Posted on 10/04/2024 7:30:35 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
This priest was accused of sexually abusing a boy.
His immediate church supervisors put him on leave.
They investigated the allegation.
They found that the allegations against him were ‘credible.’
They permanently removed him from ministry.
A second abuse report, by another person, was made.
The head of a different diocese put him on his ‘credibly accused’ abusers list.
Then, a third church official, the head of a different archdiocese, put him on HIS ‘credibly accused’ abusers list.
Finally, last year, he was included in a lengthy, widely-praised attorney general's report on clergy sex crimes and cover up.
So it seems that few - if any – officials in the church or secular world doubt his guilt.
Yet in a recent - and perhaps one of the clearest – example of the Vatican’s hubris, callousness and recklessness, high ranking Catholic bureaucrats in Rome claim the evidence against this priest is ‘insufficient.’
They’ve ordered that he be put to work again in a church. So, that’s happened. The priest went back to his old parish.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/duluth-priest-removed-from-credibly-accused-list-duties-restored
Among the many questions raised by this extraordinarily troubling case: Are the 'reforms' US bishops claim they've set up to better handle abuse cases really SO toothless that one or two employees in the Vatican can overrule perhaps as many as a dozen Catholic officials who looked long and hard at two abuse reports and are much more familiar with the accused?
Who is this priest?
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Sounds like the normal shuffle, sadly
Here's a good video on the depth of the systematic corruption within the church titled “Sex, Lies and the Priesthood: The Truth and Revelations. It interviews former priest and psychologist A.W. Richard Sipes. He gives his experience confronting the issues of sexual sins within the church. It goes all the way to the top.
Victims should report offences to the Police.Public exposure and processing them,not covering up they would not prey on
children.
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This is exactly what I have maintained, for many years.
The problem is that the church hierarchy can't be affected by the lay people, which is counter to Scripture. The Catholic church totally took that voice, and accountability, away from parishioners that properly met the requirements.
So the corrupt at leading the flock, and the flock has to accept it or leave.
It is not the fault of the parishioners. They are caught as victims that are left either justifying what is happening, or at least why they still attend and support it.
That is, “…the corrupt are leading the flock…”
They from the pope on down support the new lgbtxyz cult and it’s not enough.
They go to pedo.
Just as regenerates from All walks of life do.
America’s largest Protestant denomination covered up a sexual abuse problem for decades.
Mem will be men,oh well.../s/
Please stop posting to me, ebb tide.
No surprise there... It’s a pedophile club.
Actually it can - en par with that of pastors in the various Western groups of Christianity
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