Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The new Christian motto:
"Do evil, god forgives you."

How do they know god has forgiven him?  Where is the evidence (or are they just making stuff up again?)

'Again'?

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Finally. We wouldn't want to break a beautiful age old Catholic tradition in which a pedophile comes to church every week and gets atoned for molesting a child in his care (or locked in his basement) because even pedophiles deserve to go to Heaven and play Pickleball with Jesus.

Washington will not require priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession

Washington has abandoned its effort to force Catholic priests and other religious leaders to divulge information on child abuse and neglect they learn of in confession.

With a pair of legal filings, the state agreed not to enforce the controversial provision of a new state law that adds clergy to a list of professions that must report to law enforcement when they have “reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect.”

The Trump administration had also weighed in on the case, siding with the churches.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025...onfession/

[Fake Messiah]

New allegations of sexual and domestic abuse made against Jesus Army cult

About 60 former members of the Jesus Army, a cult described as one of the most abusive in British history, have come forward with new allegations against the group, according to a lawyer representing claimants.

The cases range from allegations of sexual or domestic abuse to claims for unpaid work from women who served as “domestic sisters” in the cult, which at its peak in the mid-2000s had several thousand members, many of whom surrendered their assets to the leadership.

Married women living in the group’s many communal houses were required to work long hours, unpaid, and some lawyers believe they were treated as modern slaves. Some of the claimants also allege they reported abuse to the Jesus Army’s leadership, who failed to act.

Founded in Northampton in 1969 by Baptist pastor Noel Stanton, the group’s leadership controlled members’ finances and enforced strict rules, including banning Christmas, snacks and cinema outings.

The Jesus Army closed down about six years ago amid widespread allegations of abuse and a cover-up by the group’s leaders. A redress scheme has previously paid out compensation to more than 500 former members of the Jesus Army for sexual, physical and emotional abuse. The scheme, which was implemented by the trust and open from September 2022 to December 2023, identified 264 alleged perpetrators, of whom 61% held leadership positions in the church, and estimated that one in six children in the group were sexually abused.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...-army-cult

[Fake Messiah]

Pope Leo holds first meeting with survivors of Catholic sexual abuse

Pope Leo met with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy for the first time on Monday, participants said, days after the Vatican's child protection commission accused senior Church leaders of being too slow to help victims.

Leo held a meeting with Ending Clergy Abuse, an international coalition of survivors, the group said. The encounter, which included four victims and two advocates, lasted about an hour with "a significant moment of dialogue," they said.

An unusually critical report from the Vatican's own child protection commission, issued on Thursday, faulted senior bishops for not providing information to victims about how their reports of abuse were being handled, or whether negligent bishops had been sanctioned.

Survivors said he told them he was still coming to grips with the enormity of the Church's scandals.

"I think he is still in a phase where he is trying to find out how to best address these issues," said Matthias Katsch.

https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-h...025-10-20/

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Scharfenberger resigns as bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Edward Scharfenberger.

The Vatican made the announcement Monday morning. Mark O'Connell, auxiliary bishop of Boston, has been named Scharfenberger's successor.

It also follows Friday's news of an $8 million settlement in a child sex abuse lawsuit against a priest. That case was filed in 2020 as part of New York's Child Victim's Act.

In March 2023, the Diocese filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Earlier this year, it announced plans to realign or relinquish up to a third of its properties.

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/scharf...l-pope-leo

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Man who fought the State to reveal name of priest who raped him sues religious order

Jonathan Randall (50) was four years old on when he was violently raped as a child while on holiday in Bettystown, Co Meath.
In 2021, gardaí told the Dubliner they had identified his abuser, who is now dead, but they were not ­permitted to release the cleric’s name.

Mr Randall initiated legal action to force the State to reveal the name of his rapist.
The Chief State Solicitor’s Office told Mr Randall’s lawyer last year the man identified as having raped him was Joseph Michael Steele.

The Belfast-born priest was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in 1996 for “systematically” abusing 10 children over the course of 14 years in the North.

Mr Randall’s legal representative, solicitor and senior counsel Stuart Gilhooly, confirmed to the Sunday Independent that his client initiated a civil action last week against the Spiritan Order, which Steele was attached to.

Mr Randall said he hopes the legal action is “progress” towards receiving accountability from the religious order, as well as financial compensation, for the attack which he says stymied his childhood and still impacts his life today.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/man-...93103.html

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Catholic priest exploited family deaths to abuse disabled boy

A Roman Catholic priest in New Orleans positioned himself as a mentor to a young disabled boy grieving two family deaths – and then exploited the proximity to abuse him for years, police allege.

Ford, 64, made an initial court appearance on Wednesday as he became the latest figure to come under scrutiny during the New Orleans Catholic church’s longstanding clergy molestation scandal.

Ford is one of several men who have worked as Catholic clergymen in New Orleans to have been arrested by authorities in connection with child sexual abuse allegations both before and after the city’s archdiocese filed for federal bankruptcy protection in 2020. That bankruptcy filing was designed to limit the archdiocese’s financial liability with respect to hundreds of claims of clergy molestation, mostly victimizing children, over several decades.

The New Orleans archdiocese has agreed to pay at least $230m to collectively settle with abuse survivors whose claims are tied up in the bankruptcy. Those survivors have until 29 October to vote on whether or not to approve the settlement.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...use-arrest

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Allegations of sex abuse, misused church dollars against WA priest divide parish

Emily Chapman could feel a pressure rising inside her. In the gym at Our Lady of Fatima, the Catholic church where she works, the Spokane Diocese was recapping how a leader of the parish, Father Miguel Mejía, had allegedly abused his powers as a priest to have “consensual and nonconsensual sex” with multiple women.

They said he stalked a woman. That he gave money and gifts to women in exchange for sex. That he paid to have phone sex with a woman in jail — potentially misusing parish funds to do it.

At least five women had come forward about the priest’s behavior. Eight members of a review board tasked with looking at sexual abuse cases within the Catholic Diocese of Spokane had concluded that “overwhelming evidence” backed the women’s accounts.

https://www.investigatewest.org/allegati...de-parish/