Catholic church sex abuse, this time in Chile

[mikeymikec]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45486176

TLDR: Now-notorious sexual abuser, Father Fernando Karadima, abused children and had a string of followers in the priesthood and he'd victim-blame the children and send them to one of his followers to confess their sins, train up other people who'd go on to be bishops, and continue abusing people well into adulthood using various techniques to ensure their compliance.

So the original journalistic investigation into the general topic of sexual abuse in the church by Spotlight was in 2002. In 2011 this priest was finally 'found guilty' by the Catholic church (despite previous allegations against him), then Pope Francis decides to promote one of his followers to the rank of bishop in 2015 despite allegations against him, only bothering to follow up after protesters came to see him, dismissed the allegations as slander but sent an envoy in 2018 whose report resulted in the dismissal of several bishops, and the police had to perform raids to get the evidence to pursue cases.

 

[cytg111]

A story about unchecked power.
Tear it down.All of it.

 

[1prophet]

The same Pope that had liberals fawning over him because he said "who am I to Judge"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html

Who would have guessed he not only wouldn't judge but also protect from judgement those that should have been judged.

Pope Francis refuses to answer question on 'cover-up' of child abuse allegations
‘I won't say a word,’ pontiff replies when asked to comment on claim he knew about Theodore McCarrick's alleged crimes

An 11-page text

subsequently penned by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the Vatican’s retired ambassador to the US, has subsequently claimed that Pope Francis has known about the allegations since 2013.

He claimed that that the pair had discussed the allegations against McCarrick at the time. McCarrick was already under sanction at the time, but Francis rehabilitated him, he said.

 

[mikeymikec]

The same Pope that had liberals fawning over him because he said "who am I to Judge"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html

I guess there had to be a way for you think it was appropriate to crowbar a "but liberals!" comment into the topic. Honestly dude, this is pathetic. It's as if you think that by being supportive of comments that a person makes means that you've signed up to their religion and therefore will say nothing bad of them in future regardless of what they do, but I for one don't think that way, nor do I know anyone else I think is liberal who thinks that way either.

 

[umbrella39]

The same Pope that had liberals fawning over him because he said "who am I to Judge"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html

Who would have guessed he not only wouldn't judge but also protect from judgement those that should have been judged.

Pope Francis refuses to answer question on 'cover-up' of child abuse allegations
‘I won't say a word,’ pontiff replies when asked to comment on claim he knew about Theodore McCarrick's alleged crimes

Hmm...

Caught the but, but, but Liberals...

Saw the but, but, but gay priests...

Not so much but, but, but Catholic Pedo Priests bad...

You never miss a chance to divert and add a few eons to your purgatory tally...

 

[urvile]

It's not really surprising given the close association with child rape and the catholic church. It's reasonable to assume that the relentless child rape isn't going to respect international borders. Asia and Africa are the next major problems for the holy see.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Since the world-wide systemic abuse propagated by organized religion over the centuries is limited to them raping each other and not non-believers, one might say to Hell with the lot of 'em, we don't really have to care.

But you do not need gods to teach you morals, and we should care. Religion continues to be the largest threat to mankind. Certainly to children. If you doubt that, look at the Evangelical support for Donald Trump. Go read a religious forum where the Evangelicals and Catholics are warring against each other over who has more pedophiles. They are all insane and certainly more political than spiritual.

God good, religion bad.