Janet Heimlich casts a cold eye on a bishop’s “apology.” You know what’s coming. We could all write the “apology” in our sleep. “I wish to acknowledge and apologize for those instances when I made decisions regarding the treatment and disposition of clergy accused of sexual abuse that in retrospect appear inadequate or mistaken.” Curry …
Tag Archive: Bishops
May 29 2012
Go, and report child rape no more
Good to see the Catholic church learning (however slowly) from its mistakes. The Italian Bishop’s Conference (CIE) has issued guidelines on child protection that inform its bishops that they are ‘not obliged to report illicit facts’ of child abuse to the police. … In their new five page document which advised Italian Bishops on how …
Dec 18 2011
Pity the poor bishops
The Catholic bishops haz a sad again. This time it’s the Catholic bishops in the Netherlands. Not the ones in Belgium, nor in Bavaria, nor in Ireland, nor in Alaska, nor in Boston, nor in New York. No. These are the ones in the Netherlands. They haz a sad because Tens of thousands of children …
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