"More than 300 people employed by Roman Catholic institutions in the south-eastern US city of New Orleans have been accused of sexually abusing children or other vulnerable people whom they met through their work over the last several decades, secret documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
~ Ramon Antonio Vargas
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/new-orleans-archdiocese-clerical-sex-abuse-claims
"Though New Orleans’s 230-year-old archdiocese has spent a significant portion of its recent history managing the fallout from its association with the worldwide Catholic church’s clerical molestation scandal, the organization has generally sought to keep hidden the exact number of priests, deacons, nuns, religious brothers and lay staffers – such as parochial school teachers – under its supervision who have been named in abuse claims."
#Catholic #SexualAbuse #NewOrleans #GregoryAymond
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"More than 300 priests in the New Orleans archdiocese are accused sexual abusers. Less than a quarter are on the official list."
Gosh, I wonder if stories like this might explain why so many Catholics are walking away? It's not only abuse of vulnerable people by religious authority figures. It's brazen lies of those at the top like Archbishop Aymond. Betrayal of pastoral concern, protecting abusers and cold-shouldering victims ….
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