And, the suit says, the Diocese actively thwarted efforts to stop the predator priest, instead giving him a new assignment, to St. Martha Church in East Providence.
A priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence trafficked children for sex, using the guise of international charitable work to prey on boys at orphanages in Haiti and rectories in Rhode Island, a lawsuit filed Thursday says.
The diocese and its defenders looked the other way and actively thwarted efforts to stop the predator priest, the suit says. In one instance, a parishioner who later became associated with the diocese’s legal counsel reported leaving a party at a rectory because he was made uncomfortable by the presence of boys, some dressed in diapers, according to the suit.
And even today, the diocese continues to blithely minimize the toll of child sexual abuse, the suit says, such as when a West Warwick parish priest said recently that “pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone.”
The allegations are laid out in a complaint filed Thursday in Superior Court, Providence, against the diocese, Bishop Thomas Tobin, retired Bishop Louis Gelineau, and St. Joseph Church in Providence.
Reached Thursday, Gelineau declined to comment, citing his advanced age — he turns 92 in May — and frail health. He would not be able to analyze the issues or recall facts enough to make a comment, he said.
The diocese did not respond immediately to a request for comment sent after 4 p.m. Thursday.
The plaintiff, Robert Houllahan, a 51-year-old Providence resident, says he was molested as a child by the Rev. Normand Demers — who received the “protection and affirmative assistance” of the diocese and its leaders, the suit said. Houllahan is represented by attorney Timothy J. Conlon, who has represented numerous other priest-abuse victims.
Houllahan himself does not say he was trafficked to the United States for sex, but said he saw children from Central America when he was brought upstairs to Demers’ private quarters in the rectory of St. Joseph in Providence. Houllahan was molested there by two men, Demers and an unidentified person, the suit says.
Demers, who died in 2018, was included last year in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence’s list of clergy who it deemed had been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors.
Demers was removed from ministry in 2002, more than a decade after the diocese became aware he’d been accused of misconduct with minors at an orphanage in Haiti. He continued to serve as a Rhode Island priest despite the allegation, until a letter accusing him of sexual abuse at Fatima Hospital surfaced in 2002, according to Journal archives.
The suit says Demers was involved with foreign missions that had been described as “orphanages” or “schools,” but that were in fact known to the diocese as a source of child sexual-abuse victims both within the country and outside the country.
He brought child victims into the country as “sponsored” students and housed them on property supplied by the diocese and its leaders, the suit says. He also shared a child victim with at least one other predator, the suit says.
Demers used parish property to house boys, keeping between three and six with him and “sending back” at least one of them who rebuffed his sexual advances, the suit says.
But when people tried to report Demers’ conduct to the diocese, all its leaders did was protect their own, the suit said.
In 1989, for instance, a woman went to Haiti to become the new director of an orphanage and school that Demers had helped establish. She soon became concerned, though, because a teenage boy was sleeping in Demers’ room. Once she started working with the boys, she learned he was a “threat” to them.
The boys reported that he used clothes brought from Rhode Island as an excuse to undress and then molest them, the suit says.
She went to the police there, and Demers was arrested and held.
But then-Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth Angell, at the direction of then-Bishop Gelineau, promised the director that if she cooperated in dropping the charges against Demers, he’d be brought back stateside to “face this,” the suit alleges.
Based on the promises that Demers would be investigated, prosecuted and punished on his return, she signed a document allowing him to be released.
Demers not only faced no immediate consequences when he came back to Rhode Island, he received a new assignment at St. Martha Church in East Providence in 1990. He denied the allegations when they surfaced in 2002.
Civil litigation has helped expose the extent of past sexual abuse, Houllahan’s suit says. But he also takes aim at the diocese and its leaders for more current statements, like the West Warwick priest, the Rev. Richard Bucci, who told WJAR that, unlike abortion, “pedophilia doesn’t kill anyone.” He later backtracked from those comments, but they’re cited in the lawsuit.
Pedophilia can, in fact, be deadly, the suit notes; multiple victims of clergy sexual abuse in Rhode Island and throughout the country have died by suicide.
“The long-term effects of abuse can have generational costs — first in terms of the costs of treatment and injury to the victims, but secondarily in the destruction to the lives of the victim’s parents and other childhood family members, and thereafter to the victim’s spouses and children,” the suit says.
Kevin Lonergan, center, seen here on June 8, 2014, as he celebrated his first mass at St. Patrick’s Church in Pottsville, Pa.Andy Matsko/The Republican-Herald via AP | For lehighvalleylive.com
A former Allentown priest was sentenced Monday to state prison for the indecent assault of a girl he met through his city parish.
Lehigh County Judge Maria Dantos noted it was a maximum sentence of one to two years in state prison for 31-year-old Kevin Lonergan, who has been free on bail in the case since he was charged.
Lonergan pleaded guilty in November to indecent assault of the girl, who was 17 at the time.
In addition to commending the bravery of the teen girl who came forward, Dantos took note of a prior accusation against Lonergan in another county.
In that incident, Lonergan was accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl, Chief Deputy District Attorney Matt Falk said. But the girl and her family did not cooperate with an investigation and the case stalled, Falk said during Monday’s hearing.
Lonergan was transferred to Allentown, a practice Dantos railed against as she hit her bench in the courtroom.
The Catholic church’s practice of transferring priests accused of misconduct came to light in the 1980s and continues more than three decades later, the judge said.
“There’s plenty of blame to go around, most of it on your shoulders,” the judge said to Lonergan.
The diocese in a prepared statement disputed Dantos’ characterization of what happened with the previous allegation.
“Regarding statements made in court, it is not accurate to say that the Diocese improperly transferred a priest who had committed an offense. Father Lonergan received a new assignment in 2016 only after Northampton County Children and Youth determined that the accusation was unfounded,” the statement said. “The Diocese took immediate action upon receiving the information on this previous allegation. Father Lonergan was forbidden from ministry, and the Diocese reported the allegation to law enforcement under its zero tolerance policy.”
The victim and her parents described a life of service to the Catholic church, and how the community built around their faith made the church a constant in their lives.
The victim described the rage she felt and the sleepless nights after the incidents with Lonergan, and the repercussions she and her family have dealt with since she reported the crime to authorities.
In one instance, a relative of Lonergan’s contacted the victim through social media, and offered her money to drop the case.
“I can feel your strength. Sometimes that’s not always an easy burden to bear, to be strong,” the judge said.
The victim’s mother and father described their devout faith, of raising their daughter in a church and community they trusted, and how church became a place of good memories and comfort.
“Church is no longer a safe place,” the victim’s mother said, adding that Mass is torturous for her and she cannot walk into a church without crying. “Kevin Lonergan’s actions have taken away my sense of security, my belief system.”
Since the charges were filed, the family has been isolated, and did not hear from their fellow parishioners or any priests.
“The church that we so believed in abandoned us,” the mother said.
Lonergan was assigned to St. Francis of Assisi Church on 11th Street in Allentown, when he met the accuser in August 2017.
He got her cellphone number from another member of the church and communicated with her, mostly via Snapchat, through January 2018, the district attorney previously said. The messages included nude photos of Lonergan and one video, Dantos said.
In February 2018, Lonergan hugged the victim at church — she attempted to pull away, but he pulled her closer and grabbed her rear over her clothes, prosecutors said.
After the victim told another priest of the assault in June 2018, the diocese reported it to the DA’s office and Lonergan was immediately suspended from public ministry.
A family friend of Lonergan’s spoke of Lonergan “humbling” himself to work at his Pottsville auto dealership. When the man said the accusations against Lonergan didn’t seem to fit, the judge stopped him.
Dantos said Lonergan pleaded guilty, and that the presumption of innocence was gone. She then told the man to take a seat, and none of the other supporters in the audience spoke.
Lonergan, in his statement to the court, did say he was guilty, of the crime, of stealing the victim’s dignity, and of the pain suffered by his family.
Lonergan asked for forgiveness, and said he would “never forgive myself for what I have done.”
Lonergan was a priest for five years, and was previously assigned to St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Palmer Township from June 2014 to May 2016. Monsignor Stephen Radocha previously said there were no credible allegations made against Lonergan while he was assigned to St. Jane’s.
A concern was raised about him in 2016 by a third party, but Northampton County Children and Youth investigated and determined that concern to be unfounded, the monsignor said.
“The Diocese offers its heartfelt prayers to the victim, to her family, and to everyone who was hurt as the result of Father Lonergan’s actions,” the Diocese of Allentown said in a released statement. “From the beginning of this case, the Diocese followed its protocols to the letter, and will continue to do so. Bishop Alfred Schlert removed Father Lonergan from ministry and immediately notified law enforcement on the day the allegations were made.”
Lonergan will not return to ministry. Now that the criminal case is finished, the diocese will submit the case to the Vatican.
After the hearing, and asked about a possible appeal, defense attorney Eric Prock said he still needs to discuss possible next steps with his client, but that all options are on the table.
The FBI is pursuing a “wide-ranging” investigation of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and its role in covering up clergy sexual abuse over decades, according to news reports and three sources who have spoken to federal agents.
The Buffalo News first reported Friday that agents have spoken with multiple victims of clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, even though many of the alleged sex crimes happened decades ago. The victims said agents are interested in proving historical and ongoing cover-ups perpetuated by Buffalo Diocese leaders, according to The News.
“They’re really looking for proof of a cover-up,” Nicole Delisio Wright, an advocate for victims of clergy abuse, told The News. “Any type of proof that there’s a widespread cover-up.”
Wright previously confirmed to 7 Eyewitness News that she was interviewed by federal agents. Two other sources also confirmed that they were interviewed by agents from the bureau, who asked about specific cases of sexual abuse and the way the diocese handled them.
Stephanie McIntyre, a victim of alleged sexual abuse by Fr. Fabian Maryanski, recently spoke with federal agents from her home in another state, she also confirmed Friday. McIntyre has been offered a $400,000 settlement from the diocese for the alleged abuse.
“With the encouragement of others who are helping to fight for justice, along with lots of prayer, I realized that I had both a moral and civil obligation to do this,” McIntyre told 7 Eyewitness News of her interview with the FBI. “I believe I was able to offer them information that will be very instrumental. I continue to pray that my suffering, my story, will help others to be able to obtain the transformational justice that they need and deserve in order to pick up the pieces of their lives and move forward.”
FBI spokeswoman Maureen P. Dempsey said, “The FBI cannot confirm or deny any matter that may fall under its investigative purview unless and until it is made public through a court filing or press announcement.”
Buffalo Diocese spokeswoman Kathy Spangler did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
7 Eyewitness News featured McIntyre’s story in September in Part 3 of its investigation into Bishop Malone. Maryanski first met McIntyre in 1984 when he was the pastor at St. Patrick’s Church in Barker. The Buffalo News reported her story in May, when Maryanski was still in active ministry at Nativity church in Clarence despite the allegations.
McIntyre, in a letter she sent to Bishop Malone in April, said the priest abused her for seven years, beginning when she was 15 years old. Maryanski maintains she was in her 20s at the time.
“My abuser not only robbed me of my youthful innocence,” she wrote, “but he destroyed my family.”
McIntyre hired a lawyer and reported the abuse to the diocese in 1995 but said she “was not offered one iota of help to deal with the fallout from Fr. Maryanski’s actions.”
Church documents show the diocese considered placing Maryanski on the list of 42 accused priests in March but officials concluded, “We did not remove him from ministry despite full knowledge of the case, and so including him on list might require explanation.”
The diocese withheld Maryanski’s name from the list and has still not included him on a list of credibly accused priests.
KEY LINKS IN THE BUFFALO DIOCESE SEX ABUSE SCANDAL:
Part 1 of the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team investigation revealed that Malone returned Fr. Art Smith to ministry despite allegations of inappropriate contact with a child. Malone returned the accused priests to ministry after a previous bishop suspended him, documents obtained by the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team show.
Part 2 revealed that Malone allowed Fr. Robert Yetter to remain pastor of St. Mary’s in Swormville despite multiple sexual harassment allegations by young men.
Part 3 cited church records that showed more than 100 priests in the diocese were accused of sexual abuse or misconduct. Malone in March released a list of only 42 priests “who were removed from ministry, were retired, or left ministry after allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.”
In September, the State Attorney General launched a statewide investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and last week, it was revealed the FBI has launched its own criminal investigation into the diocese.
In November, I-Team Chief Investigator Charlie Specht traveled to Portland, Maine. Malone served as bishop there before coming to Buffalo. There, Charlie spoke with advocates for victims of sexual abuse about how Malone had been accused of mishandling sex abuse cases. The I-Team also obtained new documents surrounding the cases which paint a much different picture of the bishop’s past.
ChristoFascist Roman Catholic punk bitch bully Anthony DeStefano thinks he is a tough guy.. Well this supposed Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta better have his fucking will written out, his life insurance paid off and kissed his inbred loved ones good-fucking-bye cause it is far past time for this ChristoTaliban to reap all he has sown and have done unto him as he wants to do unto us atheists. Let’s see if his bitch ass is really tough. Maybe he would like to take me on in a ring? I would kick his ass and rip his head off and shit down his neck before he could even throw one fucking punch.
First? Here is the opinion piece from this Roman Catholic Pedophile Defending scumbag he had on Fox News about us atheists, with my comments added in bold along with some meme sets for this lying assed Roman Catholic piece of shit. Then I make about four points for this scumbag to suck on and learn from.
Today’s atheists are bullies — and they are doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence
No bitch, we atheists have fucking had it with you twisted trodlogyte theists ChristTalibanss and MuzzieTalibans murdering and persecuting us Atheists and many others in your religions of hate, bigotry, misogyny, and death. And we will not lay down for you troglodyte neanderthals who wants to bring us back to your fucking disgusting Dark Ages.
There’s no polite way to say it. Atheists today are the most arrogant, ignorant and dangerous people on earth.
We’ve
all seen how these pompous prigs get offended by the slightest bit of
religious imagery in public and mortified if even a whisper of “Merry
Christmas” escapes the lips of some well-meaning but naïve department
store clerk during the “holiday season.”
First off you disgusting ChristoTaliban Fascist pig, let’s see in pretty memes what the Founding Fathers said about the separation of church and state and how religious shitstains like you should go crawl back into your fucking cave.
Now let’s see what other Presidents and leaders have had to say about the Separation of Church and State.
Too bad ChristoFascist Talibans like you Anthony DeStefano fail to recognize the Founding Fathers and their teachings and laws on separation of church and state huh? But then again? If you celebrate Christmas? All you are is a closeted Pagan practicing Pagan rituals you ChristoFascist Taliban stole from them when you went out on your Catholic Church 11 Crusades into Northern Paganlands and slaughtered and butchered hundreds of thousands of pagans huh?
Then you little hypocrite psychotic ChristoTaliban bitches cry if Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts does not put Merry Fucking Christmas on their holiday cups and have a fucking meltdown over it. Well asshole, here is a new Starbucks holiday cup coming out with a bible verse on it. Enjoy you ChristoFascist.
Starbucks new Christmas cup they are coming out with for this year.
To cite a few recent
examples: Last December, the group American Atheists launched its annual
billboard campaign with the slogan: “Just Skip Church — It’s All Fake
News.” In February, the American Humanist Association became furious
when President Trump had the gall to mention Christianity and Jesus
Christ without also mentioning atheists—at the National Prayer
Breakfast! (How dare he!) And just this month, the Freedom From Religion
Foundation raised holy hell because the Reverend Billy Graham was laid
out in state in the Capitol Rotunda before his burial.
Yes, these atheists are loud, nasty, unapologetic and in-your-face.
But
while their arrogance is annoying, it’s nothing compared to their
ignorance. Atheists believe that the vast majority of human beings from
all periods of time and all places on the Earth have been wrong about
the thing most important to them. They basically dismiss this vast
majority as being either moronic or profoundly naïve. What they don’t
seem to know – or won’t admit – is that the greatest contributions to
civilization have been made, not by atheists, but by believers.
Too many Christian authors have tried to be kind and amiable in an effort to demonstrate that believers don’t have to sink into the mud in order to defend the faith. That tact is very charitable, but unfortunately, it just doesn’t work with bullies.
Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Isaac Newton all
believed in God. Nobel-prize winner Wilhelm Rontgen, the discoverer of
X-rays; Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry; William Keen,
the pioneer of brain surgery; rocket scientist Wernher von Braun; and
Ernest Walton, the first person to artificially split the atom—all
believed in God.
Let’s look at a whole lot of scientists and philosphers you ChristoTaliban, especially you Roman Catholic degenerates persecuted and murdered shall we?
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia was a pagan philosopher in late 4th century Alexandria. She appears to have been a lecturer in Platonic thought, a practicing scientist, and the author of several mathematical treatises. She was killed by a Christian mob in the year 415.
In an age when a male-dominated Christian clergy was working to suppress independent thought, Hypatia served as a walking repudiation of clerical power. As an important scientist, a pagan – and most annoyingly, a female – Hypatia’s very existence was a threat to the social order imposed by the ignorant Christian clergy of the day. While speaking publicly in favor of religious toleration, she was seized by an angry Christian mob and murdered, with the enthusiastic support of the local Christian bishop, who found it intolerable that Christians should be lectured by a scientist and a woman.
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (1220-1292) was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who is was a talented natural scientist and is considered one of the pioneers of the “scientific method” and was noted for his use of empirical observation. His greatest work was the Opus Major, which contains treatments of mathematics, optics, alchemy, and astronomy, including theories on the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies. Bacon appears to have been imprisoned by the ecclesiastical authorities sometime around 1279 and may have died in captivity.
Bacon was one of the great freethinkers of the Middle Ages. Criticizing everything from Scholasticism to the Julian Calendar to the acceptance of Catholic doctrine on the authority of the Church and Tradition, Bacon aroused the ire of the ecclesiastical regime. He was imprisoned in 1279 for being too original a thinker and spent the rest of his life forcibly confined in a Franciscan monastery under the orders of Franciscan Minister-General Jerome of Ascoli, where he eventually died in captivity, a medieval martyr to free thought.
Pietro d’ Abano
Pietro d’ Abano (1257-1316) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine. He was a noted author whose most famous work was Conciliator Differentiarum, quæ inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur, an exploration on the relationship between contemporary medical theories and Aristotelian natural philosophy. He was arrested by the Inquisition and died in prison around 1316. He was condemned posthumously and his bones burned.
Abano was such an educated man that Church authorities assumed he must be in league with the devil. He was accused of witchcraft and of obtaining his knowledge by the dark arts, which was a common accusation made against learned people. Abano is lucky he died in prison or else he certainly would have been burned alive.
Cecco d’ Ascoli
Cecco d’ Ascoli (1257-1327) was an Italian encyclopaedist, physician, and scholar specializing in mathematics and astronomy. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna and was such a noted astronomer that there is a crater on the moon named after him. He is famous for his feud with the poet Dante. He was eventually tried for heresy and burned at the stake in Florence, the first university professor to be condemned to death by the Inquisition.
Like Bacon, Ascoli was known as a freethinker who eschewed Church doctrine in favor of scientific facts. He was charged with “impiety” for his dedication to empirical science and burned at the stake in 1327 as an example that university professors should not be too assertive in promoting scientific theory.
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus (1509-1553), usually known simply as Servetus, Servetus was a Spanish physician credited with discovering pulmonary circulation. He wrote a book, which outlined his discovery along with his ideas about reforming Christianity – it was deemed to be heretical. He escaped from Spain and the Catholic Inquisition but came up against the Protestant Inquisition in Switzerland, who held him in equal disregard. Under orders from John Calvin, Servetus was arrested, tortured and burned at the stake on the shores of Lake Geneva – copies of his book were accompanied for good measure.
The intransigent Catholic authorities in Vienne (and the Calvinists of Geneva) could not tolerate the challenge posed to their respective creeds by the scientifically minded Servetus. Rather than deal with his skeptical arguments rationally, it was easier to off the poor bastard by burning him at the stake, thus making Michael Servetus a true martyr to science.
Giordano Bruno
Bruno is among the most famous scientists ever to run afoul of the Inquisition. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a Dominican friar, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He is most remembered for his cosmological theories. After seven years of trials in Rome, he was condemned and burned at the stake in 1600.
Like Galileo, Bruno’s great crime was proposing that the earth was not stationary at the center of the universe. He proposed that stars might were like other suns, each of which might have their own exoplanets capable of supporting life. This ran counter to Church doctrine, so the Inquisition had him executed for having the audacity to challenge Catholic dogma. He was burned at the stake, a martyr to science.
Galileo Galilei
The Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei was trialled and convicted in 1633 for publishing his evidence that supported the Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun. His research was instantly criticized by the Catholic Church for going against the established scripture that places Earth and not the Sun at the center of the universe. Galileo was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” for his heliocentric views and was required to “abjure, curse and detest” his opinions. He was sentenced to house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life and his offending texts were banned.
Tommaso Campanella
The Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was an Italian astrologer, philosopher, and poet. Early in his clerical career he became disenchanted with Aristotelian thought and became a proponent of the new empiricism. He was briefly imprisoned by the Inquisition for engaging in wild astrological speculation. He was released but was apprehended in Calabria, tortured, and spent twenty-six years in prison. He was later released to be part of the court of Pope Urban VIII and had some remote involvement in the Galileo affair. Despite his age, he again got in trouble and had to go into exile to the court of Louis XIII of France, where he died in 1639.
Campanella was an empiricist who questioned the authority of Aristotle. His skepticism of Aristotle was anathema to the Inquisition, who had Campanella arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for his commitment to empirical science. The bloodthirsty Inquisition would have put Campanella to death had he not feigned madness in his cell.
Alan Turning
The father of modern computer science, who pioneered the idea of computer memory. He saved millions of lives during WWII with his work on the Bombe, a code breaking maching that broke the Nazi’s Enigma code. His greatest achievement was cracking the Enigma, a mechanical device used by the German army to encode secure messages. It proved nearly impossible to decrypt without the correct cipher, which the German forces changed every day. Turing worked to decipher German naval communications at a point when German U-Boats were sinking ships carrying vital supplies across the Atlantic between Allied nations. In 1941, Turing and his team managed to decode the German Enigma messages, helping to steer Allied ships away from the German submarine attacks. In 1942, he traveled to the U.S. to help the Americans with their own codebreaking work.
Due to his being gay? He was persecuted by Christians and eventually went insane from the forced treatment he had to endure and committed suicide. In 1952, Turing was arrested after reporting a burglary in his home. In the course of the investigation, the police discovered Turing’s relationship with another man, Arnold Murray. Homosexual relationships were illegal in the UK at the time, because of Christian theology, and he was charged with “gross indecency.” He pled guilty on the advice of his lawyer, and opted to undergo chemical castration instead of serving time in jail. In 2009, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a public apology to Turing on behalf of the British government. “Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly,” Brown said. “This recognition of Alan’s status as one of Britain’s most famous victims of homophobia is another step towards equality and long overdue.” Acknowledging Britain’s debt to Turing for his vital contributions to the war effort, he announced, “on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan’s work I am very proud to say: we’re sorry, you deserved so much better.” His conviction was not actually pardoned, though, until 2013, when he received a rare royal pardon from the Queen of England.
And speaking of pioneers of science, who do you
think coined the term “scientist” in the first place? William Whewell,
an Anglican priest and theologian! He also came up with words
“physicist,” “cathode”, “anode” and many other commonly used scientific
terms. Essentially, the very language used by scientists today comes
from the brain of a believer.
Even the Big Bang Theory itself –
which atheists mistakenly think bolsters their arguments against God –
was proposed by Fr. George Lemaitre, a Belgian astronomer and Roman
Catholic priest! And the father of genetics—which provides the basis
for the whole theory of evolution—was Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian
monk!
Yes, the new atheists have an ignorance of history bordering on madness.
But are they really dangerous, too?
You bet they are. The truth
is, the atheist position is incapable of supporting any coherent system
of morality other than ruthless social Darwinism. That’s why it has
caused more deaths, murders and bloodshed than any other belief system
in the history of the world.
Atheists, of course, are always
claiming hysterically that Christianity has been responsible for most of
the world’s wars, but that’s just another example of atheistic
ignorance. The main reasons for war have always been economic gain,
territorial gain, civil and revolutionary conflicts. According to
Philip Axelrod’s monumental “Encyclopedia of Wars,” only 6.98
percent or all wars from 8000 BC to present were religious in nature. If
you subtract Islamic wars from the equation, only 3.2 percent of wars
were due to specifically Christian causes. That means that over 96
percent of all the wars on this planet were due to worldly reasons.
Indeed,
in the last 100 years alone, upwards of 360 million people were killed
by governments—and close to half of those people were killed by atheist
governments!
In the last 1,800 years Christians have slaughtered and butchered and murdered 3 BILLION humans in their Wars, Crusades, Inquisitions, and mass persecutions of Pagans, Jews, Atheists, LGBTS, Native Americans and many others.
Yes, there is a profound and frightening connection
between atheism and death. Atheist leaders like Stalin, Mao Zedong,
Hideki To ̄jo ̄, Pol Pot and many others bear the blame for the
overwhelming majority of deaths caused by war and mass murder in
history. And while many atheists make the preposterous claim that Adolf
Hitler was a Christian, his private diaries, first published in 1953 by
Farrar, Straus and Young, reveal clearly that the Fuhrer was a rabid
atheist: “The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity,” Hitler stated,
“was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s
illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew… Our epoch will
certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.”
The
facts are incontrovertible. Between the years 1900 and 2017,
approximately 150 million people were killed by atheistic political
regimes. 150 million!
And it makes perfect sense, doesn’t
it? Atheists don’t believe in God, so they don’t believe in any
transcendent, objective moral law. Nor do they believe that human beings
are made in the image of God, and so they don’t believe humans possess
infinite value and dignity. When you put these two beliefs together, you
have a deadly recipe that makes killing “problematic” human beings
quite easy and defensible.
And yet? Hundreds of thousands of Christian priests and pastors are in prison for raping children, murdering others, stealing, dealing drugs and all kinds of other crimes.
One has only to look at the growing
numbers of abortions, suicides, homicides, and cases of state-sponsored
euthanasia, and infanticide, to see the atheist-death connection. As a
thoroughly secular and functionally atheistic culture, we are fast
becoming accustomed to “killing” our problems rather than dealing with
them in a compassionate, loving, and sacrificial way.
And here? Are just some of the suicides of the perverted, pedo priests, who killed themselves because of their brutal rapes and then? You degenerate Roman Catholic lovers of Pedophile Pimps and Pedophiles attacked and trashed them, while you defended your cult of Pedophile Pimps and Pedophiles.
Voices From the Grave: Suicide Victims of the Roman Catholic Church
But it was ok for Christians to brutally murder billions, especially pregnant women and their fetuses huh? Oh and I show something about suicides and infantcides in section two exposing your Cult of Roman Catholic Pedophile Pimps, Pedophiles, Child Abusers, Child Enslavers and Child Murderers.
So yes, the
modern breed of atheist is arrogant, ignorant and dangerous. Too many
books written in response to these pseudo-intellectual hatemongers have
been altogether too nice. Too many Christian authors have tried to be
kind and amiable in an effort to demonstrate that believers don’t have
to sink into the mud in order to defend the faith. That tact is very
charitable, but unfortunately, it just doesn’t work with bullies.
And
that’s exactly what modern-day atheists are—bullies; bullies who are
doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence.
This atheist was well known for kicking ChristoTaliban bullies asses as he was growing up. When they picked on my lgbt friends? I kicked their fascist asses. When they picked on my Pagan friends? I kicked their fucking asses. When they picked on my atheist friends? I kicked their asses. There is only one way to deal with ChristoTaliban punks like you bitch. And there are millions more atheists who are just like me, who are sick and tired of you twisted, hateful, hypocrite, scumbag ChristoFascist pig fuckers. So punk, you want to bring it on? I know a ring we can meet at and trust me. I would stomp your useless ChristoFascist pig fucking ass into dust if you dropped your micronuts and decided to meet me in a ring. Or many of my other atheist friends, especially my tough assed trained female atheist friends. They would stomp your nuts off you bitch assed CockSucker for Christ.
Well, we can’t allow that to happen. As I say in my book, “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There is No God,”
there is only one way to deal with bullies, even in this politically
correct world—and that is to stand up to them and fight them; to fight
them in a bold, aggressive, and fearless way, and to fight them now.
MY RESPONSE TO THIS CHRISTOTALIBAN PSYCHO ANTHONY DESTEFANO
Point One: Christianity is responsible for about 3 BILLION deaths in it’s 1,800 year history, including the worst cases of mass genocide in human history against us Native Americans, and against Pagans, Jews and many others. Oh and Hitler and his Nazis were Christians you dumb ass ChristoFascist.
As usual, you ChristoFascist, you spew outrageous lies and subterfuge as any mental midget moron ChristoTaliban that you are. But then again? We expect this from asshole ChristoFascist scum like you Anthony. But you couldn’t tell the truth if Jesus himself was fucking you up the ass with a big, black dick you love oh so much.
Let’s look at just some of the Crimes Against Humanity that Christians have committed and see exactly who the real bullies are
This is the first of many mass genocides that Christians committed in the name of God, Jesus, Christianity and their bibles and justified it.
EXAMPLE ONE: Christian Atrocities: Three Centuries Of Pagan Persecution by ChristoTaliban Shitstains
429 The temple of goddess Athena (Parthenon) on the Acropolis of Athens is sacked. The Athenian Pagans are persecuted.
435
On 14th November, a new edict by Theodosius II orders the death penalty
for all “heretics” and Pagans of the empire. Only Judaism is considered
a legal non-Christian religion.
438 Theodosius
II issues an new edict (31st January) against the Pagans, incriminating
their “idolatry” as the reason of a recent plague!
440 to 450 The Christians demolish all the monuments, altars and temples of Athens, Olympia, and other Greek cities.
448
Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books to be burned. All copies
of Julian’s work which could be found were destroyed, and they would
have been lost entirely if bishop Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD), had
not cited extracts from the first three of seven of Julian’s books in
his refutation of him, while admitting that he would not cite some of
his srguments!
450 All the temples of Aphrodisias
(the City of the Goddess Aphrodite) are demolished and all its
libraries burned down. The city is renamed Stavroupolis (City of the
Cross).
451 New edict by Theodosius II (4th November) emphasises that “idolatry” is punished by death.
457 to 491
Sporadic persecutions against the Pagans of the Eastern Empire. Among
others, the physician Jacobus and the philosopher Gessius are executed.
Severianus, Herestios, Zosimus, Isidorus and others are tortured and
imprisoned. The proselytiser Conon and his followers exterminate the
last non-Christians of Imbros Island, Norheast Aegean Sea. The last
worshippers of Lavranius Zeus are exterminated in Cyprus.
482 to 488 The majority of the Pagans of Minor Asia are exterminated after a desperate revolt against the emperor and the Church.
486 More “underground” Pagan priests are discovered, arrested, burlesqued, tortured and executed in Alexandria, Egypt.
515
Baptism becomes obligatory even for those that already say they are
Christians. The emperor of Constantinople, Anastasius, orders the
massacre of the Pagans in the Arabian city Zoara and the demolition of
the temple of local god Theandrites.
528 Emperor
Jutprada (Justinianus) outlaws the “alternative” Olympian Games of
Antioch. He also orders the execution—by fire, crucifixion, tearing to
pieces by wild beasts or cutting to pieces by iron nails—of all who
practice “sorcery, divination, magic or idolatry” and prohibits all
teachings by the Pagans (“the ones suffering from the blasphemous
insanity of the Hellenes”).
529 Justinianus outlaws the Athenian Philosophical Academy and has its property confiscated.
532 The inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus, a fanatic monk, leads a crusade against the Pagans of Minor Asia.
542
Justinianus allows the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus to convert the Pagans
of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia, Minor Asia. Within 35 years of this
crusade, 99 churches and 12 monasteries are built on the sites of
demolished Pagan temples.
546 Hundreds of Pagans are put to death in Constantinople by the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus.
556
Justinianus orders the notorious inquisitor Amantius to go to Antioch,
to find, arrest, torture and exterminate the last non-Christians of the
city and burn all the private libraries down.
562
Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of
gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople.
578 to 582
The Christians torture and crucify gentile Hellenes all around the
Eastern Empire, and exterminate the last non-Christians of Heliopolis
(Baalbek).
580 The Christian inquisitors attack a
secret temple of Zeus in Antioch. The priest commits suicide, but the
rest of the Pagans are arrested. All the prisoners, the Vice Governor
Anatolius included, are tortured and sent to Constantinople to face
trial. Sentenced to death they are thrown to the lions. The wild animals
being unwilling to tear them to pieces, they end up crucified. Their
dead bodies are dragged in the streets by the Christian mob and
afterwards thrown unburied in the dump.
583 New persecutions against the gentile Hellenes by the Mauricius.
590 In all the Eastern Empire the Christian accusers “discover” Pagan conspiracies. New storm of torture and executions.
692
The “Penthekto” Council of Constantinople prohibits the remains of
Calends, Brumalia, Anthesteria, and other Pagan/Dionysian celebrations.
804
The gentile Hellenes of Mesa Mani (Cape Tainaron, Lakonia, Greece)
resist successfully the attempt of Tarasius, Patriarch of
Constantinople, to convert them to Christianity.
950 to 988 Violent conversion of the last gentile Hellenes of Laconia by the Armenian “Saint” Nikon.
314 Immediately after its full legalisation, the
Christian Church attacks the gentiles (non-Christians). The Council of
Ancyra denounces the worship of Goddess Artemis.
324
The emperor Constantine declares Christianity as the only official
religion of the Roman empire. In Dydima, Minor Asia, he sacks the Oracle
of the god Apollo and tortures the Pagan priests to death. He also
evicts all non-Christian peoples from Mount Athos and destroys all the
local Hellenic temples.
326 Constantine,
following the instructions of his mother Helen, destroys the temple of
the god Asclepius in Aigeai Cilicia and many temples of the goddess
Aphrodite in Jerusalem, Aphaca, Mambre, Phoenicia, Baalbek, etc.
330
Constantine steals the treasures and statues of the Pagan temples of
Greece to decorate Nova Roma (Constantinople), the new capital of his
Empire.
335 Constantine sacks many Pagan temples
of Minor Asia and Palestine and orders the execution by crucifixion of
“all magicians and soothsayers”. Martyrdom of the neoplatonist
philosopher Sopatrus.
341 Flavius Julius
Constantius persecutes “all the soothsayers and the Hellenists”. Many
gentile Hellenes are either imprisoned or executed.
346
New large scale persecutions against non-Christian peoples in
Constantinople. Banishment of the famous orator Libanius accused as a
“magician”.
353 An edict of Constantius orders the death penalty for all kind of worship through sacrifices and “idols”.
354
A new edict of Constantius orders the closing of all Pagan Temples.
Some of them are profaned and turned into brothels or gambling rooms.
Executions of Pagan priests. First burning of libraries in various
cities of the Empire. The first lime factories are built next to closed
Pagan Temples. A large part of Sacred Gentile architecture is turned
into lime.
356 A new edict of Constantius orders the destruction of the Pagan Temples and the execution of all “idolaters”.
357 Constantius outlaws all methods of Divination (Astrology not excluded).
359
In Skythopolis, Syria, the Christians organise the first death camps
for the torture and executions of the arrested non-Christians from all
around the empire.
361 to 363 Religious tolerance
and restoration of the Pagan cults declared in Constantinople (11th
December 361) by the Pagan emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus.
363 Assassination of Emperor Julianus (26th June).
364
Emperor Flavius Jovianus orders the burning of the Library of Antioch.
An Imperial edict (11th September) orders the death penalty for all
Gentiles that worship their ancestral Gods or practice Divination
(“sileat omnibus perpetuo divinandi uriositas”). Three different edicts
(4th February, 9th September, 23rd December) order the confiscation of
all properties of Pagan Temples and the death penalty for participation
in Pagan rituals, even private ones.
365 An Imperial edict (17th November) forbids the gentile (Pagan) officers of the army to command Christian soldiers.
370
Valens orders a tremendous persecution of non-Christian peoples in all
the Eastern Empire. In Antioch, among many other non-Christians, the
ex-governor Fidustius and the priests Hilarius and Patricius are
executed. Tons of books are burnt in the squares of the cities of the
Eastern Empire. All the friends of Julianus are persecuted (Orebasius,
Sallustius, Pegasius etc.), the philosopher Simonides is burned alive
and the philosopher Maximus is decapitated.
372 Valens orders the governor of Minor Asia to exterminate all the Hellenes and all documents of their wisdom.
373
New prohibition of all divination methods. The term “Pagan” (pagani,
villagers, equivalent to the modern insult, “peasants”) is introduced by
the Christians to demean non-believers.
375 The temple of god Asclepius in Epidaurus, Greece, is closed down by the Christians.
380
On 27th February, Christianity becomes the exclusive religion of the
Roman Empire by an edict of Emperor Flavius Theodosius, requiring that
“all the various nations, which are subject to our clemency and
moderation should continue in the profession of that religion, which was
delivered to the Romans by the divine Apostle Peter”. Non-christians
are called “loathsome, heretics, stupid and blind”. In another edict
Theodosius calls “insane” those that do not believe in the christian god
and outlaws all disagreements with the Church dogmas. Ambrosius, bishop
of Milan, starts destroying all the Pagan Temples of his area.
Christian priests lead the mob against the Temple of Goddess Demeter in
Eleusis and try to lynch the hierophants Nestorius and Priskus. The 95
year-old hierophant Nestorius, ends the Eleusinian Mysteries and
announces the predominance of mental darkness over the human race.
381
On 2nd May, Theodosius deprives of all their rights the Christians that
return back to the Pagan religion. In all the Eastern Empire the Pagan
temples and Libraries are looted or burned down. On 21st December,
Theodosius outlaws even simple visits to the temples of the Hellenes. In
Constantinople, the temple of goddess Aphrodite is turned to a brothel
and the temples of Sun and Artemis to stables.
382 “Hellelujah” (“Glory to Yahweh”) is imposed in the Christian mass.
384
Theodosius orders the Praetorian Prefect Maternus Cynegius, a dedicated
Christian, to cooperate with the local bishops and destroy the temples
of the Pagans in Northern Greece and Minor Asia.
385 to 388
Maternus Cynegius, encouraged by his fanatic wife, and bishop “Saint”
Marcellus with his gangs scour the countryside and sack and destroy
hundreds of Hellenic temples, shrines and altars. Among others they
destroy the temple of Edessa, the Cabeireion of Imbros, the temple of
Zeus in Apamea, the temple of Apollo in Dydima and all the temples of
Palmyra. Thousands of innocent Pagans from all sides of the empire
suffer martyrdom in the notorious death camps of Skythopolis.
386 Theodosius outlaws (16th June) the care of the sacked Pagan temples.
388
Public talks on religious subjects are also outlawed by Theodosius. The
old orator Libanius sends his famous Epistle “Pro Templis” to
Theodosius, with a hope that the few remaining Hellenic Temples will be
respected and spared.
389 to 390 All
non-Christian date-methods are outlawed. Hordes of fanatic hermits from
the desert flood the cities of the Middle East and Egypt and destroy
statues, altars, libraries and Pagan temples, and lynch the Pagans.
Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, starts heavy persecutions against
non-Christian peoples, turns the temple of Dionysos into a Christian
church, burns down the Mithraeum of the city, destroys the temple of
Zeus and burlesques the Pagan priests before they are killed by stoning.
The Christian mob profanes the cult images.
391 On 24th February, a new edict of Theodosius
prohibits not only visits to pagan temples but also looking at the
vandalised statues. New heavy persecutions occur all around the empire.
In Alexandria, Egypt, pagans, led by the philosopher Olympius, revolt
and after some street fights they lock themselves inside the fortified
temple of the god Serapis (the Serapeion). After a violent siege, the
Christians take over the building, demolish it, burn its famous library
and profane the cult images.
392 On 8th November,
Theodosius outlaws all the non-Christian rituals and names them
“superstitions of the gentiles” (gentilicia superstitio). New full scale
persecutions against Pagans. The Mysteries of Samothrace are ended and
the priests slaughtered. In Cyprus the local bishop “Saint” Epiphanius
and “Saint” Tychon destroy almost all the temples of the island and
exterminate thousands of non-Christians. The local Mysteries of goddess
Aphrodite are ended. Theodosius’s edict declares: “the ones that won’t
obey pater Epiphanius have no right to keep living in that island”. The
Pagans revolt against the emperor and the Church in Petra, Aeropolis,
Rafia, Gaza, Baalbek and other cities of the Middle East.
393
The Pythian Games, the Aktia Games and the Olympic Games are outlawed
as part of the Hellenic “idolatry”. The Christians sack the temples of
Olympia.
395 Two new edicts (22nd July and 7th
August) cause new persecutions against Pagans. Rufinus, the eunuch Prime
Minister of emperor Flavius Arcadius directs the hordes of the baptised
Goths (led by Alaric) to the country of the Hellenes. Encouraged by
Christian monks the barbarians sack and burn many cities (Dion, Delphi,
Megara, Corinth, Pheneos, Argos, Nemea, Lycosoura, Sparta, Messene,
Phigaleia, Olympia, etc.), slaughter or enslave innumerable gentile
Hellenes and burn down all the temples. Among others, they burn down the
Eleusinian Sanctuary and burn alive all its priests (including the
hierophant of Mithras Hilarius).
396 On 7th
December, a new edict by Arcadius orders that Paganism be treated as
high treason. Imprisonment of the few remaining Pagan priests and
hierophants.
397 “Demolish them!”. Flavius Arcadius orders all the still standing Pagan temples to be demolished.
398
The Fourth Church Council of Carthage prohibits to everybody, including
to the Christian bishops, the study of the books of the Pagans.
Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza, demolishes almost all the Pagan temples of
his city (except 9 of them that remain active).
399
With a new edict (13th July) Flavius Arcadius orders all the still
standing Pagan temples, mainly in the countryside, to be immediately
demolished.
400 Bishop Nicetas destroys the Oracle of the god Dionysus in Vesai and baptises all the non-Christians of this area.
401
The Christian mob of Carthage lynches non-Christians and destroys
temples and “idols”. In Gaza too, the local bishop “Saint” Porphyrius
sends his followers to lynch Pagans and to demolish the remaining 9
still active temples of the city. The 15th Council of Chalkedon orders
all the Christians that still keep good relations with their gentile
relatives to be excommunicated (even after their death).
405
John Chrysostom sends hordes of gray dressed monks armed with clubs and
iron bars to destroy the “idols” in all the cities of Palestine.
406
John Chrysostom collects funds from rich Christian women to financially
support the demolition of the Hellenic temples. In Ephessus he orders
the destruction of the famous temple of goddess Artemis. In Salamis,
Cyprus, “Saints” Epiphanius and Eutychius continue the persecutions of
the Pagans and the total destruction of their temples and sanctuaries.
407 A new edict outlaws once more all the non-Christian acts of worship
408
The emperor of the Western Empire, Honorius, and the emperor of the
Eastern Empire, Arcadius, order together all the sculptures of the Pagan
temples to be either destroyed or to be taken away. Private ownership
of Pagan sculpture is also outlawed. The local bishops lead new heavy
persecutions against the Pagans and new book burning. The judges that
have pity for the Pagans are also persecuted. “Saint” Augustine
massacres hundreds of protesting Pagans in Calama, Algeria.
409 Another edict orders all methods of divination including astrology to be punished by death.
415
In Alexandria, Egypt, the Christian mob, urged by the bishop Cyrillus,
attacks a few days before the Judaeo-Christian Pascha (Easter) and cuts
to pieces the famous and beautiful philosopher Hypatia. The pieces of
her body, carried around by the Christian mob through the streets of
Alexandria, are finally burned together with her books in a place called
Cynaron. On 30th August, new persecutions start against all the Pagan
priests of North Africa who end their lives either crucified or burned
alive.
416 The inquisitor Hypatius, alias “The
Sword of God”, exterminates the last Pagans of Bithynia. In
Constantinople (7th December) all non-Christian army officers, public
employees and judges are dismissed.
423 Emperor
Theodosius II declares (8th June) that the religion of the Pagans is
nothing more than “demon worship” and orders all those who persist in
practicing it to be punished by imprisonment and torture.
429 The temple of goddess Athena (Parthenon) on the Acropolis of Athens is sacked. The Athenian Pagans are persecuted.
435
On 14th November, a new edict by Theodosius II orders the death penalty
for all “heretics” and Pagans of the empire. Only Judaism is considered
a legal non-Christian religion.
438 Theodosius
II issues an new edict (31st January) against the Pagans, incriminating
their “idolatry” as the reason of a recent plague!
440 to 450 The Christians demolish all the monuments, altars and temples of Athens, Olympia, and other Greek cities.
448
Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books to be burned. All copies
of Julian’s work which could be found were destroyed, and they would
have been lost entirely if bishop Cyril of Alexandria (376-444 AD), had
not cited extracts from the first three of seven of Julian’s books in
his refutation of him, while admitting that he would not cite some of
his srguments!
450 All the temples of Aphrodisias
(the City of the Goddess Aphrodite) are demolished and all its
libraries burned down. The city is renamed Stavroupolis (City of the
Cross).
451 New edict by Theodosius II (4th November) emphasises that “idolatry” is punished by death.
457 to 491
Sporadic persecutions against the Pagans of the Eastern Empire. Among
others, the physician Jacobus and the philosopher Gessius are executed.
Severianus, Herestios, Zosimus, Isidorus and others are tortured and
imprisoned. The proselytiser Conon and his followers exterminate the
last non-Christians of Imbros Island, Norheast Aegean Sea. The last
worshippers of Lavranius Zeus are exterminated in Cyprus.
482 to 488 The majority of the Pagans of Minor Asia are exterminated after a desperate revolt against the emperor and the Church.
486 More “underground” Pagan priests are discovered, arrested, burlesqued, tortured and executed in Alexandria, Egypt.
515
Baptism becomes obligatory even for those that already say they are
Christians. The emperor of Constantinople, Anastasius, orders the
massacre of the Pagans in the Arabian city Zoara and the demolition of
the temple of local god Theandrites.
528 Emperor
Jutprada (Justinianus) outlaws the “alternative” Olympian Games of
Antioch. He also orders the execution—by fire, crucifixion, tearing to
pieces by wild beasts or cutting to pieces by iron nails—of all who
practice “sorcery, divination, magic or idolatry” and prohibits all
teachings by the Pagans (“the ones suffering from the blasphemous
insanity of the Hellenes”).
529 Justinianus outlaws the Athenian Philosophical Academy and has its property confiscated.
532 The inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus, a fanatic monk, leads a crusade against the Pagans of Minor Asia.
542
Justinianus allows the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus to convert the Pagans
of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia, Minor Asia. Within 35 years of this
crusade, 99 churches and 12 monasteries are built on the sites of
demolished Pagan temples.
546 Hundreds of Pagans are put to death in Constantinople by the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus.
556
Justinianus orders the notorious inquisitor Amantius to go to Antioch,
to find, arrest, torture and exterminate the last non-Christians of the
city and burn all the private libraries down.
562
Mass arrests, burlesquing, tortures, imprisonments and executions of
gentile Hellenes in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople.
578 to 582
The Christians torture and crucify gentile Hellenes all around the
Eastern Empire, and exterminate the last non-Christians of Heliopolis
(Baalbek).
580 The Christian inquisitors attack a
secret temple of Zeus in Antioch. The priest commits suicide, but the
rest of the Pagans are arrested. All the prisoners, the Vice Governor
Anatolius included, are tortured and sent to Constantinople to face
trial. Sentenced to death they are thrown to the lions. The wild animals
being unwilling to tear them to pieces, they end up crucified. Their
dead bodies are dragged in the streets by the Christian mob and
afterwards thrown unburied in the dump.
583 New persecutions against the gentile Hellenes by the Mauricius.
590 In all the Eastern Empire the Christian accusers “discover” Pagan conspiracies. New storm of torture and executions.
692
The “Penthekto” Council of Constantinople prohibits the remains of
Calends, Brumalia, Anthesteria, and other Pagan/Dionysian celebrations.
804
The gentile Hellenes of Mesa Mani (Cape Tainaron, Lakonia, Greece)
resist successfully the attempt of Tarasius, Patriarch of
Constantinople, to convert them to Christianity.
950 to 988 Violent conversion of the last gentile Hellenes of Laconia by the Armenian “Saint” Nikon.
Yup Anthony DeStefano, it looks like it was you ChristoTaliban Roman Catholic butchers and murderers who were the bullies to the Pagans in your forced conversion program of them.
Now let’s give one example of what you ChristoFascist Taliban butchers and murderers and genocidal maniacs did to Native Americans shall we? Out of the literal hundreds of thousands I could give.
EXAMPLE TWO: THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE
It’s dawn, November 29, 1864.
The sun is barely peekaboo over the mountainous horizon in
southern Colorado Territory, sparkling across the chilly waters of
Big Sandy Creek.
In a tiny, tucked-away pocket of riverbed flatland, bands of
Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne are camped. In total, more than 400
American Indians are quietly preparing for the day.
Around the river bend, Col. John Milton Chivington, of the U.S.
Volunteers, is briefing nearly 1,000 heavily armed men for battle.
(Most are still drunk from anticipatory revelry the night before.)
They’ve marched nearly 50 midnight miles, and they’re ready to
fight.
What comes next will forever be remembered as one of the most
infamous and deadly incidents in all of the American Indian Wars.
Time of War
The American Indian Wars bridge more than 200 years of conflicts
between Native Americans and New World settlers, spanning across the
entirety of the United States, from the Powhatan Indian Attack in
1622, when Powhatan Indians retaliate against the encroaching
Virginia colonists, to the end of the Apache Wars in 1886, after
Geronimo surrenders in Arizona’s Skeleton Canyon.
But until the mid-1800s, most of these conflicts occur in the East
and South. The West is a no man’s land, filled with harsh
mountainous landscapes and cold nights. There is little need for
white settlers to venture westward, leaving the vast plains to the
American Indians who have called them home for centuries.
Then comes the California gold rush in 1849.
It is a time of rapid growth and expansion. Hundreds of thousands
of white settlers trek westward, dreaming of land, gold, and
prosperity. Mining and farming communities spring up.
And the effects on American Indians are considerable.
Pristine hunting grounds are destroyed. Game becomes scarce.
Waters are polluted. Smallpox, influenza, and measles spread in large
numbers. Fatality rates skyrocket to more than 75 percent.
In the years following the gold rush, tensions between Native
Americans and white settlers in the West escalate. Deadly skirmishes
become increasingly commonplace.
As the bloody Civil War begins in the East and South, the West
becomes filled with its own unique brand of war. The vacuum left by
departing U.S. Army troops, who are dispatched to fight the
Confederacy, is filled by U.S. Volunteers, state militias, and
renegade roughnecks. This proxy army takes its charge to protect the
remaining settlers to heart, ultimately exacting its own brand of
vengeance on the American Indians who dare to stand their ground,
believing even at the end that they have a chance at peace.
Place of Peace
Violent battles ensue for months. But bloodshed can only last so
long. After years of being out-manned, Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne
tribes are resigned to negotiate peace with federal authorities.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851 first defines Southern Cheyenne
and Arapaho territory as the lands between the Rocky Mountains and
western Kansas, including present-day Wyoming, Nebraska, and
Colorado.
Conflicts still arise, but the treaty stands for nearly a decade.
Still, by 1861 the westward expansion is marching on. America’s
rapid population growth in the West has federal authorities keen to
redefine Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho territories once again.
And with few options, the chiefs of both tribes agree to sign the
Treaty of Fort Wise, ceding most of the lands designated to them in
the Fort Laramie treaty. Their new territory is less than a tenth of
the size of their previous reserves.
In exchange for giving up the bulk of their native land, the
Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho are promised peaceful asylum in a
designated safe zone — near a tributary of the Arkansas River
called Big Sandy Creek.
But Col. John Milton Chivington doesn’t believe in peace
treaties.
Chivington’s Attack
The Methodist preacher turned Civil War hero is still raw after
spending years fighting Confederate flag-waving soldiers and
treaty-waving Indians. He’s tasted blood, and now he’s on the
warpath. With hundreds of unsuspecting American Indians just around
the corner, he’s found his perfect opportunity.
He stands to address his men, knowing full well that the Arapaho
and Southern Cheyenne pose no threat.
“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians!” he says. “I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians.”
And then, for emphasis: “Kill and scalp all, big and little.”
He does just that. It’s a violent affair from the start.
As the chaos begins, the American Indians raise American and white
flags — symbols of peace. But Chivington ignores the plea,
instead raising his arm for attack.
Cannon and rifle fire rain down upon the village. Indians scatter.
The hysterical militiamen charge, chasing down men, women, and
children, killing them cruelly and without mercy.
The unrelenting attack lasts most of the day. The militia uses
more than 1 ton of ammunition.
But once the shooting ends, the bloodshed doesn’t cease. Chivington wants victory, not prisoners. So, as the smoke clears, his militia slaughters the wounded. They scalp the dead, mutilating women, children, and infants. They cut off the women’s breasts and cut out their vaginas. They stripped the skin off the children’s backs to cure as leather. They cut off the men’s and boy’s scrotum’s to use as tobacco pouches and to wear as trophies around their necks. They ransack the village, taking supplies and livestock. Whatever is left, they destroy and burn.
In all, Chivington’s men scalp, rape, and murder hundreds of
Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people. Meanwhile, the militia loses
fewer than 10 men, mostly due to friendly fire and sloppiness.
According to Congressional testimony in 1865 by John S. Smith, an
American interpreter present at the time of the attack, the carnage
was ghastly.
“I saw the bodies of those lying there cut all to pieces, worse
mutilated than any I ever saw before; the women cut all to
pieces … . With knives; scalped; their brains knocked out;
children two or three months old; all ages lying there, from sucking
infants up to warriors … . By whom were they mutilated? By
the United States troops.”
The Aftermath
Just weeks later, an editorial in the Rocky Mountain News
notes, “In no single battle in North America, we believe, have so
many Indians been slain.” But to this day, the exact number of
slain Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho is still unknown. At the time,
Chivington claims as many as 600 were killed. Historians will say the
number is likely closer to 160, mostly women and children.
In the weeks immediately following the massacre, Chivington is
praised for his “heroic victory” at Sand Creek. He’s even
honored with a parade throughout the streets of Denver. The colonel
publicly displays his battle trophies in theaters and saloons.
But the merriment doesn’t last long. Soon, rumors of what really
happened begin to circulate. Several investigations are conducted,
including two by the military and one by the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of the War.
The latter panel concludes, “the truth is that [Chivington]
surprised and murdered, in cold blood, the unsuspecting men, women,
and children on Sand creek, who had every reason to believe they were
under the protection of the United States authorities, and then
returned to Denver and boasted of the brave deeds he and the men
under his command had performed.”
Despite the decision, no charges are brought against Chivington
and his men. Chivington resigns from the service in 1865, and public
humiliation ends his dreams of becoming a politician. Instead, he
lives out his life working as a freight hauler, editor, and deputy
sheriff until his death in 1894.
So here were a bunch of peaceful Natives and here were your punk assed BULLY Christians committing slaughter and atrocities against them.
EXAMPLE THREE: HITLER AND HIS NAZIS WERE CHRISTIANS AND THEIRS WAS A POSITIVE CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
Hitler said many times he was a Christian and doing his gods work.
Hitler’s religious beliefs and fanaticism
(Selected quotes from Mein Kampf) compiled by Jim Walker Originated: 28 Nov. 1996 Additions made: 07 July 2001
People often make the claim that Adolf Hitler adhered to
Atheism, Humanism or some ancient Nordic pagan mythology. None
of these fanciful and wrong ideas hold. Although one of Hitler’s
henchmen, Alfred Rosenberg, did undertake a campaign of Nordic
mythological propaganda, Hitler and most of his henchmen did
not believe in it .
Many American books, television documentaries, and Sunday
sermons that preach of Hitler’s “evil” have eliminated
Hitler’s god for their Christian audiences, but one only has
to read from his own writings to appreciate that Hitler’s God
equals the same God of the Christian Bible. Hitler held many
hysterical beliefs which not only include, God and Providence
but also Fate, Social Darwinism, and ideological politics. He
spoke, unashamedly, about God, fanaticism, idealism, dogma, and
the power of propaganda. Hitler held strong faith in all his
convictions. He justified his fight for the German people and
against Jews by using Godly and Biblical reasoning. Indeed, one
of his most revealing statements makes this quite clear:
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance
with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself
against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
Although Hitler did not practice religion in a churchly sense,
he certainly believed in the Bible’s God. Raised as Catholic
he went to a monastery school and, interestingly, walked everyday
past a stone arch which was carved the monastery’s coat of arms
which included a swastika. As a young boy, Hitler’s most ardent
goal was to become a priest. Much of his philosophy came from
the Bible, and more influentially, from the Christian Social
movement. (The German Christian Social movement, remarkably,
resembles the Christian Right movement in America today.) Many
have questioned Hitler’s stand on Christianity. Although he fought
against certain Catholic priests who opposed him for political
reasons, his belief in God and country never left him. Many Christians
throughout history have opposed Christian priests for various
reasons; this does not necessarily make one against one’s own
Christian beliefs. Nor did the Vatican’s Pope & bishops ever
disown him; in fact they blessed him! As evidence to his claimed
Christianity, he said:
“My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
–Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Christian Austria
and Germany in his time took for granted the belief that Jews held an inferior
status to Aryan Christians. Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came
from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout
Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself,
held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, “On
the Jews and their Lies,” Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred
in Protestant Germany up until World War II. Hitler expressed a great admiration
for Martin Luther.
Hitler did not have to parade his belief in God, as so many
American Christians do now. Nor did he have to justify his Godly
belief against an Atheist movement. He took his beliefs for granted
just as most Germans did at that time. His thrust aimed at politics,
not religion. But through his political and religious reasoning
he established in 1933, a German Reich Christian Church, uniting
the Protestant churches to instill faith in a national German
Christianity.
Future generations should remember that Adolf Hitler could
not have come into power without the support of the Protestant
and Catholic churches and the German Christian populace.
The following quotes provides some of Hitler’s expressions
of his belief in religion, faith, fanaticism, Providence, and
even a few of his paraphrasing of the Bible. It by no means represents
the totality of Hitler’s concerns. To realize the full context
of these quotes, I implore the reader to study Mein Kampf.
The purpose of this text intends to dispute the claims made
by Christians that Hitler “was an atheist,” or “anti-religious,”
and to reveal the dangers of belief-systems. This text in no
way attempts to give endorsement to anti-Semitism.
The Christianity of Hitler revealed in his speeches and proclamations
Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian. However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. In the 1920s, Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (pre Nazi term) adopted a “Programme” with twenty-five points (the Nazi version of a constitution). In point twenty-four, their intent clearly demonstrates, from the very beginning, their stand in favor of a “positive” Christianity:
24. We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession. It combats the Jewish-materialist spirit within and without us, and is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health from within only on the principle: the common interest before self-interest.
Hitler’s speeches and proclamations, even more clearly, reveal his faith
and feelings toward a Christianized Germany. Nazism presents an embarrassment
to Christianity and demonstrates the danger of faith. The following words
from Hitler show his disdain for atheism, and pagan cults, and reveals the
strength of his Christian feelings:
My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It
points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers,
recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them
and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless
love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how
the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the
Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world
against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion
I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this
that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty
to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth
and justice…. And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are
acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have
also a duty to my own people…. When I go out in the morning and see these
men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe
I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did
not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day
this poor people is plundered and exploited.
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech in Munich on 12 April 1922
Point Two: You are a Roman Catholic Scumbag who has no right to judge others and who was endorsed by one of the USA’s head pedophile pimps Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Hundreds of thousands of children have been raped by Roman Catholic priests. Those pedophile scum were protected by your Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishops like Pope Francis, Cardinals Timothy Dolan and others, who moved these scum fucks from parish to parish, across state lines and international borders to avoid detection, arrest and prosecution. Who did all they could to protect their pedophiles over the hundreds of thousands of children raped and tortured and brutalized by them.
Hundreds of thousands more have been tortured, enslaved, beaten and brutalized, and outright murdered in the Roman Catholic Institutions of the Magdalene and Good Shepherd Laundries, the Women’s and Children’s Homes and the Industrial Homes and Schools.
You, Anthony DeStefano support and defend the WorldWide Cult of Pedophile Pimps, Pedophile Priests and Nuns, and Enslavers, Murderers and Destroyers of Children and you, along with all of your fellow Roman Catholics? Should be put to fucking brutal deaths for it. Starting with the Rat Torture, then? Progressing through the Pope’s Pear, then the Judas Chair and finally? Draw and Quarter you motherfuckers, cut your fucking heads off and put them on pikes in front of the Vatican with the warning this is what we do to scumbags who rape children, protect those who rape children or defend those who rape children.
Scumbag Head Pedophile Pimp of the USA…Cardinal Timothy Dolan who should be put to a very slow, suffering death.
Point Three: Here are just some of the blogs that exposes your Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophile Pimps, Pedophiles, Child Abusers, Child Enslavers and Child Murderers.
Voices from the Grave: Suicide Victims of the Roman Catholic Church.
A blog that exposes just some of the estimated over 3,000 suicides of victims of Roman Catholic Pedophiles.
A blog of five years worth of exposing the pedophile pimps and pedophiles, the child enslavers and child murderers of the Unholy Roman Catholic Cult of Pedophiles.
Here is just one story from this blog about what happened to the boys at the Artane Industrial School.
BROTHERS FROM HELL; 10 former Artane Boys Tell of Broken Legs, Torture and Sex Abuse.
The Mirror (UK) September 23, 1999
TODAY 10 former Artane boys tell JILLY BEATTIE their stories of life at the notorious Industrial School.
Six of them have made allegations to the Gardai as part of Ireland’s
biggest child abuse investigation in which 40 Christian Brothers
Christian Brothers: see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint. have been named
and accused. The other four intend to do the same.
They all say their lives have been destroyed by their experiences
under the guardianship of the Brothers at Artane, citing relationship
breakdowns, unemployment and clinical depression as some of the problems
they have had.
Two of the survivors never married, the marriages of seven broke down and one is still married.
Of the eight who did marry, only two told their wives about the abuse
they suffered, and none of their children knows about their past life
in Artane.
All the fathers say they have difficult relationships with their children.
Four have tried to commit suicide, four are long-term unemployed and all 10 are currently receiving counselling.
These survivors are among 250 men seeking justice for the sexual,
physical and emotional abuse they claim they suffered at Artane at the
hands of Christian Brothers.
GERRY 1966-69
In care from eight months after being conceived outside marriage
I WAS beaten and raped by nine different Brothers.
Joseph O’Connor dragged me to his room and he threw sweets on the
floor. When I bent to pick them up he pulled my trousers down and
thrashed me with the leather cosh.
I squealed and screamed and he kept on hitting me, all over my body and head. I suppose he stopped hitting me when I passed out.
My mother came to see me during that time and she was told I was being treated for TB and couldn’t be seen.
I still wake up screaming in the night, convinced a Brother is trying to get me, trying to drag me away.
The Christian Brothers have to pay for what they did to us as boys.
They have apologised to anyone who was hurt while at Artane but that’s not enough to let me get on with my life.
MALACHY 1965-69
Sent to Atane with his brother for mitching school
THE day Artane burned down I thanked God. I prayed that all the
Brothers who hurt me had died but most of those b*****ds are still
alive.
I suffered all sorts of abuse. Most of it I still cannot talk about.
They raped me, they beat me, they humiliated me.
Sometimes when you turned up they would be abusing some other boy and you would have to watch or join in.
We were made to crawl on our hands and knees while the other boys
were forced to hit you. If they didn’t hit you, they had to get down and
start crawling too.
Artane was a concentration camp. Anything we arrived with was taken
away from us – clothes, shoes, love, good memories, happiness and trust.
JOHN 1958-61
Sent to Atane for the theft of an overcoat
I WAS a tearaway as a child and eventually the Guards got sick of hauling me up and I was put into Artane.
I ran away three times after being beaten but the Guards brought me back.
After the first time I was beaten around the dormitory. I had my two front teeth knocked out and my wrist was broken.
Then I had to sit in agony as the barber – one of the boys – shaved my head for running away.
Anyone found talking to me was beaten.
I know there were boys raped and interfered with in Artane, but I never was.
The Brothers picked their victims well and chose the most vulnerable.
When I was older they used me to abuse the younger boys. They made me a monitor and I used to beat the boys too.
The Brothers were evil. They enjoyed the violence they meted out. Their favourite weapons were fear and the leather strap.
AIDAN 1966-69
Sent to Artane for mitching school
I WAS always a quiet child and was labelled stupid because I had dyslexia
I used to mitch school because I was teased. Then I was sent to Artane.
It was the worst thing anyone could have done to me. I was the
perfect victim of the abuse the Brothers favoured. I spoke to no-one.
I was raped three months after I was moved to Artane and used by
three particular Brothers, one of whom, Brother O’Connor, is dead.
I was like a rag doll. They threw me about the place. I was b*****ed,
forced to touch the Brothers, masturbate them and have oral sex.
When I was sick I was beaten and kicked. The sexual abuse was
indescribable, but it was worse when it was coupled with physical abuse.
I ended up in the infirmary seven times during my three years there.
My wife knows – but I still find it hard to hug and love her. No-one deserved what we got.
DECLAN 1965-69
In care from three years after mother deemed unfit unfit to look after him
I HAD no-one to turn to when I needed to get away from Artane. I was
put in there because the authorities said my mother couldn’t look after
me and my brothers.
I was b*****ed 18 times in Artane and beaten probably every day I was there.
In the summer when some of the other boys had gone to foster
families, I was left with the others and that’s when I suffered most
abuse.
One night I was made to strip before I was hit and a Brother stood on
my hands so I couldn’t move. The beating was started by one Brother and
finished by another.
O’Connor was a depraved de·praved b*****d. He was at Artane from 1930
and he did everything he could to inflict as much pain as he could on
the boys.
He ran the band and even appeared on an RTE programme dedicated to
his so-called good work. That bastard sat and smiled his way through it.
I dread to think how many boys’ lives he ruined. He destroyed me.
Your cunt nuns thought so little of these infants they murdered? They dropped their bodies into a fucking septic tank.
ADRIAN 1965-69
Sent to Atane with his brother for mitching school
I HAD both my arms broken by a Brother.
I still don’t know Don’t know what I did wrong but I was told not to be bold or I would suffer for it.
Then he lashed into me, I was 11. He hit me with the leather strap, then he started punching and kicking me.
I fell to the floor and he kicked me with his boots. I stopped
screaming and he kept hitting me for a bit. Then he told me to pray for
forgiveness.
He told me I was bad and would have to ask Jesus to stop me being bad. Two boys took me to the infirmary.
On the way another Brother said I should never be bold because God can see everything. I was terrified
If the Brothers did this to me, what would God do?
JOE 1951-56
Put in care after the death of his mother and suicide of his father
I WAS separated from my brothers and sisters and sent to Artane.
Joseph O’Connor met me at Connolly Station and pushed me into a car.
He ran the band and when I said I’d never been interested in music he
stopped the car, dragged me out and thrashed me.
When I arrived at the school it was four days before Christmas. One
of the boys in my dormitory told me we would be safe for the day. I
later realised this meant that we were less likely to be sexually abused
on December 25.
Joe Boy O’Connor was an evil bastard. He never raped me but he beat
me until I fainted one day. When I woke up I was in the infirmary.
One day I was flogged by another Brother and made to wear a singlet
which had been soaked in salt water. I believe it was to literally add
salt to my wounds and make it more painful for me.
DESMOND 1964-66
Sent to Artane for mitching school
MY earliest sex education was being forced to watch two younger boys masturbating a Christian Brother.
Then I was forced to beat them before I was fondled by the same Brother.
This happened for five nights with 10 different boys and me looking on every time.
I was never b*****ed but I know two boys who were. I was made to give a number of the Brothers oral sex.
Today I am a gay man but I’ve had problems forming relationships. I
still wonder, if my first sexual experiences had been with a woman,
would my life have been different.
I think the Brothers at Artane were gay and used the boys for their sexual desires.
We were abused. There’s no excuse for what they did. They violated us – continually.
The beatings were incredible. And the shaming was awful.
EAMONN 1965-68
In care from 10 after mother died
I ended up at Artane after my mother died. I was heartbroken but sure the Brothers would understand and look after me.
I had a terrible shock. The first time I was caught crying on my second night I was beaten by the Brother in charge.
I wet myself and was beaten more. I cried and had my head pushed into
a drawer and was thrashed from behind. He only stopped beating me when I
couldn’t cry any more.
We were constantly told we were worthless.
I grew up quickly and realised that the beatings and the sexual abuse
would not stop until the day I walked out of the doors forever.
I ran away twice and was brought back by the Guards. The first time I
was beaten and had my head shaved. The second time it was worse.
I was told I was an ungrateful, worthless little b*****d. I was told I
had no-one who loved me and that I would learn to appreciate the care
the Brothers showed me. Then I was beaten again.
DONACHA 1966-69
In care from six years after mother deemed a violent alcoholic
I HAD suffered violence from my mother and father at home and was
glad to get out of the house to be looked after by the Brothers in
Artane.
I’d heard they were tough but I thought it had to be better than at home. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I was first raped when I was 12 and I lost count of the times it
happened again. Every day was spent trying to avoid being hit, but it
was useless.
There was the odd decent enough Brother who tried to keep me from
trouble but I’ve since been told the ones I thought were OK were
b*****ds to some of the other boys. Maybe they just liked me.
Boys were dragged from their beds at night, we were beaten in full
view of other staff and boys and we were sexually abused in front of
other boys too.
The Abuse Tracker blog by Kathy Shaw of Bishops Accountability.
BishopAccountability.org has identified around 70 Catholic bishops worldwide accused publicly of sexual crimes against children and more than 30 bishops worldwide who have been accused publicly of sexual wrongdoing against adults. Those marked in red allegedly abused minors; those in black are publicly accused of sexual abuse/sexual misconduct with adults only.
Until the 2018 revelations of alleged child sexual abuse by former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the problem of bishops and major superiors who abuse had received little scrutiny. Yet a sexually abusive bishop or superior is exceptionally dangerous. His management of priests is skewed toward protecting his secret, beginning with the character of men he accepts to the seminary and the quality of their formation. When one of his priests is accused of sexual abuse, a bishop who is also an offender is unlikely to punish the priest or contact law enforcement. He is, inevitably, an enabler of other sexual criminals, harming not only his own victims, but those who are raped or assaulted by the abusive clerics to whom he gives safe harbor.
In the Catholic church, “sexual corruption is conferred from the top down – from men in power,” wrote
celibacy scholar Richard Sipe. Bishops who sexually abuse seminarians,
as McCarrick is canonically convicted of doing, and as Bishop Anthony
J. O’Connell admitted doing, may establish what Sipe called “a genealogy of abuse,” setting up “a pattern of institutional secrecy.”
Despite the extensive harm done by abusive church leaders, few
have been severely disciplined. Only seven have been laicized: Fernando
Armindo Lugo Méndez of Paraguay (2008), Raymond J. Lahey of Canada (2012), Gabino Miranda Melgarejo of Peru (2013), Jósef Wesołowski of Poland (2014), Francisco José Cox Huneeus of Chile (2018), Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández of Chile (2018), and Theodore McCarrick of the United States (2019).
All of the remaining bishops named below, even those found
guilty under canon law, have been allowed to retain the title of bishop
and to be called emeritus, a status that confers continued prestige and
power. According to a 2008 document by
the Congregation for Bishops, when a bishop becomes emeritus, he merely
is beginning ‘a new phase of his ministry.’ Though relieved of
administrative duties, he retains his membership in the college of
bishops and continues to ‘collaborate in the governance of the church.’
Point Four: Your current Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis should be dragged out of the Vatican, put on his knees and a bullet put in the back of his head for allowing all these deaf/mute children to be raped and brutalized at the Antonio Provolo Institute in Argentina. But you can read what I have already said should be done to this scumbag here.
We strip your Pedophile Pimps like Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan. We bind them to a table. We place a starving rat on their junk, a cage over the rat and a bowl of hot coals over the cage and we let the rat eat their junk. They will never fucking rape another child again.Then Anthony DeStefano? We take a Popes Pear and fill it full of hot coals and shove this up the asses of all your Pedophile Pimps and Pedophiles of your degenerate cult of pedophiles and see how they love having their assholes brutally raped like they did to us as children.Next up Anthony DeStefano is the Judas Chair torture for you Roman Catholics, for being Judases to all of us as children your cult raped, tortured, enslaved, beat, brutalized, and murdered.
SO TO CONCLUDE ALL OF THIS TO YOU, CHRISTOFASCIST TALIBAN ANTHONY DESTEFANO.
You’re such a twisted little ChristoFascist punk assed bully bitch Anthony DeStefano. You are a typical ChristoTaliban punk. You talk a tough talk, but can you walk the walk you bitch assed punk?
See you fucking ChristoTaliban Bitch, we atheists as well as lgbts and Pagans have had enough of you Abrahamic shitstains on the underwear of humanity. You punks all deserve what you are soon going to fucking get too.
So bring it on you ChristoFascist and if you think you got the fucking balls?
THEN ANTHONY DESTEFANO, DROP YOUR FUCKING MICRONUTS AND POP OFF. IT WOULD TAKE ME GREAT PLEASURE FOR A PUNK LIKE YOU TO ACT ALL BIG AND BAD TO ME AND COME AT ME. CAUSE THIS IS ONE ATHEIST WHO WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING PROBLEM BEATING YOU TO DEATH VERY SLOWLY.
CAUSE ALL YOU ARE ANTHONY DESTEFANO IS A TWISTED TROGLODYTE NEANDERTHAL CUNT CHRISTOTALIBAN AND YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN AND HAVE DONE UNTO YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT DONE TO US ATHEISTS.
SO PUNK, PUT YOUR FUCKING MONEY WHERE YOUR BITCH ASS MOUTH IS AND COME AND MEET ME IN THE RING. I WANT TO STOMP YOUR PUNK ASSED CHRISTOFASCIST FACE INTO MUD.
Head Pedophile Pimp of the Roman Catholic Church should be dragged out of the Vatican and put on his knees in St Peter’s Square and a bullet put behind his ear. He protected scumbag priests who raped and tortured and brutalized DEAF/MUTE children at the Antonio Provolo Institute in Argentina when he KNEW those children were bring raped and did absolutely nothing to stop it.
SILENT SCREAMS: The Sex Abuse of Deaf Orphans in Pope Francis’ Backyard
ROME—“Giuseppe” was born to impoverished parents outside of Verona in
northern Italy with a congenital birth defect that left him deaf and
mute. When it became clear that his parents could not provide for
him—much less communicate with him—they brought him to the local
Catholic church, which enrolled him in their Antonio Provolo Institute
for deaf and mute children. It was here he learned to communicate
through standard sign language and other visual cues. It was also where
he became one of scores of victims of the priests and religious brothers who ran the school.
When he was 11, a monk who worked at the institute as an educator started teaching “special secret signs” for things like masturbation, fellatio, penis, and anus. “I didn’t understand at first just why this man was teaching me these strange secret signs,” Giuseppe explained in an exclusive, and very emotional, interview in Rome. “Then one day it became very clear when one of the priests made the secret sign for fellatio when we were alone, which was followed by him pushing his erect penis into my mouth.”
From that point on, Giuseppe said through his interpreter—often using fast and somewhat violent sign language as tears ran down his face—priests and the brothers would give a sign to the young boys and then take them to special rooms Giuseppe says were used for “time out” punishments or as resting areas. He said that because everyone was deaf at the school except those who worked there, no one could hear the screams and cries of the young boys when the abuse took place. Giuseppe said that on several occasions he and others tried to write down what was happening, but because their letters and notes were given to the priests and brothers to be mailed out, they were likely intercepted.“You would see friends with tears rolling down their faces and you knew exactly what had just happened. You didn’t need to hear to know.”— “Giuseppe,” a deaf survivor of clerical sex abuse
“Of course we screamed and cried,” he said. “Sometimes you would see priests coming into the dormitory at night, or you would see friends with tears rolling down their faces and you knew exactly what had just happened. You didn’t need to hear to know.”
The abuse
against Giuseppe allegedly lasted for seven full years, until he turned
18 and left the institution. Whenever he tried to explain what was
happening to him inside the school, no one understood because the
language he had been taught to describe the sexual acts was
incomprehensible to sign-language readers. “It was so frustrating that
no one understood what we said,” Giuseppe explained, adding that even
after he left the institution and lived in another Catholic charity
house, he had a difficult time making anyone understand what had
happened. “It took a long time for us to be believed.”
Giuseppe is one of 67 young boys who have been named in court documents and were allegedly abused by more than two dozen priests and brothers at the Provolo Institute, according to Verona prosecutors who have been investigating the allegations for nearly a decade and who plan to bring it to trial later this year.
Priest Nicola Corradi is taken handcuffed and on a wheelchair to a courtroom in Argentina’s northwestern Mendoza province, Dec. 22, 2016. Emmanuel Rodriguez Villegas, AP
One of the most notorious alleged
offenders was Father Nicola Corradi, now 83, who was moved to South
America in the mid-1980s after Giuseppe and others’ abuse claims came to
light. Rather than handing him over to secular authorities or asking
the mother church in Rome to defrock him, the bishop transferred him to
the Provolo Institute in Mendoza, Argentina. Several other priests
accused of abuse in Verona were also transferred to the sister school in
Argentina, but have since passed away.
In
Argentina, court documents there would later allege that Corradi was
soon up to his usual practices and, despite credible reports from Italy
that were beginning to surface, he was allowed to stay in his job at the
school for the deaf, where he apparently found like-minded abusers. He
was finally arrested in 2016 on allegations that he abused 22 deaf and
mute children over the course of nearly three decades. Three other
priests were arrested with him. There are more than 60 civil trials
going on across Argentina against priests like Corradi who allegedly
abused children.
Julieta Añazco was one of those victims at the
Provolo Institute. She says she was first abused by Father Ricardo
Giménez, who worked at the institute. He first attacked her when she was
just seven years old, she says, when the two were in a tent being used
as a confessional at a Catholic youth festival. The abuse went on for
three years before her parents found out and filed a complaint. Giménez
was then transferred by the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, under the
direction of then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis.
Añazco is now a pivotal member of Argentina’s branch of the Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP. She told the German magazine Der Spiegel in a cover story out last week that she and another group of students from the Provolo Institute tried to meet on several occasions with Bergoglio before he was elected as pope because he was the highest ranking prelate in the diocese at the time. Then, in July 2013, she and 13 other victims wrote a letter to the new pontiff to remind him about what happened in his native country under his watch. Giménez, who professes his innocence, is still an active priest although he was arrested and briefly detained. “They can’t undo these terrible things.”— “Giuseppe”
That letter was never answered by Francis, but Añazco did receive proof of receipt. She is lobbying a court in Argentina to open a civil suit against the pope for overlooking complaints when he was the head of the archdiocese. The watchdog website Bishop Accountability outlines five cases that Pope Francis overlooked as cardinal. One concerns Father Julio Cesar Grassi.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press uncovered a secret 2,000-page forensic study commissioned by Bergoglio in 2010 to study whether Grassi, a priest who worked at the Provolo Institute and founded a home for street children he is alleged to have abused, and who already had been convicted in secular courts and sentenced to 15 years in prison, was truly guilty. The report concluded that he was not and that the case did not merit a criminal trial. An appellate court upheld the conviction against the priest, but he has not been defrocked.
Argentina probes sex abuse at deaf school, what Vatican knew
This fucking piece of shit degenerate Head Pedophile Pimp, Pope Francis should be fucking executed using the Roman Catholic Churches inquisitional tortures. Starting of course with the fucking Rat Torture, then go to the Judas Chair and finally? Drawing and quartering this fucking demon and throwing his body parts into well used outhouses and sewers where they belong.
LUJAN DE CUYO, Argentina – Children told prosecutors that two Roman
Catholic priests repeatedly raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary
inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only
their tormenters would have heard their cries, because the other
children at the school were deaf.
The clerical sex abuse scandal unfolding at the Antonio Provolo
Institute for hearing-impaired children in Mendoza province would be
shocking enough on its own. Yet dozens of students in the Provolo
Institute’s school in Italy were similarly abused for decades, some of
whom allegedly by the same priest who now stands formally charged of
raping and molesting young deaf Argentines.
And the Vatican knew about Father Nicola Corradi since at least 2009,
when the Italian Provolo students went public with tales of shocking
abuse against the most vulnerable of children and named names.
While the Vatican ordered an investigation and sanctioned four
accused priests, Corradi apparently never was sanctioned for his alleged
crimes in Italy.
The Verona diocese apologized to the Italian students in 2012. After
the students again named Corradi as an abuser living in Francis’s native
Argentina in a 2014 letter to the pope and the Verona bishop, the
Vatican still took no action. Though this year a Vatican official said
Pope Francis wanted to assure the victims that the church was taking
measures to protect children and prevent sexual abuse.
But at least 24 students of the Provolo institute in Argentina have
now come forward seeking justice for the abuse they say they suffered at
the hands of Corradi, 82, another priest, Father Horacio Corbacho, 55,
and three other men. The five were arrested in late November by police
who raided the school in Argentina’s Mendoza province and found
magazines featuring naked women and about $34,000 in Corradi’s room.
All the suspects are being held at a jail in Mendoza and have not
spoken publicly since their arrest. Corradi’s attorney, Pablo Kletzl, on
Friday declined to comment on the case.
Victims and prosecutors say the anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and oral sex allegedly committed by the priests took place in the bathrooms, dorms, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) northwest of Buenos Aires.
The school has “a little chapel with an image of the Virgin and some chairs where the kids would get confession and receive the communion. That’s where some of the acts were happening,” former lead prosecutor Fabrizio Sidoti told The Associated Press of the stories he heard from the alleged victims after the scandal broke.
Children from other regions of Argentina who lived at the dorms were said to be especially vulnerable and targeted often. The tales they have told are harrowing: One of the alleged victims told AP she witnessed how a girl was raped by one priest while the other one forced her to give him oral sex.
Argentine courts said the alleged victims in the case in that country
could not be publicly identified and AP does not identify people who
may have been sexually assaulted unless they voluntarily identify
themselves.
“They always said it was a game: ‘Let’s go play, let’s go play’ and
they would take us to the girls’ bathroom,” said one of the women who
claims that she was abused at the school in Argentina.
The prosecutor is expecting more than 20 other people to provide testimony and more people claiming abuse to come forward.
Pope Francis has not spoken publicly about the case, and the Vatican declined to comment on Corradi’s arrest.
Advocates of sex abuse victims by priests question how Francis could
have been unaware of Corradi’s alleged misdeeds, given he was publicly
named by the Italian victims starting in 2009 and most recently in 2014.
“No other pope has spoken as passionately about the evil of child sex
abuse as Francis. No other pope has invoked ‘zero tolerance’ as often.
No other pope has promised accountability of church superiors,” said
Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability, an online
resource about clerical abuse.
“In light of the crimes against the helpless children in Mendoza, the pope’s assurances seem empty indeed.”
On Dec. 11, the pope appeared in a video using sign language to wish
deaf people worldwide a Merry Christmas – a gesture that fell
particularly flat in Argentina as Catholics struggle with the enormity
of the Provolo scandal.
“Either he lives outside of reality or this is enormously cynical …
it’s a mockery,” said Carlos Lombardi, an attorney who specializes in
canon law.
The Provolo case first exploded in Italy in 2009, when the Italian
victims went public with stories of abuse after what they said were
three useless years of negotiations with the diocese of Verona, where
the institute has its Italian headquarters.
The 67 victims alleged sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment at the hands of priests, brothers and lay religious from the 1950s to the 1980s. At the time, 14 of the victims wrote sworn statements and videotaped their testimony detailing the abuse they suffered. They named 24 priests, lay religious and religious brothers in a list that was published online.
Corradi was one of those included in the list, which specified he was in Argentina at that time.
In 2010, the Vatican ordered the Verona diocese to investigate the claims. One of the victims identified Corradi.
The investigation results were sent to the Vatican. In a Nov. 24,
2012 letter, the Verona diocese wrote to the Provolo victims with the
results of the Vatican-ordered inquiry and apologized.
A copy of the letter provided to the AP listed only five priests accused, four of them sanctioned with a fifth excused because of his age and Alzheimer’s. Some of the original 24 accused had already died, others had left the congregation. For those sanctioned, the Vatican ordered punishments including living a life of prayer and penance and being placed under surveillance away from children.
Corradi wasn’t among the five. But the Provolo victims didn’t stop pushing for investigation of other priests.
On Dec. 31, 2013, they wrote to the pope asking him to institute an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the charges of clerical sex abuse in Italy.
On Oct. 20, 2014, they wrote Francis and the Verona bishop naming 14 priests and lay religious from the institute who were still alive and in ministry who allegedly had sexually abused them. They named Corradi, and noted that he and three others were in Argentina.
“We must point out that the behavior of the church is not in the least bit in line with the ‘zero tolerance’ stance of Pope Francis,” they wrote, listing the 14 priests and their current locations.
“Such behavior makes us think that the church has no interest in the suffering provoked by priests who sexually abused deaf children, priests who continue to live their lives normally, priests who never apologized to victims, priests who never asked forgiveness and for whom the church itself attempts to let the time pass in hopes that everything is forgotten.”
No response was immediately received.
More than two years later, the Vatican’s No. 3 official,
Archbishop Angelo Becciu, acknowledged receipt of the letters. In a Feb.
5, 2016, response, he said that as far as the Provolo victims’ request
for a commission of inquiry was concerned, he had forwarded the proposal
to the Italian Bishops’ Conference.
Becciu said in that letter that the pope wanted to assure the Provolo
victims that the church was taking measures to protect children and
prevent sexual abuse.
The Italian Bishops’ Conference didn’t respond to an email seeking comment on whether such a commission was under consideration.
“I’m convinced that some hierarchy covered this up. They sent the
wolf to take care of the sheep,” said Alejandro Gulle, the chief
prosecutor in Mendoza.
The Mendoza Archbishopric says it was unaware of the accusations
against Corradi. “A religious man comes to a diocese and you trust the
legitimate superior,” spokesman Marcelo De Benedectis said.
He said that allegations aired by the case have prompted the Mendoza
diocese to take measures such as demanding a sworn statement from
priests stating that they don’t have a history of violating canon or
criminal law.
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has been informed about the Mendoza accusations, he added.
Viviana Avila, who teaches at the school, told the AP that among the
professors “none of us suspected anything,” nor received any complaints
from the students. She said the teachers finished classes at midday and
never came near the dorms.
Unlike the Verona case, the alleged crimes in Mendoza have not
expired due to the statute of limitations and could lead to up to
50-year jail sentences for a conviction.
A prosecutor is also probing accusations by a man who says he was
abused at the Provolo Institute in the city of La Plata when Corradi
first arrived in Argentina in the 1980s.
“We want justice to be served. We might be able to get long
sentences. I hope they’re the maximum,” said Gulle, the Mendoza
prosecutor. “But we’ll never compensate the spiritual damage suffered by
these children.”
Bergoglio Implicated In the Sexual Abuse Of Deaf Orphans In Argentina
As a Cardinal in Argentina Pope Francis was told that priests were raping deaf children but did nothing to stop the sexual abuse and punish the abusers.
In a sordid report from the Daily Beast comes a tragic tale of the systematic rape and sexual abuse of deaf orphans by Catholic priests and monks, a story that begins in Italy and ends in Argentina, where the future Pope Francis was then known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
The story explains how deaf children were groomed for sexual abuse, noting:
The priests and monks created their own sick sign language to command the deaf and mute boys to perform oral sex and be sodomized.
The details of the story are sickening, and begin in Italy, with a boy named “Giuseppe,” who “was born to impoverished parents outside of Verona in northern Italy with a congenital birth defect that left him deaf and mute.” The deaf boy was eventually enrolled at the Antonio Provolo Institute for deaf and mute children.
The Daily Beast reports: When he was 11, a monk who worked at the institute as an educator started teaching “special secret signs” for things like masturbation, fellatio, penis, and anus. “I didn’t understand at first just why this man was teaching me these strange secret signs,”
Giuseppe explained in an exclusive, and very emotional, interview in Rome. “Then one day it became very clear when one of the priests made the secret sign for fellatio when we were alone, which was followed by him pushing his erect penis into my mouth.” Giuseppe reports: Of course we screamed and cried. Sometimes you would see priests coming into the dormitory at night, or you would see friends with tears rolling down their faces and you knew exactly what had just happened. You didn’t need to hear to know.
Eventually Giuseppe grew up and escaped the abuse, and made it his mission to report it. He is now “one of 67 young boys who have been named in court documents and were allegedly abused by more than two dozen priests and brothers at the Provolo Institute.”
After the abuse claims of Giuseppe and others became public, the offending priests and monks were quietly shipped off to Argentina.
This is standard practice for the Catholic church, and has been for decades. When a priest is caught raping and sexually assaulting children, he is quietly moved to a new location, where the pattern resumes. The offending priests from Italy were shipped to another school for the deaf run by Catholics, only this school was in Argentina, where Pope Francis was serving as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
The Daily Beast reports: One of the most notorious alleged offenders was Father Nicola Corradi, now 83, who was moved to South America in the mid-1980s after Giuseppe and others’ abuse claims came to light. Rather than handing him over to secular authorities or asking the mother church in Rome to defrock him, the bishop transferred him to the Provolo Institute in Mendoza, Argentina. Several other priests accused of abuse in Verona were also transferred to the sister school in Argentina, but have since passed away.
At the Provolo Institute in Mendoza, Argentina, under the direction of Father Nicola Corradi, the abuse of deaf children continued.
Corradi “was finally arrested in 2016 on allegations that he abused 22 deaf and mute children over the course of nearly three decades.
Three other priests were arrested with him. There are more than 60 civil trials going on across Argentina against priests like Corradi who allegedly abused children.”
As for the abuse in Argentina, The Daily Beast notes: Julieta Añazco was one of those victims at the [Argentinian] Provolo Institute. She says she was first abused by Father Ricardo Giménez, who worked at the institute. He first attacked her when she was just seven years old, she says, when the two were in a tent being used as a confessional at a Catholic youth festival. The abuse went on for three years before her parents found out and filed a complaint.
Giménez was then transferred by the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, under the direction of then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. In other words, Pope Francis knew about the sexual abuse, but did nothing to prosecute the criminals. He simply transferred the child raping priests to a new location.
According to the report, victims from the Provolo Institute repeatedly asked for a meeting with the then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. However, Bergoglio refused to meet with the victims. In 2013 Añazco and other victims from the Provolo Institute sent a registered letter of protest to Pope Francis, reminding him that he had ignored the reports of abuse. Pope Francis has not replied. Father Giménez is still an active priest.
Nun arrested for allegedly abusing deaf children in Argentina
Roman Catholic nun Kosaka Kumiko is escorted out of a police station to attend a court hearing, in Mendoza, Argentina, Thursday, May 4, 2017. Kumiko has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities. (Credit: Andres Larrovere/Diario Los Andes via AP.)
A Roman Catholic nun from Japan has been arrested and charged on suspicion of helping priests sexually abuse children at a school for youths with hearing disabilities in Argentina, authorities said.
Kosaka Kumiko was also charged with physically abusing the students at the Antonio Provolo Institute for children with hearing impairment in northwestern Mendoza province.
Local media showed the 42-year-old nun in handcuffs and wearing her
habit and a bullet-proof vest as she was escorted by police to a court
hearing. Kumiko, who was born in Japan but has Argentine citizenship,
denied any wrongdoing during the eight-hour hearing late Thursday.
Authorities say that Kumiko lived at the Provolo Institute from
2004-2012. She had been on the run for about a month before she turned
herself in this week.
The case against the nun was launched after a former student accused
of making her wear a diaper to cover up a hemorrhage after she was
allegedly raped by priest Horacio Corbacho.
Corbacho, fellow priest Nicola Corradi and three other men were
arrested last year after they were charged with sexually abusing at
least two dozen students at the Provolo Institute. They are being held
at a jail in Mendoza and have not spoken publicly since the arrest. If
found guilty, the accused face 10 to 50 years in prison.
Corradi had earlier been accused in Italy of abusing students at the
Provolo Institute in Verona, a notorious school for the deaf where
hundreds of children are believed to have been sexually assaulted over
the years by two dozen priests and religious brothers.
Advocates for clerical sex abuse have expressed anger that Corradi
wasn’t sanctioned by the Vatican and allegedly went on to abuse children
in Pope Francis’ native Argentina.
Victims and prosecutors say the anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and
oral sex allegedly committed by the priests took place in the bathrooms,
dorms, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city
about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) northwest of Buenos Aires.
A Vatican investigative commission recently visited Mendoza to learn more about the case against the priests.
PRIESTS STAND TRIAL IN ARGENTINA FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING DEAF AND MUTE CHILDREN
In a case known to Pope Francis since he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, priests who worked at a former institute for deaf and hearing-impaired children are being tried in Argentina for the sexual abuse of impaired children.
The first trial in a series of trials that will involve both priests, nuns and staff began Monday for the sexual abuse of former students at the Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in Mendoza, Argentina.
Cdl. Jorge Bergoglio, then-bishop of Buenos Aires, definitely knew about the sexual abuse at the institute.
Father Nicola Corradi, Fr. Horacio Corbacho and Armando Gómez have been
accused of sexually abusing deaf and hearing-impaired children from 2004 to
2016. Corradi pleaded not guilty, while Corbacho and Gómez have yet to enter
their pleas.
Former directors, employees and two nuns will also be tried for
allegedly participating in the abuse or having knowledge of it without taking
action.
Depending on the individual offenses, the defendants face up to 20–50
years.
Monday’s trial lasted about two hours. The charges included the corruption of minors, sexual touching and rape.
Pope Francis’ Inaction
One victim insisted that, before becoming pope, Cdl. Jorge Bergoglio,
then-archbishop of Buenos Aires, definitely knew about the sexual abuse at the
institute. She said that the victims who came forward tried to meet the
cardinal more than once — to no avail.
The Vatican did investigate the Próvolo Institute in 2010, acknowledging in 2012 that the abuses did occur; however, aside from a few light sanctions, the Vatican has said or done nothing further to date.
Another victim said that victims wrote several letters to the Vatican
in 2013 and 2014. Not having received a response, some of those victims went to
Rome to meet with Pope Francis and hand-delivered a letter to him.
In that meeting, the Pope asked for forgiveness for what happened and
requested the victims pray for him. He did “nothing else,” according
to that victim.
Yet another victim, who was also present at that meeting with the Pope,
confirmed the testimony, saying that Pope Francis said, “Forgive me”
and then said a prayer.
In the face of inaction ― first as a cardinal and now as the pope ―
some of these pedophile priests are being housed as guests in Vatican
accommodations or freely roaming the streets.
Father Eligio Piccoli, a priest who once worked at the Próvolo Institute’s main location in Verona, Italy, was resting in a Vatican accommodation in Negrar, near Verona, where a reporter approached him with some questions.
“Those things that the Association of the deaf is telling, are they true?” asked the reporter.
“Something is true, there is a lot of truth, but because they are
corrupt,” Piccoli began to answer.
“Who?” asked the reporter.
“The deaf-mute are all corrupt and have interests to
protect,” answered Piccoli.
“But are these stories true?” asked the reporter.
“Yes, they’re true,” said Piccoli.
Piccoli then talked about how most of the priests had engaged in these
activities with the impaired children, including himself.
He spoke of a “cuddly” child who came into his room from the cold one day. According to Piccoli, the child exposed himself and the pedophile priest lost his head, performing some sexual act with the child.
The reporter then asked, “Anyway, was what happened in that room
sinful?”
“No, it depends … because males with males was a joke, those are
jokes. However, if with a woman, it becomes more dangerous,” said Piccoli.
“What is sin? It’s having fun with the evil, being pleased with the evil.
But if you do something for a need, for a joke like this, come on.”
“As one has the smoking habit, one has the habit of — you feel the
urge to unload, that’s it,” concluded Piccoli.
And certainly, as pope, he could have acted years ago.
Father Eliseo Pirmati, an Italian priest who worked in both Verona and
La Plata, and who absconded to Verona in December 2017 to avoid prosecution in
Argentina, was found freely wandering the streets of Verona in June. After Mass
at Santa Teresa degli Scalzi in Verona one day, the pedophile priest was
confronted by a journalist as he walked back to the Próvolo Institute in the
city.
The abuse at the Próvolo Institute occurred in Argentina (La Plata and
Mendoza) and Italy (Verona).
Próvolo Institute in Mendoza, Argentina
Anne Barret Doyle, co-director of Bishop Accountability, told the
Associated Press that neither the Vatican nor the Pope will likely respond.
When the Verona institute made headlines in 2009 and 2010, Cdl.
Bergoglio was president of the Argentine bishops’ conference.
“He could have ordered an investigation of the Mendoza and La
Plata schools then,” she said. “And certainly, as pope, he could have
acted years ago. He was notified by the Verona victims of Corradi’s presence in
Argentina.”
Corradi, who stood trial on Monday, seems to have been the ringleader.
WATCH: Pope Francis Gets Caught in Gigantic Lie Regarding a Sexual Abuse Case in Argentina
Pope Francis faced accusations of covering up priestly abuse while he was the archbishop and cardinal in Buenos Aires, a 2017 French documentary reveals. A segment of the documentary, “Sex Abuse in the Church: The Code of Silence,” investigates the pope’s assertion that sexual abuse never happened in his diocese.
Investigative
journalist Martin Boudot traveled to Buenos Aires to find out if the
pope was telling the truth. Contradicting the pope’s assertion, a group
of victims claimed they were sexually abused while Bergoglio [now Pope
Francis] was archbishop and told Boudot their cries for justice were
ignored.
“Regarding
pedophile priests, in his book Pope Francis says there were no cases in
his diocese,” said Boudot, prompting derisive laughter from the group.
“He
wants people to believe that, but it’s a lie,” said one of the victims.
They said they all tried to contact the archbishop after they were
abused, but their cries fell on deaf ears.
“He
received all the celebrities, like Leonardo DiCaprio,” said one of the
women. “And for us, not even a quick letter to say he was sorry.”
Even
worse, in one case, Bergoglio tried to influence the Argentinean
justice system in an effort to protect Father Julio Grassi, who
is serving the remainder of a 15-year jail sentence after being
convicted of sexually abusing teenage boys.
Convicted Pedophile Priest Father Julio Grassi serving a 15 yr sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing teenage boys.
The Argentinian church did everything it could to get Grassi acquitted and the trial was spread over 15 years, according to Boudot. In 2010, in fact, the Argentine Episcopal Conference led by Cardinal Bergoglio ordered a counter-inquiry called “Studies on the Grassi Case.”
Boudot said the 2,800-page counter inquiry was actually “a confidential, internal Argentinian Church legal text” that accused the children of “falsification, lies, deceit and invention.” The purpose of the study was to overturn the court’s decision and get Fr. Grassi acquitted on appeal.
“So the pope did commission a counter-inquiry to try to have a priest who had been sentenced for pedophilia acquitted,” Boudot reported. What’s more, Bergoglio is said to have repeatedly sent the “study” to various judges right before Fr. Grassi’s various appeal hearings.
At the center of the counter-inquiry commissioned by Bergoglio was an orphan boy who was allegedly Grassi’s main victim. Now an adult, the man spoke about the case for the first time to Boudot anonymously because he’s still afraid of reprisals. He explained to Boudot that he received threats and people broke into his home and stole evidence he could have used in the trial. “In the end, the courts took action for my safety and placed me in the witness protection program,” he said.
“I’ll
never forget what Father Grassi kept repeating at his trial: ‘Bergoglio
never let go of my hand.’ Now Bergoglio is Pope Francis, but he has
never gone against Grassi’s words. So I’m certain he never let go of
Grassi’s hand!” he added.
Unable
to get an interview with the pope, Boudot and his team went to the
Vatican to see if they could hand a letter with written questions about
the Grassi case to the pope during his public audience at St. Peter’s
Square.
After managing to
hand the letter to a plainclothes Swiss Guard as the pope passed by, one
of the reporters got close enough to shout a question to the pope, who
had exited the popemobile.
“Your Holiness, in the Grassi case, did you try to influence Argentinian justice?” the woman shouted. Pope Francis glared at her and curtly replied, “no.”
“No? Then why did you commission a counter-inquiry?” she pressed.
With a wave of his hand, the pope replied, “I never did.”
Detailed Summary of Case of Rev. Julio César Grassi, Drawn from Media Coverage and Legal Documents
Grassi was a Salesian until 1991, when he became a priest of the
Morón diocese. In 1993, he founded Fundacion Felices los Niños (the
Happy Children Foundation), aimed at rescuing street children. According
to a news article, the foundation cared for 6,300 children in 17 homes
nationwide from 1993 to 2002.
On November 29, 2000, an anonymous complaint filed
in the Juvenile Court of Morón accused Grassi of corrupting minors. The
case lay dormant until 10/23/2002, when Telenoche Investiga,an
investigative news show on Argentina’s Channel 13, aired a program
alleging Grassi’s sexual abuse of five boys, ages 11 to 17. It included
an interview with a young man, his face obscured, who said that Grassi
performed oral sex on him in 1998, when he was 15. Within days, Grassi
was arrested and charged with 17 counts of abuse of three boys, who were
9, 13, and 17 when the alleged incidents occurred. Grassi denied all
the allegations.
In November 2002, the executive committee of the Argentine bishops’ conference issued a statement denouncing a “campaign” intended to “blur the image” of the Catholic Church and “cause society to lose its trust” in the institution. It warned against making “condemning judgments about individuals or institutions before a fair trial.” Although the statement did not refer to a specific attack, some news analysts interpreted it as the bishops’ response to public uproar about Grassi and the recently arrested Archbishop Storni. The Executive Committee was headed by Archbishop Karlic of Paraná and his first and second vice-presidents, Monsignor Miras of Rosario and Cardinal Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.
Grassi’s trial, one of the longest in Argentine
history, began on 8/20/2008 and lasted for nine months, with testimony
from 130 witnesses. On June 9, 2009, he was found guilty of two acts of
aggravated sexual assault and corruption of minors in the case of
“Gabriel.” He was acquitted of 15 other counts of abuse of “Luis” and
“Ezekiel.” He was sentenced to 15 years in prison but allowed to remain
free pending his appeal. He was prohibited from going alone to his
Foundation’s offices and children’s homes but could enter them if
accompanied by an individual whom he could designate.
On June 20, 2009, 49 priests and 50 laypeople
issued a statement opposing the court’s decision to let Grassi remain
free. They also criticized the “silence of ecclesial leaders before this
case and others.” The signers said, “We see that other bishops’
conferences like Colombia’s have spoken up in similar cases, and we do
not understand your silence, that has the appearance of ‘hushing up’ and
‘tolerance.’”
On September 14, 2010, the Criminal Appeals Court
of Buenos Aires province denied Grassi’s first appeal and confirmed the
15-year sentence. A few days later, the local court in Morón ruled again
that Grassi could remain free until his conviction was final. He was
prohibited only from entering the offices of the Happy Children
Foundation. Subsequent attempts by the prosecutor and victims’ attorneys
to have Grassi detained were rejected twice, in November /2010 by the
Appeal Court of Morón and in June 2011 by the Criminal Appeals Court of
Buenos Aires province.
On March 9, 2012, the bishop of Morón, Luis
Eichhorn, wrote to the Court of Morón, asking that Grassi be allowed to
transfer back to the Morón diocese. (Grassi had been living somewhere in
the diocese of San Justo.) Eichhorn asked specifically if Grassi could
live in the town of Hurlingham, at LaBlanquita, a house with a swimming
pool and large park, on the same block as the Happy Children
headquarters, where Grassi had assaulted Gabriel. On March 10, /2012,
the Court granted Bishop Eichhorn’s request.
On April 24, 2013, the Criminal Court of Morón
ruled affirmatively on a plaintiff’s motion that Grassi had violated
conditions of his freedom by referring to a victim in a TV interview.
Grassi’s lawyers announced they would appeal the decision. On September
19, 2013, the Supreme Court of Buenos Aires province rejected Grassi’s
appeal and ratified his 15-year sentence. On September 23, 2013,
the Morón Criminal Court No.1 ordered that Grassi immediately go to
prison to begin serving his sentence. In February 2014, Grassi filed a
request from prison requesting to be free until the national Supreme
Court reviews his case.
He remained in prison. In Novmeber 2016, he was
convicted of using his Happy Children Foundation funds to pay the rent
of his private home, for which he received an additional 2-year
sentence.
In a March 2017 unanimous decision, the Supreme
Court upheld the original 15-year sentence. A day later, the archdiocese
of Morón stated that the canonical investigation of the allegations
against Grassi is ongoing.
Because of his pre-trial detention, Grassi benefits
from a “Two-for-One” sentencing law and will complete his sentence in
2026. In 2021, he’ll be eligible for conditional release.
Father Grassi and Cardinal Bergoglio
Throughout the trial, Grassi claimed to be
supported by numerous bishops, especially Cardinal Bergoglio, who, he
said, “never let go of my hand [and] is always at my side.” Though long a
public supporter of the Happy Children Foundation, which ran homes in
the Buenos Aires archdiocese, Bergoglio said little to defend Grassi
publicly after his arrest. In a 2006 interview with Veintitres
magazine, Bergoglio said that “justice will determine” Grassi’s
innocence, although “there is a media campaign against him, a
condemnation in the media.” In August 2008, a spokesperson for the
Argentine bishops’ conference, then headed by Bergoglio, said that
Grassi’s claim of the cardinal’s backing was “an affirmation that he’s
making on his own.” He added that the bishops “are respectful of the
rule of law” and that innocence must be presumed until proven
otherwise.
Indeed, after Grassi was found guilty in June 2009,
Bergoglio secretly authorized an extensive critical examination of
Grassi’s prosecution and of the three original plaintiffs. In his
capacity as president of the Argentine Bishops’ conference, Bergoglio
approved the hiring of a leading criminal defense lawyer and legal
scholar, Marcelo Sancinetti, to do the private investigation.
The resulting study vigorously asserted Grassi’s innocence and, according to a Página/12 report, denied even the prevalence of child sexual abuse itself. It reportedly was circulated to judges who had yet to make determinations in the case. The first volume, with 423 pages, debunked the accusations of “Ezequiel,” of which Grassi was acquitted; volume two, with 646 pages, attacked the credibility of “Gabriel,” of whose abuse Grassi was convicted. As of spring 2013, a third volume had been produced, and a fourth and final volume was expected.
The bishops’ commissioned exoneration of Grassi was revealed in December 2011 by Juan Pablo Gallego, an attorney for the Committee for Oversight and Implementation of International Conventions for Children’s Rights, who had represented the plaintiffs at the trial. Gallego called the study a “scandalous instance of lobbying and exerting pressure on the Court” and accused the bishops of “further hindering a process that has outrageously granted the condemned priest a situation of almost unthinkable freedom.”
Grassi remained free pending appeal until September
2013, when his second appeal was rejected by the provincial court, and
the Morón Criminal Court No.1 ordered that he finally go to prison.
“And peace to the children, on this special day on which God became a child, above all those deprived of the joys of childhood because of hunger, wars or the selfishness of adults.” – Pope Francis’ Christmas Urbi et Orbi Message 2016
Indeed, Pope Francis. The joys of childhood are deprived to the victims of clergy sexual abuse by the selfishness of adults. Despite his global popularity, the reality is that Francis is all talk, and no action when dealing with clerical child sex abuse. Not surprisingly, as the novelist, V.S. Naipaul observed about Argentines, “it is the Argentine attitude to suppress and ignore.”
Notwithstanding his incessant chatter about mercy and human trafficking, this Argentine Pope continues to suppress and ignore the ongoing clerical child sexual abuse. The latest case of papal inertia and deafness is especially heinous since it involves the sexual abuse of hundreds of disabled deaf and mute children in Italy and Argentina by several priests, giving tragic magnification to the oft used term, voiceless victims. This coverup lies squarely on Bergoglio’s watch.
During the 3 1/2 years of the Francis Papacy, the self-appointed Merciful One is not so merciful when it comes to the victims of clergy sex abuse. As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio left a record of abysmal apathy and inaction to root out clergy sex abuse. This pattern lives on behind the Vatican walls.
Who could forget the now familiar Francis fury raging at the faithful Catholics of Osorno Chile who pleaded with the Pope not to elevate a bishop who had allegedly protected a serial child predator? Francis ignored and suppressed their concerns as “stupid.” Who could forget the Pope’s personal appointment to the Synod on the Family of Cardinal Danneels, the renowned Belgian prelate who protected predator clerics? Don’t forget child abuse victim Peter Saunders, who served on the papal child protection commission and was forced to take a leave of absence for criticizing the Pope’s decisions on clerical sex abusers.
Wake up, Francis fawners, his mercy meme rings as hollow and empty, as hope and change.
It’s difficult to imagine a worse scenario for victim children then the latest case to cross Francis’ desk involving Fr. Nicholas Corradi. Fr. Corradi worked in the famous Provolo Institute for deaf and mute children in Italy for many years. Fr. Corradi was one of several priests who allegedly abused disabled children at the Provolo Institute.
The victims’ families argue that the Vatican knew about Fr. Corradi since at least 2009, when he was publicly accused of abusing deaf and mute students at the Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy. The Italian Provolo students went public with tales of shocking abuse against the most vulnerable of children and named several priest perps. While the Vatican sanctioned four accused priests, Corradi apparently was not punished for his alleged crimes in Italy and shockingly, Corradi left Italy and relocated to the South America at an Argentine school for deaf and mute students in Mendoza Argentina.
Despite allegations of sexual abuse by Corradi from Italian students, the Vatican apparently made no effort to immediately notify the Argentines, and recall Corradi to Italy. Additionally, the Argentine Conference of Bishops, then headed by Cardinal Bergoglio made no inquiries into the sudden arrival of Fr. Corradi at the school for deaf children in Mendoza Argentina. They should have been on high alert since modern Church history are full of predatory priests relocating to other countries and continents to avoid prosecution for child predation. Vetting Fr. Corradi for the sake of vulnerable deaf children would have been a simple precaution for their protection. Try Google for starters.
Tragically, and not surprisingly, the same clerical sex abuse scandal unfolded at the Argentine Provolo Institute for hearing impaired children. Like the dozens of children similarly abused in Italy, victims stepped forward to allege rape and sexual abuse by Fr. Corradi and another priest and staff members. And the Vatican knew about the Rev. Nicola Corradi since at least 2009.
Papal Deafness
In 2014, the Italian victims wrote directly to Pope Francis branding Corradi as a paedophile and flagged that he was living in Francis’ native Argentina. Where is the infamous Francis mercy and sense of urgency for disabled Argentine children? Pope Francis did nothing and would not open an independent investigation into Fr. Corradi’s alleged sexual abuse of these high risk children in Argentina. One would think that Argentine deaf and mute children at risk of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest would garner top priority from the Argentine pontiff!
The letter to Pope Francis details the heartbreakingly brutal and painful journey and treatment of abuse victims by the Vatican:
We
are a group of former students of the Antonio Provolo Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb of Verona (Italy) who told the press about the abuses
committed by paedophile priests at the Institute. This was done only
after three years of fruitless contacts with the Curia of Verona and in
order to prevent what happened to us from happening to other
children.The Bishop of Verona, who had been aware of what was going on,
immediately accused us of being slanderers.
On May 9, 2014, the Provolo victims of Italy sent the Pope Francis a video message (knowing his preference for videos) on May 9, 2014. The eight deaf mutes pleaded for justice and asked the Pope for safety measure for the protection of children. Still no action by the Pope Francis while Fr. Corradi was teaching deaf and mute children in Argentina.
Since the Congregation for the Defense of the Faith had determined in 2012 (during Benedict’s papacy) that Corradi had sexually abused deaf and mute children in Italy, the Vatican was on notice that this priest had relocated to an Argentine school for deaf and mute children. Hasn’t the Vatican learned that predators relocate and pick up where they left off, by abusing children? Wasn’t the Vatican concerned that disabled Argentine children were at high risk with Fr. Corradi? How many Agentine children were abused because of the Vatican inaction and silence?
Finally, after ongoing publicity and personal pleas, in 2015 Provolo Victims’ Association met with Francis and personally asked him for an independent investigation of the clerical abuse of deaf and mute children. They waited and waited for a response from the loquacious pontiff to their urgent request for an independent investigation. Nothing, but silence.
Finally,
after repeated requests to the Vatican press office. An answer came
dated February 2016 in which the Vatican press office stated that the
Pope forwarded the victims’ request to the Italian Bishop’s Conference,
saying it was up to the Italian Bishop’s Conference to investigate the
allegations. What happened to the much touted Papal Commission on the
Protection of Minors? After a massive clerical sex abuse scandal
involving the most vulnerable children on two continents, the Vatican
passively and callously pitches the problem to the Italian Bishop’s
Conference?
That,
folks, is nothing more than a dodge, a pontifical punt into oblivion
from this Pope who incessantly prattles on about zero tolerance for
clergy sex abuse and poses as the champion of human trafficking victims,
while his own Argentine disabled children were allegedly sexually
abused by his indifference and inaction. Some mercy!
Yet, Swift Papal Action for Ecclesial Rivals
Contrast
Francis’ inaction over the rape of innocent children, with his recent
sudden action to appoint an independent commission to investigate the
Knights of Malta, whose Cardinal Patronus happens to be Francis’ arch
rival, Cardinal Raymond Burke. Within a week of learning that the
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta was suspended for continuing
to distribute condoms, Francis quickly assembled a high powered
commission to investigate that suspension, and presumably Burke, and to
report back promptly to the Pope.
When
Francis wants to wield political and ecclesial power, he does so with
dispatch and authority. Papal politics, not child sexual abuse victims,
garner his speedy attention. If Pope Francis has an opportunity to
take a political shot at his clerical political rivals, he seemingly
moves with all deliberate speed. Yet when mute and deaf child victims of
clergy abuse beg for an independent investigation, Francis drags his
feet, slow walking his answer, and does nothing for years, causing more
children to be raped and sexually abused.
Police Arrest Predator Priest Ignored by Francis
In
late November 2016, Argentine Police arrested 82-year old priest Rev.
Nicola Corradi, 55-year-old priest Horacio Corbacho, and three other
men. They are accused of sexual and physical child abuse at the Antonio
Provolo Institute in northwestern Mendoza province.One of the priests
Nicolás Corradi, who had been given a previous conviction for child
abuse in Italy before being transferred to Argentina, gave orders that
none of the children’s relatives were allowed to enter the school.
Parents now believe this was part of the cover up.When the police raided
the school in Argentina’s Mendoza province and they found pornography
and about $34,000 in Rev. Corradi’s room.
Pope Francis urged to open files on Argentina’s pedophile priests
Ken Smolka, 70, who alleges he was molested in 1958 by a Jesuit priest, poses at his home Friday March 15, 2013 in Glendora, Calif. (AP Photo / Nick Ut )
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Activists against abuse by Roman Catholic
clergy urged Pope Francis on Tuesday to apologize for what they called
the Argentine church’s protection of two priests who were eventually
convicted of sexually assaulting children.
The U.S.-based Bishop Accountability group cited the case of Father
Julio Cesar Grassi, who ran the “Happy Children” foundation and was
convicted of pedophilia in 2008, and Father Napoleon Sasso, convicted in
2007 of abusing girls at a soup kitchen in suburban Buenos Aires.
The Buenos Aires archbishop’s office didn’t immediately respond Tuesday.
The pope’s authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin, told The Associated
Press before Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope last week that he
had drawn an increasingly tough line on clergy abuse. Bergoglio insisted
that accused priests face trial, and imposed a thorough screening
process in an attempt to weed out future problems, Rubin said.
In the 2012 book “On Heaven and Earth,” in which Bergoglio and Rabbi
Abraham Skorka engage in a religious dialogue, the future pope said the
church should not ignore the sexual abuse of minors by priests.
“When that happens, we must never turn a blind eye. You cannot be in a
position of power and destroy the life of another person,” he said,
adding that priests guilty of such offences should be stripped of their
right to perform priestly duties.
Bergoglio said the church shouldn’t try to keep such cases quiet. “I do
not believe in taking positions that uphold a certain corporative
spirit in order to avoid damaging the image of the institution,” he
said.
Nobody has presented evidence that Bergoglio was directly involved covering up sex abuse. But a lawyer for the victims, Ernesto Moreau, told the AP that as the top authority for the Argentine church, Bergoglio was ultimately responsible for the treatment of the victims, who have yet to get medical treatment or compensation.
“Bergoglio has been the strongest man in the Argentine church since the beginning of this century,” Moreau said, and yet “the leadership of the church has never done anything to remove these people from these places, and neither has it done anything to relieve the pain of the victims.”
At the Vatican, Francis will be ultimately responsible for the work of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which last year told the
world’s bishops conferences to come up with comprehensive guidelines to
deal with sexual abusive clergy. It gave the bishops a year to draft
guidelines to better screen priests, root out potential abusers, educate
laity about the problem, and require bishops report suspected abuse to
civil authorities where civil reporting laws exist.
As it turns out, Bergoglio has several examples in Argentina to draw from.
Grassi was well known in Buenos Aires for persuading celebrities to
donate to his “Happy Children” foundation, which ran orphanages and
social outreach programs. Before he was convicted, Grassi praised
Bergoglio for “never abandoning him.” Now he’s free on appeal, thanks in
part to a church filing on his behalf.
Sasso, meanwhile, enjoys prison furloughs after serving half of a 17-year sentence for abusing five girls.
Sasso was assigned to the soup kitchen, at a chapel where his bedroom
shared the only bathroom, after living in a home for wayward priests
where he had been sent after accusations of pedophilia were raised
against him in remote San Juan province.
“The bathroom had two doors. The girls would come in through the outside door, and the priest would bring them into his bedroom through the other, sexually abusing the girls,” Moreau said. “These were really poor people, who were there for free meals while their parents worked. They found an enormous amount of child pornography in his computer, semen, condoms.” It was a medical priest and a nun who discovered that Sasso abused 25 girls aged 3 to 16, but when they informed church officials, they were told to “remain patient,” and nothing was done, Moreau said.
Eventually, they sought higher authorities and the case was taken up by
the criminal courts, but the mid-level officials who covered it up
still have their positions, while the priest and nun were forced to work
elsewhere, the lawyer said.
Bergoglio ran Argentina’s bishops conference, which must approve
inter-diocese priest transfers, at the time when Sasso was assigned to
the soup kitchen. He also ran the church when Sasso later became a
fugitive and hid out for a year inside church property in the same
diocese where the abuse occurred, Moreau said.
Bishop Accountability co-director Anne Doyle said that shows Bergoglio
was behind the curve in the Catholic Church’s global struggle to deal
with sex abuse by its priests, which erupted in 2002 after thousands of
cases became public in the United States and around the world.
“We would be alarmed if the Archbishop Bergoglio had done this in the
’60s or ’70s. That would be sad and disturbing. But the fact that he did
this just five years ago, when other bishops in other countries were
meeting victims and implementing tough reporting laws, it puts him
behind some of his American counterparts, that’s for sure,” Doyle told
the AP.
The group said that to send a message of zero tolerance, Francis should
tell the Buenos Aires archdiocese to release the complete files on the
Grassi and Sasso cases, publicly identify priests who are “credibly
accused” and endorse mandatory reporting by church officials to law
enforcement of suspected abuse. The pope also should admit that he was
wrong to defend abusive priests, apologize to the victims of Grassi and
Sasso, and offer to meet with the victims, the group said.
Doyle noted that The Washington Post reported on these cases just as
Francis was being installed as pope in a Vatican ceremony seen around
the world Tuesday.
“The victims of these two priests are the very children of God about
whom he was speaking in his homily today,” she said. “They are the most
vulnerable of the poor. We hope that Francis will seize this as a
priority and reach out to the victims and rectify his terrible
insensitivity to them when he was archbishop.”
In the United States, confidential files on hundreds of pedophile
priests have been released either through civil litigation, settlements
or court order. The contents have revealed how top church officials
worked behind the scenes to control the sex abuse scandal and keep it
from authorities as well as parishioners.
Similar broad releases of confidential priest files haven’t happened in
Latin America, where victims are less likely to come forward and even
less likely to file a civil claim.
Ramon Luzarraga, an expert on the Catholic Church in Latin America,
said justice has come more slowly in Argentina in part because its
society has until recently avoided public discussions of sexual
humiliation, which was used as a tactic in the “dirty war” waged against
leftists by the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
Also, he said, “Argentina’s democracy is still comparatively young and,
compared to the United States, people are not as acclimated to being
outspoken in the face of injustice.”
That leaves clergy abuse victims in the U.S. and their supporters to
hold the pope to account on questions of priest abuse everywhere, said
Luzarraga, who teaches theology at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
The hundreds of confidential priest personnel files that have been made
public in the U.S. have bolstered critics because they can see with
their own eyes how the American church dealt with abusive priests, he
added.
“That is a big difference. Information is power.”
POPE FRANCIS COVERED UP AND PROTECTED DISGUSTING SCUMBAG PRIESTS WHO WERE RAPING DEAF/MUTE CHILDREN AT THE ANTONIO PROVOLO INSTITUTES AND SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH FOR IT
THENRoman Catholic Pedophiles have been raping and torturing and brutalizing children since 300 AD. Many of their Popes were raving fucking pedophiles. And of course their leadership Pedophile Pimps Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Archbishops constantly protected these disgusting, dangerous rapists of childrens bodies, minds and souls, and allowed these perverts to continue to rape children without punishment. And? This scumbag shitstain Pope Francis just proved with what he did to these deaf/mute children of the Antonio Provolo Institutes and for his defense of such scum pedos Grassi?
WELL HE, POPE FRANCIS SHOULD BE FUCKING EXECUTED USING THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OWN TORTURE TOOLS OF THE INQUISITION.
THE FIRST TORTURE THIS HEAD PEDOPHILE PIMP POPE FRANCIS SHOULD BE HAVING A RED HOT, COAL FILLED POPES PEAR SHOVED UP HIS ASS.
The Pear of Anguish was used during the Middle Ages as a way to torture
women who conducted a miscarriage, liars, blasphemers and homosexuals.
A pear-shaped instrument was inserted into one of the victim’s orifices:
the vagina for women, the anus for homosexuals and the mouth for liars
and blasphemers.
The instrument consisted of four leaves that slowly separated from each
other as the torturer turned the screw at the top. It was the torturer’s
decision to simply tear the skin or expand the “pear” to its maximum
and mutilate the victim.
The Pear of Anguish was usually very adorned to differentiate between
the anal, vaginal and oral pears. They also varied in size accordingly.
This torture very rarely provoked death, but was often followed by other torture methods.
Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis should have a red-hot, coal-filled Popes Pear shoved up his ass to see just how he likes having his asshole ripped open and bleeding like he allowed all those deaf/mute children to be raped in their asses at the Antonio Provolo Institutes in Italy and Argentina.
THEN POPE FRANCIS’ DEATH PENALTY PUNISHMENT NEXT GETS PUNISHED WITH THE RAT TORTURE.
A cheap and effective way to torture someone was with the use of rats.
There were many variants, but the most common was to force a rat through
a victim’s body (usually the intestines) as a way to escape. This was
done as follows:
The victim was completely restrained and tied to the ground or any
horizontal surface. A rat was then placed on his stomach covered by a
metallic container. As the container was gradually heated, the rat began
to look for a way out – through the victim’s body.
Digging a hole usually took a few hours of agonizing pain for the victim. This almost invariantly resulted in death.
THEN? WE PLACE THIS JUDAS TO CHILDREN IN THE JUDAS CHAIR
Also known as the Judas Chair, the Chair of Torture was a terrible device of the Middle Ages. It was used until the late 1800’s in Europe.
There are many variants of the chair. They all have one thing in common: spikes cover the back, arm-rests, seat, leg-rests and foot-rests. The number of spikes in one of these chairs ranges from 500 to 1,500.
To avoid movement, the victim’s wrists were tied to the chair or, in one version, two bars pushed the arms against arm-rests for the spikes to penetrate the flesh even further. In some versions, there were holes under the chair’s bottom where the torturer placed coal to cause severe burns while the victim still remained conscious.
This instrument’s strength lies primarily in the psychological fear caused on the victims. It was a common practice to extract a confession by forcing the victim to watch someone else be tortured with this instrument.
The time of death greatly varied ranging from a few hours to a day or more. No spike penetrated any vital organ and the wound was closed by the spike itself which delayed blood loss greatly.
Yes, the Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis certainly deserves to be placed in a Judas Chair, for his being a Judas to all of us raped and tortured and brutalized by his disgusting pedo priests. Especially all those deaf/mute children he allowed to be raped and tortured at the Antonio Provolo Institutes in Argentina and Italy.
And last, but certainly not least? Pope Francis should be drawn and quartered, his head cut off and put on a pike in front of the Vatican with the warning “This is what we will now do to Roman Catholic scum leaders who cover up and protect disgusting, demonic pedophile priests who rape children
Usually, this form of execution was used on prisoners convicted of
treason. It was reserved to the most hated of criminals, as it was
easily the most sadistic and barbaric form of execution ever invented.
A chronicler by the name of William Harrison portrayed the execution of hanging, drawing, and quartering as: “The
greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as
offend against the State is drawing from the prison to the place of
execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be
half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their
members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire,
provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same
purpose.”
Let’s draw, quarter and destroy this Head Pedophile Pimp Pope Francis
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