Maine Catholic Diocese faces 6 more childhood sexual abuse claims
The newest complaints allege the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland knew about the abuse, which occurred between 1954 and 1988.
The men and four other anonymous plaintiffs filed complaints Monday against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland alleging they were sexually abused as children by church employees. They say church leaders knew about the abuse and not only failed to respond but went to great lengths to conceal it – priests were often reassigned to different parishes following reports they were abusing young parishioners, the complaints state, none of which was disclosed to parishioners.
Rossignol said Audibert abused him in the late 1960s when he was an altar boy. He said Audibert told him that the abuse was “a normal thing” and that it was a “normal part of growing up.”
Rossignol was removed from active ministry twice: once in 1994 following allegations that he had abused a child at a Caribou church in the 1970s (he returned to the ministry the following year after attending a rehabilitation program); and again in 2002, after confessing to his congregation that he had a sexual relationship with a minor years earlier in Lewiston. That victim was in prison for abusing a 10-year-old, who in turn violated a 3-year-old.
He promised “before God” there were no other victims. The Vatican defrocked him in 2006, according to Rossingol’s complaint.
“It just needs to change,” Rossignol said Monday. “I will not step foot in a Catholic church, ever again in my life. Ever.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2023/08/14/m...use-claims
Is Catholic Church really this stupid that they think they can send a pedophile (priest) to a therapy that will heal him from pedophilia?
The newest complaints allege the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland knew about the abuse, which occurred between 1954 and 1988.
The men and four other anonymous plaintiffs filed complaints Monday against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland alleging they were sexually abused as children by church employees. They say church leaders knew about the abuse and not only failed to respond but went to great lengths to conceal it – priests were often reassigned to different parishes following reports they were abusing young parishioners, the complaints state, none of which was disclosed to parishioners.
Rossignol said Audibert abused him in the late 1960s when he was an altar boy. He said Audibert told him that the abuse was “a normal thing” and that it was a “normal part of growing up.”
Rossignol was removed from active ministry twice: once in 1994 following allegations that he had abused a child at a Caribou church in the 1970s (he returned to the ministry the following year after attending a rehabilitation program); and again in 2002, after confessing to his congregation that he had a sexual relationship with a minor years earlier in Lewiston. That victim was in prison for abusing a 10-year-old, who in turn violated a 3-year-old.
He promised “before God” there were no other victims. The Vatican defrocked him in 2006, according to Rossingol’s complaint.
“It just needs to change,” Rossignol said Monday. “I will not step foot in a Catholic church, ever again in my life. Ever.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2023/08/14/m...use-claims
Is Catholic Church really this stupid that they think they can send a pedophile (priest) to a therapy that will heal him from pedophilia?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
