can you imagine knowing a grown man is sexually abusing a child... and you do nothing about it.

@lorrainem8234

4 жыл бұрын

I can't - not at all.

@bobgillis1137

4 жыл бұрын

I can. I was an altar boy for a brief time. The priest once invited my brother and I into the residential quarters in the back for a "special treat" after the service. We never got the treat, because my Dad showed up unexpectedly. I still recall the look of panic upon seeing my Dad. Its as if Dad knew of the potential. I must ask myself, If he hadn't shown up to ruin the priest's only chance, would our Dad have to choose who to believe ?

@brattyyoung1917

4 жыл бұрын

Thats called the sin of " omission"...To those whom much is given,much will be required...

@ronbonora7872

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobgillis1137 your dad would have believed you two boys. The priest is evil!...your dad showed up just on time and probably told the priest to watch his step or else!

@sandraspengler4740

3 жыл бұрын

Emotional problem of father Harvey

Leaving a child alone with a priest should be illegal

@ardeladimwit

Жыл бұрын

sorry, it's not just children.

Sentenced to 6 years?! The judge should receive a life sentence!

@taxicamel

2 жыл бұрын

The movie "SPOTLIGHT" is a true story ...and only covers BOSTON. For those that religious people people who think this is all a joke ....SHAME ON YOU .....PARTICULARLY ALL CATHOLICS!!!! Say nothing and YOU ARE ALL COMPLICIT!!!! We have now found out about potentially and estimated over 20,000 native children in Canada, since the early 1900's, in what was called "RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS" allegedly set up by the Canadian FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS OF THE DAY, for the many decades, AND PRINICIPALLY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, ASSIGNED TO RUN THEM. UNMARKED GRAVES AT OR NEAR THESE SCHOOLS IS NOW THE DISCOVERY SURFACING ....APPARENTLY THANKS TO GROUND RADAR SEARCH TECHNIQUES ....WITH THE RESULTS OF HUNDREDS OF REMAINS BEING DISCOVERED!!!! EVERY FEDERAL CANADIAN GOVERNMENT (PRIME MINISTERS AND ASSIGNED MINISTERS) OF THE DAY, AND CATHOLIC PEOPLE ACROSS CANADA AT THESE SCHOOLS AND PARTICULARLY IN OTTAWA, ALONG WITH EVERY RCMP DETACHMENT ACROSS CANADA IS SUSPECT. WITHOUT A DOUBT, EVERY CANADIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGHOUT THE DECADES HAS FAILED TO DO WHAT IS NECESSARY. AT THE TOP OF THIS LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WILL BE EVERY RCMP CHIEF ACROSS CANADA AS WELL. IT IS TIME TO PUT AN END TO THIS AND FORCE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO RELEASE ALL THEIR DOCUMENTS IMMEDIATELY. APOLOGIES FROM THIS CHURCH ARE COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS AND WITHOUT ANY SINCERITY, HENCE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. IT IS TIME TO NAME ALL THESE CHURCH "OFFICIALS" FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM, WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE AT EVERY ONE OF THESE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS THROUGH THESE MANY DECADES .....AS WELL AS EVERY GOVERNMENT LEADER AND MINISTER ....AND EVERY RCMP OFFICIAL. IF GOVERNMENTS AND POLICE GROUPS ARE NOT PREPARED TO PURSUE THESE OFFENDERS, THEN THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN THESE CRIMES AND SHOULD ALSO BE LEGALLY CHARGED ACCORDINGLY.

@patrickkaggwa6328

2 жыл бұрын

@@taxicamel A CATHOLIC PRIEST WRITES TO THE NEW YORK TIMES - MARCH 2015 Dear Brother Journalist: I am a simple Catholic Priest. I am happy & proud of my vocation. I've been living in Angola for 20 years as a Missionary. I have read in a number of publications, especially in your newspaper, the amplified stories of paedophilic Priests, always portrayed in a morbid way with detailed research into past errors in the lives of these Priests. There was one, in a city in the USA in the 70’s; another in Australia in the 80’s; & so forth, some more recent…. Certainly, all these incidents were condemnable! …I feel enormous sadness about the immense harm that some men who should have been signs of the Love of God have been swords in the lives of innocent children. There are no words to justify such acts. There is no doubt that the Church must be on the side of the weak & most vulnerable. For that reason, all the measures that can be taken to prevent these acts & protect the dignity of the children should be an absolute priority. But, isn’t it strange that there is so little news & such lack of interest in the thousands of Priests who are sacrificing their lives daily & dedicating themselves, body & soul, to millions of children, to adolescents & to the most disadvantaged of these in all four corners of the world? I am sure the following would be of no interest to your newspaper: That I've had to transport many starving children along roads that were mined during the 2002 war… in Angola, because the government has been unable to do it & NGO’s have not been authorised; That I've had to bury dozens of children displaced by the war; That we have saved the lives of thousands in Mexico by running the only health centre within a zone of 90,000sq.km & by distributing food & grain; That we have been able to procure education & schools for more than 110,000 children in the last 10 years; It passes without interest that, along with other Priests, we have had to rescue nearly 12,000 people in guerrilla camps, after they were forced to give up their weapons because the UN & government food never arrived; It’s not an interesting news item that a 75year old Priest, Fr. Roberto, traveled all across the city of Luanda, caring for street children, guiding them to safe houses, so that they could be detoxed from the gasoline they inhaled while earning their living as flame throwers; Teaching literacy skills to hundreds of prisoners is no longer news; The other Priests, like Fr. Stephan, organise safe houses, so that the young, maltreated, beaten & even raped can find refuge there; Nor is it of any interest that Fr. Maiato, 80 years old, visits homes for the poor, one by one, comforting the sick & vulnerable; Today, it’s not news that out of 40,000 Priests & religious, more that 6,000 have left their countries & their families to serve their brothers in leper colonies, in hospitals, in refugee camps, in orphanages for children accused of sorcery or whose parents have died from AIDS,…. etc. Or, especially, that most Priests are spending their lives in Parishes & Missions, motivating people to live better and, more importantly, to love better; It's not news that my friend, Fr. Marcus Aurelius, in order to save children during the war in Angola, transported them from Kalulo to Dondo, & that, when returning to his Mission house, he was machine-gunned on the road; that Br. Francis, with 5 female catechists died in an accident on their way to help in the most remote rural areas of the country; That dozens of Missionaries in Angola have died from simple malaria because of poor sanitation; That others have been blown to bits by mines while visiting their faithful; currently, in the cemetery of Kalulo, lie the tombs of the first Priests who arrived in the area …none of them older than 40; It's not news to follow a “normal” Priest doing his daily work; experiencing his troubles & his joys, spending his whole life with no attention in the community he serves. The truth is, that we are not trying to make news, only simply, to bring the “Good News”; this News which, with no fanfare, began on ‘Easter Morning’. A tree that falls makes more noise than a thousand which stand & grow (talking about a ‘fallen’ Priest). A great deal more attention is paid to a Priest who commits an error than to the thousands who give their lives for the myriads of poor & needy. I don’t pretend to apologise for the Church & its Priests. A Priest is neither a hero nor a neurotic. He’s simply a normal man, who, with his human nature, seeks to follow Jesus & to serve Him by serving others. There is in us misery, poverty & fragility, as there is in every human being; but there is also beauty & grandeur, as there is in every creature. When you insist on advancing such a painful theme in an obsessive & persecuting manner, while ignoring the bigger picture of their work, you create truly offensive caricatures of Catholic Priests, & these wound me. I ask only, dear Journalist, that you look for the true, the good & the beautiful. It would greatly elevate your profession. In Christ, Fr. Martin Lasarte, SDB (“My past, Lord, I entrust to Your Mercy; my present to Your Love; my future to Your Providence”) (Taken from “Scandalous Mercy” by Sr. Emmanuel page 86-89)?

@carsonwhitfield309

Жыл бұрын

Got that right!!

@joeblow2069

Жыл бұрын

He is bound by the law and cannot make any sentence he wants. I also think it was a plea anyway.

@PC-dc1kv

Жыл бұрын

Canada has notoriously lenient sentences for criminals of all stripes.

If he was abusing native kids, he would have got away with it. That's the sad truth of the residential school system.

@pbohearn

2 жыл бұрын

@Sharon Belleville it’s the Catholic and the Canadian Churches, in conjunction with the Crown- the Canadian government, an extension of the British Crown, that colluded with the Churches by not prosecuting pedo priests and their coverup bishops, and in turn the religious institutions supported the government policy of genocide towards indigenous people, specifically via the residential schools, administered by the religious orders who were the teachers etc. Quebec is like Ireland. They had 2 oppressors- a conquering foreign power they’ve been oppressed by and resisted-the British- the knowable enemy, and the Catholic Church, which they turned to to protect and defend them, but was equally as abusive as the first, the deceiving enemy. Shame on the Lying, Perverted Church! Shame on the murderous, perverted Crown!

@dan69052

2 жыл бұрын

truth kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX6m066PZNzLmdo.html

@MBsmiley

2 жыл бұрын

@@pbohearn yes exactly what you said and definitely shame on the crown that institution definitely is equally involved and the big heart of it all starts with the catholic Vatican

@rafaelrotellini7141

2 жыл бұрын

Why don't do the inquisition with those MF priest??? As they did centuries ago? Catholic church!!

@jannd8170

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he pretty much got away with it regardless

There were parents that knew this was happening and were afraid to go against the church. Talk about misplaced allegiance!

@justinamusyoka4986

4 жыл бұрын

Very true and as i witnessed,the same priests got affairs with married women,any woman so when some people take to notice , they find mothers and daughters have been abused.

@debralucas2224

4 жыл бұрын

Like a mixture of fear, and cowardice. Makes me so angry.

@patrickkaggwa6328

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinamusyoka4986 Dont forget Ukambani,there are many problems to attend to,remember "uchawi" you can also help plus "usharati"

@justinamusyoka4986

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkaggwa6328 Hello ,here its about catholic priests confession ,while the immorality in kamba community is being addressed in another platform. We can't address one problems by yelling about others out there. I know it hurts to hear your church under attack but its a good thing to clean Abba's house and warn others especially young girls and boys to be alert. I pray this menace stop in this generation and priests allowed to marry and uphold holiness. Peace to you.

@patrickkaggwa6328

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinamusyoka4986 Being energetic you can multi task,address other problems as well.Who knows one day you may be the gate keeper to heaven!Keep working!

6 years..39 charges.. 6-8 years old. 😤 I hate the “justice” system. Despicable.

@izzyizzm8761

4 жыл бұрын

It's called the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ~

@deedee7652

2 жыл бұрын

@@izzyizzm8761 And it goes all the way to the top. . .

@kay-collins

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Drug charges can get you LIFE but this.. harming children.... ALWAYS less than 10 years!! & usually no where near that! Many don’t see any time behind bars!! It makes me so so mad!!!

@joell2354

Жыл бұрын

@@kay-collins makes me sick ur 100% right! Its discusting

I was raised in a Roman-catholic family , my father was a very devout man but he was not blind. He discussed about politics with our priest and though I was a small girl I liked it to be around. This happened in the sixties when the Vietnam war took place and the students demonstrated against the war. I was lucky , nobody ever abused me and our catholic community was strong. We went on vacations several times and it was really wonderful. Now there is no community anymore .How horrible for the victims what they were going through. When I was a young grown-up woman my father told me that a priest mentioned to him that the Catholic church was paying for two illegitime children a priest would procreate. He was shocked and disgusted and so was I. Now I 'm still believing in God but not in the church anymore! Their members are in the most cases hypocrites!

@Inquisitor2024

4 ай бұрын

I believe in God more than ever but have no faith it the churches or their leaders

Complicity is a crime, too! My uncle was a priest. He came out of the Catholic Church in the early 80s. He only said there are serious problems in the Church! He never elaborated. Now everyone knows the serious problems!

39 charges and he got 6 years??? What in the heck???? You get 10years for 1st time possession charge. He had many victims and 6 years is a joke!!!

@rogersmoot6194

4 жыл бұрын

@@initiall4110: His pitiful, lenient sentence is disgusting. I am ashamed of our judicial system here in America, and the Canadian judicial system is apparently no different.

@epicnicnutsz4408

4 жыл бұрын

In other countries, 1 case = recrlussion perpetua, means lifetime imprisonment.

@ervina02

3 жыл бұрын

6 years is a joke! Only 6 years what a joke!!!

@peterjillhutson9582

3 жыл бұрын

@@ervina02 is I

@nonename7869

3 жыл бұрын

Video just started and I'm already thinking this exact same thing

Guy only got 6yrs? Wow. All those young girls abused, a lifetime of pain they’re left with and this guy gets a mere 6yrs. Smh.

@jillmariedennis1633

4 жыл бұрын

I was surprised too. 36 convictions & only 6 years? Well, he died in prison & hopefully, the victims will get justice by exposing these monsters.

@aprilweber1233

4 жыл бұрын

@@jillmariedennis1633 This had been the way of the Catholic Church. They also turned "Blind eyes" to Mafia leaders. Oh what the "Almighty dollars" will buy! Ever heard of the saying, money is the root of all EVILS? 🤔

@clalyrics441

4 жыл бұрын

People get life in prison for carrying a few grams of weed & these sickos get a few months for each child's life they destroy. Something is very, very wrong.

@serenityvocalized8303

4 жыл бұрын

What I was going to say

@clalyrics441

4 жыл бұрын

@Cynthia Yeah some of them get very low times, depending on their wealth and skin colour anyway.

I'm starting to think that one of the requirements to become a priest is that fellow priests got to know that you are sick like them and will keep the abuse secret.

@AL-TitoVidal

11 ай бұрын

Castration

Wow. This mirrors exactly what happened to my 11 year old daughter when she was assaulted by an LDS church leader. They will do anything to protect their money, image and power.

@adimeter

3 ай бұрын

All churches and dominations are given too much power. It's not just the Catholic Church.

Only given 6 years, that’s disgusting

@2degucitas

4 жыл бұрын

Should have been 6 years for each offence

@Zeldarw104

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr.😑🤬

@eratoisyourmuse659

4 жыл бұрын

Canada is far to easy on pedophiles. I mean you destroying a life essentially.

@lareeseblaque8303

4 жыл бұрын

Jordan Smith YES he needs 6 bullets.

@suzanreid3572

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-lz5wf Pardon? Are all billion of them pedophiles? No one is saying that. What should happen to those who are?

Wolves in sheep's clothing will speak of love and God when they stand for anything evil.

@fabsoltero578

2 жыл бұрын

So right!

@64MDW

2 жыл бұрын

True, but, sometimes, too, the wolves don't wear any disguise at all and people still fall in line for their evil...Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...

@Katiee0592

2 жыл бұрын

💯💯💯

@patyso5617

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gH2ppdmkfaS5XZc.html

@martincremin5659

2 жыл бұрын

Enabled by hypocrisy of their believers.

These priests assaulted my father. Took him on “special trips” to be alone with him. The pigs.

@roder51

2 жыл бұрын

That's an insult to pigs. More like human pond scum.

@ingejustavanderhelm5208

2 жыл бұрын

Dear See Eh, I am so angry for what they did to your father. It is wrong and these criminals should have gotten lifelong! Did they get away with it? I guess they did, right? Instead your father has lifelong trauma. It must have been such a tough life for him and also for you. How are you and your father doing? I just want to let you and your father know that tonight I will pray for you and I am seeing the injustice and the pain done to you and feeling with you in my heart. Please convey my love and support to your father. All the best dear. You are both strong. Kind regards from Amsterdam, Holland

@rose-mariechauret91

2 жыл бұрын

How horrible!

@thomasnewton8997

2 жыл бұрын

That's so awful

@dan69052

2 жыл бұрын

the truth kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX6m066PZNzLmdo.html

Imagine the abused they put up with back in the days when IF YOU ACCUSED A TEACHER, PRIEST, COP, TEACHER OF ABUSE YOU GOT IN TROUBLE, CALLED A LIAR.....

As a recovered Roman Catholic we always knew this. Stay away from the priest was the rule....ungodly bunch of people... Now you all know as well... Hold them accountable

@judyswiderski2682

2 жыл бұрын

What is a recovered Catholic?

@judithmariabradley5603

2 жыл бұрын

Power corrupts.

@alissahillier9945

2 жыл бұрын

I always stayed away even as a kid . Always felt like I needed to be by mom n dad or my Sunday school friends

@keithsimpson3078

2 жыл бұрын

@@judyswiderski2682 Exactly. "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic". You might be a 'recovering' Catholic - a never ending process- but one never quite actually 'recovers' from Catholicism which is a most virulent disease. I dumped it all at 18, over 60 years ago, rosary, Roman breviary and my Catholicism right into the bin wen the lot, the day I walked out of my seminary, June 1961. Keith MANCHESTER

@judyswiderski2682

2 жыл бұрын

@@keithsimpson3078 Congratulations! Good news.

This still happens today all the time and priests are hidden and protected by the church.

@suvariboy

2 жыл бұрын

It’s worse than that. The church is aggressively hiding parish assets so they can claim they’re bankrupt and not pay reparations to their victims.

@DrLeePercussion

2 жыл бұрын

Not for much longer.....

@allisontaylor1818

2 жыл бұрын

The church and government are one in the same....

@marcellinechoisne5627

2 жыл бұрын

@@allisontaylor1818 oh that s everywhere, not only in Canada! we Have very hard cases here in France too! i remind a priest,abusing kids during more than 30 years, and almost the same to be in trial! every body knew!from the bottom to the top!

@pbohearn

2 жыл бұрын

@@allisontaylor1818 in Italy and Canada and UK, yes.

No person should Ever bow before another person. That right is only for our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏

@madalenasimoes8066

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! In Christ dwells the fullness of the Godhead.

@kaypee4704

5 ай бұрын

You bow to your Parents and the Elders in YOUR family…..who you know …..if Questionable, you report….this is how you show respect to your elders…..

@Inquisitor2024

4 ай бұрын

Look at how esteemed the monarchy holds itself! 😂 meanwhile the scandal! I'd be disgusted with myself to be one of them snakes...pure evil 😈

To the woman in the interview who said there were no words for this. I have one. Evil.

The higher priests cover his crime bcoz they don’t want that their own crimes might also be revealed....like a chain reaction.

@eilenekellogg7017

3 жыл бұрын

Lolita, they surely will be judged be their fruitage, (rotten),by Jehovah God and His Son Christ Jesus!

@vaticanjesuitNWO

2 жыл бұрын

Lolita Alagao, the Bishops protect the pedophile priests because the Bishops are pedophiles too and this corruption goes all the way up to the Papacy. This church is corrupt from top to bottom.

@christinalock9937

2 жыл бұрын

What the church's have to realise, they are being kept alive by the 30,s 40, s generations!! Their is no total dependancy on them anymore? Too many charities, who can fulfill there' pressance!!! God is there for every living person, everywhere! We don't need buildings? The men who have postions in religious capacity, are pauper's! Paid by a very old tradition,? But they still give their souls to God. They are wasted in an institution, that still deprives themselves and family of a decent wage to live on. Also it's about time my faith, non practising as I am allowed priests to marry,God never made rules, on any life! He just asked us to pray? Believe in our lord, read the Bible. it's crazy in this day and age, some religions hasn't moved on. I'm open to every comment, that wants to reply...

@christinalock9937

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbaraestabrooks8444 Barbara, time is near, and if enough of us feel the same, voice our views it will make a difference, I hope. I'm up for any suggestions to express my opionins! On my past religious experiences. And the exploitations in my opinion of employees of all religions, who are under paid, over worked, to serve a business! In a name of religion!!!

@timeforthinkers7418

2 жыл бұрын

@@christinalock9937 Please don't take this in the wrong way but I am just wondering what pay or buildings or any of the other things you mentioned have to do with the subject matter of this video? A person, in or out of the religious field, either has morals, principles, decency, real love (not the huggy, feelie, kissie, touching thing that so many mistake for love) for humanity or they don't. Those characteristics are not dependent on how much someone is paid or their place of employment. To take advantage of an innocent child in this way is evil. The people who perpetrate this evil and the ones who cover it up are an abomination. They lack character, decency and should be, in my opinion, taken to a remote island and dropped off where they cannot harm children. None of this shuffling from one place to another. They can practice their deviant behavior on each other. Oh, there are plenty of married deviants so letting the priests get married isn't going to solve the problem either. This type of behavior can be found lots of places other than the Catholic Church -- all denominations, social services, community recreation departments, Scouting programs, schools, anywhere where there are children. Parents, grandparents, step-parents, any relative or family friend can carry out this evil. it all boils down to evil thoughts and evil thoughts come in all shapes and sizes to everyone. It depends on whether one listens to those evil thoughts and acts on them. PERIOD. The Bible tells us to RESIST THE DEVIL and he will flee from you. It also says if your right hand offends you, cut it off, and, not to be overcome with evil but to overcome evil with good. A lot of these types position themselves in places where they can work their evil deeds, it's premeditated. If they WILL NOT control themselves they need to be taken to that island I mentioned or undergo a lobotomy. Innocent children should not have to suffer because these people think evil thoughts and act on them for their own sinful, warped sense pleasure. Oh, one other thing. The 10 commandments are the rules and they came from God for our benefit.

They should have prosecuted every person involved in this. All the way up as far as it goes. And how could it happen? A group with way to much power who peddle fairy tales and empty promises.

@JamesRichardWiley

4 жыл бұрын

Religion is man made.

@marieSnowtruthjustice

4 жыл бұрын

The pope should be in prison.

@ironox8480

4 жыл бұрын

@@marieSnowtruthjustice Yep

@ironox8480

4 жыл бұрын

@James Williams while I tend to laugh at Scripture i kinda like that part.

@taylorfausett177

4 жыл бұрын

Why should priests be above the law?

And they wonder why so many people were leaving the church?!!

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

Many people are leaving the Church because they want to be unaccountable. If one gathers 100 lawyers and 100 priests into a room, which group includes more evil men? Men of ordinary morals(by cilic standards)? O high moral. standards? Holy men? And now look at the specific case of this priest, a tue pedophile. How many of his kind among the hundred priests are pedophiles, and how many just fornicators? How many homosexuals?

@christinalock9937

2 жыл бұрын

@@JRobbySh they are not related to our god.our God had no rules, or regulation's for any person, God loved all. Buildings and employee's mean nothing, underpaid brainwashed persons, playing a role! God's love is everywhere if we choose and want it. I say we encourage crime in buildings by supporting it.

@patrickkaggwa6328

2 жыл бұрын

@Mary Torres.Numbers are increasing in Africa and Asia.

@patrickkaggwa6328

2 жыл бұрын

@Mary Torres.kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn5tuaazoJSqdJM.html

You know, the trauma of sexual harassment never leaves. It stays on your memory, every time you look back at something that reminds it, suddenly you feel choked by the emotion when you were going through, no matter how old are you, that’s why you should take the sexual harassment case seriously, it took a part of people’s life. Bcs that’s what i feel and many others sexual harassment victims

@victoryshout7761

2 жыл бұрын

It not a shame to speak.When people speak up it brings hope and deliverance. Victims must speak up.

@antlerr

3 ай бұрын

true, I can't get a good night sleep always wake up from nightmares see it over and over! and it happened in 2011, it never goes away there is always a look over shoulder, a sound that makes you jump, a smell that reminds you of the day all over but you get over it and put one foot in front of other.

That DA is a badass. She needs to get an award and be recognized for doing what everyone else was scared to do.

@Harlem55

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, more like she needs to be disbarred for violating the free establishment of religion and democracy. We need to send a message loud and clear to authorities to keep their nose out of the business of the church before they get it cut off.

@chestchirecateyes

2 ай бұрын

​@@Harlem55 😮 So, you're okay with children being SA and their perpetrators getting a new address to continue the victimization elsewhere?🤔 Okay, got it!😢

Shame on the church for enabling those monsters.

@patrickkaggwa6328

4 жыл бұрын

@Sandra Turajlich You are far better than him:A CATHOLIC PRIEST WRITES TO THE NEW YORK TIMES - MARCH 2015 Dear Brother Journalist: I am a simple Catholic Priest. I am happy & proud of my vocation. I've been living in Angola for 20 years as a Missionary. I have read in a number of publications, especially in your newspaper, the amplified stories of paedophilic Priests, always portrayed in a morbid way with detailed research into past errors in the lives of these Priests. There was one, in a city in the USA in the 70’s; another in Australia in the 80’s; & so forth, some more recent…. Certainly, all these incidents were condemnable! …I feel enormous sadness about the immense harm that some men who should have been signs of the Love of God have been swords in the lives of innocent children. There are no words to justify such acts. There is no doubt that the Church must be on the side of the weak & most vulnerable. For that reason, all the measures that can be taken to prevent these acts & protect the dignity of the children should be an absolute priority. But, isn’t it strange that there is so little news & such lack of interest in the thousands of Priests who are sacrificing their lives daily & dedicating themselves, body & soul, to millions of children, to adolescents & to the most disadvantaged of these in all four corners of the world? I am sure the following would be of no interest to your newspaper: That I've had to transport many starving children along roads that were mined during the 2002 war… in Angola, because the government has been unable to do it & NGO’s have not been authorised; That I've had to bury dozens of children displaced by the war; That we have saved the lives of thousands in Mexico by running the only health centre within a zone of 90,000sq.km & by distributing food & grain; That we have been able to procure education & schools for more than 110,000 children in the last 10 years; It passes without interest that, along with other Priests, we have had to rescue nearly 12,000 people in guerrilla camps, after they were forced to give up their weapons because the UN & government food never arrived; It’s not an interesting news item that a 75year old Priest, Fr. Roberto, traveled all across the city of Luanda, caring for street children, guiding them to safe houses, so that they could be detoxed from the gasoline they inhaled while earning their living as flame throwers; Teaching literacy skills to hundreds of prisoners is no longer news; The other Priests, like Fr. Stephan, organise safe houses, so that the young, maltreated, beaten & even raped can find refuge there; Nor is it of any interest that Fr. Maiato, 80 years old, visits homes for the poor, one by one, comforting the sick & vulnerable; Today, it’s not news that out of 40,000 Priests & religious, more that 6,000 have left their countries & their families to serve their brothers in leper colonies, in hospitals, in refugee camps, in orphanages for children accused of sorcery or whose parents have died from AIDS,…. etc. Or, especially, that most Priests are spending their lives in Parishes & Missions, motivating people to live better and, more importantly, to love better; It's not news that my friend, Fr. Marcus Aurelius, in order to save children during the war in Angola, transported them from Kalulo to Dondo, & that, when returning to his Mission house, he was machine-gunned on the road; that Br. Francis, with 5 female catechists died in an accident on their way to help in the most remote rural areas of the country; That dozens of Missionaries in Angola have died from simple malaria because of poor sanitation; That others have been blown to bits by mines while visiting their faithful; currently, in the cemetery of Kalulo, lie the tombs of the first Priests who arrived in the area …none of them older than 40; It's not news to follow a “normal” Priest doing his daily work; experiencing his troubles & his joys, spending his whole life with no attention in the community he serves. The truth is, that we are not trying to make news, only simply, to bring the “Good News”; this News which, with no fanfare, began on ‘Easter Morning’. A tree that falls makes more noise than a thousand which stand & grow (talking about a ‘fallen’ Priest). A great deal more attention is paid to a Priest who commits an error than to the thousands who give their lives for the myriads of poor & needy. I don’t pretend to apologise for the Church & its Priests. A Priest is neither a hero nor a neurotic. He’s simply a normal man, who, with his human nature, seeks to follow Jesus & to serve Him by serving others. There is in us misery, poverty & fragility, as there is in every human being; but there is also beauty & grandeur, as there is in every creature. When you insist on advancing such a painful theme in an obsessive & persecuting manner, while ignoring the bigger picture of their work, you create truly offensive caricatures of Catholic Priests, & these wound me. I ask only, dear Journalist, that you look for the true, the good & the beautiful. It would greatly elevate your profession. In Christ, Fr. Martin Lasarte, SDB (“My past, Lord, I entrust to Your Mercy; my present to Your Love; my future to Your Providence”) (Taken from “Scandalous Mercy” by Sr. Emmanuel page 86-89)?

@112523

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickkaggwa6328 you did good work. and no one will deny that, i respect people who do what you did. but i wont respect you cuz you are religious or anything, i respect you as a person. and me, as a person. despise most religions, mainly cuz they are often the main reason for conflict and murder. and cuz of things like pedo's and the wrongdoing towards innocent children. i dont think that the things you did should have been done cuz you believe in god (and i see you dont mention it as such) but i think you should do it cuz you believe in humanity. im not religious whatsoever but im open to learn about religion. but i will never ever become religious. so, i ask you now, as a person to person. if you ever encounter anyone in your profession/religion that would be involved in pedophelia, to report them. right away. prove the people who think the church covers these things up wrong. this is a huge problem and always has been a huge problem. but now is the time to stop being blind towards it. we live in 2020 now and not in 1820.

@sugaredwards6207

4 жыл бұрын

SupahFly Except Patrick didn’t do those things. He was just quoting something that someone else wrote. I believe that some religious leaders do some good work, but For all the riches, it’s pretty puny.

@sugaredwards6207

4 жыл бұрын

Sandra Turajlich like cops

@patrickkaggwa6328

4 жыл бұрын

@@112523 It is an extract that i posted,it was not me!!!please look again

Beware!- Warning to all!- stay away from these criminals! Protect the innocent children!- peace!

Honestly the fact that people still go to these churches affirms them in a way. Also that the bishops lie is just something else altogether. Religion is a business and people need to understand that at this point.

They should get locked up and throw away the key, they never should be released back into society they can't be trusted, it's a massive betrayal on many levels.

@hotsauce3700

4 жыл бұрын

No, they should be executed and now.

@patrickkaggwa6328

4 жыл бұрын

@BTIsaac Is that a language expected from a righteous soul?just asking

@patrickkaggwa6328

4 жыл бұрын

@@hotsauce3700 This one too:www.bbc.com/news/business-47658803

@wolfthequarrelsome504

4 жыл бұрын

Except it happened in the 1960s.

@wolfthequarrelsome504

4 жыл бұрын

@BTIsaac I resent that. Your just a bigot.

Jesus said “better to have a mill stone “giant stone” put around your neck and be thrown in the sea than to offend against children”.

@carmentrenco9797

4 жыл бұрын

They don't believe in JESUS, or the bible, they had a book called Misal .they only use JESUS for the business , they God is the sun

@phenomenal7323

4 жыл бұрын

why do they target such innocent souls....... this pastors read bibles and pray everyday, why are their hearts so hardened

@marieSnowtruthjustice

4 жыл бұрын

@@carmentrenco9797 Perfectly said... plus, there is no god

@davidm1149

4 жыл бұрын

@@marieSnowtruthjustice There is a God - he chooses to work through human vessels. The Grand designer of the universe sees and knows all. The books will be opened on judgement day. We walk by faith, not sight.

@davidm1149

4 жыл бұрын

@Mrs. Arthur Morgan I've read that Catholicism was a compromise between the mystery religions of Rome and the teachings of the early church (from Jesus & his followers) The pantheon of roman gods took on the form of "saints" They are representative of archetypal figures meant to be modeled after sun worship. Roman Catholicism is simply sun worship. This is where the term "Mystery Babylon" from the Book of Revelation fits in perfectly.

What a great priest hunter. So many people's good wishes go to him.

As a young child in Germany, I remember that my uncle was involved in the installation of plumbing in a Catholic nunnery. What they found under the building, deep in the cellar, was horrible, there were the corpses of many new born babies.

@mariadidonato7781

2 жыл бұрын

I show a documentary about nuns coming forward saying the priests are raping them and getting them pregnant and their forced to have abortions .The nuns tell the mother superior but she tells them to keep quiet.

@Yet333

2 жыл бұрын

Whaaaaaa??

@ringsidejudge4302

Жыл бұрын

@@Yet333 Check out TUAM babies story and Catherine Cordless Ireland . Your Uncle was an honest man .

@NewZealandallblacks627

4 ай бұрын

Annab2717- same in Baltimore

@bradlarsen5337

3 ай бұрын

Mmm… for all the misdeeds in the Church… that sounds doubtful.

Canada needs to step up and change the prison time for this crime. A lousy 6 yrs is a kick in the face to the survivors! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@ingejustavanderhelm5208

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is an insult! It is sadism. Actually it is pure satanism. That's why he got 6 years. Six is their favorite number.

@vanessarodriguez9958

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not just Canada though it’s everywhere that child abusers get away almost Scott free while a simple weed possession can land them in prison longer in the USA sometimes they get months compared to other crimes that r not as heavy

@dianemercer9916

2 жыл бұрын

@@vanessarodriguez9958 It is wherever the Catholic church exists.

@vanessarodriguez9958

2 жыл бұрын

@@dianemercer9916 it’s not just within the Catholic Church it’s in all churches just the Catholic Church is and will always be main focus because it’s as big as it is ppl just focus on the Catholic Church when it’s in every religion where there is some sort of power there will always be evil the problem with any religion is the fact that they say pray on it or ask god for forgiveness when in reality if someone says there is a problem they need help they should be taken seriously not be told to go pray on it or ask god for answers

@dicey8928

2 жыл бұрын

They could repent there sins everyday forgive me father for i have sinned dirty disgusting beasts 😤 🤧

I was raised into the Catholic church..at the age of 17 in 1989 ..I started to hear about this..it's the highest form of repulsion and I have not had respect for any religion since..nor do I wish to

@vincentcharles607

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you return to the Catholic church. Remember one of Jesus's disciples was Judas

@lorrainearmstrong7587

2 жыл бұрын

@@vincentcharles607 the Roman Catholic church has NEVER taught the gospel. They have systemically REMOVED all guilt from priests and refused to compensate the victims. Catholic churches are NOT christian. Most people make that mistake. They worship 'saints' and the 'mother of God'. They do NOT believe in Jesus Christ and God. Only money and power

@emmanuelibu3620

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 Hi, I understand your hatred and frustrations towards the Church but if I may ask, have you been to a Catholic church before?

@carmelrelihan15

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 Yes you can blacklist it but you are wrong about Catholic people not believing in Jesus they read in their declaration of faith at mass it's called the Apostles Creed and Niceen Creed just as the Anglican Church also does, also yes I agree they give too much creedance to Mary and saints. Jesus is the way, truth, life, people should follow him.

@Penny-bt4gc

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorrainearmstrong7587 obviously you are a “born again evangelical “. They all make the same remarks against the Catholic Church. Catholics do not worship saints or the Virgin Mary. Get your facts straight before denigrating an institution you know nothing about. The Roman Catholic Church is a Christian church. Catholics believe in God the Father, The Son and Holy Spirit. Every church has some dark history not that that eliminates what these monsters have done to children, but every church has a history of sexual abuse against children and young adults.

”I benefitted from their generosity” What in the world?!?!! Anyone who abuse children or help others facilitate abuse deserve the capitol punishment. Few things are as pure as the soul of a child...

The answer is the same for cops who watch other cops doing crimes yet never are charged and suffer no recriminations .

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

Not so simple. As they say society is geared not to look up to the next level. Are the cops more corruption than the district attorneys? the DAs more corrupt than the judges? It appears than the son of the president of the United States is a man of low character. Raw power seems to triumph. The only things that saves us is that often justice prevails because Corruption produces hubris.

“ why is it that it’s the victims that have to make the church accountable?” I was so struck by this profound question.

@nurlagrande

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a very very very simple answer. Money.

@justinamusyoka4986

4 жыл бұрын

Those they report to are perpetrators as well,the entire hierarchy.

@Carol-D.1324

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my word...me too!

@marthadefabachew3603

4 жыл бұрын

Cause the entire church is infiltrated by these corruption all the way upto the superior(all are predators who are uniting and defending themselves for this unspeakable monsterous crime) , so the victims should come forward including all the public and take down the corrupted church,if it's still called a church.plus, the authorities and the government also has to be involved on this , cause 6years only for such cruelty to innocent children, should have gotten life with no parole.

@debralucas2224

4 жыл бұрын

@Mrs. Arthur Morgan Yes! Thank you for saying this truth.

I’m Catholic and it’s about time something is done about the corruption of the hierarchy

@metronetrail

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Human

@Koolyococo

4 жыл бұрын

Bullet-Catcher me too

@rogersmoot6194

4 жыл бұрын

@@metronetrail So you are human, but aren't we all? This doesn't enable you or anyone else to commit such depraved crimes, or any other crimes. Don't ever use your "humanity" as an excuse for wrongdoing!!!

@epicnicnutsz4408

4 жыл бұрын

It's the church of Satan, it's normal.

@brigittebeltran6701

4 жыл бұрын

How can you believe in Jesus and be in a church that teaches the opposite of God's commandments and Jesus teachings?

This is unbelievable to say the least. Those poor children and how they must have felt! Sacrificial lambs is what they were. We are now seeing what they did to children in residential schools. 215 children died and were buried at the Kamloops school.

@bradlarsen5337

3 ай бұрын

No, that’s been proven to be BS sorry

Church is wrong, cops are wrong, society is wrong..... WE HAVE TOLERATED THIS WAS TOO LONG.....THIS MUST CHANGE.✝️🙏

@dan69052

2 жыл бұрын

truth kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX6m066PZNzLmdo.html

@courtneymoraine2782

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot government they’ve know this and allowed it for centuries. Look at the history of the schools for Native children. This is probably where we need to look for child sex trafficking. The church’s and our government.

@earthstara2408

2 жыл бұрын

Jeffery Epstein had a career in it for over 30 years with a net worth of 559 million dollars. He was protected internationally with world wide complacency. The only thing that could possibly help this species is not of this world ~

As a product of St. Anne's Residential School (Fort Albany, Ont.), I went through all forms of abuse. You name it, I went through it. I commend all those that step forward and bring it into the open. It's a step in the right direction towards healing.

@mariastewart9820

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6Rro7lre5e-p9o.html

@MsLady-ok5nr

Жыл бұрын

I pray that you will have healing to your pain People are so evil You are more then a survivor!

@blazingstar9638

Жыл бұрын

You deserve the best, I’m so sorry what happened ❤️❤️❤️🙏😔

@rose-mariechauret7358

8 ай бұрын

I commend them too.

@lauranorwar

4 ай бұрын

Ugh! St. Anne’s!! I am so sorry you had to live through that nightmare. I hope that you now have the peaceful and beautiful life you have ALWAYS deserved.

I always wondered what happened to my father in the Catholic church that made him so adamant about not letting his daughters attend church.

@lillygirl8436

4 жыл бұрын

Now u know 💔

@Carol-wq9fr

4 жыл бұрын

😢😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏🙏 pray for his soul.

@annetreacy2437

4 жыл бұрын

This sent chills right down my spine.

@annetreacy2437

4 жыл бұрын

My parents were adamant I not go to the same Catholic grade school as my 2 much older siblings, even though it was 2 blocks from our house. I got carted clear to the other side of town to the other one for 4 years until we moved closer to it. I never got a straight answer on that one. I know my sister hated her school experience and won't talk about it. I can only guess.

@bellycurious

4 жыл бұрын

@Mary Carroll, atheist molest too. Yes, indeed. But they don't have a powerful institution to cover up for them. They don't make amends with the bishop, ask forgiveness to Jesus, wear their stupid dresses and preach from the pulpit moral lessons.

This is just one of the reasons why my husband & I left the Catholic Church. It’s rotten to the core.

@kolegang8820

21 күн бұрын

True .. I would never go back to a catholic church !! It gives me goosebumps when Im in.. if these priests are genuinely offer their lives to God then why these lies and abusive priests exists and the archdiocese did some cover ups !!!

One of the 10 commandments says "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." That's exactly what the church is doing (the false witness).

@leonardgibney2997

2 жыл бұрын

But it says "Thou Shalt not Kill" but used to burn heretics at the stake.

@thecoloursquad8572

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonardgibney2997 I know. Sometimes, the math just doesn't add up.

@anthonytroisi6682

5 ай бұрын

It is also a violation of the commandment about not placing God in second place. The first obligation has to be to God, not an institution ,

in the meantime. someone with weed gets 20 years in prison

@adriannespring8598

3 жыл бұрын

YUUUUP!!!

@normazalilaabubakar5321

3 жыл бұрын

should get death sentence fro destroying the children's future. Rape means killing them silently

@tekay44

3 жыл бұрын

i get you point, but noone gets 20 yrs for weed. it is legal in Maine, where i live.

@paulineannevazquez9022

3 жыл бұрын

I know of a Mother who.when her daughter told her the parish priest was molesting her .the Mother slapped her across the face.

@SFP0181

3 жыл бұрын

If this was a black man, he would get 30yrs. How can you acknowledge 39 counts on children less than 10yrs old and you get only 6yrs 😭

I'm so relieved and happy that the little girl's mother believed her about the abuse. For anyone to abuse a child is unforgivable but for a man of God to do so there's not enough punishment. That includes those that covered it up.

@vickinoeske1711

4 жыл бұрын

@BTIsaac I never mentioned "my religion", I'm agnostic, but you obviously feel anger about something.

@vickinoeske1711

4 жыл бұрын

@BTIsaac Still angry? Take it out elsewhere.

@vickinoeske1711

4 жыл бұрын

@BTIsaac I'm not arguing religion so I don't understand what your deal may be and have no problem with any one's comment. You are the attacker here.

@justinamusyoka4986

4 жыл бұрын

Both of you are expressing or condemning an indecent behavoir of a man of the color (priest) which you do not approve of,so any attack should be towards the RCC church not between yourselves. RCC boasts of a membership of over 1 billion and those are the people who should be enlightened to see the deception the clergy does to minors and adults as well.I was a victim at some point and the bad feelings of regret and helplessness made me leave churches for the rest of my life.I dont direct my children towards church people anymore.

@tanteglitter2196

4 жыл бұрын

Probably because the moms have experienced the same as a child

thank you for exposing the pain from just SOME of the victims

@angelamurnane2334

8 ай бұрын

Yes, only some.

Notice Harvey confessed AFTER he had done his deeds, at the end of his life.

@frankdenardo8684

2 жыл бұрын

Too little too late

@patrickkaggwa6328

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankdenardo8684 Yeah from God's personal advisor Frank Denardo!!

Wow. Heartbreaking. People can be so VILE! I can't believe he got barely got any time! Ridiculous! 💕💕💕 poor kids. 💕

Imagine any other institution getting away with the systematic rape of children for decades, with total impunity and rarely facing any justice.

@cactusqltr

3 жыл бұрын

They are facing justice! Their kingdom is crumbling before their eyes and they can't repent enough to stop it! Good riddance!

@argentonomad910

3 жыл бұрын

@ariel kyloan Not even close.

@scottyfox6376

3 жыл бұрын

Decades ? Naw they've been fiddling kiddies for well over a 1000yrs.

@patrickkaggwa6328

3 жыл бұрын

@@cactusqltr The same reminds me of one who married a 9 year old girl

@patrickkaggwa6328

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottyfox6376 Plus this one:www.bbc.com/news/business-47658803

Let the church and catholicism fold once and for all.

@antoineduchamp4931

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. The Catholic Church needs to cease to be, entirely. Then after a long period of time to re-form, with each member of the clergy, high and low, to re-apply for their positions. This way the Church can get rid of its bad apples, and there are many many thousands of them. The statistics of abuse in the US and Canada of child abuse are astounding. From the Church's point of view it makes sense for the low echelons of the Church structure to take the punishment and not the senior people.

@judyswiderski2682

2 жыл бұрын

@@antoineduchamp4931 Consider the word of God on the subject. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving her to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry , and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with Thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 4:1-3. "In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." Matthew 15:9. King James Bible on line Helpful tool: Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary.

@red---paulvanravenswaay2247

2 жыл бұрын

🤩🤩🤗😎😼💚👍👍👍

All my catholic schools always felt ominous and suffocating inside the walls. My mom really wasn't active in the church because of stories like this. So she made sure I was never alone and never noticed by anyone. We're Christian but not catholic. There's a reason so many catholic academies are closing. You're basically overpaying for your child to be at risk for assault

The movie "Spot Light" is about this very issue and at the end of the movie they give a very long list of the bad around the world. It's HUGE. 6 years! What a horrid insult. SHAME SHAME SHAME

@chaserofthelight484

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, around the world. It’s astounding the number of children molested here in the US alone. They say the most dangerous time for a child here is between the hours of 3pm and 5pm when their parents are at work and the child is with a trusted caregiver. Foster children are at even greater danger.

Thank goodness for people like The Priest Hunter!!! You are a hero

@missnellaful

2 жыл бұрын

There needs to be a few in the rock and roll and pop music industry in Canada.

My family is upset with me and won’t talk to me because I don’t want to associate my self with this organization.

Keep comments respectful? Are the abusive Priests and the bishops that cover-up for his pervert priests: Were the clergy that sexually assaulted children respectful?

Why do they say they "cover things up" and are "enablers"? A lot of them (higher up) could very well be guilty of the same crimes, which means they are not just covering up for others, but for themselves too.

@constantina520

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo !

@gloriakelpinski5858

3 жыл бұрын

Right. Corruption across the board, all the way up to the higher ups. And their solution? Cover it up, so they keep their imsge intact snd who cares about the victims? Terrible

@merlem9448

3 жыл бұрын

The church is protecting phedofiles

@Harlem55

2 жыл бұрын

@@merlem9448 No- The church consists of them and they could simply react by taking the abuse behind Vatican walls where the authorities can't do anything at all about it without causing an international incident.

@patrickkaggwa6328

2 жыл бұрын

@@merlem9448 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZYx5t9NtY9zak6w.html

The key point here is that THE POLICE CHOSE TO DO NOTHING.

@rogersmoot6194

4 жыл бұрын

I agree completely that law enforcement failed in their duties to arrest this evil predator of children and bring the case before the local D.A. for prosecution. It is unfortunate that they let the Catholic Church handle the "problem"!!

@patriciarowe3431

4 жыл бұрын

LORD NINNYCOCK,,,,,, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL NOT DO ANYTHING BUT ACCUSE THE VICTIMS OF LYING!!!!! ITS BEEN PROVEN. SO WHY THE POLICE DID NOTHING?????? YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE.

@indiracamotim2858

3 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of people who choose to do nothing ! A lot !

@Enlightenment246

3 жыл бұрын

Crikey, l think the police are getting paid off by the church, this is a major cult bringing in billions of dollars each year, it’s all a scam.

@bipedalbob

2 жыл бұрын

@@Enlightenment246 or its the upper echelon that are customers as well, and they protect themselves by keeping the lid on.

Sinead O'Connor ripped up the picture of the Pope on SNL back in 1992 for a reason. She's Irish, she knew what was up!! When she said destroy the REAL enemy.

I was baptized Catholic at 1 day of age, it's ridiculous and NOT BIBLICAL☝️ I'm so glad I found God at the age of 40. I'm no longer a Catholic. I'm embarrassed that I was a Catholic. I was NOT a Catholic by choice. What does a 1 day old child know? I'm blessed I found a true Protestant Church where I study God's Word Bible. I believe and practice all 10 God's Commandments. I'm a Seventh Day Adventist, we believe in Sola Scriptura, Bible and Bible alone🙏 No traditions. No man made commandments.

It’s the same here in the US they find one and move him to another parish as if that will somehow fix the problem. It doesn’t it makes it worse.

@sheilanixon4479

4 жыл бұрын

It happened in Purley,South London.The priest was sent to Rome for counselling and then sent to Gatwick Airport as a chaplain.It was there that he got caught and the Church could not protect him this time.The parents of one of the boys he abused attended the same church as I did in a nearby village.The whole family left the Catholic Church ,which did nothing to help them.

@ronbonora7872

3 жыл бұрын

@@sheilanixon4479 the boys father should have introduced the priest to Mr. Knuckles!

@christinalock9937

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronbonora7872 stop visiting their buildings! God never had a building! His love, is around us every time we choose, his love is unconditional without rules.. buildings are a business? Our lord was never that!!

@frankdenardo8684

2 жыл бұрын

There were several documentaries that were produced in the late 1980's and early 1990's which talked about pedophile priests in the United States a and Canada. Not just catholic, but Mormon and protestants.

Who's head of the church? THE POPE IS ALLOWING THIS!!! and I watch people swam to praise him.... Special place reserved for ALL POPEs an priest's. Not heaven!!!!!

@rosemarygriffin2184

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, hope they enjoy the hot climate!

@louiseottley4995

2 жыл бұрын

EXCATLY hiding behind religion

Why are there not multiple arrests in the church? So disgraceful

These people have no idea how it ruins a woman. I was abused by a lay person who did the readings. I told during confessions. The priest would say, “Our parish? “ No. They sigh in relief and ask nothing else. 🥲

This priest knew that his time is short on earth, so by confessions he wants God to forgive him. Guilt !

As an altar boy, I was taught that the priest was next to GOD and never to be questioned. I did report one priest and the bishop transferred him and didn't tell anyone. He followed up with me once before transfering the priest to get additional information. He never contacted with me after that. He didn't care. After that, I never reported being abused because it would have been a waist of time. I was abused by 5 priests multiple times. Today, I can't. Drive past a Roman Catholic Church without remembering what happened.

@Johnbartheart

4 жыл бұрын

Troy Vance SUE them! RICOH..

@susangrande8142

8 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry that happened to you!! I hope you’ve healed at least some.

@noreenalbright2245

8 ай бұрын

So creepy. I remember a Priest pointing out my 8 year old son and saying, "He would make a great altar boy." Nope, na ugh, and we're not coming back to this church.

@kaypee4704

5 ай бұрын

Same happened in the LA diocese…..please do a documentary on this, (LA)……

One of the most horrific stories that stunned me was a Priest that raped a 5 yr old ...running thru the hallway at the church .She was wearing a little dress and got grabbed runningin the hallway to do this just blew me away .I m so sorry they allow these men to move around from place to place and do not get them into therapy or a state of accountabilty.This is surely the responsibility of the Church these abused children .Trust me this is on going this affliction the poor kidz

@timeforthinkers7418

2 жыл бұрын

To turn a blind eye to evil is to allow the evil to grow. AND THAT is all that EVIL ASKS - to be left alone, for no one to impede its mission to deceive, to defile, to destroy. It has no real power, UNLESS we jump on board with it, wallow in it, take it on and do its bidding as these have done. If everyone would search his thoughts and find that which is unlike God's thinking, unlike the mind of Christ Jesus, and then destroy the evil thoughts - deny them oxygen so to speak - then evil would be suffocated & cease to plague us. To me that is what the parable of the tares & wheat is all about - separating the chaff from the wheat, the undesirable from the desirable, that which is beneficial from that which is not. Isaiah 55: 7-9 & Romans 12: 21 "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with GOOD" pretty much covers it.

The abuse was rampant in New Mexico and nothing was done. It wasn't until Boston that the horror was brought out into the light.

Thank you Fifth Estate. You always help the voiceless.

Clergy, like police officers, should be held to a (much) higher standard.

@JRobbySh

2 жыл бұрын

Policemen have to deal with violent men every day. Judges are more nearly the same as cops. By and large my guess is that a close look would show that judges are more corrupt than bishops.

Read the 1890 book by ex priest Charles Chiniquay "50 years in the church of Rome" all this goes all the way to the top and always has.

Bevalaqua was bishop in Pittsburgh too, also he went to the pro life march with the facade of concern for the unborn child while abusing children, you know where his soul went.

@noreenalbright2245

8 ай бұрын

It seems the higher you go up, the more ACTING goes on. Sincerity / honesty is better than gold these days. #Priceless. MSM promotes lies

The church isn't what you think it is.

@rltome

4 жыл бұрын

jfhow exactly

@unapologeticallyme8513

4 жыл бұрын

It's a breeding round for perverts

@London.born.1965

4 жыл бұрын

Religion is a Excuse to Rape Children

@rebellefleur435

4 жыл бұрын

Oh geez ya think? When I grew up in the 80's everyone went to church. You were seen as a nice, good family if you did. There were churches of all denominations on every corner of every street block. Now, thankfully most churches are empty and vacant and many others are torn down. Most people are waking up, this is a good sign. I used to go to church every Sunday, my mother was a Sunday school teacher and my sister and I were in the choir. I haven't been to church since I was a child and I would never go back. I am a spiritual person and I believe in God, but even as a small child I knew the church was a farce.

@themessiahsreturn8889

4 жыл бұрын

Catholic is religion but not Jesus Christ. He is the way the truth and the.life...he didnt tell us to go raping others..He says in matthew 18 protect the children.. RELIGION SAYS OTHERWISE

A HUGE coverup is only the start ...

We need you or someone like you in the United States. This was not uncommon in this country. How tragic.

Wow I'm native n our ppl are just being found in mass Graves. But they also did it to their own 😔 we as ppl in Kkkanada need to fight this together n get these names out. 😤

@rella281

2 жыл бұрын

You and your people are precious. Don't let anyone tell you the opposite!!

That's why I walked out and NEVER went back! 😠😠😠

@vincentcharles607

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you come back . Remember one if Jesus's disciples was Judas, the detrayer

@keithsimpson3078

2 жыл бұрын

...and I did the same in 1959. I never went back either.

Devils, ALL of them!

@scottyfox6376

3 жыл бұрын

Satan must be laughing with delight..

@CatManCatClan

3 жыл бұрын

@N S there are no real ones

@yorzemog4430

3 жыл бұрын

ANGELS & DEMONS...🙏👹

@vincentcharles607

3 жыл бұрын

@@yorzemog4430 Catholic church obviously will have to deal with demons in it . She is the house of God after all .

And they had the audacity to preach the "missionary position" in Africa. What happened (happens?) over there, we'll probably never know. And ofcourse there are only men allowed in high positions in the church. Sex offenders are allowed to preach, women are not.

This is the exact same thing that happened in me in the early 70s no charges just a transfer it’s time that these predators are exposed from the top to the bottom

"they lie from the minute they say hello"

He damages their lives, 39 of them, maybe even more, and he gets only 6 years? THE SYSTEM FAILS THE VICTIMS ALL THE TIME. We need to take justice back into our own hands. Those poor innocent little girls. Think about their lives. And what they have to live with for the rest of their life.

It is not only children but women as well who were abused and reported it. In my case when two bishops lied, my lawyer said not to legally pursue it because the church lies, and they have enough money to keep it going for years.

@susangrande8142

8 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry. 🙏

They need to recognize it, stop it AND prosecute those responsible. If any other man walking the streets did that, they'd be thrown in jail!!

Six years? How about 60!

@indiracamotim2858

3 жыл бұрын

It’s 6 years so that he could go out and do some more damage ! The law is just as guilty as the church

I saw this on Netflix, t’was about Sister Kathy. The Nun was killed bc she helped the young girls.

@joanferguson4194

4 жыл бұрын

I watched that too! Horrible to think what happened to her for speaking out. The Catholic Church has a lot in common with the Mafia, the same cult of Omertà. And it’s not the only church or religion that’s covering up child sex abuse. The Watchtower org. is getting investigated now for its history of covering up abuse and not reporting pedophiles to the proper authorities. Same with the Mormons, Mennonites etc. The lid on this cesspool has to be blown off and the offenders outed.

@vincentcharles607

3 жыл бұрын

@@joanferguson4194 Hey Catholic church is the most safest place now for children

Please save the children 🙏

"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." Luke 17: 2 "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. " Rev 21: 4 "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." Rev 21: 27 We all reap what we sow. "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still." Rev 22: 10, 11 "Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." Rev 22: 14, 15 " And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" Rev 21: 1-4 `"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places." Isaiah 32: 17, 18 What has been done to children in this church and in other churches/denominations by the clergy is an absolute abomination to God, good. The clergy has a special charge and it would seem many have betrayed that charge. You signed up to do God's work and ended up doing the work of the Deceiver. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! . . . Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel." Isaiah 5: 20,23,24 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." 'The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all." 2 Cor 13: 14 "Finally, brethern, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS." Phil 4: 8. WATCH & PRAY.

@madalenasimoes8066

2 жыл бұрын

The Lord sees all things done by men. He will recompense all of them accordingly.

My father in the 60's was an alter boy until he was 16 in Etobicoke, hockey player as well. He was polarizing and angry, aggressive but closed as a father. Something happened with him. Even though he was verbally abusive he kept us kids away from any church and from getting too intrenched in sports organizations. Systemic multi-generational abuse to own and control the servants.... and Epstein didn't kill himself. Technology will always give people the ability to audit/challenge those in power. I am so saddened by the millions of people affected by abuse. Enraged by those enabling/protecting it... Internet and Bitcoin cannot be uninvented. Profiteers beware. Nothing can be deleted.

@mytruth3777

4 жыл бұрын

R G Thanks for sharing

@isabellelatour1069

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing....it's still so relevant now in 2021...justice will be served...and it goes all the way up

@travelwithtony5767

Жыл бұрын

The only hoax that can compete with the church is cryptos..equally fraudulent scammers and opportunists.

That is what happen when the foxes are in charge of guarding the hen house, it is up to the people themselves to monitor the high ups in the churches and bring the charges on the offenders...

@jimmybutler3728

4 жыл бұрын

Not by the ones offended by them or that notice they are not teaching the word of GOD , but the words of men and deception is their trade...

@jimmybutler3728

4 жыл бұрын

@Mary Carroll You have that right those that are deceived are not able to come to the truth...

I hope those priests are not buried in consecrated soil. If so, the church needs to move them - again.

@missnellaful

2 жыл бұрын

Great! Love this idea!

I would have gone Charles Bronson on this Priest if he harmed my daughter like that.

Make justice prevail! Bring all to the surface. Holy scripture says demand justice. Fight for justice. Why are children not protected? Come Lord Jesus, Come!

Can't they obtain a search warrant to access the secret archives?

@arberkraja2492

4 жыл бұрын

No

6 years!!!!! Is that all that the lives of these children whose lives were adversely affected is worth!!! My gosh, what an atrocity is that sentence.

And mothers who deny that their children have been molested even when told the evidence is there. How ill these mothers are. Instead of erring on the side of caution they push their kids closer to the predators. I know I have 2 sick sisters... that make me sick.

@tonybenn1000

2 жыл бұрын

I Am so sorry.

@jeraldineclark5163

2 жыл бұрын

Did this happen to those parents . All those Indecent want to be humans are going to Face YESHUA . Lord Of Lord's . The true FATHER will deal with you , take that to your Graves .

@cynthusinfinite

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonybenn1000 Thank you for caring.

@cynthusinfinite

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeraldineclark5163 if so they've had opportunity to come forward and receive love, step toward healing. But no, they both pushed vulnerable children closer to the violators, one involving the suspicious death of a baby. No truth. What happened to mothers natural instinct to protect her babies??!!

@dan69052

2 жыл бұрын

the truth kzread.info/dash/bejne/lX6m066PZNzLmdo.html

Are you serious and the Catholic Church was lying the whole time 🤦🏽‍♀️ I feel for the kids and their families

The roman catholic church should be charged as a criminal organization for sexual crimes against children.

@bobgillis1137

4 жыл бұрын

ditto.. and then sued out of existence.

@Claptonfan

4 жыл бұрын

@@bobgillis1137 03 May 2018: Died in jail of natural causes

@dellt3122

3 жыл бұрын

So these are the people every one look up to as God and they want to rule the world,. That's unbelievable. These people have a problem , if they can't do without a woman, why pretending to be what you are not , "A Saint" just go right out and have all the women you need .You sexually abuse little girls and get only six years..and now, if a man says to a girl they are charged for sexual abuse .That's not fair. Why do people worship a man and confess their sins to him , that's ridiculous.

@rocioaguilera3613

3 жыл бұрын

And against humanity. They forbid the use of condoms in Africa, a continent decimated by AIDS

@catand9889

3 жыл бұрын

And every person who did nothing so that theses sick beast can continue hurting children should also be put in prison.

I don't think "it was an act of contrition". I think he wanted to take people out with him

I grew up Catholic I attended Catholic schools and lived in a Catholic Community. One day at the urging of the Holy Spirit I picked up the New Testament and actually read the Bible for myself. I was surprised to learn that you'll find no Catholicism in scripture nor will you find any Catholic Church. But what you will find is the glory of his Son and his amazing gospel. I am now a Christian "to the praise of his glorious Grace." Ephesians 1