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4,444 Victims: Extent of Abuse in Catholic Church in Australia Revealed
I may have just created a new category for my posts entitled “Pedophilia” as the volume of information now warrants it—and that’s a good thing.
Is it my imagination, or do the British press enjoy exposing the pedophilia/sexual abuse in Australia? Apparently it’s acceptable to them to ignore same in their own country—not only within the church, but parliament, law enforcement, the education system, etc.
Don’t they know people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones? Their holier-than-thou attitude is off-putting, to say the least.
Right, then! The dirty laundry will soon be out on the line for all to see—whether the British press is on board or not. Just watch!
And as we know from other sources, the inhuman acts are not limited to the Catholic Church. Anglican and others are implicated—right up to the Vatican. Houses of the holy in general are long time cesspools of depravity.
When the extent of the abasement is fully known, the reeling public will require significant healing. The figures below may be astounding to some, but on the grand scale pale in comparison.
I noticed this weekend that David Icke spoke out on the PizzaGate topic. His video contribution is here.
For the reticent… I hope you’re getting the picture. The BIG picture. ~ BP
On Monday the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse released damning statistics on the scale of the crisis within the Catholic Church. The numbers confirm the extent of sexual predation already suggested by four years of royal commission hearings involving the church, which are now entering their final weeks.
Up to 15% of priests in some dioceses were alleged perpetrators between 1950 and 2015, with abusers most prevalent in the dioceses of Sale and Sandhurst in Victoria, Port Pirie in South Australia, and Lismore and Wollongong in New South Wales. The numbers were even worse in some national Catholic orders. By far the worst was the order of the St John of God Brothers, where a staggering 40% of religious brothers are believed to have abused children.
Twenty-two per cent of Christian Brothers and 20% of Marist Brothers, both orders that run schools, were alleged perpetrators. More than one in five priests in the Benedictine community of New Norcia were alleged perpetrators, while 17.2% of clergy were accused of crimes against children in the Salesians of Don Bosco order.
In total, between 1980 and 2015, 4,444 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse relating to 93 Catholic Church authorities. The abuse allegedly took place in more than 1,000 institutions. The average age of victims was 10.5 for girls and 11.6 for boys. The overwhelming majority of survivors were male. Almost 1,900 perpetrators were identified and another 500 remained unidentified. Thirty-two per cent were religious brothers, 30% were priests, 29% were lay people and 5% were religious sisters.
The royal commission said 37% of all private sessions it held with survivors from all institutions related to abuse in the Catholic Church.
Farrell scandal puts Catholic church’s attitude to Australian law under the microscope
The disturbing figures were revealed by senior counsel assisting, Gail Furness, SC. She also revealed that the Holy See had refused to hand over documents involving Australian priests accused of abuse.
“The royal commission hoped to gain an understanding of the action taken in each case,” Furness said. “The Holy See responded, on 1 July 2014, that it was ‘neither possible nor appropriate to provide the information requested’,” she said.
Furness said the responses of Catholic diocese and orders across the country were “depressingly similar”.
“Children were ignored or worse, punished. Allegations were not investigated. Priests and religious [brothers] were moved. The parishes or communities to which they were moved knew nothing of their past,” she said. “Documents were not kept or they were destroyed. Secrecy prevailed as did cover-ups.”
The church’s Truth, Justice and Healing council, set up to coordinate the church’s response to the crisis, made an opening statement following the release of the data. Chief executive Francis Sullivan struggled with emotion as he spoke, saying the data without doubt “undermines the image and credibility of the priesthood”.
“These numbers are shocking, they are tragic, they are indefensible,” Sullivan said. “And each entry in this data for the most part represents a child who suffered at the hands of someone who should have cared for and protected them.
“The data is an indictment on the priests and religious who abused these children. It also reflects on the church leaders who at times failed to take steps to deal with the abusers, failed to call them to order and failed to deal with them in accordance with the law.”
Sullivan described the abuse as a “massive failure” of the church and as a corruption of the gospel.
“As Catholics, we hang our heads in shame,” he said.
Sullivan outlined the key programs of change undertaken by the church. That included the establishment of the professional standards body responsible for auditing and reporting on the compliance of bishops and church leaders with child protection standards. It also includes revisiting abuse claims, the push for a national redress scheme, the recruitment of new professional standards officers and the creation of stronger child protection policies and procedures.
Read more…
Thanks to: http://www.starshipearththebigpicture.com
I may have just created a new category for my posts entitled “Pedophilia” as the volume of information now warrants it—and that’s a good thing.
Is it my imagination, or do the British press enjoy exposing the pedophilia/sexual abuse in Australia? Apparently it’s acceptable to them to ignore same in their own country—not only within the church, but parliament, law enforcement, the education system, etc.
Don’t they know people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones? Their holier-than-thou attitude is off-putting, to say the least.
Right, then! The dirty laundry will soon be out on the line for all to see—whether the British press is on board or not. Just watch!
And as we know from other sources, the inhuman acts are not limited to the Catholic Church. Anglican and others are implicated—right up to the Vatican. Houses of the holy in general are long time cesspools of depravity.
When the extent of the abasement is fully known, the reeling public will require significant healing. The figures below may be astounding to some, but on the grand scale pale in comparison.
I noticed this weekend that David Icke spoke out on the PizzaGate topic. His video contribution is here.
For the reticent… I hope you’re getting the picture. The BIG picture. ~ BP
4,444 victims: extent of abuse in Catholic church in Australia revealed
The Guardian
Seven per cent of Australia’s Catholic priests were accused of abusing children in the six decades since 1950, according to new data from the royal commission.On Monday the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse released damning statistics on the scale of the crisis within the Catholic Church. The numbers confirm the extent of sexual predation already suggested by four years of royal commission hearings involving the church, which are now entering their final weeks.
Up to 15% of priests in some dioceses were alleged perpetrators between 1950 and 2015, with abusers most prevalent in the dioceses of Sale and Sandhurst in Victoria, Port Pirie in South Australia, and Lismore and Wollongong in New South Wales. The numbers were even worse in some national Catholic orders. By far the worst was the order of the St John of God Brothers, where a staggering 40% of religious brothers are believed to have abused children.
As Catholics, we hang our heads in shame
Truth, Justice and Healing council chief executive Francis Sullivan
Twenty-two per cent of Christian Brothers and 20% of Marist Brothers, both orders that run schools, were alleged perpetrators. More than one in five priests in the Benedictine community of New Norcia were alleged perpetrators, while 17.2% of clergy were accused of crimes against children in the Salesians of Don Bosco order.
In total, between 1980 and 2015, 4,444 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse relating to 93 Catholic Church authorities. The abuse allegedly took place in more than 1,000 institutions. The average age of victims was 10.5 for girls and 11.6 for boys. The overwhelming majority of survivors were male. Almost 1,900 perpetrators were identified and another 500 remained unidentified. Thirty-two per cent were religious brothers, 30% were priests, 29% were lay people and 5% were religious sisters.
The royal commission said 37% of all private sessions it held with survivors from all institutions related to abuse in the Catholic Church.
Farrell scandal puts Catholic church’s attitude to Australian law under the microscope
The disturbing figures were revealed by senior counsel assisting, Gail Furness, SC. She also revealed that the Holy See had refused to hand over documents involving Australian priests accused of abuse.
“The royal commission hoped to gain an understanding of the action taken in each case,” Furness said. “The Holy See responded, on 1 July 2014, that it was ‘neither possible nor appropriate to provide the information requested’,” she said.
Furness said the responses of Catholic diocese and orders across the country were “depressingly similar”.
“Children were ignored or worse, punished. Allegations were not investigated. Priests and religious [brothers] were moved. The parishes or communities to which they were moved knew nothing of their past,” she said. “Documents were not kept or they were destroyed. Secrecy prevailed as did cover-ups.”
The church’s Truth, Justice and Healing council, set up to coordinate the church’s response to the crisis, made an opening statement following the release of the data. Chief executive Francis Sullivan struggled with emotion as he spoke, saying the data without doubt “undermines the image and credibility of the priesthood”.
“These numbers are shocking, they are tragic, they are indefensible,” Sullivan said. “And each entry in this data for the most part represents a child who suffered at the hands of someone who should have cared for and protected them.
“The data is an indictment on the priests and religious who abused these children. It also reflects on the church leaders who at times failed to take steps to deal with the abusers, failed to call them to order and failed to deal with them in accordance with the law.”
Sullivan described the abuse as a “massive failure” of the church and as a corruption of the gospel.
“As Catholics, we hang our heads in shame,” he said.
Sullivan outlined the key programs of change undertaken by the church. That included the establishment of the professional standards body responsible for auditing and reporting on the compliance of bishops and church leaders with child protection standards. It also includes revisiting abuse claims, the push for a national redress scheme, the recruitment of new professional standards officers and the creation of stronger child protection policies and procedures.
Read more…
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