Get Down On Your Knees Dear Father
KICK THE CROSS Kicking the catholics out of Ireland, the Isle looks so much greener now, good job lads and lassie’s
Catholic church child protection chief caught with 4,000 child porn pictures
A child protection official for the Catholic Church has been caught with 4,000 pictures of child porn. Father-of-four Christopher Jarvis was arrested after uploading pictures of children being abused to a website. Married Jarvis, 49, a former social worker, was employed by the church following sex scandals about pervert priests. His job was to monitor [...]
Scientologist charged for intimidating alleged sex abuse victim
A SENIOR member of the Church of Scientology has been charged by police for intimidating a young girl who wanted to report sexual abuse allegations within the church. Jan Eastgate, the head of the church’s “International Commission on Human Rights” which attacks psychology, has been charged by NSW Police with perverting the course of justice. [...]
Church-funded study finds that clergy child abuse is not church’s fault
The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was caused by the influence of sweeping social changes and increasing “deviant behavior’’ of the 1960s and 1970s on priests who were inadequately trained, emotionally unprepared, and isolated, according to a new report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops. Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal [...]
Catholic group claims children raped by priests were ‘homosexual’ participants, not victims
The anti-gay Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is going on the attack against “those who are distorting the truth about priestly sexual abuse.” The group bought an expensive full-page ad in The New York Times Monday that places the blames for the church’s scandals on “homosexuality, not pedophilia.” And perhaps most shockingly, it [...]
New Hampshire congressman calls Catholic bishop a pedophile pimp – CNN.com
The New Hampshire House majority leader lashed out Friday on his Facebook page at a Roman Catholic bishop, calling the clergyman a “pedophile pimp” who “has no moral credibility to lecture anyone.” The comments come in the wake of a rally Thursday where John McCormack, who is bishop of the Roman Catholic Manchester Diocese, criticized [...]
NH House majority leader: Bishop is a ‘pedophile pimp’
NH House majority leader: Bishop is a ‘pedophile pimp’ By TOM FAHEY State House Bureau Chief Saturday, Apr. 2, 2011 CONCORD – Rep. D.J. Bettencourt, the House majority leader, Friday defended his Facebook page posting that calls Catholic Bishop John McCormack, “a pedophile pimp.” Bettencourt, R-Salem, posted the statement late Thursday after McCormack spoke against [...]
Priest files sex-abuse lawsuit against Mount Angel Abbey
A Roman Catholic priest is suing the Mount Angel Abbey for more than $1 million, alleging that he was sexually abused by a now-deceased priest when he was a teenage student at the abbey in the 1970s. The priest suing the abbey is identified only as Father X in the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday [...]
Apparitions and distractions – PZ Myers
By P.Z. Myers Lawrence Murphy was an evil man. He was a Wisconsin priest who molested over 200 boys, and just to make the story particularly deplorable, they were deaf children. Preying on the weakest and most vulnerable was apparently his life’s mission. Furthermore, this was the scandalous case that was reported directly to then [...]
A Long History of Catholic Church Sex Scandals
Contrary to Pope Benedict’s assertion that the immorality of modern society is to blame for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, the church’s own historical documents reveal that sexual abuse has been a problem that the Catholic Church has failed to properly deal with since its earliest days. The Church’s first official document referring [...]
