The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – which today called for contraception coverage to be removed from the Affordable Care Act – is comprised of 271 active and 185 retired bishops. Among them are the following:
- Bishop John McCormack: the former head of the Conference’s abuse committee, McCormack stepped down as bishop in 2011 after the Boston Globe revealed that he was shielding priests that left their own parishes after allegations of child abuse.
- Bishop Robert Banks: a conference member who admitted he “dropped the ball” in transferring a fellow Bishop who stood accused of molesting children and publicly advocating sex between men and boys.
- Bishop Francis DiLorenzo: a conference member who blamed a mother for allowing her sons to be molested and then sued the church for the reimbursement of legal fees.
- Bishop Robert Brom who paid a $198 million settlement to 144 victims alleging sexual abuse by the Diocese since 1935.
- Archbishop Alexander Brunett, now retired but still a member of the Conference, allowed Rev. John Cornelius to remain at his post in Washington even though Cornelius had been accused of several instances of sexual molestation of young boys.
- Bishop John Gaydos, who leads a diocese in Jefferson City, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit for allegedly covering up for Anthony O’Connell, who admitted to repeated abuses of his seminary students.
This institution – which has included and harbored known pedophiles – is now attempting to control American women through their uteruses (and save themselves a little money in the process).
The Conference of Bishops pretends to speak on behalf of American Catholics while it puts the health and well-being of women, children and families at risk.
It’s time to take off the white sheet off and expose the truth.
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This is a U.S. political move by the church to make the religious right happy ’cause France is 85% Catholic and they do not have this fight and it’s paid for. This has nothing to do with religion!
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The Catholic church is so in the dark ages, I am surprised they have any members left under the age of 80. Birth control and let the priest get married, it would have saved scores of lives damaged forever. Now they have 271 clergy with (questionable back grounds at best) telling us about values.
Although nobody really knows, or will probably ever prove, just how much the catholic church’s requirement of celibacy and forced status of remaining unmarried, is a factor in these uncovered cases of abuse, I feel certain that it does (and has) played a significant part in promoting it. It is a known fact that men (especially, because of higher testosterone levels and physiological makeup) and women are born with an inherent need and desire for sex and intimacy. It’s unnatural, non-Biblical, and totally counterproductive to impose such inappropriate restrictions on those desiring to become a priest. In every facet, it works against the potential of the individual and increases the likelihood of deviant and unnatural sexual activity (as it needs to be hidden, since it’s not “allowed.” These cases here are only the tip of the iceberg. They used to find tunnels burrowed between the nunneries and monasteries that were lined with the skeletal remains of the babies conceived there. I certainly believe there are many of these men that would’ve been content with sexual intercourse within marriage, never tempted to violate children, if this were allowed.
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What a group of anti-catholic bigots you are!
You are living in a fantasy world where child abuse is normal, honesty is replaced by hypocrisy and people who simply state the truth are called bigots.
Does the list continue to read like this? It would be nice to see the whole list. Glad you posted this….long overdue. The Catholic church among all other organized religions need to be exposed for what they truly are…..hypocritical, money mongering greedy control freaks. Don’t ya wish they were taxed as the businesses they really are? Religion must be taken out of politics. Where’s the separation of church and state?
The Catholic church has NO moral authority on any issue involving women, children, or sex. The Pope’s initial dismissal of hundreds of priestly pedophilia cases as just “petty gossip,” along with his saying that ordaining women as priests would be on the same moral level as the sexual abuse of children — these have pulled the last bit of the curtain back, revealing a misogynistic old boys’ club that cannot see women as anything but obedient breeders. We wouldn’t accept moral advice from an individual with these behaviors; we need to be clear, every time the issue arises, that we no longer grant the Catholic church any moral authority at all in these areas. By the Church’s own records, the physical, sexual and psychological abuse of children by priests has been going on since the first century — since at least year 65. (See SEX, PRIESTS AND SECRET CODES).
However implausible it may sound, Rome is headed for a fall. And all the popes horses and all the popes men won’t be able to put this institution back together again. Nothing short of an intellectual, moral and religious revolution is getting under way! Check it out at http://www.energon.org.uk
Who says they are celibate?
So there is a total of 456 Bishops on the USCCB and you are pointing out that .01% did bad things and that destroys them all? One of the problems I have with articles like this is that you attack the Catholic Church which is made up of over 10 million people world wide based on the actions of a small amount of those in the hierarchy who totally disregarded the teachings of Jesus. It is the members of the Church that are the Church! When you attack Catholicism you attack 10 million innocent people. If you want to continue to point out the obvious, then do it in a way that your attacks land on the targets, don’t blow up the whole city.
The rant in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Current Section by the new bishop falls just short of a call to open rebellion. Does he propose to put the US under the Interedict if we don’t fall in line?
There seems to be an inverse correlation between how much control the Church hierarchy has and the basic decency that drives the moral behavior of adherents.