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Boston Catholic Church holds Mass for Gay People. Archdiocese condemns Father John.

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Article: Philippines: Surging population, rising troubles

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Roman Catholic Church issues John Jay report. Spokesperson Karen Terry explains why sex with a 10 year old is not pedophilia.

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Does Your Religion Influence Your Income Level?

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Vatican Says Computer Hackers Are More Saint Than Sinner

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98% of Catholic women use some form of birth control...

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Kobe "Where's The Beef" Bryant

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Catholic group claims children raped by priests were ‘homosexual’ participants, not victims

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Catholic Church Evades Sex Charges in South Dakota

Native Americans who attended Jesuit schools in the Northwest and Alaska just learned they will share in a $166.1 million settlement for offenses including childhood sexual abuse. But plaintiffs in South Dakota--nearly half of whom are women--face a legal barrier.

"When the nuns wanted you at night, they'd come get you from the dorm," recalled Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who as a young child lived at one of South Dakota's several Catholic-run boarding schools for Native American children.

"My older sister would tell them I had an earache. 'Take me,' she'd say. It wasn't until this year, when my siblings and I began talking about all this, that I realized she protected me whenever she could. How do I thank her for that?" asked Drum.

The sexual abuse suffered by Drum and her seven brothers and sisters as grade-school students was both continual and depraved. In a phone interview, she recalled nuns, priests and lay employees subjecting both boys and girls to a barrage of violent assaults and bizarre molestations. Among many examples, the mother superior forced girls to simulate sex acts with a large doll before abusing them herself. Priests raped boys and girls, and the priest in charge also placed girls as "foster children" with single men.

Drum and her siblings have now filed childhood-sexual-abuse lawsuits against the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls and other Catholic Church entities that provided the orphanage's staff and supervision. (During the 1970s, most of the institutions were transferred to the tribes or closed down.)

Rhoades' law firm is part of a team that recently completed negotiations for a settlement with the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, on behalf of clients who were abused at the order's schools in the Northwest and Alaska. The result: about 400 Native people and 100 others will receive $166.1 million. In South Dakota, 77 plaintiffs have complaints in various stages concerning abuse at a half-dozen boarding schools. Some, like Drum's, are in an early phase while others have already been before judges, said Rhoades. On March 18, Drum was dismayed to learn that a South Dakota court had dismissed 18 plaintiffs' suits.

Nearly half the South Dakota plaintiffs are women, a much higher proportion of abused females than the Catholic Church claims is typical for its institutions as a whole. In 2002, dioceses nationwide self-reported that just 19 percent of molested children were girls. However, the church requested information only on priests and deacons, not on nuns, lay employees and others, which may have skewed the data.

"The church also takes sexual abuse of girls less seriously, so may not record it," said David G. Clohessy, director of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. "There isn't any good, independent data. From our experience as a support group, though, I'd say the South Dakota proportion is

More info at http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/110408/catholic-church-evades-sex-charges-in-south-dakotaNative Americans who attended Jesuit schools in the Northwest and Alaska just learned... more

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Vatican blames Internet use for rise in Satanism

If the smell of fire and brimstone has been rising in your nostrils lately, maybe it's because, according to the Roman Catholic Church, there's been a surge of young people embracing their inner hellbeast. Satanists have been growing in numbers, said Carlo Climati of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, and he thinks the Internet is to blame.

Previously, if you wanted to get in touch with the Prince of Darkness (say, to barter your soul for wealth and power or to smite your enemies), you had to pore through books and decipher texts that were probably written in Latin. But now, Climati said, "The Internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism."

The Roman Catholic Church is actively combating this with a six-day conference. The first thing that comes to our minds, of course, is a demonstration (demon-stration! geddit?) that teaches priests how to hold back a fire-spewing Satan with the power of his crucifix. But shockingly, they're wielding the power of the scientific method.

The Telegraph wrote:

The object of seminars was to scrutinise the phenomenon of Satanism with "seriousness and scientific rigour", avoiding a "superficial or sensational approach", [Climati] said.
The conference in Rome has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth workers to discuss how to combat the dangers of Devil-worship.

Of course, scientific rigor collapses when you realize that the Church's premise accepts demonic possession. But it is true that there are "young people who are in difficulties or who are emotionally fragile." If these people or their families turn to a priest for help, they will benefit if their priest has learned about mental illness directly from psychologists and psychiatrists.

The good news about the Internet being responsible for the spread of Satanism: At least the Church has shifted the blame away from heavy metal music and Dungeons & Dragons.

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New American Bible changes some words such as "holocaust"

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Grand Jury implicates Philadelphia Archdiocese in child sex abuse

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New, Church-Approved iPhone App Offers Confessions On the Go

Devout Catholics and Apple devotees can now conduct their sacraments on the go, thanks... more

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Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone confession app

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The Vatican stops Pope from donating his organs

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Louis CK Learns About The Catholic Church

Louis CK’s investigative report about the religion he was raised in:

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1997 letter from the Vatican warned Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police

A newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops... more

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Pope John Paul II on his way to becoming Saint John Paul II

Pope paves way to beatification of John Paul II Pope Benedict XVI has formally... more

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Pepsi doesn’t want you to see this ad!

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