Thursday, December 26, 2019

IN the NEWS - Vatican "Overwhelmed" by Abuse Cases

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13


"The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse
complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before — suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Roman Catholic Church.
Nearly two decades after the Vatican assumed responsibility for reviewing all cases of abuse, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is today overwhelmed, struggling with a skeleton staff that hasn’t grown at pace to meet the four-fold increase in the number of cases arriving in 2019 compared to a decade ago....“I suppose if I weren’t a priest and if I had a child who were abused, I’d probably stop going to Mass,” said Kennedy."
IdahoStateJournal