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All Is Not Forgiven
The investigation found that reforms promised by the Vatican after the priest sex abuse scandal were ignored. Only when confronted with the findings of the investigation did the Archdiocese of Los Angeles admit that its background check of priests did not go beyond reviewing a letter from a former superior.
Tags: sex abuse; priests; Vatican; Catholic Church
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Render Unto Rome
This book investigates the Catholic Church's finances and breaks new ground on several fronts including fiscal mismanagement, embezzlement and abuse.
Tags: Catholic Church; book
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Spiritually Bankrupt
The investigation revealed the coordinated lengths to which the Roman Catholic Church was protecting its vast wealth from sex abuse victims.
Tags: sex abuse; Catholic Church; priests; ; Pope Benedict XVI
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"Money and Influence Peddling in the Vatican"
Reporter Jason Berry took an in-depth look at how sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was allowed to continue. His series of stories that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, focused on Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, a prominent figure in the Church. Berry revealed that Maciel, who has allegedly sexually abused his seminarians since the 1950s, has been making payments to various Vatican officials that have "insulated the priest from punishment."
Tags: Vatican; Catholic; Priest; Father; Legion of Christ; sexual abuse; seminarians; Rome; Pope John Paul
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The Swedish Crusade
The interview of Bishop Richard Williamson led to the most serious conflict between the Jewish and the Catholic communities. In the interview the Bishop denied the existence of the Holocaust, who was excommunicated from the Church. Though, after the Pope lifted this excommunication, criticism of the Pope and the Vatican began. The follow-up revealed that the "persons responsible within the Vatican could have avoided the upcoming crisis, but decided to neglect the information".
Tags: Society of St. Pius X(SSPX); Protestant Sweden; neo-Nazi; conservative; Cardinal; church; religion; Catholic
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An Irish Tragedy
"This is the story of how Irish immigrant clergy, who had helped to build the American Catholic church in years past, undermined that church by their widespread sexual abuse of children. It is a sad tale that had gone untold, until now."
Tags: Irish; Catholic; sexual abuse; priests; Vatican;
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Postville Series
Postville, Iowa lost a third of its population on May 12, 2008 when the Dept. of Homeland Security raided a kosher meat-packing plant that resulted in nearly 400 undocumented workers were detained.
Tags: false identity; illegal immigrant; green card; Agriprocessors; St. Bridget's Catholic Church; union;
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The Bishop's Bad Moves
These stories include online and print coverage of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Diocese of Orange County, California. "Major findings include the diocese paid an admitted child molester $100,000 to stay quiet, that the bishop tried to cover up a molestation allegation in his past, and that he also documented molestations but didn't report them as required by California law."
Tags: church; catholicism; religion; child abuse; molestation; cover-up; state government
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Archdiocese Hires Criminal
The personnel director for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati knowingly hired a criminal to run a new program designed to protect children. His job was to conduct the fingerprint and background checks now required of all volunteers who coach or help out in Catholic schools. The investigation uncovered the personnel director was a close personal friend of the criminal for more than 20 years and that the troubled young man claimed the personnel director had sexually abused him as a child. He claimed he continued his sexual relationship with the personnel director in exchange for jobs, money and clothes. The criminal had access to the social security numbers of thousands of Catholic volunteers. It was shown how he continued to commit crimes while employed by the Archdiocese, and how the personnel director continued to cover for him, even bailing him out of jail.
Tags: archdiocese; Cincinnati; criminal; social security; sexual abuse; crime; volunteer; hiring; back ground checks
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Study Reveals Vast Scope of Priest Abuse
A study by the LA Times shows the number of Catholic priests from Los Angeles Archdiocese that have been accused of sexual abuse since 1950.
Tags: Priest; sexual abuse; child molestation; catholic; archdiocese; scandal