Italian priest, charged with abuse, commits suicide

CatholicCulture.org ^ | 10/29/14

[Dr. Thorne]

An Italian Catholic priest apparently committed suicide after being accused of sexual abuse.

Father Maks Suard reportedly admitted his guilt after being accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl; the incident occurred 17 years ago. The accused priest asked Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi of Trieste for time to compose a letter of apology, the Messaggero Veneto reported. He then hanged himself.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

The old Judas mistake. He tried to punish himself to hell for what he did.

As Catholics, we must accept the vitriolic comments by others when these things happen, in part because they are reacting to the original injustice in a natural way, and also because it is our Church, our people, the body of Christ, that are so not living with the joy of Christ that folks can think this common or at least not an aberration. From humiliation comes humility. We need it.

[plain talk]

" Where else would they get their data? Where did the data come from for ministers? For government school teachers?"

I don't know. You tell me. You posted it. I did not see that in the wiki article but perhaps I missed it. Did that data on ministers and teachers come from Catholic Bishops as well?

[Religion Moderator]

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

[Religion Moderator]

He did not gripe. There were no abuse reports filed against you.

I pulled your posts because you were attributing motives to him, which is a form of "making it personal" which is not tolerable on the Religion Forum. Your last post also was mind reading and therefore "making it personal."

Click on my profile page for all the Religion Forum guidelines.

[ThomasMore]

For the grand majority of abuse, its Ephebophilia and not pedophilia. The figures run as high as 85-93%.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Psychology Today said this about the report:

"The Catholic Church, as well as society in general, certainly must use the very best available research data, such as that provided in this new John Jay report"

Here's a link to part one, and part two.

Unfortunately, many people prefer to base their judgements on anecdotal media reports.

[plain talk]

Who cares what Psychology Today thinks? The Catholic Church’s own submitted data is quite damning. 4% priests accused of sexual abuse! Wow. And this is the data from the church itself which has a conflict of interest and a history of coverups.

But that is just the tip of the iceberg anyway. What about those priests that are not accused and get away with it? Sombering. Catholics can find no comfort in that report.