(December 16, 2023 at 7:36 pm)Ahriman Wrote: I think of these cases as individuals being bad, as opposed to the Church itself being bad.
Just the opposite. It takes a well-coordinated organization to steal and sell tens of thousands of children (hundreds of thousands if we add other countries) and then launder that money.
Smyllum Park: Nuns and carer guilty of abusing orphanage children
The orphanage has been at the centre of allegations of historical abuse.
The court heard children in their care were subjected to a number of "cruel and unnatural" incidents.
One woman told the court she was beaten by McDermott after she reported witnessing her brother being sexually abused in a toilet in the orphanage.
She said volunteer worker Brian Dailey, who was later jailed for 15 years for abusing youngsters, molested the three-year-old in a cubicle.
Rather than investigate the abuse, McDermott slapped the girl and told her she was bringing her "filthy home habits into a good Catholic place".
McDermott, of London, also struck another girl with rosary beads and repeatedly struck her on the head and body.
She also ordered a boy to carry soiled bed sheets while shouting derogatory comments towards him.
Igoe, of Edinburgh, was convicted of abuse which included force feeding children and making one eat their own vomit as well as striking one boy on the head and body.
She also hit one boy's head repeatedly on a door.
Hughes, of Lanark, seized one boy by the hair before striking him with her arm. She also forced a girl into a freezing bath and held her head under the water.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said in 2018 that children had been sexually abused and beaten with leather straps, hairbrushes and crucifixes while in the care of the Order of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul at the orphanage that is now closed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-gla...t-67708488
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"
