Attorneys Team to Help Six Women Seek Justice in Bikram Choudhury Sexual Assault Cases

Today Show” is the latest media forum to share some of the details surrounding sexual assault claims made against Bikram Choudhury. Six women have now come forward, at the time of this release, claiming that the “hot yoga” guru sexually assaulted and/or raped themm.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150305006439/en/Attorneys-Team-Women-Seek-Justice-Bikram-Choudhury#.VP_TV-FrUgI 

Québec Catholic Diocese to Meet with Victims of Sexual Abuse

A group of religious leaders from the catholic diocese of Québec has accepted an invitation from one of the church’s sexual abuse victims, Pierre Bolduc, to come and meet him and some other victims  face to face to discuss the suffering and lifetime problems the abuse has caused them.

http://www.lifeinquebec.com/quebec-catholic-diocese-to-meet-with-victims-of-sexual-abuse-20251/ 

Support abuse victims

Regularly we read stories of children sexually abused at the hands of trusted community leaders; the most recent example are the accusations against Dr. Craig Morgenstern. Spokane has a long and sordid history of child abuse at the hands of teachers, law enforcement officers, clergy and Scout leaders.  Our community is not unlike others across the nation. Fortunately, organizations like the Catholic Church have taken steps to address the plague of sexual abuse.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/06/support-abuse-victims/ 

Inquiry hears of abuse at top school

Teacher Christopher Fotis left Sydney's exclusive Knox Grammar in 1989 with a reference that described him as "an enthusiast for his job" and "meticulous ... in the standards he expects from his students".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11413281 

Peter Johnson Jr. Whitewashes Cardinal Egan's Handling Of Sexual Abuse

The alternate reality of Fox News was front and center during this morning's Fox & Friends when Peter Johnson Jr. provided a glowing testimony to his recently deceased pal Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan. While Johnson stressed the highlights of Egan's career, he downplayed, if not outright obfuscated the lowlights.

http://www.newshounds.us/20150306_peter_johnson_jr_whitewashes_cardinal_egan_s_handling_of_sexual_abuse 

Anchorage Archbishop to meet with those impacted by abuse, violence

Anchorage Archbishop Roger Schwietz is hosting a March 25 prayer service to seek healing for those who have been impacted by abuse and violence. The gathering will take place at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Anchorage (3900 Wisconsin St.) at 7 p.m. and is open to the public.

http://www.catholicanchor.org/alaska-news/anchorage-archbishop-meet-impacted-abuse-violence/ 

THE NUNS OF SANT’AMBROGIO The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Sister Maria Luisa was the novice mistress at the Sant’Ambrogio convent in Rome. She was intelligent, charismatic and stunningly beautiful. She was also a sociopath, embezzler, false saint, sexual predator, pathological liar and murderer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-false-saint-and-sexual-predator-in-a-warped-rome-convent/2015/03/05/072069da-b14d-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions 

Pope Francis meets with Chilean leaders amid sex abuse controversy

Pope Francis travelled to Chile last week to meet with Church leaders amid controversy over a recent appointment. Monsignor Fernando Natalio Chomali Garib's successor, Bishop Juan Barros Madrid, was appointed in January, but has faced a firestorm of criticism.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/pope.francis.meets.with.chilean.leaders.amid.sex.abuse.controversy/49609.htm 

Pope Francis to canonise St Thérèse’s parents during family synod

Relics of Blessed Louis and Blessed Zélie Martin are to tour Portsmouth and Plymouth in May. Pope Francis is expected to canonise Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, during the world Synod of Bishops on the family in October.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/03/05/pope-francis-to-canonise-st-thereses-parents-during-family-synod/ 

Sinn Fein has done a 'real disservice' to women

Tánaiste Joan Burton has launched a blistering attack on Sinn Féin, likening the party to the Catholic Church over its treatment of abuse victims.  The Labour Party leader accused Sinn Féin of using "weasel words" to try and discredit the actions of IRA rape victim Mairia Cahill. And Ms Burton singled out "women politicians" in the party who she says failed to show Ms Cahill proper support.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/burton-sinn-fein-has-done-a-real-disservice-to-women-31048184.html 

Fort Worth Diocese Interrogated Sex Abuse Victim and His Mother in a Starbucks: Lawsuit

By 2013, the stories of child molestation in the Catholic church, along with the archdiocese's attempts to sweep the allegations under the rug, were old news. In that year alone, sex abuse cases cost the Catholic church $108,954,109, according to a report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/03/fort_worth_sex_abuse_claim.php 

Pope Francis to canonise St Thérèse’s parents during family synod

Relics of Blessed Louis and Blessed Zélie Martin are to tour Portsmouth and Plymouth in May. Pope Francis is expected to canonise Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux, during the world Synod of Bishops on the family in October.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/03/05/pope-francis-to-canonise-st-thereses-parents-during-family-synod/ 

Accused priest's fate now in hands of jury

He ate two cookies - light vanilla coating with cream filling - drank a Dr Pepper, and counted to himself as the Rev. Andrew McCormick unfastened the 33 buttons on his cassock one by one. A 27-year-old man recounted that vivid memory from the witness stand this week, describing the moments before McCormick allegedly sexually assaulted him about 18 years ago.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20150307_Accused_priest_s_fate_now_in_hands_of_jury.html 

Retired Roman Catholic priest, 83, pleads not guilty to indecent assault charges involving 10 young girls

A retired Roman Catholic priest has denied a series of sex offence charges involving young girls dating back more than 30 years. Canon Mortimer Stanley, 83, a former parish priest in Norden, Rochdale, appeared at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday via a video link from Limerick in Ireland.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/retired-roman-catholic-priest-83-8786598 

N.S. to allow sex abuse victims to sue no matter when assault happened

A Nova Scotia survivor of sexual abuse is applauding the provincial government’s promise to amend the Limitation of Actions Act. Justice Minister Lena Diab said Thursday that means victims of sexual assault, regardless of when it happened, can sue perpetrators.

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-to-allow-sex-abuse-victims-to-sue-no-matter-when-assault-happened-1.2266341 

Inmate videos aim to reduce New York prison sexual assaults

On his first day in a Michigan prison for robbing a photo store with a toy gun, 17-year-old T.J. Parsell was dragged into an empty cell and gang-raped. Now the 54-year-old activist and filmmaker has created videos instructing newcomers to New York state prisons on how to protect themselves from sexual assault.

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/inmate-videos-aim-reduce-york-152406875.html

Society's Sex Abuse Epidemic

A clinical psychologist and leading expert on child sexual abuse has good news for worried parents who may have lost their trust in the Catholic Church's ability to protect their children, saying that the Church has come up with "great policies" to ensure that no priest ever abuse anyone's child again.

http://www.villemarieonline.com/society-s-sex-abuse-epidemic 

Loose Lips

Australia, the great land of cricket dreams, is not only that. The country has a very conservative Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, whose loose statements aimed it Australia’s Muslim population will alienate Muslims, as well as leave a bad taste in the most of Pakistani cricket fans. All is not rosy in the land down-under, a country that has become a new haven for Pakistani’s immigrating, studying and touristing.

http://nation.com.pk/editorials/09-Mar-2015/loose-lips 

CELIBACY: The Church’s dance with destruction

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it." (Matthew 19:12)

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150308/celibacy-church%E2%80%99s-dance-destruction 

Youngster sexual abuse: All for the black sheep

As it emerged that Pastor Winfried had sexually molested as a young man, a girl, he had to go. Since then, the expressions of solidarity for him 8 March ebben not expire.  The Cologne Archbishop Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki | © dpa – Bildfunk Pastor Winfried will not come back. They know that in Erftstadt. They know that in Cologne. The priest Winfried even know. More than 35 years was the pastor in the church Erftstadt-Ville near Cologne. 

http://news.newsdirectory1.com/youngster-sexual-abuse-all-for-the-black-sheep/