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agnes_therese
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:banghead:
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QuestLove
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delusion :bigyikes::sad_bye:
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triumphguy
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I’m sure that being in protective custody he would have more immediate and pressing things to worry about.
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Convert1
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Sounds like any other pedophile: “it’s not my fault” or “that’s not really the way it happened” or better, “it’s the victim’s fault”…Denial is a river in Egypt. May God have mercy on his soul.
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Exiled_Child
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But it’s a bit dishonest to judge him, because all humans have an endless capacity for self-deception, not just Brendan Smyth.
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Abynissa
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10 careers with the most psychopaths per capita
Salon.com
Salon.com
Kevin Dutton, an Oxford psychologist and the author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, believes that psychopathy can actually be advantageous in some careers. Using (not the most scientific) survey, he compiled a list of careers in which psychopaths are overrepresented. Mostly, they’re fields where the hallmarks of psychopathy allow people not just to get by but to thrive and succeed…
…@NUMBER 8. Clergy.The Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse scandal has cost the church a staggering $3 billion in payouts to victims. The Church’s efforts to hide abuse, often moving sexual predators from parish to parish, is now well known, and is a stain on the church’s reputation that will likely never be erased. But psychopathy knows no denominational boundaries, and there are plenty of non-Catholic religious leaders who seem to be, at the least, narcissists, and at the worst, diabolical psychos.
Joe Navarro, formerly of the FBI, created a list for Psychology Today of the myriad reasons psychopaths might be attracted to the clergy. Religious organizations provide easy access to victims, a source for financial rewards and easy legitimacy based on having an ordained position. Also—as if the other reasons aren’t creepy enough—in the case of organizations where confessions of “wrongdoing” are required, churches provide opportunities for excellent blackmail material to use on potential victims. (Bravo, Scientology!) Among some of the most popular preachers and televangelists who have exhibited megalomaniacal/psychopathic behavior are Bill Gothard, Creflo Dollar, Geronimo Aguilar and mutiple megachurch leaders…
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ringil
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This man is very ill. I pray that he repents and finds God’s forgiveness.
I can’t imagine the gravity of the sin of a priest using his authority in the commission of child molestation and rape. What a repulsive betrayal of his priesthood.
I can’t imagine the gravity of the sin of a priest using his authority in the commission of child molestation and rape. What a repulsive betrayal of his priesthood.
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Denise1957
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What this priest did was reprehensible, but in all fairness, the entire article should be read. Also, he died in 1997, which is 18 years ago. Perhaps the media is trying to find everything they can to hammer the Church with, even old stories.
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QuestLove
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It doesn’t seem that the media is rehashing this to make the church look bad. There is an inquiry going on and his testimony and letter came up.What this priest did was reprehensible, but in all fairness, the entire article should be read. Also, he died in 1997, which is 18 years ago. Perhaps the media is trying to find everything they can to hammer the Church with, even old stories.
bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33239256
The serial child abuser’s letter also blamed the media for creating an atmosphere of “shame” over his crimes.
The HIA inquiry, which is being held in Banbridge courthouse, County Down, is examining child abuse allegations in church, state and voluntary children’s residential institutions dating back to 1922, but has set aside a dedicated module on the case of the late Brendan Smyth.
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Rosebud77
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Thank you for pointing this out. I m appalled at the initial reaction here though. The lack of any real awareness of our situation here as this horror unfolds with the culpability of the church to the forefront . I would ask that you google Brendan Smyth and read how his Abbot lied etc etc etc, how the Gardai covered up, how the psych report was simply ignored. They knew what this man was in the novitiate yet made no attempt to dismiss him or limit his access to children. ( I am on very limited internet access so please follow this up;thank you) Reading the ongoing reports here ( I am in Ireland) I am disgusted at the way this man was allowed and sanctioned for so many years to abuse children and today we hear again the frank testimony of Cardinal Sean Brady, himself disgraced now in the eyes of most. I think we need to think very carefully now on this. I myself am away from Mass for the while until I decide if i can ever trust the Church here again. I was talking to visitors from the US this week and they were not aware of the scale and intensity of the abuse here. A shameful time and I came here expecting to see some reality and am again disappointed. Sad times indeed. We have nothing to be proud of in this matter Nothing. Over and out as tears fall here once more. Lost innocence on all sides.It doesn’t seem that the media is rehashing this to make the church look bad. There is an inquiry going on and his testimony and letter came up.
bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33239256
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Denise1957
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Thanks for posting this. I wasn’t aware that a government inquiry was going on. I think that the HIA, which as I have read, who are investigating the matter, are also investigating the failings and sexual abuse in Protestant institutions in Northern Ireland, such as the notorious Kincora case. I think that the jurisdiction of the HIA is limited to Northern Ireland, from what I can tell.It doesn’t seem that the media is rehashing this to make the church look bad. There is an inquiry going on and his testimony and letter came up.
bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33239256
It’s interesting that in reading how the HIA does its work, that they aren’t not so much concerned about with whether or not the victims are telling the truth (which can’t be absolutely determined, perhaps), but rather they are to determine if there were systemic failings on the part of the institution involved. They have a difficult job to do, obviously.
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Rosebud77
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Yes this is the Northern Ireland version of our Southern reports a few years ago.; Ryan and Murphy which are online,.Thanks for posting this. I wasn’t aware that a government inquiry was going on. I think that the HIA, which as I have read, who are investigating the matter, are also investigating the failings and sexual abuse in Protestant institutions in Northern Ireland, such as the notorious Kincora case. I think that the jurisdiction of the HIA is limited to Northern Ireland, from what I can tell.
It’s interesting that in reading how the HIA does its work, that they aren’t not so much concerned about with whether or not the victims are telling the truth (which can’t be absolutely determined, perhaps), but rather they are to determine if there were systemic failings on the part of the institution involved. They have a difficult job to do, obviously.
What has so angered many myself included is that we had all this apparently investigated here in the South some years ago and were told and promised then that everything had been revealed. Words like “transparency” were used. As Smyth crossed back and forth he is being investigated again And lo! Now we have a raft of material that was hidden and suppressed such a short time ago, knowingly and deliberately. Involving our Gardai and not the Northern police force . The Church knew all that has been exposed last week and hid it again… So that so many children were abused by a man they knew was a paedophile…And we are expected to trust now? Recently I took some US friends to Blennerville, the only working windmill in Ireland. There were several old millstones propped against the walls, and I remembered the words of Jesus about offences against children. Then this report came out. Who is guilty here? The facilitators even more than the perpetrators. As they had the power to avert. I know of one Superior of a laundry/ orphanage who refused to let Smyth through the door. Why did others even let him in? Because the Church told them to? I ask sincerely.
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