It's about fucking time: New York Archdiocese Releases List of Clergy Accused of Sex Abuse. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said disclosure of names is response to hearing from many victims and priests.

I used to be a brainwashed Catholic. I threw out the bullshit when I grew up. Fortunately, I was never an altar boy so there wasn't a child abuse problem.

Altar Boy: a boy who acts as a priest's assistant during a service, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.

Priests become priests because they want to have their way with little boys.

I remember the nuns were stupid fucking assholes. At the Catholic Church instead of teaching us something which was their job, they had stand in the church for a very long time because they enjoyed torturing us.

The moron nuns repeatedly said "Christ died for your sins" and "You must have faith". At least a thousand times they repeated this bullshit and that's why I remember the exact words many decades later.

According to every branch of Christianity, everyone on this planet has sinned. Normal people don't use the word "sin" because it's a ridiculous idea.

Sin: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.

Those ugly nuns can take their divine law and shove it somewhere.

Kindergarten thru 8th grade, 9 years of my life wasted. Never once did those uneducated moron nuns teach us anything about science. I lived in a wealthy Chicago suburb. If I went to their public schools I would have had a real education. Instead, the only thing I learned was the bullshit about the Magic Jeebus Man dropping dead for my sins.

The rest of this post is a cut & paste job from the Wall Street Journal about the stupid fucking assholes who cared more about the reputation of the Church instead of the children who were abused. That turned out to be a bad idea but still the asshole pope refuses to require bishops to call the police when this abuse happens. The pope belongs in prison.

New York Archdiocese Releases List of Clergy Accused of Sex Abuse

Cardinal Timothy Dolan said disclosure of names is response to hearing from many victims and priests.

By Melanie Grayce West

April 26, 2019

The Archdiocese of New York released a list of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse, a turning point for victim-survivors of abuse and one of the largest dioceses in the country.

In a letter to Roman Catholics on Friday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said the disclosure of the names—which include former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Bishop John Jenik—comes in response to hearing from many victim-survivors and priests.

“I pledge again today that I will do all in my power to ensure the safety of our young people, and to react with sympathy, understanding, and respect towards those who come forward with an allegation of abuse,” Cardinal Dolan said in his letter.

The list, with more than 120 names, reports only clergy who were officially employed by the Archdiocese of New York, not priests who were either visiting or on loan from other religious orders.

Those on the list were either credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor, possessing child pornography or were named in a claim to the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, a multimillion-dollar victim-compensation fund launched in late 2016. So far, the fund has provided compensation to 350 people.

Zach Hiner, executive director of SNAP, a nonprofit network of church-abuse survivors, applauded the release of names and said it would encourage some victims to come forward. The list was long resisted, he said, and doesn’t include the work histories of the clergy or the date of the first allegation. “The only way we can know how to prevent these cases in the future is to know what went wrong in the past,” Mr. Hiner added.

Robert Hoatson, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Newark and president of Road to Recovery, a nonprofit survivors-advocacy group, said Cardinal Dolan has taken a “good first step in being transparent and truthful about sexual abuse by clergy.”

“However, his list is incomplete and must contain names of religious order priests and ‘extern’ clergy who have been accused,” said Mr. Hoatson, who has said he is an abuse survivor.

The inclusion of a cleric’s name on the list doesn’t imply he is guilty of a crime or liable for any civil claim, according to the archdiocese. Roughly three-quarters of the credibly accused clergy were ordained between 1908 and 1969. Of those named on the list, roughly two-thirds have died.

Three clergy included on the list have been removed from ministry or placed on leave, pending the outcome of their criminal cases or investigation by the archdiocese. Eight other priests, who were removed from ministry, are awaiting a final canonical or archdiocesan review.

Former Cardinal McCarrick was dismissed from the priesthood in February. He has previously said he is innocent. Bishop Jenik, who was removed from his post and is awaiting canonical review, has denied the accusation of abuse.

The decision to report all of the clergy names is something that Cardinal Dolan had long declined to do. Typically, names were released publicly through the parish where an accused clergyman served and often included in a church bulletin. The archdiocese is sprawling, with some 2.6 million Catholics in nearly 300 parishes. The disclosure of the clergy names comes after similar moves across the country, including in New Jersey earlier this year.

Write to Melanie Grayce West at melanie.west@wsj.com