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It sickens me the number of holy men that rape little kids. Then they give short prison time. If anything they need life time in prison for just one offense.
India, Kerala - "In a serious blow to the image of the Catholic Church in Kerala, as many as five nuns are among the eight accused in the case pertaining to a priest who charged with sexually abusing and impregnating a 16-year-old school student at Kottiyoor in Kannur district."
"The girl gave birth to a baby boy in early February. It has now come to light that the priest, Robin Vadakkumcherry, 48, and his accomplices tried to cover up the matter. The schoolgirl was admitted to a church-run hospital for delivery and the new-born was taken away to an orphanage [controlled by the church] run by nuns a day after birth."
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/5-nuns-among-8-people-booked-fo...
http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/india/five-nuns-among-accused-in-kerala-pr...
"Father Robin Vadakkumcherry", "charged with sexually abusing and impregnating a 16-year-old school student"
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U.S, - "An ArkLaTex youth pastor and North DeSoto High School student have been arrested and charged with pornography involving juveniles."
"...child pornography was allegedly found on cellular devices belong to both Almarode and Maschino."
http://www.ksla.com/story/34658625/desoto-parish-youth-pastor-high-schoo...
Here he is, praying and preaching. Teaching others about God and morality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbbRKnfqZI
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The Catholic Herald: "We can no longer pretend that the Vatican is getting to grips with the abuse crisis"
"The Pope's commission has failed to deliver. Marie Collins's resignation is just the latest example"
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2017/03/02/we-can-no-lon...
New York, US - The Child Victims Act, stalled for years by pressure from the Roman Catholic Church and others.
"The fate of the Child Victims Act could rest with Senate Leader John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, who supporters say has refused to meet to discuss the bill."
"They are denying us our day in court"
http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/roman-catholic-church-sex-abuse...
Australia breaks the U.S record for highest predator priest percentage within the Catholic Church.
"The Australian Catholic Church has released "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-06/child-sex-abuse-royal-commission:-...
"1,880 alleged perpetrators identified in Catholic Church"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-06/royal-commission-into-child-sexual...
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The wheel turns oh so slowly...but it does turn....
Some of you may remember this story from 2014 ......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645870/Mass-grave-contains-bodi...
Well it appears that investigations are proceeding ....
"Remains found at Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in County Galway, Ireland
There could be as many as 800 dead, ranging from 35 weeks to three years old
The bodies may have been placed in an old sewer, which was disused in 1937
In the 1970s, local boys found a pile of bones in an underground chamber"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4278876/Mass-grave-former-Cathol...
Slightly worrying is the paragraph in the article that says," The Mother and Baby Homes commission is investigating 17 other church-run institutions."
"The mother and baby home era is one of the last dark secrets of Catholic run Ireland."
I'll wager its not one of the "last"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-babies-and-c...
Nearly 800 dead babies were found in a sewer at a catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland. Authorities believe there may be dozens more similar sites. The church stubbornly refused to allow contraception. When unammaried women got pregnant, they were taken into these "homes" to have their babies, which were immediately taken away from them by the nuns. A few were adopted. The others died from neglect and were shoved down a sewer.
The only bright side in all of this is that continual scandals are dramatically weakening the power of the church in Ireland.
Just a follow up.....
The Catholic church is ‘shocked’ at the hundreds of children buried at Tuam. Really?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/catholic-church-ch...
Then there is this....
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League in New York contradicted bishops as well as politicians by writing that accounts of up to 800 dead babies at the home in County Galway are a 'lie' and a 'hoax'.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic.commentator.bill.donohue....
"Bill Donohue of the Catholic League..."
It's completely unbelievable that that man isn't behind bars for his lies.
As I suppose the Catholic church is 'shocked' at the spread of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Zika virus in Central America among populations under the sway of Catholic doctrine. And Bill Donohue's probable position is that it is a lie and a hoax that this is due to the church's dictate not to use condoms but instead is due to the Jezebels' sinful fornication. He probably is of the mind that they wouldn't have to send so many babies' souls to heaven if those daughters of Eve would quit having illegitimate bastards.
Among all that is awful about religions, the Catholic Church is at or near the top of the list.
Another follow up.......
http://www.secularism.org.uk/blog/2017/03/mass-grave-of-the-remains-of-b...
Piece by the Executive Director of the UK's National Secular Society.
And all the while these moral masters loudly condemn others from their lofty perch that we should "value the sanctity of life", meaning to rob women of the autonomy of their own being. For purposes of satisfying truth-in-advertising laws, Catholic Canon Law should be amended with a revised Liturgy of the Eucharist to include not only the blood of the lamb but the blood of abused children. And adding to verbiage about the broken body of the eucharist the broken lives of all who trust in that institution of cruelty.
Thanks for keeping us in the know, Watchman.
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Another gem:
Donohue claims that those who are critical of nuns stuffing babies into septic tanks support gay marriage
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Denis Diderot
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Denis Diderot
I was curious to see what articles I could find about this story on Catholic news sites, so I googled some up and checked. I bet you can guess the answer to that question: nothing.
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Oh I finally found one, maybe the 13th one I checked:Independent Catholic News. They have the standard information there, so hats off to them.
Good news from the Catholic League!!! The number of dead children "does not come close to 800"! Nothing to see here. Those dead kids aren't the problem, it's the "expansive view of sexual rights" that threaten god's children. Bill Donahue can prove it. At the protest in Ireland, he says the protesters' signs were "mostly held by women". And Bill also helpfully points out that the people who most care about these children, these murdered orphans, "virtually all of them are pro-gay marriage". So the people who are pro-gay marriage are the vile types who care about murdered orphans. See? Catholicism is just wonderful.
http://www.catholicleague.org/tuam-critics-on-abortion-and-gay-marriage/ (Thanks for the link, Nyarlathotep)
Oh, and just drop your tithe in the box on the way out. We need money to save the children, don't you know...
United Arab Emirates - "Emlyn Culverwell, 29, and his 27-year-old fiancée, Iryna Nohai", "...were arrested in Abu Dhabi on January 29 on a charge of having sex before marriage"
"A doctor found that she was pregnant and informed the authorities, upon which the couple was arrested."
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/only-thing-they-did-wrong-was-fal...
And people wonder why many Atheists are hostile toward religion. This kind of theocratic cruelty is an outrage and should be opposed by all compassionate and just people.
Yeah, but the question is how to get the public majority on board to oppose such insanity?
Especially when the public majority is religious themselves and some who are not religious simply feel that "it's their religious right" to oppress others.
@Pragratic: "A doctor found that she was pregnant and informed the authorities"
So patient-doctor confidentiality means nothing in Islamic countries.
In theocracies, it would seem that it doesn't.
US, Arkansas - Bill submitted to allow teaching of Creationism and Intelligent Design.
What a great idea: Undermine education to make way for religion. There couldn't possibly be any negative backlash from that, could it?!
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/mar/07/intelligent-design-instru...
India, Kerala - Update on the alleged rapist priest Father Robin Vadakkumcherry, mentioned previously here.
"The Catholic Church has sparked outrage in India after it blamed "consumerism" and bodily "temptations" for the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl."
"The girl was allegedly raped several times and became pregnant"
"The child has since been delivered at a private hospital and since taken to an orphanage, reportedly without the mother's consent."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/catholic-priest-rape-15-yea...
"...a heart-broken father had to falsely admit that he had raped his own daughter to “protect the priest and the Church” in what is now being described as the worst sex scandal in the history of Kerala’s Catholic establishment."
"Robin paid the hospital bill of Rs 30,000 for the delivery and promised to do any penance for his sin. But he betrayed my daughter by trying to escape from India,” says the father"
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala-priest-st-sebastians-churc...
US, New York - "There have been six reported cases of infant herpes linked to circumcisions in the three years since the city eased rules that regulated ultra-Orthodox Jewish practitioners who clean the wound with their mouth"
Another free pass for religion to do unthinkable things.
"the city's Board of Health — under de Blasio's direction — voted to ease regulations on the oral post-circumcision practices that leaders of the ultra-Orthodox community called an infringement on religious freedom."
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170309/borough-park/neonatal-herpes-i...
This type of thing should be indictable as a human rights violation in the International Criminal Court at the Hague. But of course our beacon-to-the-world republic is above such concerns and won't join the ICC. Our moralizing majority preaches piety and practices cruelty. Unbearable.
US, Florida - Youth pastor specializing in troubled teenage boys, arrested for dismemberment murder comitted in in 1994.
"Fred Laster, 16, was last seen with local youth pastor Ron Hyde"
"They ran the DNA against the second sample found on the shirt, and it was a match"
"60 years old at the time of his arrest, Hyde still worked as a faith-based mental health counselor. In his decades of freedom, the accused murderer has been in frequent contact with children."
"Hyde has worked as a youth pastor for the past 23 years. In that time, authorities and a local mother believe he may have preyed on other boys like Laster."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/10/pastor-arrested-for-cho...
"Ron Hyde's first court appearance"
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/ron-hydes-first-court-appearance-form...
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/government-launches-urgent-ap...
This self-proclaimed witch claimed that his child abuse was justified by his pagan beliefs.
Indonesia, Aceh - "Indonesian Buddhists caned under Shariah law for first time"
"Alem bin Suhadi, 57, and Amel bin Akim, 60, both ethnic Chinese and members of the Buddhist minority, were whipped in front of dozens of local officials and residents in the city of Jantho, Aceh province."
"In the past only Muslim residents could be caned"
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/indonesian-buddhists-can...
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