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51 priests, dozens of victims | The hidden history of alleged abuse in West Michigan's Catholic Church
WZZM Channel 13 - Grand Rapids, Michigan (TEGNA) ^ | December 15, 2025 | Riley Mack

Posted on 12/19/2025 6:22:44 AM PST by ConservativeMind

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a comprehensive report detailing allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct within the Diocese of Grand Rapids.

It spans 336 pages, through 51 priests and dates back over seven decades, despite resulting in zero convictions of sexual abuse related to the report.

Of the 51 priests listed in the report, 37 of them are known or presumed to be dead. The AG's report stated that the 14 people who are living or assumed to be alive are not currently active in ministry within the Diocese of Grand Rapids.

13 ON YOUR SIDE does not identify survivors of sexual abuse unless they want to identify themselves. All survivors will be titled by their order of allegations or as "the accuser."

Multiple people are looking through the documents. The full summary will be completed over the coming days.

The Attorney General's office emphasized that inclusion in the report does not reflect a determination that the allegations are credible, substantiated or indicative of a crime. A criminal charge is merely an allegation, and a defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

(Excerpt) Read more at wzzm13.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic
KEYWORDS: adammaida; catholic; groomers; grooming; lgbt; lgbtq; newwaysministry; thomasgumbleton
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There is an extensive, and nicely formatted, 336 page report that does a decent job of showing Catholic abuse, linked to this long article, but the article highlights a small portion of it.

If I posted it a chapter a day, it would still take over a month to get through.

I will consider this.

1 posted on 12/19/2025 6:22:44 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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About 30 years ago there was a huge exposé about how the catholic church sent all their pedophile priests to Alaska, where they raped their way across the state. Go to any diocese and you’ll find the same if you dig deep enough. The catholic church is nothing more than a playground for perverts.


2 posted on 12/19/2025 6:40:26 AM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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The survivor alleges he went to Father Aerts for counsel as he was experiencing same-sex attraction, as Father Aerts was the liaison for the Catholic Church and Dignity, “a group that tries to reconcile the sexual practice of homosexuality with Catholic Church teaching.”

From there, Father Aerts—who identified himself as a gay man to the survivor—and his same-sex partner introduced him to “another way of life,” the survivor said. He claims Father Aerts knew his age at the time.

“The two of them led me to believe that this was ‘okay,’ as the two of them loved each other and would simply be expressing this love for each other through their mutual ‘comfort’ of me,” he said.


Sin always recruits.

Folks,

Eyes can go to many things here. This is not an RC issue but speaks to the nature of man.

But mostly it is a reflection of us, the congregations that didn’t stand up to this.

Maybe a poor understanding of “don’t pull the weeds because you might affect the crop.”

We need more weed pullers of the right kind.

https://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf

This article speaks of the gift of aggression. Think about that, aggression can be a gift from God. But the sheep will think YOU are the problem.

https://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf


3 posted on 12/19/2025 6:41:20 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: ConservativeMind

Were they all gay rapists?


4 posted on 12/19/2025 6:43:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate all good Muslims.)
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The catholic church is nothing more than a playground for perverts.

And astonishingly they just want to cover it all up.

5 posted on 12/19/2025 6:43:20 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ConservativeMind

Do it.

MFers.


6 posted on 12/19/2025 6:44:05 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate all good Muslims.)
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To: ConservativeMind

bump for later I am intrigued


7 posted on 12/19/2025 6:46:13 AM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Catholic sheep were easy pickings for pervert wolves.


8 posted on 12/19/2025 6:49:52 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Heartbreaking.


9 posted on 12/19/2025 7:02:03 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: cgbg

Sadly.


10 posted on 12/19/2025 7:02:15 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Uncle Miltie

Good question.


11 posted on 12/19/2025 7:04:29 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: cgbg

Catholic sheep were easy pickings for pervert wolves.


We ALL are.

Stop dividing on RC and P.

Jesus came to divide, Jesus came to united. How is that possible? The point of division and unification is the same point.

What is that point? Focus on that.


12 posted on 12/19/2025 7:11:51 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: AlaskaErik

“You shall know them
By Their ‘Fruits’.”
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13 posted on 12/19/2025 7:13:41 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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The left tries to tell us that it’s not gay sex if it involves minors.


14 posted on 12/19/2025 7:26:50 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Disturbing.


15 posted on 12/19/2025 7:46:28 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: AlaskaErik

Yikes 😳


16 posted on 12/19/2025 7:51:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ConservativeMind

Queers and pedophiles, destroying the catholic church from within.


17 posted on 12/19/2025 8:24:10 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: AlaskaErik

Heartbreaking.

Evil.


18 posted on 12/19/2025 8:30:10 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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A demonic, horrible, epidemic. And who is in charge of prosecuting?... A sexually confused female atheist state AG.


19 posted on 12/19/2025 8:48:53 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: AlaskaErik

But . . . But they’re supposed to be The One True Holy Apostolic Church. Color me disillusioned.


20 posted on 12/19/2025 10:37:10 AM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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