Children's Lives Matter

More selective outrage:

Pope Francis calls El Paso bishop and thanks him for showing solidarity with George Floyd protesters after he took a knee and prayed silently for 8 minutes and 46 seconds during demonstrations

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The Catholic church should be taking a knee against all the children their fellow priests sexually abused - there's no outrage or 'cancel culture' for the systemic sexual abuse of children in this organization.

Most priests accused of sexually abusing children were never sent to prison. Here's why
Nov 2019
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As of Nov. 11, Bishop Accountability, a website that tracks accusations, has named 6,433 priests, brothers and Catholic school officials accused of abuse. Additionally, 154 archdioceses and dioceses have released the names of 4,771 credibly accused clerics, according to Jeff Anderson & Associates, a Minnesota-based law firm that specializes in representing sex abuse survivors.

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Almost 1,700 priests and clergy accused of sex abuse are unsupervised
Oct 2019
An investigation found that those credibly accused are now teachers, coaches, counselors and also live near playgrounds.
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300 US Catholic priests charged with thousand sex crimes
Aug 2018
HARRISBURG — Top Roman Catholic leaders in Pennsylvania covered up decades of child sex abuse involving more than 1,000 victims and hundreds of priests, according to a long-awaited grand jury report released Tuesday.
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The Catholic Church’s seven-point system for covering up abuse
Aug 2018
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Clergy sex abuse has cost Catholic Church $3 billion in settlements
Aug 2018
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A global look at the Catholic Church’s sex abuse problem
Feb 2019
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Just this week, the online resource BishopAccountability listed Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Congo and a handful of other heavily Catholic countries as places where the church leadership has failed to respond adequately when priests rape and molest children.
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Catholic Church: Jesuits name priests with 'established accusations' of child sex abuse
Nov 2018
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Catholic Church Clergy & Priest Sex Abuse List
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How many priests did the Spotlight team learn were involved in sexual abuse in Boston over the years?
"There were many, many other priests, we thought perhaps 15 or 20 at the time, who had done the same thing," says the real Walter Robinson, "yet the Archdiocese had covered up their crimes by making secret settlements. ... In the end, it turned out to be almost 250 priests in Boston who had molested children over several decades" (NPR). Prior to the credits, the movie states a parallel value of 249. The church had shuffled some of the predatory clergy from parish to parish to help prevent their crimes from being exposed (BostonGlobe.com).