A new report on the Donegal diocese of Raphoe will reveal that 20 pedophile priests sexually abused hundreds of children over a 40 years period. This report will detail another massive cover-up scandal within the Irish Catholic Church.
The report, carried out for the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, will be published by the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr Philip Boyce, during the next two weeks.
The report will outline the horrors of the allegations against the priests and how senior colleagues failed the victims.
A source told the Irish Independent “There were hundreds and hundreds of victims…and they were abused again and again while the church actively prevented investigations by the civil authorities.
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"The Raphoe diocese, like others, was only interested in protecting the church and not the victims"
One of the victims, who was raped by a priest, said "I cannot begin to tell you how much I am looking forward to seeing this audit being published. It will be like a dark cloud lifting off me.
"The cover-up by the church in Rome and here in Ireland is finally being exposed. I have no doubt Dr Boyce will apologize to people like me, but what we want is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
Another victim said that all involved in the cover up should be punished. They said “In every walk of life, someone who covers up a crime or who prevents a criminal from being brought to justice is arrested and charged with helping an offender or perverting the course of justice.”
In one case, in 1977, an offending priest was sent away from his parish for just one month after a young boy’s parents had made a complaint to the Church. The family were distraught when he returned as they had been told by the Church that the issue had been “dealt with”.
Over 30 years this priest was shuffled from parish to parish and he continued to target young boys. The Church never informed the police of these complaints.
According to this source when the police were involved in investigations about the treatment of these children the Church was uncooperative. Although some internal investigations within the diocese did take place the investigators found no records of the abuse whatsoever.
In another case the parents of a victim, who had complained, were asked by a senior cleric, if the family were “all right” financially.
The audit was led by Ian Elliott chief executive of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church. A spokesperson from his office said the reports examined the full extent of all complaints or allegations, knowledge, suspicions or concerns of child sexual abuse, made to the Raphoe diocese by individuals or by the civil authorities in the period 1 January 1975 to the present day, against Catholic clergy.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Snowdrop | Aug 18, 2011, 06:55 AM EDT
...so the English historical maltreatment and disregard for the People of Ireland is yet perpetuated Irish vs. Irish vis-a-vis Catholic leaders, men receiving "the calling," with vows of abstinace, charity, and such "polite meaningless words," and behaviors. Ship the pedophiliac devils off to a rocky, remote island, after physical castration. Let them don sackcloth, fish, farm and live ostracized from the genuine believers in Jesus Christ. Sell off their prestious, embroidered dunce caps, flowing garemets, ifamily inheritance, and tainted golden chalices on ebay, as collector's items. Let the farm and fish for their livelihood, and experience the injustice of the faminites. Our God will punish their sinfullness. Parents, don't feel guilty...you offered tradional trust; never beat yourself for being victimized. Let the anger out and let the IRA boys serve justice. Once proud of my 70% Irish heritage, not heretics. Snowdrop
eiriamach | Aug 15, 2011, 08:17 PM EDT
mimimcd, is there no end to the conspiracy theories that RCC will summon up to explain away the abuse scandal? The Freemasons have not done this damage to the Roman Church. Roman Church priests, bishops, and pope did it, first to their victims, and second to the faithful as a whole, and perhaps, just maybe, a few clerics and prelates will suffer in concrete-and-steel prisons themselves. May those who have been harmed by the abuse scandals find some peace and comfort! But please spare us your SSPX and Opus Dei conspiracy excuses.
Intercessor | Aug 15, 2011, 02:47 AM EDT
JuneAnnette: Thank you for your post. I agree, there is a time to be quiet and a time to speak. For Survivors and their families, the sins of Pedophile members of the clergy, both priests and nuns, are now not only being "shouted from the rooftops," but from their criminal acts are being shouted from satellites circling the earth. Now, the sins and the criminal coverups of the RCC are being shouted from the heavens, and I believe that God is listening! "Vengence is mine, sayeth the Lord!" God is in His Heaven, as well as in the heart of every believer. I believe that it is His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, who has brought these sins out in the open, so they can be dealt with, not by the perpetrators, and those who covered up for the sins of Pedophilia, but from people like you and me, who will be sitting on juries and determining the truthfulness of the Church.
mimimcd | Aug 14, 2011, 11:03 AM EDT
For a full understanding of how this has happened in Christs' Church, PLEASE search and read the Full text of the ALTA VENDITA. We were warned of this by the Pope hundreds of years ago...it's a planned destruction of HIS Church, and we have failed to keep careful watch and active diligence to preserve our Treasure.
JuneAnnette | Aug 14, 2011, 10:57 AM EDT
CATHOLICABUSESURVIVORSNI.COM*** “Suffer the little children” . . a flagrant abuse of power The time is long overdue to tell the story of what has to be the most unreported news story of the century in the context of the Roman Catholic X files . . time to expose the brutal institutional abuse committed by RC clergy in Northern Ireland, of what can only be regarded as crimes against humanity, and which the so-called “princes of the church”of Rome are working tirelessly to consign to history and keep hidden from the public eye, in what amounts to the mother of Roman Catholic cover ups. The time is come to expose the depraved men of the cloth in the RCC who subjected vulnerable children to a life of terror and torment, whom they abused with impunity and intimidated into silence. The time is come to expose the monsters who stole their innocence and consigned them to a life of unrelenting misery, fear, & trauma, reducing them to nothing more than chattel to be passed among themselves as play things to satisfy the insatiable and depraved sexual appetites of their sadistic tormenters. Time to tell the world of the forgotten children, whose harrowing stories of degradation, humiliation, shame, pain, suffering and sorrow cry for justice.***"A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE, AND A TIME TO SPEAK." (Eccl. 3:7)
bazzarooney | Aug 13, 2011, 08:25 PM EDT
Do not go to Mass
IAPRINCESS | Aug 13, 2011, 02:08 PM EDT
I do not fault the media for anything that is printed. I fault the RC church for its depravity yesterday, today and probably tomorrow. They think they are the word of God, not so.
JuneAnnette | Aug 13, 2011, 12:29 PM EDT
The TRUTH is . . In conclusion . . The Holy Bible / the Canon of Scriptures / the inspired Word of God as it is found in the Old Testament consists of the 22 books compiled by the Jews, which comprise the Jewish Bible . . the Tanakh, while the New Testament received from the Apostles and compiled by the early Christians is comprised of 27 books. In summary, the early Christians had in their hands what was a Bible to them, namely, the Old Testament Scriptures. As it is written in Romans 3:1-2, the “oracles of God” were committed to the Jews. See also Acts 7:38. The authority of the Hebrew Bible (The Old Testament) is God Himself who revealed Himself through prophets who wrote God’s word to the people. This authority of Scripture continued with the New Testament as the church is built on the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles (Ephesians 2:19-20). The teachings and writing of Jesus and his Apostles formed the essence of Christianity. Jesus through His apostles established His church, and through them revealed scripture. Therefore, the basis of canon is apostolic authority. There needs to be a distinction between discovery and selection of canon. The church did not choose the canon, but discovered the canon. The word “canon” refers to a collection of books, accepted as authoritative, inspired scripture. The source of the word comes from the Hebrew word, “hnq Qaneh”, which means reed or stalk, the English word “cane” comes from this Semitic or Hebrew word. Reeds were used as measuring rods, because of their straight form, hence the measuring or rule of scripture, became known as canon.***THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IS SUBJECT TO THE WORD OF GOD, NOT VICE-VERSA!
JuneAnnette | Aug 13, 2011, 12:27 PM EDT
The TRUTH is . . The New Testament received from the Apostles and compiled by the early Christians is comprised of 27 books. By 170 A.D. Most of the Bible had already been approved and read by the church and the term New Testament was in use. This was long before any council. The Roman church says they proclaimed which books were actually INSPIRED and placed them in one volume, so we should all be indebted to the Catholic Church for the New Testament. Actually the Catholic Church in 397 at the Council of Carthage had the 27 books considered the canon. However these books were read and distributed as Scripture for over 300 years by individual Christians and church’s long before their church councils claimed to give us the Bible. The canon of the New Testament was set from the first century. It is Catholic myth that Catholics gave the world the Bible!
JuneAnnette | Aug 13, 2011, 12:26 PM EDT
The TRUTH is . . The Old Testament consists of the 22 books compiled by the Jews.Since Christianity is based on the identity of Jesus (The Messiah), the Old Testament Jesus used is the Old Testament his church should use. The internal evidence of the New Testament reveals the Old Testament used by Jesus is identical to the books used in the Jewish Bible today, the Tanakh.**For Ex., 1) Jesus makes reference in Luke 24:44, to a three part division of scripture; this division is the current structure of the Jewish Bible. Psalms is the first and longest book of the third section of the Jewish Bible. "And he said unto them,These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms, concerning Me."***The reference Christ has made corresponds to the divisions of the Jewish Bible . . the Tanakh, namely. . . 'The Torah'; Nebhim (Prophets) & The Psalms.
mamaginnty | Aug 13, 2011, 12:13 PM EDT
AndrewSB49, why just say the irish hierarchy, and most corrupt in Ireland, these men were all over the world and moreso in America if more were brave enough to come forward yes Ireland got it bad, but the head men of this mafia are in Rome.
eiriamach | Aug 13, 2011, 10:47 AM EDT
I am finding the number of victims (and pedophiles) overwhelming. There's no denying at this point that it is a well entrenched, long-standing criminal culture that only thorough, from-the-top-down reform can eradicate. Celtic church, scripture-based church, empowered-laity church, no-more-Vatican church-- all these should be explored in the process of reform.
ayla5253 | Aug 13, 2011, 10:38 AM EDT
taken from http://stargods.org/ReligiousMatrix.htm If you do the research you will soon come to realize that that King James was an Illuminati and that the Bible was created for and by the Illuminati. In fact the King James Bible will be used to prove that the antichrist is the true Messiah and God which is the ultimate deception. Many Christians have the wrong idea that Satanists have nothing to do with the Bible. The fact is that they know the Bible better than the majority of Christians do. They are also trained to go into the Churches and use the Bible to deceive. Dozens of books of scripture were rejected and had been left out of the government issued, approved, and sponsored Bible known as the King James Version. Though it is is a good Bible, it is deceptive and made to prove the authenticity of the antichrist and the establishment of institutionalized churches. All deeper books have been left out. Why is because spiritually educated Christians pose a great threat to the development of the new world order of Satan's kingdom on earth. Christians have been trained to go to church and never question their Pastors that are part of a matrix hierarchy that do not allow free thinking and exploration of scripture. What has taken place is that Christians
ayla5253 | Aug 13, 2011, 10:34 AM EDT
If you do the research you will soon come to realize that that King James was an Illuminati and that the Bible was created for and by the Illuminati. In fact the King James Bible will be used to prove that the antichrist is the true Messiah and God which is the ultimate deception. Many Christians have the wrong idea that Satanists have nothing to do with the Bible. The fact is that they know the Bible better than the majority of Christians do. They are also trained to go into the Churches and use the Bible to deceive. Dozens of books of scripture were rejected and had been left out of the government issued, approved, and sponsored Bible known as the King James Version. Though it is is a good Bible, it is deceptive and made to prove the authenticity of the antichrist and the establishment of institutionalized churches. All deeper books have been left out. Why is because spiritually educated Christians pose a great threat to the development of the new world order of Satan's kingdom on earth. Christians have been trained to go to church and never question their Pastors that are part of a matrix hierarchy that do not allow free thinking and exploration of scripture.
williamite | Aug 13, 2011, 03:55 AM EDT
There was at one time just one Christian Church, Before the Roman devil worshipers got involved and took it all over, Get the Romans out of Christianity and lets all worship together. I am not a Roman Catholic.
OBPiper | Aug 13, 2011, 01:14 AM EDT
@colkelley: I agree. Meanwhile, I'd appreciate if the Roman Catholic Church would stay in its home and allow the return of the Celtic Church in Celtic Ireland as it once was without the vices and frauds of "celibacy" and male dominance.
BishopSean | Aug 12, 2011, 09:24 PM EDT
An added dimension to the damages done by this scandal-- many Catholics only know God through the clergy and sacraments. Now that too many clergy (no matter what %) have been exposed as not having been Salt and Light and thus worthy of being trodden underfoot (says Jesus), our Irish people are sometimes also leaving God. If, however, more Catholics knew God through His Word in the Bible, they would (1) never have allowed their clergy to act as "princes of the Church" and (2) they would not lose their faith in Jesus Christ even if and when all the clergy would have to be corrected for most serious failings and crimes. Ireland has a good educational system. Why don't more educated Irish read the Bible for themselves and formulate their own independent views?
Collette2 | Aug 12, 2011, 08:57 PM EDT
AndrewSB, look up the Ballarat Courier, and leave a comment, I'm sure the families would appreciate it.
mamaginnty | Aug 12, 2011, 07:13 PM EDT
And we wondered why there was so many suicides for decades, those poor souls had no one to turn to, because these devil worshipers had us all brainwashed, every village in Ireland has been raped, and probably all over the world where catholicism took hold. Nuns...well the hoorors by them sre being revealed also. To think we actually bowed down to these sicko's makes me sick.
supersurvivor77 | Aug 12, 2011, 06:06 PM EDT
CATHOLICABUSESURVIVORSNI.COM--- its not the roman catholic church that reveals any of its devilment practices,if the genocide of the rape of children wasnt exposed we would hear nothing about it,a religion without conscience wont be bothered it dosent have or know morality,never mind what future generations think, what do the goverments north and south intend to do about the rape and torture of children past and present?
AndrewSB49 | Aug 12, 2011, 04:13 PM EDT
@Collette2 Those tragic deaths should be publicised worldwide. Each of those 30 people STILL need to have their voices heard. The Irish hierarchy, from the very top, is the most corrupt institution in Ireland.
oldboreen | Aug 12, 2011, 03:52 PM EDT
Portia777 must think it's her birthday and Christmas all rolled into one!
patrickomalley | Aug 12, 2011, 01:47 PM EDT
What true Catholics still defend these pedophiles? The pedophiles and anyone that knew about them should be thrown in jail.
hybernia | Aug 12, 2011, 01:26 PM EDT
Isn't it time we realised we have been conned. In the future people will look back with amazement at how gullible we are.
Portia777 | Aug 12, 2011, 01:04 PM EDT
Time to return to our own religion of Love/Amor which we had before these men of Roma came to torture and convert us to their god Molach.
keneconnor | Aug 12, 2011, 12:24 PM EDT
Let's play a game of pretend. Let's pretend that these things happened yesterday and not 30, 40 or 50 years ago and that attitudes towards children and child sex abuse were exactly as they are in the year 2011. (See Roman Polanski.) Let's pretend that there is not an unreported epidemic of sex abuse in the public schools. (Where are the headlines about sex abuse in the government school system--where the problem is a reported 100 times worse TODAY than anything ever in the Catholic church?) See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/21/AR2007102100144.html Let's pretend that critics of the church are actually really concerned about sex abuse and not shaking with hatred towards the Catholic church for it's failure to join the sexual revolution--which we now know has worked out quite well with an AIDS epidemic, abortion on demand, stratospheric levels of divorce and millions of young urban black kids without any fathers or any hope of a decent life. And finally let's pretend that there is absolutely no media bias towards the Catholic church. http://www.themediareport.com/
keneconnor | Aug 12, 2011, 12:22 PM EDT
Is this article journalism or hysteria trying to boost ad revenues? It is completely devoid of context, proportion an balance. The Irish press versus the church continues but we know who wins this eventually.
bunkerisland | Aug 12, 2011, 11:51 AM EDT
Empty the Vatican of its art, put it up for auction and compensate every victim at least in a financial manner, then acquire one large seminary and put all the perps together, no maids no layman helping and let them learn to cook and survive in locked doors.
Suivness10 | Aug 12, 2011, 11:05 AM EDT
It never ends. To quote my deceased mother,"they should all hang from the town square."
colkelley | Aug 12, 2011, 10:59 AM EDT
Time to return to the beliefs of pre-Christian Ireland when men and women were actually equal and children were cared for.
Intercessor | Aug 12, 2011, 10:51 AM EDT
The Catholic Church has consistently shown (all over the world), that She can't be trusted to supervise or investigate Herself. So much for transparency and accountability! If any members of the Hierarchy or priesthood in Raphoe had anything to say about what documents should have been released and what documents were to be kept in the "Secret Archives," how can the public have any faith in the accuracy of the upcoming report? I already have the sickening sense of a up-coming, coverup. How about you?
HorsesInMdstrm | Aug 12, 2011, 10:35 AM EDT
@butlerreport - how then do you classify the masqueraders superiors who covered up their crimes to protect the church? Are they men of God - oops - had to dodge the lightning bolt there.
butlerreport | Aug 12, 2011, 10:00 AM EDT
I think that it is preferable and out of respect for non-offending priests to refer to these predators as pedophiles masquerading as priests. I say this because they are certainly NOT men of G-d.
Collette2 | Aug 12, 2011, 07:04 AM EDT
Seriously,what to do with them all, Governments and Church. To date, 30 suicides due to sex abuse by clergy in one Australian Victorian country town alone, and still the Church persists to fight on. They've lost all sense of credibility.