Maybe he is a good person, but he heads an organization that continues to hide horrendous
crimes by priests and insists on policies that cause harm to millions.
Not exact matches
Posted today «NEW STATS: 10 % of Catholic
priests were pedophiles and still counting, 20 to 200 times more than general population» at http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-stats-10-percent-of-catholic.html Written
by, me, a Journalist / Survivor of pedophile
priest crime in Los Angeles.
Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and
priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession
by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these
crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.
, and a little MORE time worrying about the
crimes committed against children
by priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and the pope.
They also actively aid and abet child r@ping
priests by helping cover up their
crimes and occasionally moving them to new locations to offer them access to newer crops of children.
Fewer
priests BY FAR as a percentage committ this
crime than non-celibates.
What do individual
crimes committed
by individual
priests have to do with a church wanting stolen property back?
But under the law proposed
by Shatter,
priests could be prosecuted for failing to tell the police about
crimes disclosed in the confession box.
While others were always ready to evoke the occult and supernatural in their efforts to explain the most difficult
crimes, it was this balding and unassuming Catholic
priest who invariably solved the mystery
by means of the most everyday, commonplace observations.
«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling
crime of sexual abuse perpetrated
by a small number of Catholic
priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.
It was with this view of the Church as a mirror of justice that he addressed the bishops of the United States in 1993 in a public letter that described the abuse of a minor
by a
priest as a «grave
crime» and urged the imposition of canonical penalties.
Agreed and local law in most places would stipulate
priests as mandated reporters REQUIRING them
by law to report
crimes of that nature.
I suppose given the tenor of this list, Melville is pretty predictable, being that he's a genius of
crime noir, but this film is neither noir nor gangster; it's about a thoughtful, intelligent, wise, and committed country
priest, played
by the young Jean - Paul Belmondo -LRB-!).
Director Pablo Larrain's follow up to his Oscar - nominated No, The Club follows a crisis counselor who is sent
by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced
priests and nuns, suspected of
crimes ranging from child abuse to baby - snatching from unwed mothers, live in seclusion after an incident occurs.
When the local
priest (Nick Searcy) stops
by to ask her to take them down, Mildred lays into him, citing the Los Angeles County penal code - which considers gang members to be complicit in
crimes committed
by other gang members - to implicate the padre in pedophilia.