Systemic Abuse in Catholic Organisation-Church

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Somewhat related.
EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Church spent $2M on major N.Y. lobbying firms to block child-sex law reform - NY Daily News
EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Church spent $2M on major N.Y. lobbying firms to block child-sex law reform
ALBANY — Not leaving it to divine chance, the state Catholic Conference has turned in recent years to some of Albany's most well-connected and influential lobby firms to help block a bill that would make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice.
The Catholic Conference, headed by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, has used Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, Patricia Lynch & Associates, Hank Sheinkopf, and Mark Behan Communications to lobby against the Child Victims Act as well as for or against other measures.
All told, the conference spent more than $2.1 million on lobbying from 2007 through the end of 2015, state records show. That does not include the conference's own internal lobbying team.
 

OpposingDigit

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One of every ten priests ordained in 1970 was charged as a pedophile by 2002. (And God only knows how many Christian Brothers sexually abused kids within their Catholic school systems.) World governments should be shutting down all Catholic Charities and churches because they are Pedophile Terrorists, much in the same way as it was done with Muslims.
 
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Ocean Breeze

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And yet abuse rates are higher outide the RCC than in.

How did that happen?
I would HOPE so......Isn't the RCC supposed to b a n example of moral standards.?? The rate of abuse in a religious grop should be ZERO. If they maintained the standards they preach. Mind you , like any closed cult......religious organisations provide a medium for misconduct to fester.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I would HOPE so......Isn't the RCC supposed to b a n example of moral standards.?? The rate of abuse in a religious grop should be ZERO. If they maintained the standards they preach.

Or at least the rate of the religious group's leaders being accessories before, during, and after the fact to child molestation should be zero.
 

Danbones

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I'd like to see the stats there petros, not just an opinion.
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not be difficult...just sayin.

...with everyone saying pizza gate doesn't exist an' all...well except for convcits like weiner...and HIS friends.

...as if wiener isn't a pizza crap.
 

Highball

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The horror stories are legend. The hide the offending priest game is also old. BUT lets hope this renewed fervor to deal with these deviates and predators is serious and they do actually do something about this continuing problem. My guess? With the shortage of priests they will slowly sweep it under the rug again.
 

10larry

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Perverts migrate to any outfit offering access to lil kids, churches, boy scouts n' camp counsels be prime magnets. Word must get around priestdom and the street that bad actors simply get transferred to a new city or country so not to worry.
Anyhow the catholic church holds $gazillions in real estate thus can afford ace legal eagles to explain away alleged sexual liaisons, sorta like another real estate mogul......I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he said in the 2005 conversation. "Grab 'em by the pussy.".
 

Cliffy

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"I believe that such abuses have no bearing on the faith itself, but do speak to a serious flaw in the institution. How it addresses abuse, screens those who wish to enter the priesthood. Priests are people, as with all people, they can be as flawed as any. What doesn't work is shielding those who hurt others from legal repercussion." - Thomas Kerr


 

Vbeacher

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One of every ten priests ordained in 1970 was charged as a pedophile by 2002.

Evidence? Cite?

The horror stories are legend.

I don't believe in legends. I believe in verifiable fact.



BREAKING NEWS

An archbishop claimed that Pope Francis was complicit in covering up abuses by a U.S. prelate, clouding the pontiff's trip to Ireland.


The pope's response was, basically "If you read the letter I think you'll find it speaks for itself." From what I've read it's basically a homophobic screed denouncing homosexuals and suspected homosexuals and their evil practices and crimes.

Oddly, I'm betting the Left will jump on this eagerly. They're usually as excited at denouncing Catholics as they are at defending Muslim extremists.
 

Hoid

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The is simply an #metoo movement that the righties can get behind.

They could care less about woman getting abused.

In fact they are still pretending that all these gay priests are abusing little boy but the straight priests are not abusing the little little girls.
 

petros

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Wow. More bigotry from Hoid.

SEXUAL ABUSE
Billy Graham's Grandson Says Protestants Abuse Kids Just Like Catholics
Basyle “Boz” Tchividjian is shining a spotlight on the sexual abuse of children in Protestant churches—a scandal he says may be larger than that of the Catholic church.
By Josiah M. Hesse
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Aug 25 2017, 12:20pm

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...ys-protestants-abuse-kids-just-like-catholics
 

darkbeaver

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Wow. More bigotry from Hoid.

SEXUAL ABUSE
Billy Graham's Grandson Says Protestants Abuse Kids Just Like Catholics
Basyle “Boz” Tchividjian is shining a spotlight on the sexual abuse of children in Protestant churches—a scandal he says may be larger than that of the Catholic church.
By Josiah M. Hesse
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Aug 25 2017, 12:20pm

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...ys-protestants-abuse-kids-just-like-catholics
Yes these are scumbags who deserve the fire, however, war demands different angles

you don,t just want to engage, you want to win, soo
 

darkbeaver

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What you need is something completely different.

Dead people are good for grain cultivation. nobody will miss the average person, 100 p0unds average of potting soil.

Average is no place to be. You will be consumened to power the above average.