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  Former priest alleges 'system of cover-ups' of abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/15346288/former-priest-alleges-system-of-cover-ups-of-abuse/.

  abcupdated november 10, 2012, 2:01 am.

  a former new south wales priest claims to have witnessed a "system of cover-ups" within the catholic church to hide child sexual abuse.. kevin lee was ordained as a priest 20 years ago and worked as a police chaplain for some of that time, but was relieved of his parish responsibilities in western sydney this year when he admitted to marrying a woman in secret.. his comments follow those of that the catholic church is involved in cover-ups and paedophile priests have destroyed evidence to avoid prosecution.. mr lee told lateline on friday that abuse is widely covered up in the church and that he first became aware of it as soon as he was in the seminary.. "people used to tell me and people in the first parish i was in started to confess their frustration with the authorities and the church for not dealing with the abuse that happened to their sons," he said.. mr lee says during the course of his life as a priest, he became aware that some of those around him were paedophiles.. "i became aware that some of the other priests were actually paedophiles and were not necessarily becoming priests because they wanted to help people, but because they were paedophiles who wanted the opportunity," he said.. mr lee says a church protocol was in place for dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, but it was not actually used.. "i saw a system of cover-ups, a system of blind-eye turning and just ignorance of the fact that it was happening," he said.. he says he took his concerns to superiors within the church but was knocked back.. "in my earlier years as a priest, i was having these people coming to me in confession or just sharing in counselling sessions their experience of frustration and anger with the church that had ignored their pleas of justice when their children had been abused and i started writing the notes down," he said.. "i was speaking to a barrister at one point and i thought he was going to help my case by putting it forward in some legal process.. "he said 'document everything you have', and everything i had i took to authorities within the church and i was told i needed more evidence.".

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  james_woods

  A further development in the state of NSW in Australia is a call to close down the entire Catholic order known as the St. John of God Order (not a very large order). A psychologist who was employed by the group for 9 years has gone public to ask Cardinal Pell to close the group as (she claims) 75% of the brothers are offenders and that some had committedthe worst offences that she had ever heard of.

  Amazing. A modern day knights templar except this time the horrors were real.

  But - she was a psychologist and it took her nine years to figure this out?
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  Former priest alleges 'system of cover-ups' of abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/15346288/former-priest-alleges-system-of-cover-ups-of-abuse/.

  abcupdated november 10, 2012, 2:01 am.

  a former new south wales priest claims to have witnessed a "system of cover-ups" within the catholic church to hide child sexual abuse.. kevin lee was ordained as a priest 20 years ago and worked as a police chaplain for some of that time, but was relieved of his parish responsibilities in western sydney this year when he admitted to marrying a woman in secret.. his comments follow those of that the catholic church is involved in cover-ups and paedophile priests have destroyed evidence to avoid prosecution.. mr lee told lateline on friday that abuse is widely covered up in the church and that he first became aware of it as soon as he was in the seminary.. "people used to tell me and people in the first parish i was in started to confess their frustration with the authorities and the church for not dealing with the abuse that happened to their sons," he said.. mr lee says during the course of his life as a priest, he became aware that some of those around him were paedophiles.. "i became aware that some of the other priests were actually paedophiles and were not necessarily becoming priests because they wanted to help people, but because they were paedophiles who wanted the opportunity," he said.. mr lee says a church protocol was in place for dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, but it was not actually used.. "i saw a system of cover-ups, a system of blind-eye turning and just ignorance of the fact that it was happening," he said.. he says he took his concerns to superiors within the church but was knocked back.. "in my earlier years as a priest, i was having these people coming to me in confession or just sharing in counselling sessions their experience of frustration and anger with the church that had ignored their pleas of justice when their children had been abused and i started writing the notes down," he said.. "i was speaking to a barrister at one point and i thought he was going to help my case by putting it forward in some legal process.. "he said 'document everything you have', and everything i had i took to authorities within the church and i was told i needed more evidence.".

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  james_woods

  The charges he brings are obvious ones, but he carries little or no weight because of his past with the secret marriage.

  It makes him sound like a disgruntled ex-employee - nothing more.
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  Greetings! From an Existent JW!

  by Ethos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'd like extend a greeting to all members of jwn.

  i've been a lurking by-stander of this forum for approximately 6 months.

  i think this forum's best moments can be attributed to the involvement of actual jw's in doctrinaire discussions and to heated (though not always dialectic) debates.

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  james_woods

  Do not feed the troll.

  Don't be a dope.
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  Do you believe god answers prayers about health?

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why doesnt god heal amputees?.

  not one amputee healing...... why only invisible, ambiguous disease?.

  http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god5.htm.

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  james_woods

  Salamanders can regrow limbs.

  Maybe God likes the Salamanders better than he does humans.
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  Do y'all celebrate Christmas in the same way every year?

  by panhandlegirl in

  1. social
  2. current

  like me, most of you never celebrated christmas when you were growing up or when you were raising your children.

  because of this, i don't place a great importance on celebrating christmas.

  i do love the holidays because everyone seems so happy and i like the hustle and bustle of it all.

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  james_woods

  Wait, satanus is FEMALE?

  Then why the Latin masculine name ending?
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  Transfusion and Eating – no difference?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  transfusion and eating no difference?.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing what watchtower says in public view about transfusion versus eating compared to what it admits in private about transfusion and eating.

  its short and sweet, and of course documented.

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  james_woods

  Conversely,

  You can die of malnutrition with a circulatory system full of blood.

  Exactly, Marvin. A transfusion has nothing to do with nutrition.

  This is pure Watchtower semantics to support their life-destructive madhatter doctrine.
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  Transfusion and Eating – no difference?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  transfusion and eating no difference?.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing what watchtower says in public view about transfusion versus eating compared to what it admits in private about transfusion and eating.

  its short and sweet, and of course documented.

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  james_woods

  People who die because they needed but did not get a blood transfusion - DO NOT DIE OF STARVATION.

  They die of blood loss. You can die of blood loss fully nourished and with a full stomach.

  A transfusion is not "nourishment" - it is one form of organ transplant.

  The bible never even remotely mentions organ transplants or transfusions.
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  Greetings! From an Existent JW!

  by Ethos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'd like extend a greeting to all members of jwn.

  i've been a lurking by-stander of this forum for approximately 6 months.

  i think this forum's best moments can be attributed to the involvement of actual jw's in doctrinaire discussions and to heated (though not always dialectic) debates.

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  james_woods

  You could very well be right, Christ Alone - or else an apple that fell not far from that tree.
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  Greetings! From an Existent JW!

  by Ethos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'd like extend a greeting to all members of jwn.

  i've been a lurking by-stander of this forum for approximately 6 months.

  i think this forum's best moments can be attributed to the involvement of actual jw's in doctrinaire discussions and to heated (though not always dialectic) debates.

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  james_woods

  agree JWoods , just waiting for the Recovery style nonsense to materialize.

  Wait no longer and look no further than Marvin's thread on blood - he is insisting that a blood transfusion is "eating blood". Semantics to support killing babies and other humans for a crackpot religious notion.
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  Transfusion and Eating – no difference?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  transfusion and eating no difference?.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing what watchtower says in public view about transfusion versus eating compared to what it admits in private about transfusion and eating.

  its short and sweet, and of course documented.

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  james_woods

  Blood nourishes the body. Though blood tranfusions are not consumed orally, they still provide nourishment and in a technical sense can be equivocated to "eating" blood.

  That is total argumentative pro-JW bullshit. You have not eaten blood unless you put it in your mouth and swallowed it.

  I started your troll clock a moment ago on your original thread, Ethos.