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Catholic priest abuse claims mount upTuesday 02 March 2010 At least 10 more people have come forward claiming to have been abused by Catholic priests during their time at boarding schools during the last century, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday. Last weekend, the NRC and Radio Netherlands published a report claiming at least three priests at the Don Rua boarding school in 's-Heerenberg had been involved in abusing pupils. Now a string of Catholic boarding schools and seminaries across the country are being named, the paper says. All the cases involve people saying they were raped or otherwise abused as children some 40 to 50 years ago. On Wednesday, church officials are due to meet to decide whether or not to launch a wide-scale investigation into the claims. The Catholic church confederation counts some 190 different religious orders and congregations among its members. At the weekend, the bishop of Rotterdam Ad van Luyn has called for an inquiry into the possible sexual abuse of children at the Don Rua school. © DutchNews.nl
No doubt someone will be along presently to bleat about he Roman Catholic Church being picked on again. By Jamie Anderson | March 2, 2010 3:37 PM And these are the same priests who refuse homosexuals to take holy communion???? By Liliana | March 2, 2010 4:30 PM It is unbelieveable that all these abuses took place 40 to 50 years ago and the victims kept quiet all along. Why now? All such a serious offence during their time never occured to them to tell their parents and guardians. What was the fear from telling ones own parents if a priest did that to them? some of the priests may be dead and gone away from the church itself - to counter or defend the accusations. For me unless some of these priest come out and confess their crimes, I can see some sanister ploys - by some people to get money from the catholic church as such accusations had actually bankrupted some dioceses in USA. I am never saying I support the priests. What I am saying is that !. Why didn't the victims trusts their own parents to have rported to them what that priest did to them? 2. Are they looking for confessions and apologies? Are they looking for some monetry gains - as it has been in USA when billions of US dolalrs have been paid to the victims? How do we know that a particular person was indeed abused by a particular priest? Finally is the catholic churh under a battle between the devil and his gang - like homesevual persons invading a church because a church rightly said communium is not for certain categories of people. Their intentions are to bring the church down or desecrate the Holy Communion when they can leave the church with its rules and form their own church suitable to their taste of what a church should be. By TONIART | March 2, 2010 5:04 PM I think we can be confident there will be plenty more of this to come. The Catholic church has effectively just been acting as a procurement agency for paedophiles. Even the present Pope, when he was head of the Inquisition, ordered bishops to hush up any accusations rather than dealing with them. By Tony Green | March 2, 2010 5:20 PM Abuse of children also took place in Ireland.The abusers need to brought to justice.The Catholic Church should do everything to hand those accused of abuse over to the authorities,and not protect them like they did in Ireland for many years. By Declan | March 2, 2010 5:57 PM Has anyone ever totalled the number of child abuse incidents by the Catholic church worldwide? By Frederick | March 2, 2010 6:55 PM
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Does this really surprise anyone?
By Bobke | March 2, 2010 11:48 AM