My Book: They Promised Heaven But Led Me To Hell

My crime, in the eyes of the catholic church nuns, was that I was born ‘a bastard and a daughter of the devil. The punishments for my sins started when I was 18months old in the nursery by three ladies workers for the nuns which were repeated most nights up to the age of 5years old. My childhood was a life of abuse by nuns, the workers, older girls and a priest, the only way I could get through this was to be by myself or run away and hide, go and stay in the church and also climb as high as I could in the trees or jump the fences and hide in long grass. I also went to the police but that did me no good I was thrashed by the nuns when the police took me back to the orphanage...

 

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Names of members of Catholic Church in Ireland convicted of child abuse published online

THE names of members of the Catholic Church in Ireland convicted of child abuse were published online yesterday. More than 70 names of priests and religious brothers convicted or named in abuse enquiries appeared on a database of the independent organisation, BishopAccountability.org. It said it believes that by making the list public it "makes children safer". It has also called on Pope Francis to release the names of all priests - including Irish ones - who have been disciplined by the Church for child sexual abuse.

http://www.irishnews.com/news/2018/08/21/news/names-of-members-of-catholic-church-in-ireland-convicted-of-child-abuse-published-online-1412168/ 

Cardinal Wuerl target of rising anger after Pa. grand jury report

In the week since a Pennsylvania grand jury reported on child sex abuse by Catholic priests, Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s reputation has taken a brutal hit. Wuerl’s upcoming book has been canceled by the publisher, he abruptly pulled out of his role as keynote speaker at a major global meeting in Ireland, and officials are considering taking his name off a high school in his hometown of Pittsburgh, where Wuerl served as bishop for 18 years before becoming the archbishop of Washington in 2006. On Monday, a vandal got ahead of them — covering his name in red spray paint.

https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4184472111856999279#editor/target=post;postID=4572571905865587472 

In full: Pope Francis' letter on child sex abuse and cover-ups

Pope Francis has issued a 2,000 word letter following a new report into clerical child sex abuse in the Catholic Church - here it is in full. Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis To the People of God "If one member suffers, all suffer together with it" (1 Cor 12:26). These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons. Crimes that inflict deep wounds of pain and powerlessness, primarily among the victims, but also in their family members and in the larger community of believers and nonbelievers alike.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45250452 

The Latest: Archbishop says he didn't see misconduct letter

VATICAN CITY — The Latest on the clerical sex abuse scandal (all times local): 12:40 a.m. The archbishop of Boston says he didn't see a letter sent to his office in 2015 concerning another archbishop's possibly inappropriate behavior with seminarians. Cardinal Sean O'Malley said Monday the letter was about now ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. Pope Francis ordered McCarrick removed from public ministry amid allegations he sexually abused a teenage altar boy and engaged in sexual misconduct with adult seminarians decades ago.

https://www.wral.com/the-latest-group-makes-database-of-accused-irish-clergy/17781274/ 

Pope apologizes for priest sex abuse scandal with 'sorrow and shame'

"We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them," the pope said in a letter that also condemned the abuse and the cover-up. Pope Francis begged for forgiveness in an unprecedented letter Monday and said Catholic leaders were to blame following a grand jury report last week that found more than 1,000 children were sexually abused by "predator priests" in Pennsylvania for decades. "With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not where we should have been, that we did not act in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and the gravity of the damage done to so many lives," Francis wrote. "We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them," he added.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/pope-francis/pope-francis-apologizes-catholic-priest-sex-abuse-scandal-sorrow-shame-n902121 

Pope Francis responds to cover-up of child abuse by Catholic Church

Pope Francis compared the cover-up of widespread child abuse within the Catholic Church to ‘toilet filth’ as he used his first day in Ireland to meet with sexual abuse victims and pledged to eliminate the “scourge” of abuse. On early Saturday evening, Francis spent 90 minutes with eight survivors including those who had been abused by priests and those who suffered appalling treatment inside Catholic-run institutions. Among those included at the meeting was two people forcibly separated from their parents by a Church-run home. Clodagh Malone and Paul Redmond said the meeting had been “cordial and polite” and that Francis described abuse in the Church as “caca.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/like-toilet-filth-pope-francis-responds-cover-child-abuse-catholic-church-200652917.html 

US Not Alone In Grappling With Catholic Sex Abuse, Cover-Up

Recent revelations of sexual misconduct and cover-up within the highest ranks of the U.S. Catholic Church have revived the sense of betrayal that devastated the American church’s credibility after the first wave of scandal hit in 2002. But the United States is by no means alone: Cases of Catholic priests raping and molesting children, and of bishops covering up for them, have erupted on nearly every continent in recent years, with Pope Francis’ native Latin America the latest to explode. Francis is expected to address the issue head-on this weekend when he visits Ireland, the first country to come to grips with the problem in the 1990s.

http://www.thevillagereporter.com/us-not-alone-in-grappling-with-catholic-sex-abuse-cover-up/ 

The all-male priesthood finds itself in another scandal

As a Catholic priest, I did the unspeakable. I called for the ordination of women in the Church. The Vatican was swift in its response. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith informed me that I was “causing grave scandal” in the Church and that I had 30 days to recant my public support for the ordination of women or I would be expelled from the priesthood.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/ncr-today/all-male-priesthood-finds-itself-another-scandal 

Under cover of goodness: How pillars of the community can prey on kids

Doctors, coaches, clergy. Society knows these as noble professions, filled with good people. Doctors heal. Coaches encourage athletic excellence. Priests usher people closer to God. Then there are Dr. Larry Nassar, Coach Jerry Sandusky and Father John Geoghan. Society knows them as monsters. Abuse in one of these vocations came to the fore of public consciousness just last week, when a grand jury detailed decades of allegations of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/24/health/child-sex-abuse-priests-doctors-coaches-teachers-trust/index.html 

They Promised Heaven But Led Me To Hell

As I have written in my book and E-book... I wish to thank all the people who said NO to me, Because of them I did it myself... Trigger Warning... Please take care as you read my story.. I wrote everything in the book... because I want the world to know what happens to a child's mind... when they are abuse at any age of their lives... Children take abuse of all kinds as a punishment for being naughty and bold... We were innocent of the lies and punishment... which we were thrashed... raped... and abused for... We were little children... Boys and Girls who knew nothing about the world outside... the red brick walls... our abusers were god's servants and Jesus Brides... who ruled with an iron fist... and WOE BETIDE any child who could not do adult's work... they would be thrashed with-in an inch of their lives... I want you to also know that when you read my story... it is a story of thousands upon thousands... of other men and women's stories... we survived our childhood abuse were many others didn't... please do not judge us... WE WERE INNOCENT... WE DID NO WRONG... BUT THEY SENT US TO HELL... AND WE ARE STILL HURTING INSIDE... Ann
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The Catholic church covered up abuse. Can RICO laws treat it like organized crime?

In 1970, Congress gifted prosecutors with the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, intended to give crime fighters a powerful weapon to take down organized crime. It became known as RICO, and at first, prosecutors were unsure what to make of it. Previously, they could go after members of criminal organizations for their individual crimes, but they didn’t have a tool for dismantling an organization dedicated to illicit activity. They were skeptical that the new law would fill that void.

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/08/22/catholic-church-abuse-pennsylvania-priest-abuse-cover-up-rico-criminal-charges/1060325002/ 

New York seminary ‘had to hide handsome ones’ when McCarrick visited: Priests

In the early 1970s, Father Theodore McCarrick’s predilection for young men was allegedly so well known that members of a New York seminary joked they had to “hide the handsome ones” when he visited. More priests have come forward to give Catholic News Agency (CNA) this and other evidence of ex-Cardinal McCarrick’s reputation for inappropriate behavior towards seminarians and young priests. In addition, they have reported that a homosexual network of priests and seminarians are still active in contemporary Newark. Ted McCarrick served as the Archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-york-seminary-had-to-hide-handsome-ones-when-mccarrick-visited-priests