Irish Republic Attacks the Church

Editor: in those Leonine Prayers we say after the Immemorial Low Mass, we pray for the "liberty and exultation of Holy Mother the Church". We should be praying extra hard for that as the Irish Republic continues to attack those rights.

Ireland attacks confessional secrecy after Catholic sex abuse scandal

Ireland’s prime minister has said Catholic clerics would be prosecuted if they failed to tell the authorities about crimes disclosed during confession, the latest blow to the prestige of the once-dominant Church. A report this week found that the Church concealed from the authorities the sexual abuse of children by priests as recently as 2009, and that clerics appeared to follow Church law rather than Irish guidelines to protect minors.

“The law of the land should not be stopped by a crozier or a collar,” Prime Minister Enda Kenny told journalists on Thursday, referring to the hooked staff held by Catholic bishops during religious services. Kenny said his government would submit legislation to parliament that could jail clerics for up to five years if they failed to report to authorities information about the abuse of children.

The law will override the confessional privilege in Church law that prevents clerics from sharing information, he said. A series of revelations of rape and beatings by members of religious orders and the priesthood in the past have shattered the dominant role of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

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Ruined: The Abuse Commission Is an Abuser Itself

Msgr Leo Maximilian Maschek

The Austrian Bishops recognize  liars and priest-slanderers as victims and pay them large sums.

(kreuz.net) The State Prosecutor of Vienna has filed an absurd charge against Msgr Leo Maximilian Maschek, Baron of Maasburg and arranged for a hearing.

The clergyman is the National Director of the Papal 'Missionwerke' in Austria.

An anonymous and psychologically damaged liar (45) has assigned "sexual assault".

The anti-Catholic news 'Standard' has eagerly taken up the slander.

Msgr Maasburg has rejected these absurd allegations in a video message.

The State Prosecutor now explains that "the facts of the case of sexual assault have not been objectively filled."

The Abuse Commission is Compensating the Slanderer

The Hammer: The Diocesan approved Abuse Commission has recognized the slanderer as a "victim" an paid her 10.000 Euro.

There are persons in the Commission who are accused of abuse.

On March 3rd 2011, the Commission wrote of the liar that she is a "recognized victim":

"The Curatorship and the Board of the Protection of Victims of the Catholic Church in Austria most regretably insists that you were a victim of an associate of the Catholic Church" -- wrote the Scandal-Commission of the deceiver.

Why did the Commission React?

Eugen Reichsgraf Waldstein-Wartenberg, the speaker for Msgr Maasburg, has greeted the decision of the State Prosector:

"The serious and reputation damaging accusations being promoted by the media in the past few days, which we steadfastly reject, have emerged as expected as completely baseless."

This recalls an earlier ecclesiastical investigation of slander against Count Waldstein.

At that time, the Holy See was of the opinion, "that this complaint has no foundation whatsoever."


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Sex Abuse Rocks Lutheran Church in Germany

Editor: Last year, the world's first female Lutheran Bishop, Maria Jepsen, was forced to resign under suspicion that she had covered up abuse. The case received almost no coverage in the English speaking press at all

North Elba Lutheran Church struggles with accusations of covering up a serious case of sexual abuse.


Ahrensburg (kath.net/idea) In connection with the most serious case of sexual abuse in the North Elba Church, Heidi Emse the former Provost is defending herself against accusations that she had covered it up. She became aware of occurrences in the Church Community of Ahrensburg near Hamburg in 1999. From the seventies to the eighties, former Pastor Gert-Dietrich Kohl (73) had admitted to committing the crime in the meantime against 22 children and adolescents, among whom were three of his five stepsons. The crimes have passed the statute of limitations.

The president of the North Elba Church, Bishop Gerhard Ulrich (Schleswig)conceded a lapse in supervision, actually the church leadership followed the direction of their consultants, to introduce disciplinary action against Emse. This will now make certain that things will in no way be veiled. In retrospect they are viewing this solely as negligence, that the procedure had not been properly documented. They had been informed by the church office by telephone in 1999 about the suspicion before her time in office about the child abuse. Kohl was then reassigned. She's explained that it was dealt with administratively. A year later she learned that he was working in juvenile law enforcement. Thereupon she applied to the church office. Then Kohl was put on early retirement. Taking this into consideration, the Ahrensburger Church Board had expressed confusion about the decision of the Church leadership being directed against Emse. This could have been done with greater clarity.

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