Word: priesting
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...streets of Dublin - in their police uniforms. Although the Irish government paid some €50,000 in compensation to the young fashion designer, the officers who assaulted her were never disciplined. Only scant details of other such incidents are ever published. But according to Father Peter McVerry, a Jesuit priest and activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last week, a report by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture...
...longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official described the Pope's daily schedule as "greatly diminished," which heightens concern about his ability to make executive decisions for the church. Resignation is not being considered, according to a senior Vatican official. But in the words of a Rome-based priest who has worked in Vatican circles for more than a decade, "On some levels, this has effectively become a lame-duck papacy." The Pope is already virtually unable to walk on his own, and his growing struggle to speak for any extended period is forcing changes. Prepared remarks are shorter...
...traditionalist looking back at the 1950s sees a golden age of American Catholicism--fish on Friday, confession on Saturday, seminaries full and John Kennedy on the road toward the White House. The liberal (or lapsed) Roman Catholic may have a different take: sexual repression, nuns and priests perched like crows above the cowering innocent, Sister Nutcase brandishing a ruler. Now, in the waning days of the papacy of John Paul II, and particularly after the 2002 priest scandals, the contradictions have, if anything, hardened. Conservatives work to institutionalize their resistance, and liberals wait wistfully, hoping that they have time...
...this point, necessity seems to make better arguments for change than ideology can. In the 1950s there was one priest for every 650 American Catholics. By 2005, according to one survey, there could be one priest for every 2,200. Many American priests are overworked, demoralized by loneliness and scandal, underrespected. According to Gibson's statistics, more than 3,000 (out of 19,000) U.S. parishes are without a resident pastor, and about 2,400 are forced to share a pastor. In the meantime, the exodus from nunneries has been spectacular...
...killing of John Geoghan—the defrocked priest who sexually abused approximately 150 children and precipitated a crisis in the American Catholic Church—illustrates the failures of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and of American prison policy...