RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
September 5, 2024 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2024 at 10:23 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Ireland to set up inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders
The Irish government is to set up a statutory commission of inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by Catholic religious orders after a preliminary investigation found almost 2,400 allegations of historic abuse.
The investigation, led by a leading barrister, Mary O’Toole, documented 844 alleged abusers in 308 schools run by 42 religious orders across the Republic of Ireland.
One hundred and thirty seven people who participated in her inquiry completed in-person interviews and 12 provided written submissions.
Most of those who took part were men in their 50s and 60s.
The Irish education minister, Norma Foley, described the report as a “harrowing document, containing some of the most appalling accounts of sexual abuse”.
Allegations were made against the Spiritans, the Jesuits, the Carmelite Fathers, the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
It is understood that religious orders’ records indicate that more than half the 844 men accused of abuse are known to be deceased.
Those interviewed for the scoping inquiry described being molested, stripped naked, and drugged amid an atmosphere of terror and silence.
Some spoke of their strong belief that the abuse was so pervasive that it could not have gone unnoticed by other teachers or senior members of the religious orders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...ous-orders
Catholic Church sexual abuse victims call on Maryland AG to complete probe into all Maryland churches
Survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic church are calling on the Maryland Attorney General to complete his investigation into abuses in all Maryland churches.
They also want the church to drop its challenge to a Maryland law that eliminates the statute of limitations for victims.
The Archdiocese of Washington, which controls several churches in Maryland, is fighting to keep the statute of limitations with arguments before the Maryland Supreme Court scheduled for next week.
"To me, it's my life goal to protect children from the abuse that I suffered, and we can do that going forward. The church says on one hand they want to support us and with the other hand, they want to take the law away" said Teresa Lancaster, a victim of abuse by Father Joseph Maskell whose story has been highlighted previously on WJZ and nationally in The Keepers, a Netflix documentary.
"It proved that everything we said happened in The Keepers did happen after the church said it was a bunch of lies," Lancaster told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren Wednesday.
Baltimore's archdiocese has filed for bankruptcy, a process that is still playing out in federal court that will determine any financial settlements paid out to victims.
"They are going to be reminded that the eyes of justice and accountability will remain firmly fixed on their culpability and their hypocrisy," said Frank Schindler of SNAP.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/c...-churches/
The Irish government is to set up a statutory commission of inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by Catholic religious orders after a preliminary investigation found almost 2,400 allegations of historic abuse.
The investigation, led by a leading barrister, Mary O’Toole, documented 844 alleged abusers in 308 schools run by 42 religious orders across the Republic of Ireland.
One hundred and thirty seven people who participated in her inquiry completed in-person interviews and 12 provided written submissions.
Most of those who took part were men in their 50s and 60s.
The Irish education minister, Norma Foley, described the report as a “harrowing document, containing some of the most appalling accounts of sexual abuse”.
Allegations were made against the Spiritans, the Jesuits, the Carmelite Fathers, the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
It is understood that religious orders’ records indicate that more than half the 844 men accused of abuse are known to be deceased.
Those interviewed for the scoping inquiry described being molested, stripped naked, and drugged amid an atmosphere of terror and silence.
Some spoke of their strong belief that the abuse was so pervasive that it could not have gone unnoticed by other teachers or senior members of the religious orders.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...ous-orders
Catholic Church sexual abuse victims call on Maryland AG to complete probe into all Maryland churches
Survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic church are calling on the Maryland Attorney General to complete his investigation into abuses in all Maryland churches.
They also want the church to drop its challenge to a Maryland law that eliminates the statute of limitations for victims.
The Archdiocese of Washington, which controls several churches in Maryland, is fighting to keep the statute of limitations with arguments before the Maryland Supreme Court scheduled for next week.
"To me, it's my life goal to protect children from the abuse that I suffered, and we can do that going forward. The church says on one hand they want to support us and with the other hand, they want to take the law away" said Teresa Lancaster, a victim of abuse by Father Joseph Maskell whose story has been highlighted previously on WJZ and nationally in The Keepers, a Netflix documentary.
"It proved that everything we said happened in The Keepers did happen after the church said it was a bunch of lies," Lancaster told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren Wednesday.
Baltimore's archdiocese has filed for bankruptcy, a process that is still playing out in federal court that will determine any financial settlements paid out to victims.
"They are going to be reminded that the eyes of justice and accountability will remain firmly fixed on their culpability and their hypocrisy," said Frank Schindler of SNAP.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/c...-churches/
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"
