The Catholic Church is a safe-house for sexual deviants, and because the masses are so utterly stupid, and because the religious flock are even stupider than that, children continue to get sexually abused by Catholic clergy.
Continue supporting your local Catholic archdiocese you morons; you’re doing a “fine” job, especially where your children are concerned. Just think of it, for one price your kids are getting a religious indoctrination AND sex-education. Brilliant! TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
By Shawn Pogatchnik, The Associated Press | Associated Press
DUBLIN – The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics said Wednesday he wouldn’t resign after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up 1970s child abuse committed by a pedophile priest who went on to assault scores of other children for decades.
Cardinal Sean Brady said the documentary exaggerated his role in his 1975 interviews of two teenage boys abused by Brendan Smyth. He said he gave his report to his bishop, who in turn had responsibility to tell Smyth’s religious order leaders.
They, not he, had the power to act and failed to do so, he said.
“I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past,” Brady said.
Brady’s statement did not address why nobody in the church thought to call the police. Nor did not mention that he, as the canon lawyer in the two interviews, had both boys sign oaths of secrecy promising not to tell anyone outside the church of the abuse they had suffered. He previously has argued that the oaths were designed to protect the rights of the children, not the reputation of the church.
One of those victims, Brendan Boland, told the BBC that Brady and two other priests involved in gathering his 1975 testimony made his father wait outside the room. Boland, aged 14 at the time, said he told the priests the names and addresses of five other boys and girls that were being sexually assaulted by Smyth. The BBC interviewed all five and reported that some continued to be assaulted into the 1980s, and that their parents never received any message of warning from the church.
Smyth, who also allegedly abused dozens of children in the U.S. states of Rhode Island and North Dakota, was finally imprisoned in the British territory of Northern Ireland in 1994 after his conviction for molesting four children in the same Belfast family. The mishandling of his case triggered the collapse of the Irish government that year. Smyth died in 1997.
