Catholicism and its Paedophile Priests
The Catholic Church has been exposed all over the world for covering up for its
paedophile priests and even moving them from one place to another to prolong
their activities.
The religious orders tend to be the worst offenders and do the most obvious
covering up. In the case of Letterfrack in Co Galway Ireland the order denied
knowing that one of its brothers was sexually abusing inmates though they had
got many complaints over his fifteen year reign. The orders in Ireland are still
not releasing documents that incriminate their members and many of these
documents have been destroyed. It is not hard to see that this must have
happened in the Raphoe Diocese where records relating to notorious
paedophiles like Fr Eugene Greene have conveniently disappeared in the time of
three bishops and a parish priest who ran the diocese in 1995-1996. Read the
article by Raphoe Priest Fr Columba Nee
here
http://www.donegaltimes.com/2002/11_1/other.html.
There were letters sent by the victims to diocese
leaders and the recipients denied that they ever got these letters. This was
reported in the Donegal News in 2000. Bishop Hegarty
currently bishop of Derry and formerly bishop of Raphoe was exposed as a
protector of wicked priests particularly in a BBC1 current affairs programme
Spotlight. His attitude in the programme came across as uncaring and arrogant
and defensive. Spotlight exposed the manoeuvrings of the Raphoe diocese to
prevent paedophile priests being brought to justice and especially how the
clerics of the diocese gave no support or compassion and not even a visit to the
families of the victims.
From Breaking the Silence, One Garda's Quest to Find the Truth, Martin Ridge,
Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 2008 order from Gill & Macmillan, Hume Avenue, Park
West, Dublin 12
The above images from the book show that senior priests and even bishops said
what you would expect them to say when they cover up.
Some paedophiles claim they have irresistible urges. If this is true and they
are far from trustworthy, they are not under the control of their feelings all
the time so they could get help. The clergy who believe it is a compulsion and
then hide what paedophile priests have done are doing worse than they are for
they won't have to suffer for what the paedophile has done. They are using the
evil people to do evil. It does not bother them much if children are being
abused ten times a day by each pervert. By letting the perverts run loose they
are as good as holding the children down while the perverts interfere with them.
They are allowing the perverts to take a step beyond child-molestation to the
actual rape and murder of children.
Bishops and priests who protect paedophile priests or who practice paedophilia
should be fired. The pope will not do it which shows that the Church is corrupt
up to the very top.
When a religion is nothing but blind faith or to be not far off that kind of
faith and is found corrupt the only decent thing one can do is to walk out of
it. It is worse to be part of a very harmful blind or semi-blind faith than one
that is less harmful. The Church says the scandals are no excuse for people
turning against her but they are when she is an unnecessary thing, a system of
blind or near blind belief, that gives the opportunity and the protection for
the abuse to happen. When the Catholic Church changes doctrine which it has been
doing since its origin the men in purple and red are the ones who determine what
their flocks are to believe and so ought to be rejected if they are corrupt.
Jesus said that it is better to die than to turn anybody against him or his
Church. No wonder the Church covers up. Seeing the offender brought to justice
is part of the recovery process for victims. It is vital to their emotional
wellbeing. But Jesus says the faith comes first. Better for one to suffer than
for the faith of another to get a battering. The Church teaches that it is
better for empires to fall and the world to go back into the Middle Ages than
for the world to be deprived of the light of God and the power of the sacraments
of the Church and the true faith. It is better if that is true for the Church to
keep clerical child abuse under wraps even if it does mean doing little about
paedophiles
The pope may hug and kiss some children but don’t be fooled. If a politician
were corrupt he would expel him from the government. If his banker were stealing
from his account he would get him fired into oblivion. He would tell them to do
it. But does he fire his clergy who cast cloaks over clerical child-abuse? No
way. He has little concern for innocent children and his actions betray his
words of regret for the actions of paedophile priests to be false.
The priest cannot disclose what he heard in confession. A child can tell the
confessor he or she is being sexually abused. As further protection for the
abusers of children, the priest cannot even broach this with the child outside
of confession no matter how much the priest thinks it is necessary for the
welfare of the child. Children may tell him if they are being molested. The
priest’s silence must be maintained even if it entails letting the abuse go on.
Even if he knows that the child will be killed he cannot speak. This is shocking
coming from a religion that says that since the human person is supremely
valuable murder or assisting in murder is the worst sin against a human person.
The Church could blackmail people to tell such things in confession like it
blackmails people to go to confession and permit the priest to tell. The Church
abetting child abuse.
In 2002, Cardinal Connell of Dublin has apologised twice for his and his
hierarchy’s negligence that has led to so many children being molested and raped
by priests. He had the audacity to ask forgiveness. But he is supporting the
prevention of legal action that can put clergy who knew about paedophile clergy
and did nothing about it behind bars. Collusion took place – his - and he does
not want it punished. Therefore his apology is worthless and a cynical attempt
to restore some of the power the Church has had over minds. And to ask for
pardon without having paid compensation or at least having set in motion some
plans for making it is very disrespectful. He wants the benefit of his flock
looking up to him just because he says he’s sorry. The victims of his wilful
negligence can help themselves to stop hating so don’t kid yourself that it is
for their sake that he apologises. So he needs to say he will submit his files
to the police, offer compensation, call upon the law to penalise those who
shield paedophile priests and be willing to be a witness in court when his
priests are on trial, if relevant. He has done none of these things and nobody
should be impressed by his apology. The pope has interfered via his mean machine
to prevent the American Catholic Church taking proper action against paedophile
priests. Canon law seeks to dominate and contest the law of the land in this
issue.
Children should not be permitted to serve at the altars of the Roman Catholic
Church as altar boys or altar girls. The Catholic priesthood uses spiritual
blackmail and politics to murder women by forbidding them to refrain from
contraception or from having abortions to save their lives which is particularly
cruel in the poor countries of the world. When you become an accessory to murder
you have no right to benefits like honour and obedience. The clergy take these
things though they have no right to them – it is theft. Evil Rome even says that
when a married couple one of whom is HIV Positive have sex without condoms that
they do right even though it means that perhaps the woman will get HIV and
eventually AIDS and have AIDS babies for anything is better than using condoms.
Panorama, BBC1, Sunday, 27th June 2004, interviewed Catholic Bishops who said
just that. The programme debunked the Vatican’s lie that condoms don’t protect
against the HIV virus at all – a lie that was deployed to persuade people that
it is only a waste of time using condoms. Whatever this religion is, it is not
about love for children. It is a religion that consciously tries to heap misery
upon misery upon many children by spreading AIDS to them and their parents so
that they live without parental love and have nothing to look forward to but an
agonising death. Their excuse is, “We are sincere.” But even Jack the Ripper or
Stalin would have said that. The excuse is really a lie that is told to get
tolerance and even praise for their harshness and hatred by masking just how
evil they are being. The excuse is poison and to even voice that excuse is to
assist in crimes against humanity.
It is high time the state realised that the people come first and if that means
weaning them off religion then that step should be taken. God does not come
first even though Jesus said he did and the concept implies he should. Faith in
God is evil.
What about the priests who do not approve of Rome’s cruelty? They know that Rome
might never change and they are helping an organisation that they see is abusing
its power. They are still accessories to the cruelty of the Vatican.
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
When a child accuses a priest of molesting her or him the word of the child
should be given the most weight for the child’s rights come first. When a woman
accuses a man of rape she should get the most concern. It is better to risk an
innocent man going to jail than to risk letting the alleged victim down, for
rape is a very heinous crime. False accusers are few and far between and should
not be penalised when their lies are exposed for it will happen that
occasionally a woman has been telling the truth and made to look like a liar. It
is better to tolerate false accusations than to risk accusing a victim falsely
for her rights come first.
In cases where paedophilia may be taking place a guilty until proven innocent
approach should be implemented. It is better for loads of priests to be accused
in the wrong than for one priest to molest a child thanks to the immunity he
gets until his guilt is established. It is better for a number of priests to be
wrongly accused than for one child to be suspected of lying when that child is
not lying. A priest being cleared does not prove innocence. One child’s life is
more important than loads of adult ones for a child is starting life and is more
vulnerable. It is better for innocent priests to be jailed for child abuse if it
means that even one child will not suffer or be accused of fabricating the
allegations. Campaigns must be set up to ensure that guilty until proven
innocent in this case and in the case of men accused of raping women becomes
part of the law. A priest should be instantly removed should any allegations
surface against him. All who are suspected of child-molesting should be named
and shamed. They are not entitled to compensation if they suffer in the wrong
for protecting children from them until they are cleared is a duty. Moreover,
people accused of child-abuse who harbour religious beliefs that can be seen to
encourage child-abuse should be feared and suspected more than others who do
not.
Conclusion
It is time to get tough. Use your public representative and write to her or him.
Make her or him see the dangers of religion for children and eventually the law
of the land will preserve them from the pestilence of religion.
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