Police arrest 69 suspected members of Georgian-run mafia (CNN)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:17:13 GMT
Police across Europe arrested 69 suspected members of a Georgian-run mafia, including 24 in Spain, which was leading the investigation, a National Court spokeswoman told CNN Monday.
Abuse victim wants Irish cardinal to quit (BBC News)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:54:29 GMT
A sex abuse victim calls on the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, to resign over a disgraced cleric.
News Europe (Aljazeera)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:58:10 GMT
At least 60 suspected members of a Georgian mafia gang have been arrested in six European countries, Spanish court officials have said. Some 24 people were arrested on Monday in Spain, while the other arrests were carried out in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
Church sex abuse brings trouble to pope (CNN)
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:57:54 GMT
With allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests piling up in Germany and Ireland and surfacing in Austria and the Netherlands, Europe appears poised to face church abuse in the broad, wrenching way the United States did in the last decade.
Child abuse scandal reaches the Vatican (The Hindu)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:31:21 GMT
Growing anger in Germany. Austria over allegations Paris: Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church are facing acute embarrassment by repeated revelations of sexual abuse of children by homosexual priests whether in Ireland, Austria, Holland, the United States or Germany.
Europe's Catholic Churches face wave of abuse charges (CTV.ca)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:14:25 GMT
The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs, which nation will be touched next, and whether a tide of lawsuits will force European dioceses to declare bankruptcy like join their American cousins.
Austria's Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal widens with man saying he was abused by nun (Sun-Sentinel)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:46 GMT
VIENNA (AP) — A man says he was abused by a nun while a child — the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.
Man says he was abused by nun (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:10:05 GMT
A man says he was abused by a nun while a child — the first such accusation amid widening allegations of sexual misdeeds leveled against Austria's Roman Catholic church.
Austria: Clergy sex abusers fired (News 24 South Africa)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:05 GMT
Three ministers from a monastery in northern Austria have been dismissed after they were accused of sexually and physically abusing pupils in the 1980s.
Cases confirmed in Austria (Gulf Times)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:03:03 GMT
Cases of sexual and physical abuse by Catholic clergymen surfaced in Austria yesterday, as the boarding school of Mehrerau abbey confirmed anonymous accusations and a Salzburg abbot admitted to being a molester.
