NCR rapporterar idag om Katolska kyrkans oförmåga och/eller ovilja att ingripa mot en präst i Kansas City som arresterades i maj i år för innehav av barnpornografi. Det finns också misstankar om att denne åtminstone gjort sig skyldig till sexuellt ofredande av barn.
”Hiring former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves to investigate how the diocese handles cases of sexual misconduct was part of Bishop Robert Finn’s response to questions that he had mishandled the case of Fr. Shawn Ratigan, a local pastor arrested in May for possession of child pornography.
The Graves report states that Finn, who first became aware of concerns about Ratigan in December, ”had not determined a ’breaking point’ at which he would remove Fr. Ratigan from ministry or take other more serious action.”
Jag tycker att det är upprörande att katolska ledare fortfarande är så handfallna och senfärdiga när det gäller att stoppa präster som begår sexuella övergrepp mot barn, medan man agerar raskt och hårt mot präster som t.ex. uttalar sig för kvinnors möjlighet att få sin prästkallelse prövad.
http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/report-kc-diocese-jeopardized-safety-children
http://www.diocese-kcsj.org/_docs/8-31-11_Report_of_Independent_Investigation.pdf
/Anneli Magnusson
Fler saker är på gång med anledning av katolska prästers övergrepp och katolska ledares oförmåga/ovilja att ta tag i dem.
Vatikanens svar på den irländske premiärministern Enda Kennys kritik mot RKK, med anledning av Cloynerapporten väntas snart. Vatican Insider, La Stampa ger bakgrunden.
”The 421-page Cloyne Report revealed that 19 priests gravely abused 40 children between 1996 and 2009, in the diocese headed by Bishop John Magee, the former secretary to three popes: Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II. It accused the bishop of grave negligence for failing to give attention to the abuse problem in his diocese.
The Report’s findings dismayed and angered Catholics not only in the southern diocese, but throughout the country. They had already been shocked by the horrible revelations of three earlier similar reports – Ferns (2005), Ryan (2009), and Murphy (2009), but many had begun to believe that the Church was sincerely trying to come to terms with this problem under Benedict XVI. The Cloyne report torpedoed that trust, and left many feeling angry and betrayed.
Speaking during the parliamentary debate, Ireland’s Catholic Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, drawing on that sense of anger and betrayal, attacked the Vatican.”
Vad Vatikanen svarar vet förstås ingen ännu men artikeln avslutas med spekulationer om vad det kan innehålla och förväntningarna är att man försöker blidka premiärministern och
inte minst irländarna var förtroende för Katolska kyrkan aldrig varit lägre.
”The Vatican is expected to explain and clarify this intervention in its response to the Government, and also to give assurances, as requested by the Prime Minister, that the Church in Ireland will abide by the law of the land in all matters concerning the safety and welfare of children including – in the words of the Irish leader – “the obligations to report all cases of suspected abuse, whether current or historical, to the State’s authorities”.
The Vatican, in the best traditions of its diplomacy, is expected to provide a positive, respectful and substantial response to the questions and charges raised by the Government. Nevertheless, it faces an uphill struggle to get its message across and accepted by Irish public opinion in general, particularly in a culture where today trust in the Catholic Church is at an all time low, because of the child abuse by priests’ scandal.”
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/7686/
/Anneli
Här är Vatikanens svar saxat från VIS:
THE HOLY SEE RESPONDS TO THE CLOYNE REPORT
VATICAN CITY, 3 SEP 2011 (VIS) – Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under secretary for Relations with States met this morning with Helena Keleher, charge d’affaires a.i. of the Embassy of Ireland to the Holy See, and consigned to her the ”Holy See’s Response to the Irish Government concerning the Cloyne Report”.
The Cloyne Report was published by the Commission of Investigation into the Diocese of Cloyne. Eamon Gilmore, Irish deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs and trade, in the course of a meeting on 14 July with Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, apostolic nuncio to Ireland, requested him to convey a copy of the report to the Holy See, together with the Irish Government’s views on the matters raised, to which the minister requested a response.
Recognising the seriousness of the crimes detailed in the report, which should never have happened within the Church of Jesus Christ, and wishing to respond to the Irish Government’s request, the Holy See, after carefully examining the Cloyne Report and considering the many issues raised, has sought to respond comprehensively.
A summary of the response is given below. The full English-language text is available here.
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http://press.catholica.va/news_services/bulletin/news/27974.php?index=27974&lang=en
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1. General remarks about the Cloyne Report
The Holy See has carefully examined the Cloyne Report, which has brought to light very serious and disturbing failings in the handling of accusations of sexual abuse of children and young people by clerics in the diocese of Cloyne.
The Holy See wishes to state at the outset its profound abhorrence for the crimes of sexual abuse which took place in that diocese and is sorry and ashamed for the terrible sufferings which the victims of abuse and their families have had to endure within the Church of Jesus Christ, a place where this should never happen. It is very concerned at the findings of the Commission concerning grave failures in the ecclesiastical governance of the diocese and the mishandling of allegations of abuse. It is particularly disturbing that these failures occurred despite the undertaking given by the bishops and religious superiors to apply the guidelines developed by the Church in Ireland to help ensure child protection and despite the Holy See’s norms and procedures relating to cases of sexual abuse. However, the approach taken by the Church in Ireland in recent times to the problem of child sexual abuse is benefiting from ongoing experience and proving more and more effective in preventing the recurrence of these crimes and in dealing with cases as they arise.
2. Issues raised by the Cloyne Report
The Holy See’s Response addresses in detail the various charges made against it, which seem to be based primarily on the Cloyne Report’s account and assessment of the letter addressed to the Irish bishops on 31 January 1997 by the then apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Luciano Storero, concerning the response of the Congregation for the Clergy to the document ”Child Sexual Abuse: Framework for a Church Response” (the Framework Document). The Commission of Inquiry asserts that this response gave comfort to those who dissented from the stated official Church policy and was unsupportive especially in relation to reporting to the civil authorities.
The Holy See wishes to state the following in relation to the response of the Congregation for the Clergy:
The Congregation described the Framework Document as a ”study document” on the basis of information provided by the Irish bishops, who described the text not as an official document of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, but, rather, as a ”report” of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Advisory Committee on Child Sexual Abuse by Priests and Religious, recommended ”to individual dioceses and congregations as a framework for addressing the issue of child sexual abuse”.
The Irish bishops never sought the ”recognitio” of the Holy See for the Framework Document, which, in accordance with canon 455 of the Code of Canon Law, would have been required only if they intended it to be a general decree of the conference binding on all its members. However, the lack of ”recognitio” itself did not preclude the application of the document’s guidelines, since individual bishops could adopt them without having to refer to the Holy See. This is, in fact, what generally happened in Ireland.
The Irish bishops consulted the congregation to resolve difficulties relating to some of the content of the Framework Document. The congregation offered advice to the bishops with a view to ensuring that the measures which they intended to apply would prove effective and unproblematic from a canonical perspective. For this reason, the congregation drew attention to the requirement that these measures should be in harmony with canonical procedures in order to avoid conflicts that could give rise to successful appeals in Church tribunals. The congregation did not reject the Framework Document. Rather, it wanted to ensure that the measures contained in the Framework Document would not undermine the bishops’ efforts to discipline those guilty of child abuse in the Church. At the same time, it is important to bear in mind the decision of the Holy See in 1994 to grant special provisions to the bishops of the United States to deal with child sexual abuse in the Church. These provisions were extended to the bishops of Ireland in 1996 to assist them to overcome difficulties that they were experiencing at that time (cf. part six of the response).
Meeting canonical requirements to ensure the correct administration of justice within the Church in no way precluded co-operation with the civil authorities. The Congregation for the Clergy did express reservations about mandatory reporting, but it did not forbid the Irish bishops from reporting accusations of child sexual abuse nor did it encourage them to flout Irish law. In this regard, the then prefect of the congregation, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, in his meeting with the Irish bishops at Rosses Point, County Sligo (Ireland), on 12 November 1998 unequivocally stated: ”I also wish to say with great clarity that the Church, especially through its pastors (bishops), should not in any way put an obstacle in the legitimate path of civil justice, when such is initiated by those who have such rights, while at the same time, she should move forward with her own canonical procedures, in truth, justice and charity towards all”. It should be noted that, at the time, not only the Church but also the Irish State was engaged in efforts to improve its own legislation on child sexual abuse. To this end, the Irish government organized an extensive consultation on mandatory reporting in 1996 and, after taking into account the reservations expressed by various professional groups and individuals in civil society – views broadly in line with those expressed by the congregation – it decided not to introduce mandatory reporting into the Irish legal system. Given that the Irish government of the day decided not to legislate on the matter, it is difficult to see how Archbishop Storero’s letter to the Irish bishops, which was issued subsequently, could possibly be construed as having somehow subverted Irish law or undermined the Irish State in its efforts to deal with the problem in question.
3. Issues raised by Irish political leaders
The Holy See wishes to state the following in relation to some of the reactions of Irish political leaders:
While the Holy See understands and shares the depth of public anger and frustration at the findings of the Cloyne Report, which found expression in the speech made by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, in Dail Eireann on 20 July 2011, it has significant reservations about some aspects of the speech. In particular, the accusation that the Holy See attempted ”to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago, not three decades ago” is unfounded. Indeed, when asked, a government spokesperson clarified that Mr Kenny was not referring to any specific incident.
In fact, accusations of interference by the Holy See are belied by the many reports cited as the basis for such criticisms. Those reports – lauded for their exhaustive investigation of sexual abuse and the way it was managed – contain no evidence that the Holy See meddled in the internal affairs of the Irish State or was involved in the day-to-day management of Irish dioceses or religious congregations with respect to sexual abuse issues. Indeed, what is impressive about these reports, and the vast information that they rely upon, is that there is no support for these accusations.
In this regard, the Holy See wishes to make it quite clear that it in no way hampered or sought to interfere in any inquiry into cases of child sexual abuse in the diocese of Cloyne. Furthermore, at no stage did the Holy See seek to interfere with Irish civil law or impede the civil authority in the exercise of its duties.
The Holy See would also point out that the text of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger quoted by Mr Kenny in his speech is taken from No. 39 of the ”Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian”, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 24 May 1990. This text is concerned neither with the manner in which the Church should behave within a democratic society nor with issues of child protection, as Mr Kenny’s use of the quotation would seem to imply, but with the theologian’s service to the Church community.
In his meeting with the apostolic nuncio, Eamon Gilmore deputy prime minister and minister for foreign affairs and trade, stated that ”among the most disturbing of the findings of the Cloyne report is that the Vatican authorities undermined the Irish Church’s own efforts to deal with clerical child sexual abuse by describing the framework document adopted by the bishops’ conference as a mere ’study document'”. As is made clear in the Holy See’s response this description was based on the explanations of its nature as provided by the Irish bishops and in the published text itself. In no way was it a dismissal of the serious efforts undertaken by the Irish bishops to address the scourge of child sexual abuse.
With regard to the motion passed in Dail Eireann on 20 July 2011, and by Seanad Eireann a week later, deploring ”the Vatican’s intervention which contributed to the undermining of the child protection framework and guidelines of the Irish State and the Irish bishops” the Holy See wishes to clarify that at no stage did it make any comment about the Irish State’s child protection measures, let alone seek to undermine them. The Holy See observes that there is no evidence cited anywhere in the Cloyne Report to support the claim that its supposed ”intervention” contributed to their ”undermining”. As for those of the Irish bishops, the response offers sufficient clarifications to show that these were in no way undermined by any intervention of the Holy See.
4. Concluding remarks
In its response, the Holy See offers a presentation of the Church’s approach to child protection, including the relevant canonical legislation, and refers to the Holy Father’s ”Letter to the Catholics of Ireland”, published on 19 March 2010, in which Pope Benedict indicates his expectation that the Irish bishops will co-operate with the civil authorities, to implement fully the norms of canon law and to ensure the full and impartial application of the child safety norms of the Church in Ireland.
The publication of the Cloyne Report marks a further stage in the long and difficult path of ascertaining the truth, of penance and purification, and of healing and renewal of the Church in Ireland. The Holy See does not consider itself extraneous to this process but shares in it in a spirit of solidarity and commitment.
In a spirit of humility, the Holy See, while rejecting unfounded accusations, welcomes all objective and helpful observations and suggestions to combat with determination the appalling crime of sexual abuse of minors. The Holy See wishes to state once again that it shares the deep concern and anxiety expressed by the Irish authorities, by Irish citizens in general and by the bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful of Ireland with regard to the criminal and sinful acts of sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy and religious. It also recognises the understandable anger, disappointment and sense of betrayal of those affected – particularly the victims and their families – by these vile and deplorable acts and by the way in which they were sometimes handled by Church authorities, and for all of this it wishes to reiterate its sorrow for what happened. It is confident that the measures which the Church has introduced in recent years at a universal level, as well as in Ireland, will prove more effective in preventing the recurrence of these acts and contribute to the healing of those who suffered abuse and to the restoration of mutual confidence and collaboration between Church and State authorities, which is essential for the effective combating of the scourge of abuse. Naturally, the Holy See is well aware that the painful situation to which the episodes of abuse have given rise cannot be resolved swiftly or easily, and that although much progress has been made, much remains to be done.
Since the early days of the Irish State and especially since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1929, the Holy See has always respected Ireland’s sovereignty, has maintained cordial and friendly relations with the country and its authorities, has frequently expressed its admiration for the exceptional contribution of Irish men and women to the Church’s mission and to the betterment of peoples throughout the world, and has been unfailing in its support of all efforts to promote peace on the island during the recent troubled decades. Consistent with this attitude, the Holy See wishes to reaffirm its commitment to constructive dialogue and co-operation with the Irish government, naturally on the basis of mutual respect, so that all institutions, whether public or private, religious or secular, may work together to ensure that the Church and, indeed, society in general will always be safe for children and young people.
OP/ VIS 20110903 (2360)
COMMENT OF FR. LOMBARDI ON RESPONSE TO CLOYNE REPORT
VATICAN CITY, 3 SEP 2011 (VIS) – Speaking on Vatican Radio today, Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. commented on the Holy See’s Response to the Irish Government concerning the Cloyne Report, which was issued this morning. ”The document”, he said, ”is clearly structured and seeks to give detailed and documented answers to all the questions raised, inserting them into a broader perspective”.
”The text of the document shows how the Holy See has given very serious and respectful consideration to the queries and criticism it has received, and has undertaken to answer them serenely and exhaustively, avoiding polemics even when giving clear answers to the accusations made”.
The Holy See hopes that its response ”will achieve the fundamental shared goal of contributing to rebuilding a climate of trust and co-operation with the Irish authorities, which is essential for an effective commitment on the part of the Church and society to guarantee the primary goal: protecting children and young people”.
OP/ VIS 20110903 (180)
David Quinn är kolumnist på The Irish Independent och brukar kommentera sådant som har med kyrkan att göra. I en intervju ger han sin syn på Vatikanens svar till irländska regeringen med anledning av Cloyne-rapporten. Han säger bl.a.
” To me the most important part of this document is the proper interpretation of a letter that was sent in 1997, via the office of the papal nuncio in Dublin , to the Bishops conveying the response of the Congregation for the Clergy …and it was a response to the Irish Bishops’ 1969 guidelines on the child protection issue. This it seems to me is the letter that has caused a lot of the anger directed specifically at the Vatican and brought about the accusation by the Irish government that the Vatican interfered in the law of the land. Now to me an objective reading of that letter says there’s only one possible passage in it that could be charged in that way and that is where there’s a reservation expressed by the Congregation of the Clergy about mandatory reporting. But there is no law in Ireland that requires mandatory reporting and in fact back in 1997 …that government considered mandatory reporting and decided not to go ahead with it…in other words the Vatican’s reservations about mandatory reporting was shared by the government. And indeed no subsequent Irish government has introduced mandatory reporting in all the years since 1997 and it is only now in the last month, post the Cloyne report coming out, that the government is finally getting around to some version of mandatory reporting. Therefore what law was the Vatican interfering with? The answer is, it wasn’t.”
http://www.radiovaticana.org/EN1/Articolo.asp?c=517766
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