Posted on 04/19/2011 7:42:19 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Frontline’s next exposé focuses on the “decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska,” and in one particular town they find, “nearly 80% of the town’s children were molested” by Catholic priests.
As we reported on this story just a few weeks ago, the Roman Catholic Church, as part of ongoing lawsuits, will make payments to approximately 700 male and female sexual and psychological abuse, molestation, and rape victims who were living in Alaska Native villages and Indian reservations from Montana to Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and who were “sexually or psychologically abused as children by Jesuit missionaries in those states in the 1940s through the 1990s,” according to a statement by attorneys.
The latest agreement will financially compensate 524 victims with $166.1 million in cases including accusations against 140 Jesuit priests, brothers, and nuns from the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, in the Pacific Northwest. Only $48 million will come from the Catholic Church, the remainder will be paid by its insurance companies.
None of the Jesuit priests are being charged with any crime related to this abuse, rape, and molestation settlement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewcivilrightsmovement.com ...
But this sort of thing has been going on for centuries in the Catholic church.
St. Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah: Homosexual Situation Graver than Damian’s Time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929551/posts
“Editor’s Note: CFN has asked Randy Engel to help clarify the basic issues surrounding clerical pederasty and homosexuality in the Church today. She has studied and researched the homosexual network in the Catholic priesthood and religious life for more than thirteen years and we believe that her commentary based on the works of the 11th Century Italian monk St. Peter Damian will help put the current crisis into a proper perspective for our readers. A December 2003 date has been set for her latest book The Rite of Sodomy-——Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church. JV
The Life of St. Peter Damian [1007-1072]
It appears that whenever Holy Mother Church has had a great need for a special kind of Saint for a particular age, God, in His infinite mercy, has never failed to fill that need. And so, in the year 1007 A.D., a boy child was born to a noble but poor family in the ancient Roman city of Ravenna, who would become a Doctor of the Church, a precursor of the Hildebrandine reform in the Church and a key figure in the moral and spiritual reformation of the lax and incontinent clergy of his time. “
I don’t see where any of the sources make the claim that almost 80% of the town’s children were molested.
Where is the PROOF in this instance?
Wow NY Times too. Impressive.
And by the way, I don’t question your sources; just the motives.
Since the settlement included apologies and a bishop going to the villages to apologize for what was done it would seem a bit more than simply an allegation.
People don't settle if they're innocent. They settle if they don't want the bad publicity and because it will be cheaper than going through the trouble of a trial and being found guilty and getting nailed to the wall.
If the Catholic church thought that those claiming abuse didn't have a case, they wouldn't have settled out of court.
Essentially, settling out of court is an admission of guilt.
According to the following article, Alaska has very restrictive statutes of limitation. The legislature is expected to change this soon:
It's irrelevant what these people are saying.
This is a problem where children have been abused all over the world.
God bless these victims, who were betrayed by men of God...
I understand that you are getting replies and may have missed this question in post 39, but can you answer it?:
Did you look at this site before posting?
Prove to me that you don’t beat your wife.
See how easy it is for someone to make a silly claim and ask others to refute it?
Your debate skills are not too sophisticated. Its embarrassing to see you keep following this line of debate. Please, prove that all the victims made this up. Show your work.
Of course....since when does sin not affect all those closest to us and bring with it certain condemnations by. Even the innocent can and will suffer....and with something of this magnitude happens it's a wave on the hearts and minds of many. Makes one wonder how many memebers knew this stuff was happening and didn't speak up?..and happening now even?
You don't know much about business, do you? Or car insurance for that matter.
Ny Times reported the facts of the settlement. The facts wouldn’t change no matter who reported it. Lame on your part.
See how easy it is for someone to make a silly claim and ask others to refute it?
It's not buccaneer81 who is following that line of reasoning (not saying that you are either.)
Guilty until proven innocent seems to be okay with you. No solid principles when it comes to alleged priestly abuse, I see.
There are other victims, too...the many faithful whose weekly contributions have gone to pay for expensive lawyers, pensions for the retired perverts, and money for the settlements. Also many parish churches and schools have been closed and the real estate sold off in order to pay the BILLIONS—yes, BILLIONS—that have been awarded to victims over the past decade.
The good works of the Church are necessarily being diminished to pay for the horrible sins of pederasty, rape, and pedophilia.
You fool, didnt you realize you’re guilty until proven innocent?
You know like the Tawana Brawley case and the the Duke Lacrosse rape.
“In the U.S. and elsewhere, the church was given authority and deference it did not deserve and repeatedly violated in the handling of cases that date back decades.
Instances of abuse are still being revealed.
Unconscionable acts with injurious results have been met with the most hypocritical behavior.
The church’s response has amounted to an international cover-up for heinous acts from California to Connecticut, as well as Australia, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland and Germany.
Worldwide the pattern has been to hide the truth, mount counterattacks about Catholic bashing and stall.
The outside world did not sully a sacred vocation.
No more operating above the law. Turn those accused of assault and abuse over to secular authorities.
Send the guilty to jail.”
http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-04-04/outside-editorial-prosecute-priest-sex-abuse-scandals
You are still clouding the issue by detracting from the fact people want to see these perps prosecuted. The difference between these happenings occuring in other churches is the perps are kicked out and in many cases charges brought against them when it happens....the catholic church has protected the priests and those guilty of this crime..and knowingly turned there head.
Again makes one wonder how many ‘memebers’ continue to hide the facts or divert from them unless they also are involved in covering these attocities.
BWAHAHAHA!!!!
What about his vow of chastity? It didn't seem to stop him from procreating. His vow of poverty shouldn't stop him from earning money for the children he shouldn't have fathered.
Consecrated for Service
http://www.jesuit.org/index.php/main/become-a-jesuit/consecrated-for-service/
By the vow of chastity, a Jesuit consecrates his life entirely to the Lord, promising to live his life in a state of celibate chastity for the Kingdom of God. By this vow, the Jesuit brother or priest becomes available to love and to serve all people, not attached to one person or to one family.
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