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    Great Britain

    Abuse affairs have also had an impact on several British dioceses.

    [edit] Archdiocese of Southwark
    [edit] Diocese of Arundel and Brighton

    Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Arundel and Brighton diocese

    In July 2000 the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (later a cardinal), acknowledged he had made a mistake while he was Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the 1980s by allowing a pedophile to carry on working as a priest. The priest at the center of the controversy, Father Michael Hill, was jailed in 1997 for abusing nine boys over a 20-year period. [54]

    [edit] Diocese of Plymouth

    [edit] Archdiocese of Cardiff

    Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Cardiff archdiocese

    • In 1998, Father John Lloyd, a parish priest and Bishop John Aloysius Ward's former press secretary, was imprisoned for sexual offences involving children. [58]
    [edit] Benedictines

    Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in the English Benedictine Congregation

    [edit] Kiltegan Fathers

    Jeremiah McGrath of the Kiltegan Fathers was convicted in Liverpool in May 2007 for facilitating abuse by Billy Adams. McGrath had given Adams £20,000 in 2005 and Adams had used the money to impress a 12-year-old girl who he then raped over a six-month period. McGrath denied knowing about the abuse but admitted having a brief sexual relationship with Adams. His appeal in January 2008 was dismissed. [62]

    [edit] Diocese of Middlesbrough

    James Carragher, principal of the former St. William's School, owned by the Diocese of Middlesbrough, was jailed for 14 years in 2004 for abusing boys in his care over a 20-year period. [63]

    [edit] Archdiocese of Birmingham

    Father Alexander Bede Walsh was sentenced to 22 years in prison in March 2012 for serious paedophile offenses against boys. Walsh used religion to control his young victims, telling one boy that drinking alcohol would get him to heaven and another believed that the abuse was the hand of God touching him for example. One young victim was driven to asuicide attempt. [64] [65] [66] [67] Walsh had a previous conviction for computer indecency. [68]

    James Robinson worked in parishes in the English Midlands and when an accusation of child abuse happened in the 1980s the Roman Catholic Church allowed him to escape to the United States though they knew about an, "unwholesome relationship" the priest had with a boy. Robinson remained free for over 20 years till in the first decade of the 21st Century he was extradited back to the UK to face charges. Robinson has received a 21 year prison sentence for multiple paedophile offenses. [69] [70] [71] [72] The Roman Catholic Church paid Robinson up to £800 per month despite knowing the allegations against him. [73]

    There are widespread accusations of physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse of unprotected children at Father Hudson Home, Coleshill, Warwickshire. There are even allegations that vulnerable children disappeared inexplicably. According to reports priests and nuns were the perpertrators. [74] [75]

    [edit] Diocese of Shrewsbury

    In December 2012, staff at the Christian Brothers school St Ambrose College, Altrincham, were implicated in a child sex abuse case involving teaching staff carrying out alleged acts of abuse both on and off school grounds, although no current staff are said to be involved.. [76] More than fifty former pupils contacted police, either as victims of, or witnesses to, sexual abuse. The alleged sexual abuse, including molestation of children while corporal punishment was administered, stemmed from 1962 onwards and continued over four decades. [77]

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    More than 500 abuse victims’ claims filed in Jesuits’ Oregon Province bankruptcy case

    Portland, Ore., Dec 7, 2009 / 08:09 pm (CNA) .- As the bankruptcy case of the Society of Jesus’ Oregon Province proceeds, more than 500 people have filed claims accusing Jesuits of the of sexual abuse in the northwest U.S.

    Plaintiffs include Native Alaskan villagers abused as children and preparatory school students, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports.

    The filing deadline of Nov. 30 was set by the federal judge overseeing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the Oregon Province, which includes Jesuits in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.

    The Oregon Province has already settled 200 additional sex abuse claims, including 110 Alaska Natives who received a $50 million settlement last year. About $45 million of that settlement was paid by insurers.

    The Jesuits report they have spent about $25 million on settlements. Their bankruptcy documents claim $4.8 million in assets and liabilities of $61.8 million.

    Many of the alleged victims still seeking settlements charge that the province has misstated its financial standing, contending the Jesuits control and own Gonzaga University, Gonzaga Preparatory School, Seattle University and other schools and properties.

    Attorney James Stang, who is representing a committee of victims, has court approval to take limited depositions and to conduct some discovery of internal documents.

    “The judge gave us a toe in the door,” he said, according to the Spokesman-Review. His team will try to develop a “viable theory” that Gonzaga and other properties are owned by the province.

    The 7,200-student Gonzaga University was separately incorporated and registered 125 years ago. Mike Casey, Gonzaga’s corporation counsel, said the college will not volunteer money or other resources to settle the bankruptcy.

    The Oregon Province is also in a dispute with insurers regarding the extent of its policies’ coverage. The province has hired James R. Murray, who is credited with securing $20 million from insurance companies to settle the bankruptcy of the Diocese of Spokane.

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/more_than_500_abuse_victims_claims_filed_in_jesuits_oregon_province_bankruptcy_case/

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    The Ryan Report, 2009

    On 20 May 2009, the Irish government report released its report from the "The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse", known as the Ryan Report. The report noted that nuns, such as Sisters of Mercy, saw "much less" sexual abuse of children than that which was identified in other Roman Catholic facilities, but that other forms of abuse occurred. [7] The report raised concerns in regard to abuse at a number of schools: specifically Goldenbridge Industrial School, St Michael's Industrial School, St Joseph's Industrial School, Our Lady of Succour Industrial School and St Joseph's Industrial School, all of which were closed down between 1969 and 1999. Alleged abuse at the schools ranged from overuse of corporal punishment and emotional abuse through to accusations of sexual abuse by lay members of the institutions. [2]

    [edit] Other abuse allegations

    A 1998 Australian documentary described allegations of abuse from Sisters of Mercy orphanages in the 1950s and 1960s. [8] Earlier allegations in regard to the Neerkol orphanage in Rockhampton had led to two people being charged, and complaints in regard to the orphanage resulted in moves by the Sisters of Mercy and the Church to negotiate a settlement with "more than 60 former residents". [9] In South Australia, a similar move to settle resulted from complaints in regard to care at the Goodwood orphanage, which was also run by the Sisters of Mercy. [10]

    [edit] Response

    The Sisters of Mercy in Ireland formally apologised for any abuse suffered by children in their care in May, 2004. In doing so they accepted that children had suffered, and they made the apology unconditional. [11] In December 2009, the Sisters announced that they would contribute an additional 128 million euros to the fund to compensate victims. This was in addition to the previously agreed 127.5 million euro offer that the Irish government had formed with the Catholic Orders as a whole. [12]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_scandal_in_the_Sisters_of_Mercy

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    How anyone could want to be a part of this organisation, let alone the head of it, is truly beyond me....TRULY!

  • new22day
    new22day

    Still Thinking - I can see you don't have much use for the RCC and I can understand why. (they lost me with the crusades)

    But what do you have against Mother Theresa? Is it her Catholicism in general and membership in the org.?

    I strongly disagreed with her views on marriage and birth control (still do), but I've always had great respect for her work in Calcutta alongside the poor. She lived among them and suffered a great deal to do her work.

    She also struggled for most of her life with her own faith and relationship with God. (I was blown away when I learned that a few months ago.)

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    still thinking

    Don't take me on that ride new22day... There is a lot of information about mother teresa and her neglect of the poor, leaving people to die that should and could have been be treated. Re using needles, no pain relief..people just left to die on stretchers, no professional medical help (their funds didn't seem to stretch to doctors), .whilst she is out there collecting millions and millions of dollars for the church. And benefitting from up to date medical facilities for herself in the USA.

    She was one of the greatest frauds the media ever created. And the church cashed in on that big time...the dying saw very little of the money that was raised (from some dubious sources I might add). It's a disgrace.

    The pope even rushed through a bulls**t sainthood for her. Laying claims to miracles that never happened. She was great for business. $$$$$

    Just have a look at this study to begin with...but that is not the only one. There has been a lot of information written about that horrid woman.

    The controversial study called Religieuses says that Teresa — known across the world as the apostle of the dying and the downtrodden — actually felt it was beautiful to see the poor suffer.

    According to the study, the doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. They say that the problem was not a paucity of funds as the Order of the Missionaries of Charity successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Researchers said that when it came to her own treatment, "she received it in a modern American hospital".

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Mother-Teresa-saint-of-the-media-controversial-study-says/articleshow/18760028.cms

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    The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Homes for the Dying has been criticised as a poor establishment in the medical press, notably The Lancet and the British Medical Journal (BMJ). They reported the re-use of hypodermic needles[citation needed], poor living conditions, cold baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that ignores such elements of modern medical care as systematic diagnosis.[5] Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge made decisions about patient care because of the lack of doctors. He observed that the Congregation did not seem to distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionaries_of_Charity

    Now why weren't there doctors? And why was the place full of volunteers without medical knowledge? Where were those millions and millions of $$$$$$ going? It certainly wasn't going on staff. Or other necessities that you would expect for they dying.

    If we treated people like this in our hospices they would be shut down. What did they do with the money?

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    She lived among them and suffered a great deal to do her work.

    Thats debateable...she spent a good portion of her time jet setting around the world, hob nobbing with the rich and elite raising money for the church.

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    soontobe

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/126367/%E2%80%98bergoglio-had-no-links-with-the-dictatorship%E2%80%99-peace-nobel-prize-winner

    ‘Bergoglio had no links with the dictatorship,’ Peace Nobel Prize winner

    Peace Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, assured today that elected pope Jorge Bergoglio "had no links with the dictatorship” that ruled Argentina between the years 1976-1983 as he’s been accused for many years.

    Speaking to BBC News, Perez Esquivel said that “there were bishops who were accomplices of the dictatorship, but it was not the case of Bergoglio.”

    “Bergoglio was questioned because it is said he did not do enough to get out of jail two priests, as he was the Superior of the Jesuits. But I know personally that many bishops called on the military junta for the release of prisoners and priests and these requests were not granted”, said Perez Esquivel.

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