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Separating Fact From Fiction in Catholic Church Sex Abuse
Kudos to veteran journalist Ralph Cipriano, who is raising questions about the impartiality of the judge presiding over the high-profile Catholic clergy criminal abuse trial in Philadelphia. Covering the trial for the Philadelphia Priest … [Read more...]
It would not be the first time that Judge Teresa Sarmina appeared to betray her duty of fairness while presiding at the high-profile Catholic clergy abuse trial in Philadelphia. Today, with the jury out of the room, during a debate on … [Read more...]
Dissident cleric Rev. Thomas P. Doyle took the stand on Thursday (4/12/12) in the high-profile clergy sex abuse trial in Philadelphia as an "expert witness" on canon law for the prosecution's case against the Catholic Church, … [Read more...]
Leading journalists are ignoring a critical component of the current high-profile Catholic abuse trial in Philadelphia. Mark Bukowski has accused Rev. James Brennan of raping him as a 14-year-old back in 1996. However, around the very same … [Read more...]
For over a year, the media has whole-heartedly embraced and loudly trumpeted the graphic and shocking details of last year's high-profile Philadelphia grand jury report. The report, which depicted stomach-turning allegations of … [Read more...]
The primary accuser in this week's high-profile criminal abuse trial in Philadelphia has a lengthy criminal record of fraud and deceit, including an alarming episode in which he fabricated an elaborate tale to the police about a violent … [Read more...]
Less than 36 hours before Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua passed away from lengthy battles with cancer and dementia (he was 88 years old), David Clohessy, the national director of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), suggested … [Read more...]
Have justice and fair treatment gone out the window in the Catholic clergy abuse trials in Philadelphia? It sure looks like it. 1. In a truly astonishing betrayal of impartiality and discernment, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge M. Teresa … [Read more...]
Prosecutors in the high-profile abuse cases in Philadelphia are revealing that their cases are more about their open distaste for the Catholic Church than their desire for justice for abused children. In a hearing on Tuesday (1/24/12), … [Read more...]
The Catholic League issued an extended commentary this week lambasting a recent article (9/15/11) in Rolling Stone magazine that purported to chronicle the abuse narrative in Philadelphia. The Catholic League president, Dr. Bill Donohue, … [Read more...]
Double Standard: Abuse Scandals and
the Attack on the Catholic Church
by David F. Pierre, Jr.
