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> CHRISTIANITY IS A PEDOPHILE RELIGION. PERIOD.
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> http://indiafacts.org/god-money-sex-child-sexual-abuse-in-church/#.XVGAQHjbfvw.twitter
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> Milind Sathye
> Commentary | 17-08-2018
>
> God, Money and Sex: Child sexual abuse in Church
>
> Given the horrible state of affairs with respect to child sexual abuse
> as revealed in the two key reports, and consequent disillusionment of
> Westerners with the Church as evidenced by depleting attendance, it is
> high time that an honest soul-searching and self-analysis takes place
> within the Christian establishment.
>
>
>
> Close on the heels of the baby trading scandal at the Missionaries of
> Charity in India, yet another scandal in Australia involving child
> sexual abuse has claimed the scalp of Adelaide Archbishop – Phillip
> Wilson. The Archbishop has finally resigned on 30 July 2018 after
> intense pressure including from the Australian Prime Minister
> Turnbull[1]. He was found guilty in May this year of covering up the
> sexual abuse of children for three years from 2004-2006. The children
> were sexually abused way back in the 1970s, by paedophile priest Jim
> Fletcher (who died in prison in 2006). Mr Wilson was sentenced to
> detention for a year earlier in July 2018 but was refusing to resign. He
> is not the first Archbishop to go. In 2016, another Archbishop, the
> Anglican Archbishop of Perth[2] had to resign for similar reasons.
>
> The story of child abuse in Church dates back many years. The severity
> of the problem prompted the Australian government to institute a Royal
> Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2012
> (RC). After a five-year inquiry, the Commission released its final
> report in December 2017[3]. The RC report which runs in to 17 volumes
> has made a total of 409 recommendations to make institutions child safe.
> The report is divided in five parts: understanding child sexual abuse in
> institutional context, child safe institutions, support and treatment,
> particular institutions and what lies beyond the Commission’s report.
> The report is an eye-opener and highlights the extent of the rot.
>
> Over 8,000 personal stories were heard by the Commission. The Commission
> reported that ‘tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused
> in many Australian institutions. We will never know the true number.
> Whatever the number, it is a national tragedy, perpetrated over
> generations within many of our most trusted institutions’ (RC,
> 2017:5)[4]. The traumatic experience made the survivors feel that their
> innocence was stolen, childhood was lost, and their personal
> relationship were damaged. Of the survivors 64.3 per cent were male. The
> Commission found that mostly the ‘people in religious ministry and
> teachers were the perpetrators’ (RC, 2017:10)[5]. The top three places
> where the abuse occurred included out-of-home care, schools and at
> religious activities. The top two religious institutions where the abuse
> took place included catholic institutions (62% approx) and Anglican
> institutions (15% approx). Hindu and Islamic religious institutions
> reported less than 0.2% or less than five cases out of survivors
> interviewed by the RC.
>
> Majority of the survivors admitted that the sexual abuse took place in
> religious institutions. ‘More than 4,000 survivors in private sessions
> told us they were sexually abused as children in religious institutions
> in Australia. The abuse occurred in churches, presbyteries and
> rectories, confessionals, religious schools, orphanages and missions,
> and various other settings…….. The perpetrators we heard about included
> priests, religious brothers and sisters, ministers, church elders,
> teachers in religious schools, workers in residential institutions,
> volunteers, youth group leaders and others.’ (RC, 2017:43)[6].
>
> The RC (2017)[7] concluded ‘The greatest number of alleged perpetrators
> and abused children, in Church managed facilities that we are aware of,
> were in Roman Catholic institutions’. Despite knowing, the alleged
> perpetrators were allowed by the Church to have access to children.
> Similarly, when complaints were made to the institutions the response
> was inadequate or simply unjust. It is not a problem of the past, it
> continues even today, the RC found. The RC is compiling a book “Message
> to Australia’ where in the survivors have been invited to give their
> message anonymously.
>
> Another report published in August 2017 by the RMIT University,
> Melbourne specifically focuses on child sexual abuse in the Catholic
> Church. The authors of the report are Prof Cahill and Prof Wilkinson.
> The Report notes ‘the sexual and emotional abuse of children within
> Catholic settings by priests, religious brothers and sisters, is
> ultimately a tragedy of immense proportions……. many thousands of lives
> across the world have been badly damaged, if not destroyed, in the
> continuing and tragic saga of the sexual abuse of children which can be
> traced back to New Testament times’ (RMIT, 2017:15)[8]. The RMIT report
> was prepared after a meta-analysis of 26 key international and
> Australian reports on child sexual abuse. The study considered reports
> from Australia (10 reports), Belgium (1), Canada (2), Ireland (4), the
> Netherlands (1), the UK (2) and the US (7).
>
> The history of sexual abuse of children by the priests and other
> religious figures of the Catholic church goes back to 4th century and
> since then it is continuing to the present day. Many historical records
> are deeply buried in the diocesan secret archives. Great secrecy was
> maintained about priestly misconduct. According to the report, Canons
> 489 and 490 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law appear to be specifically
> designed to maintain a code of silence. Furthermore, secret code words
> and euphemisms were used to hide priestly sexual misconduct. In the
> historical records of the Church, usually written by the priest
> themselves, the negative issues such as sexual misconduct were omitted.
> Lack of systematic archival search is yet another issue which leads to
> covering up of sexual misconduct by priests.
>
> The RMIT report (2017:37)[9] notes that ‘slavery was an institution
> tolerated by the early Church in its sociocultural Roman context, as
> were oppressive patriarchal relationships’. Interestingly, even the very
> first canonised saint of Australia was also involved in child sexual
> abuse. “Another major episode of clerical child sexual abuse to have
> recently come to light concerns Australia’s first canonised saint,
> Mother Mary MacKillop (1842–1909), known as St Mary of the Cross…. she
> herself was excommunicated’ (RMIT, 2017:52). Similarly, the Australian
> Senate Inquiry’s investigation into Christian Brothers in 2001, led to
> Brother Carmody being jailed for three years after pleading guilty to
> sexual abuse of children – the first Catholic religious jailed in
> Australia for child sexual abuse.
>
> In the post WWII review of sexual abuse, the RMIT (2017:55) found that
> ‘child sexual abuse by priests and religious is a world-wide phenomenon
> in the global, universal Catholic Church even where the research
> evidence is either scanty or non-existent’. The Report provides
> harrowing account of child sexual abuse in the Catholic institutions of
> each of the western countries mentioned above.
>
> The Report notes that the diocesan leaders were not
> forthcoming/transparent in providing information to external agencies.
> The Report also provides considerable details about child sexual abuse
> in Catholic churches in Europe. As for the Churches in Asia, the RMIT
> Report (2017:92) notes the following. ‘Bishops all over Asia (including
> nuncios of various Asian countries) receive letters from different
> quarters of the Church that paedophilia has already become a
> considerably serious problem in Asia”. The Report also provides details
> of subsequent inquiries of child sexual abuse in Australia.
>
> In addition, the report also deals with issues such as priesthood and
> priestly training, child sexual abuse in catholic residences, the
> theological and pastoral parameters of abuse, psychological profile of
> perpetrator priests, the episcopal response and an interpretive reprise.
>
> The RMIT report (2017:120) summarises ‘Tragically the sexual abuse of
> children has sullied and besmirched the reputation of all Catholic
> priests and religious brothers across the global Church’.
>
> Interestingly, all this happens in a wealthy establishment located in
> developed countries. The national wealth of Australian Catholic Church
> alone is estimated at $30 billion[10]. There are already calls for
> reviewing the tax-free status of the Church. As a recent CNN report[11]
> reveals Catholic Church is a big business. ‘The Vatican has big
> investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real
> estate’[12] and pays no taxes. Consequently, considerable money is at
> stake in retaining and expanding the influence of the Church. Forbes
> reported in 2013[13] that fraud was thriving in US Churches.
>
> Recent years have seen a sharp decline in Church attendance. The
> attendance in the mass of the Church has significantly declined over the
> years 74% (1954) to 12.2% (2011). The reasons for non-attendance were
> interesting: 31% indicated disagreement with Church teachings, 22% due
> to disillusionment with sexual abuse revelations and another 18% due to
> inability to accept Catholic beliefs (RMIT, 2017).
>
> Given this disillusionment of Westerners with the Church, it is but
> natural that a big push is being given for conversion activities in
> Africa and Asia. But before proselytizing the hapless poor in Africa and
> Asia, the Church establishment would do well to fix the problem at home,
> that is, in Western countries and bring its house in order. To expand
> market share in the global religious market, the proselytizers are
> engaged in eulogizing their product and denigrating that of the others.
>
> It is easy to spread misinformation about other faiths and denigrate
> them. But given the horrible state of affairs with respect to child
> sexual abuse as revealed in the two key reports reviewed above, and
> consequent disillusionment of Westerners with the Church as evidenced by
> depleting attendance, it is high time that an honest soul-searching and
> self-analysis takes place within the Christian establishment.
>
> References
>
> [1]
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/adelaide-archbishop-philip-wilson-resigns/10053626
>
> [2]
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-15/anglican-archbishop-of-perth-roger-herft-to-retire/8125640
>
> [3] [RC] Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual
> Abuse. (2017) Final Report, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.
> Available at:
> https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/final_report_-_preface_and_executive_summary.pdf
>
> [4] RC, 2017. ibid
>
> [5] RC, 2017. ibid
>
> [6] RC, 2017. ibid
>
> [7]
> https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/speeches/final-sitting-address
>
> [8] RMIT (2017) Child sexual abuse in Catholic church, RMIT University,
> Melbourne.
>
> [9] ibid
>
> [10]
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-12/catholic-church-worth-$30-billion-investigation-finds/9422246
>
> [11]
> https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/24/news/pope-francis-visit-vatican-catholic-church/index.html
>
> [12] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833509,00.html
>
> [13]
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2013/11/18/fraud-thriving-in-u-s-churches-but-you-wouldnt-know-it/#65c95ac7d9d4
>
> Featured Image: Archbishop Philip Wilson was found guilty in May 2018
> (abc.net.au)

Now about those eunuchs and temple prostitutes in India ... RH
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> hanks for FINALLY ADMITTING and ACCEPTING that CHRISTIANITY is a
> PEDOPHILE RELIGION.
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> POPE FRANCIS ADMITS PEDOPHILIC CHRISTIANITY IS A MISOGYNISTIC RELIGION
> LIKE ISLAM
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/LmJ5okhdkLs/ctTdIaOwAQAJ
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> HOW THE "EVIL FILTHY CHRISTIANITY VIRUS" IS DESTROYING INDIA
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> HOW THE ABRAHAMIC CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM FILTH IS DESTROYING INDIA = by
> Dr. David Frawley (an enlightened Ex-Christian)
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/z4vs4YEUMAY/CkJmmCJ0BAAJ
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> PERVERTED WESTERN CHRISTIANS "NORMALIZING PEDOPHILIA"
>
>
> TEDx speaker Mirjam Heine says "Pedophilia is an Unchangeable Orientation"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUxnAkO054
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> Youtuber Jenn attempts to normalise Pedophilia and Hebephilia
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VehU7kZwsvw
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> Church Predators: 70 years, Over 1000 children, 300 priests in Pennsylvania
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/CYNAuRUVpgI/3hNz_Q8qAAAJ
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> The Catholic church is still making excuses for paedophilia
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/YvSuMVTafWc/lGOUsUAnBQAJ
>
> Church’s Own Study Reveals That German Catholic Priests Abused Over
> 3,000 Children, Mostly Boys
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/fLo9hhadw_M/K-cPJ43MCAAJ
>
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> CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP SAYS "PEDOPHILIA IS SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER WITH GOD"
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/069w7BGbPEE/gPORtOk_AwAJ
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> VATICAN: PRIESTS "NOT RESPONSIBLE" IF THEY RAPE CHILDREN
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.sport.cricket/6GrrPzeMzaw/xjRkUjIZBQAJ

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...still waiting to hear about those eunuchs and temple prostitutes in India ... RH

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