The man in the above picture was arrested on September 15 and charged on September 25 with possession of child pornography…..
Ottawa police have issued an arrest warrant for a Roman Catholic bishop from Nova Scotia facing child pornography charges…….
(Bishop Raymond) Lahey was re-entering Canada at the Ottawa International Airport on Sept. 15 when members of the Canada Border Services Agency pulled him aside for a secondary examination, according to a release from Ottawa police. Officers found images on Lahey's laptop computer "that were of concern."
He was released at the time. The computer was seized and police said a subsequent forensic examination of the computer revealed child pornography.
As if that's not offensive enough, consider this….
The former leader of the diocese of Antigonish is perhaps best known as the man who helped broker a $15-million settlement with people who said they had been sexually abused by priests in the diocese, in some cases dating back to 1950. That settlement was approved by a Nova Scotia court on Sept. 10.
Jesus.
Just in case you missed this from last year….
In Ireland, reports into clerical sexual abuse have rocked both the Catholic hierarchy and the state.
The Ryan Report, published last May, revealed that beatings and humiliation by nuns and priests were common at institutions that held up to 30,000 children. A nine-year investigation found that Catholic priests and nuns for decades terrorised thousands of boys and girls, while government inspectors failed to stop the abuse.
The UN Human Rights Council today published a written statement by IHEU on the role of the Holy See in the child abuse scandals that rocked the Catholic Church in recent years, and its failure to honour its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Commenting on the report, Roy Brown, IHEU Main Representative at the UN Geneva said: "The Holy See has been heavily implicated for decades in covering up cases of child abuse carried our by its clergy and religious orders, in obstructing justice, and in failing to deal appropriately with abusers. Yet for too long it has been given a free ride by the international community because of its presumed moral leadership. Our report is the first to bring the issue to the attention of the Council. We shall be referring to our report in the plenary of the Human Rights Council next week."
The Vatican's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, responding to the report's findings that up to 5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child abuse, did the Christian thing…..and blamed others….
Children were more likely to suffer at the hands of relatives, family friends or babysitters than clerics, he argued.
Jesus.
And if that isn't bad enough, wait…there's even more….
The Archbishop also quoted research published in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper which suggested that most congregations affected by child sex allegations in the US were protestant churches while the problem was also common in the Jewish community.
'Yeah, 1 in 20 of our clergy are child-terrorizing fiends, but hey, what about those babysitters and those Jews and Protestants.'
Thoroughly disgusted yet? I've saved the worst for last.
Yesterday……………Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Chief Justice John Roberts
An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Biden, six members of the Supreme Court and hundreds of members of the legal community.
Five of the six Roman Catholics on the high court – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito – heard the homily by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo…..
What did the representative of this child-terrorizing religious cult have to say to enlighten America's vice-president and 5 other terror-cult members who just happen to be Supreme Court Justices?
Speaking at the annual Red Mass the day before the opening of the Supreme Court term, DiNardo said that people represented by lawyers are "more than clients. … In some cases the clients are voiceless for they lack influence; in others they are literally voiceless, not yet with tongues and even without names, and require our most careful attention and radical support."
Jesus.
High leaders of the United States of America, leaders of a country alledgedly fighting a "long war" against international "terrorists", seek moral guidance from a representative of an international child-terrorizing cult. A religious cult so morally depraved and so hypocritically twisted, it's representatives have the audacity to preach to America's highest legal representatives about our national morality in dealing with the "unborn", while dismissing and downplaying a scathing, yet factual, report of the cult's own centuries-old terrorization of underage boys.
It's all disgustingly maddening.
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Don't worry, Reverend. I heard this fellow also swamped the nation's polling places with 400,000+ fraudulent voter registrations last election season so he gets a pass on the sex crimes.
So, I take it you aren't really a Reverend?
Either way, I totally agree with you on this one, Rev.
Ex-reverend. And thanks StraightOutta for your honesty.
larry, creatively, compares a child-rape ring to voter registration errors. Now that takes some real imagination. But hey, I guess everything bad on earth is ACORN's fault. Who knew?
Rec,
This all the more reason for us to get behind Obama's appointment of Kevin Jennings. He will help in constructing an enlightened populace that embraces the very behaviours that are now considered repugnent and further sexual tolerance in the name of diverstiy.
No, I was comparing child rape to the child prostitution/human smuggling/slavery ring you were defending last week, Reverend. You know, the one Obama also pretty much endorsed by refusing to condemn it.
Louis CK uncovered the Catholic Church's real mission a few years back…
(Warning, dark humor ahead)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k
While the Catholic church has many serious problems, I would hardly characterize the church as a cult. Catholicism is as old as Christianity itself. Scary note………..I polled my 8th grade History class. Question………are Catholics Christians? More than half said no. A fellow TEACHER said no!? Yikes! That`s scary.
While the Catholic church has many serious problems, I would hardly characterize the church as a cult. Catholicism is as old as Christianity itself. Scary note………..I polled my 8th grade History class. Question………are Catholics Christians? More than half said no. A fellow TEACHER said no!? Yikes! That`s scary.
This is why our forefathers didn"t want them is office. Figures. You never see protestants doing this stuff. Or politicians, a true cult, doing this stuff. no siree i tell ya.
Definition of "cult"…
"a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies."
America has come to define the term as a scary, marginal, unconventional religious group. That's a total misunderstanding of the term. Christianity, itself, is a cult. Islam is a cult. Judaism, etc.
Protestants for centuries believed the Pope was the "little horn" of Revelation chapter 13. Remember crazy Rev. Hagee? He still believes that, as do others.
larry, larry, larry…how can we take you seriously when you insist on comparing "respected" priests who physically abuse children with some childish, embarassing and stupid Fox sting operation by a couple of kids who are still pissing in their pants?
angry…no one is denying that "others" also abuse children. But you have to face the truth here….Catholicism has demonstrated over time that their celibate priesthood theology combined with their unequal view of women has led to an institutionalization of wickedness. Vatican II didn't go far enough.
You're still confused, Reverend. I'm not comparing abusive priests to those young filmmakers, I'm comparing them to the child prostitution/human smuggling/slavery ring you were defending last week.
Just for the record…are you referring to the totally fictitiousness entrapment of an organization of color by tolerance-challenged numbnuts?
Stay on him Larry.
Based on the response, he must think they are pissing on Reverse and his Deity Obama.
There is nothing that Reverse wont gloss over if they agree with his politics.
Is ACORN an organization of color? I thought those corrupt Obama cronies who run ACORN and skim the taxpayer subsidized profits are white.
jimmy…..just now looked at that video. More truth there than fiction.
The Revererand fits the classic profile of a liberal: One who attacks the Catholic Church for putting homosexual men in charge of young boys, while at the same time, attacking the Boy Scouts for refusing to put homosexual men in charge of young boys.
Calling the Catholic church an "international child-terrorizing cult" is typical Rev hyperbolic inanity, but he does have a point here about the Catholics not properly addressing the issue of child sexual abuse committed by a small minority of homosexual clergymen. They tried to sweep it under the rug for far too long, and that is indefensible.
But when the Reverend tried to somehow conflate that with the abortion argument, he lost me completely. It's as if the Reverend is saying, "stop the child abuse, but killing them is okay." I don't understand.
Quid….feel free to label me anyway you want. However, I would remind you that I've never said anything about the Boy Scouts…ever.
Furthermore, the Boy Scouts, as far as I know, do not have a rigid and corrupt ideology, like the Catholic Church does, lending itself to a predilection for child abuse. I believe religion, not just the Catholic religion, poisons everything. Most liberals are much more tolerant of religion than I am. So, there's that.
AND….homosexuality should not be confused with child molesting. Child molesters are pedophiles. To confuse the two is incorrect and could look like a bias against homosexuality.
King….it's, once again, the hypocrisy. An institution which has protected child abusers, an institution with up to five percent of it's priests who abuse children, has absolutely no business speaking about the morality of the unborn. There's simply no credibility left……that's what I was pointing out. By the way, thanks for agreeing with the indefensible sweeping nder the rug of the abuse. We do agree occasionally and that's a good thing.
I don't know of many people who come out FOR child sexual abuse, except for Hollywood celebrities who defend Roman Polanski, NAMBLA, a few liberal judges, and Obama's School Safety Czar Kevin Jennings, so that's not a real big agreement. It's pretty basic morality.
But what you're saying is that if persons or institutions are wrong about one thing (as the Catholic church was to cover up sexual abuse by homosexual clergy. FYI – the abuse was directed at BOYS, not girls), they are wrong about everything. I don't agree with that. You are wrong about most stuff, but I still find some things to agree with you about.
Of course, that's not what I'm saying at all.
I never said that Catholics are wrong about everything….they do good for the poor, for example. I said that with a child abuse and cover-up record like Catholics have, they have no business being taken seriously when authortitatively speaking about the "morality" of….anything.
Yet 5 Supremes and hundreds of lawyers sat at the feet of of one of Catholicism's "we define morality" proponents.
You are saying one moral failing means the Catholics have no right to express morality about anything. You just said it again, and you're wrong again. I've yet to meet any perfect people on this planet, but that doesn't mean we all sacrifice the right to express our opinion on morality.