AT least 130 Jesuit priests have been accused of committing sexual abuse against children between 1927 and 2012 in Spain
The El Pais newspaper, as part of its ongoing probe into paedophilia within the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, reported there were at least 160 victims who suffered at the hands of the Jesuits.
The paper said that the Jesuit who faced the largest number of complaints was Barcelona-born priest Emilio Benedetti.
Benedetti worked in several Jesuit schools and died in 2019.
He’s accused of committing sexual abuse against at least 13 victims between 1969 and 1973 but no action was taken against him.
The Catholic Church in Spain as a whole has commissioned an internal probe run by a solicitor who said in July that he’d received news of ‘hundreds’ of previously unreported sex abuse cases.
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/...eriod/amp/
Public funeral for former Archbishop of Milwaukee sparks controversy
Tuesday’s public funeral for former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland sparked a lot of difficult emotions and conflicting points of view.
In his 25 years as archbishop from 1977 to 2002, Weakland admitted to covering up sexual abuse by priests and using $450,000 in church funds to silence a male lover, who later accused Weakland of date rape. Weakland maintained it was a consensual relationship.
“It’s an embodiment of how little has changed and a slap in the face to survivors,” said Chris O’Leary, who was abused by a priest when he was a child. “There’s too much passivity. There’s too much enabling.”
O’Leary found out there was going to be a public funeral for Weakland and drove from St. Louis to stand outside of the service with a sign that reads, “What About Survivors?”
“No one should be going to this funeral,” said Peter Isley, who was abused by a priest when he was a child, and now leads the survivor advocacy group, Nate’s Mission. “By going to the funeral, priests and bishops are showing the community, they’re above all of it."
Isley and other survivors tied up photos outside the cathedral of more than 75 abusive priests under Weakland’s tenure. They also displayed posters showing young clergy abuse survivors with the message, “stolen bodies.”
In a 2008 state court deposition, Weakland admitted to shredding copies of sex abuse documents, failing to notify authorities about allegations, and moving sexually abusive priests from parish to parish without warning about their histories.
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/pub...ontroversy
The El Pais newspaper, as part of its ongoing probe into paedophilia within the Roman Catholic Church in Spain, reported there were at least 160 victims who suffered at the hands of the Jesuits.
The paper said that the Jesuit who faced the largest number of complaints was Barcelona-born priest Emilio Benedetti.
Benedetti worked in several Jesuit schools and died in 2019.
He’s accused of committing sexual abuse against at least 13 victims between 1969 and 1973 but no action was taken against him.
The Catholic Church in Spain as a whole has commissioned an internal probe run by a solicitor who said in July that he’d received news of ‘hundreds’ of previously unreported sex abuse cases.
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/...eriod/amp/
Public funeral for former Archbishop of Milwaukee sparks controversy
Tuesday’s public funeral for former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland sparked a lot of difficult emotions and conflicting points of view.
In his 25 years as archbishop from 1977 to 2002, Weakland admitted to covering up sexual abuse by priests and using $450,000 in church funds to silence a male lover, who later accused Weakland of date rape. Weakland maintained it was a consensual relationship.
“It’s an embodiment of how little has changed and a slap in the face to survivors,” said Chris O’Leary, who was abused by a priest when he was a child. “There’s too much passivity. There’s too much enabling.”
O’Leary found out there was going to be a public funeral for Weakland and drove from St. Louis to stand outside of the service with a sign that reads, “What About Survivors?”
“No one should be going to this funeral,” said Peter Isley, who was abused by a priest when he was a child, and now leads the survivor advocacy group, Nate’s Mission. “By going to the funeral, priests and bishops are showing the community, they’re above all of it."
Isley and other survivors tied up photos outside the cathedral of more than 75 abusive priests under Weakland’s tenure. They also displayed posters showing young clergy abuse survivors with the message, “stolen bodies.”
In a 2008 state court deposition, Weakland admitted to shredding copies of sex abuse documents, failing to notify authorities about allegations, and moving sexually abusive priests from parish to parish without warning about their histories.
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/pub...ontroversy
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"
