David Hammer: Lawyers for New Orleans clergy abuse survivors ramp up pressure to depose archbishop: Lawyers for hundreds of survivors argue Gregory Aymond should be questioned under oath about role in the clergy abuse crisis
#NewOrleans #Louisiana #Catholic #childsexualabuse #GregoryAymond
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-archbishop
"Contradicting promises he made when his archdiocese declared bankruptcy in May 2020, New Orleans’s archbishop, Gregory Aymond, told the area’s Catholic churches, schools and other ministries that they will now have to share some of the costs of resolving hundreds of clergy abuse claims."
~ Maya Yang and David Hammer
Priests and bishops engage in immoral and criminal behavior: you pay, too, Catholic people.
"Glaringly missing from those documents is any plan by which the archdiocese of New Orleans could reliably protect children from contact with clerics who had been suspended from public ministry following molestation allegations – but who for years stayed in close proximity to and were financially supported by the church."
Ramon Antonio Vargas writes,
"After the US’s second-oldest Roman Catholic archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection in 2020, attorneys for people claiming sexual abuse at the hands of the organization’s clergymen reviewed thousands of records outlining how the church managed the careers of priests and deacons faced with substantial allegations."
Not only did the archbishop of New Orleans, Greg Aymond, fail to list large numbers of priests credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors on his list of clerical abusers; not only did Aymond repeatedly ignore the decisions of his own advisory council re: many credibly accused priests and allow those priests to continue in active ministry: but he also did not monitor many priests accused of sexually abusing minors.
"More than 300 priests in the New Orleans archdiocese are accused sexual abusers. Less than a quarter are on the official list."
Gosh, I wonder if stories like this might explain why so many Catholics are walking away? It's not only abuse of vulnerable people by religious authority figures. It's brazen lies of those at the top like Archbishop Aymond. Betrayal of pastoral concern, protecting abusers and cold-shouldering victims ….
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #CoverUp #GregoryAymond
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"Though New Orleans’s 230-year-old archdiocese has spent a significant portion of its recent history managing the fallout from its association with the worldwide Catholic church’s clerical molestation scandal, the organization has generally sought to keep hidden the exact number of priests, deacons, nuns, religious brothers and lay staffers – such as parochial school teachers – under its supervision who have been named in abuse claims."
"More than 300 people employed by Roman Catholic institutions in the south-eastern US city of New Orleans have been accused of sexually abusing children or other vulnerable people whom they met through their work over the last several decades, secret documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
~ Ramon Antonio Vargas
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #CoverUp #GregoryAymond
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/new-orleans-archdiocese-clerical-sex-abuse-claims
Ramon Antonio Vargas: New Orleans archbishop ignored board findings on clerics accused of abuse
"A board which helps the Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, evaluate abuse allegations against priests and deacons in six cases found clergymen to be credibly accused only for Aymond to ignore the findings and conceal them from the public, a Guardian investigation has found."
#NewOrleans #Louisiana #catholicchurchabuse #coverup #gregoryaymond
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/new-orleans-archbishop-gregory-aymond-concealed-clerical-sex-abuse-claims
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