GenevaLunch » priests http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no German Catholic bishop offers resignationhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/22/german-catholic-bishop-offers-resignation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/22/german-catholic-bishop-offers-resignation/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:04:40 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=40627 GenevaLunch.com A German catholic bishop investigated for severe physical abuse of children and for financial misconduct has issued a public apology and has offered to resign. Bishop Walter Mixa is being investigated for physical abuse of children during the 70s, when he was a pastor at a children’s orphanage. Mixa is also accused of financial irregularities [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/22/german-catholic-bishop-offers-resignation/feed/ 0 New church scandal, Brazilian priest accusedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/20/new-church-scandal-brazilian-priest-accused/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/20/new-church-scandal-brazilian-priest-accused/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:24:57 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=40511 GenevaLunch.com An 83-year-old priest has been arrested in Brazil, accused of pedophilia. The man was allegedly caught on video while having sexual relations with a former altar boy aged 19. Monsignor Luiz Marques Barbosa has been detained for reportedly molesting children as young as 12. This is the latest in a series of cases of alleged [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/20/new-church-scandal-brazilian-priest-accused/feed/ 0 Swiss Bishops Conference begs pardonhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/swiss-bishops-conference-begs-pardon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/swiss-bishops-conference-begs-pardon/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:05:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39455 GenevaLunch.com Catholic Church leaders in Switzerland say they underestimated the problem Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s Bishops Conference, the highest body in the Catholic church in this country, has publicly apologized for problems of sexual abuse by its clergy, saying it grossly “underestimated the extent of the problem.” The Conference notes in a statement (pdf) issued [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/31/swiss-bishops-conference-begs-pardon/feed/ 1 Irish bishops “routinely” covered up abuse, report showshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/irish-bishops-routinely-covered-up-abuse-report-shows/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/irish-bishops-routinely-covered-up-abuse-report-shows/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:36:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32433 GenevaLunch.com Four successive archbishops of Dublin, over a period of 30 years, “routinely” covered up child sexual abuse by priests in their diocese, an Irish government report published Thursday 26 November shows. Dermot Ahern, the Irish justice minister responsible for the “Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin”, said it documented [...]

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