Illinois Catholic high school to pay $2 million to settle case alleging that priest who was school principal raped a male student. Multiple warning signs ignored for years.
Notorious Canadian Catholic orphanage was stomping grounds of serial predators. New arrest of Christian brother once imprisoned shows how long state and church colluded to hide sex crimes.
Quote:The payout is in a lawsuit regarding the Rev. Richard McGrath, an Augustinian priest who ran Providence Catholic High School — and took the Fifth when asked about child pornography.
The Augustinian Catholic religious order that McGrath belongs to and the school it runs that’s owned by the Diocese of Joliet has reached a $2 million settlement on the eve of a trial over a lawsuit Krankvich filed, lawyers confirmed.
Church officials admitted no wrongdoing in agreeing to the payout to end the civil case.
But records reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times and interviews by the newspaper show there were warning signs about McGrath.
The diocese — the arm of the church for DuPage and Will counties that brought in the Augustinians to run Providence in the 1980s — has said it is looking at closing or merging numerous parishes and elementary schools, partly over finances. Diocesan officials have declined to say how much money they have spent on settlements and other costs linked to child sex abuse accusations against clergy members and others over the years.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/11/24/...saint-rita
Notorious Canadian Catholic orphanage was stomping grounds of serial predators. New arrest of Christian brother once imprisoned shows how long state and church colluded to hide sex crimes.
Quote:A lawsuit in British Columbia alleges six abusive Christian Brothers were sent to Vancouver and Burnaby schools between 1975 and 1983. More than 100 former students of those schools now say they were abused after those transfers were made.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl...-1.7038676
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"
