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‘Stunning’: Illinois AG Investigation Finds Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused Nearly 2,000 Children
LifeSite News ^ | 5/23/23 | Doug Mainwaring

Posted on 05/23/2023 7:14:09 PM PDT by marshmallow

The 696-page report barely mentions homosexuality in describing priests' predation.

(LifeSiteNews) –– A five-year investigation just published by the office of Illinois’ Attorney General reports that 451 Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children, a number vastly greater than previously reported by the state’s six dioceses before the investigation began.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul recounted in a news conference that his office discovered priests and religious brothers had abused 1,997 children in Illinois since 1950.

The 696-page Illinois report comes just one month after Maryland’s Attorney General released a nearly 500-page report detailing sexual abuse of children and teens by clergy of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and the groundbreaking 1,356-page Pennsylvania grand jury report published in 2018 that exposed decades of clerical sex abuse and Church cover-up.

“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,” said Raoul, lamenting that in many cases the statute of limitations had passed or that the credibly accused priests had died. “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.”

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, better known as SNAP, released a statement calling the report “stunning” and described the many victim narratives recounted in the report as “harrowing to read.”

The Illinois report predictably does its best to steer clear of tying the sexual abuse by Catholic priests to homosexuality, preferring to remain ambiguous, repeatedly using the non-gendered term “child sex abuse” when speaking about the nature of the clerical predation......

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1 posted on 05/23/2023 7:14:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.”

Mark 9:42


2 posted on 05/23/2023 7:19:58 PM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: marshmallow

I posted this earlier but from a USA Today source and it got pulled.


3 posted on 05/23/2023 7:22:21 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: marshmallow

Defamation.

They will not do the same for the public schools !


4 posted on 05/23/2023 7:25:47 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
Defamation.

Are you saying the report isn’t true? You cannot “defame” a person, or an institution, by saying true things about them.

5 posted on 05/23/2023 7:33:09 PM PDT by DSH
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To: marshmallow

Now do the ‘gender affirming care’ folks !


6 posted on 05/23/2023 7:33:12 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: marshmallow

If homosexuality is this rampant in the Catholic Church, this religion will become mandatory. The church needs to clear this out, but with a Marxist Pope and the homosexual infiltration, I’m not hopeful


7 posted on 05/23/2023 7:34:52 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( )
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To: marshmallow

Wait, homosexuality has something to do with it? What?


8 posted on 05/23/2023 7:34:55 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: DSH

Well by golly, you catch on fast !


9 posted on 05/23/2023 7:44:09 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: DSH

“Are you saying the report isn’t true?”

It was written by Democrats in Illinois. Are you really comfortable saying it is true?


10 posted on 05/23/2023 7:46:30 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: marshmallow

This is how faggots operate. They infiltrate institutions and take it over and find their victims from the inside of the institution.

There is a reason that God calls faggotry an abomination!!!

Look at how much destruction has been caused by the societal embrace of faggotry in the last 15 years!


11 posted on 05/23/2023 7:49:53 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Pikachu_Dad

You are nuts if you think the same quantity and frequency occurs in the public schools. It does not


12 posted on 05/23/2023 7:51:59 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: marshmallow

Priests - the quintessential groomers.


13 posted on 05/23/2023 7:52:54 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: alternatives?

It was sadly true in California


14 posted on 05/23/2023 7:53:17 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: marshmallow

Cardinal Bernadine’s archdiocese. After his death, the Cardinal who succeeded him had to bring many exorcist’s into the diocese because it was overrun with demonic activity. Bernadine was a Satanist and a degenerate pervert.


15 posted on 05/23/2023 7:58:25 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: marshmallow

But it’s Illinois so who knows what is the truth here.


16 posted on 05/23/2023 8:00:13 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: marshmallow

Now do CPS.

L


17 posted on 05/23/2023 8:02:08 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: marshmallow

You want to stop the perverts in the Biden administration, start by hanging some clergy.


18 posted on 05/23/2023 8:10:57 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: marshmallow

Well, it’s what they do best isn’t it?

Every practicing catholic I’ve ever known is in denial of this no matter how much evidence you show them.


19 posted on 05/23/2023 8:12:00 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: Nifster

Really? The public schools are far far higher !

and I certainly trust nothing out of any blue run legal system. They have shown themselves to be beyond corrupt on ever issue !!!


20 posted on 05/23/2023 8:14:52 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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