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Catholic clergy sexually abused Illinois kids far more often than church acknowledged, state finds
AP News ^ | May 23, 2023 | KATHLEEN FOODY and MICHAEL TARM

Posted on 08/05/2024 10:51:24 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950, the state’s attorney general found in an investigation released Tuesday, revealing that the problem was far worse than the church had let on.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul said at a news conference that investigators found that 451 Catholic clergy abused 1,997 children in Illinois between 1950 and 2019, though he acknowledged that the statute of limitations has expired in many cases and that those abusers “will never see justice in a legal sense.”

“It is my hope that this report will shine light both on those who violated their positions of power and trust to abuse innocent children, and on the men in church leadership who covered up that abuse,” Raoul said, crediting the accusers for making the review possible. “These perpetrators may never be held accountable in a court of law, but by naming them here, the intention is to provide a public accountability and a measure of healing to survivors who have long suffered in silence.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blasecupich; catholicchurch; gaypriests; josephbernadin; priestsexabuse
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1 posted on 08/05/2024 10:51:24 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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The media feigns horror on this yet tells everyone that they are bigots if they object to pedo grooming by teachers and trans storytime.


2 posted on 08/05/2024 10:55:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SoConPubbie

Faggots


3 posted on 08/05/2024 11:18:19 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Now take apart the Protestants and their decades of sexual abuse of minors. It’s a pretty extensive list, but I have confidence that you can do it. 🤣


4 posted on 08/05/2024 11:20:05 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: SoConPubbie

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4256524/posts


5 posted on 08/05/2024 11:21:34 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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I gave you that one for starters. There’s plenty more, I assure you.


6 posted on 08/05/2024 11:22:15 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Abuse Tracker

Daily guide to media coverage of clergy abuse worldwide, and especially in the US Roman Catholic church. More than 100,000 articles blogged since 2006.

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/


7 posted on 08/05/2024 11:34:45 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: SoConPubbie

This is the fourth story I’ve read tonight of church guys being pedophiles. All unconnected.


8 posted on 08/05/2024 11:37:14 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SoConPubbie

Watch the movie “Spotlight”


9 posted on 08/05/2024 11:51:49 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Beowulf9

We have dueling abuse stories between Catholics and Protestants.


10 posted on 08/05/2024 11:53:09 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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Chicago Public schools are worse...and they covered it up, and they have done nothing to fix them...
11 posted on 08/06/2024 12:17:46 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: SoConPubbie

Its a vital part of the catholic religion “s”


12 posted on 08/06/2024 1:36:23 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: SoConPubbie

Now do school teachers...


13 posted on 08/06/2024 2:12:24 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Chicago diocese was run by the Bernardin machine. “Cardinal” Bernardin was a very evil man who was part of the “Boys Club”, He and other clerics were part of a cabal dedicated to Satan(yes, for real) who molested little boys who were underprivileged and poor. When one of the Boys Club members wanted out he was murdered in a ritualistic killing. Bernadin was at the scene of the crime in layman’s clothes before the murder was even announced!

After Bernadin’s death, the new Archbishop had to assign several exorcists in Chicago because demonic activity was extremely prevalent. I’m sure there are many more victims in Chicago, many dead.

A long article worth reading:

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/07_08/2006_08_18_Abbott_RememberingJoseph.htm


14 posted on 08/06/2024 2:34:29 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread)
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To: SoConPubbie

fanning the flames of white supremacy domestic terrorists and the religious right


15 posted on 08/06/2024 3:26:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SoConPubbie

When the church restricts the natural (marriage between man and woman), people do the unnatural. As a result, Sodomites run the Roman Catholic Church


16 posted on 08/06/2024 3:58:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Its a vital part of the catholic religion “s”

False

It’s porneia and the fallen condition of human beings.

There is great wickedness in the world, including in all religions; the wheat and the tares.

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
17 posted on 08/06/2024 4:19:29 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
people do the unnatural.

All porneia is sin. Just look at what happened to Liberty University and other Fundamentalist groups. They were married. The Apostle Paul was celibate. It’s the nature of sin when people give themselves over to it; that’s why the scriptural warnings are so severe, trying to save them , no “once saved, always saved” confusion. Flee porneia.
18 posted on 08/06/2024 4:24:23 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: af_vet_1981

Agreed. There are bad people across the spectrum in this pornographic generation, however sodomy in the Roman Church is institutional, and has been even before the advent of pornography


19 posted on 08/06/2024 4:30:46 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SoConPubbie

Naw, really?


20 posted on 08/06/2024 6:23:30 AM PDT by bgill
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