Pope laments those 'tired of their faith

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POPE Benedict XVI, celebrating Maundy Thursday mass, said he regretted that Western countries had become tired of their faith and weary of their culture and history.



He also paid tribute to his predecessor, John Paul II, ahead of his beatification at the Vatican May 1, the ANSA news agency reported.



"We are full of gratitude to him who was a great witness of God and Jesus Christ in our time, a man who was filled with the Holy Spirit," Pope Benedict said.



The German pontiff said people in the West, the heart of Christendom, were "tired of their faith" during the Mass at St Peter's Basilica to celebrate Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Christ's Last Supper with the apostles before his crucifixion.



"Haven't we, people of God, become for the most part a population of non-believers, distant from God?" he asked.



The Pope told some 500 priests gathered in St Peter's, "Don't allow us to become a non-people".



Joseph Ratzinger, who turned 84 on Sunday, has just marked six years as the pontiff.



He often speaks out against the decline of Christianity of his country and the West in general.

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Church asks Vatican handle priest case

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Church asks Vatican to handle priest case

By Joe Anuta

In 2010, Monsignor Michael Dempsey was placed on administrative leave from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills after he was investigated for violating child pornography laws, but never formally charged.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is appealing to a higher authority in the case of a Forest Hills priest who was stripped of his post last year. The diocese is asking for a decision from the Vatican in Rome about Monsignor Michael Dempsey, formerly of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, who was investigated for violating child pornography laws in 2010 but never formally charged with a crime. The diocese released a statement March 31 about Dempsey. “The issue that resulted in the Rev. Monsignor Michael Dempsey’s placement on administrative leave in 2010 remains unresolved. The Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio, bishop of Brooklyn, will seek a final and definitive resolution of his case from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome,” the diocese said. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a Vatican agency designed to defend the Catholic Church from heresy, according to the department’s web site. The diocese did not want to comment further about why the matter needed to be handled by Roman members of the clergy. Calls to the church, at 110-06 Queens Blvd., were referred back to the diocese. According to a spokeswoman from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Dempsey was investigated in December last year for allegedly looking at child pornography on the Internet, but the investigation was dropped and Dempsey was never charged. Over the weekend of Jan. 23, Monsignor Paul Sanchez read a statement from DiMarzio about Dempsey and the allegations. “You are undoubtedly aware of the deep suffering and hurt that surround any matter of child abuse, especially when allegations involve a member of the clergy,” the statement said. “It can damage, often irreparably, the innocence, the trust and the reputations of all who are in any way affected by it.”

On Feb. 7, an anonymous note was pinned to the door of the church calling on DiMarzio to inform the congregation that Dempsey was never charged. The note further said that since the allegations against the priest were made public, news that Dempsey was never charged should be announced as well. “Is there a double standard in our church?” the note asked. Reach reporter Joe Anuta by e-mail at januta@cnglocal.com or by phone at 718-260-4566. Read more at www.yournabe.com

 

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Vatican tailors message to suit audience

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‘Islands of growth' despite hurdles for Catholic Church

Katyayani Murti

Vatican representatives describe Catholic presence in India as both “growing” and “small”

Like many, if not most, diplomatic states, the Vatican may be tailoring its message to suit its audience, cables accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks show.

In 2002, a Vatican representative told a U.S. diplomat that Catholicism in India was growing. But in 2006, a statement, written in response to a slew of anti-conversion laws in different Indian States and released on an official Church website in India, argued that the Catholic community in India was small and not conversion-oriented.

In a July 24, 2002 meeting, Archbishop Antonio Veglio, Secretary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, told the U.S. Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, George Frowick, that of the 22 non-Roman Christian Rites in his charge, the vast majority faced threats to their stability. Only two — the Greek Rite Church in Ukraine and Keralite Catholic churches in India — appeared to be secure, according to an account of what the Archbishop said, as provided in the cable (3387: confidential, dated July 26, 2002).

“The Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara Churches are reputed to have a 2,000-year presence in Southern India,” the cable states. According to Archbishop Veglio, these churches originated “from the visit of Saint Tomas the Apostle.”

Unlike their counterparts in “the Middle East,” “Ethiopia/Eritrea,” and “formerly communist Europe” excluding the Greek Rite Church in Ukraine, “the Indian Eastern Catholic Churches centered on the state of Kerala” are described in the cable as ‘“lively' and ‘growing'.”

Characterised as “islands of growth,” the Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara Eastern Rite Churches were described by Archbishop Veglio as “vigorous and growing, despite hindrances.” The hindrances included anti-conversion bills such as those backed by the Hindu nationalist political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the cable says.

Monsignor Francis Chullikatt, “a Kerala native heading off to become the papal nuncio in Baghdad,” termed such legislation “poorly conceived.” He emphasised “the need to preserve religious freedom in India,” “noting at the same time that the Catholic Church should be distinguished from various evangelical groups in India.” He claimed that such groups did not “respect traditional Indian culture in the way the Church does” (65975: confidential, dated May 31, 2006).

Anti-conversion bills

Cardinal Ivan Dias wrote protesting against a rash of anti-conversion bills being introduced in Indian States. His statement, of May 23, 2006, was released on the official website of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India.

Just three days earlier, on May 20, Cardinal Dias was appointed to “a senior position in Rome,” to serve as the “head of the Congregation for Evangelization,” according to the cable.

Monsignor Bernardito Auza, point man for South Asia in the Holy See's Secretariat of State, said that Cardinal Dias's appointment “coincided” with the anti-conversion excitement in India “purely by accident,” the cable says.

The statement was written on Cardinal Dias's “own initiative,” and not “coordinated with Rome,” according to Monsignor Auza, the cable says. However, it “accurately reflected the Vatican's views.”

“Christians are responsible for large shares of primary education, community health care, and literacy programs throughout India,” Cardinal Dias wrote, according to the cable. “A great many Indians of all faiths value and patronize these highly-regarded Catholic institutions, but are never asked to convert.”

“No forced conversion by the Catholic Church in India has ever been documented, despite various allegations,” the cable quotes Cardinal Dias as saying in his statement. Thus, “Christians in India are only 2.3 percent of the total population, and of these 1.8 percent are Catholics,” Cardinal Dias claimed, according to the cable.

“After two millenia the Indian Christian community remains small,” the cable quotes Cardinal Dias's statement as saying, contrasting with Archbishop Veglio's earlier declarations of growth.

“These churches are thriving even as Christians suffer persecution in Hindu-Nationalist parts of India,” Archbishop Veglio told Mr. Frowick in 2002 (3387: confidential, dated July 26, 2002).

Commenting on the situation, U.S. State Department Charge d'Affaires Christopher Sandrolini and U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See L. Francis Rooney III, said that “the Church — both in Rome and elsewhere — will increasingly shed its traditional preference for quiet diplomacy when it comes to issues it deems vital for its own survival, particularly religious freedom” (65975: confidential, dated May 31, 2006).

According to the cable, Mr. Sandrolini and Mr. Rooney “judge that the Holy See and the Church in India and elsewhere will not back down on issues it sees as fundamental to religious freedom, and to its security and survival.”

(This article is a part of the series "The India Cables" based on the US diplomatic cables accessed by The Hindu via Wikileaks.) Read more at www.thehindu.com

 

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Book: many priests sexually active

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Rome: new book charges many priests are sexually active

An Italian journalist has caused a stir in Rome with a new book that charges many priests routinely violate their vows of celibacy, with other men or with women.

Carmelo Abbate’s book, Sex and the Vatican, expands on a magazine article that he published last year, claiming that many priests in Rome are active homosexuals. In response to that article, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the vicar of the Rome diocese, suggested that priests who “continued to take the benefits” of membership in the clergy, while ignoring clerical discipline, should either reform their lives or have the integrity to leave the priesthood.

The Vatican has not commented on the new book.

Italian book exposes Rome gay priest scene (AFP) Thousands of priests 'in illicit relationships with men and women' (Daily Telegraph) Cardinal challenges gay priests in Rome: reform or get out (CWN, 7/26/10) Read more at www.catholicculture.org

 

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Pope warns of falling belief in West

By Catherine Hornby

VATICAN CITY

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict lamented the widespread abandonment of faith in the West on Holy Thursday before he washed and dried the feet of 12 men to mark Christ's gesture of humility to his apostles on the night before he died.

The German-born pontiff said it sometimes seemed as if people in Western countries had grown bored of their own history and culture and the heartlands of Christianity were rejecting religion.

But he hailed strong examples of the faithful, such as his predecessor John Paul, whose beatification on May 1 is expected to attract hundreds of thousands to Rome and is seen by many in the Church as a chance to rejuvenate the institution.

"Have not we -- the people of God -- become to a large extent a people of unbelief and distance from God?" Pope Benedict said during a service in St. Peter's Basilica in which he blessed oils to be used in Catholic rites.

"Is it perhaps the case that the West, the heartlands of Christianity, are tired of their faith?"

He later poured water over the right feet of 12 men sitting on raised platforms and dried them. That ritual was held in the Basilica of St John's in Lateran, the Pope's cathedral in his capacity as bishop of Rome, while donations were collected for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Both services were to mark Christ's founding of the priesthood at the Last Supper on the night before he died.

Celebrating the sixth Easter season of his pontificate, the pope said the beatification of his Polish predecessor, John Paul II, would be a chance to remember a man of great faith.

"For all the shame we feel over our failings, we must not forget that today too there are radiant examples of faith, people who give hope to the world," Pope Benedict said.

The 84-year-old pope has often warned against creeping secularism which he has said is as bad as religious fanaticism.

One of the main themes of his papacy has been what the Church calls the "re-evangelization" of Europe, an attempt to urge people to return to their religious roots despite living in highly secularized societies.

BIG EVENT

The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics has had a difficult struggle to rebuild the image of the Church after a scandal over the sexual abuse of children by priests reported in several countries.

Many in the Church establishment hope the beatification, bestowing on John Paul the title "blessed," will reinvigorate the institution and encourage people to return to the faith.

It is set to be the biggest event in Rome since the death of the charismatic and highly popular pope in 2005, when millions came to view his body or attend his funeral.

Vatican officials expect at least 300,000 people -- including tens of thousands from his native Poland -- to come

to the Italian capital for the three days of events celebrating his last step before sainthood.

On Good Friday, Pope Benedict will preside at services in the Vatican and then lead a traditional torch-lit Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, around the ruins of Rome's ancient Colosseum.

Italian television will air a question and answer session with the pope on Friday, in which he will respond to queries sent in from people all over the world.

A Vatican newspaper published one of his answers on Thursday, in which he tells a mother who's son has been in a vegetative state for several years that his soul is still in his body and he can still feel the presence of love.

Holy Week services at the Vatican culminate on Easter Sunday, the most important day in the liturgical calendar, when the pope delivers his twice-yearly "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing and message.

(Editing by Sophie Hares) Read more at www.reuters.com

 

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Judge orders Vatican to turn over info

Ore. judge orders Vatican to turn over some information in sex abuse suit

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Ore. judge orders Vatican to turn over some information in sex abuse suit

NIGEL DUARA  Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the Vatican must respond to certain requests for information from a man who says he was molested by a priest in the 1960s.

The man known in court documents as John V. Doe filed suit eight years ago. He seeks to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse he said he suffered from the Rev. Andrew Ronan, who died in 1992.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman ruled that Doe is entitled to limited discovery related to whether the priest was an employee of the Vatican.

The Vatican has denied that it was Ronan's employer, citing the facts it found in files from other related Catholic organizations in the case.

Mosman ruled that Ronan may have been under the control of a U.S. Catholic organization, but said in the order that such a system doesn't preclude Ronan from also being an employee of the Vatican.

Doe's attorney, Jeff Anderson, of St. Paul, Minn., said the order goes further than any previous case by forcing the Vatican to turn over documentation. "It's the first time anyone's laid a glove on them to the extent they had to turn documents over," Anderson said.

In his ruling, Mosman cited "significant factual disputes" as to whether the Holy See had the right to control and fire Ronan, and ruled that Doe is entitled to some limited discovery.

The Vatican will be required to answer written questions within 60 days related to its process of defrocking, its policies regarding sexual abuse and its regulation of priests' conduct, among other requests made by Doe, but Mosman limited all of the discovery to files involving Ronan.

Mosman also granted Doe's request that the Vatican produce documents related to its practices and policies regarding sexual abuse and punishment, removal, relocation and treatment of priests, but again limited them to Ronan's specific case.

Jeffery Lena, an attorney for the Vatican, said the implications of the decision are still unknown.

"As a factual matter, Ronan was not a Holy See employee, and the Holy See was not aware of Ronan's misconduct until after Ronan had abused the plaintiff," Lena said in a statement released to The Associated Press on Thursday night.

He declined to comment further.

The Vatican has argued it wasn't responsible for Ronan or his multiple transfers. Amid allegations of sexual abuse, court documents say, Ronan was transferred from Ireland to Chicago and then to Portland, where Doe said the abuse occurred.

In papers filed last summer, Vatican lawyers said hundreds of documents from Catholic officials showed that U.S. officials of the priest's order "knew of Ronan's propensities and transferred Ronan," but the Holy See "had no prior knowledge regarding Ronan" and no role in moving him. Read more at www.greenfieldreporter.com

 

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Jesuit Mistaken for John Wilkes Booth?

Georgetown Features Civil War Exhibit Including Jesuit Mistaken for John Wilkes Booth

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Georgetown Features Civil War Exhibit Including Jesuit Mistaken for John Wilkes Booth

A photograph of the Georgetown Jesuit who was jailed after being mistaken for John Wilkes Booth is only one of about 80 Civil War items on display at the Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library through the month of June.

The items are from the library’s Special Collections Research Center and from the Woodstock College Archives.

Authorities released John B. Guida, S.J., a philosophy professor, once Booth (who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln) was found.

“On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Special Collections Research Center wanted to tell the story of the war’s impact on Georgetown and its faculty and students,” explained University Archivist Lynn Conway, who put the exhibition together. “It is a story of perseverance and survival.

As the war progressed, the College saw its grounds occupied by Union troops on multiple occasions, according to documents in the exhibition.

The university tried to maintain normal activities throughout the war, according to Georgetown documents.

Faculty melted down silver spoons that belonged to students who had already left campus to make silver medals awarded for academic achievement at the 1862 commencement.

The College had financial difficulties by this point because its enrollment had dropped so much because of the war. Melting down the spoons was the only way the medals could be made.

Following the war the College built a stone wall along what is now 37th street to enclose the campus and stem problems with vagrancy and theft caused by the failing post-war economy. As a show of unity, the crew team adopted the colors blue and gray in 1876 that still represent Georgetown today.

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Jesuit Schools Sued in Child Sex Case

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Jesuit Schools Sued in Child Sex Case

By CHRISTINE STUART

HARTFORD (CN) - A man who says he was sexually abused at a school for street children in Haiti seeks $110 million in damages from Fairfield University, the Jesuit order, and former Connecticut resident Douglas Perlitz, who is serving 19 years in prison for sexually abusing children at Project Pierre Toussaint, in Cap-Haitien.      Joseph Jean-Charles, one of Perlitz's accusers, sued the defendants, which include The Haiti Fund and a priest, Fr. Paul Carrier, who allegedly hired and supervised Perlitz.      Jean-Charles claims Fairfield University - a Jesuit school - the Society of Jesus of New England and 12 John Does were negligent in hiring Perlitz to run the school and home, and helped him cover up the sexual abuse.      Perlitz held a position of trust so that the children he oversaw "would have confidence that the conduct defendant Perlitz engaged in was to further the best interests of the minor boys," according to the 23-page complaint.      "In approximately 2006, when the plaintiff was approximately 15 years old, defendant Perlitz engaged in explicit sexual behavior and lewd and lascivious behavior with the plaintiff, including but not limited to, defendant Perlitz requiring and then having plaintiff masturbate Defendant Perlitz," the complaint states. "The conduct of defendant Perlitz in engaging in the egregious and explicit sexual behavior described above was extreme and outrageous, beyond all possible bounds of decency, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community."      Perlitz was convicted in December 2010 of federal charges of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison, according to the complaint.      Jean-Charles is represented by Steven J. Errante with Lynch, Traub, Keefe and Errante of New Haven.  Read more at www.courthousenews.com

 

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