216,000 CHILDREN ABUSED BY FRENCH CATHOLIC PRIESTS !

When I heard this earlier on today, I said, ‘Pat Buckley will dine out on this.’

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The report on child sex abuse in the French Catholic Church details 6k victims 1950-2020, and estimated 200k victims nationwide using a huge sample poll.

But this accounts for 4% of abuse in France 1950-2020. Society should not think this is only a Church problem.

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You wait until people start to look at what is happening in 3rd world countries, particularly in Africa. It will swamp what we have seen already, bad enough though that is. Entitlement, corruption, dishonesty, secret lives, abuse of power – you name it.

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Cue the beating of breasts, apologies and promises of zero tolerance of abuse from the Vatican before doing fuck all l, as usual.

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Bombshell report says French Church, not churchgoers, must pay compensation to more than 200,00 victims but bishop says it can’t afford to.
The French Catholic Church was on Wednesday forced to defend calls for churchgoers to pay for compensation for tens of thousands of victims of sex abuse via donations, saying neither it nor the Vatican had the funds to do so without help from believers.
Debate over compensation came a day after a major investigation revealed that French clergy had abused more than 200,000 children over 70 years, with the number soaring to 330,000 when including abuse by lay workers.
One victims’ group put the scale of compensation at up to 10,000 euros per person, meaning the Church would have to stump up €2 billion euros.
Jean-Marc Sauvé, head of the commission that compiled the bombshell report, said that it was “up to the Church to take on this burden” as an institution and by taking money from the “estate of abusers” rather than from Catholic donations. Claims should be handled by an independent body, he added.
Jean-François Colosimo, a historian and theologian, told Le Parisien: “(The French Church) should be able to pay”.
However, Archbishop Eric Moulins-Beaufort, head of the Bishops’ Conference of France, said without donations it would have “difficulty” doing so.
Selling off property would be hard, he claimed, as “most assets are churches that thus don’t have much architectural value and are unsellable”.
“Our real estate doesn’t bring us in anything, it costs us money,” he said. All churches in France built before 1905 belong to the state. However, the Church owns around 3,000 built after that date, along with around 50,000 buildings for pastoral use.
As for the Vatican, the archbishop said: “It’s in chronic deficit. We are the ones who send money to the Vatican every year,.”
The Holy See’s income is from donations, real estate management and investments. In March, it said it was running a deficit of €50m due to the Covid pandemic and plummeting museum admissions.
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed sorrow for the abuse in France.
“I would like to express to the victims my sadness, sorrow for the trauma they have suffered and also my shame, our shame, for the church’s inability, for too long, to put them at the centre of its concerns,” he said at his weekly general audience.
Asked what the Pope thought about demands that French victims of clerical sex abuse receive compensation, the Vatican spokesman did not respond.
There was also no response to the question of how the abuse in France was allowed to continue for so long.
Several hours after the pope spoke, a Vatican court cleared two priests charged in connection with alleged sexual abuse in a youth seminary in the Vatican between 2006 and 2012. The trial is the first in the Vatican concerning sexual abuse that allegedly occurred on Vatican territory.
It remains to be seen what the French Church will do with the report and its 45 recommendations. It is due to come up with an action plan next month.
In the meantime, a close adviser to Pope Francis suggested that similar inquiries should be launched in other countries.
“The ecclesiastical authorities in other countries must now have the same courage as the Church in France. I’m hoping that Italy would do this,” said Hans Zollner, 54, a Jesuit priest and key counsellor on sex abuse issues to Pope Francis.
Responsibility for the scandal in France is “systemic and institutional. Criminals were treated in a negligent way and they were actively hidden.”
When asked if French bishops should resign over the scandal, he said: ”If a bishop has not done what the law of his State, and Canon Law, demands of him, then yes.”
President Emmanuel Macron reacted to the report on Wednesday by saying he “hailed the spirit of responsibility of the French Church, which has decided to look at this issue in the face as other Churches across Europe, in particular, have done”.
“This work must continue with lucidity and calm”, he said, adding that it should be seen in the wider context of “protecting children” from abuse in all parts of society.

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William Mulvihill.
All that is being asked is for you to name names and any issues would be addressed but if you do not name names then how can it be addressed if needed.
You have made allegations earlier that Bishop Kevin Doran has illegal Clergy in his dioceses of Elphin over the past seven years so let the records be corrected.
Your allegations against Sean brady that’s fine he maybe thick skinned.
Bishop Kevin Doran is front runner for Tuam however if he is operating a small dioceses as you say illegally then he cannot go to Tuam.
So be honest an name who you are referring too as it is unfair to other overseas Clergy.

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