Sentences with phrase «many abusive priests»

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 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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

This is the man the Catholic hierarchy designated to take care of and counsel abusive priests.

The very few abusive priests have no place whatsoever in the priesthood, and no one is more disgusted and enraged by their betrayal than faithful Catholics.

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.

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.»

i canjust imagine what goes on at that retreat for abusive priests hahahahahahaha,,,,, oh, ohhh, bend ova brotha bill quickly, quickly

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

Finally, the church hierarchy has finally come to terms with their failures and are in fact turning in abusive priests when found out.

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.

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?

Then there is Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who was a member of the group that worked out with Rome the rules for dealing with abusive priests, and has demonstrated how they can work in a way that is both responsive to victims and fair to the accused.

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 settlement is the first since documents detailing the involvement of high - ranking church officials — including Cardinal Roger Mahony — in moving and protecting abusive priests.

This expertly - paced account of the Boston Globe's expose on the Catholic Church's systematic covering up of abusive priests is top - notch storytelling, one in which the city of Boston becomes not just the backdrop, but the main character.

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

«Climate change science has done to science what abusive priests did for respecting the Catholic Church»

The Supreme Court have reversed the Court of Appeal decision by holding that not only the distant managers but also the brotherhood who «employed» the abusive priests are to blame.

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It alleges that Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony and Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera knew the priest - identified in the suit as Nicholas Aguilar Rivera - was abusive but authorized him to move back and forth between Mexico and the U.S. and to continue serving in parishes.

The witness also said he was touched inappropriately by a priest while an altar boy at the orphanage, and called on the Pope to take action against the abusive figures, adding he wanted to see the Sister of Charity disbanded.

(CNN)- A Philadelphia archdiocese official on trial for allegedly covering up the sexual abuse of children has asked a court to throw out charges against him based on a 1994 memo showing Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered a list of suspected abusive Catholic priests to be destroyed.

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered a list of suspected abusive Catholic priests to be destroyed according to a 1994 memo.

Often, they simply move from town to town, and job to job, much like the abusive Catholic priests were allowed to do.

In a March 2009 article for Sport and Society, professors Ashley Stirling and Gretchen Kerr» research shows that some athletes imagine the coach's position, even when abusive, as comparable to a priest or a cult leader.

The Invisible War is as compelling as Silence in the House of God, Alex Gibney's study of abusive Catholic priests.

It is usually to be found in Mildred's vicious, and vicariously delicious, encounters with all and sundry, from a mild - mannered Catholic priest and her abusive ex-husband (John Hawkes) to random strangers on the side of the road.