Catholic Priests continue to Rape Children

[Honeyman]

Well… when your clergy can’t marry it creates the ideal environment for gay people to do their thing.

Yeah. Sadly, the thing they do is young children.

Another clue that this is LL.

At first, I thought Bail Bonds was a second account for Paul Richards or someone else. This post has me leaning towards LL, though I’m not entirely convinced yet.

I'm with you, Chrock. It lost an argument with me on the sports board which LL never ventured to , and isn't commenting on the Flint board, which it always was on.

[Matt]

Well… when your clergy can’t marry it creates the ideal environment for gay people to do their thing.

Yeah. Sadly, the thing they do is young children.

Another clue that this is LL.

At first, I thought Bail Bonds was a second account for Paul Richards or someone else. This post has me leaning towards LL, though I’m not entirely convinced yet.

I'm with you, Chrock. It lost an argument with me on the sports board which LL never ventured to , and isn't commenting on the Flint board, which it always was on.

Maybe it has developed A(L)I.

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Well… when your clergy can’t marry it creates the ideal environment for gay people to do their thing.

Yeah. Sadly, the thing they do is young children.

Another clue that this is LL.

At first, I thought Bail Bonds was a second account for Paul Richards or someone else. This post has me leaning towards LL, though I’m not entirely convinced yet.

I'm with you, Chrock. It lost an argument with me on the sports board which LL never ventured to , and isn't commenting on the Flint board, which it always was on.

After so many times wouldn’t a change in tactics be warranted at some point?

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Sinklair disappears shortly before he arrived.

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Sinklair disappears shortly before he arrived.

[Honeyman]

Well… when your clergy can’t marry it creates the ideal environment for gay people to do their thing.

Yeah. Sadly, the thing they do is young children.

Another clue that this is LL.

At first, I thought Bail Bonds was a second account for Paul Richards or someone else. This post has me leaning towards LL, though I’m not entirely convinced yet.

I'm with you, Chrock. It lost an argument with me on the sports board which LL never ventured to , and isn't commenting on the Flint board, which it always was on.

After so many times wouldn’t a change in tactics be warranted at some point?

LL is too stupid for that, and this fool is even dumber. LL knew nothing about sports except the hate for trans athletes, and wouldn't have a clue who Max Crosby is. There are other things with the style of writing that are different.

I'm not ruling it out, just unsure.

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Or maybe you're a previous poster whom keeps coming back to troll.

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Or maybe you're a previous poster whom keeps coming back to troll.

I think you and your boys should move the discussion to a more private area to figure it out because right now you're just embarrassing yourself. Please smarten up.

His idea of fun is pouring gasoline in friends' ears.

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Or maybe you're a previous poster whom keeps coming back to troll.

I think you and your boys should move the discussion to a more private area to figure it out because right now you're just embarrassing yourself. Please smarten up.

His idea of fun is pouring gasoline in friends' ears.

I don't even know why him and his buddies jumped on my back. Disagreeing with someone is not cause for this type of behavior. Its very weird.

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1.5 billion and they ain't done yet...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic clergy. The settlement, which experts said was the highest single payout by a diocese, brings Los Angeles’s cumulative total in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.

The settlement was announced on Wednesday in a joint statement by lawyers for the plaintiffs and the archdiocese.

“I am sorry for every one of these incidents, from the bottom of my heart,” Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a statement. “My hope is that this settlement will provide some measure of healing for what these men and women have suffered.”

The settlement tops the previous high for a diocese, from 2007, when L.A. agreed to pay $660 million in lawsuits brought by 508 people, said Terence McKiernan, the president of BishopAccountability.org, a watchdog group that has tracked clergy abuse reports for decades.

“There are a lot more dominoes in California to come down,” he said, referring to other dioceses that have not reached settlements or protected themselves by filing for bankruptcy.

The agreement represents the near conclusion to decades of litigation against the archdiocese, with only a few suits remaining. Over the years, the archdiocese has sold off real estate, liquidated investments and taken out loans to cover the staggering costs of litigation.

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It seems that the problem of Child Raping within the Catholic Church is so bad, many dioceses have tried bankruptcy to avoid the court rulings...

More than two dozen U.S. dioceses, including two in U.S. overseas territories, have entered into bankruptcy proceedings, the vast majority in the past decade. Of those dioceses, 11 are in the midst of the proceedings as of February 2023, while 15 have completed the process.

Many dioceses have cited the high cost of settling abuse claims as a major factor in the decision to declare bankruptcy.

The dioceses currently in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings are Agaña (Guam), Buffalo, Camden, Harrisburg, New Orleans, Norwich, Rochester, Rockville Centre, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Santa Fe, and Syracuse.

The dioceses that have completed their bankruptcy proceedings are Davenport, Duluth, Fairbanks, Gallup, Great Falls-Billings, Helena, Milwaukee, New Ulm, Portland in Oregon, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Spokane, Stockton, Tucson, Wilmington, and Winona-Rochester.

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And for some reason, you keep bumping the Catholic priest thread because no one is taking your bait, and your anti-Catholic bigotry is getting the best of you.

Or there's a lot of abuse going on. Are you denying that the Catholic Church has a big problem? Are you as incensed as I am how the organization which racked up felonies protecting these rapists has only had one leader convicted and imprisoned?

I've set up an alert of google. Like the news that broke yesterday from Los Angeles, I will now be sure to let everyone here know of this threat. Thanks for the motivation.

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Just 2 days ago... I bolded a key phrase for Graham...

The sexual abuse of children by priests was blamed on survivors and there was “no effort made to deal with the perpetrators”, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has said.
The archbishop made his remarks on clerical abuse in an interview with a US conservative Catholic TV network.

Of the perpetrators of the abuse, he said: “Sometimes they were left in situ, sometimes they were moved around, because there was maybe a thinking the problem was the person they were involved with rather than with the actual perpetrators,” he said.

“So if you moved them somewhere else that’ll deal with the problem. They were putting the blame on the survivor,” he said.

He said there was “a culture of denial, a culture of covering up, a culture of silencing, ignoring. Nobody would accept it. The other thing, it was endemic in society”.

Archbishop Farrell was speaking in a report on the US conservative Catholic EWTN (Eternal World Television Network), titled Survivors of Sexual Abuse Speak Out in Ireland. The report included an interview with Blackrock abuse survivor David Ryan.

Archbishop Farrell told reporter Colm Flynn that clerical child sex abuse “was known at all levels [in the church]”.

“Yes, I think that in the case of priests, some of their colleagues knew about it, were aware, at least suspicious that something wasn’t right. Certainly, we know bishops knew about it, because they were the people who moved somebody from A to B. There was a fortress mentality, protect the church first, people closed ranks, and there were serial perpetrators.”

He agreed that [for clergy] the accountability bar was higher. “Absolutely. You’ve high moral values, there’s the integrity, there’s the hypocrisy, so all of those things come into play. There is a higher standard expected of the ministers of the Catholic Church.”

Where the church in general was concerned “we’ve got to face up to it as all the baptised, listening to the stories, understanding the stories, accepting the truth of those stories,” he said.

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Yet another multi-million dollar settlement from the Catholic Church yesterday.

CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 13:30 pm

The Diocese of Rockville Centre on Wednesday said a bankruptcy court had approved its record abuse settlement of $323 million, which officials said will bring “some measure of healing to survivors” of clergy abuse.

The New York diocese announced in September that it had reached the massive settlement for abuse victims after a four-year-long process that included an earlier offer that the survivors had rejected.

On Wednesday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn approved the settlement, greenlighting the payout that includes contributions from insurers and diocesan churches.

The Rockville Centre Diocese said in a statement that it was “grateful to God” for the approval.

“For the sake of abuse survivors and the Church’s mission on Long Island, we pray that the plan brings some measure of healing to survivors and allows the Church to carry on the saving mission of Jesus Christ,” the statement said.

“Victim survivors of child abuse deserve our respect, our prayers, and our pastoral support,” they added. “The Church is grateful for their courage and perseverance.”

On Wednesday Glenn acknowledged that “money alone cannot make up for the trauma that so many have lived with for so many years.”

And another criminal case:

A retired Roman Catholic priest who was indicted last year in Louisiana on charges related to the sexual assault of a teenage boy in the 1970s pleaded guilty to the crimes on Tuesday, his lawyer said, just before jury selection for the trial was set to begin.

The retired priest, Lawrence Hecker, 93, pleaded guilty to state charges of first-degree rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature, and theft over $500, said his lawyer, Bobby Hjortsberg. The charges came after allegations surfaced last year that the Archdiocese of New Orleans had known about accusations against Mr. Hecker for decades.

“Him ultimately taking responsibility for it was the right thing to do, and the necessary thing to do at this point,” Mr. Hjortsberg said. “I hope everybody involved can move forward in whatever way is best for them.”

[GrahamWellington]

Yet another multi-million dollar settlement from the Catholic Church yesterday.

CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 13:30 pm

The Diocese of Rockville Centre on Wednesday said a bankruptcy court had approved its record abuse settlement of $323 million, which officials said will bring “some measure of healing to survivors” of clergy abuse.

The New York diocese announced in September that it had reached the massive settlement for abuse victims after a four-year-long process that included an earlier offer that the survivors had rejected.

On Wednesday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn approved the settlement, greenlighting the payout that includes contributions from insurers and diocesan churches.

The Rockville Centre Diocese said in a statement that it was “grateful to God” for the approval.

“For the sake of abuse survivors and the Church’s mission on Long Island, we pray that the plan brings some measure of healing to survivors and allows the Church to carry on the saving mission of Jesus Christ,” the statement said.

“Victim survivors of child abuse deserve our respect, our prayers, and our pastoral support,” they added. “The Church is grateful for their courage and perseverance.”

On Wednesday Glenn acknowledged that “money alone cannot make up for the trauma that so many have lived with for so many years.”

And another criminal case:

A retired Roman Catholic priest who was indicted last year in Louisiana on charges related to the sexual assault of a teenage boy in the 1970s pleaded guilty to the crimes on Tuesday, his lawyer said, just before jury selection for the trial was set to begin.

The retired priest, Lawrence Hecker, 93, pleaded guilty to state charges of first-degree rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature, and theft over $500, said his lawyer, Bobby Hjortsberg. The charges came after allegations surfaced last year that the Archdiocese of New Orleans had known about accusations against Mr. Hecker for decades.

“Him ultimately taking responsibility for it was the right thing to do, and the necessary thing to do at this point,” Mr. Hjortsberg said. “I hope everybody involved can move forward in whatever way is best for them.”

Good, they are reconciling for terrible abuse that happened decades ago.

Meanwhile, abuse continues to happen regularly in public schools in Michigan and across the country. What is being done to address it? How is the government settling up with the victims of their schools?