Catholic diocese to pay more than $14.7M
The Roman Catholic diocese is to pay out more than $14.7 million in a class‑action suit to victims of sexual aggressions committed by employees and volunteers and more than 30 of its priests.
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JaneyB 17:43 on 2023-04-13 Permalink
“En 1960, par exemple, le diocèse de Montréal comprenait quelque 2000 prêtres, selon les statistiques, et 10 % d’entre eux ont commis des agressions.” Wow. Two hundred sexually abusive priests. That’s just the Montreal diocese and doesn’t include all the other church orders and organizations. This organization cannot discipline itself. I want the police to be called for every violation and the courts to access every church record just as if it were a crime by any other person.
Kate 19:10 on 2023-04-13 Permalink
Two hundred sexually abusive priests.
It’s probably too late now for an investigation, but there must have been so many others who were complicit in covering it up, even if they never committed any direct act themselves.
Ian 21:02 on 2023-04-13 Permalink
Another angle is that there are only 60 victims in this single class-action suit. We can safely assume the real number is way in the hundreds if not thousands in Quebec alone. I think to the Institut des Sourds run by the church – 60 ex-students spoke out against 28 clerics and 4 lay people – we know there were far more victims. Maybe even everyone that attended the institution, to varying extents.
10% of them fucked and beat their charges because they could get away with it.
THIS is why when Legault gets all nostalgic for the MBC vision of the church as a unifying force it’s offensive. Ah yes, we all had common goals back in the day – and only 10% of the priests were fucking our children, so let’s forget 1967 ever happened. What a piece of work.
It’s like the old joke – “I built a thousand bridges, and they don’t call me Father Tremblay the bridge-builder. You fuck one child in your care …”