Catholics sent predator priest to remote village [View All]

Source: ap

MAKANKA, Sierra Leone – A rutted red dirt track leads to the "bar," a couple of homemade wood benches in the shade of an old tree dripping with wild mangoes. Within easy reach, there's a yellow plastic jerry can of the fiery palm wine the American priest loved.

A 40-year-old schoolteacher now charges that the Rev. James Tully gave the palm wine to teenage boys to make them more susceptible to his advances.

This faraway corner of West Africa — with no electricity or piped water — is where the Roman Catholic Church sent Tully, twice. The teacher told The Associated Press that Tully abused him and other boys repeatedly during his first stint in Sierra Leone, from 1979 to 1985. After a conviction in the U.S. for giving minors alcohol and groping them, the church sent Tully back to Sierra Leone for a second stint from 1994 to 1998.

Tully's story is an example of how the church transferred abusive priests from country to country, in a scandal now emerging worldwide. But it also shows the deep reluctance to come out against a Catholic priest in many parts of Africa.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100508/ap_on_re_af/af_sierra_leone_church_abuse

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add this:

Report: Austrian cardinal attacks former Vatican No. 2 over church abuse
VIENNA (AP) - Austria's cardinal has reportedly said the former Vatican No. 2 blocked an investigation into a sex abuse scandal that rocked the country's Catholic church 15 years ago.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn also accused Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the retired Vatican secretary of state, of causing "massive harm" to victims when he dismissed claims of clerical abuse as "petty gossip" on Easter Sunday.
Schoenborn's comments to a group of journalists are summarized by the Catholic news agency Kathpress.
Schoenborn said the pope - known then as Josef Ratzinger and head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - had immediately pushed for an investigative commission when abuse allegations against Groer arose. But he said others in the Vatican did not let this happen.

source: ap,
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/wires.php?id=3993889_austria-church-abuse-vatican-vienna-report-austrian-cardinal-attacks-former-vatican-no.-2-over-church-abuse

and you'll have a great cocktail for the vatican weekend.