By Jueseppi B.
I will warn you who read this and might be members of the catholic church, I detest the catholic church. I firmly believe that any person the world over who is a member of an organization that advocates pedophilia and the abuse of other humans, also by the fact of association, are themselves advocating the molestation of young people by the catholic church. In simple words, in my UNhumble opinion, if you don’t become a solution to this massive problem of the pedophilia that is being allowed to run rampant through the catholic church…you are a part of the problem.
We crucify people for abusing and molesting children, and we lynch those who know of this abuse and molestation and do nothing, but we turn our heads when it involves the catholic priest & the catholic church. This disgrace has gone on for long enough. Now, we have this same religious organization trying to write government policy on birth control and abortion, stepping out from it’s religious facade into becoming a political power.
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world’s largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering its sacraments and exercising charity. The Roman Catholic Church is among the oldest institutions in the world and has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation. It teaches that it is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christ’s apostles and that the Pope is the sole successor to Saint Peter.
Roman Catholic doctrine maintains that the Church is infallible when it definitively teaches a doctrine of faith or morals. Catholic worship is centred on the Eucharist, in which the Church teaches that the sacramental bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. The Church holds the Blessed Virgin Mary in special regard. Catholic beliefs concerning Mary include her Immaculate Conception and bodily Assumption at the end of her earthly life.
No religion, practiced by mere mortals, is ever infallible when it definitively teaches a doctrine of faith or morals. That is the very first mistake of the catholic church.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the issue of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy became the subject of media coverage and public debate in the United States, Ireland, Australia and other countries. The Church was criticized for its handling of abuse complaints when it became known that some bishops had shielded accused priests, transferring them to other pastoral assignments where some continued to commit sexual offenses. In response to the scandal, the Church has established formal procedures to prevent abuse, encourage reporting of any abuse that occurs and to handle such reports promptly, although groups representing victims have disputed their effectiveness. In September 2011, a submission was lodged with the International Criminal Court alleging that the Pope, Cardinal Angelo Sodano dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone Vatican Secretary of State and Cardinal William Levada head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, had committed a crime against humanity by failing to prevent or punish perpetrators of rape and sexual violence in a “systematic and widespread” concealment which included failure to co-operate with relevant law enforcement agencies.
Now I ask you, what company, organization or individual, other than the catholic church, could get away with such sexual abuse against minors? Penn State University, and it’s head coach Mr. Joe Paterno, were vilified in the media and the court of public opinion over one, I said ONE, of it’s employees being accused of sexual molestation and abuse against minors.
Need more proof of just how corrupt the roman catholic church actually is?
“The Catholic Church’s pedophilia investigator, in charge of child protection and interviewing adults who as children had been victims of pedophile priests, was jailed on pedophilia charges in England. 49-year old Christopher Jarvis, a married man with four children of his own, began serving his 12-month sentence after serving the Catholic Church for nine years in a diocese that included 120 Catholic Churches. Jarvis admitted to the charges, which included possession of 4000 images of pre-pubescent boys, including several depicting sadism, child rape, and torture.”
This pedophilia investigator received a 12 month prison sentence. TWELVE MONTHS!
Now we have this same catholic church, this sainted roman catholic church that rapes young underage children, attempting to dictate government policy on birth control, abortion and other governmental issues directly involving politics as well as the daily lives of it’s one billion members. All the while maintaining it’s tax free status. Thats right, you read that correctly…the roman catholic church wants to control political policies of the United States government but retain it’s tax free status as a tax free religious organization….BUT set political policy.
Recently, the catholic leadership came out in opposition to the mandate in our new healthcare law that all health insurance providers offer coverage for prescribed birth control, even for employees in some catholic institutions. But, let’s be clear about what the real issue is here. It is not about government controls, and it is not about infringement of our religious beliefs. It is about a church that has lost touch with reality. The leadership of the catholic church either is ignoring or is unaware of the disconnect between catholic teaching and catholic reality.
Back to the billions of dollars the catholic church’s financial records hide from the United States government….
One of the by-products of the recent U.S. catholic church clergy sexual abuse scandal was a new focus on the church’s financial transparency and accountability. As the scandal unfolded, parishioners learned that in some dioceses, payments related to the scandal had been taking place for years. Some of the payments went to victims in the form of settlements or to pay for counseling; some went to pay for the “rehabilitation” of priests accused of pedophile; and some funds were paid out in lawyers fees. The vast majority of catholics was unaware of these payments, and therefore surprised by the
magnitude of the scandal.
A number of parishioners pointed out that, if the church had been more open in its finances, the expenses associated with clergy sexual abuse, and hence the nature and magnitude of the problem, would have been uncovered much sooner
than it was. This might have caused church leaders to take action sooner and prevent some of the abusive behavior, especially that by repeat offenders.
Now are we as Americans really going to continue to follow a group of religious leaders who hide their unmoral and illegal sexual wrongdoings behind payoff money? Or just move a sexual predator from one church to another church, allowing that priest to prey in a whole new congregation? It appears that is exactly what happens regularly in the roman catholic church.
I know…all you catholic’s are saying right this minute, if you have continued to read this….that all religions have it’s share of pedophiles as religious leaders. That is a sad fact of human life, we have a lot of deviants that need to be weeded out from our society. I am focused ion the catholic church based on their massive size and even more massive influence on humans across this globe. Not to mention their massive financial influence on things political. Which the roman catholic church has NO right being involved.
Facts are facts, there is no such thing as MY facts or YOUR facts. Facts are the same facts for everybody.
The facts: The 2004 John Jay Report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was based on surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. The surveys filtered provided information from diocesan files on each priest accused of sexual abuse and on each of the priest’s victims to the research team, in a format which did not disclose the names of the accused priests or the dioceses where they worked. The dioceses were encouraged to issue reports of their own based on the surveys that they had completed.
The 2004 John Jay Report was based on a study of 10,667 allegations against 4,392 priests accused of engaging in sexual abuse of a minor between 1950 and 2002.
The report stated there were approximately 10,667 reported victims (younger than 18 years) of clergy sexual abuse during this period:
- Around 81 percent of these victims were male.
- 22.6% were age 10 or younger, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 27% were between the ages to 15 to 17 years.
- A substantial number (almost 2000) of very young children were victimized by priests during this time period.
- 9,281 victim surveys had information about an investigation. In 6,696 (72%) cases, an investigation of the allegation was carried out. Of these, 4,570 (80%) were substantiated; 1,028 (18%) were unsubstantiated; 83 (1.5%) were found to be false. In 56 cases, priests were reported to deny the allegations.
- More than 10 percent of these allegations were characterized as not substantiated. (This does not mean that the allegation was false; it means only that the diocese or order could not determine whether the alleged abuse actually took place.)
- For approximately 20 percent of the allegations, the priest was deceased or inactive at the time of the receipt of the allegation and typically no investigation was conducted in these circumstances.
- In 38.4% of allegations, the abuse is alleged to have occurred within a single year, in 21.8% the alleged abuse lasted more than a year but less than 2 years, in 28% between 2 and 4 years, in 10.2% between 5 and 9 years and, in under 1%, 10 or more years.
The 4,392 priests who were accused amount to approximately 4% of the 109,694 priests in active ministry during that time. Of these 4,392, approximately:
- 56 percent had one reported allegation against them; 27 percent had two or three allegations against them; nearly 14 percent had four to nine allegations against them; 3 percent (149 priests) had 10 or more allegations against them. These 149 priests were responsible for almost 3,000 victims, or 27 percent of the allegations.
- The allegations were substantiated for 1,872 priests and unsubstantiated for 824 priests. They were thought to be credible for 1,671 priests and not credible for 345 priests. 298 priests and deacons who had been completely exonerated are not included in the study.
- 50 percent were 35 years of age or younger at the time of the first instance of alleged abuse.
- Almost 70 percent were ordained before 1970.
- Fewer than 7 percent were reported to have themselves been victims of physical, sexual or emotional abuse as children. Although 19 percent had alcohol or substance abuse problems, 9 percent were reported to have been using drugs or alcohol during the instances of abuse.
Many of the reported acts of sexual abuse involved fondling or unspecified abuse. There was also a large number of allegations of forced acts of oral sex and intercourse. Detailed information on the nature of the abuse was not reported for 26.6% of the reported allegations. 27.3% of the allegations involved the cleric performing oral sex on the victim. 25.1% of the allegations involved penile penetration or attempted penetration.
Although there were reported acts of sexual abuse of minors in every year, the incidence of reported abuse increased by several orders of magnitude in the 1960s and 1970s. There was, for example, a more than sixfold increase in the number of reported acts of abuse of males aged 11 to 17 between the 1950s and the 1970s. After peaking in the 1970s, the number of incidents decreased through the 1980s and 1990s even more sharply than the incidence rate had increased in the 1960s and 1970s.
Trust. Honesty. Power. We give these thing to our religions without question. We can NOT trust the roman catholic church. Their motives are wrong.
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The Catholic Church as well as any organization or individual who knows or suspect abuse is happening has a moral obligation if not a legal one to speak up. To stay quiet makes the Catholic Church as culpable as the victimizer….and by the act of silence how many OTHER CHILDREN will be abused by the hand of pedoplie Priest. Years back a young African American girl of 7 was murdered by her rapist in a casino bathroom…The murder was witnessed by the victimizers friend who walked blithly away as she was sodomized later her body was found like so much rubbish in that bathroom stall…had this young man tried to intervene even spoke out…alerted someone that child might be alive to do… To remain silent is to give your tacit approval to the deed…
The moral outrage concerning birth control is another matter…I am on the side of the legislation to make BC affordable for all…The catholic church is locked in the middle ages in its views on contraception, gay rights, and yes even in the violation and victimization of women and children…It is amazing to think that these Bishops and Cardinals if they knew one of their own was abusing a dog there would be a hue an cry but when a child soul is damaged they turn a blinds eye in an attempt to pretend that it never happened…
Ms. Lyn,
You’d be very surprised at how many idiots are attempting to defend and argue for the catholic church against this article. I have spent almost all the time since I published this, telling these assclowns exactly what I feel about anyone who stands up for the catholic church. If it is OK for Joe Paterno to lose his coaching job over the assumption that he didn’t do enough in the Jim Sandusky pedophile case, why is it permissible for the roman catholic church to go unpunished for hiding and covering up it’s sexual predator priest?
People who excuse or defend this bull shit behavior, I could actually choke them to death personally.
Birth control, like abortion, is a personal choice for each person to make. The church, any and all churches, have no business dictating political policy. If every church was as concerned with the poor and homeless and hungry, as they are with what happens in peoples bedrooms…we’d have no poor, homeless or hungry. Like I said…fuck the catholic church. Sinead O’Connor was absolutely correct.
Touche… For the catholic shurch as for most religions it is abouit control… and the fear of that control erroding… For the catholic church to dictate public policy or manipulate the formation of policy is wrong. As far as sexual abuse pedophilia does not exist in a vacuum it is not an act that the perpetrator does only once nor is it a behavior that can be controlled by entrusting that a stern tongue lashing to the abuser will stop them from doing it. The Church has a MORAL obligation to protect those who are most vulnerable and that is what binds a civil society together and a government, a regime, has an obligation to care for their citizens
Ms. Lyn,
That is correct. I like your mindset. I am glad you are here reading what I write Ms. Lyn.
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP!!! Whew lawd, pass me a fan. *throws hands in the air; like she damn sure cares.
Stay out of my v-jay, jay and its functions. Keep your eyes on the pedophiles in your organization.
Don’t let all that $$$ fool or frighten us. We must protect our CHILDEN. Keep bringin the TRUTH, Jueseppi!
Let the church say Amen sista Ametia.
Gee…Touchy subject. I don’t understand the dynamics of Catholicism. Neither do I understand how they’re not more protective of the children after so many incidents of sexual abuse. It happens so frequently. Why isn’t there more probing into the church?
Twin,
Humans need something to believe in, so they turn to the different religious organizations for that support. Even those who do not believe, believe in not believing. We have to have something to cling onto and the church fits that void. Now taking that idea a bit further, the catholic church is too important to people for catholicism to be questioned. They would rather overlook the molestation and sexual abuse of children. I detest the catholic church for it’s hypocrisy.
Heehee… you and I both comments at the same time.
Michelle….GMTA!!
It is a very touchy subject. But the Catholic Church is very old, very rich, and very powerful. They’ve had centuries of practice in keeping secrets. They’ve gotten so good at it, they wouldn’t know what else to do. I was married to a Catholic for a few years (yeah… marriage and I just don’t get along very well), but he wasn’t insanely devout. I found some of it fascinating… but not my thing.
My thing Michelle, is the sexual predatory abuse against children, then to hide that or defend that. There is NO defending the catholic church, nor is there any excusing that behavior by ignoring or not stopping that abuse. Unacceptable.
We do not live in a theocracy. End of story.
theocracy (n) – Bing Dictionary
the·oc·ra·cy [ thee ókrəssee ]
government by god: government by a god or by priests
community governed by god: a community governed by a god or priests
democracy (n) – Bing Dictionary
de·moc·ra·cy [ di mókrəssee ]
free and equal representation of people: the free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the majority of the people.
And, let me say, if the Churches and leaders, of any religion, would just stick to what they are supposed to stand for, there would be no needy, anywhere. If they would keep their views away from our government and pay attentiion to their own business, it would be a much better world.
Joanne,
As usual, you said what i was trying to say…and i may steal this.
Well put!
Michelle,
I un-friended two assclowns tonight because they attempted to defend the catholic church.
The Catholic Church is one of the most corrupt, as well as wealthy, organizations throughout the world.
Michelle,
I detest this catholic shit because they moleste children…they all should be arrested, from the pope on down.