Bishop of Northampton charged with child rape
A bishop has been charged with two counts of rape against a female under the age of 16.
Staffordshire Police say the charges against David James Oakley, the Bishop of Northampton, follow his arrest in September last year. The offences are alleged to have taken place in Staffordshire between February 2000 and February 2001, the force said.
Oakley, 70, is due to appear at Cannock Magistrates' Court on 14 August.
He served in several parishes within the Archdiocese of Birmingham before becoming Bishop of Northampton in 2020.
Oakley was also a front runner to become leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales at one point.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg43p81gqko
A bishop has been charged with two counts of rape against a female under the age of 16.
Staffordshire Police say the charges against David James Oakley, the Bishop of Northampton, follow his arrest in September last year. The offences are alleged to have taken place in Staffordshire between February 2000 and February 2001, the force said.
Oakley, 70, is due to appear at Cannock Magistrates' Court on 14 August.
He served in several parishes within the Archdiocese of Birmingham before becoming Bishop of Northampton in 2020.
Oakley was also a front runner to become leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales at one point.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg43p81gqko
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"
