Not exact matches
I have not
accused all protestant pastors of being child molesters
as some like to broad brush Catholic
priests.
But the grand jury report includes testimony that claimed Bevilacqua had insisted that the dismissal or resignation of
priests accused of sexual misconduct be explained
as matters of health, and that parishioners were not to be informed.
Others who have been closely tracking these developments, such
as the Detroit - based Opus Bono Sacerdotii, an organization of lawyers helping
accused priests, estimate that more than a thousand have been removed.
Remember the Archbishop who,
as part of a lawsuit
accusing more than 100
priests of sex abuse, said, «I'm not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not» to have sex with kids.
In August, Dolan «quietly, recklessly and deceptively» let a prominent
priest resign from his Harlem parish without mentioning that at least nine men have
accused the
priest of molesting them
as boys, SNAP said.
The language of the rebuke might have still contained elements of blessing for obedience, and cursing for disobedience,
as these were consequences stated within the law (Deut 28), but it is doubtful that God would have
accused the people of robbing Him in the same way that He was
accusing the
priests.
For Michael F. Whalen Jr., who has
accused a
priest of sexually abusing him
as a child, yesterday «s action by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo to publicly identify 42
priests accused of sexual misconduct with minors is a good start.
Fearless Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Reverend Father Joseph Danlami Bagobiri was on point when, recently, he
accused el - Rufai of taking sides with the armed herdsmen, thus failing in his responsibility
as a true statesman; and becoming, therefore, a biased umpire who, according to the
priest, «blames and criminalises southern Kaduna victims
as the cause of the mayhem.»
8:00 pm — IFC — Doubt An acting tour de force thanks to the presence of Philip Seymour Hoffman
as a
priest and Meryl Streep
as the nun who
accuses him of getting a bit too close to the children he teaches.
From Scarlett Johansson's heroine in the remake of the anime classic to Tilda Swinton
as a Himalayan high
priest in Doctor Strange, the film industry stands
accused of whitewashing Asian characters and culture.
Then,
as if seamlessly, she segued into this next sentence: «In the 1980s and «90s, people all over the country filed scores of legal cases
accusing parents,
priests and day care workers of horrific sex crimes, which they claimed to have only just remembered with the help of a therapist... But
as the claims grew more outlandish — alien abductions and secret satanic cults — support for the concept waned... Harvard psychologist Richard McNally called the idea of repressed memories «the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy `.»