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Vatican official says 77% of cases sent to discipline office are about child abuse
Life Site News ^ | 05/31/2024 | Michael Haynes

Posted on 06/05/2024 5:51:24 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– The Vatican official responsible for overseeing the Catholic Church’s response to abuse has said that 77 percent of cases he receives involve child abuse.

Speaking on the sidelines of a safeguarding conference organized by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) in Rome on May 29, Monsignor John Joseph Kennedy provided comment about the work carried out by the Disciplinary office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which he leads.

According to Reuters, Kennedy stated that around 77 percent of cases he receives in the Disciplinary office involve abuse of children…

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: catholic; roman
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
1 posted on 06/05/2024 5:51:24 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

My understanding is that child sex abuse by clergy in the Catholic system has been going on forever.

What I caught in the article was this one Jesuit was found guilty of sex abuse, excommunicated and then reinstated by the Pope. Further charges were dropped due to Pope interference.

Now if I read that correctly, then the Pope is not just a commie, but also protects perversion instead of the children.

I can see mother nature taking its course where a priest would have an affair with a mature woman in his flock. But for these people to go after children tells me there’s a special problem that needs fixing, not protected.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 6:06:50 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Jan_Sobieski
There was a time when I calculated in my mind the number of people in my profession who inhabited my town and surrounding metropolitan area of about 1.5 million.

Then I went to a website and discovered that the number of priests in the same population were about the same order of magnitude per capita.

And then I went to a website that listed all suspected cases or reported cases of priestly abuse of people.

If my profession had been so replete with pervs, then basically every township, every county, almost every neighborhood, would have been represented by one or more pervs.

OUTRAGEOUS excess of pervs in the priesthood over what you would expect in the same number of average men in our creepy degenerate rotting society.

Indicative of Satanic direction, organization, motivation.

Ignored by the past maybe 5 popes.

The last pope who really kicked ass was Leo XIII. He was for the Rosary, wrote the prayer to St. Michael which attacked Satan, he was for laissez-faire capitalism but also for a decent wage for workers and he loved Thomas Aquinas. All the good things.

Contrast him with the current anti-Catholic person in Rome, who encourages gay seminarians to party on. The same one whom the great Milei, the President of Argentina, calls "the communist turd".

Gotta love Milei.

3 posted on 06/05/2024 6:13:54 AM PDT by caddie
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To: redfreedom

Three components of the solution: 1) End mandatory celibacy for the clergy. 2)Vigorously purge homosexuals from the clergy 3) Disband the hopelessly corrupt, agnostic, perverted Jesuit order.


4 posted on 06/05/2024 6:20:29 AM PDT by allendale
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To: redfreedom

—> I can see mother nature taking its course where a priest would have an affair with a mature woman in his flock. But for these people to go after children

Huge % are gay.
When Father Steve isn’t doing Father Gary, one is abusing a kid.

Very sad - and evil


5 posted on 06/05/2024 6:21:10 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I’m surprised they let that out.


6 posted on 06/05/2024 6:21:52 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Vatican official to be disappeared.


7 posted on 06/05/2024 6:22:42 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: redfreedom

Many of the men who left the priesthood in the 60s did so in order to marry. In many cases, ex-priests married ex-nuns.


8 posted on 06/05/2024 6:25:33 AM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Yet they don’t want to call out frociaggine as the source of the problem and take action to eliminate it in the church.


9 posted on 06/05/2024 6:45:55 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: JimmyTheFish

Interesting comment of your reminds me of a remark my Dad frequently made in the 60’s. It was that nuns were a priests harem.

I do not know the basis for his comments, but he never made stuff up and I suspect that somewhere in his life he personally knew of this going on or he read about it.

I am not Catholic so I see such a situation as acceptable. What’s not acceptable is priests going after children, or any other adult molesting kids for that matter.


10 posted on 06/06/2024 4:51:30 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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