(December 27, 2016 at 4:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The fish still stinks from the head down.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/alleged-...-assaults/
Quote:Alleged pedophile victims claim Pope Francis was aware of assaults
Quote:According to FOX News Latino, alleged victims of Rev. Nicola Corradi said they wrote a letter to the pontiff in 2014 warning him that the purported pedophile had been reassigned to the South American country.
The site reports that the victims' families contend that the Vatican knew about him since at least 2009, when he was publicly accused of abusing students at the Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy, where he then worked.
We recently reported that Argentine police arrested 82-year old Nicola Corradi, priest Horacio Corbacho, 55, and three other men at the Antonio Próvolo Institute, a school for youths with hearing disabilities in the northwest of the country for sexually abusing the children.
Here is something that no one in the media talks about (and was surprised it never came up in the film Spotlight or its real life investigations) when it comes to the priestly pedophile scandals: In my belief, one of the reasons (perhaps the biggest reason) why it is covered up so much is because of the Catholic practice of the "seal of confession". So a priest could molest or rape a child, go to a priest in their parish, confess it, and the priest who found this out in confession is not allowed to tell ANYONE about this because he is bound by the seal of confession, meaning he is not allowed to tell anyone what someone confesses to him in the confessional. If the priest does tell someone, he is automatically excommunicated from the Church and this excommunication can only be lifted by the Pope himself. Now the priest who "repented" faces no legal punishment because his confessor is not allowed to tell the Police, even anonymously. Now with these pedophiles, they might "repent", but they seem to always try to abuse again! So the cycle repeats itself, putting more children at risk, until someone finds out outside of the confessional and then there is the frequent strategy of quietly reassigning priests before a major scandal unfolds. Does the Church really care about protecting these particular abusers? Hell no! What they are keen on protecting is their wallet. If word gets out, in a public scandal, that is tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain in settlements.
I always get so cynical when parishes are ordered to do the "Cardinal's Annual Appeal", that's like one Sunday out of the year, in particular parishes, where the homily is basically dedicated to begging parishioners for donations (larger than usual ones). Envelopes and pencils are conveniently provided in the pews for churchgoers to declare their donation. The person discussing the Cardinal's Annual Appeal often goes to great lengths to extol all of the good things the money does. But when you see Catholic schools (that honestly are very helpful in inner cities) closing all over the place due to lack of funding, one has to wonder where this money is really going. I'd like to find out how much of this money has gone to settling priestly sex abuse cases. In my view, the Vatican should be settling ALL of the financial consequences of abuse cases, not the particular dioceses which only derive their money by extracting it from the parishioners. I doubt the priests or bishops are taking pay cuts to pay off the settlement, it's the regular church going Catholics whose donations are used to pay the settlement.