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- Catholic Scandal Spreads: Former Regensburg Choirboys Talk of ‘Naked Beatings’ «
- Calls for Full Investigation: Number of Church Abuse Continues to Rise in Germany
- Cardinal Mahony Removed From Duties – Voice from the Desert
- Scandal Widens: Pope Remains Silent as Abuse Allegations Hit Close to Home «
- Four US states considering laws that challenge teaching of evolution | guardian.co.uk
- BRITAIN’S HIDDEN CHILD ABUSE – Voice from the Desert
- Secular Alliance at IU » Blog Archive » Diversity in Secularism
- Diocese gets lawsuit letter – TribToday.com
- Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet: Getting a Grip on Religious Sex Abuse
- Judge orders church to release full priest abuse records – latimes.com
- Catholic Priest, Teacher Guilty of Abusing Altar Boy | NBC 10 Philadelphia
- Catholic Diocese launches $3.5 million public campaign | democratandchronicle
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | PopMatters
- Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records – Globe
- Priest files will include key names – latimes.com
- All the documents of the Tony Flannery case are here. Association of Catholic Priests
- The Tablet – Abuse inquiry faults bishop
- Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/01/13 | CatholicHerald.co.uk
- ‘Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,’ Feb. 4, HBO
- A postsecular world society?: an interview with Jürgen Habermas « Immanent
- National Secular Society – Majority want secular state schooling – while RE declines
- Massachusetts diocese cancels appearance by Robert Spencer, writer on Islam
- Redefining marriage creates conflict, bishops warn Supreme Court : (CNA)
- Catholic thinkers debate government’s role in helping poor : (CNA)
- Senior British rabbi filmed telling alleged child abuse victim not to go to the police
- Today’s Catholic must-reads: 30/01/13 | CatholicHerald.co.uk
- IOR: Still no president but cardinal turnaround just around the corner – Vatican
- Second Australian Catholic priest charged | Newcastle Herald
- More alleged victims delay New Brunswick sex abuse report | Toronto Star
- Will Cardinals Try To Delay Benedict XVI’s Choice For Next Pope ? « Catholicism
- Retired priest gets 15 years for child sex crimes -MiamiHerald.com
- Priest aided crime: police | Newcastle Herald
- I felt ashamed of my Church. Association of Catholic Priests
- OR- Clergy sex victims “unimpressed” with new Catholic archbishop – SNAP
- Leonard Fein: Let Secular Jews Be Secular Jews
- Childcare reform proposals face fierce criticism | Money | guardian.co.uk
- What Happens When Texas Public Schools Teach the Bible? – Truthdig
- Australia: Catholic Church stole 150,000 newborns – Brisbane Times
- 150 000 children in catholic schools abused with severe physical and mental damages
- German lawyers initiated charges against Pope at the International Criminal Court
- Award-winning journalist to speak about religious child maltreatment « Shropshire
- At War with Secular Humanism | Becoming Women of Virtue
- Is gun ownership Christian? – The Washington Post
- Occupy Catholics: Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our lenders « Occupy, Catholics!
- FBI reveals drug-dealing Catholic priest bought a sex shop to launder drug money
- LA’s Cardinal Mahony covered up the sex crimes of his priests – Bharata Bharati
- Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/01/13 | CatholicHerald.co.uk
- Might of Rome descends on an unlikely heretic priest – Independent.ie
- Protest at Papal Nunciature over treatment of Fr Tony Flannery
- Cardinal Mahony and the Truth – NYTimes.com
- Los Angeles Archdiocese kept sexual abuse in the shadows – Press-Telegram
- How Tony Flannery answered the CDF. Association of Catholic Priests
- Dublin rally supports Irish priest under Vatican scrutiny | National Catholic Reporter
- Nun accused of stealing babies remains silent in court | In English | EL PAÍS
- Jeers for Spanish nun in baby kidnapping case – timesofmalta.com
- Spanish baby thefts: Nun appears in court – BBC News
- Spanish Nun Maria Gomez Valbuena Charged In Baby-Stealing Operation
- Spain: catholic church in court over babies ‘stolen’ – BBC
- Spain’s Stolen-Babies Scandal: Nun Refuses to Testify – TIME
- Spanish newborns babies were systematicly stolen by catholic church until 1990 |
- Spain: 300 000 of newborns babies were stolen by catholic church | EL PAÍS
- Kevin Wallin, ‘Monsignor Meth’, Dealt Drugs, Bought Sex Shop: Feds
- Judge delays unsealing of Legion of Christ records | National Catholic Reporter
- Cardinal Mahony Should Stand Trial. | Orange Juice
- Paedophile net widens | Newcastle Herald
- German Catholics vent their dissatisfaction with the Church – Vatican Insider
- Catholicism’s Curse – NYTimes.com
- Cleric at center of abuse scandal dead | www.wjactv.com
- Mishandling of abuse cases threatens Mahony’s legacy with Latinos – latimes.com
- Church sex abuse inquiry: Former Gladstone Park priest tells of Catholics ‘horror’
- Religious Groups Fight Obamacare Birth Control Mandate
- French Catholic Bishops’ Statement on Extending Civil Marriage to Same-Sex Couples
- The Vatican’s hidden property empire – Bharata Bharati
- Irish Priest Stands Up To the Vatican « From Eternity To Here
- Irish Priest Receives Support from Near and Far in His Vatican Struggle « Bonding
- German lawyers initiated charges against Pope Benedict XVI
- BBC: 300,000 Babies Stolen …YouTube
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Brisbane Times: Pamela O'Brien faced a "friendless, soulless and penniless"
existence after her precious baby Angela was stolen from her and
forcibly adopted out. Pam was one of about 150,000 unwed mothers who had their
babies taken against their will at the hands of churches, hospitals and
adoption agencies between the 1950s and 1970s.
A Senate committee which investigated the Commonwealth
government's involvement in past forced adoption practices tabled its
report in the upper house on Wednesday and made 20 recommendations. But its central recommendation is that Australian governments
formally apologise to mothers and children who were victims of past
forced adoption practices.
Australian Greens senator Rachel Siewert, who chaired the
inquiry, broke down as she tabled the report which took 18 months to
assemble from hours of testimony. "It is undoubted that past policies and practices have caused
great harm and hurt to mothers, fathers, adoptees and their family
members," she told the chamber.
"It is time for governments and institutions involved to
accept that such actions were wrong, not merely by today's standards but
by the values and laws of the time."
But for Pam, 62, and her daughter Angela Barra, now 44, who
both gave evidence to the senate community affairs inquiry, an apology
is tokenistic and won't make up for the decades the pair lost. Pam was kicked out of home and humiliated by the shame she had brought on her family after falling pregnant at 18.
Her mother hit her across the face when she found out."She said `You piece of rubbish - you get out'," Pam told AAP at Parliament House in Canberra. "These days my mother, if she could turn the clock back, she'd cut her throat." She has foggy memories of Angela's birth at The Mater
Hospital in Brisbane and believes she was heavily drugged, so her
daughter could be removed. "How dare these holier than thou people in their ivory
towers, think they've got the right to take peoples' children because
they didn't fit the social mores of the day," she said.
Committee member and Labor senator Claire Moore said one of
the most poignant moments of the inquiry was a woman telling the panel
all she wanted was for her son to know she loved him and hadn't given
him away. "To the people caught up in the horror of this history, we
can now call it a horror and not pretend it didn't happen," Senator
Moore said.
The report's other recommendations include setting up
government-funded peer support groups to help victims, money for family
tracing services and new birth certificates for adoptees. Committee member and Labor senator Carol Brown said women had
been tricked into signing adoption papers and physically shackled to
hospital beds. She said the pain of women affected was "unimaginable". "Doctors, nurses and midwives showed no respect to these women. "They were taunted about their unwed status."
Catholic Health Australia, admitted being involved in past forced adoptions, and apologised to victims in July last year. Chief executive Martin Laverty encouraged other organisations to apologise and supports the recommendations. "We think they are concrete steps that can help those affected by past adoption practices move towards healing," he said. While some adoptees had abusive upbringings in their new homes Angela was happy with her adoptive Italian parents.
"I know the truth now, it's taken all this time for me to
know what happened to Pam, it's taken all this time for Pam to
acknowledge what happened to her," Angela says. About 100 victims of past forced adoption practices were in
the Senate public gallery when the report was tabled and many cried out
and clapped during the ensuring speeches.
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- How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions – Voice
- Judge dismisses diocese’s suit against HHS mandate – Catholic Culture
- Catholic Hospitals in Germany Refuse Rape Victim – Bilgrimage
- Bishops will review Catholic hospital’s malpractice defense – The Denver Post
- German Politicians Fight Catholic Church Power over Public Institutions – SPIEGEL
- In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people | Independent
- Catholic Bishops can still be prosecuted on a federal level
- Documents Reveal Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered Up Sex Crimes By Priests – radio
- How Much Longer Can the Vatican Avoid Priest Sex Abuse? « Christian Catholicism
- Spain pledges to investigate illegal adoptions | The Bellingham Herald
- Victims Accuse L.A. Catholic Church Leaders Of Covering Up Sex Abuse : NPR
- Vatican threatened to excommunicate priest, documents confirm – The Irish Times
- Religious Liberty Double Standards Indicated In New Poll
- Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/01/13 | CatholicHerald.co.uk
- Weekly Poll: Vatican Behavior During World War II
- We want secular schools in Dublin, say parents – National Secular Society
- Serious concerns over handling of child abuse and neglect cases – The Irish Times
- Ireland puts its faith in education, not religion – The Irish Times
- Church ‘centuries out of date’ | The Australian
- Covering up sex abuse in the Los Angeles Archdiocese – latimes.com
- Ireland: Rebel priest defies silence imposed on him by the Vatican – Vatican Insider
- Will Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes
- Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ | Mail Online
- Priest admits to groping teen girl and two women – latimes.com
- The Church Is Wrong! Fr. Flannery, Like MLK, Is Right to Follow His Conscience
- Are institutions Catholic enough? – Catholic America – The Washington Post
- Obedience | Redeeming Renato: A Memoir in Progress
- The Failure of American Churches « Do What’s Right
- National Secular Society – I’m keeping Canberra secular, says Chief Minister
- What we mean when we talk about secularism | Troy Media
- Forty Years Later: It’s Time for a New Feminism | Public Discourse
- Bishops: “Respect Gay Relationships, Support Civil Unions, Reject Homophobia”
- Today’s Catholic must-reads: 23/01/13 | CatholicHerald.co.uk
- Robert George warns of Catholic oppression over marriage : (CNA)
- HuffPost Live Runs ‘Losing Our Religion’ Segment
- Why President Obama Must Read the Latest “LA Confidential” -Christian Catholicism
- Los Angeles: Church documents about hiding child abuse uncovered – Southwest
- Files Show Cardinal Roger Mahony Covered Up Sex Abuse – NYTimes.com
- Do you believe a Catholic in good faith can vote for Obama? | Faith in Public Life
- Singapore: Church Scandal Sparks Dissent · Global Voices
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