Catholic Abuse & Related News Round Up for July 17 2020
Updates every Monday and Friday
Will try to note if article was released over 48 hours ago
Nomination for Notable greatly appreciated
Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home
Nicole Winfield Jul 17, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
“My query to you is, as papal nuncio, do you think it proper in the name of Jesus to allow these little souls (they are all baptized) to be left in a sewage tank, or do you agree that they be exhumed and given a Christian burial?” Corless wrote Okolo on July 13.”
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2020/07/vatican-indicates-support-to-exhume-babies-at-irish-home/
LOUISIANA CATHOLIC GOVERNOR CALLS FOR
PRAYER AND FASTING TO END CORONAVIRUS
Catholic News Agency July 17, 2020
https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/louisiana-catholic-governor-calls-for-prayer-and-fasting-to-end-coronavirus/67971
Vatican’s charitable arm warns against double pandemic
COVID-19 and hunger
Inés San Martín Jul 17, 2020 ROME BUREAU CHIEF
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/07/vaticans-charitable-arm-warns-against-double-pandemic-covid-19-and-hunger/
An Ex-Priest Seeks Bail to Marry the Minor He Raped
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyz48k/ex-priest-seeks-bail-to-marry-the-minor-he-raped
‘So Much Trauma’: Report Alleges Decades-Long Sexual
Abuse at San Jose Catholic Girls’ School
https://www.kqed.org/news/11829253/so-much-trauma-report-alleges-decades-long-sexual-abuse-at-san-jose-catholic-girls-school
Cardinal Dolan: AP report on paycheck loan program
'misleading at best'
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-dolan-ap-report-on-paycheck-loan-program-misleading-at-best-58473
AP’s cheap shot at favorite punching bag ignores impact of
Catholic social services, reality of pandemic and need for relief
By The Dialog 17 July 2020, 13:43
http://thedialog.org/opinion/aps-cheap-shot-at-favorite-punching-bag-ignores-impact-of-catholic-social-services-reality-of-pandemic-and-need-for-relief/
How one Catholic parish used its Paycheck Protection
Program loan
Fran Rossi Szpylczyn July 16, 2020
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/07/16/catholic-parish-covid19-paycheck-protection-program-loan
What Ted McCarrick's 'social networks' could teach the Church
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-ted-mccarricks-social-networks-could-teach-the-church-77207
German archdiocese plans to cut parishes from 1,000 to 40
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/german-catholic-archdiocese-plans-to-cut-parishes-from-1000-to-40-45540
Vatican releases guide on how leaders must handle abuse
allegations
released a 17-page document
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service 7/17/20
https://www.catholicherald.com/News/National___International/Vatican/Vatican_releases_guide_on_how_leaders_must_handle_abuse_allegations/
Vatican says bishops should report sex abuse to police
they should report cases of clergy sex crimes to police even
when notlegally boundto do so
By NDT Bureau July 18, 2020
https://www.newdelhitimes.com/vatican-says-bishops-should-report-sex-abuse-to-police/
Opus Dei confirms one of its priests sentenced
by Vatican for abuse
Inés San Martín Jul 16, 2020 ROME BUREAU CHIEF
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/07/opus-dei-confirms-one-of-its-priests-sentenced-by-vatican-for-abuse/
'Pray for your poor Uncle' A Predatory Priest
told his victims
2 days ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/theodore-mccarrick-catholic-abuse.html
Experts map out US bishops’ ‘social networks’
that helped cover-up ex-cardinal McCarrick’s
sex abuse
The sociologists mapped out webs of episcopal influence in both US and UK.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/experts-map-out-us-bishops-social-networks-that-helped-cover-up-ex-cardinal-mccarricks-sex-abuse
The Report'
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2007/2007.06606.pdf