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What must it feel like to have lost 50 years of your life? For that is what 61-year old Arthur Budzinski has endured. Five long decades of personal pain. And he has to rely on others to speak of his anguish. It is made worse by the fact that no-one has been held to account for the sexual abuse he says he suffered as a child while at the Roman Catholic St John's School for the Deaf in St Francis, Wisconsin. Arthur and around 200 other boys are said to have been sexually abused at the school by Father Lawrence...

ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (AP) -- Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev. Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St. John's School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions. Geier said when he told Murphy what was happening was wrong, the priest replied, "Oh, yes. God sent me. This is confession." Geier, now 59 and living in Madison....

Pope Benedict's weekend apology to Ireland went further than any other papal statement on child-sex abuse by priests, but still fell too short for many victims of the scandals shaking the Catholic Church across Europe. Following are details of some of the major abuse scandals in various countries: SWITZERLAND: The Swiss Catholic Church is investigating allegations of abuse by clergy. The Diocese of Chur, in eastern Switzerland, said Saturday it was investigating about 10 complaints. The abbot of a monastery in the diocese said at least three of the 77 monks at Einsiedeln had committed acts of abuse since he...

Saturday March 20, 2010 Updated: Fr. Paul Marx, Founder of Human Life International, Passes Away HLI's Fr. Thomas Euteneuer: "Because of Fr. Paul Marx, the world has a pro-life movement" By Steve JalsevacCOLLEGEVILLE, Minnesota, March 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Paul Marx, the famed pro-life missionary priest who founded Human Life International in 1981, and the Population Research Institute in 1989, died at 8:10 a.m this morning at the St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He was 3 months short of 90 years of age. Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, the current head of Human Life International, called LifeSiteNews today...

Irish victims of clerical child sexual abuse are deeply disappointed by Pope Benedict's letter of apology as it fails to address the role of senior church leaders, a group representing victims said. "My first response was deep disappointment in the letter," said Maeve Lewis, executive director of victims group One in Four. "We feel the letter falls far short of addressing the concerns of the victims." She said the Pope's letter focused too narrowly on lower-rank Irish priests without recognising the responsibility of the Vatican and senior Irish clerics for protecting offenders and dealing with victims. "There is nothing in...

WASHINGTON - Congress has failed ailing 9/11 responder Father Stephen Petrovich, but New Yorkers are stepping up to help the cleric, impoverished and dying from poisons he inhaled at Ground Zero. Petrovich, 58, of Huron, Ohio, spent almost two weeks in the ruins of the World Trade Center and its makeshift morgue, blessing shattered parts of human beings and ministering to rescuers. The dust damaged his lungs, leaving him disabled and reduced to hospice care in what could soon be his deathbed. He is among the thousands weighing the 9/11 settlement offer, and desperately hoping Congress will do better by...

These are days of fulfillment in you for others and my will being released through your touch and words for as you walk in My will and my ways I come alive in you as an effervescent eternal Spring of Life for others " Cornerstone " . For I AM The Melchizedek ( Priest ) of your life and the Breath ( Spirit ) of your Heart ( Will ) along the Wellspring (Path) of My Ways in you " Cornerstone " ! In the New Testament, references to Melchizedek appear only in the Epistle to the Hebrews (end I...

Married or single priests from the early stages of Christianity practiced celibacy, according to a Vatican archaeologist. During the first four centuries, married priests would renounce having intimate relationships with their wives, but they needed their the approval of their spouse. Brief video: http://www.romereports.com/palio/modules.php?t=Married-priests-from-the-first-centuries-practiced-celibacy&name=News&file=article&newlang=english&sid=1740

She thought she might get off with a few Hail Marys. Instead, she got three years in prison. The 27-year-old New Jersey woman who cried rape and put away an innocent man had no idea what coming clean would cost her when she stepped into a confessional a year ago and told her priest everything. "She was going to confess this was her sin and that was it," said a source familiar with the shocking recantation of Biurny Peguero Gonzalez, who on Tuesday was sentenced to one to three years in prison for falsely accusing William McCaffrey of a violent...

CHESAPEAKE "We couldn't be there when she died. But we can be there for her now." The priest's robes flutter in the frigid breeze as he moves quickly toward the Blessed Sacrament Chapel with the square-shaped urn. He holds the gold-colored box like a treasure he must protect, because for so long, no one did. Monsignor Michael McCarron calls her "Barbara." He knows only the sparest details of her life, mostly dates and addresses: She was born in Germany in 1897. She moved to the United States in 1955. She died in Tampa a decade ago at 103. They had...

Hello! My name is Father Jay Kythe. I am the pastor of the Church of St. Pius V in Cannon Falls and St. Joseph’s in Miesville. I wanted to tell you a little about myself. I was born in 1969 in New Orleans to parents from India. They arrived two years before I was born, desiring a better life for their family. My father came to become a professor of mathematics at the University of New Orleans, and my mother is a stay-at-home mom. I have one older brother, who is now married and lives near Los Angeles. They wanted...

In An Evening with an Exorcist, Fr. Thomas Euteneuer explains the anatomy of an exorcism. As a practicing exorcist, he discusses how a person may become possessed and what goes on during an exorcism. He also explains the connection between abortion and demonic possession, from the abortion demon's invitation into the US with the Supreme Court's passing of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the ritualized sacrifice of unborn children that goes on in Planned Parenthood "clinics" today. Exorcism is "Christ's victory over the devil" and "the vocation of the Church Militant." Listen as Rev. Euteneuer strengthens your faith and...

Fr. Bill Fournier stands outside Sacred Heart Church in Wasilla. — Anchor photo Volunteer work brings chaplain face-to-face with human tragedyBy EFFIE CALDAROLACatholicanchor.orgA body is found along a lonely stretch of the Parks Highway at four in the morning. A man discovers his wife at home, who had just committed suicide. A woman, holding a gun threateningly, is shot dead by Alaska State Troopers.Who do you call when tragedy strikes? In each of these cases, along with the Alaska State Troopers, Father Bill Fournier responded in his new volunteer capacity as a chaplain serving with the troopers.“We get called mostly...

Those violent radical Christians are perpetrating hate crimes and murders again against peace loving muslims. Actually, it's the other way around. Colleague of Christian Orthodox priest assassinated by Muslims is beaten within an inch of his life. Read the rest at the link.

An Islamist militant group based in Russia's North Caucases has claimed the killing last month of an Orthodox priest who was an outspoken critic of Islam. "One of our brothers who has never been to the Caucases took up the oath of (former independent Chechen president Doku Umarov) and expressed his desire to execute the damned Sysoyev," said a statement on the Kavkazcenter.com website. Daniil Sysoyev, 35, was killed on November 20 when masked gunman walked into Saint Thomas's church in southern Moscow and shot him four times. Doku Umarov emerged as the leader of the remaining active rebel movements...

A clergyman has been criticised as 'highly irresponsible' after advising his congregation to shoplift following his Nativity sermon. Father Tim Jones, 41, broke off from his traditional annual sermon yesterday to tell his flock that stealing from large chains is sometimes the best option for vulnerable people. It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to 'prostitution, mugging or burglary', he said. The married father-of-two insisted his unusual advice did not break the Bible commandment 'Thou shalt not steal' - because God's love for the poor Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1237470/Priest-advises-congregation-shoplift.html#ixzz0aMLEepVv

The victim says she was molested by a Catholic priest in South Berwick when she was a girl. A woman who says she was abused by a Catholic priest in South Berwick when she was 11 has reached a $200,000 settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, the woman's attorney told the Portland Press Herald. The woman says she was abused by the Rev. James Vallely in 1976, when she was an altar server at St. Michael's parish. Vallely died in 1997, and the diocese has previously listed him as one of nine deceased priests who had credible abuse...

Father John Lipscomb was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida. He converted to Catholicism in 2007, a few months after his retirement, and was ordained a priest this week. LUTZ — John Lipscomb, the married, 59-year-old former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, was ordained a Catholic priest Wednesday.The morning after, he expressed joy and a sense of relief. He’s at peace, spiritually. He’s just a priest now. He’s not the boss.“The part of the job that never fit was sitting in judgment of other people’s lives,” he said. “I’m at a point in my...

Christian Orthodox priest assassinated in Moscow for his missionary work among Muslim immigrants. More at the link