tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post4163724744283765231..comments2024-03-29T01:45:45.002+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Punishment For Abusive Priests - Catholic StyleRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-15636948883118060732016-08-09T08:20:31.744+01:002016-08-09T08:20:31.744+01:00The fact that Rev Brouillard was "punished&qu...The fact that Rev Brouillard was "punished" at all, even if only thrashed with a feather, is still more "punishment" than has been given to a vast number of religious sex offenders in my country, Australia. Our Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been running for some years and it seems that every week we hear new, extensive and outrageous evidence of collaborative sexual abuse of children, mainly boys, by bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, clerics, <br />and ministers of the established Christian churches. At the moment the Commission is holding a major hearing into the activities of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Newcastle, a major regional city north of Sydney. So far nine former bishops of Newcastle are alleged to have had knowledge of abuse by a significant group of priests and to have been involved in cover-ups, transfers, threats to complainants, etc., for many years. The "bells and smells" Anglicans, often called "High Church of England", are very obviously no better or worse than their Catholic counterparts as both organizations have refused to "punish" their recalcitrant priests and seem to prefer to reward them with a soft retired life, on the religious teat, at the expense of poor deluded members of their churches.Terry Moodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828310995416607604noreply@blogger.com