Category Archives: Pope Benedict XVI

Former Monks Featured in Movie

Posted on February 11, 2013
Posted in Mea Maxima Culpa, Patrick Wall, Pope Benedict XVI, Richard Sipe

Former Saint John’s Abbey monks Pat Wall and A.W. Richard Sipe are featured in the HBO documentary “Mea Maxima Culpa”. The movie premiered on the HBO network on Monday, February 4, 2013. Sipe and Wall discuss clergy abuse, celibacy and coverup … Continue reading →

‘Mea Maxima Culpa’ Director Alex Gibney Praises Pope Benedict’s Resignation

Posted on February 11, 2013
Posted in Alex Gibney, Mea Maxima Culpa, Pope Benedict XVI

(Yahoo) When I learned of the news that Pope Benedict XVI was going to become the first pope in six centuries to resign from office, I immediately thought, I wonder what Alex Gibney makes of this? His documentary, Mea Maxima … Continue reading →

(Book Review) The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability…

Posted on December 1, 2010
Posted in Canon Law, Pope Benedict XVI, Reading List

What has made a bad situation worse, as the eminent QC Geoffrey Robertson argues in this coolly devastating inquiry, is canon law – the church’s own arcane, highly secretive legal system, which deals with alleged child abusers in a dismayingly … Continue reading →

What if the Church’s own rules applied to it?

Posted on September 14, 2010
Posted in Opinion, Pope Benedict XVI, PR Machine

As we have recently been forcibly reminded, the Roman Catholic Church holds it better for the cries of raped and violated children to be ignored, and for the excuses and alibis of their rapists and torturers indulged, and for a … Continue reading →

Vatican Toughens Rules On Sexual Abuse Of Children

Posted on July 15, 2010
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Isidore Glyer, Pedophilia, Pope Benedict XVI, Pornography, Statute of Limitations

They also specify that priests who acquire, possess or distribute child pornography will be considered to have committed a serious offence subject to the same disciplinary action as abusers. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Thursday made sweeping revisions … Continue reading →

Examining the Crisis: Scandal vs. crisis; PR vs. raw data

Posted on July 9, 2010
Posted in Jason Berry, Pope Benedict XVI, PR Machine, Richard Sipe, Thomas Doyle

Ron Westrum, professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, suggests that organizations react in a series of stages to “anomalous reports.” They are: 1) suppression, 2) encapsulation, 3) public relations, 4) local fix, 5) global fix, and 6) investigation of … Continue reading →

A Death in Rome by Francisco Schulte, OSB

Posted on June 1, 2005
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II

I was at St. Peter’s Square and in the basilica with some guests the evening before the pope died; we had gone there to tour the church and, of course, to pray for him at the tomb of his predecessor, … Continue reading →