A City Of Refuge

''HOLY'' ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS.

DRAWING ASIDE THE PURPLE CURTAIN,
by Shaun Willcock, 
BIBLE BASED MINISTRIES. 

The Most Comprehensive Indictment Yet of Priestly Sex Abuse: the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report: The Grand Jury and Its Findings

 In August 2018 a grand jury report revealed that over three hundred priests had abused over a thousand children in just six dioceses in Pennsylvania, over a number of decades – and that senior Roman Catholic officials did what they could to cover it up.  This was the most damning, most comprehensive indictment to date of the massive scale of the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests.

The grand jury was convened by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office in 2016.  It scrutinised priestly abuse allegations in dioceses which served over half of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic population of 3.2 million.  It heard testimony from dozens of witnesses, and reviewed over half a million pages of internal documents from dioceses.  When released, the report was over 1350 pages long.  And this is how it began (emphases added):
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this.  We know some of you have heard some of it before.  There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church.  But never on this scale.  For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away.  Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
For millions of Roman Catholics and others, the truth is now only beginning to dawn on them that the sexual abuse of children by priests of Rome is on such a scale as almost to defy description.  It is everywhere, it is massive, and it is horrifying.  There has been nothing like this revelation in the entire history of the Papal system.  And it is rocking that system to its very foundations.
THE REMAINDER OF STORY HERE: