Vatican office lifts veil, revealing vast caseload of abuse

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NICOLE WINFIELD

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before — suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Roman Catholic Church.

Nearly two decades after the Vatican assumed responsibility for reviewing all cases of abuse, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is today overwhelmed, struggling with a skeleton staff that hasn’t grown at pace to meet the four-fold increase in the number of cases arriving in 2019 compared to a decade ago.

“I know cloning is against Catholic teaching, but if I could actually clone my officials and have them work three shifts a day or work seven days a week,” they might make the necessary headway, said Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the congregation’s discipline section, which processes the cases.

“We’re effectively seeing a tsunami of cases at the moment, particularly from countries where we never heard from (before),” Kennedy said, referring to allegations of abuse that occurred for the most part years or decades ago. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Italy and Poland have joined the U.S. among the countries with the most cases arriving at the congregation, known as the CDF.



In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 photo, Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discipline section, speaks during an interview on the terrace of the section's offices at the Vatican. "We're effectively seeing a tsunami of cases at the moment, particularly from countries where we never heard from (before)," Kennedy said, referring to allegations of abuse that occurred for the most part years or decades ago. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)


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[Miigwech]

1. Just don't blame the Gay community ...

abuse of children is not a Gay. More importantly an openly Gay person, one happy with their Gay identity, is not a person who abuses childern. Repressed sexual assaulter's are always the fucked up people. Say hello to Roy Moore and many fucked up priests

[spike jones]

2. Turn the cases over to the local police for investigations. n/t

[Dem2theMax]

3. His reply is he wishes he could clone staff?

How about sell off a ton of those priceless artifacts and hire people to take care of the people who have been abused. And use a whole lot of that money to settle the claims that will be coming.

[Brainfodder]

4. No group, corp., or org. should be around with those kinds of numbers?

More than 1000 this year?

YIKES!

[lonely bird]

5. I am tired of this

Clergy, Roman Catholic or not, are not “special”. They are no different than any other person walking the planet. If they are accused of committing a crime they need to be investigated by the state and if there is sufficient evidence, tried and if found guilty, punished.

IT IS NOT UP TO THE CHURCH, ANY CHURCH, TO MAKE INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THEN HIDE THESE PEOPLE AWAY.