Sentences with phrase «abusive priests»

His work with abusive priests must have affected his brain.

If the gates of hell will not prevail, no number of abusive priests or negligent bishops will prevail.

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(CNN)- Opening arguments are scheduled for Monday in Philadelphia in the first case in which an official of a Roman Catholic archdiocese has been accused of protecting abusive priests by moving them from parish to parish.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is also attending the conclave, was recently deposed regarding his role in dealing with abusive priests in Wisconsin.

And throughout April, new documents have come to light suggesting that the current pope may have played down warnings about abusive priests in the United States.

AND, he stated... «we are dismayed by the readiness of our bishops to impose this penalty on abusive priests....»

(CNN)- A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury reached a mixed verdict on a church higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.

This preoccupation with secrecy significantly slows the investigative process — the backlog of referrals to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for action against se.xually abusive priests is so large that it takes 18 months to get a reply.

But bishops were under no psychological compulsion to move abusive priests from parish to parish, from therapist to therapist.

The RCC will fall because it has worn a millstone around her neck for as long as it has harbored abusive priests and turned it's back on the innocent.

He didn't so as much to crack down on bishops who hid abusive priests.

There are a number of Vatican reports showing that some bishops in the current Pope Benedict's jurisdiction reported abusive priests to their superior archbishop / cardinal, which is the appropriate course of action.

The Friar reported that his findings from working with abusive priests shows the abusers claim «the children made me do it».

Why would Jesus (who is God)-- and who knows the future (and what people will do and not do)-- choose abusive priests to carry on his work on earth?

On Thursday, the archdiocese confirmed that it had offered payoffs to abusive priests as «the most expedient and cost - effective way to have offenders laicized or removed from the priesthood.»

The editors opined that the action shows that «the leaders of the American Church are at last ready to confront the extraordinary moral and managerial carelessness that allowed so many abusive priests to flourish for so long at such great cost.»

(CNN)- One of the most powerful Catholic Church leaders in America approved payments of $ 20,000 to get abusive priests to leave the church, abuse victims and the archdiocese in question said Thursday.

Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has «moved on» and will not resign.

I have long thought that one reason the sex - abuse crisis became so extreme was the lack of zeal on the part of bishops, who put an alleged «compassion» for abusive priests over the obvious welfare of their flocks.

There still isn't a frontrunner to succeed Pope Benedict, and some are asking that California Cardinal Roger Mahony — who was criticized for his role in shielding abusive priests — skip the conclave.

The other was «Spotlight» which was about The Boston Globe's breaking of the scandal involving abusive priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.

They are accused of being part of a culture of silence and denial about abusive priests that is not peculiar only to Ireland but is worldwide.

It's the same as equating all Christians with abusive priests for example.

Pope Benedict XVI, both as a cardinal and as pope, did a lot to crack down on abusive priests (the number, of which, is very small.

Have a friend, a very smart MD, who has saved countless lives, and was educated at a C. university which has been in the news lately for a few abusive priests, (don't get me wrong, one is way too many).

CNN: Philadelphia abuse trial has taken toll on very Catholic city A Philadelphia sex abuse trial in which a jury reached a mixed verdict on a church higher - up accused of protecting sexually abusive priests was closely watched for its national implications.

Maybe that's the way the Vatican / Catholic church likes to protect abusive priests — just reassign the abuser to another location and claim nuns are a «negative global influence» because they are «too focused heavily on social justice.»

This preoccupation with secrecy significantly slowed the investigative process — the backlog of referrals to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for action against se.xually abusive priests is so large that it takes 18 months to get a reply.

Lansch said, «While we are troubled with the notion of zero tolerance, we accept it reluctantly as an appropriate response to abusive priests in the wake of life long damage to the souls of thousands of innocent victims of s3xual abuse.

While Bevilacqua was not charged, three priests and a parochial school teacher were charged with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while Monsignor William Lynn, a former top aide to Bevilacqua, was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children.

The Catholic Church has been «dealing» with the abusive priests in their own way for hundreds of years by moving them from parish to parish or sending them to some cushy retreat to get «help» with their problem.

The 2011 report led to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office criminally charging three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

Are the abusive priests criminals?

While acknowledging the need for more effective procedures in dealing with abusive priests and related matters, he underscored that the core issue is fidelity.

Last week, three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

Shazza — I hear what you say about feeling sad when people equate the word feminist with hateful behaviour with you being a proud feminist and likening that to equating all Christians with abusive priests.

I can't trust an abusive priest: Who knows when or whether his deviant sexual urge — notoriously difficult to get rid of, notoriously difficult to resist — might come upon him again, causing him to «have» another «abusive incident»?

I am appalled by what some of the abusive priests have done, but the Church should not be submitted to the wishes of the media, state, or even the flock.

Fewer than 5 % of abusive priests could be classed as paedophiles because most of their victims were between ages 11 and 14.»

I had little sympathy for the abusive priests, still less for the hierarchy that had connived in their abuses, but I had great sympathy for and a feeling of solidarity with the victims of the abuse and also with rank - and - file members who were devastated by the revelations.

So my question to catholic engineer... Would you contribute to a special fund, not for every day expenses and charitable works, but to pay for the legal fees and damages incurred by the abusive priests that have, we hope, been expunged from the RCC?