Strange. Welby was not one of those Smythe beat.
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George Pell
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Not a decade too soon. Truth is Justin Welby tried to bury this scandal and failed. How many are there still to be discovered? Why is the church being protected? Any other organisation would have been rightly shut down. #PaedophilePriests #PaedophileChurch news.sky.com/story/archbi...
'Church insiders subverted legal processes, falsified records, attacked whistleblowers and insidiously gaslit survivors.'
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'To avoid accountability, the Catholic Church opposes laws designed to help survivors of sexual abuse. Between 2011 and 2019, the #CatholicChurch spent $10.6 million in eight Northeastern states to lobby against such laws'
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"The effect of the court's judgment for defendants is that you can't spend decades covering up abuse, not recording or acting on complaints, not referring abuse to police and silencing victims and their families..'...
'Michelle Martin, a Sydney solicitor who acts for many survivors'
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'In total, the report documents 156 clergy members who abused more than 600 children starting in the 1940s. The report also redacts the names of some members of the hierarchy who helped protect them'
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'The archdiocese of Baltimore .. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, two days before a new state law goes into effect that will allow child sexual abuse victims to sue organizations no matter how long ago the abuse took place'
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'Christopher Saunders hosted "bunga bunga" parties at church properties and spent thousands of dollars of church money on cash payments, mobile phones, alcohol and cigarettes..'
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'The researchers pored over thousands of pages of secret documents, assembled by church authorities since the mid-20th century...They cited some cases where documents were destroyed to cover up any alleged wrongdoing'
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“The situations identified surely amount to only the tip of the iceberg,” said the historians Monika Dommann and Marietta Meier in a statement.'
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'The abuse of children at St Joseph’s College and other schools where #MaristBrothers taught was secretive, widespread and took place over a period of many decades..'
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'Justice Andrew Keogh found Gannon’s abuse was “horrific” and involved “a physically painful and abhorrent assault on a young child by an adult in a position of almost absolute power and authority”'.
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'So what will be the verdict of history? Did Pell live honourably and compassionately? Was he humble and merciful?
Did his war on victims and survivors of abuse make the church better?'
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"I felt recognized, chosen, loved and special,’ says Roberto. ‘Until I understood that the bishop was not really interested in me, but that it was only about himself."
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#PaedophilePriests https://www.groene.nl/artikel/what-i-want-is-apologies
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'Covering up these crimes was no impediment to advancing in the hierarchy.
Compromised bishops became archbishops. Compromised archbishops were crowned as cardinals.
And Cardinal Ratzinger was elected...
'They weren’t taken by surprise.
Church leaders have known for decades exactly how vast the issue was, how all-consuming, from the humble parish all the way to the top in Rome.
They knew, because they tried to cover it up.'
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'Everyone with open eyes can now see that the hierarchy of the #CatholicChurch never underestimated the problem of priests as sexual predators.'
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Excellent news
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'.the newly appointed ambassador #ChiaraPorro spoke of a recent audience with the Pope..'
“You know whenever people [in the Vatican] think of Australia they think immediately about cardinal #Pell and the royal...
'During civil proceedings, it was revealed that secret files detailing complaints against Lavigne and other priests had been destroyed by two bishops, Thomas Dupre and Christopher Weldon, who were both later implicated in the clergy sexual abuse scandal'
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'Law enforcement officials estimate that #Lavigne molested more than 250 people from the 1960s through the 1990s, Stobierski said'
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'#Lavigne..was removed from active ministry in 1991, when he was charged with sexually abusing children. But even after his 1992 conviction, leaders of the Springfield Diocese did not push to have him laicized'
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