Another year is ahead of us and 2021 has certainly brought with it several of the uncertainties and troubling features that lingered throughout 2020 as well as new challenges […]
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: Jan. 2, 2021.
Paul Etienne took over as Seattle’s archbishop in 2019. An alliance of practicing Catholics say the archbishop has refused to discuss their call for a citizen-led review of the Seattle Archdiocese’s private records on clergy abuse. (Rebekah Welch / The Seattle Times). Lewis Kamb. Seattle Times staff reporter.
Their ranks include ex-federal prosecutors, a retired judge, a one-time assistant police chief, even a former priest. But a group of prominent Catholics say they still can’t get an audience with Seattle’s new archbishop in their push to address the fallout of a lingering scandal.
Members of Heal Our Church, a Seattle-based alliance of practicing Catholics who seek a public review of how the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide sexual abuse scandal secretly festered […]
DONDE: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). (ONLINE)
Boletín de Prensa ECA – Audiencia Temática CIDH
Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), es una organización mundial compuesta por víctimas de abuso clerical y activistas de derechos humanos que se centran en los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes y las víctimas, uniéndose en una causa común, combatir los abusos cometidos por parte de organizaciones religiosas, especialmente el abuso sexual infantil, con el fin de proteger a la infancia y buscar medidas eficaces, como justicia para las víctimas.
Desde ECA, hemos emprendido diversas acciones legales en instancias internacionales y, recientemente, hemos solicitado una audiencia temática […]
01 April 2020 (10:00) | Source: Gazeta.pl – local editions.
Poznan: The Church is responsible for pedophilia by priests. The Supreme Court dismisses the cassation appeal in a precedential case.
No one will now overturn the landmark judgment in the case of paedophilia in the Polish Church. On Tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal of the Society of Christ. A woman who was raped by a priest in her childhood has won one million zlotys compensation.
– The jokes are over. The Supreme Court has just confirmed what has been clear in the world for a long time: the Church is not a sacred cow outlaw. This verdict throws into trash the guidelines of the episcopate, according to which only the perpetrator is […]
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick comparisons to St. Anne’s residential school:
On February 11, 2020, I reviewed the Vatican report released on February 10, 2020 about Cardinal Theodore McCormick. This report took two years to investigate and produce. As a survivor of St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Canada, I noticed similarities with the investigation findings of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s report and with the findings at St. Anne’s residential school investigation, formerly located in Fort Albany on the west coast of James Bay. St. […]
NOVEMBER 15, 2020. The Sunday Times. “The church had one simple thing to achieve: stop its clergy sexually molesting children. It failed.”
In Today’s Sunday Times their letters editor Stephen Bleach calls for a mandatory reporting law. He was a victim of Laurence Soper who is now serving 18 years after many on the run.
The Vatican has failed to stop abuse. Now the law must
Good news for Catholics and for the parents of the 970,000 children in Britain who attend Catholic schools: the Pope has clamped down on child abuse. He has issued a document condemning paedophile behaviour by clergy and setting out […]
On March 8th, 2020, Mark Belenchia waited in line for hours outside your campaign event at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Mark is the leader of the state’s chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). SNAP is the oldest and largest organization of clergy abuse survivors in the world, with over 20,000 members. That day Mark asked for your support in ensuring an investigation was opened into the abuse that he and other Mississippians had endured at the hands of Catholic clergy and throughout the United States.
RECORDED SESSIONS FROM THE SNAP VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020
The annual SNAP Conference was held online this year and ECA had a virtual one-hour session where we heard from several of our members across the globe. […]
NOVEMBER 10.2020.
