This is a news from 2012 but still very gripping
Catholic Church castrated Dutch boys who reported sexual abuse
At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s “to get rid of homosexuality,” a Dutch journalist has learned.
Among the victims was a young man named Henk Heithuis, who was castrated at age 18 after reporting sexual abuse by priests when living in Catholic institutions, where he had lived since infancy. He died in a car crash in 1956, two years after being forced to undergo genital mutilation by Church officials
At least nine other teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were also surgically castrated by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s “to get rid of homosexuality,” a Dutch journalist has learned.
http://wisconsingazette.com/2012/03/22/c...ual-abuse/
Catholic Church castrated Dutch boys who reported sexual abuse
At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s “to get rid of homosexuality,” a Dutch journalist has learned.
Among the victims was a young man named Henk Heithuis, who was castrated at age 18 after reporting sexual abuse by priests when living in Catholic institutions, where he had lived since infancy. He died in a car crash in 1956, two years after being forced to undergo genital mutilation by Church officials
At least nine other teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were also surgically castrated by the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s “to get rid of homosexuality,” a Dutch journalist has learned.
http://wisconsingazette.com/2012/03/22/c...ual-abuse/
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"