RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
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Late Jesuit global leader didn’t stop known child molester from becoming priest – court documents
Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s aspiring priests had been accused of sexually molesting two minors and acknowledged making sexual advances on a third.
The man was ultimately ordained, and there is no indication in records in the case in Louisiana state court that Arrupe – who coined the Jesuits’ slogan “men for others” – took steps to prevent him from becoming a priest. The man was later accused of molesting other minors he met through his ministry.
Arrupe’s involvement in the case of Donald Barkley Dickerson – who died in 2016 and two years later was confirmed by the Jesuits to be one of hundreds of their members faced with substantial claims of child molestation – began toward the end of the 1970s. But it has drawn new scrutiny in a lawsuit that accuses Dickerson of raping a 17-year-old student at a Jesuit-run university in New Orleans.
The case in New Orleans civil district court raises questions about whether Arrupe, a beloved figure whose name is on numerous prestigious awards and buildings at Jesuit institutions around the world, did as much as he could to protect those who trusted in his order.
Church officials in Rome in 2019 initiated the process to canonize Arrupe (to make him a saint).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...ild-abuser
Rochester's Catholic diocese reaches $246 million settlement in clergy abuse case
Rochester, N.Y. — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester has reached a settlement with survivors of clergy sex abuse.
The settlement, totaling $246 million, includes a $120 million agreement with Continental Insurance Company, a holdout insurer.
This settlement is a major development in the diocese's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, which began in 2019 following numerous lawsuits filed under the Child Victims Act.
The act allowed survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file claims that had previously been barred by the statute of limitations.
https://13wham.com/news/local/rochester-...abuse-case
Juárez priest gets prison in child sexual abuse case
A Juárez priest was sentenced to four years plus 10 months in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl 12 years ago, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said.
Eliseo R.S. took advantage of his role as a member of the clergy to sexually abuse the child inside a Catholic church on the Juárez-Porvernir highway in on June 2, 2013, the state attorney general's office said in a news release on Monday, July 21.
The girl reported she was sexually molested by the priest during confession before making her first Communion, reported the Diario de Juárez. The child told her mother, who didn't believe her, but her sister did, confiding a similar thing had happened to her.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/c...343750007/
Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s aspiring priests had been accused of sexually molesting two minors and acknowledged making sexual advances on a third.
The man was ultimately ordained, and there is no indication in records in the case in Louisiana state court that Arrupe – who coined the Jesuits’ slogan “men for others” – took steps to prevent him from becoming a priest. The man was later accused of molesting other minors he met through his ministry.
Arrupe’s involvement in the case of Donald Barkley Dickerson – who died in 2016 and two years later was confirmed by the Jesuits to be one of hundreds of their members faced with substantial claims of child molestation – began toward the end of the 1970s. But it has drawn new scrutiny in a lawsuit that accuses Dickerson of raping a 17-year-old student at a Jesuit-run university in New Orleans.
The case in New Orleans civil district court raises questions about whether Arrupe, a beloved figure whose name is on numerous prestigious awards and buildings at Jesuit institutions around the world, did as much as he could to protect those who trusted in his order.
Church officials in Rome in 2019 initiated the process to canonize Arrupe (to make him a saint).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...ild-abuser
Rochester's Catholic diocese reaches $246 million settlement in clergy abuse case
Rochester, N.Y. — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester has reached a settlement with survivors of clergy sex abuse.
The settlement, totaling $246 million, includes a $120 million agreement with Continental Insurance Company, a holdout insurer.
This settlement is a major development in the diocese's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, which began in 2019 following numerous lawsuits filed under the Child Victims Act.
The act allowed survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file claims that had previously been barred by the statute of limitations.
https://13wham.com/news/local/rochester-...abuse-case
Juárez priest gets prison in child sexual abuse case
A Juárez priest was sentenced to four years plus 10 months in prison after he was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl 12 years ago, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said.
Eliseo R.S. took advantage of his role as a member of the clergy to sexually abuse the child inside a Catholic church on the Juárez-Porvernir highway in on June 2, 2013, the state attorney general's office said in a news release on Monday, July 21.
The girl reported she was sexually molested by the priest during confession before making her first Communion, reported the Diario de Juárez. The child told her mother, who didn't believe her, but her sister did, confiding a similar thing had happened to her.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/c...343750007/
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"
