Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[Mister Agenda]

Will it ever end?

[The Grand Nudger]

I think so. You never hear about the priests of apollo raping kids these days.

[Fake Messiah]

Catholic Church in the Philippines Accused of Impunity Over Priest Abuse

A watchdog group on Wednesday accused the Catholic Church in the Philippines of a culture of impunity, saying it had found scores of priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children and that many remain in active ministry.

The group, Bishop Accountability, said it had identified 82 priests and brothers with links to the Philippines who had been accused of abuse in recent decades. It said it compiled the list from reputable media reports, court records, church documents and other public sources.

But not one priest has been convicted of sexual abuse in the Philippines, the group said, citing Bishop Buenaventura Famadico. The country has the third-highest number of Catholics in the world, about 85 million, after Brazil and Mexico.

It was the latest sign that the Catholic Church’s global abuse scandal is still ricocheting, this time in Asia, a region that the Vatican is eyeing for growth.

The list almost certainly did not cover all abuse because it often goes unreported. The group was established in Boston in 2003, and has compiled similar lists of priests publicly accused of abuse in the United States, Argentina, Chile and Ireland.

Take the example of the Rev. Jose Belcina, who was charged by prosecutors in the city of Cebu in 2006 with rape and child abuse. The church removed him from his parish and made him undergo “a process of spirituality,” Ms. Doyle said.

But when the police tried to arrest Father Belcina they could not find him. According to Ms. Doyle’s group, when a journalist asked the spokesman of the Archdiocese of Cebu about Father Belcina’s location, he responded that he was not the priest’s custodian.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/world...abuse.html

[Fake Messiah]

Bishop faces jail after admitting 'deeply shocking' sex offences against young boy - as Church admits members knew of another allegation but kept quiet

An Anglican bishop is facing jail after pleading guilty to 'deeply shocking' sex offences against a young boy who stayed silent for more than 30 years.

Anthony Pierce, 84, the retired Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, admitted five charges of indecent assault on the boy under the age of 16.

The allegations were reported to the Church in Wales in 2023 when the victim, now middle-aged but who has not been identified for legal reasons, told safeguarding officers what happened to him.

Pierce was released on bail at Swansea Crown Court on Friday and will return to be sentenced next month.

The Church in Wales has now admitted that some of its members were aware of another allegation against Rev Pierce but kept quiet.

That alleged offence happened in 1993 but wasn't reported to police until 2010 and Pierce was never charged.

It comes after the Archbishop of Canterbury dramatically resigned admitting he felt 'shame' over the way victims of the Church's most prolific child abuser were let down.

Similarly the Bishop of Liverpool was forced resign earlier last month after two women made allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...quiet.html

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Italy Church abuse group highlights toll on families

An Italian support group for victims of clerical sex abuse launched a network Friday to help affected families, whom it said were often shunned by their communities in the mainly Catholic country.

Organisers said it was the first such association in Italy, where the culture of silence surrounding the sexual abuse of minors by priests is still strong, despite efforts by Pope Francis to tackle the problem.

One mother, Claudia, described how her devastation at discovering her two young sons had been abused by a priest was compounded when "the entire parish abandoned us".

"It was hell," as the community "turned its back on us" and "made fun of us", she told journalists at a news conference organised by the Rete L'Abuso association to launch the network.

Campaigners say Italy, where the Vatican still holds considerable influence, has been slow to confront the problem.

During the launch of the new "Survivors' Families" group, parents of children abused shared heartbreaking stories -- of regret that they were unaware of the crimes until much later, or anger that trust in their priests had been betrayed.

"Many of us have lost our faith because of the Church itself," said Cristina Balestrini, whose son tried to kill himself three times after being abused by a priest.

"For families, it's hard to explain that a crime of abuse creates a victim but also [affects] so many other people close to them," she said.

The creation of the new network was prompted by the recent suicide of a couple from Turin, who had campaigned for better protection for children.

They died two years after their daughter, who had been abused by a relative when she was five or six, killed herself aged 28.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20...n-families

[Fake Messiah]

He’s possibly the youngest clergy abuse victim now suing the Catholic church in California. Now, he’s speaking out for the first time, saying abuse within the church is not a problem of the past.

“The house is still burning,” Doe said. “I shed a lot of light on the fact that these issues haven’t been resolved. Even if they have made reformative efforts, it’s BS.”

When Doe was 10 years old, Hector David Mendoza Vela became the pastor of St. John the Baptist in San Lorenzo. It's the church where his family and many other immigrants in the area attended.

Doe was an altar boy at the time and says the priest became almost like family.

“He would ultimately sleep over at my house,” he said. “We would give him safe passage in our home. We even gave him a key. That’s how much my parents trusted him.”

Doe said Fr. Vela began spending the night at his family’s house nearly every other day. The priest often picked him up from school, and those car rides home were where Doe said he began noticing red flags.

“He’d put his hand on my lap,” said Doe, who was about 14 when the touching began. “When I started to get frustrated with it, I started to really dig my hand into my lap just to prevent him from moving his hand up even more.”

The touching followed Doe from those car rides into his home, he said, when the priest slept over at night.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigation...s/3781895/

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No, it's not over. In another part of the world, the Catholic church reinstates pedophiles to work with kids. A priest who also had accses to victim's home.

Croatia: Priest Served Prison Term for Pedophilia. Archbishop Hranic Reinstated Him To Work With Kids

For a year and a half, until last week, the priest had worked with altar boys and Catholic youth without any restrictions. As a rule, they were reinstated because, contrary to a secular verdict, a church court had acquitted them of guilt. Hranic's archdiocese apparently made the same acquittal decision, despite the rulings of three Croatian courts - the municipal, county and Supreme Courts.

During his service in the parish under Hranic's administration, the priest physically attacked a 17-year-old who was his altar boy in three different situations. Once, in the rectory, he "hugged him, kissed him on the mouth, laid down next to him and suddenly climbed on top of him and jumped on him, simulating sexual intercourse".

In addition, for more than a year, the priest, according to the conclusion of the Croatian courts, "came to his family home almost every day, went on trips with him, invited him to sleep over with him in the rectory, wrote him messages every day via SMS and Viber, telling him that he loved him, thus controlling who he hung out with and where he went out, that a woman would never satisfy him as a man, that it was him who will satisfy him ....., that he had to put oil on his mouth ......., that they were now married as husband and wife, asked him to massage him, to lie down next to him, kiss him and hug him, and when (the victim) wanted to move away from him, he put pressure on him through his mother to maintain contact and called him Judas and sent him a large number of SMS messages that, despite his behavior, he still loved him, which caused (the victim) great discomfort and concern".

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