Monsignor convicted of endangerment in groundbreaking trial about his mishandling of sex-abuse claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163378/Monsignor-convicted-endangerment-groundbreaking-trial-mishandling-sex-abuse-claims.html Facing seven years in jail on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child Acquitted on two other counts Jury deliberated for 13 days during the 10-week long trial Prosecutors argued he tried to cover up child sex abuse allegations By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 22 June 2012 | UPDATED: 15:22 […]

Jury sees photo of bloodied priest who man ‘beat up for raping him when he was seven’ – as video shows him saying he felt morally bound to attack him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162319/Will-Lynch-trial-Man-beat-priest-raping-seven-goes-trial.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:05 EST, 20 June 2012 | UPDATED: 20:23 EST, 20 June 2012 The jury weighing the case of a man who beat up a priest who had raped him nearly 30 years earlier saw the aftermath of the brutal assault – photos of the bloodied clergyman slumped in a […]

‘I could do anything with him that I wanted’: In his own chilling words, pedophile priest gives harrowing account of how he abused 17 young boys

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153224/Robert-Van-Handel-A-disturbing-look-mind-pedophile-priest.html By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:49 EST, 1 June 2012 Van Handel is accused of molesting at least 17 boys, including his own 5-year-old nephew The priest would fondle his singers under the guise of tickling games or back rubs during one-on-one choir rehearsals at the St Anthony’s […]

Missing girl ‘buried in murdered mobster’s tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties’, claims Catholic Church’s leading exorcist priest

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148071/Emanuela-Orlandi-Missing-girl-buried-mobsters-tomb-kidnapped-Vatican-sex-parties.html Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms Previously said yoga and Harry Potter are ‘the work of the Devil’ Emanuela Orlandi, 15, went missing in Rome in 1983 Gangster Enrico De Pedis’s tomb opened last week after TV show tip-off By Nick Pisa PUBLISHED: 06:32 EST, 22 May 2012 | […]

Vatican investigated 4,000 cases of child sex abuse in the last 10 years, U.S. cardinal reveals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097643/Vatican-investigated-4-000-cases-child-sex-abuse-10-years-U-S-cardinal-reveals.html By Nick Pisa Last updated at 4:14 PM on 7th February 2012 A senior Vatican cardinal has revealed how more than 4,000 cases of sex abuse by priests on children have been investigated during the last ten years. The shock figure was announced by American cardinal Joseph William Levada as he opened a conference […]