RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
August 21, 2022 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2022 at 2:55 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Catholic priests are the guardians of child molesters.
Attorneys say diocese has been slow to disclose priest abuse files
Dozens of personnel files for clergy and others associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany as of midday on Friday had not been turned over to the attorneys for hundreds of victims who allege they were sexually abused as children.
Despite court orders instructing the diocese to turn over the materials, and public proclamations by Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger and other officials that the diocese is being transparent, the attorneys said more than half of the treatment and personnel files for roughly 60 accuses priests had not been disclosed before a Friday court conference.
The pre-trial discovery process is supposed to unfold as a slow-moving mediation plan is being negotiated by the church and attorneys for more than 440 alleged victims of abuse who have filed lawsuits against the diocese — or individual priests, parishes and schools — under New York's Child Victims Act.
During the conference Friday before state Supreme Court Justice L. Michael Mackey, attorney Cynthia LaFave, who is part of a mediation liaison team for the plaintiffs, told the judge that it is critical for the attorneys to receive both the priests' personnel files as well as detailed information on the diocese's insurance policies and financial assets.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article...384823.php
Three more women file sexual abuse claims against Quebec Catholic church
After Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was accused by a woman of sexual assault in a class-action lawsuit introduced this week, more women have come forward with similar allegations against members of the province's Catholic Church.
"It exploded since yesterday," Kirouack said about the introduction in Superior Court of two class-action lawsuits against members of the Catholic Church in Quebec, involving hundreds of alleged victims.
It was the media reports about the allegations against the cardinal, however, that led to numerous calls to Kirouack from women. She said the high-profile allegations by an adult woman broke the stereotype commonly associated with church abuse — that it involves young children, mostly boys.
In the first lawsuit, in which Ouellet is named, 101 alleged victims have accused about 88 priests or diocesan staff of sexual assault. Around 19 women are among the alleged victims, Wee said Wednesday in an interview.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08...lic-church
Quote:Group gathers to rally against Utah's clergy reporting exemption
About 300 people gathered Friday evening at the Utah Capitol to call for the state to change a law that allows members of the clergy to be exempt from reporting child abuse if they learn about it during confessionals.
Many of the attendees wore the color teal, which organizers said was to support sexual abuse survivors, and some carried signs with slogans such as: "Protect children, make reporting mandatory," "And none will molest them," "Report then repent," and "Choose what is right, let the consequence follow."
Utah law requires anyone who learns of or suspects child abuse to report it to law enforcement, with few exceptions including clergy.
According to state law, anyone who "has reason to believe that a child is, or has been, the subject of abuse or neglect, or observes a child being subjected to conditions or circumstances that would reasonably result in abuse or neglect, the individual shall immediately report the suspected abuse or neglect to the division or to the nearest peace officer or law enforcement agency."
Clergy members, however, are exempt from that requirement "with regard to any confession made to the member of the clergy while functioning in the ministerial capacity of the member of the clergy and without the consent of the individual making the confession" if the person made the confession directly to the clergy member, and if the clergy member is "under canon law or church doctrine or practice, bound to maintain the confidentiality of that confession," according to state code.
https://www.ksl.com/article/50459617/gro...-exemption
Attorneys say diocese has been slow to disclose priest abuse files
Dozens of personnel files for clergy and others associated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany as of midday on Friday had not been turned over to the attorneys for hundreds of victims who allege they were sexually abused as children.
Despite court orders instructing the diocese to turn over the materials, and public proclamations by Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger and other officials that the diocese is being transparent, the attorneys said more than half of the treatment and personnel files for roughly 60 accuses priests had not been disclosed before a Friday court conference.
The pre-trial discovery process is supposed to unfold as a slow-moving mediation plan is being negotiated by the church and attorneys for more than 440 alleged victims of abuse who have filed lawsuits against the diocese — or individual priests, parishes and schools — under New York's Child Victims Act.
During the conference Friday before state Supreme Court Justice L. Michael Mackey, attorney Cynthia LaFave, who is part of a mediation liaison team for the plaintiffs, told the judge that it is critical for the attorneys to receive both the priests' personnel files as well as detailed information on the diocese's insurance policies and financial assets.
https://www.timesunion.com/state/article...384823.php
Three more women file sexual abuse claims against Quebec Catholic church
After Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was accused by a woman of sexual assault in a class-action lawsuit introduced this week, more women have come forward with similar allegations against members of the province's Catholic Church.
"It exploded since yesterday," Kirouack said about the introduction in Superior Court of two class-action lawsuits against members of the Catholic Church in Quebec, involving hundreds of alleged victims.
It was the media reports about the allegations against the cardinal, however, that led to numerous calls to Kirouack from women. She said the high-profile allegations by an adult woman broke the stereotype commonly associated with church abuse — that it involves young children, mostly boys.
In the first lawsuit, in which Ouellet is named, 101 alleged victims have accused about 88 priests or diocesan staff of sexual assault. Around 19 women are among the alleged victims, Wee said Wednesday in an interview.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08...lic-church
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"
