Posted on 08/14/2018 4:01:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug 14, 2018 / 02:27 pm (CNA).- A redacted grand jury report on clerical sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania’s Catholic dioceses was released Tuesday, following an 18-month investigation into thousands of alleged instances of abuse spanning several decades.
The report, detailing allegations made in the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Scranton, was released Aug.14. It reported on evidence of systematic abuse and cover-ups going back seven decades within these dioceses.
About half of Pennsylvania’s nearly 3 million Catholics live within these six dioceses.
The 884-page report was written by 23 grand jurors, who spent some 18 months investigating the six dioceses, examining half a million pages of documents in the process. The FBI assisted with the investigative process.
The report claims to have identified more than 1,000 victims of 300 credibly accused priests and presents a devastating portrait of efforts by Church authorities to, ignore, obscure, or cover up allegations - either to protect accused priests or to spare the Church scandal.
The report also identified a series of practices present in different ways across the dioceses which together amounted to a “playbook for concealing the truth.”
These include use of phrases like “boundary issues” or ”inappropriate contact” instead of explicitly referring to rape and sexual abuse, assigning priests to investigate their peers, instead of using qualified and objective personnel, and a reliance on psychological assessments and diagnoses based upon the self-reporting of clerics.
Due to laws regarding the statute of limitations, nearly every abuse allegation cannot be criminally prosecuted, although two indictments have been filed. So far, one priest, Fr. John Sweeney, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a student in the early 1990s.
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I was not surprised to hear that Wherl the Girl was named as a party to the cover up.
Many pedo priests have wrecked the Church’s reputation. Too bad, because an intact Christian it has been a bulwark against Islam.
Wife’s sister worked in an office with a former priest thirty years ago - he had left the priesthood to become a guidance counselor and used to say that when the public finally heard about the sexual corruption he had seen covered up while still in the collar it would “blow the top off” their respect for the Church - guess it’s finally happening.....
Watching that press conference by the PA DA was heartbreaking. I cried my eyes out for those poor children who suffered so.
The truth.
https://www.catholicleague.org/pa-grand-jury-report-based-on-accusations/
https://www.catholicleague.org/pennsylvania-chief-cops-war-on-church/
What I want to know is when will the media quit covering for predator homosexuals. In this story today they never mention the vast majority of the priests and laymen accused as creepy queers who should have been kicked out of the church years ago. The reason the media never tells you tbe offender is a fag is because they love homosexuality so they lie trying to make people believe all priests are sexual predators. The church does not have a sexual abuse scandal. Most priests are not queers. But most sex abuse cases involve queer priests and teenage boys. The church as a homosexual problem. Do not allow homosexuals in the seminaries. If one slips through the cracks and commits a credible crime kick him out of the church. Try kicking tbe known homosexual priest enablers out today, starting with Wuerl.
Cheer up, every perpetrator will be punished, every victim paid huge sums of money, every bishop disgraced, and many Christians deprived of their faith. You can smile for Mr. Shapiro, his career success is now set for life.
God does not have a statute of limitations.
Long time ago.
Not any more.
People who make excuses for the abomination that has happened in the Catholic church are just as guilty as those who perpetrated and covered it up.
It’s disgusting that there are some who call themselves Catholic who will never condemn the most heinous sin that occurs within the ranks of their clergy.
But God forbid that a divorced person wants to remarry.
All hell breaks loose over that. Can’t have people living in sin receiving communion can we?
But those living in far worse sin and hand communion out to those unsuspecting congregants who didn’t have a clue what those same hands had been doing the day before.
The hypocrisy must be a stench in the nostrils of God.
Please clarify...are you saying that priests sexually preying on adolescent and teenage boys is not "sexual abuse" and that it is not a "scandal" in the Catholic church?
“Most priests are not queers. ”
I’ve never seen a study that supports that claim.
What do you have?
I’m guessing more than half of the Roman priests are gay.
Say what??
You honestly cannot make this stuff up.
Not going to dignify your ridiculous assertion but percentage wise the Catholic Church has no more clergy sex abuse than Protestant faiths or the Jewish faith. But they have no church to go after, no type of hiearchy.
Here’s the 2004 Jay Report
81% of sexual abuse cases involved males. In otherwords male on male homosexual sex abuse. That is homosexuality!
4% of priests in the study over 52 years committed these crimes.
Here’s the report 2004 Jay Report.
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In the United States the 2004 John Jay Report, commissioned from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and funded by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), was based on volunteer surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. The 2004 John Jay Report was based on a study of 10,667 allegations against 4,392 priests accused of engaging in sexual abuse of a minor between 1950 and 2002.[145]
The surveys filtered provided information from diocesan files on each priest accused of sexual abuse and on each of the priest’s victims to the research team, in a format which did not disclose the names of the accused priests or the dioceses where they worked. The dioceses were encouraged to issue reports of their own based on the surveys that they had completed.
The report stated there were approximately 10,667 reported victims (younger than 18 years) of clergy sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002:
Around 81% of these victims were male.
Female victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests tended to be younger than the males. Data analyzed by John Jay researchers, shows that the number and proportion of sexual misconduct directed at girls under 8 years old was higher than that directed at boys the same age.[146]
22.6% were age 10 or younger, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 27% were between the ages to 15 to 17 years.[147][148][149]
A substantial number (almost 2000) of very young children were victimized by priests during this time period.
9,281 victim surveys had information about an investigation. In 6,696 (72%) cases, an investigation of the allegation was carried out. Of these, 4,570 (80%) were substantiated; 1,028 (18%) were unsubstantiated; 83 (1.5%) were found to be false. In 56 cases, priests were reported to deny the allegations.
More than 10 percent of these allegations were characterized as not substantiated because diocese or order could not determine whether the alleged abuse actually took place.
For approximately 20 percent of the allegations, the priest was deceased or inactive at the time of the receipt of the allegation and typically no investigation was conducted in these circumstances.
In 38.4% of allegations, the abuse is alleged to have occurred within a single year, in 21.8% the alleged abuse lasted more than a year but less than 2 years, in 28% between 2 and 4 years, in 10.2% between 5 and 9 years and, in under 1%, 10 or more years.
The 4,392 priests who were accused amount to approximately 4% of the 109,694 priests in active ministry during that time. Of these 4,392, approximately:
56 percent had one reported allegation against them; 27 percent had two or three allegations against them; nearly 14 percent had four to nine allegations against them; 3 percent (149 priests) had 10 or more allegations against them. These 149 priests were responsible for almost 3,000 victims, or 27 percent of the allegations.[147]
The allegations were substantiated for 1,872 priests and unsubstantiated for 824 priests. They were thought to be credible for 1,671 priests and not credible for 345 priests. 298 priests and deacons who had been completely exonerated are not included in the study.
50 percent were 35 years of age or younger at the time of the first instance of alleged abuse.[147]
Almost 70 percent were ordained before 1970.[147]
Fewer than 7 percent were reported to have themselves been victims of physical, sexual or emotional abuse as children. Although 19 percent had alcohol or substance abuse problems, 9 percent were reported to have been using drugs or alcohol during the instances of abuse.[147]
Many of the reported acts of sexual abuse involved fondling or unspecified abuse. There were allegations of forced acts of oral sex and intercourse. Detailed information on the nature of the abuse was not reported for 26.6% of the reported allegations. 27.3% of the allegations involved the cleric performing oral sex on the victim. 25.1% of the allegations involved penile penetration or attempted penetration.
Although there were reported acts of sexual abuse of minors in every year, the incidence of reported abuse increased by several orders of magnitude in the 1960s and 1970s. There was, for example, a more than sixfold increase in the number of reported acts of abuse of males aged 11 to 17 between the 1950s and the 1970s. After peaking in the 1970s, the number of incidents in the report decreased through the 1980s and 1990s even more sharply than the incidence rate had increased in the 1960s and 1970s. Contributing factors to the abuse are considered to be “poor screening and training of priests.”
According to a Newsweek article the rate of abuse by Catholic priests is no higher than the rate of abuse by the general male population in the United States.[150]
In Summary: The key to ending the vast majority of sex abuse cases in the Catholic Church is to quit allowing homosexuals in the priesthood. The media will never call it for what it is because the agree with the homosexual lifestyle and cover for them. They also hate Catholic Church and want to label all priests as sexual predators.
So it would seem you have no basis to think that less than 50% of Roman priests are homos?
You posted lots of things, but didn’t answer my question.
I’m guessing it is likely that more than 50% of priests are gay, based on all that has been published.
So do you have any evidence to quantify the number of gay priests?
Here’s what I found...
The John Jay Report suggested that “homosexual men entered the seminaries in noticeable numbers from the late 1970s through the 1980s”, and available figures for homosexual priests in the United States range from 15–58%.
One report suggested that since the mid-1980s Roman Catholic priests in the United States were dying from AIDS-related illnesses at a rate four times higher than that of the general population, with most of the cases contracted through same-sex relations, and the cause often concealed on their death certificates. A follow-up study the next year by the Kansas City Star found the AIDS-related death rate among priests was “more than six times” the rate among the general population in the 14 states studied.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_clergy_in_the_Catholic_Church
More...
“The notion that many Catholic priests are quietly gay is not new. In the 2000 book “The Changing Face of the Priesthood,” Rev. Donald B. Cozzens suggested that the priesthood was increasingly becoming a gay profession. Cozzens estimated that as much as 58 percent of priests were gay, and that percentages were even higher for younger priests. His numbers matched previous estimates by sociologists who put the numbers of gay priests between 10 and 60 percent.
was based on volunteer surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States
You don't suppose there were a massive amount of dioceses that didn't volunteer any information???
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