(July 20, 2025 at 5:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Ok, it's good that you keep pointing out all of the sexual abuses of various clergy, but where are all the articles about drag queens grooming and abusing little kids? What's that? There are none?
Oops. My badski.
Boru
Indeed, it reminds me of a quote by Megyn Kelly which she keeps repeating: "I don't care about Trump getting handsy with somebody 20 years ago. I want someone who will close the border and someone who will keep boys out of my daughter's sports, which he has."
No wonder she's a Catholic.
And talking about Catholics and Trump:
Quote:Trump and the Catholic Church Fight a Law Requiring Clergy to Report Child Abuse
The Archdiocese of Seattle, along with the dioceses of Yakima and Spokane, filed a federal lawsuit — Etienne v. Ferguson — claiming the new law was a punch thrown straight at the Catholic Church; that it forces priests to choose between obeying the state or violating a core religious duty.
Then, on June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice formally threw its weight behind the Catholic Church, filing a formal motion to intervene in the case — a request that was granted on Tuesday.
And on Friday, Judge David G. Estudillo issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the new law “as to the Sacrament of Confession” for the Seattle, Yakima, and Spokane dioceses, days before its July 27 effective date.
At its core, this battle turns on a crucial question the courts — and now the country — are forced to confront: Where does religious freedom end and the duty to protect children begin?
Under Washington’s new child protection law, clergy of all denominations are on the hook, just like physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, law enforcement officers, childcare providers, and others.
The law does not force priests to testify in court, turn over notes, or violate attorney-client privilege. What it does is narrow but consequential: If clergy learn about child abuse — even during confession — they have to notify authorities within 48 hours.
“You know, Jesus talks about protecting children at Matthew 18:6,” says Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty Institute, the legal group representing the Archdiocese of Seattle.
But not so for the Trump DOJ, who are advancing a far more sweeping argument that goes for the law’s jugular.
By filing a formal complaint, the Department of Justice is effectively teaming up with Washington’s Catholic bishops to overturn the state’s mandatory reporting law, in one of the most aggressive federal moves to back organized religion in recent memory.
After The Boston Globe’s 2002 “Spotlight” investigation, and other explosive reporting exposed widespread sexual abuse and cover-ups, the Catholic Church was forced to confront a crisis of its own making. In response, it rolled out a slate of reforms it argues are proof of serious change.
But investigations show these self-imposed safeguards have repeatedly failed to prevent continued cover-up — not just in Washington, but nationwide.
The grand jury documented church leaders persuading victims not to report, pressuring law enforcement to drop investigations, and systematically reassigning accused priests to new parishes without warning communities. Among the most egregious cases were a priest raping a girl in the hospital after a tonsillectomy, another impregnating a minor and arranging her abortion, and coordinated diocesan instructions to call rape “inappropriate contact” and conceal removals as “sick leave.” The investigation revealed diocesan “secret archives” tracking abuse allegations, internal church lawyers shielding records, and tactics explicitly designed to “avoid scandal,” while senior church officials who enabled cover-ups retained their posts or advanced in rank.
A 2019 Associated Press investigation found more than 900 clergy across the U.S. credibly accused of child sexual abuse who were missing from diocesan and religious order disclosure lists, exposing major gaps in the Church’s promised transparency nationwide.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...235388032/
The Catholic Church has found a perfect ally - a president who is a pedophile himself.
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"
