Jackson Jambalaya

What a crock. All of these deviants, if living, would be between 72 and 135 years of age. What about those currently living who are still around here actively or have been transferred to other parishes for their protection and cover-up? Some are cooking collards and shining shoes at the Vatican.

I'm betting that they were all white. The race of a suspect is always so important to whites if they believe that a non-white has committed a crime. Yet every day we learn of old crimes covered up by white institutions.

It is unfortunate that so few of these crimes get prosecuted. White men so often got away with crimes in the past. The often cited "racial crime statistics" may never truly reflect the full picture of the criminality of the white male.

Thankfully the age of white male supremacy is nearing twilight. May God protect us all from their approaching final, violent gasp.

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10:16 - Thanks for your attempt to, once again, color everything as evil whites. But, in truth, this is about the Catholic Cult Empire..which has more money than 2/3 of the nations on this planet. It ain't about white or black. And you will never see a similar list of priests from Africa or any South American Country. But they're not white, so you wouldn't be interested.

I've noticed these posts regarding the Roman Catholic Church tend to bring out the Donners (all two of them).

@10:12, follow the link KF shared in the article -- the list provided there is much more extensive and has abusers who're still alive. It also includes priests/religious orders who abused people elsewhere and served in MS.

@10:16 if you think sexual abuse does not happen in the black churches you’re mistaken. And yes, I’m betting most, if not all of these priests are white because generally most Catholic priests are white & given the date ranges of these it would have been uncommon for any of them to have been black.

Keep filling those collection plates so the child molesting priests can eat.

I don't think the issue here is race, or gender, or privilege. The issue is whether these men deserved to be protected from their accusations being made public without due process. Were they convicted? String 'em up. Same with the one who admitted to inappropriate contact, if indeed that's what he admitted to. The rest deserve to be left alone. There's no reason to ruin what life these men have left based on unfounded accusations.

12:25, What do you mean by unfounded accusations? If you mean credible accusations that were covered up by the church and never reported to the proper authorities to be investigated than you are one sick puppy.

The real issue should be compensation. What price do you put on ruining a person's life? How much money is it worth when your innocence was stolen buy a trusted clergyman? Apart from a vow of celebacy, priests are not supposed to be rich. So I think the church should pay. A good start would be $250,000 for each year of life a person lived with the memory of being violated.

The Vatican can more than afford this sum.

This is always a hard topic... the truth is that any person in a position that is held so high and respected that takes advantage of anyone, much less our youth, is heart breaking. To be given the power and then abuse it is human, but not at all humane. I respect the church for stepping up and no longer hiding this information. I am certain that there are many many more people inside and outside of the Catholic Church that have the same accusations that need to come clean. Priests are human as are the rest of us. Lets separate the man from the position and hold them accountable.

“Credibly accused”? Where is the evidence? Where are the “victims” who are too cowardly to come forth and make their “credible” case? Mark Belenchia did so, and told his story bravely—as did that Morrison boy. Why can’t the others? For example, the nameless people accusing Fr. Paul Canonici, known to so many as a truly kindly, Godly man. Have any of you ever read Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour”? Unfounded, unproven accusations ruin lives.

Got evidence? Bring it on, and certainly, let us as a society put the truly guilty in/under the jail. No evidence? Then what you are doing is pure slander. “Bearing false witness,” I believe it is called in the Ten Commandments.

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It is okay to admit that whites are absolutely obsessed with knowing the race of an alleged criminal. Many comments on this site are from whites demanding to know the race, or complaining that the race isn't mentioned.

Even in conversation, a person can't just be a person. You always have to let the listener know, in a hushed tone, that you are talking about a black

I personally don't see the difference between one Abrahamic faith or another. It's all a foreign ideolgy to anyone who isn't a bronze age nomadic semite.

It is impossible to get most Protestant Christians to admit it, but the Catholic Church with all it's historic faults and abuses, is still the cornerstone of the Christian faith. All Christians should take a good look at the hypocrisy which all Christian denominations have perpetuated through the years when condoning abuse, genocide, racism, war-mongering, imperialism, etc. in the name of Jesus Christ. Supposedly "Protestant" churches were founded to correct the faults in the Catholic Church. Have they? We would do well to pray to God for the strength to see the fault in ourselves and to correct them before we cast the original Christian Church as the great abusers.

I read elsewhere that the percentage of pedophiles is 3% of our population, which seems high, but in any event it occurs to me that this reported number of catholic priest as a percentage is less than that of the general population. While all predatory acts should be rooted out, this "crisis" is one for everyone, not just a crisis in the Catholic Church, which is statistically lower then reported average.

I am certain averages are only indicators and may be manipulated by the user (as perhaps I am), but while folks criticize the Catholic Church,(who seem to be admitting their human failures) lets look beyond them and perhaps have a larger discussion as to what your church, community, neighborhood etc has done to identify the evil doers.

1:05 Portia, if some innocent priests get tied in with the others, they have only the church to blame. Like they say a few bad apples spoils the bunch. If they are dead and can no longer defend themselves or their legacy, it is a direct result of the church shielding their sins from the public and courts. You are probably just trolling, but calling child rape victims cowards is disgusting. You are what is wrong with the church and as long as you and people who think like you are control the church, abusers will continue to flock to your protective arms.

The issue is being “above the law.”

Hiding priests and getting rid of them and failing to report them to the authorities is the key.

The priest who taught me is on this new list. Never suspected he did a thing wrong. Never thought of it.

He was kicked out of the church the year i graduated.

I had no idea he was thrown out until today...but the church did and failed to turn him in.

Talk about sin?

Watch for Ray Donavon type actions

It is SO tiresome to see the meaningless term “trolling” trotted out in response to a comment you don’t agree with, 3:19. I’m not talking about children, I’m talking about those who won’t go public long after they are children.

I need hardly point out, as surely you know already, that every organized religion on the planet has dealt with scandals like this, and how many miscreant clergy are ever handed over to the law by the denomination? (Locally, there was the recent business with an Episcopal dean, every bit as bad as some of the Catholic stuff, and the bishop did ZIP, claiming he, uh, didn’t “know the extent of ir” despite many parishioners alerting him many times). Yes, the Catholic wrong must be addressed, but don’t hold your breath waiting/hoping for the Church of Rome to collapse any time soon. The Church is, for its faithful, bigger than this, and after all is the ONLY one with a direct apostolic line from Christ himself.

That may mean nothing to you; fine. Go find a sect that suits you. God knows there hundreds out there, some with some semblance of heology, some just happy-clappy clubs.

The "church" is the body of Christ. Not any particular sect. All of us, Protestant and Catholic and other, who comprise the church, are affected by this. We should pray for the victims and the perpetrators that Christ's mercy and grace would carry all of us forward.