Cardinal Pell appeals landmark child sex conviction

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:51:42 +0000

Cardinal Pell appeals landmark child sex conviction

The Vatican’s former number-three, Cardinal George Pell, will begin on Wednesday his appeal against convictions for “brazen” sex attacks on two choirboys in the 1990s.

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NDFP peace consultant, priest arrested

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:40:23 +0000

NDFP peace consultant, priest arrested

A consultant to the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) was arrested, along with an elderly priest

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Australian priest charged with sex abuse of boy — police

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:46:54 +0000

Australian priest charged with sex abuse of boy — police

Australian police said Wednesday they had charged a Catholic priest with indecent assault of a 15-year-old boy more than two decades ago.

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Priest removed from parish in Negros Occidental for alleged child molestation

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:36:39 +0000

A priest has been removed from his parish in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental after the police filed charges against him for allegedly molesting a four-year-old girl.

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Iowa diocese identifies 28 priests accused of abusing minors

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:35:08 +0000

Iowa diocese identifies 28 priests accused of abusing minors

At least 28 priests are credibly accused of having sexually abused more than 100 boys and girls while working for a Roman Catholic diocese in Iowa, church officials announced Monday.

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‘I obeyed like a robot’: Abuse survivor tells of predator priest

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:49:33 +0000

Jamaican victim of sexual abuse, Denise Buchanan, poses in front Saint Peter's square on February 18, 2019, in Rome. - "I was 17 years old when I was raped by Brother Paul," Denise Buchanan, Jamaican, explains 40 years later. Her fight to have the Catholic Church recognize her status as a victim of this Jamaican priest illustrates the isolation of many victims of sexual abuse in the clergy against the denial of justice and omerta, exacerbated in poorer countries or states where the Church remains influential in society. Denise decided to become involved by becoming a member of the steering committee of a new global network of victims, ECA (Ending Clerical Abuse). (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Denise Buchanan was 17 when she was raped by a seminarian who continued to abuse her when he became a priest in her native Jamaica. The Catholic Church, she says, has offered her nothing but their “prayers.”

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Valentine’s Day protest to show concern for Filipinos

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:35:36 +0000

Activist priest Fr. Robert Reyes has called on the Filipino people to stand up and express their patriotic affection to the Motherland this Valentine’s Day.

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Priest cries harassment, blames Duterte’s attacks on Church

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:23:50 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – A priest on Friday said he has been receiving threats from the police and military since his photo was displayed in his town with the caption linking him to the  CPP-NPA-NDFP [Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front.]”

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Pope Francis appoints Oblate priest to head Jolo vicariate

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 08:30:08 +0000

Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Romeo Saniel of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) as Apostolic Vicar of the Vicariate of Jolo

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Silence an enabler of bullies, says bishop bullied by Duterte

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 21:34:25 +0000

Pablo Virgilio David

Stand up for what is right, true and proper, Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David urged the public, referring to the recent bullying incident at the Ateneo de Manila University junior high school that was videotaped and made the rounds on social media.

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