Talking about abuse, what about
the abuse done to children by priests for years?
Not exact matches
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media
to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies
to do more
to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used
to facilitate
child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»
USA Gymnastics needs a «complete cultural change» after not
doing enough
to educate its staff, members and athletes about protecting
children from sexual
abuse and failing
to ensure that safeguards were being followed, according
to a critical review by a former federal prosecutor.
So if a pedophile dies when he is
abusing a
child, will he / she go
to heaven?????? Of course the easy way out is
to say, «I [you] don't make that decision.»
reborners, everyone of them, is absolutely clueless, brainwashed, has a book
do all their thinking, reparded, is an imbecile, indoctrinated, duped by his parents,
abused by priests, hates almost everyone, is a hypocrite, unthinking, addicted
to religion, closed - minded, untrustworthy, greedy, two - faced, cheap, shallow, biased, republican, racist, uneducated, materialistic, boring, bland, judgmental, w / o love and knowledge of the bible,
child abusing abortionists and genocidal cowboys and pro-slavery
CNN - if you really cared about
child abuse then
do something
to prevent it.
If any corporation or business
did the things that the church has
done to cover up
child abuse, that corporation would be out of business and the people who ran it would be in jail.
People have the right
to leave church and organized religion, they have a right
to question an institution that will
do anything
to save face even if it means letting
children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when
to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used
to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been
abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
Do you have any clue about how few people were involved with that and how it pales in comparison
to child abuse in government schools?
As long as the man can
do justice
to his wives and
children and there are no
abuses, what gives?
Mikhail, you attempt
to whitewash the Orthodox Jews fails because they
do indeed refuse
to follow secular laws in many instances, like when they
abuse their
children and wives they terrorize their families so that no one goes
to the police.
It doesn't end with the priests; teenagers who were
abused turned around and
did the same
to their siblings and neighborhood
children.
What
does letting priests marry have
to do with them
abusing children?
Doesn't it seem odd that he lets little
children get
abused in disgusting ways, while he has the power
to stop it.
It's great
to say its a «choice», but
children do not choose
to be born
to parents who
abuse them or who were addicted
to cocaine and so are born with birth defects.
I always
did the best I could
to help others possibly as the result of
abuse suffered as
child or perhaps I was simply born
to help out.
It seems disingenuous
to equate his teaching with «those who
abuse women,
children...» don't ya think?
2) The catholic church is
to disclose all information of
child abuse to US authorities in 30 days — up
to and including whether the current pope knew of the
abuse of
children (which he almost assuredly
did given his past roles in the church hierarchy); if this
does not happen, the the catholic church loses its tax preferred status indefinitely
When I push the senior priest
to tell me what Pell was then, if not a pioneer on child abuse, he is blunt: «To be honest, I don't think anything of hi
to tell me what Pell was then, if not a pioneer on
child abuse, he is blunt: «
To be honest, I don't think anything of hi
To be honest, I don't think anything of him.
I don't think in most cases that the priests and bishops involved in the cover - up actively desired for
children to be
abused, they just wanted
to maintain the church's outward reputation and
did not care that the collateral result was that the victims
did not receive justice and that in many cases, more
abuse occurred.
(CNN)-- There's one detail about the Adrian Peterson
child abuse charges that no one seems
to be noting: his alleged crimes didn't happen simply under the guise of «parenting» but rather «Christian parenting.»
And I'm not brainwashing
children or
abusing them physically like religious folks seem
to be fond of
doing.
David Turpin's father, James, the grandfather
to the
children, said from his home in Princeton, West Virginia, that he
did not believe the reports about the
abuse.
As a teacher in PA he is a mandated reporter and is required by law
to report suspected
child abuse to the state's hotline but he didn't.
My heart breaks for these
children that were so horribly
abused and the damage its
done to their faith.
Surely, you don't want the kid being sexually
abused to think that it is a good thing!?!? Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I think that the
child who hears that it is a bad thing that he should not endure will go looking for help
to escape.
Coughlin asserted that prescription rendered canon law ineffective for the prosecution of accused clerics because «victims of
child abuse sometimes
do not bring accusations
to the attention of church authorities until many decades after the
abuse has occurred.»
In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law
does not require a priest
to notify authorities after hearing evidence of
child abuse from a
child making a confession.
«Kicanas knew about serious accusations of
child sexual
abuse and misconduct by a Chicago priest but «
did little or nothing
to report these allegations
to police, warn parents about him, or protect
children from him,»» the Survivors Network of those
Abused by Priests (SNAP) said.
Believing that the world is what it looks like is crazy, believing that there is an invisible man who runs every last corner of the universe but has nothing better
to do than be your personal buddy while war and cancer and torture and
child abuse go on and on and on, that's sane?
I am so glad (sad)
to read about the other people sweeping
child abuse under the rug in the family... I swear,
to this day I can't believe that people continue
to do so.
I suspect that if you took spousal and
child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot
to brag about either (but of course anyone who
abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).
We understand it for what it truly is... a book that condones mass murder; rape; incest;
child abuse; oppression of women; oppression of LGBT... your imaginary friend is not anything worthy of respect and it doesn't pertain
to those who are capable of thinking for themselves and
doing well without it.
I don't know about you, but I think it's more humane
to terminate a cluster of cells that lacks the ability
to feel pain than it is
to insist that a
child be born into a situation where it is unwanted, unloved, unprotected and may end up
abused or dead.
You
do not have the right
to lie
to your
children... brainwashing them
to believe without evidence is
child abuse!
Summit held that
children never lied about sex
abuse — except when they concealed it, as they routinely
did,
to «accommodate» their frightening abusers.
I don't want it
to come across that I am advocating passively praying that
child molesters (for instance) would get a personal encounter with God... I also take very seriously the responsibility
to defend the
abused... I have received more «christian» flak for reporting
abuse than I get from any source for praying for my abusers.
She seeks
to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on
abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and
children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.
Fifth of all, as long as parents aren't outright
abusing their
children, most liberals (again, by which I mean liberal civilians) don't care how they choose
to punish them.
Also, statistics have shown that the majority of abusers were themselves victms of
abuse as
children (that
does not mean in any way that the majorty of
abused go on
to abuse, quite the opposite actually).
If he rebuked some, as indeed he
did, it was
to relieve others of mistreatment and
abuse at their hands and
to convince all alike that they were the
children of God.
derp, what have you
done to help
abused children?
By telling them that a belief is true, when their is absolutely no evidence
to substantiate that belief, and further
abusing those
children by telling them if they
do not believe it also, they will be tortured for eternity.
I truly believe that love can cover a multitude of sins — we have been involved in and with people who
do fostering and have seen
children who have experienced different kinds of
abuse transformed through unconditional love and acceptance — sure the pain of what they have experienced may still be there but the unconditional love they receive transforms them from broken
to not so much broken... if that makes sense?
For a bishop of the church
to say that Jesus didn't bodily rise from the dead and that the atonement is
child abuse...» For her the lack of theological oversight was obvious.
«The grand jury report makes clear that for as much as the archdiocese has
done to address
child sexual
abuse, there is still much
to do.»
They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth
to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability
to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual
abuse for inviting the
abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who
did not «joyfully submit»
to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of
abuse by telling women and
children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.
As long as they continue
to brain - wash their
children, I'll
do what I can
to bring attention
to what I consider
to be mental
abuse.
Because Jeff wanted
to gain some practical experience in working with sexually
abused children, he asked if he could
do an internship at BUMCC.
You mention
child abuse, the Religious Right, terrorism, etc — what's the church planning
to do about all of that?