One dirty dozen after the other - multiplied by the infinite dirty dozens all over the world in the churches.
Quote:Another French bishop is accused of sexual abuse; he's the twelfth French bishop to be accused of abuse in the past year
Bishop Georges Colomb, head of the Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle in southwestern France the past seven years, has been accused of sexually assaulting a young adult male in 2013 when the prelate was the superior general of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP).
According to Nicolas' testimony, Colomb invited the young man to his apartment at MEP headquarters on rue de Bac in central Paris and offered him a massage before assaulting him. The victim says he reported the incident to Reithinger, who denies this.
Archbishop Pascal Wintzer of Poitiers, the metropolitan of the territory that includes La Rochelle as a suffragan diocese, confirmed that Bishop Colomb is also facing a canonical investigation in addition to the state judicial inquiry.
In recent months, Bishop Colomb's name has been linked in various ways to other sexual abuse cases. Most serious is an allegation that when he was MEP superior general he put Aymeric de Salvert – a priest who was expelled from Japan in 2011 for having a consensual sexual relationship with another adult man – in charge of the missionary society's seminarians and young volunteers.
Bishop Colomb also caused controversy in an interview with French Catholic Radio (RCF) last November when he seemed to make light of abuse charges against Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, the retired archbishop of Bordeaux.
"Cardinal Ricard was a 35-year-old priest in Bordeaux who kissed a 14-year-old girl," he declared. "There was no rape. He didn't even take her clothes off. He didn't undress her. He just kissed her," the bishop said.
https://international.la-croix.com/news/...buse/17976
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"
