Sentences with phrase «priests abusing children»

There has been nothing quite so shattering as the endless parade of headlines about priests abusing children.

Leslie, I don't doubt AT ALL that virtually every Catholic that hears about their priests abusing children is sickened by the news.

Conclusion: When a priest abuses a child, in fact a member of the pope's body abuses a child.

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The best picture Oscar winner of 2016, this look inside the investigative newspaper team that uncovered the child sex abuse going on among Boston priests is a powerhouse of great acting and storytelling.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

Tell that to the Catholic bishops and priests who are living in luxury like kings and abusing children.

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

Groeschel had said that priests who sexually abuse children «on their first offense» should not go to jail and added that in «a lot of cases,» the child is «the seducer.»

The first is you cast the direct issue of child abuse aside in your zeal to persecute the low numbers of priests and the reaction of their supervisors.

A Mexican resident who says he was sexually abused by a priest as a child is suing the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Los Angeles and Mexico's top - ranking Catholic cleric, alleging they aided and abetted the abuse by moving the priest between dioceses as allegations piled up against him.

If you want to really search for the truth; you will find that the percentage of priests that abuse children is smaller than you'd think (try less than 1 % worldwide; google it and check multiple sources).

A Kosovan court has refused to extradite a British priest accused of child sex abuse for a second time,... More

If child abuse was a disease, and if religion did not get a free pass on criminal acts, child abuse by rcc priests would be classed as a pandemic.

The cardinal accepted that abusing priests were routinely moved from parish to parish rather than being defrocked, and the word of clergy was often taken as more trustworthy than children claiming they were abused.

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

A lawyer representing child abuse victims in the US has told a hearing that a former priest abused more... More

In contrast, as The Daily Beast pointed out, it's taken years for the Church to take action in many cases of priests who have abused children.

If priests aren't taking a stand against the practice of having children kneel in front of lesser men... they are just wasting time and allowing the abuse to continue.

I'm pretty sure the priests who actually abused children and the ones who covered it up knew / know they were doing evil.

Just look at the cover - up child abuse by pedophile priests.

PS: just saw news flash — another priest, this time in South America, has been found guilty, or is being investigated, by the vatican for child abuse.

The issue of whether priests should be allowed to marry is utterly separate from the issue of child abuse by clergy.

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.

And, it was not a priest but rather a family member, the source of most cases of child abuse and corruption.

In a world with poverty, priest se * ually abused children, and violence, the church opts to spend 700K on an idolotrous statue.

The head of the Catholic Church in Germany expressed «sadness, horror and shame» Friday that children were abused by priests and church officials, and called for Good Friday to be «a new start that we all so urgently need.»

What His Holiness Francis should dump is priests who se xually abuse children, regardless of the children's gender.

Finally, has «The Church» completed its investigations into child abuse by priests, and turned over all evidence and probable abusers to the appropriate civic authorities?

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?

Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).

Talking about abuse, what about the abuse done to children by priests for years?

A priest who abuses a child betrays the body of the Lord, the Pope said, according to pool reports.

Far too often, Catholic priests, bishops and cardinals have identified not with abused children but with their «band of brothers,» their fellow priests.

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 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.

Athie said the church either ignored or archived for years allegations of child sex abuse when he reported them during his years as a priest.

it's in buildings like these that children are systematically mentally abused as parents and priests brainwash them with bronze age fairy stories and the threat of eternal fire and torment if they don't believe.

Ripping on priest for child abuse is like ripping on mothers for drowning babies.

Bishop Scicluna, currently archbishop of Valletta, is now something of a hero to survivors of sex abuse for having finally understood the dynamic of the clerical abuse scandal and vigorously prosecuted priests who raped and molested children.

A 1997 letter from the Vatican's representative to bishops in Ireland warns them to follow church law in investigating cases of suspected child sex abuse by priests and expresses «serious reservations» about requiring that such cases be reported to the police.

The two - page letter, written by Apostolic Nuncio Luciano Storero, was sent to bishops in Ireland in response to a document they had sent to the Vatican that recommends mandatory reporting of cases of suspected child sex abuse by priests.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.

A top contender to head the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected allegations he allowed the ordination of a priest who went on to abuse children.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

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.

But a group that campaigns against abuse of children by priests said Sunday he was not fit for the job.

Francis said the Catholic Church knew well the «grave error» of trying to conceal the problem of sexual abuse, a reference to the church's long history of having priests who rape and molest children and bishops who cover up for them.