RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
August 3, 2023 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2023 at 12:46 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Kwame Raoul named 451 Catholic clergymen in statewide sex abuse report. More than a dozen served on the mid-South Side
After a five-year investigation, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report this May listing hundreds of Catholic clerics and religious brothers accused of child sexual abuse. The report, which covers the state and goes back decades, names 451 clergymen with substantiated child sex abuse cases — 19 of these clergymen served on the mid-South Side.
The majority of local reported abuse cases came out of the church of Saint Clara-Saint Cyril — the building now inhabited by Shrine of Christ the King — and Mount Carmel High School, both in Woodlawn. Other local clergymen on the Attorney General’s offender list were stationed at Saint Thomas the Apostle Church and the University of Chicago in Hyde Park; Saint Columbanus — now Saint Moses the Black Parish — in Greater Grand Crossing; and Holy Angels in Bronzeville.
In addition to a list of accused clergymen and where they served, the 696-page report details several graphic, firsthand accounts of sexual abuse.
The Raoul report estimates that at least 1,997 Illinois children were victims of sexual abuse by clergymen across the state’s six dioceses.
While the 2023 report is more comprehensive than the 103 names of substantiated child sex abusers the Catholic dioceses of Illinois had publicly listed prior to the investigation, the full scope of damage is incalculable.
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/...ee281.html
Former Albany diocese bishop Howard Hubbard marries
Howard Hubbard, the bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany who has come under fire in recent years for his handling of child sexual abuse cases and has faced several accusations of his own, announced Tuesday that he married a “wonderful woman” last month after the Vatican denied his request to return to civilian life earlier this year.
In his letter, Hubbard said he hopes and prays for four things: that survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their families find peace; that he has an opportunity to prove his innocence; that his marriage be one of “fidelity, love and service”; and that the Vatican will grant his laicization and recognize his marriage.
Hubbard has come under fire since retiring for his handling of priests that had been accused of sexually abusing children, admitting in a 2021 deposition that he was aware that numerous priests had been accused of abusing children but never altered the proper authorities. Instead, he ordered the alleged abusers to complete a treatment program before allowing them to return to service.
Hubbard has also been accused of committing sexual assault in seven lawsuits filed as part of the Child Victims Act, a New York state law approved in 2019 that opened a two-year look back window allowing victims of sexual assault to sue their alleged abusers.
Hundreds of lawsuits Child Victim Act lawsuits have been filed against the Albany diocese.
https://dailygazette.com/2023/08/01/form...d-marries/
After a five-year investigation, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report this May listing hundreds of Catholic clerics and religious brothers accused of child sexual abuse. The report, which covers the state and goes back decades, names 451 clergymen with substantiated child sex abuse cases — 19 of these clergymen served on the mid-South Side.
The majority of local reported abuse cases came out of the church of Saint Clara-Saint Cyril — the building now inhabited by Shrine of Christ the King — and Mount Carmel High School, both in Woodlawn. Other local clergymen on the Attorney General’s offender list were stationed at Saint Thomas the Apostle Church and the University of Chicago in Hyde Park; Saint Columbanus — now Saint Moses the Black Parish — in Greater Grand Crossing; and Holy Angels in Bronzeville.
In addition to a list of accused clergymen and where they served, the 696-page report details several graphic, firsthand accounts of sexual abuse.
The Raoul report estimates that at least 1,997 Illinois children were victims of sexual abuse by clergymen across the state’s six dioceses.
While the 2023 report is more comprehensive than the 103 names of substantiated child sex abusers the Catholic dioceses of Illinois had publicly listed prior to the investigation, the full scope of damage is incalculable.
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/...ee281.html
Former Albany diocese bishop Howard Hubbard marries
Howard Hubbard, the bishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany who has come under fire in recent years for his handling of child sexual abuse cases and has faced several accusations of his own, announced Tuesday that he married a “wonderful woman” last month after the Vatican denied his request to return to civilian life earlier this year.
In his letter, Hubbard said he hopes and prays for four things: that survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their families find peace; that he has an opportunity to prove his innocence; that his marriage be one of “fidelity, love and service”; and that the Vatican will grant his laicization and recognize his marriage.
Hubbard has come under fire since retiring for his handling of priests that had been accused of sexually abusing children, admitting in a 2021 deposition that he was aware that numerous priests had been accused of abusing children but never altered the proper authorities. Instead, he ordered the alleged abusers to complete a treatment program before allowing them to return to service.
Hubbard has also been accused of committing sexual assault in seven lawsuits filed as part of the Child Victims Act, a New York state law approved in 2019 that opened a two-year look back window allowing victims of sexual assault to sue their alleged abusers.
Hundreds of lawsuits Child Victim Act lawsuits have been filed against the Albany diocese.
https://dailygazette.com/2023/08/01/form...d-marries/
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"
