Reforms needed after ‘horrendous’ Catholic church approach in paedophile priest cases, lawyers say
Lawyers for two Indigenous abuse survivors have called for reforms to address the “horrendous” Catholic church strategy of seeking to permanently block cases where alleged paedophile priests have died.
On Wednesday, the church was successful in permanently blocking a claim made by two Indigenous survivors relating to alleged abuse committed by David Joseph Perrett, an Armidale assistant priest and convicted child abuser, whose crimes the church has known about since 1995.
Perrett died in 2020, awaiting trial for alleged abuse against 40 children, including the two Indigenous men, who alleged they were molested by Perrett in 1976 during a camping trip from their Aboriginal mission in Armidale.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...awyers-say
Former pupils at Jesuit schools speak of ‘panic, disgust’ at priest’s abuse
Restorative justice process hears testimony from 62 past pupils, mostly from Belvedere College in Dublin
Former pupils at three Jesuit schools in Ireland who were abused by the late Fr Joseph Marmion have described the devastating impact on them and their families of “the extreme physical punishment, sexual grooming, wrongful accusation, and expulsion or threat of expulsion” they suffered at his hands.
In testimony to a restorative justice process, the men spoke of ongoing “feelings of panic, disgust, anger and upset” as well as “self criticism and self-loathing that they didn’t challenge him at the time”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/socia...sts-abuse/
Lawyers for two Indigenous abuse survivors have called for reforms to address the “horrendous” Catholic church strategy of seeking to permanently block cases where alleged paedophile priests have died.
On Wednesday, the church was successful in permanently blocking a claim made by two Indigenous survivors relating to alleged abuse committed by David Joseph Perrett, an Armidale assistant priest and convicted child abuser, whose crimes the church has known about since 1995.
Perrett died in 2020, awaiting trial for alleged abuse against 40 children, including the two Indigenous men, who alleged they were molested by Perrett in 1976 during a camping trip from their Aboriginal mission in Armidale.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...awyers-say
Former pupils at Jesuit schools speak of ‘panic, disgust’ at priest’s abuse
Restorative justice process hears testimony from 62 past pupils, mostly from Belvedere College in Dublin
Former pupils at three Jesuit schools in Ireland who were abused by the late Fr Joseph Marmion have described the devastating impact on them and their families of “the extreme physical punishment, sexual grooming, wrongful accusation, and expulsion or threat of expulsion” they suffered at his hands.
In testimony to a restorative justice process, the men spoke of ongoing “feelings of panic, disgust, anger and upset” as well as “self criticism and self-loathing that they didn’t challenge him at the time”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/socia...sts-abuse/
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"
