Italian Catholic priests ‘filmed having casual sex at gay clubs’.
Another gay scandal has hit the Catholic Church in Italy after three priests were allegedly filmed having casual sex and visiting gay nightclubs.
Italian weekly news magazine Panorama said its undercover reporter filmed the three with the help of a gay accomplice (Posted July 22, 2010 on Panorama.it).
‘De nombreux cas de conversions d’églises étant actuellement dans l’actualité à Montréal, je vous propose ici de voir ce qui se fait sur le sujet ailleurs dans la province, soit dans les régions de la Capitale Nationale, Chaudières Appalaches, le Bas St-Laurent, la Mauricie Bois-Francs, l’Outaouais, l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, la Gaspésie, Lanaudière-Joliette, les Laurentides et enfin le Centre-du-Québec’ – Guillaume St-Jean sur le blog de Spacing Montreal.
July 16, 2010 on ABC Nightline with Dan Harris (‘Faith Matters’). Edwin F. Kagin’s official website can be found here.
The Devils
Ken Russell, USA, 1971, 111 min
The Devils was the KEN RUSSELL film version of the controversial play by John Whiting. The story, based on Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun, concerns controversial 17th century French priest Urbain Grandier, whose radical political and religious notions and profligate sex life earn him many enemies. When a group of nuns appears to have been « bewitched » by Grandier, his rivals feed on the resulting mass hysteria, using this incident as an excuse to have the priest arrested. Refusing to confess to being in league with Satan and to renounce his « heretical » views, Grandier undergoes appalling tortures, and is finally burned at the stake. Vanessa Redgrave co-stars as the head nun.
*WINNER: Best Director, Venice International Film Festival 1971.
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Présenté hier soir dans le cadre des ‘Évènements Spéciaux / Longs métrages : Entre la mort et le diable‘ du festival Fantasia (détails du film ici).
Le turbulent contexte social actuel a entraîné une montée de désenchantement vis-à-vis les institutions religieuses, en particulier l’Église catholique. Le cinéma de genre reflète cette désillusion avec force, ce qui nous a inspiré une section dédiée à l’abus de foi, l’horreur des idéologies et la corruption de la piété. Certains de ces films vont littéralement vous stupéfier.
Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors.
The Vatican today made the « attempted ordination » of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism.
The new rules, which have been sent to bishops around the world, apply equally to Catholic women who agree to a ceremony of ordination and to the bishop who conducts it. Both would be excommunicated. Since the Vatican does not accept that women can become priests, it does not recognize the outcome of any such ceremony.
The latest move, which appeared to bar and bolt the door to Catholic women priests, came at a time when the Church of England moved in the opposite direction, to a step closer to the ordination of female bishops.
The Vatican’s reclassification of attempted female ordination was part of a revision of a 2001 decree, the main purpose of which was to tighten up the rules on sex abuse by priests in reaction to the scandals that have been sweeping through the church since January. The most important change is to extend the period during which a clergyman can be tried by a church court from 10 to 20 years, dating from the 18th birthday of his victim.
The new rules introduce speedier procedures for dealing with the most urgent and serious cases; allowed for lay people to form part of church tribunals that judge such cases; put abuse of the mentally disabled on a level with that of minors, and introduced a new crime of pedophile pornography.
The pope’s spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, stressed that the changes applied solely to canon, or church, law. They had no bearing on whether suspected offenders should be reported to the civil authorities.
He said that issue had already been dealt with earlier this year in instructions making it clear to bishops that they must report cases promptly.
The Vatican was working on further instructions « so that the directives it issues on the subject of sexual abuse of minors, either by the clergy or institutions connected with the church, may be increasingly rigorous, coherent and effective, » he said.
John Hooper
The Gardian
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Sur le même sujet :
Le «délit grave» de l’ordination des femmes – Le Vatican suscite indignation et peine
Lisa-Marie Gervais, Le Devoir édition du 17 juillet 2010
