Report details sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Meltdown99 said:
    ‘Father, please stop’: Parents horrified when priest shames teen suicide victim at funeral
    https://www.ohio.com/zz/news/20181215/father-please-stop-parents-horrified-when-priest-shames-teen-suicide-victim-at-funeral

    These priests are wonderful humans...

    Such a stupid industry: sell dreams.

    The dream was such a big ticket item back in the day when human beings believed anything given they had no great capacity to think and were subjected to systematic brainwashing efforts when most impressionable- as a child.

    Fortunately, people began to question the sheer absurdity of it all and evolved. Well... not all... but give us time. Eventually, people will understand there is no omnipresent lord floating in the clouds looking down at the earth as the center of the universe and residing over 8 billion people. I mean... what type of staff is necessary to hear all those prayers being uttered concurrently? And how do you see all 8 billion people's actions? And how does heaven manage all those souls? Where the hell is heaven? 
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    https://twitter.com/connie_walker/status/1075393023683452933?s=21
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Toronto pastor arrested, charged with sexual assault of teen girl: police

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4781436/toronto-pastor-sexual-assault/?utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=GlobalToronto&fbclid=IwAR3Y8I5MK2YeWIxAWwXhK-nHxneMWStQpDNrefF468MgsgwLsohYMJrOm4o

    I am just going to post this here.  We can post all the perv religious freaks here.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,317
    edited December 2018
    Movie on Showtime. Caught the last 30 min or so. Called Spotlight. Came out in 2016. Details the development of the abuse story originating in Boston in 2001 for publication in the Boston Globe in 2002. This started a worldwide reporting of abuse which continues to this day.

    Its my belief that the abuse continues, even now some 16 years after the story broke wide open......
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Priest sentenced for screwing young boys (one over 20 times):

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-ex-priest-sentenced-to-up-to-14-years-in-prison-for-child-sex-abuse/ar-BBS8K8W?ocid=spartanntp

    The number of accusations is staggering. I distinctly remember a devout Catholic on this forum questioning a Muslim on this forum asking of Islam, "What is this? A religion of sex?"

    Lol. Really?
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Well if this ain’t a sign I have no idea what would be a sign:

    https://twitter.com/thereal_andymac/status/1089334171447762944?s=21
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739

    Give Peas A Chance…
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,810
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Priest sentenced for screwing young boys (one over 20 times):

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-ex-priest-sentenced-to-up-to-14-years-in-prison-for-child-sex-abuse/ar-BBS8K8W?ocid=spartanntp

    The number of accusations is staggering. I distinctly remember a devout Catholic on this forum questioning a Muslim on this forum asking of Islam, "What is this? A religion of sex?"

    Lol. Really?
    No shit. Catholics should be up in arms or they own this shit too.

    Doesn’t make Islam awesome though. ;)
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Another priest who went on the lam (fleeing the US) after being accused.

    Selling dreams and kickin' ass. Anyone surprised?

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/priest-accused-of-sexually-abusing-child-flees-us/ar-BBUnYWI?ocid=spartanntp
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Former pope blames the '60s for sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47898562

    Nope, it's not the Church's fault, not the priests' fault; it's that damn '60s sexual liberation. 
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    At this point, you'd need to be just waking up from a 50-year drug-induced coma not to know what the Catholic Church is all about...I wanna know what the fuck is the matter with people, why do they attend services to this corrupt mafia religion, put money in the collection plate...time for people to leave that church.  There are plenty of great churches people can attend without wondering if the priest is a child rapist.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,317
     wow.....

    Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen
    By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
    34 mins ago

    BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in 1974, court records show.

    McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, according to documents filed in the Dedham District Court on Wednesday.

    He's the first cardinal in the U.S. to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for church sexual abuse victims who is representing the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick.

    "It takes an enormous amount of courage for a sexual abuse victim to report having been sexually abused to investigators and proceed through the criminal process," Garabedian said in an email. “Let the facts be presented, the law applied, and a fair verdict rendered.”

    Barry Coburn, an attorney for McCarrick, told The Associated Press that they “look forward to addressing the case in the courtroom," and declined further comment.

    The charges against McCarrick were first reported by The Boston Globe on Thursday.



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  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    edited July 2021
    mickeyrat said:
     wow.....

    Ex-Cardinal McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teen
    By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
    34 mins ago

    BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in 1974, court records show.

    McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, according to documents filed in the Dedham District Court on Wednesday.

    He's the first cardinal in the U.S. to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor, according to Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for church sexual abuse victims who is representing the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick.

    "It takes an enormous amount of courage for a sexual abuse victim to report having been sexually abused to investigators and proceed through the criminal process," Garabedian said in an email. “Let the facts be presented, the law applied, and a fair verdict rendered.”

    Barry Coburn, an attorney for McCarrick, told The Associated Press that they “look forward to addressing the case in the courtroom," and declined further comment.

    The charges against McCarrick were first reported by The Boston Globe on Thursday.



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    This is unbelievable.  This religion needs dissolved because they all hid it, they all knew

    makes me sick to my stomach- below from the article 

    Before leaving the room, McCarrick told him to “say three Our Fathers and a Hail Mary or it was one Our Father and three Hail Marys, so God can redeem you of your sins,” according to the report.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,317
    but wait, theres more......


     
    Portugal church sex abuse study: victims may number 4,800
    By BARRY HATTON
    1 hour ago

    LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have already come forward with their stories, an expert panel looking into historic abuse in the church said Monday.

    Senior Portuguese church officials had previously claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.

    Senior clergymen sat in the front row of the auditorium where panel members read out some of the harrowing accounts of alleged abuse included in their final report. There were vivid and shocking descriptions.

    The Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church, set up by Portuguese bishops just over a year ago, looked into alleged cases from 1950 onward. Portuguese bishops are due to discuss the report at an extraordinary meeting on March 3.

    The statute of limitations has expired on most of the alleged cases. Only 25 allegations were passed to prosecutors, the panel said.

    The report, criticized by some as long overdue, came four years after Pope Francis gathered church leaders from around the world at the Vatican to address the sex abuse crisis in the church.

    That meeting was held more than 30 years after the scandal first erupted in Ireland and Australia and 20 years after it hit the United States.

    Bishops and other Catholic superiors in many parts of Europe at the time continued to deny that clergy sex abuse existed or insisted on giving little weight to the problem.

    The head of the Portuguese Bishops Conference, Bishop José Ornelas, asked the victims for forgiveness and apologized for the church having failed to grasp the scale of the problem.

    Child sex abuse is a “heinous crime,” Ornelas said in a statement he read out later Monday, adding: “It is an open wound which pains and embarrasses us.”

    The panel regretted that the Vatican had taken so long to grant access to church archives. Permission came only in October, giving the panel just three months to go through written evidence of abuse.

    Pedro Strecht, a psychiatrist who headed the panel in Portugal, said it estimates the true number of victims during the period under study as being at least at 4,815. That extrapolation was made on potential other victims mentioned by those victims who came forward.

    The panel is not publishing the names of the victims, the identities of the alleged abusers, or the places the abuses allegedly happened. However, it is to send to bishops by the end of the month a list of alleged abusers who are still active in the church.

    The final report includes a separate — and confidential — annex of all the names of church members reported to the committee that is being sent to the Portuguese Bishops Conference and to the police.

    The Portuguese church hasn’t said whether it intends to pay compensation to any victims.

    The six-person committee included psychiatrists, a former Supreme Court judge and a social worker.

    The report said that 77% of the abusers were priests, with other perpetrators being linked to church institutions. It added that 77% of victims didn’t report the abuse to church officials and only 4% went to the police. Most of the abuse took place when the victims were in early adolescence.

    It said 48% of those who came forward had spoken about the abuse for the first time. Most of the alleged victims were male, though 47% were female, the report said.

    It said there were places in Portugal, such as some seminaries and religious institutions, that were “real blackspots” for abuse.

    Information about child sex abuse found in ecclesiastical records should be regarded as “the tip of the iceberg,” the report said.

    Those records frequently do not refer directly to abuse, even when discussing it, and many incidents appear to have been dealt with informally, the panel said.

    The panel recommended that the statute of limitations on such crimes be extended to at least 30 years from the current 23 years.


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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,317
    will put this here even though bsa isnt catholic ....

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  • mickeyrat
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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    There's no way this is a problem at the Boy Scouts or the Catholic Church. Otherwise all the "save the children" people would be all over it. Right? Right?
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  • mickeyrat
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,542
    All organized religion is corrupt and Catholic being the worst of sexual violations against the vulnerable children and I don’t get why any caring parent would leave their children in the care of any clergy! 
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,394
    New Orleans is no surprise...

    Emails detail Saints' aid to archdiocese in scandal


    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43676192/emails-detail-saints-assistance-new-orleans-archdiocese-sexual-abuse-scandal

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