25 years of therapy, yet suicide is a constant thought. Only people of absolute faith and trust, especially children like I was at 11 years old, fall victim to predatory priests, and for most of us that is the day our faith dies, or at least becomes more of just a desperate hope, nothing near a faith in a God who loves us.
I write and do what I do because I view victims of abuse as if they were my own kids. Those whose abuse I could not prevent are the ones I want to love and support now while trying to prevent this from happening to others. Unfortunately, sexual predators were preyed upon and abused themselves. So, what we are dealing with has nothing to do with genetics, but is learned behavior similar to a man who abuses his wife after having grown up in a home where he witnessed his father abusing his mom. Most Catholics fail to acknowledge how the Catholic Church, by not protecting vulnerable seminarians who were preyed upon by gay faculty members and upperclassmen, helped to create the largest gay (lavender) network in the world.
When I was seven, I was nearly killed in a mass murder, and have had two severe disabilities ever since. While I would not begin to compare what happened to me with the assault on your soul and body, it was nevertheless dramatically awful: it's a shock you don't forget to return to consciousness next to the bodies of your best friend and a middle aged woman, then to see that oh, you're bleeding to death.
It's understandable that you would question the goodness of God in the way of a vulnerability which I wasn't subject to, because the man who killed those other people and nearly killed me didn't have the office of a priest, but evil is evil, whether it lurks in the soul of a maniac who makes a suitcase bomb which will kill children or a religious figure who is determined to satisfy his own vile urges at the expense of a trusting little boy.
I know, I know, there is a particularly intense quality of the evil which befell you which I was fortunate to have escaped. I don't know why God didn't protect you anymore than I know why he didn't protect the boys who were victims of Dean Corll, in Houston, or John Gacy, in Chicago, or the thousands of other children like you who were in churches all over the world and who were assaulted, or all raped children, period. Our cry is, "Oh God, why didn't you just stop his heart?!" and we have no answer for now about our own unique torments, but we did have an empty tomb on Easter Sunday morning, and the death and resurrection of Jesus is the inarguable sign for believers in Him that as Tolkien wrote in The Lord of the Rings, everything which is sad will eventually come unsad. Immerse yourself in Word and Sacrament, dear one.
Have you read The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel vander Kolk, M.D.? It's probably the best book written for the public about what trauma does to the body. I urge you to read it, and to seriously look into EMDR for yourself, as well.
One other thing: as more has been learned about sociopathy, it has become evident that many men have become clergy precisely because it gives them the kind of access to potential victims which they wouldn't have otherwise. You were not brutalized by a genuine priest with a terrible weakness, you were brutalized by a wicked man who was masquerading as a godly one.
Fr. Gomulka, You may wish to ask whether Leo is a legitimate pope.
Calling him "pope" unreservedly--considering (inter alia) past and present violations of U. D. G.; considering he was made cardinal by Bergoglio who is on record as a rather flamboyant apostate and destroyer of the Church if not an Anti-pope as well (ergo without power to appoint legitimate cardinals; and considering the support of both men for blessings of active sodomfolk in Fiducia Supplicans which clearly violates the Second and the Sixth Commandments--would appear false and rash.
The product of--in the words of Archbishop Vigano--a usurper pope, namely Francis, would seem to be another usurper.
You know, presumably, the Lavender St Gallen Mafia forced out Pope Benedict. McCarrick, Cormac Murphy O'Connor, and Danneels--molesters or molester/pederast protectors all, have all admitted as much whether directly or indirectly (ie through Austin Ivereigh, Cormac's spox at the time..
I presume you know they installed Francis, the usurper.
You certainly know the Lavender Mafia as well as anyone. Clearly it is the Party of Francis. Both Francis and Leo have a horrific history of hiding shielding defending and enabling predator priests. It is diametrically opposed to the welfare of Holy Mother Church--as Francis amply indicated for the pst 12 years, and Leo has followed suit.
Do you doubt Francis and Leo are members? How can you not doubt they are valid popes?
STOP calling that heretic Pope, the law [Univetsi Dominici Gregis] specifies that the maximum number of cardinal electors in the conclave must not exceed 120. 133 exceeds, and the cardinals do not have the right to do that. All votes in the comclave were as if they did not occur.
You are not honest, which makes your use of the Divine Name at the end of your statement blasphemous. If you don't want to do anything about the Church then go do something about the critical infrastructure being compromised at every level by China/Israel/Russia.
I’m not honest? How else would you describe a church that willfully rejects, divine revelation, let alone pass teaching, for the sake of intellectual fashion and sociological relevance?
How else would you describe the churches embrace of JPII’s unilateral, arbitrary, theological, revisionism concerning capital punishment for murder? What would you call Francis‘s lip service against abortion, but his flaccid response to it? What would you call Francis‘s lip service, opposing gender ideology while appointing people to high ecclesiastical positions, who support it? What would you call the Catholic leadership’s goal of “queering“ the Catholic Church?
Don’t believe that’s happening? Read the following:
I'm not in denial about any of that, and of course idiotic particular opinions or nontraditional excesses of scope in teching have to be corrected, but this recent conclave election was invalid on its face so I'm headed to Rome to help organize a legitimate one. The College of Cardinals does exist by law, the law actually says they are wrong, and their candidate has no authority to bind anyone whatsoever, and fortunately the right of the Romans to elect a pope is primordial and upstream of the particular laws from which the cardinals defected.
Thanks for the article and I'll get back to you--after I've read the Latin versions of the cited texts, which are the only official versions.
No, these are just plain drug, sex, banking and geopolitics mobsters infesting the hierarchy, what will be needed is like St Athanasius, to go to each territory and give the Catholics an actual Catholic ordinary to rule them. Some urging of the civil authorities to help imprison and RICO different mobsters in different jurisdictions will obviously be part of the deal.
I used to hang around with some mobsters in the past so I definitely owe reparation for that.
I love your apparent zeal, if it is genuine, in defending the death penalty against the mobsters who don't want you to ever think about it and those who concur with them. I'd gladly hang with them as long as they all hang. Corporal punishment in general needs to be brought back aside from capital punishments.
Believe me, the zeal is real, not only concerning capital punishment for murder, but the other subjects that I addressed in my articles — all of which I wrote, by the way.
How are you actually going to organize a new conclave?
In fact, my friend at the time did not even compute that I was suggesting prayers, holiness, devotion, or mortification by suggesting we start going to Mass together. He is so aware of the criminal network he did not even think about the religious side of things and just politely explained to me that they wouldn't get along with him.
Not a conclave, for that involves the cardinals acting for the college of cardinals and they have now all defected to not admit to the criminality.
The pre-existing right from Peter to the Catholics in Rome, ie an electorate of those whose provincial metropolitan is the selfsame bishop of Rome and Pontiff, is going to be organized by publicizing an assembly to be held in an orderly manner in Rome with the references of each elector verified.
Locals in Italian media and the hermit Brother Alexis Bugnolo are spreading the basic news of the invalidity of the conclave and the manifest heresy of Prevost doubly thricely and more makes the result illegitimate and incurable. I have only spoken Latin in the past but I am going to relish learning Italian going from church to church in the province denouncing this coil of canine feces in a mozetta, and urging the election of a Catholic. If I die so what, the Catholic Church is the only legitimate institution on Earth right now, but not being operated as though it were legitimate.
Have been homeless the past two years after living a Bergoglian approved life of infamy, and my family of origin both was fed from the proceeds of this rotten cartel on the one hand, and rent entirely asunder by the banal, pretend catholics of the anglican ordinariate. Only just got the gear to start making the audiobook for David Wemhoff’s excellent tome, John Courtney Murray, TIME/LIFE, and The American Proposition: How the CIA’s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church. I think with your areas of investigation you’d like that book.
God willing I make all the audio narrations and voiceovers needed. Pope stuff is more urgent.
The stuff at fromRome.info and ordo-militaris.net was perfect for me to find right as I woke up to the reality about other parts of the mob. I was having my mind blown weekly whilst my friend at the time who was in the mob just shrugged when I’d be jaw-gaped at what I was learning.
I'll take the Vatican seriously on this once they stop insulting the laity with these Vos Estis charades that let prelates skate by. As long as Dolan, Tobin, etc. are cool with Prevost and he's cool with them, I don't buy a word of what they say about support for victims.
I've been keeping a private score sheet on "Is this guy Francis II or Leo XIV?". So far I make it 19-3 in favour of Francis II. The most decisive point was a few minutes after the result announcement on 8th May when Fr Jimmy Martin gave Leo the thumbs up. Somehow I cannot see any purging of abusers until long after the next conclave, if then.
I know I have the Faith, because I would have left the Church over these horrors long before now. When I read this: "In many cases, the bishop who covers up for an abusive priest, is the same bishop who refuses to be held accountable for the priest’s victim’s subsequent suicide," I thought of a worse case, of which I am sure you are aware. Rudy Kos, abusive priest of Dallas, presided over the funeral of a young suicide, whom he had abuse several years before. Not even Stephen King could have come up with a scenario that wicked.
An African priest who got a nun pregnant forced her to have an abortion, during which she died. It was that same priest who officiated at her funeral. When it was leaked that the Vatican (during which time Ratzinger oversaw abuse and JP II was the Pope) covered up reports from mother superiors documenting these abuses, the European Parliament issued a formal condemnation of the Vatican in 2001(See: https://zenit.org/2001/04/06/european-parliament-assails-vatican-over-abuse-cases/)
Thank you for your constant documented investigations and pressure to try and bring about some degree of accountability, justice and hopefully protection of future victims.
This report concerning a raped nun who died as a result of an abortion needs to be widely shared. The general population probably doesn’t have a clue of just how underreported sexual abuse committed by priests, bishops, and on “up the ladder” really is. This account helps explain why that is.
Many victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse by Ordained Catholic Priests never live to tell about it! Many of them are terrified (rightly so) to come forward at all. Some are threatened immediately after a sexually abusive ambush attack. Many have no evidence (ask credible law enforcement officers about how evidence sometimes mysteriously goes missing in such cases). When you are dealing with organized Satanic groups, that can also include the perfectly possessed and/or those with occult knowledge, who take a special interest in females of reproductive age, then Satan and Satanists ( black masses actually exist and according to some exorcists this type of sacrifice is often in exchange for great power) are highly interested in silencing and intimidating victims.
Furthermore, do you think adult women have an extremely high bar to be considered “vulnerable” even when adult women meet the abusive priest in a face to face confessional and are ambushed later in the priest’s office setting? Adults can be successfully groomed too.
So SRA occurrence and suicides as a result of Satanic Ritual Abuse are both highly unreported.
May God continue to bless and protect you in your courageous battle against these Forces of Evil!
Well stated. Evil is having its day, for now. How do these 'men' get their victims, hide their deeds, and avoid consequences? First, their bishops are in league with them. Second, they use the money of the faithful to cover up the mess, third they lie, and fourth they attack their accusers and those who will not go along with them. Thye are macavellian politicians.
Robert’s views on the death penalty were already condemned by past pre-Vatican II popes and Church Councils. Why don’t good Catholics get off the Leo bandwagon. He’s an antipope and deserves no more press or respect.
5 years ago, when I was only 68 and my wife 64, we were asked to take are of my wife’s 6 month old great niece. We have had custody of her ever since. Nearly 2 years ago the mother trashed our house. We were not there because 2 days before she had attempted to kidnap the child, so we decided to rent a hotel room for a couple of days. My wife still suffers a great deal of anxiety from this which only makes her symptoms from a chronic illness worse. ( She is still afraid to go home) Given what I have experienced from this relatively minor abuse of our kindness, I cannot imagine what suffering victims of priestly sexual misconduct experience.
The Church should have more concern for the victims of crime more than they have for criminals. If what you say about these Bishops is true, they are monsters.
“How pro-life and supportive of abuse victims really is the Pope?”
Honestly I don’t know and I don’t care. I stopped caring about a lot of things after my cousin moved away and my father, who I was told from the day I was born to honour and respect, told me I was selfish to feel the way I did. It didn’t help that he brought it up after an argument during which he kept taking the Lord’s name in vain. That’s when the scales started falling from my eyes and they began falling even faster when Mum told me how the victim of a pedophile priest committed suicide. Unfortunately she only told that story to justify being pro abortion in cases of rape or teenage pregnancy or so it seemed.
I was tempted to leave the Catholic Church on that issue and even so after watching in anti Catholic video called Catholicism Crisis of Faith. But then I Googled the title of the video and discovered it was deceptive. Then I knew I couldn’t trust anyone except the Lord and seeing how many anti pop culture preachers don’t act Christlike themselves and also how many people who rant and rave about the Church sex abuse scandals see nothing wrong with abortion, euthanasia or homosexuality and it’s no wonder that Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.”
One more thing. I can’t accept that the Church is doing nothing about the problem, which is why I have tried to make people aware of falsely accused priests, all of who claim to have been abandoned by their bishops and some of who have also committed suicide. None get any help from SNAP either. But I don’t bother much anymore because then I get accused of not caring about real victims.
25 years of therapy, yet suicide is a constant thought. Only people of absolute faith and trust, especially children like I was at 11 years old, fall victim to predatory priests, and for most of us that is the day our faith dies, or at least becomes more of just a desperate hope, nothing near a faith in a God who loves us.
I write and do what I do because I view victims of abuse as if they were my own kids. Those whose abuse I could not prevent are the ones I want to love and support now while trying to prevent this from happening to others. Unfortunately, sexual predators were preyed upon and abused themselves. So, what we are dealing with has nothing to do with genetics, but is learned behavior similar to a man who abuses his wife after having grown up in a home where he witnessed his father abusing his mom. Most Catholics fail to acknowledge how the Catholic Church, by not protecting vulnerable seminarians who were preyed upon by gay faculty members and upperclassmen, helped to create the largest gay (lavender) network in the world.
When I was seven, I was nearly killed in a mass murder, and have had two severe disabilities ever since. While I would not begin to compare what happened to me with the assault on your soul and body, it was nevertheless dramatically awful: it's a shock you don't forget to return to consciousness next to the bodies of your best friend and a middle aged woman, then to see that oh, you're bleeding to death.
It's understandable that you would question the goodness of God in the way of a vulnerability which I wasn't subject to, because the man who killed those other people and nearly killed me didn't have the office of a priest, but evil is evil, whether it lurks in the soul of a maniac who makes a suitcase bomb which will kill children or a religious figure who is determined to satisfy his own vile urges at the expense of a trusting little boy.
I know, I know, there is a particularly intense quality of the evil which befell you which I was fortunate to have escaped. I don't know why God didn't protect you anymore than I know why he didn't protect the boys who were victims of Dean Corll, in Houston, or John Gacy, in Chicago, or the thousands of other children like you who were in churches all over the world and who were assaulted, or all raped children, period. Our cry is, "Oh God, why didn't you just stop his heart?!" and we have no answer for now about our own unique torments, but we did have an empty tomb on Easter Sunday morning, and the death and resurrection of Jesus is the inarguable sign for believers in Him that as Tolkien wrote in The Lord of the Rings, everything which is sad will eventually come unsad. Immerse yourself in Word and Sacrament, dear one.
Have you read The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel vander Kolk, M.D.? It's probably the best book written for the public about what trauma does to the body. I urge you to read it, and to seriously look into EMDR for yourself, as well.
One other thing: as more has been learned about sociopathy, it has become evident that many men have become clergy precisely because it gives them the kind of access to potential victims which they wouldn't have otherwise. You were not brutalized by a genuine priest with a terrible weakness, you were brutalized by a wicked man who was masquerading as a godly one.
Fr. Gomulka, You may wish to ask whether Leo is a legitimate pope.
Calling him "pope" unreservedly--considering (inter alia) past and present violations of U. D. G.; considering he was made cardinal by Bergoglio who is on record as a rather flamboyant apostate and destroyer of the Church if not an Anti-pope as well (ergo without power to appoint legitimate cardinals; and considering the support of both men for blessings of active sodomfolk in Fiducia Supplicans which clearly violates the Second and the Sixth Commandments--would appear false and rash.
The product of--in the words of Archbishop Vigano--a usurper pope, namely Francis, would seem to be another usurper.
You know, presumably, the Lavender St Gallen Mafia forced out Pope Benedict. McCarrick, Cormac Murphy O'Connor, and Danneels--molesters or molester/pederast protectors all, have all admitted as much whether directly or indirectly (ie through Austin Ivereigh, Cormac's spox at the time..
I presume you know they installed Francis, the usurper.
You certainly know the Lavender Mafia as well as anyone. Clearly it is the Party of Francis. Both Francis and Leo have a horrific history of hiding shielding defending and enabling predator priests. It is diametrically opposed to the welfare of Holy Mother Church--as Francis amply indicated for the pst 12 years, and Leo has followed suit.
Do you doubt Francis and Leo are members? How can you not doubt they are valid popes?
STOP calling that heretic Pope, the law [Univetsi Dominici Gregis] specifies that the maximum number of cardinal electors in the conclave must not exceed 120. 133 exceeds, and the cardinals do not have the right to do that. All votes in the comclave were as if they did not occur.
Let’s be honest: the Catholic Church essentially makes up its own rules as it goes along to benefit itself itself. God and the laity be damned.
You are not honest, which makes your use of the Divine Name at the end of your statement blasphemous. If you don't want to do anything about the Church then go do something about the critical infrastructure being compromised at every level by China/Israel/Russia.
I’m not honest? How else would you describe a church that willfully rejects, divine revelation, let alone pass teaching, for the sake of intellectual fashion and sociological relevance?
How else would you describe the churches embrace of JPII’s unilateral, arbitrary, theological, revisionism concerning capital punishment for murder? What would you call Francis‘s lip service against abortion, but his flaccid response to it? What would you call Francis‘s lip service, opposing gender ideology while appointing people to high ecclesiastical positions, who support it? What would you call the Catholic leadership’s goal of “queering“ the Catholic Church?
Don’t believe that’s happening? Read the following:
https://stream.org/queering-the-catholic-church/
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3460-killing-capital-punishment-how-pope-john-paul-set-precedent-for-pope-francis
https://stream.org/this-utopian-pantheist-pope-is-bored-by-abortion/
I'm not in denial about any of that, and of course idiotic particular opinions or nontraditional excesses of scope in teching have to be corrected, but this recent conclave election was invalid on its face so I'm headed to Rome to help organize a legitimate one. The College of Cardinals does exist by law, the law actually says they are wrong, and their candidate has no authority to bind anyone whatsoever, and fortunately the right of the Romans to elect a pope is primordial and upstream of the particular laws from which the cardinals defected.
Thanks for the article and I'll get back to you--after I've read the Latin versions of the cited texts, which are the only official versions.
No, these are just plain drug, sex, banking and geopolitics mobsters infesting the hierarchy, what will be needed is like St Athanasius, to go to each territory and give the Catholics an actual Catholic ordinary to rule them. Some urging of the civil authorities to help imprison and RICO different mobsters in different jurisdictions will obviously be part of the deal.
I used to hang around with some mobsters in the past so I definitely owe reparation for that.
I love your apparent zeal, if it is genuine, in defending the death penalty against the mobsters who don't want you to ever think about it and those who concur with them. I'd gladly hang with them as long as they all hang. Corporal punishment in general needs to be brought back aside from capital punishments.
Believe me, the zeal is real, not only concerning capital punishment for murder, but the other subjects that I addressed in my articles — all of which I wrote, by the way.
How are you actually going to organize a new conclave?
In fact, my friend at the time did not even compute that I was suggesting prayers, holiness, devotion, or mortification by suggesting we start going to Mass together. He is so aware of the criminal network he did not even think about the religious side of things and just politely explained to me that they wouldn't get along with him.
Not a conclave, for that involves the cardinals acting for the college of cardinals and they have now all defected to not admit to the criminality.
The pre-existing right from Peter to the Catholics in Rome, ie an electorate of those whose provincial metropolitan is the selfsame bishop of Rome and Pontiff, is going to be organized by publicizing an assembly to be held in an orderly manner in Rome with the references of each elector verified.
Locals in Italian media and the hermit Brother Alexis Bugnolo are spreading the basic news of the invalidity of the conclave and the manifest heresy of Prevost doubly thricely and more makes the result illegitimate and incurable. I have only spoken Latin in the past but I am going to relish learning Italian going from church to church in the province denouncing this coil of canine feces in a mozetta, and urging the election of a Catholic. If I die so what, the Catholic Church is the only legitimate institution on Earth right now, but not being operated as though it were legitimate.
Have been homeless the past two years after living a Bergoglian approved life of infamy, and my family of origin both was fed from the proceeds of this rotten cartel on the one hand, and rent entirely asunder by the banal, pretend catholics of the anglican ordinariate. Only just got the gear to start making the audiobook for David Wemhoff’s excellent tome, John Courtney Murray, TIME/LIFE, and The American Proposition: How the CIA’s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church. I think with your areas of investigation you’d like that book.
God willing I make all the audio narrations and voiceovers needed. Pope stuff is more urgent.
The stuff at fromRome.info and ordo-militaris.net was perfect for me to find right as I woke up to the reality about other parts of the mob. I was having my mind blown weekly whilst my friend at the time who was in the mob just shrugged when I’d be jaw-gaped at what I was learning.
I asked you a legitimate question. There’s no need to get nasty.
I'll take the Vatican seriously on this once they stop insulting the laity with these Vos Estis charades that let prelates skate by. As long as Dolan, Tobin, etc. are cool with Prevost and he's cool with them, I don't buy a word of what they say about support for victims.
I couldn't agree more.
Fr Gene,
I've been keeping a private score sheet on "Is this guy Francis II or Leo XIV?". So far I make it 19-3 in favour of Francis II. The most decisive point was a few minutes after the result announcement on 8th May when Fr Jimmy Martin gave Leo the thumbs up. Somehow I cannot see any purging of abusers until long after the next conclave, if then.
I'm afraid you're right!
Fr. Gomulka,
I know I have the Faith, because I would have left the Church over these horrors long before now. When I read this: "In many cases, the bishop who covers up for an abusive priest, is the same bishop who refuses to be held accountable for the priest’s victim’s subsequent suicide," I thought of a worse case, of which I am sure you are aware. Rudy Kos, abusive priest of Dallas, presided over the funeral of a young suicide, whom he had abuse several years before. Not even Stephen King could have come up with a scenario that wicked.
Patrick O'Brien
Denver
An African priest who got a nun pregnant forced her to have an abortion, during which she died. It was that same priest who officiated at her funeral. When it was leaked that the Vatican (during which time Ratzinger oversaw abuse and JP II was the Pope) covered up reports from mother superiors documenting these abuses, the European Parliament issued a formal condemnation of the Vatican in 2001(See: https://zenit.org/2001/04/06/european-parliament-assails-vatican-over-abuse-cases/)
Father Gene,
Thank you for your constant documented investigations and pressure to try and bring about some degree of accountability, justice and hopefully protection of future victims.
This report concerning a raped nun who died as a result of an abortion needs to be widely shared. The general population probably doesn’t have a clue of just how underreported sexual abuse committed by priests, bishops, and on “up the ladder” really is. This account helps explain why that is.
Many victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse by Ordained Catholic Priests never live to tell about it! Many of them are terrified (rightly so) to come forward at all. Some are threatened immediately after a sexually abusive ambush attack. Many have no evidence (ask credible law enforcement officers about how evidence sometimes mysteriously goes missing in such cases). When you are dealing with organized Satanic groups, that can also include the perfectly possessed and/or those with occult knowledge, who take a special interest in females of reproductive age, then Satan and Satanists ( black masses actually exist and according to some exorcists this type of sacrifice is often in exchange for great power) are highly interested in silencing and intimidating victims.
Furthermore, do you think adult women have an extremely high bar to be considered “vulnerable” even when adult women meet the abusive priest in a face to face confessional and are ambushed later in the priest’s office setting? Adults can be successfully groomed too.
So SRA occurrence and suicides as a result of Satanic Ritual Abuse are both highly unreported.
May God continue to bless and protect you in your courageous battle against these Forces of Evil!
Thank you for your support and prayers without which I would have dropped out of the race years ago.
Well stated. Evil is having its day, for now. How do these 'men' get their victims, hide their deeds, and avoid consequences? First, their bishops are in league with them. Second, they use the money of the faithful to cover up the mess, third they lie, and fourth they attack their accusers and those who will not go along with them. Thye are macavellian politicians.
Robert’s views on the death penalty were already condemned by past pre-Vatican II popes and Church Councils. Why don’t good Catholics get off the Leo bandwagon. He’s an antipope and deserves no more press or respect.
5 years ago, when I was only 68 and my wife 64, we were asked to take are of my wife’s 6 month old great niece. We have had custody of her ever since. Nearly 2 years ago the mother trashed our house. We were not there because 2 days before she had attempted to kidnap the child, so we decided to rent a hotel room for a couple of days. My wife still suffers a great deal of anxiety from this which only makes her symptoms from a chronic illness worse. ( She is still afraid to go home) Given what I have experienced from this relatively minor abuse of our kindness, I cannot imagine what suffering victims of priestly sexual misconduct experience.
The Church should have more concern for the victims of crime more than they have for criminals. If what you say about these Bishops is true, they are monsters.
“How pro-life and supportive of abuse victims really is the Pope?”
Honestly I don’t know and I don’t care. I stopped caring about a lot of things after my cousin moved away and my father, who I was told from the day I was born to honour and respect, told me I was selfish to feel the way I did. It didn’t help that he brought it up after an argument during which he kept taking the Lord’s name in vain. That’s when the scales started falling from my eyes and they began falling even faster when Mum told me how the victim of a pedophile priest committed suicide. Unfortunately she only told that story to justify being pro abortion in cases of rape or teenage pregnancy or so it seemed.
I was tempted to leave the Catholic Church on that issue and even so after watching in anti Catholic video called Catholicism Crisis of Faith. But then I Googled the title of the video and discovered it was deceptive. Then I knew I couldn’t trust anyone except the Lord and seeing how many anti pop culture preachers don’t act Christlike themselves and also how many people who rant and rave about the Church sex abuse scandals see nothing wrong with abortion, euthanasia or homosexuality and it’s no wonder that Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.”
One more thing. I can’t accept that the Church is doing nothing about the problem, which is why I have tried to make people aware of falsely accused priests, all of who claim to have been abandoned by their bishops and some of who have also committed suicide. None get any help from SNAP either. But I don’t bother much anymore because then I get accused of not caring about real victims.