Copied from the other thread, which was getting too long.

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Thread #45382   Message #684894
Posted By: GUEST,fo
07-Apr-02 - 06:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal
Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal

The Irish government is to launch a state inquiry into sexual abuse allegations against a Roman Catholic priest, which led to the resignation this week of a bishop.
The Bishop of Ferns, Brendan Comiskey, resigned on Monday after being criticized for his handling of the charges against by one of the priests in his diocese, Father Sean Fortune.

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Thread #45382   Message #684997
Posted By: GUEST
07-Apr-02 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal
Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal

This is too much! The hordes of Hell itself are ripping down the walls of the Church. When will it stop?

First, that PBS article last month on the terrible things the Christian Brothers did in Australia to the boys.


Now we find it in all the English speaking world, Canada, Ireland, GB, the United States. In Los Angeles alone, there are eight priests acknowledged to be involved.


Terrible, Terrible, Terrible!

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10-Apr-02 - 12:35 AM (#686805) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST Lori Haigh's life spiraled downward after repeated sexual abuse by a Catholic priest in Orange County, while other clerics ignored her pleas for help. It took Haigh 20 years and a million-dollar lawsuit to be noticed. The dioceses of Los Angeles and Orange last week agreed to pay her $1.2 million to settle her accusations against the church.

10-Apr-02 - 10:49 PM (#687583) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST A priest was being held Tuesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenage boy 23 years ago. Robert Freitas, formerly a priest at Santa Paula Catholic Church in Fremont, California was arrested Monday and booked on suspicion of molesting the unidentified 15-year-old over a year in 1979.

11-Apr-02 - 02:11 AM (#687664) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST,jg Individuals betray. The church does not.

13-Apr-02 - 02:21 AM (#688997) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST Cardinal Mahoney in Los Angeles was vindicated of sexual assualt charges on Friday, April 12, 2002. With claims going this far up the heirarchy it will not surprising if the POPE himself is not accused with sexual misconduct going back to his years in Poland!!!

13-Apr-02 - 02:55 PM (#689271) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST The depth and breadth of the situation continues to grow. Maine, New Hampshire, Boston, Providence, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, St. Petersburg, Oregon, and Los Angeles are all roiled with allegations of sexual misconduct and cover-up. A ranking bishop in Ireland has resigned. A Polish bishop who once served as a Vatican aide to Pope John Paul II is under investigation. And allegations are spiraling out of Sicily and Mexico. It's mystifying that Archbishop Law of Boston continues to resist calls that he resign his position. With each passing week the chorus grows, and it's full of establishmentarian voices. There are protests in the Boston streets. But Law plays to an audience of one: the pope. And on matters of internal Church affairs, the pope and his cardinal advisers are at best deeply conservative and at worst — from our point of view — deeply reactionary. But theirs is the point of view that matters. When the Vatican says that it believes that criticism of the Church stems from an attempt to further causes like a married clergy, an expanded role for women, and integration of gays and lesbians into the fabric of the Church, they are right. Since the 1960s, when the Vatican ignored the advice of American bishops and came out foursquare against birth control, Rome's hold on its American flock has slipped. But the Vatican grossly underestimates the degree of American outrage over the current scandal. Even influential, brand-name conservative Catholics of deep devotion, such as William Buckley Jr. and Patrick Buchanan, are outraged at the position taken by Church leaders at home and abroad.

14-Apr-02 - 01:11 AM (#689615) Subject: RE: BS: Catholic Bishop and Priest Scandal From: GUEST,de Why arn't there more decadent priests in Ireland? ANSWER: They export most of them to the Americas.