread
According to the reports, priests were photographed fondling and kissing trainee priests and pornographic images were found on the seminary computers. The school director and his deputy have resigned.
It also reported that a police investigation had uncovered as many as 40,000 images and videos - some allegedly including child pornography - on computers at the seminary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3887033.stm
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...International/
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html
Catholic Church officials say they won't help Interpol find molester
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...on/9146833.htm
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2034955
Managua, Nicaragua-AP -- A Costa Rican priest fleeing sexual molestation charges apparently has entered Nicaragua and is being sought.
National Police spokeswoman Miriam Torres says the Reverend Enrique Vasquez is being sought on an Interpol warrant on behalf of Costa Rican officials.
The Dallas Morning News profiled Vasquez in June as part of a series following a yearlong investigation of runaway Roman Catholic priests.
Vasquez fled Costa Rica after a criminal complaint was filed by the mother of a boy he allegedly molested.
Catholic priests in weekly abuse claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...259687,00.html
LONDON (Reuters) - An average of one Roman Catholic priest every week is accused of sexual abuse in England and Wales last year but none has been prosecuted and all but two are still in their jobs, a report has said.
A further 10 allegations were made of physical, emotional or other abuse by priests, volunteers and employees of the church, bringing total complaints for the year to 62, according to the report by the Catholic Office for the Protection of Children
There were also 51 reports of "inappropriate behaviour" towards children which were dealt with internally by the church after consultation with police and social services.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3193801
Between 1995 and 1999, 21 of the 5,600 Catholic priests in England and Wales were convicted of offences against children.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...13/ixhome.html
The Roman Catholic Church admitted yesterday that 62 allegations of child abuse were made against its clergy and workers last year.
The disclosure came from the unit set up to combat paedophile activity among Catholic priests in England and Wales after a series of scandals shook the Church.
The 62 complaints - mostly concerning alleged sexual abuse - were referred to the police after they were made about priests, members of religious orders, employees and volunteers.
In addition, 51 reports of "inappropriate behaviour" towards children were dealt with internally by the Church after consultation with police and social services.
Fugitive Catholic brother in United States faces charges but not extradition
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...3/CPA/55928029
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - A Roman Catholic brother living in the United States who faces child sex charges in Newfoundland will be arrested immediately should he ever return to Canada.
But Canadian prosecutors are not seeking the extradition of Gerald Chumik, who has been identified by a U.S. newspaper as one of 30 fugitive priests, brothers and other religious workers living in the U.S. facing sex abuse accusations in other countries.
Chumik, who lives in a Catholic religious complex overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, Calif., was charged in 1990 with two child sex offences dating back to the 1970s.
Roman Catholic Church Lawsuit
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail2817.cfm?Id=22,33264
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aber...ws/9138197.htm
A lawsuit filed against the Catholic church in South Dakota alleges clergy abused hundreds of students at Native American boarding schools.
The students say they were beaten, even tortured by priests and nuns who ran the schools.
The allegations of abuse span decades, from the 1930s until about 1975.
The lawsuit filed today involves the St. Paul school on the Yankton Sioux Reservation and the St. Francis School on the Rosebud Reservation.
Group calls for nuns to address sex abuse
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...-regional-wire
SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Religious orders of nuns need to do more to root out sexual abuse by their members, help victims and set up safeguards to prevent future sexual misconduct, according to an advocacy group for victims of clergy abuse.
Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, delivered a letter Tuesday to a national nun organization calling for more attention on abuse by women in the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the recent abuse scandals have focused on male clergy members.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp...2&nav=3YeXOkuH
Three cases against Tucson diocese dismissed
http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/st...2f612bef8.html
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.p...1204a1_diocese
Thousands of parishioners in the Catholic Diocese of Tucson got the official word for the first time from their priests at Mass yesterday and Saturday that bankruptcy appears likely for the diocese.
Chapter 11 protection is being considered by the diocese, which faces an unknown amount of present and future damage claims alleging sexual abuse by its priests and other employees, according to Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas.
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2025443
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/29618.php
Abuse victims say church offer to pay for therapy has strings
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centr...cs/9145210.htm
PHILADELPHIA - Almost a decade after he was allegedly sexually abused by a priest at his Roman Catholic high school, Arthur Baselice hoped he was on the way to recovery when church officials sought him out, apologized, and offered to pay for him to see a therapist.
But within months, Baselice said he began to see strings attached to the offer.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia asked him to select his therapist from a list approved by the church. He was told to sign a waiver authorizing his caregivers to discuss his progress with a church administrator. Finally, Baselice said he was pressured to settle all legal claims against the church for $50,000.
Instead of signing, Baselice sued, claiming that the counseling offer was a thinly veiled attempt to buy his silence.
Catholic Priest Accused of Swindling Elderly Parishioner
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WAB...iestheist.html
(Upper East Side-WABC, July 13, 2004) — A Manhattan priest is facing a major lawsuit today. He is accused of using his spiritual influence to swindle an elderly parishioner out of nearly half a million dollars.
Eighty-eight year old Rose Pale was a devoted parishioner. She attended mass every day. The lawsuit says the monsignor at Saint John The Martyr Church on the Upper East Side betrayed her trust.
The lawsuit says that Monsignor John Wolsey had Pale sign over $495,000 dollars in cash and stocks over three years. He also advised her on her stock portfolio, convincing her to drop her broker of 20 years and use his brokerage firm. All the while, he allegedly told Pale not to tell family and friends.
The suit alleges Wolsey received $100,000 dollars for a Jersey Shore condo. It also says that he took church donations and used them for personal use.
Priest orgy scandal hits Catholic church
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../14/2003178944
The powerful Austrian Catholic church was plunged into its second big sex scandal in a decade on Monday when a seminary run by arch-conservatives was alleged to be the site of orgies among young priests and their teachers.
The seminary in St Polten, west of Vienna, comes under the authority of the conservative Bishop Kurt Krenn.
The Vienna news magazine Profil has published pictures of priests and students engaged in sexual acts, prompting an uproar, emergency meetings of the church leadership, and calls for Bishop Krenn's resignation.
Victims' group wants friar accused of abuse out of church housing
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...la/9146618.htm
Los Angeles-AP -- Church abuse survivors called on Cardinal Roger Mahony today to remove from the Santa Barbara Mission in California an elderly friar who is accused of molesting a teen in Canada.
Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests demanded Franciscan friar Gerald Chumik, who is 69, be sent back to his native Canada to face charges of enticing a teenage boy to perform oral sex.
The group alleged the Chumik case is an example of a larger church policy of secrecy and foot-dragging in response to allegations of clergy abuse.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...l=968705899037
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...mik.1e4a9.html
Priest Faces Sex Charge in Luzerne County
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp...2&nav=5ka4OjUF
A Roman Catholic priest in Luzerne County is accused of propositioning a young man for a sex act.
Police said it happened early last month in Hazleton. They said Reverend Samuel Perrins, 47, a priest at Most Precious Blood Church in Hazleton, approached a young man on Mine Street and offered money for oral sex. The man declined and, according to investigators, Reverend Perrins made a second proposition. Again the man declined and then called police. Perrins was later arrested.
The priest was removed from his position at the church after diocesan leaders learned of the arrest.
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/9139870.htm
That is all for July 13, 2004.
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