The overwhelming majority of molestations you will find in this report are male adolescents. Since the priests are male, they are thus homosexual pedophiles and predators. Interestingly enough, my brother, who still considers himself catholic, will state with no hesitation, that every priest he knows is gay.Ken wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:26 pmThe Catholic Church sex abuse scandals in Baltimore (and elsewhere) wasn’t really about gay priests or liberal priests.Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:19 pmNo it actually is up to the judgement of the courts of the state of Maryland.MaxPC wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:59 am
The post from Jay is based upon hearsay off of the internet 20+ years ago. The records of the men who became priests as chaplains and converts are in the records of the Archdiocese and the seminary. As to whether Jay is reliable and I am reliable is up to God and the Vatican, not anyone's opinion. Opinions are not helpful. Facts are.
https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov ... _Abuse.pdf
They declared bankruptcy to avoid all of the civil judgments they would have to pay.
Ultimately, because they failed to judge themselves rightly, Caesar (the civil rulers) will judge them. He does not carry the sword in vain.
What it was actually about was the Catholic Church leadership in the Baltimore Archdiocese and many other jurisdictions failing to address the problem of sex abuse of minors for decades from the 1960s up through the early 2000s and beyond. So this is a time period starting with Pope Paul VI and spanning the entire papacies of John Paul and Benedict and culminating with Francis at the very tail end. Essentially it was the Baltimore Archdiocese that recycled pedophiles for decades in and out of different jurisdictions to hide them from public view and avoid any accountability that would reflect poorly on the church. Much of the Baltimore scandal falls at the feed of Cardinal Sheehan and his successor Archbishop Borders who both notoriously recycled pedophile priests for decades and took every effort to cover up every report of abuse.
It was a complete and total failure of leadership from the pope on down.
It is not just Baltimore. The diocese of Washington is challenging Marylands modification of the statute of limitations, claiming it is an ex-post facto law. That is a stall, and will just buy some time. They will declare bankruptcy as well, assuming the court of appeals rules with consistence to the other rulings that have been made. Changing the statue of limitations does not change the underlying law, only modify the limitation of time one can bring an action.
How many priests do you know? My guess is your wife is catholic.
Don't forget Keeler. He is arm deep in it too. Down in DC there is McCarrick and Wuerl. What do you make of them?