Survivor: Irish priest committed abuse, destroyed family

Orginally posted on http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/17/ireland.abuse.abroad/index.html From Drew Griffin, CNN Special Investigations Unit Brookfield, Connecticut (CNN) — Ireland, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, has been reeling from the revelation that Catholic leaders there covered up child abuse, including sexual abuse, by priests for decades. But not all of the victims were Irish. The Emerald Isle [...]

Germany’s Catholic sex abuse scandal reaches Pope Benedict

Originally posted on http://open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2010/03/15/germanys_catholic_sex_abuse_scandal_reaches_pope_benedict A CATHOLIC MASS ISN’T normally a debating society, but sometimes enough is simply enough. At Sunday mass at the parish church in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz, a pastor’s unspeakable past finally caught up with him. It was revealed last Friday that sixty-two year-old Pastor Peter H., who had been [...]