Sentences with phrase «by the abuse scandal»

And they are in a difficult spot, since many laymen, humiliated by the abuse scandal, have demanded strong episcopal action.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Not exact matches

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned by US lawmakers today about the «use and abuse of data» — following weeks of breaking news about a data misuse scandal dating back to 2014.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned by US lawmakers today about the «use and abuse of data» — following weeks of breaking news about a data misuse scandal dating back

First announced amid a slew of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around abuse of user data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new bounty program is modeled off of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million bug bounty.

Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge Analytica - linked expert at the center of the recent Facebook scandal, told the U.K. government on Tuesday that despite links to a St. Petersburg university, his data was not abused by the Kremlin.

DLA Piper; Latham & Watkins; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom are just some of the legal giants that have been hired by Michigan State University to cope with the fallout from the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.

However, I find it interesting that other countries have recently been so worn down by financial advisor fraud, scandal, and abuse that they've finally decided to take real action — action that isn't even on the radar screen in America.

But as the sex abuse scandal continues to embroil the Roman Catholic Church in more than a half - dozen countries across Europe - and with allegations being raised that the pope himself responded inadequately to abuse allegations before he began leading the church in 2005 - Benedict's anniversary celebration has been overshadowed by international scrutiny of his leadership.

Why aren't you calling for Catholics to talk about their scandals on their websites or for Catholic people to donate money to victims of widespread and systematic abuse by Priests?

And in other news, the New York ultra-orthodox Jewish community has been enjoying their own version of a huge child - abuse scandal with over 85 cases of child abuse and also enjoying special treatment by the prosecutor's office in refusing to release the names of the convicted criminals in those cases!

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

The «dirty dozen» turned out to be a blacklist of cardinals drawn up by an American victims group which claims they failed to take a stand in child abuse scandals.

Pope Francis revived a sex abuse advisory commission by naming new members, after coming under fire for his handling of the scandal and his support for a Chilean...

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

I did find an interesting article that claims abuse of women by clergy will be the next big scandal.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

The risk, however was seen by the Congregations in terms of the potential for scandal and bad publicity should the abuse be disclosed.

Jonty Langley writes an open letter to Oxfam in the light of the sexual abuse scandal currently being highlighted by the press More

CNN: Vatican official defends Pope Benedict in sex abuse scandal A top Roman Catholic official opened a conference on protecting children from sexual abuse Monday by defending Pope Benedict XVI, arguing that he deserved thanks for his efforts.

A letter written by a now - dead Canadian bishop shows church officials knew of se.xual abuse allegations involving a priest before his promotion to a top Vatican post and then discussed with Vatican officials how to keep the scandal from becoming public.

CNN: Seeming parallels abound in Penn State, Catholic Church abuse scandals Both are managed by male dominated - hierarchies.

A third strand of scandals surround the abuse of power by some ministers.

In recent years, the Church has been blighted by financial misdemeanours, abuses of power and sex scandals.

Jonty Langley writes an open letter to Oxfam in the light of the sexual abuse scandal currently being highlighted by the press

With the new «normalization» of homosexuality in the general culture, with the acceptance of that normalization by many priests and not a few bishops, and with consequences such as the sex abuse scandals, the Church simply can not afford to take the risks that were taken, frequently with the best intentions, in the past.

The Tablet could scarcely contain its glee over this apparent «abuse» publishing a piece by Gerald Renner, co-author of Vows of Silence, under the cover headline «Scandal of Father Maciel», and concluding its editorial «For too long the Vatican has been taken in by appearances, over — impressed by power and influence.

But he inherits a church wracked by a decades - old sexual abuse scandal and claims of corruption in the clergy.

Pope Francis revived a sex abuse advisory commission by naming new members, after coming under fire for his handling of the scandal and his support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.

The Catholic Church in Ireland did not take serious steps to stamp out child abuse by priests even after the scandal blew up worldwide and the Irish bishops put rules in place to stop it, a new report says.

Fidel Castro could earn an important place in history by arresting and trying the Pope for complicity in the abuse scandals.

The media reporting about the scandals afflicting many parts of the Church is not just fuelled by rightful anger at clerical scandals and abuses, but has been «metastasised into a full - scale assault on Catholicism itself» as George Weigel puts it.

According to the publisher's burb — presumably either approved or actually written by Cornwell — confession has «been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating... with the scandal of clerical child abuse.

When Christians measure church success by the standards of American culture — money, power, prestige, numbers — we set ourselves up for scandal, discouragement, and abuse of authority / funds / people.

When have you ever allowed the FACTS about the billions of dollars paid to victims of the RCC s & x abuse scandal around the WORLD, not some isolted case, ever stopped you from defending the cover up by the hierarchy of the church.

Anderson says both the alleged abuse by a Penn State coach and the institution's apparent response mirrors the abuse scandal in the Catholic church.

Football Association chairman Greg Clarke, who spoke earlier this week of the scandal being the biggest ever faced by the FA, has said there will be no cover up if clubs are implicated in cases of abuse.

This era was also overshadowed by severe human rights abuses committed by members of the armed forces, including the «false positives» scandal, in which peasants were killed and then dressed up as guerrilla fighters to artificially inflate the body count.

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Nassau County DA Madeline Singas has been thrust onto the national stage by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who tapped her to lead the investigation into AG Eric Schneiderman's sexual abuse scandal.

The AG should be dismayed by the continued abuse of non-profits, which seem to be at the center of many corruption scandals.

This year, though, the Child Victims Act is receiving heightened attention from the «Spotlight» movie — which is about the priest sexual - abuse scandal in Boston — and an unrelenting campaign for the legislation by the Daily News, which has featured Farrell's story.

The U.S. Olympic Committee, in response to the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal, will strip USA Gymnastics of its governing power unless its entire board resigns by next week, the panel said in letter.

He did credit the Legislature, which was rocked by a number of sexual harassment and abuse scandals in recent years, for taking steps to better address the probe.

From Sarah Champion MP laughing at the UAF blocking Ukip leader Nigel farage form opening his Rotherham office, depsite the fact that Ukips increase in support in Rotherham was due to the Child abuse scandal, and labour ignoring it's smearing those who criticised the fact that labour tried to hide it, and then making capital by believing they were better than Ukip, because they alleged Ukip were trying to exploit it, despite Labour ourselves disgracefully hiding the scandal we'd caused.

Eric Bristow has been dropped as a pundit by Sky Sports following his comments about footballs abuse scandal.

But since then we've seen horrible abuses by the DoD, EPA, FBI, CIA, and NSA, as well as the Office of the President with Nixon's Watergate, Reagan's Iran - Contra scandal, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.