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ironbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 08:51 AM
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Australia-‘Catholic Church failed to act against abusers’

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/
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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2902000.htm

The Catholic Church in Australia faces new allegations of failing to act against priests involved in sexual abuse.

“….the words from Bishop David Walker appeared unequivocal. He wanted, "... to apologise to you for the way you have been treated by Finian Egan. ... What happened to you is contrary to what is expected of a member of the clergy. We proclaim a Gospel which sees this behaviour as totally unacceptable, and I regret that you have been exposed to it by a member of our clergy."

But what happened next stunned both victims. Within a month of that apology being written, here at St Agatha's Church, only a hundred metres or so from the Bishop's office, Father Egan, rather than being punished, was being honoured.”
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:03 AM
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1. After reading this article and many others one can only assume
that the catholic church worldwide protects and promotes child sex offenders. I would believe that the church evens encourages their priests, bishops, cardinals,and popes to molest children. These are men and women that do not care about the damage they do, how many souls they destroy, all in the name of this god awful church and religion. If this is the type of god they believe in then i see no reason to believe in that god.

These people are just slime and if they need to look for the devil or satan they need to look no further than their own front door.
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