Tag: Catholic Church coverup

The Monster Pell Has Been Caged At Last

Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone

(A warning to my kind-hearted readers, there’s some heavy stuff in here. If you have any trauma around rape or suicide, please be gentle with your good self and maybe give this one a miss.)

After being convicted of one count of sexual penetration of a child under 16 and four counts of committing an indecent act with, or in the presence of, a child, Cardinal George Pell spent the first of what may be many nights in jail. While he lay there in his jail cell, my darling uncle’s body lay in a morgue.

Pell’s meteoric rise to the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy was due in part to his ruthless management of rape and sexual abuse victims. He devised what came to be known as the Melbourne Response, which kept damage to the Church at a minimum by capping the payouts to $50,000 and later $75,000 and requiring victims to sign a silencing agreement. He saved the Church untold millions in compensation and incalculable damages in reputation. The Vatican took notice, and it was only a decade or so before he was tapped to manage the entire financial affairs of the Vatican under the lofty title of “Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy”, making him the third most powerful priest, only two steps down from the Pope.

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TOWER OF BABBLE

Guest Post by Maggie

Hey, TBP readers. I’ve followed Ann for years, increasingly awed with her devotion to the Catholic church in spite of her obvious awareness of continued wrongdoing at its highest echelons of power. This business with the current Popetart (like that one?) being the forerunner to Satan, but NOT the AntiChrist (she calls him AntiPope) is a bit confusing to this old Baptist turned Methodist turned nondemonimational gal, but I certainly get politics in any organization. Power, power, abuse of others, and more power.

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In “Historic Bombshell”, Vatican Official Accuses Pope Francis Of Covering Up Sexual Abuse, Calls For Resignation

Via ZeroHedge

In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, one which the NYT’s Ross Douthat called a “truly historic bombshell”, a former papal nunco, or Vatican ambassador, to the US, it does what many have called for, and offers testimony concerning “who in the hierarchy knew what, and when,” about the crimes of Cardinal McCarrick. The testimony implicates a host of high-ranking churchmen. And the pope.

Vigano said that he told Pope Francis in 2013 about allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent priest — and that Francis took no action. Now, the former official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 77, is calling for Francis to step down.

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Pressure mounts on pope for tougher action on abuse scandals

Via AFP

Pope Francis has acknowledged the work being done in some parts of the world to protect children, but admitted that the Church had "delayed" in applying the necessary sanctions

With the Catholic Church rocked by a devastating US report into child sex abuse, Pope Francis has this week sharpened his criticism on the explosive issue — but he remains under pressure to enact far-reaching changes.

The US grand jury report accused more than 300 “predator” priests in the state of Pennsylvania of abusing more than 1,000 children over seven decades, sparking a fresh bout of soul-searching among senior Catholics across the world.

“The clock is ticking for all of us in Church leadership. Catholics have lost patience with us and civil society has lost confidence in us,” Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, who has been advising the pope on the issue, said in a statement last week.

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Lies and cover-ups: Catholic church in Pennsylvania had ‘playbook’ to keep priest abuse secret, FBI said

Via USA Today

a man wearing a suit and tie: Attorney General Josh Shapiro outlined the findings of the grand jury investigation into six catholic diocese in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. The grand jury's report detailed child sexual abuse and coverup by more than 300 clergy.

On July 17, 1990, Father Thomas Smith wrote to his bishop, Donald Trautman, thanking him for meeting with him and expressing appreciation for the bishop’s faith in him and his quest to return to the active ministry.

At the time, Smith, who had served at a number of churches in the Erie Diocese in northwestern Pennsylvania, was on leave of absence, his third such leave since being ordained as a Catholic priest in 1967.

His absences were termed, in diocese records, as “health leaves.”

The reality: Each of the leaves occurred after the church received reports that Smith had raped children, and the diocese responded by sending Smith to a church-run treatment facility, according to this week’s Pennsylvania grand jury report on the Catholic child sex scandal.

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Grand jury: More than 300 ‘predator priests’ in Pennsylvania protected by Catholic Church

I don’t know how anyone can still support the Catholic Church in good conscience. I walked away ten years ago because they wouldn’t come clean on this cover-up. It continues to this day. The Catholic Church is a despicable criminal organization protecting children fuckers. These priests, bishops, and cardinals will burn in hell for these heinous crimes.

Via USA Today

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More than 300 “predator priests” in six Roman Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania were protected by church leaders more interested in safeguarding the church and the abusers than tending to their victims, a scathing grand jury report released Tuesday claims.

Over 1,000 children victims were identifiable from the church’s own records, the report says.

“The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid scandal,” the report says. “Priests were raping little boys and girls and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing: They hid it all.”

The redacted report details the latest in a decades-long series of claims of abuse and protection leveled against the church across the nation and around the world. As recently as last month, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of prominent Vatican official Cardinal Theodore McCarrick amid claims of sexual abuse almost 40 years ago.

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