Australian High Court rules in favour of Cardinal George Pell, allows appeal

Australia's final arbiter has granted disgraced cardinal George Pell special leave to appeal his convictions for molesting two choirboys in Melbourne. The High Court of Australia this morning decided the 78-year-old, who is currently serving a six-year jail term, will have his appeal heard next year. The decision keeps Pell's chances for an early release from prison alive.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12284808 

Contextual hearing: Witness list and evidence summaries – Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry

The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry Contextual hearing returns for its final day today 10.00am at the Rydges hotel in Auckland. Commissioners will hear from three witnesses. Witness evidence summaries are outlined below. After witness speak, their full evidence, along with footage of them speaking, willavailable for download here.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/11/12/contextual-hearing-witness-list-and-evidence-summaries-abuse-in-care-royal-commission-of-inquiry/ 

CVA lawsuits bring spotlight back to St. Colman's Home

Susanne Robertson was one of seven children. When their mother had a nervous breakdown in 1957, the children were sent to St. Colman’s Home, under the eyes of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There, Robertson and two of her sisters say, one nun sexually abused them, and the order’s leaders permitted other adults to sexually abuse them and failed to notify authorities of the crimes.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/CVA-lawsuits-bring-spotlight-back-to-St-Colman-s-14308054.php 

Shocking, graphic suit alleges child abuse over nearly 40 years at Staten Island orphanage

A bombshell lawsuit filed against The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto alleges that multiple people endured appalling abuse, over decades, at the hands of nuns, priests and lay employees at the former orphanage. The lawsuit is one in a flurry filed as the Child Victims Act took effect Wednesday, sending shockwaves across Staten Island.

https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/shocking-graphic-suit-alleges-child-abuse-over-nearly-40-years-at-staten-island-orphanage.html 

Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick's letters show signs of grooming victims for abuse

James Grein holds postcards from Florida and the Vatican sent to him as a boy by now-defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Correspondence penned by disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to the young men he sexually abused show how a globe-trotting bishop made vulnerable men feel special - and then took advantage of them.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/114801812/excardinal-theodore-mccarricks-letters-show-signs-of-grooming-victims-for-abuse 

Vermont bishop releases list on claims, says church 'must remain' vigilant

Bishop Christopher Coyne of Burlington Aug. 22 released the names of 40 priests who served in Vermont and were credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor or vulnerable individual since 1950. He said he "asked that this report be compiled and published" because "the whole sordid tale of what happened in decades leading up to the U.S. bishops' 2002 'Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People' has not been fully aired."

https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/vermont-bishop-releases-list-claims-says-church-must-remain-vigilant 

Third Drag Queen Exposed as Sex Convict

"'Want to see a sweet, quiet town ripped asunder? 'Want to see a place anyone would want to live in and open a small business doxed and divided?" "Then watch the American Library Association, and its Antifa army, wage war on towns — and cities — across the country as it hoists its sneaky child-grooming campaign of drag queen story hours on the unsuspecting."

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/third-drag-queen-story-hour-library-reader-exposed-as-convicted-sex-offender 

A Children’s Crusade: Patrick Radden Keefe's ‘Say Nothing’

In his New York Times review of Say Nothing, Roddy Doyle reminds readers of the nappy pin—the diaper safety pin—that appears at the beginning and end of Patrick Radden Keefe’s account of the Troubles and their aftermath. The diaper pin was the only ornamentation in Jean McConville’s wardrobe, a woman disappeared by the I.R.A. for allegedly informing British authorities of the I.R.A.’s membership and operations

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2019/08/16/childrens-crusade-patrick-radden-keefes-say-nothing 

Kerala Priest Booked For Inappropriately Touching Three 9-Year-Old Girls

Officials in Vadakkekkara Police station in Ernakulam have booked a case against a priest on receiving a complaint from a child welfare committee. The committee wrote a plaint about the sexual assault of three 9-year-old girls by a Kerala Catholic priest Father George Padayattil of the Syro Malabar Church in Ernakulam district.

https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/kerala-priest-booked-inappropriately-touching-three-girls 

Lucie Morris-Marr reveals the inside story from Cardinal George Pell's conviction

This week, Cardinal George Pell began a last-ditch attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex offences. But much of the original trial took place in secret, behind the closed doors of the courtroom, until the media were finally able to report his conviction in February.  One woman who was inside the court day-in-day-out was journalist Lucie Morris-Marr.

https://7news.com.au/the-daily-edition/lucie-morris-marr-reveals-the-inside-story-from-cardinal-george-pells-conviction-c-460226