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All Is Not Forgiven
The investigation found that reforms promised by the Vatican after the priest sex abuse scandal were ignored. Only when confronted with the findings of the investigation did the Archdiocese of Los Angeles admit that its background check of priests did not go beyond reviewing a letter from a former superior.
Tags: sex abuse; priests; Vatican; Catholic Church
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Render Unto Rome
This book investigates the Catholic Church's finances and breaks new ground on several fronts including fiscal mismanagement, embezzlement and abuse.
Tags: Catholic Church; book
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Spiritually Bankrupt
The investigation revealed the coordinated lengths to which the Roman Catholic Church was protecting its vast wealth from sex abuse victims.
Tags: sex abuse; Catholic Church; priests; ; Pope Benedict XVI
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"Money and Influence Peddling in the Vatican"
Reporter Jason Berry took an in-depth look at how sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was allowed to continue. His series of stories that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, focused on Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, a prominent figure in the Church. Berry revealed that Maciel, who has allegedly sexually abused his seminarians since the 1950s, has been making payments to various Vatican officials that have "insulated the priest from punishment."
Tags: Vatican; Catholic; Priest; Father; Legion of Christ; sexual abuse; seminarians; Rome; Pope John Paul
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The Swedish Crusade
The interview of Bishop Richard Williamson led to the most serious conflict between the Jewish and the Catholic communities. In the interview the Bishop denied the existence of the Holocaust, who was excommunicated from the Church. Though, after the Pope lifted this excommunication, criticism of the Pope and the Vatican began. The follow-up revealed that the "persons responsible within the Vatican could have avoided the upcoming crisis, but decided to neglect the information".
Tags: Society of St. Pius X(SSPX); Protestant Sweden; neo-Nazi; conservative; Cardinal; church; religion; Catholic
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An Irish Tragedy
"This is the story of how Irish immigrant clergy, who had helped to build the American Catholic church in years past, undermined that church by their widespread sexual abuse of children. It is a sad tale that had gone untold, until now."
Tags: Irish; Catholic; sexual abuse; priests; Vatican;
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Postville Series
Postville, Iowa lost a third of its population on May 12, 2008 when the Dept. of Homeland Security raided a kosher meat-packing plant that resulted in nearly 400 undocumented workers were detained.
Tags: false identity; illegal immigrant; green card; Agriprocessors; St. Bridget's Catholic Church; union;
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The Bishop's Bad Moves
These stories include online and print coverage of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Diocese of Orange County, California. "Major findings include the diocese paid an admitted child molester $100,000 to stay quiet, that the bishop tried to cover up a molestation allegation in his past, and that he also documented molestations but didn't report them as required by California law."
Tags: church; catholicism; religion; child abuse; molestation; cover-up; state government
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Priest Scandal Touches Northern Nevada
The authors investigated claims of sexual abuse by priests in northern Nevada, a region that had seemingly avoided the scandal. The story called into question the way the diocese and bishop handled abusive priests, and suggested they covered up the abuse and hoped to silence the accusers.
Tags: sex abuse; Catholic church; Nevada; priests; pedophiles; sexual molestation; cover-up;
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Cincinnati Archdiocese Investigation
For the past three years the authors have been investigating the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for covering up sex abuse in the church and the practice of controlling victims to prevent public revelation. Victims are now pushing lawmakers for a law change that would allow civil suits to be tried in court, despite the passing of the statute of limitations.
Tags: Catholic church; sexual abuse; Archdiocese of Cincinnati; Archbishop of Cincinnati; statute of limitations; Senate Bill 17; Court Order; civil suits; sex-abuse