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Catholic Church admits ‘shameful’ legacy of abuse after study leaked

Catholic Church admits ‘shameful’ legacy of abuse after study leaked

December 20, 2018
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BERLIN (Reuters) – By Riham Alkousaa,

The Catholic Church in Germany acknowledged a “depressing and shameful” legacy of sexual abuse on Wednesday after a leaked study said clerics had abused thousands of children over a 70-year period. The document, commissioned by the German Bishops’ Conference, revealed that 1,670 clerics and priests had sexually abused 3,677 minors, mostly males, in the country between 1946 and 2014, Der Spiegel said.

The news magazine quoted a leaked copy of the study, which was compiled by three German universities. Bishop of Trier Stephan Ackermann said the Church was aware of the extent of abuse demonstrated by the study’s results.

“It is depressing and shameful for us,”

he said in a statement on Wednesday.
The leaked study was published on the day that Pope Francis, who has made several attempts to tackle a spreading sexual abuse crisis that has badly tarnished the Church’s image, summoned senior bishops from around the world to the Vatican to discuss the protection of minors.
The Vatican had no immediate comment on the Spiegel report.

Millions of ignorant sheeple (people) embrace the Catholic Church despite the continuing revelation that it has cultivated and protected sexual abominations for decades so why wouldn’t millions of ignorant sheeple embrace the Democrat / Liberal / Fascist Party? Our population has been dying of ignorance for a long time and taking the rest of us right along with them. Government (corporations) does NOT educate its victims! It disarms them with distortion, deception, lies, extortion, intimidation, fraud …, and THEY ARE WINNING!
But Hey! Wave the Flag, Don’t forget to Vote and PAY YOUR TAXES!

The magazine said the study, which examined more than 38,000 files from 27 dioceses, showed more than half of the victims were aged 13 years or under when they were abused.

About one in six of cases documented involved rape and three quarters of the victims were abused in a church or through a pastoral relationship with the abuser. In many cases, evidence was destroyed or manipulated, it cited the study as saying.

The Bishops’ Conference was expected to present the “strictly confidential” study’s findings later this month, Spiegel said.

Speaking on behalf of the Conference, Bishop Ackermann said that, while he regretted that the study had been leaked, he was convinced its survey were comprehensive and thorough.

“The study is a course of action which we owe not only to the Church, but above all and foremost to those affected,” Ackermann said.

The Church had often transferred clerics accused of sexual abuse without providing the new host community with “appropriate information” about them, the study found.

Only one third of those accused had to face proceedings under canon law and sanctions imposed were at most minimal, with 4 percent of those found to have committed abuse still working.

The study called on the Catholic Church to rethink its refusal to consecrate homosexual men and to view the celibacy obligation imposed on its clergy as “a potential risk factor”, Der Spiegel reported.

Last month, a U.S. grand jury released study findings showing 301 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania had sexually abused minors over 70 years.

(Reporting by RihamAlkousaa, Editing by Tassilo Hummel and John Stonestreet)

TAB Editor comment; so the real question is …why are not these 301 priests (and many others) not in prison for sexually abusing minors??? Oh, that’s right, their ‘Respected and Privileged’ people in the community …like lying/greedy politicians, drug dealers, and the like. Just normal activity here in America and elsewhere. With these types of people here in this country, we can make America Great Again! (?)

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