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13 Feb 2013

"An Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI" In the wake of the dramatic notice of Pope Benedict's decision to resign, artist, writer and clerical abuse campaigner Vinnie Nauheimer has written an open letter to the Pope. In it he pleads for the Pope to make good use of the last sixteen days of his pontificate to take actions to undo the wrongs that have been committed against so many victims around the world. [more]

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17 May 2012

Is this your Church? Artist, writer and clerical abuse campaigner Vinnie Nauheimer presents today a confronting piece in the form of a litany contrasting the shame of the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church against the consternation of the vocal laity. Like previous works by Vinnie we have featured on Catholica what he writes is part inspired by Dante Alighieri's, The Divine Comedy. [more]

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23 May 2011

Vinnie Nauheimer lets fly at the John Jay study into the causes of CSA The recently released study commissioned by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, described in short-hand as the John Jay Report, does not appear to have been receiving a good press. Vinnie Nauheimer, a US campaigner on the inadequate responses of the institution to clerical abuse, is another who is not impressed and today on Catholica lets fly with what he sees are the shortcomings in the study. [more]

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16 Oct 2010

The Silence of the Clergy: Why? We have featured the writing of Vinnie Nauheimer before on Catholica — way back in 2008. He returns today with what many are lauding as his most powerful commentary yet on the Scandal of Clerical Sexual Abuse. This commentary was originally published on Frank Douglas' "Voice from the Desert" blog and a link to that was posted earlier in the week on the Catholica Forum. We republish an unpdated version here courtesy of Vinnie. As an institution we need to start acknowledging our fallibility. Even bishops and popes are timid and fail in their responses to a crisis like the present one engulfing the institutional Church. [more]

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01 Sep 2008

An allegory… In a very different style to his first commentary for Catholica Vinnie Nauheimer's contribution today comes in the form of an allegory written around Dante Alighieri's 14th Century allegory of the Inferno of Hell that has so shaped our thinking from his classic work in literature, The Divine Comedy. [more]

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31 Aug 2008

A victim of clerical sexual abuse lays it on the line Vinnie Nauheimer has written extensively on the subject of clerical abuse. He has written two books on the subject of clergy abuse. One of poetry "Silent Screams" and one comprised of selected letters sent over an eight year period on the subject of clergy abuse called "Epistles on Clergy Abuse". His art, poetry and writing can be found on websites around the world. Though no institution issues a degree in Clerical Abuse, Mr Nauheimer successfully survived advanced classes from the School of Intimidation and Slander sponsored by the NY Archdiocese. Both his and his family's degree of pain were acknowledged by a Grand Jury probing the issue of clergy abuse. He says his goals are the same as those stated by Pope Benedict XVI in Australia on July 19, 2008: "Victims should receive compassion and care, and those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice." [more]