Let's see what the scum has been doing lately....
‘Red flags everywhere’: high court in Australia asks Catholic church why it didn’t investigate priest’s abuse 50 years ago
The high court has pressed the Catholic church to explain why it didn’t have an adequate opportunity 50 years ago to investigate the extent of a priest’s abuse of children, given there were “red flags everywhere” about his crimes.
The court on Thursday began hearing a key case about a legal tactic now routinely being employed by the church and other institutions to permanently shield themselves from abuse survivors’ civil claims for compensation.
The approach has infuriated survivors and their advocates, who say the church is now effectively using the passage of time to avoid trial, despite the fact the church systemically and deliberately concealed abuse for decades in dioceses across Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...-years-ago
St. Louis Catholic church settles $1M lawsuit for priest sexually assaulting boy for 3 years. Imprisoned for 12 years for other sex crimes, Vatican took 5 years to defrock perpetrator.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...se-lawsuit
Baptist official in Louisiana arrested on sex crime charges
A prominent Louisiana Baptist leader in the central Louisiana area has been arrested, law enforcement said.
Daryl Stagg, 60, of Pollock, was arrested on Thursday and is being held at the Grant Parish Detention Center in Colfax.
Stagg has been charged with felonies: three counts each of oral sexual battery, first degree rape, aggravated crimes against nature and indecent behavior with juveniles.
Bond has been set at $500,000. He remains in jail at this time.
The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office said that there will be a press conference on Monday to discuss a recent investigation involving sex crimes with young children as victims.
https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/09/baptist-...e-charges/
Kansas Catholic high school teacher gets 5 years for secretly filming girls, 2016- 2021. Hard drive had carefully organized files of 25 girls. Lawsuit alleges he posted some images online.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/ar...06806.html
The Texas Nuns and the Church’s Cone of Silence
For those who haven’t been following the story, the dispute between Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson and the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington — led by their prioress Mother Teresa Agnes of Jesus Crucified Gerlach, O.C.D. — has continued to escalate.
Today’s revelation included two photographs provided by the diocese that were allegedly “taken by a confidential informant in the monastery. They show cluttered tables covered with scores of pill bottles, baggies, vape cartridges and what appears to be a bong. A crucifix is seen on one table littered with bottles.” This new information provides the first significant challenge to a narrative that has, until now, been overwhelmingly one-sided.
This story became widespread following a May 16 statement from the diocese saying that Bishop Olson received a report in April alleging that Gerlach had engaged in sexual behavior with a priest from outside the diocese, violating her vow of chastity. The statement also indicated that the superiors of the priest (whose name has not been made public) were notified. The diocese responded to the allegations against Gerlach by initiating an ecclesiastical investigation into the matter.
https://wherepeteris.com/the-texas-nuns-...f-silence/
After raid found 1000's of images, former RI priest pleads guilty to child pornography
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/...302919007/
Abuse claims and outrage mount as Jesuit order and church in Bolivia undergo a tectonic shake
Revelations of rampant sexual abuse by deceased Jesuit Fr. Alfonso Pedrajas have prompted dozens of people in Bolivia to come forward with similar accusations of atrocities in the South American country, where the Catholic Church confronts a reckoning over the criminal acts of pedophile priests.
An investigation by Bolivian newspaper Página Siete found more than 170 victims of clerical sexual abuse being raised since early May, when the Spanish newspaper El País published its exposé into Pedrajas -- a Spanish Jesuit who kept a record of his abuse of children by writing a diary.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/abuse-cla...onic-shake
‘Red flags everywhere’: high court in Australia asks Catholic church why it didn’t investigate priest’s abuse 50 years ago
The high court has pressed the Catholic church to explain why it didn’t have an adequate opportunity 50 years ago to investigate the extent of a priest’s abuse of children, given there were “red flags everywhere” about his crimes.
The court on Thursday began hearing a key case about a legal tactic now routinely being employed by the church and other institutions to permanently shield themselves from abuse survivors’ civil claims for compensation.
The approach has infuriated survivors and their advocates, who say the church is now effectively using the passage of time to avoid trial, despite the fact the church systemically and deliberately concealed abuse for decades in dioceses across Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...-years-ago
St. Louis Catholic church settles $1M lawsuit for priest sexually assaulting boy for 3 years. Imprisoned for 12 years for other sex crimes, Vatican took 5 years to defrock perpetrator.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...se-lawsuit
Baptist official in Louisiana arrested on sex crime charges
A prominent Louisiana Baptist leader in the central Louisiana area has been arrested, law enforcement said.
Daryl Stagg, 60, of Pollock, was arrested on Thursday and is being held at the Grant Parish Detention Center in Colfax.
Stagg has been charged with felonies: three counts each of oral sexual battery, first degree rape, aggravated crimes against nature and indecent behavior with juveniles.
Bond has been set at $500,000. He remains in jail at this time.
The Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office said that there will be a press conference on Monday to discuss a recent investigation involving sex crimes with young children as victims.
https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/09/baptist-...e-charges/
Kansas Catholic high school teacher gets 5 years for secretly filming girls, 2016- 2021. Hard drive had carefully organized files of 25 girls. Lawsuit alleges he posted some images online.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/ar...06806.html
The Texas Nuns and the Church’s Cone of Silence
For those who haven’t been following the story, the dispute between Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson and the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington — led by their prioress Mother Teresa Agnes of Jesus Crucified Gerlach, O.C.D. — has continued to escalate.
Today’s revelation included two photographs provided by the diocese that were allegedly “taken by a confidential informant in the monastery. They show cluttered tables covered with scores of pill bottles, baggies, vape cartridges and what appears to be a bong. A crucifix is seen on one table littered with bottles.” This new information provides the first significant challenge to a narrative that has, until now, been overwhelmingly one-sided.
This story became widespread following a May 16 statement from the diocese saying that Bishop Olson received a report in April alleging that Gerlach had engaged in sexual behavior with a priest from outside the diocese, violating her vow of chastity. The statement also indicated that the superiors of the priest (whose name has not been made public) were notified. The diocese responded to the allegations against Gerlach by initiating an ecclesiastical investigation into the matter.
https://wherepeteris.com/the-texas-nuns-...f-silence/
After raid found 1000's of images, former RI priest pleads guilty to child pornography
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/...302919007/
Abuse claims and outrage mount as Jesuit order and church in Bolivia undergo a tectonic shake
Revelations of rampant sexual abuse by deceased Jesuit Fr. Alfonso Pedrajas have prompted dozens of people in Bolivia to come forward with similar accusations of atrocities in the South American country, where the Catholic Church confronts a reckoning over the criminal acts of pedophile priests.
An investigation by Bolivian newspaper Página Siete found more than 170 victims of clerical sexual abuse being raised since early May, when the Spanish newspaper El País published its exposé into Pedrajas -- a Spanish Jesuit who kept a record of his abuse of children by writing a diary.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/abuse-cla...onic-shake
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"
