RE: Watford church leader Mike Pilavachi 'massaged young male interns'
September 18, 2023 at 7:28 am
One of Australia’s most powerful Catholic figures likely sexually assaulted four youths, Vatican report alleges
The bombshell 200-page report also found 73-year-old Christopher Saunders spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in church and charity funds grooming the young men.
The report was completed in April and sent to Rome – yet six months on, no decision has been made on his future.
Only a pope can appoint a bishop – and only a pope can defrock one.
“The Bishop has been variously described by witnesses as… a sexual predator that seeks to prey upon vulnerable Aboriginal men and boys,” the report states.
“During the investigation, four victims of sexual (delictual) acts were identified.”
“Sixty-seven additional Aboriginal boys and men were also identified as persons that may have been subjected to delictual acts or grooming behaviours by Bishop Saunders.”
It found he was spending up to $4000 a month on alcohol for the youths.
Saunders is also alleged to have had five bank accounts, which at one time held a total of $3 million. The safe in the chancery held $80,000 in cash.
He also collected multiple guns, bought a $70,000 boat and multiple cars.
The investigation was led by two former WA Police detectives with 60 years of service between them. They identified a total of 102 witnesses, and 30 were formally interviewed.
One former church worker claimed Saunders funded his lifestyle with money donated from around Australia, Broome’s local op shops and even from the Sunday service collection plates. The money was meant to go to indigenous charitable causes.
The report also reveals Saunders used the church plane to transport alcohol to dry Aboriginal communities around the vast 770,000 square kilometre diocese.
The report also found that many members of the church community who stood up to Saunders over the years “have either lost their jobs, lost their faith, or suffered both psychological and reputational damage.”
https://7news.com.au/news/wa/one-of-aust...c-11942253
The bombshell 200-page report also found 73-year-old Christopher Saunders spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in church and charity funds grooming the young men.
The report was completed in April and sent to Rome – yet six months on, no decision has been made on his future.
Only a pope can appoint a bishop – and only a pope can defrock one.
“The Bishop has been variously described by witnesses as… a sexual predator that seeks to prey upon vulnerable Aboriginal men and boys,” the report states.
“During the investigation, four victims of sexual (delictual) acts were identified.”
“Sixty-seven additional Aboriginal boys and men were also identified as persons that may have been subjected to delictual acts or grooming behaviours by Bishop Saunders.”
It found he was spending up to $4000 a month on alcohol for the youths.
Saunders is also alleged to have had five bank accounts, which at one time held a total of $3 million. The safe in the chancery held $80,000 in cash.
He also collected multiple guns, bought a $70,000 boat and multiple cars.
The investigation was led by two former WA Police detectives with 60 years of service between them. They identified a total of 102 witnesses, and 30 were formally interviewed.
One former church worker claimed Saunders funded his lifestyle with money donated from around Australia, Broome’s local op shops and even from the Sunday service collection plates. The money was meant to go to indigenous charitable causes.
The report also reveals Saunders used the church plane to transport alcohol to dry Aboriginal communities around the vast 770,000 square kilometre diocese.
The report also found that many members of the church community who stood up to Saunders over the years “have either lost their jobs, lost their faith, or suffered both psychological and reputational damage.”
https://7news.com.au/news/wa/one-of-aust...c-11942253
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"
