Posted on 10/23/2024 1:35:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
The sexual abuse of children by priests was blamed on survivors and there was “no effort made to deal with the perpetrators”, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has said.
The archbishop made his remarks on clerical abuse in an interview with a US conservative Catholic TV network.
Of the perpetrators of the abuse, he said: “Sometimes they were left in situ, sometimes they were moved around, because there was maybe a thinking the problem was the person they were involved with rather than with the actual perpetrators,” he said.
“So if you moved them somewhere else that’ll deal with the problem. They were putting the blame on the survivor,” he said.
“We know different now but then, because there was a sexual element in it, they [church authorities] didn’t want to deal with that. That was part of the, maybe, the shame that they wouldn’t actually deal with it or make it known. They kept it secret and it was very secretive.”
He said there was “a culture of denial, a culture of covering up, a culture of silencing, ignoring. Nobody would accept it. The other thing, it was endemic in society”.
Archbishop Farrell was speaking in a report on the US conservative Catholic EWTN (Eternal World Television Network), titled Survivors of Sexual Abuse Speak Out in Ireland.
Archbishop Farrell told reporter Colm Flynn that clerical child sex abuse “was known at all levels [in the church]”.
“Yes, I think that in the case of priests, some of their colleagues knew about it, were aware, at least suspicious that something wasn’t right. Certainly, we know bishops knew about it, because they were the people who moved somebody from A to B. There was a fortress mentality, protect the church first, people closed ranks, and there were serial perpetrators.”
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It’s in Schools now
But as Pedophilia is becoming accepted those priests may well become heroic forebearers of that lifestyle.
For decades.
Pope Francis is trash. Unfortunately, I can say nothing good about him.
But what about Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II? I very much respect both men. Where do they fit in here? Were they deliberately misinformed, and so left in the dark?
Or did they know, and turn a blind eye? Or were they actively part of the problem?
A pope has great power. So I cannot believe that a pope can be helpless in this situation.
The homosexual predator problem is the real problem in the Catholic Church.
Indeed.
How to take ruin a brand that has been successful for two millenia in a generation or two.
Which is the whole point of the scandal.
People understand that pedos go where kids are and despite the best efforts of anyone, will manage to find a way to abuse kids.
We get that.
The issue is how it was dealt with the whole time for DECADES, at a minimum. And who knows how long before that. But considering that homosexuality has been an issue in the priesthood for over 1,000 years, it's not much of a stretch to figure this has been going on for as long.
Think of the old days with all boys choirs and the boys being castrated to maintain their high pitched voices.
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There are no true fathers in the catholic church. They would all allow their children to be passed through Molech’s flames just to get a cracker......
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Come on man! When you’re not allowed to marry and you can no longer torture confessions out of people and burn them as heretics and witches at the stake you have to fill in all that free time with something. /s
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