Category: Clerical abuse
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Paedophile priest, once supported by the late Cardinal Pell, has another year added to his 39-year sentence
BACK in 2014, it was reported that Australian Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale, inset—originally jailed in 1994 for 18 years after being convicted of 46 charges of abusing 20 boys and one girl between 1961 and 1982—had received support from the late Cardinal Pell, above. In April, 2014, the sentence of Australia’s most notorious paedophile, was…
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Street artist protests the €161-million cost of World Youth Day in Lisbon with an enormous banknote carpet
PORTUGAL’S famed street artist, Bordalo II, broke into the grounds of an altar/stage created for WYD 2023, saying in a Facebook post “in a secular state, at a time when many people are fighting to keep their homes, their work and their dignity, millions of public funds have been invested to sponsor the tour of…
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Vatican cardinal says homosexuality has nothing to do with clerical abuse. The Catholic League freaks out.
FOR years, Bill Donohue, above, head of the League, has insisted that there are very few paedophile priests within the Catholic Church, and that the abuse crisis within the RCC was all down to gay “psychosexually stunted” clerics targeting teens. So is comes as no surprise that Donohue blew a fuse when he learned that…
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With an abuse case pending against dead Pope Ratzinger, relatives say no to his money
IN January this year it was reported that a court case in Germany against the late Pope Benedict XVI will continue in spite of his death. He was accused of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest during his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. The case, according to Religion News Service, raises…
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Catholic cleric who railed against ‘psychosexually dysfunctional’ priests faces child pornography charges
FOLLOWING his arrest in October, 2021, for possessing child porn, Father James W. Jackson, a Rhode Island priest, was detained for the second time last year in Kansas for allegedly violating the conditions of his release. His trial is about to commence shortly. And here’s the kicker: Just weeks before his first arrest, Jackson wrote…
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Founder of Florida’s Christian Coalition Family Church faces multiple abuse charges
FOLLOWING his his arrest this week Crawford was described by Clovis Watson, Jr, head of the Alachua Sheriff’s Office as “one of the most heinous and vile human beings he has ever seen.” On Tuesday Crawford was initially arrested after an investigation was launched into reports of sexual abuse of a child at the Christian…
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When Poland was under communist rule paedophile priests who cooperated with the regime were rewarded
RESPONDING to an investigation by two journalists who sought to uncover clerical abuse in the Catholic Church when Poland was under communist rule, Archbishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno, above, has admitted that, “for decades we have been blind to the suffering of those harmed.” The investigation was carried out by Tomasz Krzyzak and Piotr Litka…
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Bolivian priest’s nephew discovered that he kept a diary, detailing sexual abuse of ‘at least’ 85 minors
JESUIT priest, Alfonso Pedrajas, above, was exposed as a serial abuser by Spanish newspaper El País back in 2018 when it ran an expose headlined “The Diary of a Paedohile Priest.” Its report was gleaned from information discovered on Pedrajas’ computer after the Bolivian-based priest’s death in 2009. But in a new development El País…
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Top UK cleric suspended from active ministry over the way he handled abuse claim
JOHN Sentamu, former Archbishop of York and a member of the House of Lords, has reacted with anger to his suspension, claiming that “safeguarding is very important but it does not trump Church Law.” The suspension of the “arrogant bully” is centred on Sentamu’s mishandling of a rape allegation made against Anglican priest Trevor Devamanikkam. Devamanikkam,…
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Amidst a massive show of adoration for Saint John Paul II, statues of the ‘cover-up’ Pope are vandalised in Poland
A LARGE majority of Poles are in a state of denial over revelations that Pope John Paul II covered up clerical abuse . This was made abundantly clear at the weekend when tens of thousands took to the streets in support of the late Pope. However, its reported here that, amidst the event, held to…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 