Friday, March 26, 2010

Alleged abuse continued in Superior Diocese | Superior Telegram | Superior, Wisconsin

1974--That same year he took up residence at his mother’s home near Boulder Junction, Wisconsin,” the statement read. “He was never formally associated as a priest of the Diocese of Superior and was always the responsibility of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.”

Donald Marshall, now 45, said he was 13 or 14 when Murphy assaulted him at a reform school in the north-central Wisconsin town of Irma at the eastern end of the Superior Diocese. Murphy was serving as an unofficial assistant pastor in the area.

Another man wrote to former Superior Bishop Raphael Fliss in 2002 with claims Murphy molested him several times as a young, deaf altar boy in Boulder Junction, where Murphy lived until his death in 1998

The Catholic Diocese of Superior and the Archdiocese of Milwaukee attempted to quietly defrock Murphy in the 1990s, appealing to high-ranking Vatican officials, including those who are now Pope Benedict and his secretary of state, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, according to church documents.

Though the Vatican initially gave permission to proceed, it reversed itself after Murphy wrote to Ratzinger in January 1998, saying he was “now 72 years old [and] repentant of any past sins.”

Alleged abuse continued in Superior Diocese | Superior Telegram | Superior, Wisconsin

For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse - NYTimes.com

More witnesses to the Milwaukee child abuse case at the school for the deaf.  It appears that the Times will exchange blows/news articles with the Vatican until the Pope reacts to the pressure.  This is the fourth day in a row that the Times has a story about child abuse and the Catholic Church. 

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IDOT official: State leaning toward Belvidere Amtrak route - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

 

The Illinois Department of Transportation is “leaning toward the Belvidere route” for restored Amtrak service from Chicago through Rockford to Dubuque, Iowa, said George Weber, chief of IDOT’s bureau of railroads. An official announcement is expected soon.

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JP Morgan’s Japan Fund has NDK as one of its largest holdings.

The fund's top share holdings include Nihon Dempa Kogyo, a leading manufacturer of quartz electronic parts, and Daikokutenbussan, an operator of discount food stores.

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Pope May Be at Crossroads on Abuse, Forced to Reconcile Policy and Words - NYTimes.com

The article as a whole is a good summary of the events involved in the possible   scandal .

In an unsigned editorial on Thursday, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, criticized The[New York] Times for an article published Thursday on the abuse issue. The Italian editorial said that Benedict had always handled such cases with “transparency, purpose and severity,” and accused the news media of acting “with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost.”

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