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Articles, tagged with "parishioners", page 1


08th June 2009

Priests are Not Subject to Background Checks

Contemporary churchgoers have special concerns these days. With the number of disturbing cases of priests molesting children coming to light in recent years, the question is how to maintain the level of mutual trust traditionally enjoyed by preachers and ...

19th May 2009

More Casualties of a Forgone Background Check Surface Years Later

So, the State of Washington has outed another wolf in sheep's clothing: Father Pat O'Donnell. The good father admitted to molesting over 30 young boys during the course of more than 30 years. How did it come out? Two of his victims, now grown men, have co...

15th April 2009

Youth and activism: Youth Lead Fest, Mount Carmel Church, Mumbai

Bandra is quite the Goa of Mumbai. Be it its winding narrow roads, innumerable churches and even more chapels or just the overwhelming Catholic presence, the Queen of the suburbs does take you back to the land of sun and sand. The Mount Carmel parish, ...

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