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New york times on Thursday published fresh allegation that catholic church was more interested in protecting Lawrence Murphy, who worked at the former st john's school for the deaf in st Francis, Wisconsin, according to new york times, abused sexually 200 school boys.
The request to probe into this sex scandal was denied by vatican.
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/internatio nal/article304891.ece

I don't agree with how it was handled (I am not catholic anyway), but I understand the era and the times when this happened.

I also understand the news was brought forth rather late in the person's life who was accused.

The person is dead and has been for a long time. I think if you really examine the FACTS you would see that one of the people claiming to be abused did bring their information to the local authorities who did NOTHING.

Why blame the church when even the local secular government did nothing? Want to fish for a blame game I guess.

The real issue is why people did not press on the issue at the time and let it go. Very disappointing.

2010-03-26 10:35:44 by geyamala గేయమాల

Fr. Christopher Mould discusses the many active parish groups at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Alexandria, VA, that illustrate a true love for ...

Im doing an art project and need to answer this question. Which of the following would fit this category?
Michaelangelo
Caravaggio
Matisse
Rivera
Botticelli
Lange
Cezanne
Giotto
Waterhouse
Munch
Degas
Modigliani
Whistler
Leger
Vermeer
Klee
Brancrusi
Miro
Adams
Da Vinci
Kahlo
Warhol
Lawrence
Durer
Rembrandt
Chagall
Raphael
Close
O'Keefe
Picasso
Monet
Disney
Jasper Johns
Escher

Okay, I know some of these are ridiculous to my question, but I just listed them all.
Thx(:

Michaelangelo would be my guess.

2009-12-15 16:23:40 by angelaxfasho

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I have been raised as a Roman Catholic and I am very active in my church (St. Lawrence) so I understand what worship is from that point of view. I have many jehovah family members and they do not think their worship is like mine. They have a new family worship nite and so I am curious what the jehovahs on here will tell me about it. I will reserve what my cousin told me and wait patiently for the answers to flow here.

Thanx.

As you have asked this politely, please take this correction I politely make. Jehovah is God's name. Our name is Jehovah's Witnesses, as we all bear witness to our Almighty Creator and his Son, Christ Jesus.

We no longer have two evening meetings at the Kingdom Hall (not counting the Sunday Bible talk and study of the Watchtower) but one, combining the Theocratic Ministry School, Service Meeting and study of the book "Keep Yourselves in God's Love".

Families are encouraged to study the Bible together one evening (or whatever time is convenient) each week. This not only draws the family closer together as a unit, but helps each member grow in spiritual, scriptural knowledge. They also develop a stronger basis on which to defend and teach the truths of the Bible.

Thank you for your question and don't hesitate to ask your family members who are Jehovah's Witnesses any question you have about us and how we worship our Creator, Jehovah.

2009-08-09 04:01:56 by Patti The ER RN

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Protesters gathered outside the main Catholic church in the UK to call for the Pope's resignation over clerical sex abuse.

They claim that Pope Benedict XVI was complicit in protecting priests accused of child sex abuse from prosecution. As such many object to the pontiff's planned state visit to the UK in September.

The Pope also stands accused of intervening to halt a church trial of Father Lawrence Murphy, an American priest alleged to have abused up to 200 deaf boys between 1950 and 1975.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100328/twl- abuse-protesters-call-on-pope-to-res-41f 21e0.html
I, for one, don't want him in the UK. Not only that but the taxpayer will have to foot the bill for his visit.
He should take responsibility for these horrendous crimes. They covered it all up. That priest should be punished. I don't care how old he is now. When he was doing the crimes he didn't care about the effect it was having on those boys.

more ppl must join Protesters gathered outside the main Catholic church

2010-03-28 15:29:08 by Sir Nathan.King of Hippies

The Pope's New Outrage
by Barbie Latza Nadeau

As more emerges about the pope's role in a sex-abuse cover-up involving more than 200 deaf boys, the Vatican is in crisis mode. Barbie Latza Nadeau talks to victims who still can't get heard.

The seedy Vatican pedophilia scandal that has rocked Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland for the last few weeks has just taken an even more lurid turn. Allegations that a Wisconsin priest sexually abused as many as 200 deaf children over the course of 24 years are compounded by the fact that his superiors all but ignored the travesty. And worse still, a paper trail between the Wisconsin diocese and the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith shows that the current pope was well aware of the cover up.

The priest, Lawrence C. Murphy, who was head of the St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis Wisconsin, even wrote directly to the man who now leads the Catholic church, appealing for leniency. The letter, published on The New York Times website, is addressed to “His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger,” now Pope Benedict XVI. In the letter, Father Murphy pleads for leniency based on the fact that the church’s statue of limitations had run out. “I simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of my priesthood,” he wrote to the man who is now Pope. “I ask your kind assistance in this matter.”

The Wisconsin victims described how Murphy abused them in his car, in the confessional, and even at Father Murphy’s mother’s private home.

• Big Fat Story: The Vatican Fires Back The Vatican did order that Murphy be tried in a secret Vatican tribunal, but after the elderly priest appealed to Ratzinger, the investigation was mysteriously dropped. Murphy was never defrocked, and died in 1998 with a full Catholic funeral and full Vatican honors as a priest. “I wish I knew what this pope was thinking,” Barbara Blaine, head of Survivor’s Network for those Abused by Priests, told The Daily Beast in Rome on Thursday. She and other survivors of abuse held a small protest outside the walls of Vatican City, passing out copies of photos of predator priests and letters from victims, pleading for help from the Vatican. “What did he think this lack of action would accomplish? These were at-risk kids. They were deaf kids who had been taken from their homes to be cared for by the church. It was outrageous.”

Blaine and her group, which includes an abuse survivor from a different Wisconsin parish, were forcibly removed from near Vatican City by Roman police after about 20 minutes for protesting without a permit. Blaine says they were taken in squad cars to a local police station where they were detained for nearly three hours. The police confiscated the posters and letters they were handing out and let them go. Protests were held in Chicago, Milwaukee and other US cities, as well. The group will hold similar events in Munich over the weekend. “I’m still hopeful that this pope will do the right thing,” Blaine says. She and other survivors would like the church to lift the veil of secrecy and turn over criminal child investigations to the local authorities the moment they are reported, rather than treating accusations as an internal church affair. “Criminal investigations should not be the business of the Catholic church.”

seems to me that you are not really asking a question , you are soliciting agreement with a predetermined answer. too much info

2010-03-27 13:37:29 by Linda M