The Catholic Church: 50 Years of Sex Crimes Against Children

[RainDog]

this blogger was one of the abused.

http://blogs.alternet.org/cityofangelsonalternet/2010/03/11/the-catholic-church-just-got-away-with-50-years-of-sex-crimes-against-children/

What other organization in the U.S. could have six thousand (6000) pedophiles whose job is interacting with children and as a result produce tens of thousands of crime victims, yet the organization is still operating, has not ever really even been investigated?

Because they are a religion?

As one of the pedophile Catholic priest crime victims, I am shocked by the world’s fear of the Catholic Church, in America, from U.S. senators down to court clerks in every city, people bow to the bishops, rather than treat them like the criminals many of them are.

What shocks me is that Law Enforcement and News Media have chosen to sweep the pedophile priest issue away somewhere instead of really looking at it.

City Of Angels

"Ongoing coverage of the pedophile priest epidemic."

I was age five 1953-4 when Chicago's Cardinal Stritch stood over me and said, "You have to stop babbling about what Father Horne did to you." It was 40 years before I said a word about it again. Today, I babble.

[ixion]

1. And yet for some (insane) reason this cult is still considered credible...

I guess their (stolen and extorted) money talks.

[RainDog]

3. I honestly do not understand why they are still in business

as I noted more than once... ANY other organization that had covered up child abuse for years would no longer be allowed to do business in the U.S.

but if you do it in the name of god, it's okay, apparently. or if you have enough money to buy silence.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. +5

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Just 50 years? Watch 'Deliver us from evil". Clearly the priest pedophile

was a victim of a priest pedophile himself. It's been going on for a lot longer than 50 years.

[RainDog]

5. that's the headline from the blog, not me n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. I know. Replying to the headline

[slampoet]

4. What other organization in the U.S. could have pedophiles? The Boy Scouts Of America.

I had a constitutional law professor who told us that he was molested by his scout master in the 1920's and that man later on became a leader for the Whole National organization.

[RainDog]

7. that's true. I never wanted my sons to be part of their organization

because it gave me the creeps. before I knew of the pedophilia issues.

[slampoet]

11. Even the best Boy Scout troops still are preparing kids for the Army.

I was a scout and I was NOT molested, and my troop leaders were very good about preaching tolerance especially for the handicapped, however the survival skills I learned were not worth the doctrine crap i got from the kids and leaders in other troops along the way.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Yep. My friend and I were victims of attempted molestation - I blew the whistle on the scoutmaster

and they closed down the troop. There were some mighty confused (and some really nasty) boys in that troop.

[arcadian]

9. And some on DU question the notion of a conspiracies.

[RainDog]

12. I see the protectors of abusers must be appeased.

sick.

[Submariner]

13. WRONG....try almost 1700 years

Evidence of sexual abuse by clergy, according to the Murphy report, can be traced as far back as 320 AD and the first treatment centres for paedophile priests were created in 1940, named Servants of the Paraclete.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/sinead-oconnor-id-help-jesus-to-burn-down-the-vatican-2087994.html

[Tesha]

18. Ahh, for those delightful "boys'" voices in Catholic choirs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato

[RainDog]

14. video on the current pedophile abuse in Germany

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbl--JbGGQ4&feature=player_embedded#

[Deep13]

15. Only 50? The R.C. Church has been around for centuries. nt

[Warpy]

16. Over a thousand years

if you count sex abuse against girl children, something that has happened since the beginning.

[AnnieBW]

17. Only 50?

Try about 2000.

[lunasun]

19. "The church adheres to it's own laws" - yes that is a big part of the problem

Plenty of other crimes too