Posted on 08/17/2018 4:58:44 PM PDT by buffyt
A new grand jury report says that internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania show that more than 300 "predator priests" have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
"We believe that the real number of children whose records were lost or who were afraid ever to come forward is in the thousands," the grand jury report says. "Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades. Monsignors, auxiliary bishops, bishops, archbishops, cardinals have mostly been protected; many, including some named in this report, have been promoted." The grand jury described the church's methods as "a playbook for concealing the truth" after FBI agents identified a series of practices they found in diocese files. The lengthy report, released Tuesday afternoon, investigates clergy sexual abuse dating to 1947 in six dioceses: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Does priest mean pedophile in Italian ?
Since the catholic church refuses to do anything about their numerous predator priests, it’s time for states to pass laws that prohibit priests from ever being alone with any children. I can’t believe that any catholic parent would ever leave their child in a position where that child could be alone with a priest. That is just gross negligence.
Pretty bad.
But the Catholic Church has weathered through worse.
The situation makes the truly faithful in it shine that much brighter.
OR a public school teacher.
Has the NEA ever come clean about their own coverups?
The Roman Catholic Church ought to consider that their policies had the practical effect of eliminating practicing heterosexuals from the Priesthood, while providing a safe haven for non-celibant homosexuals.
“The Silence of the Lambs”
Are Protestants concealing a Catholic-size sexual abuse scandal?
By KATHRYN JOYCE
June 20, 2017
Over the past five years, in fact, it has become increasingly clear—even to some conservative Christians—that fundamentalist churches face a widespread epidemic of sexual abuse and institutional denial that could ultimately involve more victims than the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church. In 2012, an investigation at Bob Jones University, known as the “fortress of fundamentalism,” revealed that the school had systematically covered up allegations of sexual assault and counseled victims to forgive their attackers. Sovereign Grace, a network of “neo-Calvinist” churches, has been facing multiple allegations of child molestation and sexual abuse. In 2014, a New Republic investigation found that school officials at Patrick Henry College, a popular destination for Christian homeschoolers, had routinely responded to rape and harassment claims by treating perpetrators with impunity, discouraging women from going to the police, and blaming them for dressing immodestly.
Allegations of sexual misconduct have also engulfed four of fundamentalism’s most venerated patriarchs. Doug Phillips, a prominent leader of the Christian homeschooling movement, was forced to step down in 2013 from his nationwide ministry, Vision Forum, after he was sued by a former nanny who claimed he groomed her as a teenager to be his “personal sex object.” The following year, Bill Gothard, founder of the influential Institute in Basic Life Principles, resigned amid more than 30 allegations of sexual harassment and molestation by former staffers, interns, and volunteers. In the first case to cross over into the cultural mainstream, Josh Dugger, the beloved eldest son of reality TV’s favorite fundamentalist family, fell into disgrace in 2015 with the revelation that he had molested five underage girls, including four of his sisters. And this July, the chief of another fundamentalist reality-TV clan, Toby Willis, is scheduled to stand trial on four counts of child rape.
Yeah, and they did it with a pompous, fake “holliness”. They should all be taken out and hung... And shot.
And it’s a lie. They did not include information that was in the original.
Read Bill Donohue’s take on it.
You can try and deflect with one article, and I wouldn’t deny that that other religions have had abuse issues, but within the catholic church it is systemic and goes all the way to the top. And now the PA AG’s office has a detailed account of how perverted and corrupt the catholic church is at all levels. If the other 49 AGs would do a similar investigation, the results would cause such outrage that the catholic church would cease to exist in America.
here is the Catholic League Bill Donohue’s reply.
https://www.catholicleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PA-GRAND-JURY-REPORT-DEBUNKED1.pdf
in case anyone is interested.
Meanwhile in Islam...
Although not as bad as what was done to those children, the damage that the Catholic Church has done to Christianity in the eyes of unbelievers is also great. How can "we" call on them to repent when "we" covered for "our own" perverts?
But the Catholic Church has weathered through worse.
The situation makes the truly faithful in it shine that much brighter.
Much worse?! How much worse can it get than this?! Predatory priests raping the most innocent. I can't believe any sane person would want to remain in a church that has become so perverted. What are catholics going to do when Frankie declares homosexuality to be God's will? It's coming. Look at the Episcopalians. They're already there. There is no future in the catholic church for normal people who don't want their children raped by their local priest. The catholic church is to religion what the Democratic Party is to politics. The sane people are leaving.
Let Priests Marry but not to each other
“Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them...”
Is this from the Grand Jury report?
The phrase “men of God” is completely unwarranted and inappropriate and in fact indicates a bias or prejudice that puts the objectivity of the report in question.
Is there any priest of a religion any where in any nation who is not a disgusting sexual assault creep. And I think that there are lots of married Protestant Priests who are doing a good job of teaching the main ideas of Protestant Christian ideals. Keep the faith. Christ is the King!
No need to be so defensive, just pointing out that as Christians we should humbly acknowledge corruption in every crevice of Christendom. And also letting you know that millions of people LIKE ME will not abandon Catholicism so your prediction is blatantly out of touch with reality. I worship happily in both Evangelical and Catholic contexts. (And sometimes Orthodox Christian at that!)
There’s a difference between wanting to address the sex abuse and bringing justice to the perpetrators, but it seems as though you have contempt for the Catholic Church as a whole.
The Catholic Church is well over a thousand years old...It’s never been perfect, and it’s been responsible for some pretty heinous things and it’s been through worse. And I don’t plan on neglecting it, and neither do the millions of others you predict will leave in droves.
In a similar vein: the United States government, the American culture at large, is guilty of numerous sins in the sight of God and man throughout its history — but I’m not going to neglect my US citizenship anytime soon either.
“Meanwhile in Islam...”
That’s what it’s about. Deflect from the Islamic and secular/satanic epidemics.
Not that there aren’t abusive priests, clergy, pastors etc...
The report is online. Everyone should read it. You will never view the Catholic Church the same again.
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