[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Yep, it's just a few bad apples, just as the apologists for the Catholic institution keep telling us.

Pennsylvania Diocese Leaders Knew of Sex Abuse for Decades, Grand Jury Says

Over four decades, at least 50 priests and other church employees molested hundreds of children in a small Roman Catholic diocese in central Pennsylvania, and in many cases their superiors knew of the abuses but did not remove the priests or notify law enforcement, according to a grand jury report released on Tuesday.

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“They placed their desire to avoid public scandal over the well-being of innocent children,” the report says.

[Father Maurice Lester]

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Oh please... a Grand Jury report like this is nothing more than organized rumors used for political purposes. These Grand Juries are more often than not dog and pony shows used to spread lies and misinformation that cannot be substantiated in a proper court of law.

Anyone can stand up and make wild accusations that are not subject to the kind of careful deliberation and cross-examination one expects in a formal court setting.

Does anyone in this day and age really believe The Holy Roman Church was an out of control child-sex pedo-ring run by thousands of evil men?

This is typical of the Hollywood leftists and jealous Evangelical types on the 'right' who are desperate to damage the single most important institution on earth.




Bless you, my wishful Waqf,
Father Mo



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[Johny Joe Hold]

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I've been thinking Landover Baptist and the City of Freehold could jointly sponsor a contest called THE PANTS DOWN PRIEST AWARD.

It would be given to the Diocese with the most priests indicted for crimes involving sex. I had thought the Milwaukee Diocese was a top contender. Now the Pennsylvania place is giving Milwaukee a run for its money.

The floor is open for nominations.

[Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson]

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Mr. Mayor -- what about Rome, the mother of all these Cathylick abominations!

[Jim Farmer]

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The city of Ballarat in Australia could be a contender. One of them was the guy who is now Nbr 3 in the papist church world wide - a certain Cardinal George Pell.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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Surprise surprise, the Catholic Church got caught with her children's pants down... again. Washington Post reports on a secret archive at the Altoona-Johnstown diocese, which dates back to the 1950s and was opened up this summer when authorities obtained a search warrant. The grand jury interviewed surviving priests and their alleged victims, and compiled a 147-page account detailing accusations against more than 50 religious leaders including priests and teachers.

I found myself poring over a grand jury report outlining in sickening detail the abuse of hundreds of children by at least 50 priests and religious leaders in western Pennsylvania’s Altoona-Johnstown Diocese — in my hometown. … I figured I might recognize a few of the accused or some of the churches. I quickly realized things stretched far beyond that.

The names of priests and parishes from my childhood appeared, one after another, all familiar. My grade school priest. Not one but two pastors from my neighborhood parish, a half block from my childhood home. The principal, vice principal and music director from my high school. A priest I once met with to consider officiating my wedding. The priest at the church my four nieces and nephews attended. The chaplain of the nearby Catholic hospital, where my mom volunteered.

I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Two of the priests, leaders at Bishop McCort High School, where my parents sent me and my three brothers in the 1970s to receive a quality religious education, were “sexual partner[s]” who worked together to molest a 13-year-old boy, the report said. They coordinated visits to his house. Once one priest had “satisfied himself,” the report said, the other “took advantage of a victim he believed to be compliant.” One had been my religion teacher.

To put this in perspective, the Boston abuse scandal that opened the public eye to the moral and ethical corruption of the Catholic Corporation found one child-molesting clergyman per 22,500 parishioners. In Altoona-Johnstown, the ratio turns out to be ten times worse — one pious rapist per 2,000 followers. Revealingly, the public shrugs its collective shoulders and says, "Oh, again?"

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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20 Years of Catlick kiddy-fiddling - Will it ever stop?

From 21 Nov 2002

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1413822/Cleared-priest-in-child-risk-checks.html

Cleared priest in child risk checks

A Roman Catholic priest is being assessed for any risk that he may pose to children more than two years after parishioners first raised concerns about him directly with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. (See more about this Servant of Satan at the bottom of this post.)

A child protection "risk assessment" on Fr Philip Temple, who is attached to the parish of Christ the King, Cockfosters, north London, was begun only after The Telegraph made inquiries about his case.

The delay in acting on the parishioners' concerns suggests that the Church's tough new rules on child protection are either inadequate or not being adhered to fully.

Fr Temple, 52, a Benedictine monk, stood trial for abusing a teenage boy and admitted in court to being close to the alleged victim and giving him "pocket money".

He was acquitted after a retrial in 1999 and returned to parish work. But members of the local congregation raised concerns about his continued presence in Cockfosters with the Archdiocese of Westminster.

Cardinal MurphyO'Connor and other senior clergy expressed disquiet about the situation. But the cardinal said he could not act because Fr Temple is a monk in the Olivetan Benedictine Order who is answerable to his abbot in Italy and not under the jurisdiction of the archdiocese.

The case could, however, have been referred to the church's new child protection specialists - appointed following Lord Nolan's review - for an assessment process.

Eileen Shearer, director of the new Catholic Office for the Protection of Children, said yesterday she was "concerned that there had not been a risk assessment" of Fr Temple earlier.

Ms Shearer said it was "essential" that any risk to children was assessed immediately when suspicions about child abuse were raised.

Fast forward to March 2016:
http://www.tandridge-today.co.uk/art...earchyear=2016

Man charged with historic sex attacks appears at Bromley Magistrates’ Court

A MAN charged with a string of historic child sex offences has appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court.

66-year-old Philip Temple, of no fixed address, was charged with 27 offences of non-recent sexual assault and two counts of perjury.

He is alleged to have abused 12 victims between 1971 and 1998 in children’s care homes managed by Wandsworth Council, Lambeth Council and Christ the King Monastery in Southgate, Enfield.


Temple was arrested under Operation Trinity following complaints made to police in November 2012.

He appeared at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and was remanded in custody to appear at Croydon Crown Court on April 6.

And, on 6th April 2016

http://www.pressreader.com/uk/i-from...09921/textview
Ex-priest admits 20 chiLd sex offences
A former care worker and priest has admitted to 20 historical child sex offences. Philip Temple, 67, is charged with 27 counts involving 12 victims at children’s homes run by Wandsworth and Lambeth councils and at a monastery in Southgate. He denied seven of the 27 charges at Croydon Crown Court.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

Paedophilia in the Catholic Church

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/features/paedophile_priests.shtml

An investigation by the Today Programme has uncovered new evidence that Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales failed to act appropriately when dealing with paedophile priests in his former diocese of Arundel and Brighton.

The Cardinal is currently the subject of a police inquiry over claims that he covered up the activities of one paedophile priest - Father Michael Hill. Yesterday Hill admitted abusing more children - some of them disabled.

Also:

Abuse scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac...#Abuse_scandal
On Atheism

In 2008 Murphy-O'Connor urged Christians to treat atheists and agnostics with deep esteem, "because the hidden God is active in their lives as well as in the lives of those who believe". However, in 2009, speaking after Archbishop Vincent Nichols' installation, he said that a lack of faith is "the greatest of evils." He blamed atheism for war and destruction, and implied it was a greater evil even than sin itself and that atheists are "not fully human".

That comment that atheists should be treated with "deep esteem, "because the hidden God is active in their lives as well as in the lives of those who believe"." - needs to be explained: The change from the earlier stance shows the clear influence that Satan has in the Catholic Church.

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This is probably a good place to announce the start, on 4th June, of a new initiative by Landover Baptist Church "Exploring your Body - A Gift From God." A course for unaccompanied 5 through 9 year-olds in which Brother Harold Porter will give Biblical context to the child.

[Father Maurice Lester]

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Mr. Temple was eventually found, by the Church, to be unsuitable for his tasks and subsequently sent packing as it were. That he continued his disgusting practices goes to show how the Bishop at hand was correct in his assessment.

Whenever these rare and statistically probable lapses in judgement occur within the clergy, it furthers proof that the Devil is both pervasive and persuasive... even to the point of corrupting a sampling of the billion plus Catholics on our planet and even, on rare occasion, their spiritual leaders.

Why God chooses to allow the Devil to corrupt people of all ilk is His reason and who are we to question His plan. The great thing is that forgiveness is the cornerstone of Christianity and those who seek His forgiveness for whatever their sins and transgression, can count on Jesus who died on the cross for that very purpose.

Such is the miracle of Christ.




Bless you, my nancifull nit-pickers,
Father Mo




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[Johny Joe Hold]

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It seems like the problems of sex scandals among priests could be solved easily. Nuns and priests could just live in communal groups. It would be unmarried bliss. Problem solved.

Let's think back to the hippy days. Hippies shared bed partners. Women wore long dresses like nuns. All kind of similar.

I never heard of a hippy child sex scandal.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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It seems like the problems of sex scandals among priests could be solved easily. Nuns and priests could just live in communal groups.

This seems a good idea. Surely queers and lezbeans like each other - they always seem to be shouting about the same thing and one is just the women's version of the other.

Perhaps it might cure a few.

[WWJDnow]

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Now we know why they call themselves roamin' Catholics.

[I Man Rastafari]

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There are a few Catholic priests who come from my home which is Jamaica. They are mostly homosexuals but they all go over to Haiti. They do not know Jah in Haiti and they are all crazy over there. They speak French.

[Pastor William Nathaniel Sampson]

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The Vatican's main man they turned to when priests were gay, has been accused of having sex with his clients.

Prominent French priest and Vatican adviser accused in sex scandal



(RNS) For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality.
Now Anatrella, who argues that gay men cannot be ordained as priests, is facing mounting allegations that he himself had sex with male clients under his care, a scandal that could have repercussions all the way to the Vatican, where the priest is still regularly consulted on matters of sexuality.
The reports about Anatrella that have emerged in recent weeks also landed just as the Catholic Church in France has been embroiled in a crisis over charges that senior churchmen shielded priests even after they received reports that the clerics had molested children.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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I hate to say that all Catholic Priests are the same because this one does not seem to be "into" choir boys:

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

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Nothing says innocence quite like this.

Sick-ular lamestream MSM "news" source:

ALBANY — Not leaving it to divine chance, the state Catholic Conference has turned in recent years to some of Albany’s most well-connected and influential lobby firms to help block a bill that would make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice.

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All told, the conference spent more than $2.1 million on lobbying from 2007 through the end of 2015, state records show. That does not include the conference’s own internal lobbying team.

Most telling of all:

The Catholic Conference has argued that opening a one-year window to revive old cases could ultimately bankrupt the Church.