Northern Ireland abuse campaigner urges Scottish victims to come forward

In an interview with The Courier, Margaret McGuckin, 60, said the “horrendous” years she spent in the notorious Nazareth House orphanage in Belfast meant she “totally understood” what Dave Sharp had been through at the former St Ninian’s School run by the Christian Brothers in Falkland, Fife.
She has also encouraged other Scottish victims of abuse to come forward. Margaret, and fellow abuse victim Kate Walmsley, originally from Glasgow, travelled to Scotland this week to support Mr Sharp, and other abuse survivors, who held a vigil outside the start of the Scottish child abuse inquiry in Edinburgh.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/439925/northern-ireland-abuse-campaigner-urges-scottish-victims-come-forward/?utm_source=facebook 

Man claiming sex abuse by priest at Mangilao church is 70th accuser

Another $5 million lawsuit is lodged against the church. 41-year-old G.J. alleges he was sexually molested and raped by Father Andrew Mannetta while he was an altar boy at the Catholic Church in Mangilao in the mid-1980s. During sleepovers at the rectory, the priest allegedly let the altar boys watch "softporn."

 http://www.kuam.com/story/35534043/2017/05/28/man-claimmg-sex-abuse-by-priest-at-mangilao-church-is-70th-accuser

George Pell: If police charge the Catholic Archbishop, we're in uncharted territory

As Victoria Police deliberate whether or not to lay charges against Cardinal George Pell, they are also weighing up whether to prosecute a potential world leader. This bold notion is not purple media prose. It is simply stating the facts.

Cardinal Pell strenuously denies the allegations made against him. The Ballarat-born 75-year-old is potentially the pope in waiting. All it takes is for Pope Francis to die suddenly, and one of the 120-odd Cardinals will be the next pope. It could be Cardinal Pell.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-31/george-pell-if-police-charge-thearchishop-were-in-new-territory/8565204 

Anthony Foster Tireless fighter Against catholiv church Sexual abuse

Clutching a photo of two smiling girls, Anthony Foster last year delivered a powerful statement about what had become his life’s mission.  “These are my girls,” he said before television cameras in Rome.

“A Catholic priest was raping them when this photo was taken so that’s why we’ve been fighting for so long… This was my perfect family. We created that, the Catholic Church destroyed it.”

http://postcourier.com.pg/anthony-foster-tireless-fighter-catholic-sex-abuse/ 

Former priest jailed for 22 years for 'horrific sexual abuse' of children in London

A former priest who subjected London children to decades of “horrific sexual abuse” including rape has been jailed for 22 years.
Eugene Fitzpatrick, 68, was found to have sexually assaulted one boy in Islington, as well as raping a boy at Our Lady St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hackney. The offences were all committed in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, police said.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/former-priest-jailed-for-22-years-for-horrific-sexual-abuse-of-children-in-london-a3552666.html 

Nightmare lingers for Navy vet in priest sex-abuse case

One of the worst panic attacks for Peter Marghella came during the Gulf War as he sat in a military tent in the sweltering heat of Bahrain.
For Marghella, a highly decorated U.S. Navy medical officer, the 17 years that had lapsed since his encounter with the Rev. Kenneth O'Connell at an upstate New York Boy Scout camp had done little to quell his nightmares.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2017/05/30/vet-priest-sex-abuse-case/355994001/ 

Trudeau seeks papal apology over Canada school abuse

ROME: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there.
Starting in the late 19th century, about 30 percent of children of Canada’s native peoples, or about 150,000 children, were placed in what were known as “residential schools” in a government attempt to strip them of their traditional cultures and ancestral languages.

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1107281/world 

Netflix's Keepers doc prompts police to launch online sexual abuse forms

The release of Netflix's documentary series about the unsolved murder of a Baltimore nun has generated such a level of interest that police have created an online submission form in relation to the case.
“The Keepers” tells the tale of Keough High School’s English teacher Sr Cathy Cesnik, whom many suspect was murdered because she knew too much about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/netflix-s-keepers-doc-prompts-police-to-launch-online-sexual-abuse-forms 

Question 7 - Marama Fox to the Minister for Children

The New York Catholic Church Paid Lobbyists $2.1 Million to Block Child Sex-Abuse Law Reform

From 2007 to the end of 2015, the New York Daily News reports, the New York Catholic Conference, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, paid top Albany lobbyists more than $2.1 million to help block legislation, including the Child Victims Act, that would make it easier for victims of child sex abuse to seek justice.
If passed, the bill—a version of which is still pending—would change New York state law to allow a one-year window in which victims older than 23 could bring lawsuits against their abusers. (Such victims are restricted from suing under the current law.)

http://gawker.com/the-new-york-catholic-church-paid-lobbyists-2-1-millio-1779601553 

Pope Francis: A good shepherd knows when to step down

A good shepherd knows when to step down from his church, and leave completely, Pope Francis has said.
In his sermon during Mass at the Vatican’s Santa Marta residence on Tuesday, Pope Francis said good shepherds realise they are “not the centre of history”. “Whether it’s large history or small history, I am not the centre, I am a servant,” the Pontiff added.

http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2017/05/pope-francis-good-shepherd-knows-step/?newsletter=1 

Farewell to a courageous, remarkable man

One story above all others which can reduce me to tears is the story of Anthony and Chrissie Foster. What heartbreak after so many years of fighting the Catholic Church for justice for their daughters, two of whom were sexually assaulted by a priest, that Anthony Foster died unexpectedly last week.
This is a man who endured years of stonewalling to find justice for the survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, including two of his three daughters. As chairman of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan said: “With dignity and grace, Anthony and Chrissie generously supported countless survivors and their families whilst also managing their own grief”.

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4699955/a-tireless-advocate-for-the-survivors-of-abuse/