Fever of bankruptcy sweeps US Catholic church, as yet another California diocese says it's broke because of so many sexual abuse cases.
Church bosses never used the courts to punish predator priests. But they love how courts now protect their wealth.
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/cen...ankruptcy/
How My Family Survived Sexual Abuse Within the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Growing up, a man was sexually abused by an older church member. Then his daughter suffered the same fate.
For the latest episode of VICE’s Informer series, we spoke to an anonymous former Jehovah’s Witness “elder”—or senior male religious leader—about the prevalence of sexual abuse within the church and what he says is the organization’s reluctance to tackle the problem for fear of bringing the church into disrepute.
“There is a cover-up of sexual abuse. I now know and can tell you with certainty that it is very, very prevalent,” said the man, who is based in the UK and was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness from the age of 5.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wjwx/s...ess-church
Church bosses never used the courts to punish predator priests. But they love how courts now protect their wealth.
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/cen...ankruptcy/
How My Family Survived Sexual Abuse Within the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Growing up, a man was sexually abused by an older church member. Then his daughter suffered the same fate.
For the latest episode of VICE’s Informer series, we spoke to an anonymous former Jehovah’s Witness “elder”—or senior male religious leader—about the prevalence of sexual abuse within the church and what he says is the organization’s reluctance to tackle the problem for fear of bringing the church into disrepute.
“There is a cover-up of sexual abuse. I now know and can tell you with certainty that it is very, very prevalent,” said the man, who is based in the UK and was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness from the age of 5.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wjwx/s...ess-church
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"
