Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Catholic Church, birth control and the poor...

Authorities in Philadelphia in the United States announced Saturday that no full autopsy would be performed on Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, a key witness in a Catholic Church sex abuse trial who died on Jan. 31. It is an affair that Asia’s 120.9 million Catholics should take careful note of.

The late Catholic leader is one of scores of top church officials who have been ensnared in a decades-long sex scandal so vast that it is almost unimaginable, stretching across at least 27 countries including the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand in Asia as well as Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Norway and the United States.

 Bevilacqua, the retired Archbishop of Philadelphia, died at age 88 the day after a judge ruled that he was competent to testify in an upcoming sex abuse trial involving priests as well as a Catholic school teacher. His sudden death has raised questions on the part of critics that Bevilacqua might have taken his own life and thus the vain call for the autopsy although he appears to have been suffering from cancer and dementia. Full story...

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