Former Catholic priest sentenced to 29 years in jail for sexual crimes against children
John Joseph Farrell, 62, was sentenced in Sydney district court on Monday for 62 historical sexual crimes against children.
Although some of Farrell’s crimes appeared at first glance to be spontaneous or opportunistic, they were in reality a result of the offender’s long-term grooming of the victims and the cultivation of their parents, the judge said.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-new...t-children
John Joseph Farrell, 62, was sentenced in Sydney district court on Monday for 62 historical sexual crimes against children.
Although some of Farrell’s crimes appeared at first glance to be spontaneous or opportunistic, they were in reality a result of the offender’s long-term grooming of the victims and the cultivation of their parents, the judge said.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-new...t-children
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"