Author: Hemley Gonzalez

Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse. Priests in Queensland will now be compelled to break the seal of confession to report child sexual abuse or face three years in jail. Key points: The law was passed with the support of the Opposition It enacts […]

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Eddy’s Story – Another horrific account of the countless victims of the Catholic Church.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Eddy’s Story. My name is Eddy Charlie and I am a survivor of the Kuper Island Residential School. I was taken away from my home at the age of 5 years old and placed in a residential school like all the other 150,000 children were. I was hurt really bad as a […]

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Catholic Church involvement in death penalty killing spree is scandalous.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Catholics’ involvement in death penalty killing spree is scandalous. Until July 14, not one man or woman on the federal government’s death row had been put to death in the last 17 years. In fact, until then, for the past 50 years, only three people had been executed by the federal government. Yet […]

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600 Sex Abuse Lawsuits Expected to Hit California Catholic Dioceses.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican 600 Sex Abuse Lawsuits Expected to Hit Northern CA Dioceses in New Window for Accusers. Hundreds of people accusing Northern California priests and clergy of sexually abusing them as children are coming forward for the first time, enabled by a recent law allowing new lawsuits to be filed based on older allegations […]

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She Exposed Sexual Abuse in a Catholic Kids Camp. Now She’s Facing a Prison Sentence.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican She Exposed Sexual Abuse in a Catholic Kids Camp. Now She’s Facing a Prison Sentence. LIMA, Peru — When reporters at the Boston Globe exposed child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, their investigative work was so celebrated that Hollywood made a film, Spotlight, about it. Now, after carrying out a similar […]

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Senior priest locked boy in a church crypt during campaign of abuse.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Senior priest locked boy in a church crypt during ‘Gothic horror’ campaign of abuse. A senior Catholic priest who locked a teenage boy in a church crypt during a “Gothic horror” campaign of sexual and physical abuse has been jailed. Father Joseph Quigley, a former national education advisor for Roman Catholic schools, […]

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Survivors of sex abuse by nuns suffer decades of delayed healing.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Survivors of sex abuse by nuns suffer decades of delayed healing. Anne Gleeson was 12 years old when she says Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Judith Fisher — her charismatic, redheaded history teacher at Immacolata School in Richmond Heights, Missouri — began singling her out for special attention. “She’d wander around the classroom, […]

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Judge weighs whether parish, school assets could be used to pay clergy sex abuse claims.

Join us: facebook.com/occupythevatican Judge weighs whether parish, school assets could be used to pay clergy sex abuse claims. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood on Friday held off on issuing a ruling that could lead to either the inclusion or exclusion of the assets of Catholic parishes and schools to help compensate 281 Guam […]

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