An example of why good journalism is critical to ensuring the Catholic Church is held accountable for its sexual abuse of children. Greater awareness encourages greater disclosure.
Quote:Spiritans sued by 58 people for alleged child sexual abuse in schools as cases surge following documentary
Since October 2022, 58 people have filed civil proceedings against the Catholic order, with some also including their former schools in the claims.
The surge in cases follows two brothers going public in a radio documentary to detail the abuse they suffered on the Blackrock College campus in south Dublin at the hands of members of the Spiritans.
David and Mark Ryan shared their harrowing accounts of abuse in an RTÉ Radio 1 documentary called Blackrock Boys, which led to a wave of other victims coming forward.
Blackrock, its feeder school Willow Park, Rockwell College in Co Tipperary and St Michael’s College in Dublin are among the schools named in some of the proceedings.
A case filed this year names St Michael’s, the Spiritan congregation and Scouting Ireland, the youth organisation that has also been rocked by allegations of sex abuse.
Some of the cases taken against the Spiritans have already been settled.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/cour...14485.html
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"
