Pravoslavlje

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A priest in Bolivia was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting students at a seminary in 2013. The arrest comes following a scandal where former priest Alfonso Pedrajas confessed to having abused 85 children in Bolivia during the 1970s and 1980s in his personal diary prior to his death of cancer in 2009.[145]

In 2023, the Pope sent Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu to Bolivia to investigate the matter. Bertomeu had previously investigated accusations against priests in Chile in 2018.[146]

Chile​

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Main article: Catholic sexual abuse cases in Chile
Early in 2018, Pope Francis met with Bishop Juan Barros from Chile concerning the charges of sexual abuse by Fr. Fernando Karadima, and accusations of cover-up by Barros.[147] Many laypersons and victims of sexual abuse came forward to condemn Barros for covering up the sex crimes. When Pope Francis visited the bishop, he was asked by local reporters about the sexual abuse scandal surrounding Barros. Pope Francis quickly condemned the charges a "slander", stating, "The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I will speak. There is not one piece of evidence against him. It is calumny. Is that clear?"[148] Following the pope's defense of Barros, Boston Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, a key Vatican advisor on clergy abuse, acknowledged that Francis' comments about Barros were "a source of great pain" for victims. Francis then appointed Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta to investigate the allegations of abuse in the Chilean church.[149] Upon receiving Scicluna's report, Francis wrote on 12 April that he had "made serious mistakes in the assessment and perception of the situation, especially because of a lack of truthful and balanced information".[150] He also declared that the Chilean church hierarchy was collectively responsible for "grave defects" in handling sexual abuse cases and the resulting loss of credibility suffered by the church. Following Francis' remarks, 33 Chilean bishops offered their resignation.[151] Pope Francis later apologized to the victims of the sex abuse scandal. In late April 2018, three victims were invited to the Vatican.[152]

On 11 June 2018, Francis accepted the resignations of Bishop Juan Barros Madrid of Osorno,[153] and on 28 June those of Bishops Horacio Valenzuela of Talca and Alejandro Goić Karmelić of Rancagua.[154] In September, he accepted those of those of Carlos Eduardo Pellegrín Barrera of Chillán and Cristián Contreras Molina of San Felipe.[155] Karadima was laicized on 28 September 2018.[156]

On 13 October 2018, Pope Francis laicized two former archbishops: Francisco José Cox Huneeus of La Serena and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández of Iquique.[157]

In March 2019, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello resigned as required upon turning 75 amid allegations of sexual abuse.[158]

On 21 August 2019, Chile's nuncio announced that the Vatican had launched an investigation into claims that Bernardino Piñera, an influential Chilean priest who is also a paternal uncle of Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, sexually abused at least one child 50 years prior.[159][160][161]

 

[Маки]

Tebi se ,ako se dobro secam,svidelo pratiti pljuvanja onog papistu pa si ga "uz pucke" tolerisao sa izuzteno velikom saradnjom i raspolozenjem e sada su dosla nasa pet minuta koja ce trajati nesto vise od godinu dana sve dok ne potrazis da se prestane sa ovakvim stilom komunaikacije I TO DA BUDE PRAVILO ZA SVAKOG a ne samo za subotare kada imaju malu pokaznu vezbu !!!

A trebao sam ga odmah banovati da ne dira u čast vaše svetinje iz Mejna. Besramnici.

Ti ne bi dva dana izdržao da nekog ne vrijeđaš. Mozak ti je zatrovan bolesnom mržnjom prema svima koji ne ljube skute proročice.

 

[robivek]

Jeli Glasnik.,sta mislis jel ovo dovoljno za zagrevanje ?

...ili da idemo jos malo ?

 

[robivek]

In 2021, an investigation by Vorágine and CONNECTAS revealed a list of 43 priests from the Archdiocese of Medellín accused of child molestation and sexual abuse, only three of whom had been sentenced by justice.[162] In 2022, the AFP news agency reported one of the most serious cases revealed to date in the country, involving a network of pederasty that would include at least 38 abusive priests in the city of Villavicencio,[163] of which 19 of them had been suspended two years before by the Vatican in the midst of the canonical investigation.[164] The Constitutional Court in a historic decision had ordered in Judgment T-091 of 2020 the Colombian Catholic Church to reveal its "secret file" of complaints, to journalists or citizens who required it.[165] From that date the hierarchs of the church have not fully complied with that instruction.[166]

Asia​

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East Timor​

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Richard Daschbach was convicted in Oecussi District Court in 2021 on charges of having sexually abused Timorese girls over decades.[167]

First accusations of sexual abuse of minors by Bishop Ximenes Belo appeared in the Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer on 28 September 2022.[168]

India​

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In 2002, Mathew N. Schmalz noted that Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in India are generally not spoken about openly, stating "you would have gossip and rumors, but it never reaches the level of formal charges or controversies."[16]

In 2014, Raju Kokkan, the vicar of the Saint Paul's Church in Thaikkattussery, Thrissur, Kerala, was arrested on charges of raping a nine-year-old girl. According to Kerala Police, Kokkan had raped the child on several different occasions, including at least thrice in his office during the month of April. Kokkan promised to gift the child expensive vestments for her Holy Communion ceremony before sexually assaulting her. The abuse was revealed after the victim informed her parents that she had been raped by Kokkan on 25 April 2014. The priest subsequently fled to Nagercoil in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu, and was arrested by police on 5 May. Following the arrest, the Thrissur Archdiocese stated that the vicar had been removed from his position within the Church. Between February and April 2014, three other Catholic priests were arrested in the state of Kerala on charges of raping minors.[169][170]

In 2016, the Catholic Church reappointed a convicted and jailed priest in the Ootacamund Diocese in Tamil Nadu, with little regard for victims rights and children's safety.[171][172][173][174][175]

In 2017, Father Robin Vadakkumchery of St Sebastian church in Kannur was arrested in Kochi on the charge of repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl who later gave birth to a child.[176] The baby is reported to have been taken to an orphanage without the mother's consent.[177] He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a special court constituted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 in Thalassery.[178]

In 2018, after much public outcry, Bishop Franco Mulakkal was arrested on 21 September by the Kerala Police. The Vatican had just 'temporarily' relieved him from his pastoral responsibilities. The nun who complained against Bishop Mulakkal had mentioned to the police that he had repeatedly had raped her on multiple occasions between 2014 and 2016.[179] Mulakkal was found not guilty by a Kerala trial court in 2022, though a challenge to the acquittal was filed by the nun's lawyers in 2023. After the challenge was filed, Mulakkal retired as bishop in June 2023.[180]

 

[Glasnik.]

Vjerujete li sljedećim izjavama?

- Katolička crkva motivirala je i aktivno sudjelovala u gotovo dva tisućljeća antisemitskog nasilja, opravdavajući ga krivnjom Židova za raspeće Isusa, sve dok Drugi Vatikanski sabor nije posramljeno povukao to učenje 1965. No, Crkva još nije nadoknadila štetu nastalu činjenicom da se papu Pija XII s pravom naziva "Hitlerovim papom."

- Tek nedavno postali smo svjesni iznimno prosvijećenih kršćanskih evanđelja koja su uskogrudni katolički prelatimi davno potisnuli.

- Nakon što su postali službena religija Rimskoga Carstva, kršćani su brzo i brutalno progonom istrijebili pagane.

- Pad Rima i uspon Crkve jako je ubrzao poniranje Europe u tisućljeće neznanja i zaostalosti. To mračno doba trajala je sve do renesanse/prosvjetiteljstva kada su se svjetovni učenjaci probili kroz stoljeća katoličkih prepreka razumu.

-Papom potaknuti križarski ratovi samo su prvo krvavo poglavlje u povijesti ničim izazvana i brutalna europskoga kolonijalizma.

- Španjolska inkvizicija mučila je i ubila golem broj nevinih ljudi za „izmišljene“ zločine, kao što su vještičarenje ili bogohuljenje.

-Katolička Crkva bojala se znanstvenika i progonila ih, što je jasno na slučaju Galileja. Stoga se znanstvena „revolucija“ dogodila uglavnom u protestantskim društvima jer samo unutar njih Katolička Crkva nije mogla suzbiti neovisnu misao.

- Budući da joj uopće nije smetalo ropstvo, Katolička Crkva nije učinila ništa da se suprotstavi njegovu uvođenju u Novi svijet niti da ga se učini humanijim.

-Sve donedavno katoličko se viđenje idealne države svodilo na frazu o "božanskom pravu kraljeva". Slijedom toga Crkva se žestoko protivila svim pokušajima uspostave liberalnijih oblika vladanja, zdušno podržavajući diktatore.

- Upravo se protestantskom reformacijom slomilo represivno katoličko kočenje napretka te uvelo kapitalizam, religijsku slobodu i moderni svijet.


Svaka od ovih izjava dio je opće kulture, široko je prihvaćena i često se ponavlja. No, svaka je od njih laž, a mnoge su potpuna suprotnost istini. Jedno poglavlje bit će posvećeno pregledu njihovih nedavnih ponavljanja te će se pokazati da je svaka zasigurno neistinita.

Možda se pitate zašto ovakve notorne laži opstaju, ako su doista neistine. Dijelom zbog toga što se jako međusobno podupiru i što su duboko utkane u našu opću kulturu tako da se čini nemogućim da ne budu istinite. Olako se pretpostavlja da bi se u našim „prosvijećenim“ vremenima takve tvrdnje zasigurno odavno odbacile kada bi bile lažne. Kad sam prvi put čuo tvrdnju da je španjolska inkvizicija prolila jako malo krvi, a usto bila i jaka potpora umjerenosti i pravdi, priznajem da sam je odbacio kao još jedan pokušaj zaostala i pažnje željna revizionizma koji traži pažnju. Međutim, bio sam šokiran kada sam nakon daljnjeg istraživanja otkrio da je u stvari, između ostaloga, upravo inkvizicija spriječila da se ubilačka manija proganjanja vještičarenja, koja je cvjetala u većini Europe tijekom 16. i 17. stoljeća, proširi na Španjolsku i Italiju. Umjesto spaljivanja vještica inkvizitori su poslali nekoliko ljudi na vješala jer su spaljivali vještice.

Nisam rimokatolik i nisam napisao ovu knjigu kako bih obranio Crkvu. Napisao sam je kako bih obranio povijest.

Rodney Stark, Lažna svjedočanstva - Raskrinkavanje stoljeća protukatoličke povijesti

U svakom zlu ima i malo dobra.
Hica je recimo voleo kerove...
Cak je i licno spasio par jevreja.

 

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In 2013, Singapore-born psychotherapist and author Jane Leigh, a single mother of two who now lives in Melbourne, alleged in her autobiography My Nine Lives Last that she was sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when she was a teenager. Starting from when she was 12 years old, she was abused for two and half years during the secluded one-on-one outings by a 34-year-old priest whom she initially met at neighbourhood mass held at her home when she was 12, he allegedly did so while picking or dropping her off when her parents were at work. After she reported the matter to her mother, she was berated for tempting the priest and sent to another Catholic priest for counselling. Consequently, church stated that they will conduct the investigations.[181]

In 2022, a prominent member of the Catholic order in his mid-60s was jailed 5 years for sexually abusing 2 teenage boys on multiple occasions. The offences took place between 2005 and 2007. The identity of the perpetrator and his victims were not revealed due to a gag order imposed by the court.[182] Additionally, the perpetrator's religious superior was issued a written advisory by the police for not reporting the offences to the police after learning about them.[183]

Europe​

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Austria​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Europe § Austria
In November 2010, an independent group in Austria[184] that operates a hotline to help people exit the Catholic Church released a report documenting physical, sexual, and emotional abuse perpetrated by Austrian priests, nuns, and religious officials. The report is based on hotline calls from 91 women (28%) and 234 men (72%), who named 422 perpetrators of both sexes, 63% of whom were ordained priests.[185]

Belgium​

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Main article: Catholic Church in Belgium § Clerical sex abuse scandal
In June 2010, Belgian police raided the Belgian Catholic Church headquarters in Brussels, seizing a computer and records of a Church commission investigating allegations of child abuse. This was part of an investigation into hundreds of claims that had been raised about alleged child sexual abuse committed by Belgian clergy. The claims emerged after Roger Vangheluwe, who had been the Bishop of Bruges, resigned in 2009 after admitting that he was guilty of sexual molestation.[186] The Vatican protested against the raids.[187] In September 2010, an appeals court ruled that the raids were illegal.[188]

 

[Glasnik.]

Jeli Glasnik.,sta mislis jel ovo dovoljno za zagrevanje ?

...ili da idemo jos malo ?

Odgovaraj proporcijalno kao Utin...
Ne vise.
Oni 2 ti 3, oni 5 ti 6.
Mi zelimo mir je poruka..

 

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Croatia​

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There are three main known contemporary cases of sexual abuse in the Croatian Catholic Churches: in Archdiocese of Zagreb, Archdiocese of Rijeka and Archdiocese of Zadar. The convicted individuals are Ivan Čuček (2000),[189][190] Drago Ljubičić (2011),[191][192] and Nediljko Ivanov (2012) [193][194][195] respectively.

France​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Europe § France
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the Archbishop of Lyon, was convicted on 7 March 2019 of failing to report sex abuse allegedly committed by priest Bernard Preynat and was given a six-month suspended prison sentence.[196][197][198][199][200] On 5 July 2019, Pope Francis laicized the priest whom Barbarin was accused of protecting.[201] Despite Barbarin's conviction being overturned on appeal, the scandal resulted in Pope Francis accepting his resignation as Archbishop of Lyon on 6 March 2020.[196]

On 14 January 2020, Preynat, who was previously convicted on another sex abuse charge in 2016,[202] confessed during his criminal trial that he had a habit of "caressing" Boy Scouts he oversaw when he served as scout chaplain in the Lyon suburb[202] of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon and that he did so in a way which brought him "sexual pleasure".[203] On 15 January, Preynat, who is accused of molesting 80 Boy Scouts between 1971 and 1991,[203] stated that the Vatican let him complete his seminary education for becoming a priest after he had undergone therapy at the Vinatier Psychiatric Hospital between 1967 and 1968, and that he had warned that Vatican about his sexual impulses.[202] After Preynat's 2016 conviction for abuse committed between 1986 and 1991,[204] which also resulted in only an 18-month suspended prison sentence,[204] Barbarin reportedly appointed him to a higher position within the Archdiocese of Lyon.[204]

On 9 November 2019, the Conference of French Bishops approved a resolution agreeing that every French Catholic Bishop would pay compensation for abuse which took place in the French Catholic Church.[205][206] On 16 March 2020, Preynat received a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting boy scouts.[207] On 11 November 2020, Jean-Marc Sauve, the head of the independent commission set up by the Catholic Church in France to investigate claims of sex abuse, acknowledged his commission's sex abuse hotline, which closed on 31 October 2020, received 6,500 calls reporting sex abuse in a period of 17 months.[208] On 16 December 2020, former Apostolic nuncio to France Luigi Ventura received a suspended eight-month prison sentence for sexually harassment, which includes probation and a required payment of €13,000 to the victims, as well as €9,000 in legal fees.[209]

 

[Маки]

Subotari prešućuju da sam ja na onoj temi o Antihristu brisao i poruke uvredljive za njihovu vjersku zajednicu.

 

[robivek]

Odgovaraj proporcijalno kao Utin...
Ne vise.
Mi zelimo mir je poruka..

U redu ako smatras da sam prekoracio proporcijalni nivo,hajde da vidimo reakcije...
...ako li poruka nije shvacanea onda mozemo dalje ?
Daj mi molim te onda dopusti da idemo dalje,tek sada dolaze oni socni detalji..
..a tek da vidis kada se latimo 'prljavog vesha"..!?

 

[Glasnik.]

U redu ako smatras da sam prekoracio proporcijalni nivo,hajde da vidimo reakcije...
...ako li poruka nije shvacanea onda mozemo dalje ?
Daj mi molim te onda dopusti da idemo dalje,tek sada dolaze oni socni detralji..
..a tek da vidis kada se latimo 'prljavog vesha"..!?

Neee...posle 3 meseca 24 casovnog bomvardovanja ovo ti je bilo jako malo. Trebas sada 4 meseca po 24 sata non stop. Tada stanes.

 

[Glasnik.]

Subotari prešućuju da sam ja na onoj temi o Antihristu brisao i poruke uvredljive za njihovu vjersku zajednicu.

Ne.
Brisao si.
Ali to su bile vec licne uvrede na nas , nazivanja sto sa nase strane nikada nije bilo.
Nema ih ni sada.
Ali ih ima sa vase.
Istina manje trenutno.

 

[robivek]

Neee...posle 3 meseca 24 casovnog bomvardovanja ovo ti je bilo jako malo. Trebas sada 4 meseca po 24 sata non stop. Tada stanes.

U pravu si,hajde da vidimo ipak reakcije moda,mozda primeti da nesto trebamo menjati...!?
..ili mozda ne trebamo pa da idemo na jurish ?

 

[robivek]

On 3 October 2021, an independent commission set up by the Bishops' Conference of France released a report[210] estimating that the ranks of the 115,000 Catholic priests and other religious officials in France since the 1950s have included about 3,000 abusers.[211][212] The report estimates that 216,000 children were abused by Catholic priests between 1950 and 2020, and that accounting for abuse by other Catholic church employees increases the total number to around 330,000.[213] Around 80% of the victims were boys.[214]

Germany​

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Main articles: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases by country § Germany, and Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Europe § Germany
In September 2018, a report by the German Catholic Church found that 3,677 children in Germany, mostly 13 or younger, had been sexually abused by Catholic clergy between 1946 and 2014.[215] In August 2020, at 1,412 people in Germany accused members of Catholic religious orders of sexually abusing them as children, teenagers, and as wards.[216] At least 654 monks, nuns and other members of religious orders were accused of abuse.[216] Around 80% of the victims were male and 20% female.[216] The orders were among the last Catholic church organizations in Germany to address sex abuse.[216] Despite the facts that women make up the largest membership of German religious orders, male religious order members had the largest share of sex abuse accusations.[216]

In May 2021, Cardinal Reinhard Marx offered his resignation, citing collective failure in dealing with sexual abuse as his main reason.[217] Subsequently, Pope Francis denied his offer, while emphasizing the importance of Marx's repentance in his subsequent tenure.[218]

Ireland​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Ireland
See also: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin and Murphy Report
In the Republic of Ireland, starting in the 1990s, there were a series of criminal cases and government enquiries related to allegations that priests had abused hundreds of minors over previous decades. State-ordered investigations documented "tens of thousands of children from the 1940s to the 1990s" who suffered abuse, including sexual abuse at the hands of priests, nuns, and church staff in three dioceses.[219]

In many cases, senior clergy had moved priests accused of abuse to other parishes. By 2010, a number of in-depth judicial reports had been published, but with relatively few prosecutions. The abuse was occasionally made known to staff at the Department of Education, the police, and other government bodies. They have said that prosecuting clergy was extremely difficult given the "Catholic ethos" of the Irish Republic.[citation needed] In addition, in 2004, the Christian Brothers had sued for a civil settlement that barred prosecution of any of its members or the naming of any Christian Brother in the government investigatory report. Christian Brothers had a higher number of allegations made against their order than were made against others. Neither were any victims named in the report.

 

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In 1994, Micheal Ledwith resigned as President of St Patrick's College, Maynooth when allegations of sexual abuse by him were made public. The June 2005 McCullough Report found that a number of bishops had rejected concerns about Ledwith's inappropriate behavior towards seminarians "so completely and so abruptly without any adequate investigation", although his report conceded that "to investigate in any very full or substantial manner, a generic complaint regarding a person's apparent propensities would have been difficult".[220]

Fr Brendan Smyth was reported to have sexually abused and indecently assaulted 20 children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and the United States, during the period between 1945 and 1989.[221] Controversy over the handling of his extradition to Northern Ireland led to the 1994 collapse of the Fianna Fáil/Labour coalition government.[222]

In December 2010, Archdiocese of Dublin "singing priest" Tony Walsh was sentenced to 123 years in prison for 14 child abuse convictions involving sex-related offences dating from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.[223][224] However, the sentences were to be served concurrently, netting to a maximum of 16 years.[224] By the time he pleaded guilty in December 2018 to indecently assaulting a teenage boy with a crucifix on a date in 1983, Walsh had already been in prison for 13 years.[223]

Six reports by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church have up until 2011 established that six Irish priests were convicted between 1975 and 2011.[225][226]

In August 2018, a list was published which revealed that over 1,300 Catholic clergy in Ireland had been accused of sexual abuse, of which 82 had been convicted.[227][228] In May 2020, it was revealed that prior to the 2004 merger with the Scout Association of Ireland (SAI) which formed Scouting Ireland, Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland (CBSI) covered up sex abuse committed by people who served in the organization.[229] In a period spanning decades, both the CBSI and SAI shielded 275 known or suspected predators who abused children after becoming aware of the reported acts of abuse.[229] Scouting Ireland backed the findings of the report and issued an apology.[229]

Italy​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Europe § Italy
In October 2018, Italian victim rights group Rete l'Abuso released a statement saying that since 2000 the Italian justice system had handled about 300 cases of abusive priests and nuns, with 150 to 170 convictions.[230][231]

 

[Glasnik.]

U pravu si,hajde da vcidimo ipak reakcije moda,mozda primeti da nesto trebamo menjati...!?
..ili mlzda ne trebamo pa da idemo na jurish ?

Mozda shvate i pocnu teolosku raspravu?
Ali cim pocnu da gube opet ovako.
Onda za drugi put znas.

 

[robivek]

Norway​

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After revelations by Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen, the Catholic Church in Norway and the Vatican acknowledged in 2010 that Georg Müller had resigned in July 2009 from the position of Bishop of Trondheim which he held from 1997 because of the discovery of his abuse of an altar boy two decades earlier. The Vatican cited Canon law 401 §2,[232] but as is customary gave no details. The Norwegian Catholic Church was made aware of the incident at the time but did not alert the authorities. Norwegian law did not allow a criminal prosecution of Müller so long after the event.[233]

Poland​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Europe § Poland
During 2013, the public in this deeply Catholic country became concerned about reports of child sex abuse scandals within the Church, some of which reached the courts, and the poor response by the church. The Church resisted demands to pay compensation to victims.[234][235] In October 2013, the Catholic Church in Poland explicitly refused to publish data on sexual abuse, but said that, "if the data were to be published, the scale would be seen to be very low".[236] Bishop Antoni Dydycz said that priests should not be pressed to report sexual abuse to state authorities, invoking the ecclesiastical "seal of confession", which bans them from revealing what is said in the rite of confession.[237]

On 27 September 2018, Bishop Romuald Kamiński of the Warsaw-Praga Diocese issued an apology to those who had been sexually abused by priests in his Diocese and that church leaders in Poland had completed work on a document to address the abuse of minors and suggest ways to prevent it.[238] According to Archbishop Wojciech Polak, the head of Poland's Catholic Church, the document will also include data on the scale of priestly sex abuse in Poland.[238] By early 2019, however, the document still had not been made public.[238] On 8 October 2018, a victims group mapped out 255 cases of alleged sex abuse in Poland.[239]

Statistics were released on 14 April 2019, commissioned by the Episcopal Conference of Poland and with data from over 10,000 local parishes. It was found that from 1990 to mid-2018, abuse reports about 382 priests were made to the Church, with 625 children, mostly under 16, sexually abused by members of the Catholic clergy. There were opinions that the figures underestimated the extent of the problem, and failed to answer questions church officials had avoided for years.[240] Marek Lisinski, the co-founder of Don't Be Afraid, which represents victims of clerical abuse, said "Tell us how [the priests] hurt those children and how many times they were transferred to different parishes before you paid notice". The data were released a few weeks after Pope Francis had called for "an all-out battle against the abuse of minors". After pressure from the Pope, in the preceding years Poland's Church had publicly apologised for abuses, and accepted the need to report those accused of such crimes. In earlier times, clergy to whom sexual abuse of minors was reported were not required by their superiors to notify the police, but to investigate themselves, and if necessary inform the Vatican.[240]

 

[robivek]

On 11 May 2019, Polak issued an apology on behalf of the entire Catholic Church in Poland.[241] The same day, Tell No One, a documentary detailing accounts of sex abuse by Catholic Church clergy in Poland, went viral, reaching 8.1 million viewers on YouTube by 13 May.[242] Among many, the film featured a priest known as Father Jan A., whose case is being reviewed by the Diocese of Kielce, who confessed to molesting many young girls.[241] The film also alleges that Rev. Dariusz Olejniczak, a priest who was sentenced for molesting 7-year-old girls, was allowed to continue working with young people despite his conviction.[241] On 14 May 2019, Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which has long had an alliance with the nation's Catholic Bishops,[242] agreed to increase penalties for child sex abuse by raising the maximum prison sentence from 12 years to 30 years and raising the age of consent from 15 to 16.[243] Prosecutor and PiS lawmaker Stanislaw Piotrowicz, who heads the Polish Parliament's Justice Commission, has also been criticized for playing down the actions of a priest who was convicted for inappropriately touching and kissing young girls.[244]

On 25 June 2020, Pope Francis appointed Grzegorz Rys, Archbishop of Łódź, Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Kalisz, relieving its Bishop, Edward Janiak, age 67, of his responsibilities while under investigation for protecting priests who committed acts of sex abuse.[245] On 17 October, Pope Francis accepted Janiak's resignation.[246]

In February 2019, three protestors toppled a statue of Rev. Henryk Jankowski following revelations that he sexually abused Barbara Borowiecka when she was a girl.[247][248] Jankowski, who also had a criminal investigation involving the sexual abuse of a boy dropped against him in 2004, had been defrocked in 2005. However, he died in 2010 without ever being convicted of sex abuse.[248] It has also been acknowledged that Lech Walesa's personal chaplain Rev. Franciszek Cybula had been accused of committing acts of sex abuse while serving in the as well. On 13 August 2020, Pope Francis removed Gdansk Archbishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz, who was among those who covered up abuse committed by Jankowski and Cybula. Glodz had also presided over Cybula's funeral. Despite the fact that Glodz turned 75, the required age for Catholic Bishops to offer their resignation, the move was described as "cleaning house", as it is highly unusual for the pope to accept such a resignation on a prelate's actual birthday.[247]

On 6 November 2020, The Holy See's nuncio to Poland announced that following an investigation by the Holy See regarding sex abuse allegations, Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz[249] was now "barred from any kind of celebration or public meeting and from using his episcopal insignia, and is deprived of the right to a cathedral funeral and burial."[250] Gulbinowicz was also ordered to pay an "appropriate sum" to his alleged victims.[250] Gulbinowicz is the former archbishop of Wrocław, whose support of the trade union Solidarity played a critical role in the collapse of communism in Poland. On 16 November 2020, 10 days after the Vatican sanctions, Gulbinowicz died. But as a result of the Vatican displinary action, he could not have a funeral in Wroclaw's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist or to be buried in the cathedral.[251]

 

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Portugal​

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In 1993, a priest of the Diocese of Funchal, Frederico Cunha , was convicted for the murder of 15-year-old Luís Correia. His corpse was found at the bottom of the Caniçal cliff, in Ponta de São Lourenço, on the eastern end of the island of Madeira, with signs of aggression. During the trial, four witnesses, now adults, told the court how they had been sexually abused by the priest.[252][253]

Bishop Teodoro de Faria protested against the detention of Frederico Cunha and described him as "innocent like Jesus Christ", who was also unfairly attacked by the Jews [254] Father Frederico also compared himself to Jesus Christ, saying that like the son of God, he was a "victim of injustice and absurdity" . Prominent figures from the Church were laudatory witnesses. The then President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Alberto João Jardim, accused "certain mainland "media of using the case "to denigrate the image of Madeira". In April 1998, Cunha escaped to Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives at ease. The sentence officially expired on April 8, 2018.[255][256]

A report published in February 2023 revealed that at least 4,815 children had been sexually abused by clergy in the Catholic church in Portugal since 1950.[257][258]

United Kingdom​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Europe § United Kingdom
In 2013, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, resigned following publication of allegations he had engaged in inappropriate and predatory sexual conduct with priests and seminarians under his jurisdiction and abused his power.[259]

In 2020, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse released a report which stated that the Catholic Church of England and Wales "swept under the carpet" allegations of past child sex abuse by numerous Catholic clergy in England and Wales.[260] According to the report "there was no acknowledgement of any personal responsibility" by Vincent Nichols, since 2014, a cardinal and the senior Catholic cleric in England and Wales.[260] The report said that Nichols cared more about the impact of abuse on the Church's reputation than on the victims, and lacked compassion towards them.[261]

 

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Northern Ireland​

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In Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry started in January 2014. It was the largest inquiry in UK legal history into sexual and physical abuse in certain institutions (including non-Catholic ones) that were in charge of children from 1922 to 1995. The De La Salle Brothers and the Sisters of Nazareth admitted early in the inquiry to physical and sexual abuse of children in institutions in Northern Ireland that they controlled, and issued an apology to victims.[262][263] A 2017 report also stated that the local police, who had also poorly investigated claims of sex abuse at the non-Catholic Kincora Boys' Home,[264][265] had played a role in assisting the local Catholic officials in covering up reported sexual abuse activity at four Catholic-run homes for boys in the Belfast area and that these four homes had contained the highest level of reported sex abuse of all the 22 homes which were investigated.[266][267]

Oceania​

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Australia​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Australia
The Catholic church in Australia had been criticised for mishandling childhood sexual abuse cases which are severe in nature and widespread in extent.[268] Catholic priests were charged by 2011 in over 100 cases of childhood sexual abuse in Australia.[269] The Catholic Church had secretly paid equivalent of $276.1 million by 2017 in compensation to thousands of childhood sexual abuse victims of priests and religious brothers.[270] Inquiries established that historically Australian Catholic church officials often, where cardinal George Pell knew about sex abuse in Catholic church as early as 1973,[271] ignored or punished the child victim, did not investigate allegations, documents were destroyed or not kept, failed to prevent future abuse by clergy who had come to their attention by transferring clergy and religious members to new parishes or dioceses which did not know of their past and not stripping them of their religious status.[39][272][273] John Paul II and Benedict XVI made apologies for abuse in Australia.[268][274]

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2015–17) found that 7% of all Catholic priests in Australia were "alleged perpetrators of child sex abuse",[275][276] average age of victims was 11.5 for boys and 10.5 for girls.[275] Royal Commission found that 46% (92 out of 201) of Catholic Churches had child sexual abuse cases.[276] Royal Commission had 4,756 child sexual abuse cases from 4,444 victims against 1,880 accused, in 62% cases the accused were Catholic priests and religious brothers and the rest were members of church.[277][278][276] Abuse victim Amber Louise criticized Church's Towards Healing protocol, started in 1996 to "establish a compassionate and just system for dealing with complaints of abuse",[279] who told the Royal Commission that the program delayed reporting her complaint.[280] In June 2019, 18 months after being ordered to do so by the Royal Commission, the Australian Catholic Church published its National Catholic Safeguarding Standards closely mirroring Royal Commission's recommendations and government's National Principles for Child Safe Organizations.[281]

In 2019, Fr Vincent Gerald Ryan, who had previously served 14 years in jail for sexually abusing 34 boys from 1973 to 1991, was jailed for at least 14 months for sex abuse he committed against two altar boys.[282]

In September 2020, the Australian state of Queensland passed legislation which makes it so religious institutions, such as the Catholic church, and their members are no longer able to use the sanctity of confession as a defence against failing to report material information about the sexual abuse of children.[283][284] Under the new Queensland law, clergy who refuse to report confessions of sex abuse will face a maximum sentence of three years in prison.[283] In October 2020, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that the church had failed to intervene against Thomas Butler, a Marist Brother known as Brother Patrick, when students reported that he sexually abused them within the three-year period he taught at Queensland capital Brisbane's Marist College Ashgrove.[285] Butler had received sex abuse complaints in between 1991 and 1993.[229] Provincial of the Marist Brothers in Australia, Brother Peter Carroll, delivered an apology at the royal commission's public hearing.[229]

 

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Mozda shvate i pocnu teolosku raspravu?
Ali cim pocnu da gube opet ovako.
Onda za drugi put znas.

Nego znas sta,sta ako li nasi sagovornici realno ne znaju kako se uopste vode teoloske diskusije,jednostavno ih nisu naucili jer im glavna doktrina PLJUVANJE ?

 

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Ne.
Brisao si.
Ali to su bile vec licne uvrede na nas , nazivanja sto sa nase strane nikada nije bilo.
Nema ih ni sada.
Ali ih ima sa vase.
Istina manje trenutno.

Ne Glasniče brisao sam i poruke o skandalima kod vas. Jer nije cilj ovog potforuma da se gađamo skandalima.

 

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Ireland​

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Main article: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Ireland
See also: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin, Ferns Report, Ryan Report, and Murphy Report
In an address before the Irish parliament on 11 May 1999, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced a comprehensive program to respond to the scandal of abuse in the nation's Catholic-run childcare institutions. Ahern's speech included the first official apology to those who had been abused physically and sexually while they had been in the care of these institutions. The Taoiseach asked the abuse victims for forgiveness, saying: "On behalf of the State and of all citizens of the State, the Government wishes to make a sincere and long overdue apology to the victims of childhood abuse for our collective failure to intervene, to detect their pain, to come to their rescue."[222]

In response to the furor aroused by the media reports of abuse in Irish government institutions run by religious orders, the Irish government commissioned a study which took nine years to complete. On 20 May 2009, the commission released its 2600-page report, which drew on testimony from thousands of former residents and officials from more than 250 institutions. The commission found that there were thousands of allegations of physical abuse of children of both sexes over a period of six decades. Over the same period, around 370 former child residents alleged they had suffered various forms of sexual abuse from religious figures and others.[286][287] The report revealed that government inspectors had failed in their responsibility to detect and stop the abuse. The report characterized sexual molestation as "endemic" in some church-run industrial schools and orphanages for boys.[288]

In the wake of the broadcast of a BBC Television documentary, Suing the Pope, which highlighted the case of Seán Fortune, one of the most notorious clerical sexual offenders, the Irish government initiated an official inquiry into the allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Irish Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns.[289] The inquiry resulted in the publication of the Ferns Report in 2005.

In response to the Ferns Report, Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen stated that he was "ashamed by the extent, length, and cruelty" of child abuse, apologized to victims for the government's failure to intervene in endemic sexual abuse and severe beatings in schools for much of the 20th century. Cowen also promised to reform the Ireland's social services for children in line with the recommendations of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report.[290] Irish President Mary McAleese and Cowen made further motions to start criminal investigation against members of Roman Catholic religious orders in Ireland.[291]

In November 2009, Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reported its findings in which it concluded that:

"the Dublin Archdiocese's pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid 1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of its assets. All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities. The Archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid any application of the law of the State".[292]

In 2009, The Murphy Report is the result of a three-year public inquiry conducted by the Irish government into the Sexual abuse scandal in Dublin archdiocese, released a few months after the report of the Ryan report. The Murphy report stated that, "The Commission has no doubt that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up by the Archdiocese of Dublin and other Church authorities". It found that, "The structures and rules of the Catholic Church facilitated that cover-up." Moreover, the report asserted that, "State authorities facilitated that cover-up by not fulfilling their responsibilities to ensure that the law was applied equally to all and allowing the Church institutions to be beyond the reach of the normal law enforcement processes." The report criticized four archbishops – John Charles McQuaid who died in 1973, Dermot Ryan who died in 1984, Kevin McNamara who died in 1987, and retired Cardinal Desmond Connell – for not giving allegations and information on abusers to legal authorities.[293]

 

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The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, in early 2014, issued a report asserting that the pope and the Roman Catholic Church have not done enough and protect their reputation rather than protect children.[294] A joint statement of the panel said,

The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by, and the impunity of, the perpetrators[295][296] Due to a code of silence imposed on all members of the clergy under penalty of excommunication, cases of child sexual abuse have hardly ever been reported to the law enforcement authorities in the countries where such crimes occurred.[296]

Committee chair Kirsten Sandberg enumerated some major findings, including that abusive priests were sent to new parishes or other countries without police being informed, that the Vatican never insisted on bishops reporting abuse to police, and that known abusers still have access to children. Barbara Blaine of SNAP said,

This report gives hope to the hundreds of thousands of deeply wounded and still suffering clergy sex abuse victims across the world. Now it's up to secular officials to follow the U.N.'s lead and step in to safeguard the vulnerable because Catholic officials are either incapable or unwilling to do so.[295]

The UN report prompted discussions of specific areas of controversy, including a veil of secrecy among bishops and Vatican statements denying canonical legal responsibility.

British author and Catholic social activist Paul Vallely contended that the UN report had been hurt by the Commission having gone well beyond the issue of child abuse by investigating other issues unrelated to sexual abuse, such as contraception. However, he also found that the report brought substantial pressure on the Vatican to redress major issues, such as the absence of appropriate institutional protocol for the reporting of sexual abuse cases to police.[297]

United States​

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The Associated Press estimated the settlements of US Church sex abuse cases from 1950 to 2007 totaled more than US$2 billion.[107] The figure was more than $3 billion in 2012 according to BishopAccountability.[64][103]

Civil lawsuits​

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Main article: Settlements and bankruptcies in Catholic sex abuse cases
In July 2003, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville paid $25.7 million to "settle child sexual-abuse allegations made in 240 lawsuits naming 34 priests and other church workers."[111]

According to The Boston Globe, the Archdiocese of Boston secretly settled child sexual abuse claims against at least 70 priests from 1992 to 2002.[298] In 2003, the Archdiocese of Boston also settled a large case for $85 million with 552 alleged victims.[299]

In April 2007, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon agreed to a $75 million settlement with 177 claimants and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle agreed to a $48 million settlement with more than 160 victims.[300]

In July 2008, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver agreed "to pay $5.5 million to settle 18 claims of childhood sexual abuse."[301]

Addressing "a flood of abuse claims" five dioceses (Tucson, Arizona; Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Davenport, Iowa, and San Diego) got bankruptcy protection.[107] Eight Catholic diocese have declared bankruptcy due to sex abuse cases from 2004 to 2011.[113]

 

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The cost to the Church of providing for victim restitution settlements increased rapidly. Taking into account sums awarded to victims by juries, out-of-court settlements and legal fees, estimates went from $0.5 billion by the late 1990s to more than $2.6 billion in 2009.[302] Roman Catholics spent $615 million on sex abuse cases in 2007.[303][304][305][306]

The great number of compensatory settlements levied on the Church made it necessary for dioceses to reduce their ordinary operating expenses, some even closing churches and parochial schools in order to raise the funds to make these payments.[9] Several dioceses chose to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a way to litigate settlements while protecting enough church assets needed for the maintaining of operations. In some cases, the dioceses filed bankruptcy just before civil suits against them were about to go to trial. This had the effect of producing the mandate that forced pending and future lawsuits against the Church to be settled in bankruptcy court. In 2007, the sexual abuse scandal cost each of the 195 dioceses "an average of $300,000 annually."[307]

Several dioceses adopted the preemptive practice of transferring the majority of their assets to their parishes and foundations before declaring bankruptcy, thereby decreasing the money available for settlement compensation. The Vatican's complicit involvement in this practice varied by case. In some cases, the Vatican had to approve the transfer of large amounts to foundations in order to shield them from seizure; in others it guided and supervised such transactions.[308]

Resignations, retirements, and laicizations​

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Some of the accused priests were forced to resign. Some priests whose crimes fell within statutes of limitation are in jail. Some have been laicized. Others – because they are elderly, because of the nature of their offenses, or because they have had some success fighting the charges – cannot be laicized under canon law. Some priests live in retreat houses that are carefully monitored and sometimes locked.[309]

Bernard Francis Law, Cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, resigned after Church documents were revealed which suggested he had covered up sexual abuse committed by priests in his archdiocese.[310] On 13 December 2002, Pope John Paul II accepted Law's resignation as Archbishop and reassigned him to an administrative position in the Roman Curia, naming him archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and he later presided at one of the Pope's funeral masses. Law's successor in Boston, Archbishop (later Cardinal) Seán P. O'Malley, sold some of the archdiocese's real estate properties and drew on existing financial courses to pay the $127.4 million in claims against the archdiocese. Though these were closed parish properties, their closing was unrelated to the case as they were closed previous to the case.[311]

Two bishops of Palm Beach, Florida, resigned due to child abuse allegations. Resigned bishop Joseph Keith Symons was replaced by Anthony O'Connell, who later also resigned in 2002.[312]