Documents Reveal Knowledge Cardinals Had Of Priest Sex Abuse

[trotsky]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/01/22/documents-reveal-knowledge-cardinals-had-of-priest-sex-abuse/

The common link among all the Roman Catholic priests, whose records of alleged sexual abuse were released yesterday, is that they all reported to the Archbishop of Chicago.
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One of the saddest stories involves a pair of predatory priests, Robert Becker and Kenneth Ruge who shared young victims with each other.

Becker actually confessed to Cardinal Bernardin in 1986, and was placed on sick leave. Six months later, Bernardin agreed to “talk with Father Gerald Kicanas about teaching a course part-time,” at the seminary in Mundelein.

It was one of several times Cardinal Bernardin chose to return predators to ministry rather than keeping them away from children.

[TexasProgresive]

1. There are no children in a seminary.

[trotsky]

3. How about TURN THE RAPIST OVER TO THE AUTHORITIES???

I am so sick of people trying to defend this crap.

[TexasProgresive]

4. I was not defending anything or anyone

I was only pointing out a discrepancy in the article.

Certainly he should've been arrested, tried and if convicted served time in prison. No one here arguing otherwise.

[trotsky]

5. So are you arguing that by teaching at a seminary,

a priest would have zero access to children, ever?

[TexasProgresive]

6. About the same access as any college professor.

Maybe even less.

[trotsky]

7. But not zero. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Also the same standing and respected status as a professor, with an added veneer

of religiosity to use as introduction wherever he went, dressed as a priest and being called father.....

[Arugula Latte]

2. Men of God they are.

Disgusting ghouls.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Princes of the Church.

The fact that this entity, the Roman Catholic Church, still has the vulgar audacity to produce venomous statements accusing gay parenting itself as being 'child abuse' is astonishing. This story alone covers more than 30 years of systemic, institutionally supported abuse. And yet they dare accuse others of wrongs simply for existing. How dare they.