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What about the enablers?

Okay, I'm lost on this one.As the ripples of this thing spread another question arises.What about the clerics who stood by and did nothing? The clerics who lived with other clerics who were committing...

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This subject wigs me out too. To me, the provincial who recycled one of my perps back into the order is like satan incarnate. Nope, the devil doesn't wear a red cape or carry around a pitchfork. He's...

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((((religious theme might trigger)))))Thanks for your reply, Gregg, Owen, Foreverhealing, and Kimo and everyone who posted here:After contemplating this whole dilemna of salvation and the church and...

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Indeed, this subject continues to make me very angry. In may case I told the principal another priest and an aunt about my abuse.....all enablers because nothing was done to stop this monster. It has...

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I think that some of these people are "enablers" in that they unknowingly allowed sexual crimes to continue to be perpetrated by not reporting them to law enforcement. However, I think that there are...

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There is no doubt that there have been many, many enablers. Lay employees of parishes often knew exactly what was happening. But said nothing because they thought they would not be believed, and then...

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Dear 7yr old boy, I agree with you and know first hand how law enforcement protects the church. There are a lot of Catholic police people. I totally agree that the law enforcement is also part of the...

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4 healing,I was just reading over your post again and it does make perfect sense and I agree with you. It's time to view the priest as a man with a regular job, not as a God or someone we put on a...

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The enablers are just as guilty, and in my case with the franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Holy Name Province, NYC, John Felice, provincial enabler, I am convinced that what normal people outside the...

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Quote:They laugh over dinner together, regaling each other with the antics of abuses of every kind by their fellowsWow, this is an interesting statement because I thinkthe actual inaccuracy of it...

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Sorry, Greg...the statement was very accurate. I might have added the caveat that it was about their fraternity absent, dead or out of the current clique, but they do share those stories, and dinner...

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Well, I guess perhaps once they find each other theyin some cases perhaps tell tales over dinner. But only with trusted, known, birds-of-a-feather (ormaybe a feather boa :-) ).Even more often, I think...

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Be careful, Greg, with that 'feather boa' remark---that is exactly the kind of gross generalization of gay men , and sexist. Just so you're clear about it, not all gay men wear feather boas.Rape of...

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That's why there was the the smiley after the boa. I wasbeing silly.But I do think that all the generalizations about whatrape is (i.e. more about power than sex) go right out the window when we talk...

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Have any 'enablers' ever been successfully prosecuted?

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Hi jmowens, In Cincinnati, the Hamilton County prosecutor's office supposedly conducted an investigation into the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's handling of sexual abuse claims. They found multiple cases...

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Perhaps someone needs to start a list of proven enablers. Sadly, it's not justice, but perhaps one day an atomosphere more conducive to justice will arrive, and if it does it would be a shame not to...

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I hear you, Mike.Can just imagine the people in 2056, and their thoughts about those closed minded people fifty years ago, and all the pedestals some of us put bishops and enablers on.It will be...

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Thanks for that artical Linda... very interesting.JimPS--I always enjoy seeing that "in solidarity" tag with your name

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It's called Organized Crime.

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