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Marie Collins was a 13-year-old hospital patient when Father Paul McGennis sexually abused her in 1960. Thirty-five years later he was still a priest and she found the courage to complain to the office of Dublin's Archbishop, Desmond Connell. There she found a stony bureaucratic indifference that has made her so angry she now wants to file criminal charges against the archdiocese for covering up McGennis' crime. "The abuse didn't take away my religion," says Collins, a Dublin housewife who no longer attends Mass. "The two years trying to get Cardinal Connell...
...priest, Dan Quayle and a Polish guy walk into the Rome—of Augustus...
...four offices that will work with four U.S. bishops in the commission - said Friday that the American proposal steps on certain ''fundamental principles of the Church.'' Castrillon - speaking during an unrelated press conference Friday a - answered reporters' questions on the U.S. proposal. ''The trust that the priest has in his bishop, that can't be passed through the external conditioning of a state'' - a reference to the Dallas proposal's requirement that bishops report any suspicion of sexual abuse to civil authorities. Later, Castrillon said: ''For the Church, the statute of limitations isn't merely a matter of juridical expediency...
...archdiocese—and especially Law—found itself the subject of nationwide scrutiny with the child molestation conviction last February of former priest John Geoghan and accusations that he had molested 130 children over his 30-year career. There were additional allegations that Law and other archdiocese officials knew of the abuse and had covered it up by moving Geoghan from parish to parish...
Advocates for alleged victims of priest abuse protested yesterday in front of Johnston Gate a subpoena that would have made public confidential comments made by victims in support groups...