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Catholic Diocese In Connecticut Is Filing For Bankruptcy With 60 Pending Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
WSHU.org ^ | July 16, 2021 | Cassandra Basler

Posted on 07/17/2021 1:44:22 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy to help pay for more than 60 pending lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse.

The lawsuits stem from former students at the Academy of Mount St. John in Deep River.

Gale Howard is a leader of the Connecticut chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests, or SNAP. Howard said the bankruptcy limits fair compensation, especially for those who have yet to come forward.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; catholic; diocese; homosexual; homosexuality; homosexuals; sexual
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1 posted on 07/17/2021 1:44:22 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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60?! Where are these horn dogs living now?


2 posted on 07/17/2021 1:45:47 PM PDT by albie
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The Pope should sell the Vatican real estate and pay off all victims in full.

He needs to _own_ it.


3 posted on 07/17/2021 2:00:02 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Require priests to take a vow of celibacy - then leave them alone for hours with young alter boys.

What could possibly go wrong?


4 posted on 07/17/2021 2:02:24 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: Dr. Thorne

It appears to me that by covering this up for decades, and decades. The RCC sort of dug its own grave.


5 posted on 07/17/2021 2:11:41 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Dollars to donuts all but a handful are homosexual-predator related.


6 posted on 07/17/2021 2:12:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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Annnnnd its still open borders for these pervs........


7 posted on 07/17/2021 2:21:11 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Dr. Thorne

The fruits of Homosexual priests allowed to continue in their destruction.


8 posted on 07/17/2021 2:35:33 PM PDT by PGR88
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Require priests to take a vow of celibacy - then leave them alone for hours with young alter boys.

"If only they had access to women, they wouldn't have sex with boys." This silly leftist nonsense reduces everyone to the level of depraved prison inmate.

9 posted on 07/17/2021 2:39:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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No. Not Vatican real estate. The Vatican real estate is there for all to enjoy. St Peters is there with all its great inspiring art free to the public and Catholics already paid for free to visitors to inspire them/ us to worship God to do well, endure suffering, give back and give thanks.

You can talk about making us pay for the sins of those priests and church hierarchy by giving that up to overpay for court fees and criminal defense lawyers or the priests can live by poverty rules and get a public defender. Damages have to be paid as well. Let the hierarchy decide how to pay out of their pockets. Do not take it from the congregations who would never dream of condoning or supporting rapists

The families of those priests can sell off their own real estate. Those priests can go live in workhouses. Make them raise revenue

Leave the Vatican property out of this

Those priests are by definition not catholic and not going by catholic teaching. By definition. They are agents of Satan set out to destroy the church from within. Getting unthinking emotional mob members to hate catholicism. .


10 posted on 07/17/2021 2:48:23 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Dr. Thorne

At least we got rid of those nasty Latin Masses and the “rigidity” they promote! /s /s /s


11 posted on 07/17/2021 2:50:55 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: enumerated

Require priests to take a vow of celibacy - then leave them alone for hours with young alter boys.

What could possibly go wrong?

It hasn’t always been this way. I was an altar boy in the 40’s and 50’s. I still know many others who were also. We joke that if Father so and so or Father you know who had touched us we could be rich today. They DIDN’T!

I still believe it all started with Vatican II.

BTW. None of us go near the church anymore. For what? To be preached to by some guy and his husband? Sickening.


12 posted on 07/17/2021 2:53:08 PM PDT by PeteyBoy (The wall. Build it and they won't come. (Until they tear it down))
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Require priests to take a vow of celibacy - then leave them alone for hours with young altar boys. What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing, if the priests are not sexually attracted to young males.

Plenty, if the priests joined the priesthood to gain sexual access to young males.

To most heterosexual men, boys (and prepubescent girls) are simply not sexually attractive. There's no there there.

13 posted on 07/17/2021 2:58:30 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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“.. reduces everyone to the level of depraved prison inmate.”

No, it does not reduce everyone to the level of deprived prison inmates, only Catholic priests.

And it’s not leftist nonsense. Non-Catholic churches allow their priests to get married like a normal human beings, and there is simply not the depravity you see throughout the Catholic priesthood (and in every prison population).


14 posted on 07/17/2021 3:02:49 PM PDT by enumerated
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So if you were deprived of female company - you would have sex with young boys?


15 posted on 07/17/2021 3:08:39 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: TChad

“Nothing, if the priests are not sexually attracted to young males.”

Well, men don’t get themselves locked up to gain access to other men - yet homosexuality is rampant in prisons.

It seems pretty obvious that many heterosexual men will resort to homosexuality rather than forego sex entirely.


16 posted on 07/17/2021 3:11:26 PM PDT by enumerated
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At best, it’s like Muslim men having sex with goats and boys, saying their heart isn’t in it, so it’s not immoral and not a sin before God.

At worst, well, it’s a gay pedophile playground for all to enjoy.


17 posted on 07/17/2021 3:27:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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If my sexual desires as a man were with other men, of course.

Women aren’t expected to be in a gay cabal.


18 posted on 07/17/2021 3:28:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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“The fruits of Homosexual priests allowed to continue in their destruction.”

For sure. If the 1960 rule was followed that rejected all men with same sex inversion from the seminary, then the Church today would have billions of dollars in their accounts. Los Angeles paid $680 million in lawsuits, Boston $390 million...


19 posted on 07/17/2021 3:33:53 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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A seminarian from a seminary in WNY said that homosexual activity of students and instructors was not uncommon .... Before the culture fell into the pits and homosexual activity was considered sin.. gay men went into the priesthood to have a way to excuse being single to moms friends ...

Today being gay is trendy so the closet door is open for all

20 posted on 07/17/2021 3:42:00 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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