Pedofilia tra sacerdoti cristiani

[LUVІ]

E' una realtà terribile; le persone a cui affidiamo i nostri bambini, e le nostre anime, sono le ultime di cui vorremmo non poterci fidare

LuVi

[sander4]

Originariamente inviato da LUVІ

E' una realtà terribile; le persone a cui affidiamo i nostri bambini, e le nostre anime, sono le ultime di cui vorremmo non poterci fidare

LuVi

Si, ma secondo me è importante anche l'atteggiamento del papa e del clero che sta più in alto nella gerarchia.

Se leggi l'articolo che ho postato prima (sulla "Crimen Sollicitationis" di Ratzinger), non mi sembra che ai piani alti si capisca che i preti che commettono quei reati vanno processati da un tribunale civile, punto e basta, non trattati diversamente da un normale accusato di pedofilia!

[LUVІ]

Originariamente inviato da sander4

Si, ma secondo me è importante anche l'atteggiamento del papa e del clero che sta più in alto nella gerarchia.

Se leggi l'articolo che ho postato prima (sulla "Crimen Sollicitationis" di Ratzinger), non mi sembra che ai piani alti si capisca che i preti che commettono quei reati vanno processati da un tribunale civile, punto e basta, non trattati diversamente da un normale accusato di pedofilia!

Purtroppo il Vaticano ha questi privilegi.

LuVi

[ChristinaAemiliana]

coldd, se un moderatore ti edita un titolo, fai la cortesia di non rieditarlo da te.

Dal contesto si evinceva benissimo che si stesse parlando di sacerdoti come sinonimo di preti e non di sacerdoti della dea Kalì, ma anche posto di avere tutta questa necessità di specificare mediante l'aggettivo "cristiani", sarebbe stato il caso di mandare un pvt a me.

[wolverine]

Spesso, purtroppo, il male ha il volto di un angelo.. dovrebbero tenere maggior controllo anche sui preti, non è per che hanno un tonaca automaticamente sono Santi eh.. sono uomini con istinti e pulsioni come qualsiasi altro.. in questi casi oltre all'istinto dell'uomo c'è la perversione..

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Local Priest Removed over Abuse Charges

By Monica Malpass

PHILADELPHIA - August 28, 2006 - A priest in the Philadelphia Archdiocese has been removed after an investigation by Cardinal Justin Rigali found there appeared to be sexual abuse.


Rigali got a report in January that Reverend James Brennan allegedly sexually abused a minor 8 years ago.

Father Brennan was temporarily relieved of his duties at Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Feasterville, Bucks County pending a review.

Now he has been fully removed while the Holy See studies the case.

Brennan was associated with 5 regional parishes or schools since the 1980s.


http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?se...cal&id=4503466

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Posted on Sun, Aug. 27, 2006

Monsignor admits sex with teens
Bishop sends letter to parishioners of St. Therese’s saying their former priest admitted to “unchaste behavior” with high school girls.
By DAVE JANOSKI djanoski@leader.net


KINGSTON TWP. – Monsignor J. Peter Crynes, whose resignation for unspecified allegations of “sexual misconduct” shocked parishioners at St. Therese’s Church three months ago, has admitted to “unchaste behavior” with “high school girls,” according to a letter from Bishop Joseph F. Martino mailed to parishioners this weekend.

Crynes’ case will be forwarded to the Vatican, which could permanently bar him from performing Mass and other priestly duties in public or remove him from the priesthood altogether.

Crynes, 64, was widely respected at St. Therese’s, one of the Scranton Diocese’s largest parishes, for urging parishioners to participate in volunteer work inside and outside of church. Many rallied to his defense when his resignation was announced in May and he quietly vacated the church rectory. Some criticized the diocese for offering scant details about the misconduct alleged by two unidentified women that it said occurred before Crynes came to St. Therese’s in 1994.

The bishop’s letter, received by parishioners Saturday, offered few new details, except for the fact that the females were in high school when the incidents allegedly occurred. It did not give their ages or the time and location of the alleged misconduct. The legal age of consent in Pennsylvania is 16.

Martino’s letter acknowledged some parishioners’ displeasure with the diocese regarding the lack of information released in the case:

“However, you know well that in life, some things cannot be made public. We must practice common courtesy and observe the confidentially imposed by the Church’s judicial procedures.”

In nearly 40 years as a priest, Crynes had several assignments that could have put him in close contact with high school girls. He was assistant director of Camp St. Andrew, a 600-acre children’s summer camp near Tunkhannock; assistant director of the former Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Center in Elmhurst, which hosted youth retreats; director of religious formation at Bishop Hannan High School in Scranton and chaplain at the former St. Joseph’s Children and Maternity Center, now St. Joseph’s Center, in Scranton.

Martino’s letter was not publicly mentioned at Saturday’s 4:30 p.m. Mass at St. Therese’s. After the well-attended Mass, Crynes’ replacement, the Rev. James J. Paisley, referred all questions to diocesan spokesman William Genello, who could not be reached for comment.

Several parishioners who had voiced support for Crynes in the past either declined comment or did not return phone messages Saturday.

Crynes could not be reached for comment.

At least 25 priests in the Scranton Diocese have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors since 1950, a Times Leader series published in July reported. The diocese has spent more than $800,000 in legal fees, settlements and medical and counseling costs for victims in such cases.

Criminal charges have been filed against two diocesan priests since 1991. Both pleaded guilty to molesting young boys. One was recently defrocked by the Vatican. The other died in prison in 1994.

The diocese is defending itself against two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton by men who claim they were abused by those two priests when they were minors. Both suits allege diocesan officials were aware of prior allegations against the priests, but allowed them to continue to serve in diocesan schools and churches.

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/times...s/15373422.htm

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Sat, Aug. 26, 2006

Missouri pastor free on bond
Granby minister faces eight counts of sodomy in an inquiry into child sex abuse.
By KEVIN MURPHY


A southwest Missouri minister who was charged Tuesday with eight counts of sodomy turned himself in early Friday afternoon to authorities in Newton County.

George Otis Johnston, 63, is accused in an investigation of alleged child sexual abuse at a church compound in rural Granby, Mo. He was released on bond Friday and will be arraigned Wednesday, county officials said.

Johnston, who could not be reached for comment, did not have a lawyer with him Friday, said Newton County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Jennings.

“He is not talking to us,” Jennings said. Johnston is charged with seven counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and one count of second-degree statutory sodomy.

Johnston is pastor at Grandview Valley Baptist Church North, which is located in a mobile home park at Granby where several families live.

On Thursday, authorities removed eight children from the compound and placed them in foster care, Jennings said. The two other children who had lived in the compound were put in protective custody Friday, he said.

A 17-year-old girl alleges she was abused by Johnston beginning at age 8, according to charges filed by the Newton County prosecutor’s office.

Johnston’s church is affiliated with a church compound in McDonald County, which borders Newton County on the south.

McDonald County prosecutors said children were sexually abused at that compound, and charges were filed last week.

The Rev. Raymond Lambert, pastor of Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church; his wife, Patty Lambert; and her brothers, Paul and Tom Epling; were charged with having sex with girls as young as 4 years old. They were released on bond and will be in court for a pretrial hearing Oct. 2. An attorney for the four said they deny the allegations. Johnston is the uncle of Raymond Lambert.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...l/15365744.htm

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Sat, Aug. 26, 2006

Bishop tied to abuse case could face charges
Sheriff's office says man did not promptly report allegations of child sex abuse against a priest, who fled the country
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County sheriff's investigators have recommended criminal charges be filed against Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh for failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse by a fellow priest.

If prosecutors pursue the case, it would be the first time a U.S. bishop faced such charges.

"We think we have a strong enough case here for charges to be filed," Sgt. Dennis O'Leary said, adding that the final decision rests with the District Attorney's Office.

A spokeswoman for the prosecutor did not return a call seeking comment Friday.

Walsh has publicly apologized for failing to immediately report to authorities the admission made to him April 28 by the Rev. Xavier Ochoa. The three-day lag in notifying law enforcement gave Ochoa time to flee to Mexico, where authorities believe he remains.

Ochoa, 68, worked at St. Francis Solano Church in Sonoma before admitting misconduct in a meeting with Walsh and two other church officials. He was charged with 10 felony counts and one misdemeanor count of child sex abuse involving three victims.

State law requires clergy, among others, to immediately report any suspicions of child sex abuse and to follow up by fax or e-mail within 36 hours. A violation is a misdemeanor and has a potential penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/...e/15368438.htm

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Paedophile priest was given post at school for the deaf

Campaigners demand inquiry into 'reign of sexual terror'

Sunday August 6, 2006
The Observer

The Roman Catholic Church covered up the criminal past of a paedophile priest and gave him a job in a school for deaf children where he went on to sexually assault vulnerable young boys, an Observer investigation can reveal.

The church is now facing a massive compensation claim from the victims of the priest, Father Neil Gallanagh, who accuse the authorities of 'wilful neglect'. Child abuse campaigners are calling for a public inquiry into the case, which they claim led to a 'reign of sexual terror' for some boys at the school .

Last year Gallanagh, 75, pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two pupils of St John's Roman Catholic School for the Deaf in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. The school was under the control of the diocese of Leeds, which employed Gallanagh. A further 11 charges against him of indecently assaulting five other boys aged under 16, including an 11-year-old, were left on file.

The attacks took place while Gallanagh was a resident chaplain at St John's during the Seventies. Many of the pupils at this residential school were deaf and dumb. The victims are mainly now in their forties and the assaults came to light only recently after one alleged victim spoke to his doctor and another attended a reunion party and spoke with other pupils.

The Observer has obtained evidence showing that Gallanagh was given the job by the Catholic church at St John's despite having been caught abusing children as a priest more than a decade earlier while working at Craigbane church in Derry, Northern Ireland. It has emerged that, while he was on a day-trip to the Isle of Man in June 1960, he sexually assaulted a nine-year-old boy. A report from the Isle of Man Daily Times on 27 June 1960 described how Gallanagh sat with 'bowed head clasped to his hands' in the dock at Douglas Court House after he was arrested.

'I realise it was a horrible thing to do,' Gallanagh said in a statement to police at the time. 'I have been worried with this sexual trouble for some time, and recently it has become an obsession with me.'

Gallanagh was not jailed but fined £30 after he promised to seek medical treatment. A short report of his arrest appeared in the Belfast Telegraph

It appears that rather than throw Gallanagh - who was related to the then Bishop of Derry, Neil Farren - out of the church, he was moved to Leeds and allowed to continue preaching. The then Bishop of Leeds, William Wheeler, made him resident chaplain at St John's School for the Deaf in 1974. Gallanagh's previous conviction was not made known to the court in the 2005 case and his victims at St John's were unaware of his history until The Observer uncovered the earlier press reports from newspaper archives.

One of his victims at St John's expressed his outrage at the latest disclosures. 'I am more than livid and feel totally let down by a so-called Christian organisation. How could the church have allowed this to happen? How could they have put a paedophile into a school for deaf children who were unable to speak out? This man ruined many people's lives, including mine. At the very least the church is guilty of wilful neglect; at the worst it is something unimaginable,' he said.

David Greenwood, a solicitor acting for eight of Gallanagh's victims, confirmed he is suing the diocese of Leeds. 'We were unaware of this previous conviction, and it will certainly add strength to our case,' he said.

Margaret Kennedy, chair of Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors (MACSAS), said: 'We now call again for a public inquiry into the sexual abuse of deaf children in St John's School. The new evidence suggests a cover-up scandal of sexual abuse of disabled children.'

Last year The Observer revealed how dozens of young children at a deaf school in south-east England were subject to brutal sexual abuse by the headmistress's husband over three decades.

Kennedy, along with other abuse campaign groups such as Phoenix Survivors, claims that deaf victims of sexual abuse are not getting proper justice. Phoenix was outraged that, even after his latest crimes, Gallanagh received only a six-month suspended sentence and a £1,500 fine. Judge Norman Jones said that Gallanagh's age, recent poor health and good character for the last 30 years meant jail was inappropriate.

A spokesperson for Leeds diocese said: 'The two bishops and the vicar-general of that period died some considerable time ago and written records from the time are scant. The diocese of Leeds has developed good policies and practice in regard to all aspects of the protection of children and vulnerable adults and has co-operated fully when approached by statutory authorities in regard to historical cases.'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...838319,00.html

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Sacerdoti incriminati per pedofilia

AVVERTENZA
I casi elencati in questa sezione riguardano sacerdoti incriminati per pedofilia di cui mi è stato o impossibile ricostruire il processo (la stampa non ne ha più parlato) o, non ancora giudicati.

1. 25 marzo 1994. Catania - “Andate via, don [Antonino] Visalli non ha nulla da dire”. Davanti alla chiesa di Santa Bernadette, a Lineri, da ieri mattina c’è un nugolo di ragazzini che fa la guardia per proteggere il parroco. Una donna lo accusa: “Quando avevo quindici anni mi costringeva a sedermi sulle sue gambe, mi abbracciava fino a farmi male e poi mi baciava”. (Alfio Sciacca, Il parroco difeso dai ragazzini, in “Il Correre della Sera”, 25 marzo 1994).
2. 5 febbraio 1994. Vidizzolo Predabissi - Quanti erano i corvi che volavano attorno al campanile della parrocchia di San Pietro, retta fino a metà gennaio da don Luciano Pesavento?… non sono comunque state le loro sanguinose beccate a convincere don Luciano ad andarsene la sera di tre domeniche fa, per raggiungere un lontano e segreto... A decidere la sorte del religioso, 45 anni, è stata una denuncia per atti di libidine presentata alla Procura dai genitori di un minorenne, che avrebbe raccontato di aver subito dal parroco attenzioni particolari all'oratorio. (Siro Marziali, Sono guai grossi per Don Luciano, in “Il Corriere della Sera”, 5 febbraio 1994).
3. 27 ottobre 1996. Genova – Un parroco denunciato per atti di libidine violenta su una minorenne e un paese che, incredulo, difende il suo sacerdote. “Giallo” a Santa Margherita Ligure. Il parroco di una delle chiese del paese, T.C., cinquantenne, sarebbe stato raggiunto anche da un avviso di garanzia e interrogato dai carabinieri. (Anonimo, Parroco accusato di atti di libidine, in “Il Corriere della Sera”, 27 ottobre 1996.)
4. 8 agosto 1997. Massa – Su don Roberto Marianelli, 47 anni, da cinque parroco di Santa Maria della Rosa, è caduta un'accusa odiosa: atti di libidine violenti nei confronti di ragazzini fra gli otto e i dodici anni. (Claudia Fusani, Toccava i bambini: arrestato il parroco, in “La Repubblica”, 8 agosto 1997).
5. 29 aprile 1998. Trapani - Ora tocca a monsignor Angelo Mustazza, 63 anni, parroco della chiesa di Sant'Andrea in contrada Bonagia a Valderice, nel Trapanese. Il religioso, che sembra si sia dichiarato innocente, è stato arrestato e rinchiuso nel carcere di San Giuliano. Avrebbe avuto rapporti sessuali con bambine di 12 anni e con alcune ragazze. (Anonimo, Parroco in carcere accusa di pedofilia, in “l’Unità”, 29 aprile 1998).
6. 17 giugno 1998. Viterbo – I parrocchiani di don Giuliano Medori, 59 anni, non saranno ricevuti per un bel pezzo… E’ stato arrestato ieri mattina all’alba con un’accusa che ha fatto piangere qualche devota fedele: violenza sessuale continuata ed aggravata su una ragazza minorenne… (Giovanna Cavalli, Violenze a una ragazzina, in cella parroco e professore del liceo, in “Il Corriere della Sera, 17 giugno 1998).
7. 21 novembre 2002. Firenze - Il cardinale Silvano Piovanelli, 78 anni, al processo per presunti atti di libidine violenti che un parroco del Chianti di 65 anni avrebbe compiuto ai danni di un minorato, in cambio di alcune camicie. (Anonimo, Piovanelli depone in aula “Quel prete era estroverso”, La Nazione 21 novembre 2002).
8. 31 maggio 2003. Due preti, alcuni professionisti (fra cui un primario di clinica psichiatrica e un ingegnere), impiegati, operai, studenti. Sono alcune delle 102 persone indagate nell'operazione condotta dalla polizia postale di Lombardia e Campania per contrastare il fenomeno della diffusione di materiale pedo-pornografico attraverso internet. (Anonimo, Pedofilia, tra indagati anche minori, preti e professionisti, in “La Repubblica”, 31 maggio 2003).
9. 16 giugno 2003. Napoli - Il sacerdote cattolico messicano Edgar Gaudencio Hidalgo Dominguez è stato estradato in Italia dove è ricercato per una serie di abusi compiuti su alcuni minorenni quando era parroco di San Castrense, nel napoletano. (Ansa, 16 giugno 2003).
10. 19 luglio 2003. Bergamo – Suicida il prete accusato di pedofilia… . Il parroco non aveva mai voluto fornire una sua versione dei fatti. Proclamava la sua innocenza, ma si è poi sempre avvalso della facoltà di non rispondere alle domande degli inquirenti. Don [Vittorio] Damiani era coinvolto in una vicenda di pedofilia on line. Bambini e bambine, da pochi mesi ai 14 anni, utilizzati per immagini agghiaccianti… (Anonimo, Suicida in cella il prete accusato di abusi sessuali, in “La Repubblica”, 19 luglio 2003, p. 21).
11. 8 novembre 2003. Oristano - Tre parole: divieto di dimora. E un’accusa pesantissima: pedofilia. Da giovedì sera don Giuseppe Cuccu, parroco della chiesetta di San Lorenzo Martire, per alcuni anni vice parroco di Sant’Efisio a Oristano, non può più tornare a Mogorella… Tutto sarebbe partito da due denunce alla Procura presentata dai genitori di alcuni bambini. Coinvolta ci sarebbe anche una minorenne. (Anonimo, Allontanato il parroco denunciato per pedofilia, in "L'Unione Sarda", 8 novembre 2003.
12. 8 gennaio 2003. Bari - La procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Bari ha inviato una lettera alla curia arcivescovile di Milano nella quale comunica di aver eseguito un' ordinanza di custodia cautelare agli arresti domiciliari nei confronti del parroco della provincia di Milano G.C., di 37 anni, arrestato assieme ad altre sei persone il 30 dicembre scorso nell' ambito di un' inchiesta sulla pedofilia via Internet. (Ansa, 8 gennaio 2003).
13. 15 novembre 2003. Piacenza - Un sacerdote piacentino di circa 50 anni e' accusato di abusi sessuali su minorenni. I ragazzi frequentano l'istituto professionale nel quale insegnava il prete. (Ansa, 15 novembre 2003).
14. 1 marzo 2004. Varese - Su don Vincenzo, 63 anni, pende un'indagine per abusi sessuali su minorenni della procura di Varese: per anni avrebbe prodotto in proprio quel materiale pornografico con adolescenti trovato dalla polizia, diligentemente catalogato, nella canonica di un paesino sul lago Maggiore dove il sacerdote ha svolto il suo compito di pastore di anime fino a un paio di settimane fa. (Anonimo, Pedofilia in canonica - Sacerdote indagato, in "Corriere della sera", 1 marzo 2004).
15. 3 marzo 2004. Bari - Piccoli e smarriti. Bambini dai sei mesi ai sei anni, in tutte le pose, da soli, con altri coetanei o durante giochi involontari con adulti mascherati. Lo squallido book fotografico era conservato nell'abitazione di un padre domenicano, Giancarlo Locatelli, di 44 anni, segretario dell'Istituto di teologia ecumenica "San Nicola" di Bari, uno dei referenti della Parrocchia di San Nicola, presso l'omonima Basilica. (Anonimo, Frate domenicano collezionava foto pedofile, in "La Repubblica", 3 marzo 2004).
16. 25 maggio 2005 – Siracusa. Avrebbe cancellato tutti i file scaricati da Internet. Ma poi, per non lasciare traccia di quei filmati che ritraevano bambine che subivano abusi sessuali, avrebbe cancellato l' intera memoria del computer. Prima però avrebbe riversato tutto il materiale scaricato da Internet su diversi cd: un piccolo archivio, tenuto ben nascosto, da rivedere in qualunque momento. è questa l' accusa per un sacerdote del palermitano impegnato in attività di coinvolgimento e recupero dei minori. Il prete è uno dei 186 denunciati… si tratta di insospettabili, stimati professionisti, pubblici funzionari, insegnanti, imprenditori, ma ci sono anche quattro sacerdoti, un sindaco… (Michele Giuffrida, Pedofili, Preti e politici nella rete, in "La Repubblica", 25 maggio 2005, p. 27).
17. 8 luglio 2004 Caserta - Titolare dell'indagine è il pubblico ministero Donato Ceglie che ha indagato un centinaio di persone tra cui professionisti, avvocati, studenti. Nel registro degli indagati risulta iscritto anche il nominativo di un sacerdote di Alife, nel Casertano… La procura di Santa Maria Capua Vetere ha ordinato nei giorni scorsi decine di perquisizioni, trovando, secondo quanto si è appreso, riscontro in merito all'acquisto di materiale pedopornografico tramite un sito internet. Tra le perquisizioni effettuate c'e' anche quella fatta in una casa discografica di Rieti, che, secondo gli investigatori sarebbe una sorta di 'crocevia' del traffico di materiale pedopornografico. (da Ansa, 8 luglio 2004).
18. 27 dicembre 2004. Pavia - E' accusato di violenza sessuale nei confronti di tre ragazzini (due di 14 ed uno di 13 anni) un sacerdote di 62 anni, parroco di un piccolo comune alle porte di Pavia, che da alcuni giorni si trova agli arresti domiciliari. (da Ansa, 27 dicembre 2004).
19. 5 luglio 2005. Cuneo - Don Renato Giaccardi, 42 anni, sacerdote monregalese, originario di Magliano Alpi (Cuneo), responsabile della preparazione religiosa, in qualità di "vicario moniale", di alcuni Istituti della diocesi di Imperia e di Albenga, è agli arresti domiciliari con una serie di accuse gravissime: induzione alla prostituzione, favoreggiamento e sfruttamento di minorenni. (Ansa, 5 luglio 2005).
20. 5 ottobre 2005. Ferrara - Tre dipendenti di un asilo parrocchiale sono state licenziate dopo aver accusato un sacerdote di atti sessuali su una decina di bambine… La vicenda è esplosa nel marzo scorso con l'arresto del sacerdote, di fatto gestore dell'asilo nonché rappresentante legale, che venne accusato di comportamenti, atteggiamenti e gesti ambigui che penalmente, dopo un'indagine durata mesi, si sono trasformati in un'accusa di violenza sessuale: per il prete. (Anonimo, Prete arrestato per atti sessuali licenzia tre dipendenti dell'asilo, in “La Repubblica”, 5 ottobre 2005).
21. 5 ottobre 2005. Palermo. Il procuratore generale di Torino Gian Carlo Caselli, l’ex sindaco di Palermo Leoluca Orlando ed uno dei sacerdoti più noti a Palermo per il suo impegno civile, Padre Ribaudo entrano in scena al processo ad un altro parroco “antimafia” accusato di pedofilia: Don Paolo Turturro. (AGI, 5 ottobre 2005).
22. 10 novembre 2005. Como - Si e' sempre difeso respingendo ogni ipotesi di violenza sessuale. Lo ha fatto anche davanti al gup di Como, Nicoletta Cremona, che pero' lo ha rinviato a giudizio con l'accusa di essere un prete pedofilo. Il suo processo iniziera' davanti ai giudici di Como il 28 marzo. Da quel giorno si cercherà di capire se effettivamente Don Mauro Stefanoni, parroco 38enne ora sospeso, di Laglio… abbia indotto un ragazzino di 14 anni disabile ad avere con lui rapporti di tipo sessuale nella casa parrocchiale. (AGI, 10 novembre 2005).
23. 15 novembre 2005. Napoli - La Curia arcivescovile di Napoli è stata citata in giudizio da un ragazzo che sei anni fa si costituì parte civile in un procedimento penale contro un religioso accusato di aver compiuto abusi sessuali su di lui. (Anonimo, Prete accusato di pedofilia Ragazzo chiede i danni alla curia di Napoli, in “La Stampa”, 15 novembre 2005).
24. 26 novembre 2005. Arezzo - Rischia di configurarsi come il più grave scandalo di pedofilia che abbia mai colpito la Chiesa italiana quello che vede coinvolto don Pierangelo Bertagna, il sacerdote dell'abbazia di Farneta (Arezzo) già sotto inchiesta per un caso di pedofilia e che ieri ha confessato agli inquirenti di aver abusato di 30 bambini… Preso dai rimorsi, in una sola giornata don Pierangelo avrebbe confidato agli inquirenti la lunga serie di abusi sessuali da lui commessi a partire dagli anni '90, quando era ancora un laico, su una trentina di ragazzi di età compresa tra gli 8 e i 15anni. (Adnkronos, 26 novembre 2005).

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Special Reports: Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse

Roughly two-thirds of top U.S. Catholic leaders have allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to keep working, a systematic practice that spans decades and continues today, a three-month Dallas Morning News review shows. The study - the first of its kind - looked at the records of the top leaders of the nation�s 178 mainstream Roman Catholic dioceses, including acting administrators in cases where the top job is vacant.

Excluded from the study were auxiliary bishops who, in larger dioceses, serve in subordinate roles but still can vote on many matters before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the 17 bishops who lead eparchies, which are diocese-like entities that worship according to the Eastern rite.

In checking whether a bishop had protected priests or other church representatives accused of sexual abuse, reporters Brooks Egerton and Reese Dunklin relied on published reports, court records, interviews and church records obtained in civil litigation. Most protected priests were accused of sexually abusing minors - primarily adolescent boys, but also younger ones, and a sizable number of girls of various ages. The newspaper�s study also covered behavior that indicated a sexual attraction to minors, such as viewing child pornography or, in one case, trading sexually charged e-mails with someone a priest believed was a minor.

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Burlington, Vt.

BISHOP KENNETH ANGELL

The Diocese of Providence, R.I., where he was auxiliary bishop from 1974 to 1992, has paid more than $1 million to settle lawsuits that accused him and other leaders of covering up abuse by several priests. Bishop Angell testified in a 1990 lawsuit that he did not take seriously allegations - made by both parishioners and assistant priests - that the Rev. William O'Connell was molesting boys. The priest was convicted, served a short sentence, moved to New Jersey, committed more crimes and died in prison. In another Rhode Island case, Bishop Angell in 1989 promised to "take care of it" when the Rev. Normand Demers was accused of misconduct with boys while working at a Haitian orphanage, according to a former orphanage staffer. The priest was brought back to work in the Providence diocese (see more under that listing). More recently, Bishop Angell allowed six accused priests to stay on the job in Vermont, then later gave their names to the state attorney general and suspended them. He would not identify them publicly.

[Pucceddu]

Mah, io non capisco che senso cia' sto thread, sensibilizzare sulla pedofilia?
Un morbo UMANO che colpisce persone UMANE come, guarda un po', i PRETI (cristiani, musulmani, puffichi, cachissi). Oltre a fare i conti con la giustizia sta' gente fara' i conti con il loro diretto superiore, e non parlo di vescovi e papi vari.

Io credo sia inutile buttare notizie al vento per dare alito alla bocca senza che si dia una propria interpretazione, ripeto, che senso ha?

Accusare?Sensibilizzare?Far picchiare a sangue i preti?

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Austin, Texas

BISHOP GREGORY AYMOND
As a New Orleans auxiliary bishop in 1998, he kept Catholic schoolteacher Brian Matherne on the job despite an allegation that he'd molested a student years earlier. Bishop Aymond has said he dropped the matter without alerting police because the alleged victim wouldn't speak to him. That young man later went to police himself, and authorities said more children had been molested in the meantime. Mr. Matherne has since been sentenced to prison after admitting that he abused 17 boys. Lawsuits against the New Orleans archdiocese are pending. Bishop Aymond has said he would do things differently today.

Charleston, S.C.

BISHOP ROBERT BAKER
In February, a spokesman denied a lawsuit's allegation that the diocese was employing a "known priest-pedophile." Later, the spokesman acknowledged that an accused priest remained on the job, after having been suspended in the mid-1990s, moved to a smaller parish and ordered not to be alone with children. The Rev. Paul Seitz has since resigned, for what the diocese said were unrelated health reasons. The man who accused Father Seitz already has provided crucial testimony in the case against another priest, the Rev. Eugene Condon, who pleaded guilty to abuse in 1998 and was sentenced to probation. The accuser told the FBI that as a teenager in the 1960s he went to Father Condon for confession after Father Seitz abused him. Father Condon gave him alcohol and tried to molest him too, he said, and years later showed him a trunk full of photographs of naked boys whose pictures had been taken in a church rectory. In another instance, Bishop Baker two years ago moved to transfer the Rev. John Bench to a diocese in Florida, after paying a settlement to the family of a young girl the priest admitted abusing. The bishop dropped the idea after the family protested. Earlier this spring, Bishop Baker was criticized by Atlanta Archbishop John Donoghue for not immediately reporting abuse allegations to government authorities. The Charleston diocesan spokesman said it investigates internally first to "be sure we have a credible allegation

Green Bay, Wis.

BISHOP ROBERT BANKS

As a top aide to Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, he helped the Rev. Paul Shanley transfer to the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., in the early 1990s. The Boston archdiocese had been receiving allegations for many years that Father Shanley had molested children and publicly advocated sex between men and boys, but Bishop Banks wrote a counterpart in California that the priest "has no problem that would be a concern to your diocese." Bishop Banks has said he was unaware of Father Shanley's problems. "Maybe I dropped the ball, but it did not come to my attention," he recently told Wisconsin newspapers. "I know it seems strange to you that you could have 800 pages in a personnel file and that I, as the vicar for administration, would not know about it, but I did not know about it." In Green Bay, Bishop Banks recently suspended at least one priest, whom he described as devastated by a molestation accusation. "We're presuming that it's false," the bishop said. In late May, a task force he appointed said that seven priests accused of sexually abusing minors remained in active ministry; they were not named. Some were said to have been accused by people who withdrew their allegations, for reasons that were not explained. Six unnamed priests were said to be under criminal investigation, but it wasn't clear whether any of this group remained on the job. Bishop Banks responded by promising reform, saying that past policies were "at best inadequate and at worst scandalous."

Philadelphia, Pa.

CARDINAL ANTHONY BEVILACQUA

He has said he did not know that the Rev. John P. Connor, who was leader of a local parish from 1988 to 1993, had previously admitted in court to molesting a 14-year-old boy from a Catholic school in nearby Camden County, N.J., where the priest once taught. After leaving the Camden diocese and before going to Philadelphia, Father Connor also worked in the Pittsburgh diocese - at a time when Cardinal Bevilacqua was bishop there. Early this year, the cardinal dismissed six priests known to have abused minors over the years and said that the archdiocese had identified a total of 35 priests who had sexually abused children since 1950. Initially he refused to give names of those priests to authorities, saying he was concerned about protecting victims' confidentiality. He later relented under pressure from prosecutors. Archdiocese officials have said the dismissed priests had been working in administrative jobs and have been told to seek lay status from the Vatican. That would strip them of the right to perform sacramental duties.

New York, N.Y.

CARDINAL EDWARD EGAN

In his previous post as bishop in Bridgeport, Conn., he let some priests keep working after they were accused of sexual abuse. In closed testimony in a 1997 lawsuit, he expressed doubt about the veracity of most allegations, saying that "very few have even come close to having anyone prove anything." One priest he supported was the Rev. Raymond Pcolka, who had been accused as far back as 1966. Father Pcolka's alleged victims included more than a dozen boys and girls - some as young as 7 - who described being spanked and forced into oral and anal sex. Cardinal Egan kept him on the job until 1992, when another accuser came forward and the priest refused orders to remain at a treatment center. The diocese has since settled lawsuits against Father Pcolka, who refused to answer lawyers' questions during the litigation. Another priest protected by Cardinal Egan was the Rev. Laurence Brett, who had first admitted abuse in 1964 - biting a boy's genitals. After Cardinal Egan became Bridgeport's bishop in the late 1980s, he met Father Brett and endorsed him for continued ministry. "In the course of our conversation," he wrote, "the particulars of his case came out in detail and with grace." Further accusations led to Father Brett's suspension in 1993. In a recent letter to New York parishioners, Cardinal Egan said his policy in Bridgeport was to do a preliminary investigation of accused priests, then send them for psychiatric evaluation and heed doctors' advice. The Connecticut Postlater showed that the policy wasn't followed in the case of the Rev. Walter Coleman, who stayed on the job for more than a year after the Bridgeport diocese concluded in early 1994 that he had abused the son of a woman with whom he had an affair and bought a house. In early June, the pope appointed Cardinal Egan to the Vatican's highest court. In mid-May, the Westchester County district attorney convened a grand jury to investigate New York archdiocesan leaders' handling of sex-abuse allegations.

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

CARDINAL THEODORE McCARRICK

As bishop of the Metuchen, N.J., diocese in 1985, he accepted the Rev. Eugene O'Sullivan's transfer from Boston - even though he knew the priest had pleaded guilty to raping an altar boy in 1984. Father O'Sullivan had been sentenced to five years' probation and ordered not to have contact with young people. His first assignment in New Jersey was to a parish with an elementary school. During his seven years in Metuchen, Father O'Sullivan was transferred to other churches in which he continued to serve around children, including a youth group, but parishioners weren't told of his background. The priest was called back to Boston in 1992 and directed to stop his ministry. A year later, when Cardinal McCarrick was questioned about Father O'Sullivan, he acknowledged he was aware of the priest's background. In agreeing to take Father O'Sullivan, Cardinal McCarrick said, he had received assurances from Boston and a treatment center that the priest was rehabilitated and was told there were no work restrictions on him. The cardinal has said he would not agree to accept such a priest again.

questa e` solamente una piccola parte dei casi citati in questa pagina (a cui si riferiscono questo post e i due precedenti)
http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/bi...02/priests.cgi

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Mah, io non capisco che senso cia' sto thread, sensibilizzare sulla pedofilia?


Io credo sia inutile buttare notizie al vento per dare alito alla bocca senza che si dia una propria interpretazione, ripeto, che senso ha?

Accusare?Sensibilizzare?Far picchiare a sangue i preti?

su questo la penso come te, anche se sapere le cose male non fa, che poi sia inutile e` un`altra cosa

Oltre a fare i conti con la giustizia sta' gente fara' i conti con il loro diretto superiore, e non parlo di vescovi e papi vari.

purtroppo non ne sono troppo sicuro, vedi gli ultimi post
ci sono delle notizie rigurdanti anche l`attuale papa, ma aspetto di trovare qlk fonte affidabile prima di postare

Un morbo UMANO che colpisce persone UMANE come, guarda un po', i PRETI (cristiani, musulmani, puffichi, cachissi).

anche questo e` vero (anche se ritengo che l`astinenza obbligatoria abbia una certa importanza per spiegare questi casi)
xo fa davvero vomitare il modo, molto spesso queste persone sono (o fanno sembrare) l`esatto opposto in pubblico e sono figure delle quali in genere la gente si fida
cmq ho notato che a molti piace generalizzare, quindi non avranno certamente problemi a farlo anche in questo caso

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Hundreds Of Priests Removed Since '60s

Survey Shows Scope Wider Than Disclosed

By Alan Cooperman and Lena H. Sun
Washington Post, Sunday, June 9, 2002

The Roman Catholic Church has removed 218 priests from their positions this year because of allegations of child sexual abuse, but at least 34 known offenders remain in church jobs, according to a survey of Catholic dioceses across the United States by The Washington Post.

The survey also found that at least 850 U.S. priests have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors since the early 1960s, and that more than 350 of them were removed from ministry before this year.

The numbers, which are considerably higher than previously disclosed, not only suggest the scope of the scandal rocking the Catholic Church in the United States but also underscore the continuing shortage of reliable statistics on the church's sex abuse problem. Catholic officials have said that, as a decentralized institution of autonomous dioceses, the church has no way of compiling those figures.

The Post conducted its survey by contacting each of the nation's 178 mainstream Roman Catholic dioceses. Ninety-six dioceses responded and 82 did not, despite repeated phone calls and e-mail messages. Of those that did answer The Post's questions, only a few provided information on financial settlements. Many diocesan spokesmen said they did not know whether the victims of local priests were boys or girls, teenagers or small children. Supplementary data were then gathered from local newspapers, church newsletters and diocesan Web sites.

David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), an 11-year-old support group that says it has 4,000 members, speculated that the lack of information may reflect a deliberate strategy to shield the church from liability.

"It's ludicrous that you can't get very, very basic data such as the number of priests who've been defrocked or the number of criminal or civil abuse cases filed against priests," Clohessy said. "I think any prudent person would assume the church has more data than it's sharing. But I also think that the church is smart enough not to have collected data, which could be discoverable" by plaintiffs' lawyers in lawsuits.

As the nearly 300 active U.S. bishops head for Dallas this week to debate and vote on a mandatory policy toward priests accused of sexual misconduct, they themselves don't know the extent of the problem and have made no real effort to figure it out.

The bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse has proposed, for example, to allow some offenders to remain in the Catholic ministry if they have committed only a single known act of abuse in the distant past, have undergone psychological treatment and have not been diagnosed as pedophiles.

But the committee's chairman, Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis, said no one knows how many priests fit that description.

The president of the bishops' conference, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., said that he is committed to greater transparency, but that many of his fellow bishops are reluctant to provide statistical data, fearing they would only lead to more bad publicity.

"In my diocese, two weeks ago, I gave a complete financial accounting for what this has cost us -- legal fees, settlements, counseling for victims, everything going back 10 years -- and I did that because people have a right to know. It's their money," Gregory said. "But not every bishop is there." (Belleville, a relatively small diocese with 105,000 Catholics and 180 priests, has spent $3.1 million on lawsuits and counseling.)

Among the proposals on the agenda for the Dallas meeting is the setting up of a commission to research the church's response to sex abuse. Flynn's committee has recommended that the bishops require every diocese to "develop a communications policy that reflects a commitment to transparency and openness."

At present, however, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops does not keep any nationwide statistics on sexual abuse cases, and individual dioceses vary greatly in their openness.

The archdiocese of New Orleans, for example, responded to the survey by saying that, over the past 50 years, 18 of its priests have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors. An independent board of lay people reviewed those records this year and decided that the allegations in eight cases were credible, in six cases were not credible and in four cases required further investigation. Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes removed 11 priests from their positions this year because of sexual abuse allegations, and the archdiocese reported payments of $455,000 for legal settlements and $420,000 for psychological counseling in abuse cases since 1980.

The archdiocese of Indianapolis, in contrast, said it had conducted an "internal review" of past allegations and would not make public any of its findings. "We've made a decision not to release names or numbers. We believe that one case is one too many, that child abuse is wrong and that it's not helpful for people to have numbers," said Susan Borcherts, spokeswoman for Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein.

Officials in several dioceses said they have a policy of not responding to surveys. Some said they would answer questions only from local media, not the national press.

Monsignor Gerald Calovini, spokesman for the diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, said no abuse allegations are "now pending" there, but he declined to discuss how many Steubenville priests have been accused or how those allegations were resolved. "We're not talking about cases in the past. That's confidential information," he said.

Generally, church officials were even less willing to talk about legal settlements. The Post survey found only $106 million in acknowledged payments. Plaintiffs' lawyers say that the true figure is in the range of $1 billion, but that most of the settlements have been made under confidentiality agreements.

The survey found that 866 priests have been accused of child sexual abuse over the past four decades, less than 1.5 percent of the estimated 60,000 or more men who have served in the Catholic clergy over that period.

The actual number accused, however, may be considerably higher. Sylvia Demarest, a plaintiff's lawyer in Texas, said that she compiled a database in the mid-1990s of about 1,200 priests who who were accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and that she believes the current figure is higher than 1,500.

A.W. Richard Sipe, a former priest turned psychotherapist who has counseled hundreds of clergymen and victims of abuse, estimates that 6 percent of all U.S. priests have committed child sexual abuse. Some church officials, including Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, have cited figures between 1 percent and 2 percent, based on a study several years ago of personnel records in the archdiocese of Chicago.

The scandal that erupted in January with the revelations that Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law and other prelates had transferred known sex offenders from parish to parish may have created an impression that, in the past, problematic priests were usually shuffled around and seldom removed from ministry altogether. But The Post's survey found that, even before this year, 355 priests had been removed from ministry because of sex abuse allegations.

Of those, however, only a small percentage were defrocked or "laicized," the church's term for removal from the organized priesthood. The survey turned up just 20 laicizations in abuse cases. Most of the other offenders apparently were forced to retire or had their priestly "faculties" lifted -- meaning that they were not allowed to say Masses publicly or to engage in any ministry -- but they remained priests.

This year, 218 priests have been removed from their jobs and not reassigned. Most have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of investigations by the church into the allegations against them.

Catholic leaders have said that they expect a heated debate at the Dallas meeting on the question of whether past offenders can, under certain conditions, remain in ministry. Some bishops, led by Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, favor a strict "one strike you're out" policy. Others, including Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, want to allow exceptions for priests who have undergone therapy and have been vetted by lay review boards before being returned to ministry under continuing supervision.

The Post survey found nearly three dozen such priests across the country, including a few who have served prison time. In most cases, the past offenders are in some form of restricted ministry, working in convents, hospitals or administrative jobs in which they are not supposed to have any regular contact with minors. Many dioceses have disclosed the priests' names and positions to the public, but a few have not.

The Rev. Harlan Clapsaddle of Rockford, Ill., is an example of an acknowledged offender who has remained in ministry under supervision. Rockford Bishop Thomas G. Doran publicly discussed the case last month, announcing that the diocese had paid $80,000 to settle sexual abuse claims against the priest.

Doran said that when the charges were made against Clapsaddle about five years ago, he was removed from his parish and underwent evaluation and treatment for several months. He was allowed to return to the diocese, but his work was restricted to a home for the elderly and to the local administrative offices of Catholic Charities, Doran said.

In Grand Rapids, Mich., the Rev. Don Heydens is also in a restricted ministry, running the diocese's program for deacons, because of an abuse incident in the 1970s. In Springfield, Mass., the Rev. Richard Meehan is working as an archivist eight years after being removed from his post because of an allegation of abuse. In Columbus, Ohio, Bishop James A. Griffin this year transferred Monsignor Joseph Fete from a parish to the position of director of ecumenical and interfaith affairs because Fete acknowledged having a sexual relationship with an adolescent boy from 1976 to 1979.

The archdiocese of Chicago has four past offenders in some form of ministry. Milwaukee has six whose names and positions have not been made public, but whose status is under review by a lay panel. The diocese of Covington, Ky., disclosed in March that three of its 110 priests remain in restricted assignments "after allegations of misconduct with teenagers." Their names and jobs have not been made public.

How many other offenders hold church positions with the quiet knowledge of Catholic leaders is unclear because some bishops still treat such cases with the utmost secrecy. The Rev. Gerald Calhoun, the vicar general, or second-ranking official, in the diocese of Owensboro, Ky., said he suspects that there are two priests in restricted ministry there. "But I don't know," he said. "Only the bishop would know."

© 2002 The Washington Post Company

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purtroppo non ne sono troppo sicuro, vedi gli ultimi post
ci sono delle notizie rigurdanti anche l`attuale papa, ma aspetto di trovare qlk fonte affidabile prima di postare

l'articolo che ho postato qualche pagina penso sia affidabile e i fatti sono verificabili, riposto il link:

http://canali.libero.it/affaritalian...oprocesso.html

In pratica ratzinger si è sottratto al processo che lo vedeva iscritto nel registro degli indagati in texas (2005) avvalendosi del fatto di essere un capo di stato (come ha fatto berlusconi fino a pochi mesi fa per il processo made in spain a telecinco).

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Over 100 Dublin priests accused of abuse

John Cooney - Religious Affairs Correspondent
Irish Independent
Wednesday March 8th 2006

MORE than 100 Catholic priests in the Dublin diocese have been accused or suspected of raping or sexually abusing 390 child victims since 1940.

To date the country's biggest diocese has paid out €5.8m in settlements and fees to lawyers in sexual assault cases against children.

One hundred and five civil cases have been brought against 32 clerics, with settlements being reached in 65 of these cases, resulting in payouts of €4.1m, plus a further €1.7m in legal costs to both sides.

Just one in five victims or alleged victims have received financial compensation.

Some cases have proved to be unfounded, while others have turned out to be among the worst crimes against children.

As reported exclusively last month in the Irish Independent, these figures include new allegations and information which have been brought to the attention of the diocese as a result of the internal review, the publication of the Ferns Report and ongoing work by the diocese's Child Protection Service.

The shocking figures - far bigger than feared but still amounting to the tip of an iceberg of unreported cases - were released yesterday by the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin.

The files are to be inspected by the forthcoming government-appointed Commission of Investigation under Circuit Court judge Yvonne Murphy.

This investigation has been delayed for four months because of internal government differences over its budget.

Before being given a date for the opening of the State investigation, Dr Martin last night published the latest figures, which he had ordered to be compiled by independent assessors.

Over the past two years this team trawled through the personnel files of 5,600 clerics.

No names were issued by the archdiocese but they include eight convicted paedophile priests, including Ivan Payne, Tony Walsh, Paul McGennis and Thomas Naughton,

Since last October, when Dr Martin issued a preliminary report, €300,000 has been paid out in fresh settlements and a parish priest in west Dublin has stepped down pending investigation of a complaint against him.

The diocese calculates that allegations have been made against 68 diocesan priests, and suspicions have been raised regarding seven diocesan priests.

Allegations have been made against 23 religious priests or priests from other dioceses who held an appointment in the diocese, while suspicions have been raised concerning four religious or priests from other dioceses.

Since 2003 the diocese has invested €2.5m in its child protection and related services. The diocese says about 350 victims have been identified and there are indications of a possible further 40 people who may have been abused.

At recent meetings with priests, Dr Martin said the figures were constantly being updated.

Last night Archbishop Martin renewed his invitation to anyone who might have been abused by a priest ministering in Dublin Diocese to come forward.

© Irish Independent

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent

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l'articolo che ho postato qualche pagina penso sia affidabile e i fatti sono verificabili, riposto il link:

http://canali.libero.it/affaritalian...oprocesso.html

In pratica ratzinger si è sottratto al processo che lo vedeva iscritto nel registro degli indagati in texas (2005) avvalendosi del fatto di essere un capo di stato (come ha fatto berlusconi fino a pochi mesi fa per il processo made in spain a telecinco).

Provo un senso di nausea e un senso di schifo... non per il Papa (è vietato dal regolamento...), ma per la gestione dei problemi interni alla Chiesa (o meglio: per come la Chiesa gestisce i propri scandali).