Posted on 12/11/2022 3:45:17 AM PST by robowombat
December 9, 2022 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Four people in Maine have filed lawsuits with claims that they were sexually abused by Catholic priests as children.
Three men sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on Thursday in Cumberland County Superior Court. The men allege they were abused by priests as children decades ago.
Another lawsuit is from a woman who sued the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Eastern Province in U.S. District Court in Bangor. Her lawsuit alleges that she was sexually abused by priests in the 1950s at a Maine seminary and retreat house run by the order, the Bangor Daily News reported.
The lawsuits come on the heals of 2021 state law changes that took away a statute of limitations. Several other similar lawsuits are active in the state.
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NO different than what schools are doing with trans kids who rape.
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I don’t understand how so many people Satan has been able to fool into joining his church, that is the Roman Catholic Church. Anyone who can read the Bible should be able to recognize that the Catholic Church’s teachings are way out of line with the actual gospel of the Bible. The true gospel does not allow for praying to anyone but God, not even Jesus’s mother! It does not allow a Church to change the Sabboth from Saturday to Sunday. It does not allow idols and graven images as seen in every Catholic Church. It does not allow for one mortal sinner to forgive the sins of another because they are a priest. It does not say you are not allowed to ask God forgiveness yourself. It does not give the Head of any church (like the Pope) the authority to rewrite scripture. The Roman Catholic Church wants to hold their flock captive by making them believe you can’t go to heaven without strict adhearance to their non-biblical edicts which are designed to keep the Vatican flush in power and money. They are as bad or worse than the likes of biblicaly illterate false teachers like Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Steven Firtick, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, and Jesse Duplantis to name just a few who like the Pope are leading millions of people to the lake of fire.
How can one have a fair trial over things like this from 60+ years ago?
All the while, homosexual democrats rape children daily and no one says a word.
70yros ago??? how does one defend themselves when they are probably dead already??
God save us.
I don’t recall a lot of heals in 2021. Lot of vaxxing though.
Another seventh day Adventist rant with the usual canards.
You criticize and hate that which you do not understand. Please refrain from spreading misinformation based on your personal interpretation of Scripture. There are vulnerable people who may be misled. Words are powerful. There are many millions of us devout Roman Catholics who believe and will gladly defend the Church. It is however filled with sinners. Our leaders who abuse the vulnerable are an embarrassment and will be held accountable, if not in this life in the next.
Yesterday’s child molesters had to hide behind institutions that served children, such as the schools, the Church, Boy Scouts, YMCA, etc.
Todays’ child molesters just say it out loud, and parents of their victims happily bring the children in to the slaughter.
Tony, are you a member of the Know Nothing Party? Or the post Civil War Ku Klux Klan? Holy smokes! Do some research please.
Anyway, the late Bishop Fulton Sheen (who was admired by some Protestant denominations) said this about your concerns about the Catholic Church.
“There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing. These millions can hardly be blamed for hating Catholics because Catholics “adore statues”; because they “put the Blessed Mother on the same level with God”; because they say “indulgence is a permission to commit sin”; because the Pope “is a Fascist”; because the “Church is the defender of Capitalism.” If the Church taught or believed any one of these things it should be hated, but the fact is that the Church does not believe nor teach any one of them. It follows then that the hatred of the millions is directed against error and not against truth. As a matter of fact, if we Catholics believed all of the untruths and lies which were said against the Church, we probably would hate the Church a thousand times more than they do.
If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hates… Look for the Church that is hated by the world, as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church which is accused of being behind the times, as Our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils. Look for the Church which, in seasons of bigotry, men say must be destroyed in the name of God as men crucified Christ and thought they had done a service to God. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pilate rejected Christ because He called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which is rejected by the world as Our Lord was rejected by men…
If then, the hatred of the Church is founded on erroneous beliefs, it follows that basic need of the day is instruction. Love depends on knowledge for we cannot aspire nor desire the unknown.
Our great country is filled with what might be called marginal Christians, i.e., those who live on the fringe of religion and who are descendants of Christian living parents, but who now are Christians only in name. They retain a few of its ideals out of indolence and force of habit; they knew the glorious history of Christianity only through certain emasculated forms of it, which have married the spirit of the age and are now dying with it. Of Catholicism and its sacraments, its pardon, its grace, its certitude and its peace, they know nothing except a few inherited prejudices. And yet they are good people who want to do the right thing, but who have no definite philosophy concerning it. They educate their children without religion, and yet they resent the compromising morals of their children. They would be angry if you told them they were not Christian, and yet they do not believe that Christ is God. They resent being called pagans and yet they never take a practical cognizance of the existence of God. There is only one thing of which they are certain and that is that things are not right as they are. It is just that single certitude which makes them what might be called the great “potentials,” for they are ready to be pulled in either of two directions. Within a short time they must take sides; they must either gather with Christ or they must scatter; they must either be with Him or against Him; they must either be on the cross as other Christs, or under it as other executioners. Which way will these marginal Christians tend?… Only this much is certain. Being human and having hearts they want more than class struggle and economics; they want Life, they want Truth, and they want Love. In a word, they want Christ.
It is to these millions who believe wrong things about the Church and to these marginal Christians, that this little book is sent. It is not to prove that they are “wrong”; it is not to prove that we are “right”; it is merely to present the truth in order that the truth may conquer through the grace of God.”
I rarely post things much anymore, but wow, catch your breath!
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