Pope appoints panel to investigate Ireland abuse

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Pope appoints panel to investigate Ireland abuse

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 13 mins ago
VATICAN CITY –

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday appointed nine prelates, including the archbishops of Boston and New York, to investigate child abuse in Ireland's Catholic institutions.

The pope urged the Irish church to support the investigation, saying it could be a chance for hope and renewal. In a March letter to the Irish faithful, Benedict had promised an investigation that addressed chronic clerical child abuse in Ireland and decades of cover-ups by church authorities.

Also Monday, the Vatican announced the pope had accepted the resignation of an Irish-born archbishop who had led the Benin City diocese in Nigeria and faced accusations that he carried on a 20-year relationship with a woman that began when she was 14.

Archbishop Richard Burke, 61, had been suspended. He was the latest bishop to resign amid the church abuse scandal, as Benedict moves to get rid of bishops who either admitted they molested youngsters or covered up for priests who did.

Child-abuse scandals have caused exceptional trauma in Ireland, a once-devoutly Catholic nation.

An Irish government collapsed in 1994 amid arguments over its failure to extradite a pedophile priest to Northern Ireland. Since 2002, a government-organized compensation board has paid out more than euro800 million ($983 million) to 13,000 people abused in Ireland's church-run residential institutions for children.


Catholicism is fast-growing religion in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 150 million people.

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Riciculous . . . an investigation of the church by the hierarchy of the church!!

Irish government is "compensating" abused victims - almost a billion $ so far.

And, how much wealth has the Vatican taken in during its control over Ireland for ....

how long has it been? Better look that up!

Also note that this Pope is moving the church to Evangelicalism . . . Fundamentalist beliefs.

The fear of Pope John XXIII/Vatican II and their constant war on those teachings demands

that they move all the way into Fundi la-la land to protect their right wing cult.

AFRICA and CHINA are where the Vatican's new fortunes are rising!!

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1. popes to poor people: if u don't give me money you will burn in hell. nt

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2. the pope is such a disgrace, on so many levels

actually, he's a criminal, and obstructs justice

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3. Why, don't they have prosecutors or police detectives in Ireland?

In an unrelated story, B P appoints panel to investigate off-shore drilling abuse.

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4. Well, they presume they did.... but the identity of Ireland and its government was so overtaken

by a Catholic identity -- under the very harsh terms of Catholic rule over Ireland --

that there seems to have been no reporting of these incidents at all -- or if, in the

case of the orphans, they even tried to tell, who would it have been?

And, if any reports were made they would have been judged by Catholics in authority

and doubtful they would have been believed. Or -- even if believed -- the church was

so powerful in Ireland that would have amounted to little.

Finally, some of these cases managed to break thru -- but IMO only because of the

liberalizing of nations under "democracy" which everyone aspired to post WWII world.

The challenge to authority which also came from our youth revolution during the 1960's.

The fight for civil rights and equality -- feminism, gay and lesbian rights.

The RCC stood opposed to all of this -- democracy, equality, homosexuality -- and more.

It especially exerted control over the personal sexual behavior, even of adults --

and even in American until the late 1960's!! Birth control wasn't even available to

married adults in America until then!!


Catholic women for a long period of time have had just as many abortions as any other women.

Presumably, legal and illegal.

More than 7,000+ per year still travel to England for abortions!

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6. k

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5. Their conclusion: "Those kids were asking for it!!!"

I was born and raised in the church, but stopped believing in it at 12 - I have really come to hate it under pope Benny. I remember a remark he made early on about US catholics who wanted liberalization of some church policies,"Let them become Episcopalians."

He is probably seeing more people leave the church than at any period in modern times.

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