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Articles regarding the proposed new St. James Church

The following postings regarding the new St. James church are available on the Concerned Catholics of Boone County website at : 

http://www.boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/

 

Just click on the title below and your browser will open at the story on Concerned Catholics of Boone County.

 

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Priest abuse victims protest at Vatican

[Sunday, 7-10-2011] Victims from Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States held up banners saying "The Pope protects paedophile priests," "Church without abuse" and "Pope on trial."

"Enough is enough," said Bernie McDaid, victim and co-founder of Survivor's Voice, the US group behind the protest.

Click on the following for more details:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8100756/Priest-abuse-victims-protest-at-Vatican.html

New Irish report on Catholic child abuse blames Vatican

"That's the most horrifying aspect of this document. This is not a catalogue of failure from a different era. This is not about an Ireland of 50 years ago. This is about Ireland now," Fitzgerald said.

The report said [Cloyne Bishop John] Magee and his senior aide for handling complaints, Monsignor Denis O'Callaghan, were blind to the reality that their protection of accused priests meant that more children could suffer molestation. It noted that, in one case, O'Callaghan told police the name of an alleged victim -- but refused to provide the name of the priest.

report condemned Magee's oversight of abuse cases as incompetent and deceptive.

It said he took no hands-on interest in enacting the Irish church's child-protection policies until 2008; established a bogus committee for reviewing abuse cases that never met once after 1995; and produced widely differing written records on one priest's case -- one for diocesan officials that omitted the priest's face-to-face admission of abusing children, the other a more detailed account for Vatican eyes only.

And Irish government leaders and abuse-rights advocates said the Vatican itself bore heavy responsibility for encouraging coverups since 1996.

They and the investigators emphasized that Ireland's bishops formally agreed in 1995 to begin reporting suspected child-abuse cases to police in rules that became valid Jan. 1, 1996. The Irish church took that step after the first abuse victims went public with their lawsuits, a development that opened the floodgates for more than 13,000 such cases.

But a confidential January 1997 letter from the Vatican's diplomat in Ireland to the Irish bishops warned them that the Irish church's child-protection policies were invalid under Catholic canon law; those internal church laws must be respected foremost; and any accused priests were likely to have any punishments successfully appealed in Rome.

The letter's author, the late Archbishop Luciano Storero, then Pope John Paul II's ambassador to Ireland, dismissed the Irish policy as representing "a study document."

Click on the following for the complete story:  http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110713/ireland-report-catholic-child-abuse-110713/

Belvidere City Council “tables” St. James Church Zoning

The following slides were presented to the City Council of Belvidere last Tuesday evening.  Mr. Robert A. Casey delivered the negative response on behalf of neighbors and other residents. Mr. Casey was not allowed to use a projector so printed slides could only be supplied to the council members.

The Council voted to “table” the two zoning ordinances concerning St. James until St. James provides the court reporters transcript of the Planning/Zoning Commission session concerning St. James.

This posting is also available at:  http://www.boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/  More postings regarding St. James are available at that site.

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St. James Church zoning requests up for Belvidere approval tonight

Didn’t Father explain that the church is now just 850 capacity?

July 5th, 2011 at 06:17pmBetsy Lopez

St. James Church officials in Belvidere are pushing forward on plans to erect a new church near the current house of worship at 535 Caswell St. Initially, officials looked at moving the church to a parcel at Squaw Prairie and Town hall Road, but that idea was nixed early in the planning process.

Erecting a new church is a venture that’s budgeted to cost $5.5 million and fundraising efforts have been under way since late January. To date, the church has raised $650,000 in cash and $2.4 million has been pledged for the project and in order to get the go-ahead from the Rockford Diocese must raise $3 million in pledges and $1 million in cash, said the Rev. Brian Geary, the church’s pastor.

St. James officials hope that one day in the near future, the current church will be torn down and turn the land it sits on into a parking lot — but that idea is meeting resistance. In recent weeks, neighbors of the church have looked to Belvidere city officials to deny zoning requests for the expansion.

Tonight at 7 p.m. the Belvidere City Council will vote on whether to grant the church’s zoning requests, including a special use permit for the new structure. A new building could hold up to 1,000 parishioners, versus the current church which holds 300 to 350 people.

Check back to rrstar.com for more. Staff writer Betsy Lopez can be reached at blopez@rrstar.com or 815-544-3452 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 815-544-3452 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

This posting is also available at: http://www.boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/ More postings regarding St. James are available at that site.

New Website on St. James Church

I have posted numerous articles regarding St. James  Parish and the new church project.  For your convenience I have gathered the posting together into a new website available at:  http://www.boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/

Below is the a photocopy of the website’s banner.