Here is the latest group of articles I am recommending as your reading for the week: How a Catholic sex abuse report in Pennsylvania echoed around the U.S. D.C. attorney general opens inquiry into sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Washington Bill White: PA Senate's inaction on child sex abuse bill was cowardly Want to… Continue reading This week’s required reading…
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Action Alert from the Foundation To Abolish Child Sex Abuse (FACSA)
This is from an email that FACSA sent out Yesterday. It was important enough to come out of my self imposed archive. 1-888-538-8541 Last April, the PA Attorney General’s Office established a toll-free phone number for survivors of child sex abuse (who were PA residents, or were abused by someone in PA) to call… Continue reading Action Alert from the Foundation To Abolish Child Sex Abuse (FACSA)
FACSA Update 4/18/2014
The following is the content of an email I received yesterday from the Foundation to Abolish Child Sex Abuse (FACSA): Over the many months of the current PA Legislature's session our team has continued to monitor for legislative efforts that will protect children from sexual predators and provide some measure of justice for CSA victims.… Continue reading FACSA Update 4/18/2014
Coming Soon… A Survivors’ Blog Roll
I have decided to take on a project in an effort to gather together the voices of people blogging on the topic of sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults. I am not limiting this to survivors of abuse by priests. This is going to be open to any blogger who wishes to put their blog… Continue reading Coming Soon… A Survivors’ Blog Roll
“Dear Mr. Ratzinger” Campaign
I have a new hero in Ireland. Her name is Emma Somers. She is a free-lance writer and she has come up with the most elegant and simple way to reply to Pope Benedict XVI's letter to the Irish people regarding the sex crisis in the Catholic Church. We are all going to drop him a… Continue reading “Dear Mr. Ratzinger” Campaign
Child Pornography in the Rectory at Lords Valley, Pennsylvania
In case you are one of the people who believe that the worst of the sex scandal in the Catholic Church is over, I have more bad news. Another priest in the Diocese of Scranton has been reported, this time for child pornography. According to news reports, and this is a story that is just… Continue reading Child Pornography in the Rectory at Lords Valley, Pennsylvania
What I Have Learned in a Year of Blogging
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. George Carlin It is October and I realized the other day that I have been doing this blog for almost a year. I posted for the first time on 14 October 2008. Since then I have published over 90… Continue reading What I Have Learned in a Year of Blogging
More from the “You have to be kidding me file…”
Once again I find myself spending my lunch break looking at Kathy Shaw's "Abuse Tracker" to get up to speed on the latest news. Today there was a blog piece discussing the recent ordination of a registered sex offender at a church in Kentucky. The Blogger, who goes by the pseudonym of "De Facto", describes… Continue reading More from the “You have to be kidding me file…”
Diocese of Scranton Secretive and Silent on Bishop’s Impending Resignation
On the Diocese of Scranton website is an announcement regarding a press conference next week, presumably to announce the resignation of Bishop Martino. The Announcement reads: Diocese of Scranton To Make Announcement The Diocese of Scranton will conduct a news conference this Monday, Aug. 31, at 10 a.m. The news conference is not open to… Continue reading Diocese of Scranton Secretive and Silent on Bishop’s Impending Resignation
Sound Retreat! Martino moves out of the Bishop’s Residence in Scranton
Bishop Martino, this is your long distance dedication: A report published on the Scranton Times-Tribune website and discussed on the National Catholic Reporter today has Bishop Joseph Martino, the patriarch of the Diocese of Scranton, moving out of the bishop's residence near St Peter's Cathedral in downtown Scranton. He is alleged to be taking up… Continue reading Sound Retreat! Martino moves out of the Bishop’s Residence in Scranton
Off My Knees - A Blog by Michael Baumann 