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German court fines bishop for denying Holocaust (AP)

April 16th, 2010

AP - A German court has convicted ultraconservative British Bishop Richard Williamson of incitement for denying the Holocaust in a television interview.

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Church: Norway bishop resigned in ‘09 over abuse (AP)

April 7th, 2010

In this Jan 15 2005 photo made available Wednesday April 7 2010, Trondheim Bishop Georg Muller addresses a congregation in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim which included King Harald and Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, (lower right). Norway's Catholic Church has revealed that Muller, who resigned last year, had admitted to allegations of child molestation, as the clergy abuse scandal spread to this predominantly Lutheran country. Mueller's successor, Bishop Bernt Eidsvig, said in a statement Wednesday April 7 2010 that the 58-year-old German had been removed from all pastoral duties and undergone therapy after he admitted to the abuse. (AP Photo/ Gorm Kallestad / Scanpix) ** NORWAY OUT **AP - A Catholic bishop in Norway who resigned last year did so after admitting he had molested a child about 20 years earlier, when he was a priest, church…

Irish bishop resigns, apologizes to abuse victims (AP)

March 24th, 2010

AP - Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Wednesday of Bishop John Magee, a former papal aide who stands accused of endangering children by failing to follow the Irish church’s…

Anger over freeing man convicted in bishop murder (AP)

March 19th, 2010

AP - Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge’s decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a prominent Roman Catholic bishop more than a…

German bishop surprised at number of abuse cases (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Wolfgang Blaschka is seen during an interview in Munich, southern Germany, on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Wolfgang Blaschka, who was a student at the Domspatzen Preschool in Pielenhofen, talked with journalists of the Associated Press. Wolfgang Blaschka told The Associated Press that while he was a student at the Etterzhausen school just outside Regensburg, corporate punishment was the rule, not the exception. German educators sharply criticized Roman Catholic church officials on Thursday for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal - comments that came a day before the country's highest bishop was to meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The criticism came as more victims of the alleged abuse stepped forward, including a one-time member of the famed all-boys choir that was led by the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the pope's brother, from 1964-1994. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - The Roman Catholic bishops in Pope Benedict XVI’s native Bavaria sought Tuesday to deal with a sexual abuse scandal whose ever-widening scope has left church leaders baffled.


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Bishop: Pope dismayed at clerical abuse scandal (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI looks on during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The Pope has appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims that has taken more than 200 lives. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Germany’s top bishop briefed Pope Benedict XVI on the spiraling cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff’s native Germany on Friday and said the pope encouraged him…

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