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Report Finds More Than 1,000 Children Molested By Hundreds Of PA Catholic Priests

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — More than 1,000 children — and possible many more — were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses, while senior church officials took steps to cover it up, according to a landmark grand jury report released Tuesday.

The grand jury said it believes the “real number” of abused children might be “in the thousands” since some records were lost and victims were afraid to come forward. The report said more than 300 clergy committed the abuse over a period of decades.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said the two-year probe found a systematic cover-up by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican.

“The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the abuse and the cover-up. These documents, from the dioceses’ own ‘Secret Archives,’ formed the backbone of this investigation,” he said at a news conference in Harrisburg.

Significantly, the report faulted Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former longtime bishop of Pittsburgh who now leads the Washington archdiocese, for what it said was his part in the concealment of clergy sexual abuse. Wuerl defended himself, releasing a statement Tuesday that said he had “acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse.”

The grand jury scrutinized abuse allegations in dioceses that minister to more than half the state’s 3.2 million Catholics. Its report echoed the findings of many earlier church investigations around the country in its description of widespread sexual abuse by clergy and church officials’ concealment of it.

The panel concluded that a succession of Catholic bishops and other diocesan leaders tried to shield the church from bad publicity and financial liability by covering up abuse, failing to report accused clergy to police and discouraging victims from going to law enforcement.

Yet the grand jury’s work might not result in justice for Catholics who say they were molested as children. While the probe yielded charges against two clergymen — including a priest who has since pleaded guilty, and another who allegedly forced his accuser to say confession after each sex assault — the vast majority of priests already identified as perpetrators are either dead or are likely to avoid arrest because their alleged crimes are too old to prosecute under state law.

The document comes at a time of renewed scrutiny and fresh scandal at the highest levels of the U.S. Catholic Church. Pope Francis stripped 88-year-old Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of his title and ordered him to a lifetime of prayer and penance amid allegations that McCarrick had for years sexually abused boys and had sexual misconduct with adult seminarians.

Wuerl has come under harsh criticism over his response to the McCarrick scandal, with some commentators questioning his claims of surprise and ignorance over allegations that McCarrick molested and harassed young seminarians.

Wuerl replaced McCarrick as Washington’s archbishop after McCarrick retired in 2006.

The Pennsylvania grand jury, convened by the state attorney general’s office in 2016, heard from dozens of witnesses and reviewed more than a half-million pages of internal documents from the Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton dioceses.

Some current and former clergy named in the report went to court to prevent its release, arguing it violated their constitutional rights to reputation and due process of law. The state Supreme Court said the public had a right to see it, but ruled the names of priests and others who objected to the findings would be blacked out pending a September hearing on their claims.

The identities of those clergy members remain under court seal.

A couple of dioceses decided to strip the accused of their anonymity ahead of the report and released the names of clergy members who were accused of sexual misconduct. On Friday, the bishop of Pittsburgh’s diocese said a few priests named in the report are still in ministry because the diocese determined allegations against them were unsubstantiated.
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Catholic League Blasted on Twitter for Dismissing Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis as ‘Total Myth’

Bill Donohue‘s American Catholic advocacy group, the Catholic League, is coming under a lot of fire today for insisting that the widespread sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church is a “total myth.”

The Vatican faced heavy criticism for the last few days over an 884-page Pennsylvania grand jury report which found that over 300 priests sexually preyed upon more than 1,000 kids over the last 70 years. These acts of misconduct were reportedly covered up throughout the decades, and the church was lambasted for remaining silent about the report until a representative for Pope Francisfinally acknowledged the alleged abuses as “criminal and morally reprehensible.”

In the midst of all this, the Catholic League issued a statement from Donohue, who made the counterargument that the media was trying to sensationalize a false crisis based on an inconclusive report. Here’s the tweet the League released to direct people to Donohue’s piece.
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Was Jerry Sandusky a catholic?

Yet to these people Kaepernick is fucked up and got these people in an uproar but not these priests and the system that has protected them for 1,000's of years.
 
Dwade206 said:
The church/Vatican is a criminal organization protected by the government, as well all know. No one is going to jail. The best way to combat this moving forward is to keep your children and money away from them.
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the vatican is its own govt.
shit its its own country.

but this has been going on forever.......cac aint keeping they kids from this.

they natural faggots someone might say
 
DMorgan said:
Was Jerry Sandusky a catholic?

Yet to these people Kaepernick is fucked up and got these people in an uproar but not these priests and the system that has protected them for 1,000's of years.
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn


what a way to look at it.


oh shit
 
DOS_patos said:
the vatican is its own govt.
shit its its own country.

but this has been going on forever.......cac aint keeping they kids from this.

they natural faggots someone might say
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A lot of people really forget or don't know this about the Vatican. That shit is really crazy. It is really like it's own country inside of a city inside of a country.

DC is kind of like that but still totally different because we still have to abide by the federal laws of the this country. I don't think the vatican has to follow the laws of Rome or Italy. Not sure though.
 
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we need to invade that bitch and get all the files they have on aliens...

oh an the children too
 
This shit prolly has so many deeper effects on society we don't even notice.

Like imagine some of the creative process of every major media outlet.

The people who write music
The people who write TV shows
The people who create movies
The people who head these marketing campaigns for brands
Athletes, politicians, teachers ..


How many of these people are broken minds because of this sexual abuse....

And in what areas of their life does this brokenness surface??

How we know them crazy ass white boys shooting up them schools wasnt wilding out cuz some priest had him doing some shit his mind couldn't process??

It might be a reach, but we don't know.... Cuz that's a big number
 
Isnt it a rule that if u become a priest u vow celibacy for life?

Makes me wonder are these mfs sexually repressed n mostly around children or are pedos just signing up for the shit

Doesnt make sense that someone ordained as a religious/spiritual leader would have a man made, non biblical rule imposed on their life. Shit makes no sense.

And its gotten to the point where u almost automatically associate catholic priests with molestation, parents are still taking their children there?
 
ChicagoFigure said:
Isnt it a rule that if u become a priest u vow celibacy for life?

Makes me wonder are these mfs sexually repressed n mostly around children or are pedos just signing up for the shit

Doesnt make sense that someone ordained as a religious/spiritual leader would have a man made, non biblical rule imposed on their life. Shit makes no sense.

And its gotten to the point where u almost automatically associate catholic priests with molestation, parents are still taking their children there?
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i heard they trying to allow them to marry now...

like thats gonna stop pedos
 
ChicagoFigure said:
Isnt it a rule that if u become a priest u vow celibacy for life?

Makes me wonder are these mfs sexually repressed n mostly around children or are pedos just signing up for the shit

Doesnt make sense that someone ordained as a religious/spiritual leader would have a man made, non biblical rule imposed on their life. Shit makes no sense.

And its gotten to the point where u almost automatically associate catholic priests with molestation, parents are still taking their children there?
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The bible is all man made rules.

It was written by man
 
Thor said:
The bible is all man made rules.

It was written by man
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Religious beliefs aside,

If i believe in the bible, how does it make sense to impose a rule thats not included in it?

Almost seems they want their church to take precedence over scripture, when scripture clearly views doing so as blasphemous.

I can see why atheists clown religion.

I dont see how some of the religious dont see the hypocrisy.
 
ChicagoFigure said:
Religious beliefs aside,

If i believe in the bible, how does it make sense to impose a rule thats not included in it?

Almost seems they want their church to take precedence over scripture, when scripture clearly views doing so as blasphemous.

I can see why atheists clown religion.

I dont see how some of the religious dont see the hypocrisy.
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They do see it. And The rules were made to control the masses.
 
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