The retired Rockhampton bishop allowed a priest to stay on at a parish even though he knew he was a paedophile, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
Bishop Brian Heenan also admitted at one point he tried to protect the reputation of the Catholic Church rather than consider the victims of sexual abuse.
Bishop Heenan was cross-examined over the Church’s responses to the abuse allegations at St Joseph’s Orphanage at Neerkol, west of Rockhampton, from the 1940s to the 1970s.
He allowed one of the main offenders, Father Reg Durham, to continue working for the Catholic Church for three years despite a woman alleging in 1994 he sexually abused her since she was a child.
The church’s reputation is always paramount. And they are sick bastards.
These abusers get promoted…. they get encouraged and enabled. Why? Because they don’t worship Jesus, they worship Satan.
And this does not apply only to the Catholic Church. It is denomination wide.
How so much abuse is condoned within church’s is beyond me.
Shows the level of emotional intelligence, spiritual integrity and level of faith ……….. extremely low. Or non existent.
And the Royal Commission is only highlighting a fraction of the abuse condoned, enabled and ‘enjoyed’, within organised Christianity.
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April 17, 2015 at 6:45 pm
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