Abuse / Christen Torres / Church Teaching / Global Issues
by Christen Torres · Published November 14, 2018
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg has called for the excommunication of all priests who abuse minors, and spoke with concern about the anger of young South Africans at what he called “broken promises”.
Abuse / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published November 12, 2018 · Last modified November 11, 2018
Fr David Rowan SJ, Regional superior, Society of Jesus in South Africa – Although all the issues raised have been addressed in numerous media recently, the Southern Cross letter “Clear answers now on abuse”...
Mervyn Pollitt, Waterfall, KZN – The case of a Jesuit priest’s sexual abuse of William Segodisho in the late 1980s which both the order and the priest himself have acknowledged to be true, raises...
Abuse / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published October 23, 2018 · Last modified October 22, 2018
Cecil Cullen, Johannesburg – Reflecting on the sex abuse scandals, we humans are called to worship our God, and being a Catholic I try to do so in accordance with the Church’s requirements. The...
The Southern Cross editorial of September 12 in favour of a Truth & Reconciliation Commission for repairing the abuse scandal and restoring justice to the Church in the wake of the terrible crisis engulfing the whole Body of Christ, deserves grateful praise.
Abuse / Church / Crisis / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published October 13, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
Infidelity rather than clericalism is the cause of the current homosexual crisis in the Church. Infidelity, by heterodox priests and prelates, to doctrine that condemns sins of the flesh (especially sodomy, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance).
Pope Francis, Cardinal Marc Ouellet and an official Vatican statement seem to be laying the groundwork for an admission that mistakes were made in handling allegations that Archbishop Theodore McCarrick engaged in sexual misconduct...
by Letters Editor · Published October 11, 2018 · Last modified October 10, 2018
As an adult survivor of clerical sexual abuse I find it hurtful, unjust and sad that it would appear that the majority of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy, from the pope down, is advocating a “zero tolerance” policy only for the clerical abuse of minors and its cover-up.
Promising a thorough review of how the Vatican handled allegations of sexual misconduct by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the Vatican acknowledged that what happened may fall short of the procedures that are in...
Abuse / Church / Raymond Perrier
by Raymond Perrier · Published October 10, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2018
We all love the image in the Gospel of the eyes of the blind being opened. But are we willing to open our eyes as a Church and see some of what we need...
Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington had been told by Vatican officials to withdraw from public life because of rumours about his sexual misconduct, said Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for...
The days of making “weak excuses” in response to the sexual abuse crisis are over, said German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising. The fallout and damage that has resulted, he added,...
