Chicago Archdiocese To Pay $1.75 Million To Woman Who Says Priest Sexually Abused Her At South Side Catholic School
The priest kept the girl inside for recess and sexually assaulted her, making her read the Bible during the abuse, the woman said. He also called her a bad child and told her God was angry with her, she said.
Boley was assigned to St. Clara-St. Cyril after 12 years in Los Angeles, according to the Carmelites’ list of members with “credible or public allegations” of sexually abusing children.
Another case against Boley, in which a woman accused him of abusing her as a child while he taught at Los Angeles’ St. Raphael Parish in the 1980s, was one of hundreds of abuse claims settled by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2007.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $660 million payout to settle the Boley abuse claim and more than 500 others remains the largest-ever settlement in the Catholic Church’s decades-long sexual abuse scandal.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/08/05/...ic-school/
Portugal’s Catholic Church child sex-abuse scandal deepens
Bit by bit the hideous truth that Catholic priests in Portugal have been left relatively free (if not almost completely free) to sexually abuse children for decades is coming home to roost.
Today, Expresso reveals another 12 priests have been outed by one of their own – half of them still in active duties.
The story is all the more disturbing for the mantle of silence purportedly imposed by the Church’s hierarchy.
Previously, allegations have explained how Lisbon’s Cardinal Patriarch failed to report abuse to the police – now developments suggest at least two bishops were involved in what can only be described as ‘cover ups’.
Even when families came forwards with allegations, priests were allowed to wriggle off the hook – being transferred to other parishes to continue within the Church.
The priest identified by the youngster (aged 15 when he says he was abused) ‘denied everything’ when challenged, and was sent to a different parish (in Lisbon) “where more allegations of abuse against minors were made.
“Later he was sent to a parish in a European capital, where he remains in functions”, says the paper.
This far the commission has received 362 complaints, 17 of which have been sent to authorities, resulting in 10 active inquiries.
https://www.portugalresident.com/portuga...l-deepens/
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg announces agreement in principle on final settlement with sex abuse survivors
in a press release, the diocese said the proposed agreement with its creditors calls for creation of a $7.5 million Survivor Compensation Trust to provide financial restitution for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. The fund may also be enlarged through future settlements with diocesan insurance carriers, the church noted.
The church said approximately 54 timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during the bankruptcy process.
That appears to be in addition to 111 survivors separately paid in 2019 by the diocese’s independent Survivor Compensation Program, for a total financial commitment of $12,784,450. The average payout to those accepting the Harrisburg diocese’s offers in that program was about $114,000.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/ca...ivors.html
‘No justice’: Thousands of NYC child sex abuse cases stalled in courts
Child sex abuse victims say the wheels of justice have ground to a near halt in New York City, where 5,000 lawsuits brought under a state law meant to give them justice have languished for years.
they say few judges have been assigned to city CVA cases, creating the opportunity for aggressive defendants such as the Catholic Church, which has been sued by hundreds of people, to seek endless legal delays.
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed since the Child Victim’s Act was passed in 2019.
New York City: 5,370
New York State: 10,857
https://nypost.com/2022/08/06/thousands-...in-courts/
Priests ‘weaponised’ God in bid to keep child abuse hushed up, says report
A report into the psychology of people who abuse children was released by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry yesterday, with its roundtable experts finding abusers from religious settings “had the capacity for self-delusion, engaging in thinking that was illogical” and that some “handed the moral responsibility for the abuse back to God”.
The 33-page report said it may have been easier for those from religious settings to abuse because of them being able to take advantage of the habitual deference offered to them.
Abusers could rely on being in high regard, using that as a way to silence children, and may have even allowed the abuser to think he had the permission to abuse children and “act with impunity”.
The expert panel told inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith that God was “weaponised” and the Catholic Church “reinforced that sense of permission to abuse children”.
“When you add God in as the other factor, who is always there, omnipresent, watching what you are doing and listening to what you’re saying and knowing what you’re thinking, it becomes all the more powerful.
“As a mechanism to silence children, it had proven very effective.”
“But as an institution, there was this message: avoid bringing scandal on the church. Which essentially has translated across institutions into protect the institution and its reputation before you protect the child or the young person.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/202774...ys-report/
The priest kept the girl inside for recess and sexually assaulted her, making her read the Bible during the abuse, the woman said. He also called her a bad child and told her God was angry with her, she said.
Boley was assigned to St. Clara-St. Cyril after 12 years in Los Angeles, according to the Carmelites’ list of members with “credible or public allegations” of sexually abusing children.
Another case against Boley, in which a woman accused him of abusing her as a child while he taught at Los Angeles’ St. Raphael Parish in the 1980s, was one of hundreds of abuse claims settled by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2007.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $660 million payout to settle the Boley abuse claim and more than 500 others remains the largest-ever settlement in the Catholic Church’s decades-long sexual abuse scandal.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/08/05/...ic-school/
Portugal’s Catholic Church child sex-abuse scandal deepens
Bit by bit the hideous truth that Catholic priests in Portugal have been left relatively free (if not almost completely free) to sexually abuse children for decades is coming home to roost.
Today, Expresso reveals another 12 priests have been outed by one of their own – half of them still in active duties.
The story is all the more disturbing for the mantle of silence purportedly imposed by the Church’s hierarchy.
Previously, allegations have explained how Lisbon’s Cardinal Patriarch failed to report abuse to the police – now developments suggest at least two bishops were involved in what can only be described as ‘cover ups’.
Even when families came forwards with allegations, priests were allowed to wriggle off the hook – being transferred to other parishes to continue within the Church.
The priest identified by the youngster (aged 15 when he says he was abused) ‘denied everything’ when challenged, and was sent to a different parish (in Lisbon) “where more allegations of abuse against minors were made.
“Later he was sent to a parish in a European capital, where he remains in functions”, says the paper.
This far the commission has received 362 complaints, 17 of which have been sent to authorities, resulting in 10 active inquiries.
https://www.portugalresident.com/portuga...l-deepens/
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg announces agreement in principle on final settlement with sex abuse survivors
in a press release, the diocese said the proposed agreement with its creditors calls for creation of a $7.5 million Survivor Compensation Trust to provide financial restitution for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. The fund may also be enlarged through future settlements with diocesan insurance carriers, the church noted.
The church said approximately 54 timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during the bankruptcy process.
That appears to be in addition to 111 survivors separately paid in 2019 by the diocese’s independent Survivor Compensation Program, for a total financial commitment of $12,784,450. The average payout to those accepting the Harrisburg diocese’s offers in that program was about $114,000.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/ca...ivors.html
‘No justice’: Thousands of NYC child sex abuse cases stalled in courts
Child sex abuse victims say the wheels of justice have ground to a near halt in New York City, where 5,000 lawsuits brought under a state law meant to give them justice have languished for years.
they say few judges have been assigned to city CVA cases, creating the opportunity for aggressive defendants such as the Catholic Church, which has been sued by hundreds of people, to seek endless legal delays.
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed since the Child Victim’s Act was passed in 2019.
New York City: 5,370
New York State: 10,857
https://nypost.com/2022/08/06/thousands-...in-courts/
Priests ‘weaponised’ God in bid to keep child abuse hushed up, says report
A report into the psychology of people who abuse children was released by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry yesterday, with its roundtable experts finding abusers from religious settings “had the capacity for self-delusion, engaging in thinking that was illogical” and that some “handed the moral responsibility for the abuse back to God”.
The 33-page report said it may have been easier for those from religious settings to abuse because of them being able to take advantage of the habitual deference offered to them.
Abusers could rely on being in high regard, using that as a way to silence children, and may have even allowed the abuser to think he had the permission to abuse children and “act with impunity”.
The expert panel told inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith that God was “weaponised” and the Catholic Church “reinforced that sense of permission to abuse children”.
“When you add God in as the other factor, who is always there, omnipresent, watching what you are doing and listening to what you’re saying and knowing what you’re thinking, it becomes all the more powerful.
“As a mechanism to silence children, it had proven very effective.”
“But as an institution, there was this message: avoid bringing scandal on the church. Which essentially has translated across institutions into protect the institution and its reputation before you protect the child or the young person.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/202774...ys-report/
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"
