Posted on 01/02/2011 6:20:20 PM PST by Salvation
I have said previously that I know of several clergy abuse accusations that I knew were false.
Anyone else?
Catholic Discussion Ping!
So... of 10 allegations, 5 are false/exaggerated... that means there’s still 5 that are true, when there should be zero, and the church is/was lax in dealing with it.
The clergy is being attacked in the same way.
On the flip side, Clinton raped and abused women, but the Left didn't see anything wrong with it.
The "sex positive" crowd seems to take advantage of these claims in several ways. Their friends can be defended with a "nuts and sluts" defense, and their enemies can be destroyed with a "sexual assault is never OK" attack strategy.
Perhaps you are not aware of how the seminaries were visited by committees from the Pope and cleaned up. The seminarian now undergoes a two day psche exam, a week of interviews, lots of personal references, etc. If anything at all shows up strange the applicant to the seminary is refused.
I agree that even five out of ten is too many. More for you in the next post.
Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination
Child Sexual Molestation by Various Protestant Clergy
"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse
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Teachers and Pedophilia - In YOUR Backyard
Washington Post -- D.C. school officials reported 220 abuse allegations against teachers
Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church
WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY
Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.Its a dynamic so common it has its own nicknamespassing the trash or the mobile molester.
It doesn’t surprise me.
Ambulandce chasing attorneys for sure!
Will they pay for it on judgment day?
1 abused kid is one too many, and I don’t care who’s doing it. The perps need to rot in prison. Along with anyone that aids and abets cover-ups.
My guess is there will be the same charges along with heterosexual abuse charges against the Protestants, though, since they don't have the same restrictions on the clergy. It's funny to watch Protestants carry torches and pitchforks right along with the gays and atheists who are out to get the Catholic Church. I say that as a Protestant waiting to see how shocked and upset those same people are when they're the ones in the cross hairs.
No it does not! Simply because five out of ten can be proved to be false does not mean that the other five are true.
The standard is supposed to be innocent until *proved* guilty, but in the politically correct world of alleged child molestation by Catholic priests, they are considered guilty until overwhelming proof of innocence is obtained.
Duh! Once word got out there were millions of dollars in payouts to be had simply by accusing a priest of sexual abuse every scumbag from hades came scampering out of their holes to grab a scumbag lawyer and make the abuse claim, then gather up the dough. The Catholic Church doesn't know how to protect itself from this stuff, priests are certainly among the most forgiving, loving men on earth; forgiveness, mercy and love is what they are all about. How hard is it to attack such men, and the Church itself? In any case, this whole debacle was about HOMOSEXUAL PERVERSION, AND NOTHING ELSE. Anyone who truly followed this travesty could not help but notice that the vast majority of the plaintiffs were males, and almost every one of them was a post pubescent, (sexually mature), boy, from the ages of 12 to 17. The media is swirling with homosexual perverts, so they labeled every single charge to be a case of "pedophilia". Almost none of the actual cases met the criteria for pedophilia, but they did meet the criteria for NAMBLA.
The Church's big mistake was in allowing these base people into the seminaries.
Back in 1961 Pope John XXIII wrote an Apostolic Letter to the bishops of the world, declaring that homosexuals have a harder time controlling their lusts than do normal men, hence they should not be allowed into the seminaries. But that letter was ignored because Vatican II swept over the Catholic Church in a luciferian attempt to "protestantize" the Church, (to liberalize her, in order to gain a more favorable opinion from the world, which thought of the RCC as 'ancient'). The Church did perfectly well in her 'ancient', (traditional), ways. Liberalism has destroyed just about every last vestage of decency on earth. But the ending to this story is a good one, we Christians know Who wins the final, decisive battle.
Sadly enough, the fact that the current Pope and the legal offices of the Vatican have done so much to try and hide the true facts means that there are actually MANY MORE cases that we’ll never know about.
No, I think it is more likely 1 out of 100 of the claims were valid.
The ones that are most likely to be true are those related to homosexual encounters because traditionally the Catholic church has tried to keep men and women separated.
In all my years, I don’t think I can remember an instance where a male at any position was left alone in a room with a female. Maybe that was just the churches I attended, but I really believe that was quite common.
Steiers legal maneuver is the latest in a long series of moves by him and Catholic officials to block the disclosure of thousands of pages of long-secret files concerning hundreds of LA-area child molesting clerics.The motion was filed in a case called Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles et al. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County et al, # B227743, 2nd District, Division 8, overseen by Judge Emilie H. Elias.
...Mahony will be deposed in California later this month in a pending civil suit involving Fr. Michael E. Kelly (CV035092). For months, Mahonys lawyers fought to prevent the deposition, claiming hes a corporate president. Three weeks ago, Judge Elizabeth Humphreys denied Mahonys request.
Sorry, but don't get your hopes up based on Mahoney's laplawyers.
I've personally known multiple victims as well as multiple priests accused of abuse. Of the multiple examples of each, I only know of one priest who was falsely accused, and only two accusers who were obviously lying.
And of the priests who were accused of homosexual molestation, all were guilty as charged.
I remember when I hung out at bars. I over heard someone talking about setting up a priest if he could go all the way to prove. I told him I will remmeber his name. It was like some men wanted to take advantage of a drunken woman. I have talked people out of it. Just what a crazy world.
Jesus help us!
AMEN=So Be It!
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