Number of U.S. Priests Accused of Sexually Abusing Children and Numbers of Persons Alleging Abuse
This update was posted by Bishop Accountability.org on May 20, 2016
http://bishopaccountability.org/AtAGlance/USCCB_Yearly_Data_on_Accused_Priests.htm
This thread is about ritual abuse, human trafficking and other topics that can trigger PTSD attacks.
Below is another hyperlink related to the general theme of the crimes perpetrated against the most vulnerable that go on and on and on.
Chapter 21: Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460
What can we do to begin to promote healing and move towards justice for all those who have been harmed, in so many ways?
valerief
(53,235 posts)priests molested little boys. If not, you weren't paying attention. And now with the mass revelation of pedophile priests--so many you'd have to be a moron or pedophile yourself to deny their existence--I guess we know what the term "the calling" means. In old movies, seminarians are asked if they have the calling. In other words, do you like to rape little kids?
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)from people like Peter Isley and some of Jeff Anderson's Wisconsin associates as well as a Monsignor. It isn't just the Roman Catholic Church of course, but there has to be massive reform within and without.
I do remember some of my childhood friends making comments about "peculiar" priests that they stayed away from growing up in Milwaukee.
valerief
(53,235 posts)or disbelieve then. I just stored into my memory. Hearing about this stuff back when I was a kid made it much easier to believe priest molestation stories by the time I was an adult. It's like the Bill Cosby rape claims. After a certain number of claims from different sources, you can't dismiss it as bullshit.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I wonder how this compares to other churches?
I had a friend get wildly defensive with me, when I played him a Louis C K clip about priests being molesters..
He tried to say that across all occupations the rates were equal. I didn't argue much, and I was embarrassed the Louis CK bit offended him.
Oh, well. I thought it was a very sarcastic, cyptic, take from a comedian.
I think my friend was wrong.but I had no stats.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)that the kids and their advocates are liars, just as much by the Bishops and others that kept transferring the perps to evade civil justice to the point of declaring bankruptcy etc.
It rips your heart out after awhile.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Seems like the antithesis of spirituality.
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