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Victims urge UN to challenge Vatican on child abuse
Global Post ^ | 6/18/2013 | Agence France-Presse

Posted on 06/19/2013 2:28:33 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne

The Catholic Church must be held to account by a UN human rights watchdog for doing too little to halt and expose paedophile priests, victims of abuse by the clergy said Tuesday. David Clohessy, director of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), said he had few hopes of a massive shake up by Pope Francis, who since being elected in March has made several pronouncements urging action. "We're dealing with a well-established, longstanding, extraordinarily powerful global monarchy, that really has few or any checks and balances on its power," he told reporters.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: abuse; agendadrivenfreeper; catholic; islamicworldorder; pedophilia; romancatholicism; unsexscandals; untiednations

1 posted on 06/19/2013 2:28:33 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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To: Dr. Thorne

When will the United Nations be held accountable for their own sex abuse scandals?


2 posted on 06/19/2013 2:30:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

Beat me to it.

The UN is one of the worst institutional offenders. I dobt they’ll want to make too much noise about this.


3 posted on 06/19/2013 2:32:15 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything. Bolshies' gonna bolsh.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

dobt -> doubt


4 posted on 06/19/2013 2:36:32 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything. Bolshies' gonna bolsh.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Don’t you love it? The Commies invaded the Catholic Church in the 1930’s by sending in young men who pretended to be devout Catholics. Since then, they have become priests, pastors, bishops and archbishops, and NOW the same Commie party blames the Church.

Add to that the Catholic Church sending their priests to the psychiatrists who proclaimed them healed and led them to send the priests to other parishes to stem the gossip. THEN the psychiatrists said “There is no cure.” Blame the commies and the psychiatrists. This is a plot to condemn the Catholics. Next will be all Christians. This time maybe the Jews will be the last.


5 posted on 06/19/2013 2:46:43 PM PDT by kitkat ( STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR NATION)
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To: Dr. Thorne

The Church has a lot of assets and some lawyers think they would like to have a share of those assets and some moslems and atheists think they would like to have all of those assets, or enough of them to convert the Church to a penurious minor sect that can be dealt with indue time.


6 posted on 06/19/2013 2:53:22 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Islamic abuse of children, women, and non-Muslims goes ignored...


7 posted on 06/19/2013 2:54:04 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Dear Lord, the UN has been involved in human trafficing and slavery scandals, don’t people read anymore?


8 posted on 06/19/2013 2:57:14 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Will the governments of Sweden and Germany, as well as the BBC be charged?


9 posted on 06/19/2013 3:03:54 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Dr. Thorne

Will other religious entities hiding behind traditional mutilation and deflowering of little girls be held accountable for their abuses of these young children as well?


10 posted on 06/19/2013 3:05:06 PM PDT by beautress1 (Make today a masterpiece.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

i remember when victimhood wasn’t a badge of heroism.


11 posted on 06/19/2013 3:05:22 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: Dr. Thorne
expose paedophile priests

expose homosexual priests...there...fixed it.

12 posted on 06/19/2013 3:08:32 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Dr. Thorne

I see, have the pedophiles and rapists in the U.N. challenge the Catholic Church, seems right. Why not just go cry to the Belgians. But then the Belgians might just want to euthanize them.


13 posted on 06/19/2013 3:41:28 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: a fool in paradise

“When will the United Nations be held accountable for their own sex abuse scandals?”

Yep, and when they are done holding themselves accountable they can look into the National Education Association. The NEA is probably second only to the UN when it comes to sheer numbers of paedophiles and rapists being protected by their own heirarchy.


14 posted on 06/19/2013 4:10:51 PM PDT by L.Thermador (Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate)
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The UN had better be careful here.

Not only do they have a major actual child rape problem but they also have a child torture problem.

15 posted on 06/19/2013 4:15:17 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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Asking the un to investigate any Church would be like getting satan to investigate God.


16 posted on 06/19/2013 7:01:48 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: Dr. Thorne
Should the UN also hold non-Catholics acoountable for sexual abuse?



17 posted on 06/19/2013 8:18:03 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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