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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Thousands Protest American Bishops Conference in Maryland Over Sex Abuse Scandal

A large crowd of Catholics met in Baltimore, Md., on Tuesday outside the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was meeting to discuss the sex abuse crisis in the Church. At the last minute, orders from Rome forbade the bishops from voting on their planned changes to protocol in dealing with predatory bishops. Some, like modernist Cardinal Blase Cupich, claim this shows the pope's dedication to the cause, while others, more orthodox, see it as more foot-dragging and time-wasting from the Holy See.

Thousands of Catholics rallied under the #SilentNoMore banner to hear speakers ranging from victims to theologians discussing the sex scandal in the church. James Grein came out, for the first time using his whole name, as a victim of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal of the Church.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not making light of this, but ya'll need to be protesting all churches. The facts and data show that child abuse like this happens at protestant churches with the same frequency as it does at Catholic Churches. Companies that insure churches collect this data and this is what they find, plus Billie Grahams grandson who champions this fight too.

If ya'll are gonna protest Catholics, you need to be protesting at every other Christian denomination too.

This isn't a Catholic problem, it's a people in power problem. Predators realize that people think Church folk can be trusted, and take advantage... the denomination doesn't matter.

Anonymous said...

Celibacy is the root of the problem.




Anonymous said...

This stuff is becoming a real pain in the ass.

Anonymous said...

When will I read that these hundreds of priests will be sent to jail? Over 300 just in Pennsylvania alone.