Category: Clerical abuse
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New Orleans abuse victims get a multi-million dollar payout from the Catholic Church
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. THE New Orleans Archdiocese yesterday (Monday) agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, after lawyers for those who had been abused for decades…
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In an act of ‘mercy’ French Catholic archbishop awards a key post to a priest convicted of raping a boy aged 16
Subscribe to The Angry Atheist and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. ARCHBISHOP Guy André Marie de Kerimel, above, of the Archdiocese of Toulouse – Saint Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux has come under fire for appointing Fr Dominique…
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UK priest, assessed as a potential risk to children, awarded a substantial pay-off by the Church of England
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. DESPITE having been subjected to FIVE police investigations, including into allegations of sexual assault, Canon Andrew Hindley, above, who worked in Blackburn diocese from 1991 to 2021 was never charged. However, it was reported by the BBC yesterday (Tuesday) that…
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US televangelist resigns after admitting sexually abusing a ‘young lady.’ Robert Morris’ victim was aged just 12.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. GATEWAY Church founder Robert Morris, above—once a “spiritual advisor” to Donald Trump—has been forced to the resign from the church he founded after claiming inapropriate behaviour with a girl in the 1980s. A CBN News report a week ago revealed…
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Head of a Nigerian megachurch, TB Joshua, exposed as a rapist and torturer in a shocking BBC exposé
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. IN a new three-part series that can be seen on YouTube, the BBC reveals that Temitope Balogun Joshua, head of the Synagogue, Church of all Nations (SCOAN) until his his sudden death in 2021 aged 57, raped and abusing followers…
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Top German Protestant leader quits over historical clerical abuse
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. THE Catholic Church has long been regarded as a sanctuary for sexual predators, and Germany has outed hundred of abusive priests, leading to a mass exodus of adherents of the faith. But the RCC far from the only denomination affected…
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Abusive RCC priests were purposely placed among people of colour as victims were unlikely to complain
THE first in-depth study into clergy sexual abuse within African American communities—carrried out by an openly gay Catholic priest, Fr. Bryan Massingale, above—indicates that racism was a major factor in the Catholic Church’s handling of paedophile priests. In an in-depth report, the National Catholic Reporter quoted Massingale, a theologian at Fordham University in New York,…
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Former New Orleans Catholic priest, 91, faces charges of historic sex abuse
CHARGES brought against Lawrence Hecker, above, by a Louisiana grand jury include one that alleges that, in 1975, he choked a teen unconscious under the guise of performing a wrestling move and then sexually assaulted him. Hecker, acccording to Religion News Service, faces felony counts of rape, kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft. It…
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Evangelical leaders praised U.K. celebrity preacher after he was exposed as an abuser of young men
AFTER Mike Pilavachi, above, former associate pastor at Soul Survivor Church in Watform, resigned in disgrace earlier this year, global evangelical leaders sent him messages of praise and support. An investigation by The Telegraph revealed how Pilavachi allegedly encouraged a “conveyor belt” of young, attractive men—many of whom were vulnerable and had difficult childhoods—to receive…
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Abuse survivor speaks out after former Catholic cardinal is found not competent to stand trial for abuse
JAMES Grein, 64, abused for years from the age of 11 by Theodore McCarrick, inset above, has accused McCarrick’s legal team of “coaching” the former prelate for psychiatric assessments that culminated in abuse charges being dropped against him. Yesterday (Wedneday) a state district judge ruled that McCarrick, 93, was not competent to stand trial on…
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