The sheer scale of child abuse is mind-boggling, pedophilia on an industrial level.
Australian Catholic church has so many sexual abuse complaints, its insurance company faces insolvency
Quote:Spanish probe estimates more than 200,000 children abused by Roman Catholic clergy
Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published Friday.
The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent of Spain's adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children.
The percentage rises to 1.13 percent -- or over 400,000 people -- when including abuse by lay members, Spain's national ombudsman Angel Gabilondo told a news conference called to present the findings of the report.
The revelations in Spain are the latest to rock the Roman Catholic Church after a series of sexual abuse scandals around the world, often involving children, over the past 20 years.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231...-estimates
Australian Catholic church has so many sexual abuse complaints, its insurance company faces insolvency
Quote:The Catholic church insurer wants to establish a scheme that would stave off its own insolvency by paying church bodies only a fraction of the money owed to abuse survivors at rates to be determined by the scandal-plagued consultancy PwC, documents show.
Catholic Church Insurance is facing significant financial turmoil due to the rising volume of abuse claims, estimating it has $381m in liabilities relating to professional standards payouts to various church entities, including dioceses and church-aligned charities.
In an attempt to protect itself financially, CCI is asking the federal court to approve a legally binding scheme that, if it comes close to insolvency, would trigger a reduction in abuse payouts to church bodies. The scheme would allow the insurer to pay out only a yet-to-be-determined percentage of what is owed to survivors.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...mpensation
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"
