Entries Tagged as 'Vatican'
The Pope said the right words in Australia:Â
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“Dear friends, may this celebration, in the presence of the Successor of Peter, be a moment of rededication and renewal for the whole Church in Australia!
“Here I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of [...]
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Tags: Australia · Vatican · clergy sex abuse scandal
As a young man in Australia Anthony Jones was forcibly molested by the Rev Terence Goodall. Jones made a formal complaint to the church, which ordered an investigation. Australian Lateline reports
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While the report says that Father Goodall raised the issue of an element of consent, the investigator recommended that Anthony Jones’ allegations be sustained without [...]
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Tags: Australia · Vatican · clergy sex abuse scandal
April 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
We were in Rome last week, and decided to attend the 10:30 sung mass at St. Peter’s. I had hopes because Benedict is a musician.
Several years I met an American musician who lived in Switzerland. He had negotiated with he Calvinist Cathedral in Geneva to host a Catholic choir, the first Catholic choir to sing there [...]
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Tags: Music · Vatican