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Related: About this forumClergy abuse survivors push for federal investigation into Catholic Church (article)
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Clergy abuse survivors push for federal investigation into Catholic Church
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor
Updated 5:31 PM ET, Thu August 30, 2018
(CNN) Survivors of clergy sex abuse stood in front of the Vatican embassy in Washington on Thursday and urged two higher powers -- the Pope and the US Department of Justice -- to take concrete steps to prevent more abuses and hold abusers accountable.
"They have plenty of evidence," said Peter Isely, spokesman for the group Ending Clergy Abuse. "Let's launch this investigation. Let's do it now."
The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and Center for Constitutional Rights have also sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein demanding an "investigation and prosecution of high-level officials in the Catholic Church" for sexual crimes and cover-ups.
"It is long past time for the US Department of Justice to initiate a full-scale, nationwide investigation into the systemic rape and sexual violence, and cover-ups in the Catholic Church, and, where appropriate, bring criminal and/or civil proceedings against the hierarchy that enabled the violations," the groups said in the letter.
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Clergy abuse survivors push for federal investigation into Catholic Church (article) (Original Post)
Rob H.
Sep 2018
OP
I'm not sure religion's atrocities carry enough weight to really create a sudden snap.
Pope George Ringo II
Sep 2018
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Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)1. The fact that this hasn't happened is impossible to defend.
No other organization, no other nation, perpetrates the crimes they do, and escapes the consequences.
Duppers
(28,148 posts)3. A.fucking.men!
Rob H.
(5,378 posts)5. And people are still donating money to the church
...which I find absolutely mind-blowing. It makes me wonder exactly how bad it has to be before people say, Enough.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)6. I'm not sure religion's atrocities carry enough weight to really create a sudden snap.
Quite a few of them are only religious because they can't handle reality in the first place. Another large batch were indoctrinated as children. Still others are only in it for the social elements anyway, and so forth. We can chip away at the conditioning, but I think we need to understand we're only going to do it slowly and that religion has a lot of practice getting people to not look at the truth.
MineralMan
(146,395 posts)2. Yes. This!
Duppers
(28,148 posts)4. About F'N TIME. nt
Voltaire2
(13,633 posts)7. The RCC is a criminal organization
Its about time it was treated like one.