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The Catholic Church: institutionalised sexual violence against children

Source: NewMatilda.com, Nov 22 2012, 6:26pm CST

As a social scientist who is interested in calibrations of power, religion and sexuality, my outlook on a discussion of the Catholic Church's involvement in sexual abuse of Australian children is one that considers such a phenomenon as being ...

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What led to the fall of a Bishop

Source: NEWS.com.au  |   May 20 2013, 9:09am CDT

Tommy Campion has been crusading against abuse in the church / Pic: Adam Head Source: The Daily Telegraph THE country's top Anglican, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, personally intervened days before the shock re ...

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Australian religious speaker to give talk in Otley

Source: Ilkley Gazette  |   May 20 2013, 8:27am CDT

Otley’s John Burland who will meet his namesake and relative when he comes over from Australia A renowned Australian religious speaker with a historic link to Otley will give a talk in the town next month. ...

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Australian Catholic Church admits slow to act on sex abuse

Source: Bangkok Post  |   May 20 2013, 5:49am CDT

The most senior Catholic in the Australian state of Victoria on Monday admitted the church had been too slow to act on paedophile priests, but insisted things have changed. A Catholic worshipper prays while holding a cru ...

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NSW abuse survivors "betrayed" amid new bill proposal

Source: SINA English  |   May 20 2013, 2:09am CDT

SYDNEY, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Human rights lawyers and women's organizations Monday have appealed to the UN about proposed changes to the NSW victims compensation scheme. A bill introduced into parliament earlier in May proposes a time li ...

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Half of Aussie murder victims killed with a knife

Source: The Range News  |   May 19 2013, 3:14pm CDT

NEARLY half of the 274 murder victims in Australia in 2011 were killed with a knife, figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology have revealed. In its annual crime report, the AIC also found most peop ...

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Boy who manned up to the church

Source: The Age  |   May 19 2013, 12:00pm CDT

Missing, broken and incomplete: John Saunders as a schoolboy. He was abused in the Catholic school system. Photo: Michel O'Sullivan I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend … By a campfire at a school retreat, a 10-year-ol ...

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Hate crimes on the rise in Victoria

Source: The Daily Telegraph  |   May 19 2013, 11:19am CDT

VICTORIA Police want tougher penalties handed out to people convicted of hate crimes after new figures show hundreds of Victorians have been the target of racial, religious or sexual abuse. The Herald Sun says new figures show that hu ...

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Why do so many people support evil things? Because without repentance, social assurance becomes a desperate need...

Source: The New Advent  |   May 19 2013, 10:44am CDT

Richard Kerley, of whose descent into schizophrenia and tragic death as a vagrant I recently told on this site, back in the late 1970s when abortion was still generally abhorred and abortionists were still occasionally prosecuted, made a very tell ...

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Church 'treated' pedophile priests

Source: The Australian  |   May 19 2013, 9:56am CDT

POLICE investigating an alleged cover-up of child abuse committed by Catholic priests discussed an in-house treatment centre run by the church for clergy suspected of sex offences. More than 1000 people, including hundreds of priests, attended the ...

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Archbishop Hart to face Vic clergy inquiry

Source: PerthNow  |   May 19 2013, 1:19am CDT

VICTORIA'S most senior Catholic clergy member will this week give evidence before a state parliamentary inquiry into child sexual abuse. Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart, who has publicly stated his willingness to cooperate with ...

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