Posted on 11/14/2018 4:51:14 PM PST by ebb tide
Six men filed a class action and racketeering lawsuit Tuesday against the Vatican and America’s Catholic bishops, arguing they were aware of but ignored evidence of rape and sexual abuse within the clergy.
The 80-page complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., asks a judge to order a personal apology from the church hierarchy to abuse victims, to demand a full public accounting of all cases dating back to 1940, and to compensate victims and create a medical monitoring fund to help in recovery.
The plaintiffs all say they were abused when they were children attending churches from Mississippi to Iowa, and California to Pennsylvania.
“Rather than safeguarding and protecting plaintiffs and class members — who were minor children at the time — defendants protected the abusive clergy, took extraordinary measures to conceal their wrongful conduct, moved them from parish to parish, without warning church members or the general public, thereby further facilitating their predatory practices,” the men say in their lawsuit.
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Ping
RICO.
And it ain’t “Enrico”, your altar boy.
I think you are right. Too many homosexual bishops and pederast clergy operated as a criminal syndicate.
They destroyed trust, and innocence, and faith, and lives. All to scratch an itch. That is a the millstone they will drag into judgment.
How are we to get our church back?
Sue them. RICO them. Bankrupt them.
I am dead serious.
Aren’t the U. S. Bishops discussing passing the guidelines for priests to also apply to all Bishops?
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