Monday, October 29, 2018

IN the NEWS - More from the Bay Area

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13
"Two survivors of alleged sexual abuse by Catholic clergy announced a lawsuit in San Francisco today in federal court against the Vatican alleging the
church has done nothing to by current and past popes to stop sexual abuse of children.
Kathy Stonebraker said she was sexually abused by Father Stephen Kiesle at St. Joseph parish in Pinole in the early 1970’s. Stonebraker was around 11 years old and recalled the abuse during Saturday catechisms. She said one time she was taken into a confession booth by Kiesle.
He would shut the door and push his body up against me and take his pants down,” she said.
Jim Keenan from St. Paul, Minnesota is another survivor named in the suit who said he was abused by a priest as a child. He was later offered a settlement by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Their lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday. It accuses the Vatican, a sovereign nation officially known as the Holy See, of violating customary international human rights law, including
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

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