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66 German Priests Charged with Sexually Abusing Minors: Report

Posted in criminal justice system, law, religion, tagged , , , , , , , on December 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »


‘More than 60 German clerics have been accused of sexually abusing minors and adults between 2000 and 2010, Germany’s Roman Catholic Church says.

According to a study conducted by three German forensic centers for research, at least 66 priests had been charged with 576 cases of sexual abuse of mostly male victims during the ten-year period. The German Bishops’ Conference released the report on Friday, saying that nearly three-quarters of the 265 alleged targets of sexual misconduct were male.’

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Mystifying Male Power As Domination: Theological Roots Of Child Sex Abuse

Posted in religion, tagged , , , , on April 19, 2010 |


Mary Daly said that when God is man, man is God. The theological mystification of male power as domination or power-over is one of the key roots of child abuse. Men in general and priests in particular have been taught that it is their God-given right to exercise power over women and children. The ability of priests to get away with child abuse and the failure of the Roman Catholic Church to respond stop it can be traced directly to the notion that a priest reflects the power of God to his congregation. Because children are taught to think of priests as holy men who are “like God,” it is hard for them to recognize that priests who abuse are doing something wrong. Because the Church is invested in maintaining the fiction that priests are “like God,” it has found it difficult to acknowledge that some priests were and are using their power in decisively evil ways.

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The Roman Catholic Church crisis is a crisis of imperialism

Posted in religion, tagged , , , , , , on April 12, 2010 |


The child abuse scandal ripping through the Roman Catholic Church is one more part of the overall crisis splitting the foundation of imperialism itself.

Countless reports of Catholic priests’ rampant molestation and brutal sexual attacks on children are rocking the upper echelons of the church, all the way to the doorstep of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) himself.

However, this crisis goes deeper than abusive, sadistic clergymen.

The Roman Catholic Church crisis is a crisis of imperialism.

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The Roman Catholic Church is Big Business

Posted in religion, tagged , , on April 1, 2010 |


A Catholic forum poster constantly claim the INC is a business but of course it’s an empty claim because he could not provide a single evidence of such claim. So I went out casually to set the record straight and prove that between the INC and and RCC,  it is the Catholic church which is a business. Here’s what I found out in two hours.

What is a business?

What is a business anyway? Specifically, what does businessmean. By definition, business means purposeful activity. In that sense the INC, and all religions including the RCC can be considered businesses because quite simply they’re in the business of religion. But that is not what the Catholic poster is saying. It’s not hard to figure out that he’s implying the INC is in the money making business. Of course we have yet to see a single evidence of such accusation. What about the RCC? Is it in the business of making money? Let’s list the ways in which the RCC is making money. And away we go …

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PATRON SAINT OF BUGGERY?

Posted in religion, tagged , , , , , , on March 26, 2010 |


No one can accuse the Roman Catholic church of learning from experience. Long years after fumbling its way through handling a sexual abuse scandal in the U.S., the church finds itself in the first stages of a sexual abuse scandal in Italy. And it seems determined to follow exactly the same script that brought it so much grief in the U.S.—initial denials that abuse could possibly have occurred, laughably inadequate diocese “investigations” that concluded there was no abuse, grudging acknowledgment that some abuse occurred (but far, far less than what is alleged).

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Jesuit teachers at top German school admit sexually abusing boys

Posted in criminal justice system, religion, tagged , , on March 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »


“Father, FATHER,  are you sure that ‘thy rod and thy staff, they shalt comfort me’ means this????!!!!

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