SODOMITE PEDOPHILIA by Irish Roman Catholic priests



SODOMITE PEDOPHILIA by Irish Roman Catholic priests

covered up by Roman Catholic Archbishops in Dublin

"The commission found that three archbishops of Dublin ­ John Charles McQuaid (1940-72),

Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) ­ did not tell police about clerical abuse cases,

instead opting to avoid public scandals by shuttling offenders from parish to parish."

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Experts: Catholic church covered up child abuse

Irish archbishops protected reputation at expense of victims, report says

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DUBLIN - The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.

Abuse victims said they welcomed publication of the probe into the mishandling of 1975-2004 child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics. But they said government and church leaders still had far to go to compensate for past wrongs.

The government said the investigation "shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese."

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... the government published an investigation into decades of child abuse in Catholic-run schools, workhouses and orphanages. That probe also found that thousands of boys and girls suffered rape, beatings and mental abuse by members of Catholic religious orders. More than 12,000 of those

victims already have received compensation payments from a government panel exceeding $1.2 billion.

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Revealed, six decades of 'ritual' child abuse: Catholic schools and orphanages damned in report

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Last updated at 2:33 PM on 21st May 2009

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Church leaders and government watchdogs covered up 'endemic' and 'ritualised' abuse of thousands of children in Roman Catholic schools and orphanages in the Irish Republic, a shocking report revealed yesterday.

For six decades, priests and nuns terrorised boys and girls in the workhouse-style schools with sexual, physical and mental abuse.

Sins of the Fathers: Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin

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The sexual abuse scandal in catholic schools in Ireland has documented a “substantial level of sexual abuse”

in Catholic run schools in Ireland.

Now, TV3 has produced a documentary called “Abuse of Trust: Sins of the Fathers” which documents some of the horror stories of sexual abuse by priests who were part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.

The documentary uncovers a pattern that has been repeated time and time again in countries around the world. Roman Catholic Priests sexually abusing children and persons of authority within the church covering up the allegations and moving

sexually predatory priests from parish to parish.

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Irish Catholic leaders apologise for child abuse

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The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said he is deeply sorry and ashamed for decades of child abuse by priests.

A government-commissioned report published on Thursday concluded that the Church had covered up the systematic abuse of children within the Archdiocese of Dublin. It looked specifically at the period from 1975 to 2004 and noted a failure on the part of Church authorities to report the abuse to police, as priests were simply moved to new areas where they were able to abuse more children.

The report said the cover-up was motivated primarily by the Church’s desire to save its own reputation.

Cardinal Sean Brady has apologised to victims of child abuse after a government-commissioned report found that the Catholic Church in Ireland covered up decades of systematic child abuse.

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Catholic Church in Dublin Covered Up Abuse

Report: Children Endured Decades of Abuse by Priests

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Sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland was covered up for decades, report says

Widespread child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Dublin was covered up for decades by senior clerics, a damning report will say.

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Four Archbishops, including Cardinal Desmond Connell, will be named over their mishandling of hundreds of allegations, including not reporting crimes to the police.

The role of four Archbishops, John Charles McQuaid who died in 1973, Dermot Ryan who died in 1984, Kevin McNamara who died in 1987, and the retired Cardinal, were examined.

The Commission looked at the Cardinal's role in the late 1980s and 1990s and the use of an insurance scheme, which he inherited, to pay off victims.

Cardinal Connell, who took part in the Conclave to elect Pope Benedict four years ago, ordered a trawl through the diocesan secret archives in 1995 to determine how many clerics had been accused of child abuse.

Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin



"... Thomas Naughton is a priest of St Patrick's Missionary Order, Kiltegan, County Wicklow. He molested many

children in the various parishes he served. He was convicted of abusing an altar boy in Donnycarney and

sentenced to three years in prison, reduced on appeal to six months. He attended a treatment centre at Our Lady of Victory, Stroud, Gloucestershire which offers 'therapy in a spiritual context' before his conviction.

Brendan Smyth (1927–1997) was a notorious child molester who used his position as a Catholic priest to obtain access to his victims. During a period of over 40 years, Smyth raped hundreds of children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and the United States.

"... Ivan Payne (born August 1943) is a former Irish priest of the diocese of Dublin and a convicted child molester. Payne was convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on January 26, 1998 of 14 sample charges of sexually abusing 8 boys aged between 11 and 14 years old between 1968 and 1987. The abuse took place while the victims were patients in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin in 1991 while Payne was hospital chaplain.

He also abused altar boys in Cabra. He served 4½ years in jail and was released in October 2002. The Archdiocese provides Payne with accommodation and an income equivalent to that of a retired priest. He remains a priest but is not allowed to say Mass or administer sacraments.

Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston (Massachusetts, United States)



CCL: Sodomite and pedophilia sexual abuse by multiple Roman Catholic priests of scores of children ]

scandal there.

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Experts: Catholic church covered up child abuse

Irish archbishops protected reputation at expense of victims, report says

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updated 12:20 p.m. ET, Thurs., Nov . 26, 2009

DUBLIN - The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation

at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.

Abuse victims said they welcomed publication of the probe into the mishandling of 1975-2004 child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics. But they said government and church leaders still had far to go to compensate for past wrongs.

The government said the investigation "shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese."

"The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again," said the government, which also apologized for the state's failure to hold church authorities accountable to the law.

This is the second major government-ordered report this year exploring how and why Irish authorities permitted widespread abuse of boys and girls at the hands of the Catholic Church throughout most of the 20th century, the gravest scandal in the history of independent Ireland.

Thursday's 720-page report ­ delivered to the government in July ­ analyzes the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940.

Secret files

The report named 11 priests because they all were convicted of child abuse. But 33 others were referred to only by one-name aliases, and two others had their names blanked out after the Dublin High Court ruled that publication would prejudice their chances of receiving a fair criminal trial.

Investigators spent three years poring over 60,000 previously secret Dublin church files. They were handed over by

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat appointed to Dublin in 2004 with a brief to confront the scandal once and for all. Among the files were more than 5,500 that Martin's predecessor, retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, tried to keep locked in the archbishop's private vault.

The investigators, led by a judge and two lawyers, said they had no doubt that the 46 priests were responsible for abusing many more than 320 children.

"One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years," they wrote.

They said it was not their job to confirm the scale of abuse cases, but "it is abundantly clear ... that child sexual abuse by clerics was widespread throughout the period."

The commission found that three archbishops of Dublin ­ John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) ­ did not tell police about clerical abuse cases, instead opting to avoid public scandals by shuttling offenders from parish to parish.

It was not until 1995, seven years into his reign, that then-Archbishop Connell allowed police to see church files on 17 clerical abuse cases. The documents were kept in a secret, locked vault in the archbishop's Dublin residence.

Records show Connell actually had records of complaints against at least 29 priests at the time.

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In May, the government published an investigation into decades of child abuse in Catholic-run schools, workhouses and orphanages. That probe also found that thousands of boys and girls suffered rape, beatings and mental abuse by members of Catholic religious orders. More than 12,000 of those victims already have received compensation payments from a government panel exceeding

$1.2 billion.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary

dir., Columbia Christians for Life

Columbia, SC







November 27, 2009

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