Settlement expected to affect diocesan services

So the catholic church should pay... for the abuse and harm that they did to many children (boys and girls)... all that they thought about back then... was getting their dirty rocks off... they should pay and pay dearly for the harm they did.  Ann

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The Great Falls-Billings Diocese this month is working through the claim review and settlement process with victims alleging sexual abuse and their attorneys. Church officials believe the settlement won’t directly affect the parishes, although some are waiting to believe it until the final settlement amount is announced.

Since the deadline to file a claim in the case, 86 people have come forward to enter claims of sexual abuse by priests, nuns and brothers, according to Vito de la Cruz, a Seattle attorney representing 38 of them. The dates of abuse range from 1947 to 1994. Attorneys for the victims say the Great Falls-Billings Diocese is the 15th to file for bankruptcy en route to settling with sexual abuse victims.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2017/08/15/settlement-expected-affect-diocesan-services/568731001/ 

Australian Catholic Church Falls Short on Safeguards for Children, Study Finds

SYDNEY, Australia — A study that examines child sexual abuse worldwide in the Roman Catholic Church has found that the Australian church has done less to safeguard children in its care than its counterparts in similar countries have.

The report, released on Wednesday by the Center for Global Research at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, also found that the church’s requirement that priests be celibate was a major risk factor for abuse. And it said that the possibility of abuse in Catholic residential institutions, like orphanages, should be getting more attention, especially in developing countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/world/australia/australia-catholic-church-child-abuse.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170912&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y 

Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal Reveals Blind Spot for Francis

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis came to power promising not only to create a more inclusive church and to clean up an ossified Vatican bureaucracy, but also to remove the stain of child sex abuse.

A global pedophilia scandal plagued his two immediate predecessors. With Francis’s election in 2013, many expected progress. Francis talked about powerful committees to safeguard children, tribunals to try bishops and a “zero tolerance” policy for offending priests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/europe/cardinal-pell-charges-australia.html?action=click&contentCollection=Australia&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Bishop heading anti-racism committee says ex-KKK priest “a tragic story with noble end”

Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown says the conversion of an ex-KKK grand wizard who later became a priest is a "hopeful sign." The couple terrorized by William Aitcheson in 1977 says the priest needs to do more before he can be forgiven.

“It was tragic that this man was involved in the KKK, and that his behavior was of such a degree that he ended up in trouble with the authorities about it. What is hopeful and noble is the fact that he realized he was going down the wrong path,” said Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown during a press conference announcing the new Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/08/24/bishop-heading-anti-racism-committee-says-ex-kkk-priest-tragic-story-noble-end/ 

Christian Sect Members Charged With Abusing Children in New Mexico

Eight members of a paramilitary Christian sect in New Mexico were arrested this week on charges of child sexual abuse and other crimes against children, officials said on Friday.

Three members of the sect, the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, were arrested on Sunday in Fence Lake, a remote, sparsely populated area in western New Mexico, and a fourth was arrested that day in the city of Truth or Consequences, more than 100 miles away, Sheriff Tony Mace of Cibola County said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/new-mexico-cult-abuse.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170825&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y 

Parramatta Girls’ School staff to stand trial over rape, assault in 1960s

A pregnant teenager was locked in the notorious dungeon at the old Parramatta Girls’ School and beaten, it has been alleged. The harrowing claims were made today as Noel Greenaway, 80, the former relieving deputy superintendent of the school faced court for the first time charged with raping and assaulting four of the girls who are now women.
Another two women who he also allegedly abused have died since charges were laid against the former school official last year. Greenaway, of Normanhurst, will plead not guilty to all the charges

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/parramatta-girls-school-staff-to-stand-trial-over-rape-assault-in-1960s/news-story/d69be1af274dd41cf20dbcc0b827fb05 

When I was 16, I went to confession. I wish the priest had reported what I'd told him

Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has said he’ll risk going to jail rather than report what’s said to him in the sacrament of confession, even if what’s confessed relates to child sexual abuse.
His latest comments, made on ABC radio, were responding to a recommendation from the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse to make reporting child sexual abuse allegations mandatory in institutions including when an allegation is made in religious confession. Failure to report would be a criminal offence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/18/when-i-was-16-i-went-to-confession-i-wish-the-priest-had-reported-what-id-told-him?CMP=share_btn_fb 

Court jails 87-year-old priest for abuse in Australia

A Court in  Brisbane sentenced a priest, Francis Brophy, 87, of the Catholic De la Salle Brothers, on Monday, to eight years behind bars for sexually abusing orphans.

Prosecutors said Brophy sexually abused nine boys at an orphanage decades ago at a facility in the Queensland town of Beaudesert, Australia between 1978 and 1983. “Your legacy disgusts me and every right-minded member of society,’’ Brisbane District Court Judge William Everson told Brophy, according to Australian Associated Press.

http://thenationonlineng.net/court-jails-87-year-old-priest-for-abuse-in-australia/ 

Ex-Catholic Bishop of Phoenix accused of sex-abuse of a boy

Thomas O'Brien is the former Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in metro Phoenix. He served there as Bishop for 21 years before resigning under controversial circumstances in 2003. Although he served during the time of the worldwide child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, O'Brien has never been suspected, until now. But O'Brien's accuser recently took the matter to court and the allegations are currently being investigated.

http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/08/ex-catholic-bishop-of-phoenix-accused-of-sex-abuse-of-a-boy-001905993.html 

No justice in ‘notorious’ Catholic priest abuse

Described by a Philadelphia grand jury in 2005 as one of the most notorious serial abusers in Philadelphia, Catholic priest Rev. James J. Brzyski was never charged. Now, a man who says he was one of his victims is speaking out.
John-Michael Delaney, 46, of Sevierville, Tennessee, grew up in the Fox Chase section of Northeast Philly and attended St. Cecilia's Catholic school where he lived with his mother and stepfather, as well as his little sister, who is now a Philadelphia police detective.

https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/philadelphia/catholic-priest-sex-abuse 

Children of Catholic priests live with secrets and sorrow

He carried his doubts and disappointment across miles and decades, from childhood to adulthood, and finally at the age of 48 to the kitchen table of a modest house outside of Buffalo. There, he would ask an elderly aunt and uncle to help him answer the question that had troubled him all his life: Why had his father always seemed to dislike him so much?
With his parents already dead, Jim Graham pleaded with his Aunt Kathryn and Uncle Otto to tell him the truth about his family. Finally, Kathryn unfolded a newsletter published by a Catholic religious order and slid it across the table. She jabbed a finger at a picture of a sad, balding figure wearing a priest’s clerical collar.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/16/father-father-children-catholic-priests-live-with-secrets-and-sorrow/mvYO5SOxAxZYJBi8XxiaqN/story.html 

Pope Francis says sexual abuse by priests is an 'absolute monstrosity' in new book

Pope Francis has branded sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests a “monstrosity” and pledged action against perpetrators and bishops who protected them.
The pope made the comments in the foreword of a new book titled Father, I Forgive You: Abused But Not Broken, written by Swiss man Daniel Pittet, who was first raped by a priest when he was eight years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/17/pope-francis-sexual-abuse-priests-absolute-monstrosity-terrible-sin 

Maltese Married Catholic Priest's Blog

Jack (priest) and Annie (married woman).
I’m Annie and my priest’s name is Jack. I’ve been reading your blog for sometime now and I wanted to finally share some of my story (it’s okay to post this). It’s not very detailed but it’s enough. I met a priest in 2013 just before my husband left on a business trip. This trip was to last 5 months abroad. My husband is very kind, and I would say we have a good marriage. This priest was from an other parish filling in for our priest.
After my husband departed for his business trip, I filled my days with daily mass and volunteer work. In those days I would see this priest. There was an instant chemistry that I was very aware of. He was too. There was much eye contact, both catching and looking away and catching again. I felt that his homilies always spoke to me personally. I felt the hot and cold too at first. It would go from one week he’d “see” me and then the following week completely ignoring me. In those moments of being ignored I felt crushed. We didn’t speak much. I would email him occasionally asking for a Mass intention or pray for someone or something but nothing beyond that.

https://maltesemarriedcatholicpriest.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/jack-priest-and-annie-married-woman/