William Lindsey Aug 9, 2023

"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

300 New Orleans priests were reported for sexual abuse – only 25% are on archdiocese’s credibly accused list

The number of accused – 310, spanning several decades – has been kept from public as archdiocese undergoes bankruptcy proceedings

The Guardian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 9, 2023

"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."

#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"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 ….

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Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceAug 9, 2023

@wdlindsy

#Christian dogma is and always has been about control" - King James

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 10, 2023
@mlbellar Did King James say that? I hadn't known.
Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceAug 10, 2023

@wdlindsy

"I have no idea what King James said, only what he did" - no one in particular

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 10, 2023
@mlbellar Surely one of the great ironies of history is that King James has been quasi-deified by right-wing Christians, because of the KJV, when there's quite a bit of evidence he was gay.
Show threadEddie the BulldogAug 9, 2023
@wdlindsy great question and point. I'd add that there are few - if any - churches in the US without a child abuse problem. Some are just better at ignoring it completely. Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, Mormons.
Put a person in charge of all thinking based on a "divine" right and watch the abuses pile up.
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 10, 2023
@Eddiethebulldog Yes — I'm certainly not one to focus exclusive attention to the Catholic version of this problem, when reports have blown the abuse situation within the Southern Baptist Convention and among Mormons wide open. Three religious groups that also all happen to exclude women from ordination and leadership and to have a long history of hostility to LGBTQ people….