Vatican Quietly Pays $4 Billion To Child Sex Abuse Victims

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Vatican forced to pay $4billion in compensation to child abuse victims

The Vatican has quietly paid out nearly $4 billion in compensation to victims of child sexual abuse, according to a shocking new investigation.

According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, the Vatican has spent a sickening $3,994,797,060.10 to families in order to avoid being sued in court.

Collective-evolution.com reports: The figure is based on a three-month investigation of data, which includes a review of over 7,800 articles from LexisNexis Academic and NCR databases and information from BishopAccountability.org. Reports from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were also used.

If the amount of money dished out was divided evenly amongst the U.S.’s 197 dioceses, each one would get almost $20 million.

An incredible amount of cash from hard working people who support the good faith and intentions of the Church — people who are parents to little boys being sexually abused — is being used to cover up unfathomable crimes executed by priests.

In the early nineties, a monk who worked at the Vatican opened up to The New Yorker, admitting: “You wouldn’t believe the amounts of money the church is spending to settle these priestly sexual-abuse cases.” By 1992, U.S. Catholic dioceses had given 400 million dollars to settle hundreds of molestation cases. That was a shocking chunk of change then, and that figure has only risen exponentially since. The men running the Vatican are well aware of the problem, and yet they refuse to provide justice.

When Pope Francis addressed hundreds of bishops on the issue, he said:

I realize how much the pain of recent years has weighed upon you, and I have supported your generous commitment to bring healing to victims — in the knowledge that in healing we too are healed — and to work to ensure that such crimes will never be repeated.

His words of “generous commitment” only further show just how tightly knit the Church truly is — worried more about reputation than morality.

“The people he was talking to are the people who moved the pedophiles around to prey on kids,” said John Salveson, a 59-year-old Philadelphia businessman who was abused as a child by a priest. “If you gave me 100 years to pick a word to describe the U.S. bishops’ reaction to this crisis, ‘generous’ would never make the list.”

Terry McKiernan, who runs BishopAccountability.org, noted that Francis overlooked the fact that many dioceses around the country haven’t disclosed the names of abusers, and furthermore, continue to lobby against reforming statute of limitations laws that shield priests from prosecution for crimes from the past.

David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was once optimistic that Francis would push for change in how the Church handled the scandal, but has since lost hope. “There’s nothing he could say that would be helpful, because Catholic bishops have said it all before — ‘I’m sorry, we didn’t know, we’ll do better.’ We’ve heard that for decades,” he said. “This is a pope who has refused to take steps to expose one predator or punish one enabler. . . . He could simply defrock, demote, discipline, or even clearly denounce just one complicit bishop. He refuses, not one.”

Spanning many hundreds of years, children have suffered at the hands of child predators who remain safe in the authority and integrity of an honorable faith, yet organizations, investigators, reporters, etc. continue to raise awareness, while the Catholic Church continues their fight to block bills that would extend the statute of limitations for reporting sex abuse.

3 Comments

  1. well the witches heretics and c=victims of the inquisitions spacing hundreds of years never got any compensations and no priests or popes or judges or police or courts were ever charged with anything .Nor too were the Christians persecuted monstrously by the savages of Rome for 500 years, ever compensated Crimes that make Hitlers little brief 4 year reign of terror seem as if inconsequential in comparison They ,todays Christians , collectively now as the descendants must be worth of trillions upon trillions in damages and compensations with centuries of interest payments on top .

  2. In regards to the Vatican income here is one viewpoint I just read involved in pizzagate stories online

    America does not vet refugees, nor do
    we “place” them either. Refugee services in America are conducted
    through the United Nations Council on Refugees and 180 Christian
    charities (160 are Catholic). This scam is a multi-billion-dollar charity fraud that is not even regulated by the U. S. government.
    As a matter of fact, recently the press pressured the Catholic
    charities to tell them where the Syrian refugees are located in America
    and they could not report that information because it is not part of
    their “placement” policy. They “place” the refugees but do not “track”
    them.

    Accordingly, these
    charities are paid for refugee services that amount to nothing more than
    assigning them to church charities that place them in the homes of
    their church members. Then, the U. S. government provides an amazing
    array of social services for these refugees that go beyond the social
    services provided to Americans. The placement plan is for five years and
    is estimated to cost taxpayers around $250,000 per family – at least.The
    Catholic Church admits to making $170 billion a year in revenue, but
    that does not count many independent groups that fly under the tax
    shelter banner of the Church. Some estimate that the true yearly income
    of the Church is $1.7 trillion. Either way, the Catholic Church is the largest corporation in the world whose holdings cannot be accurately appraised. And yet, the Catholic Church says it has a yearly deficit.

    • and with regards to missing children and pedo gate—

      According to the FBI, in 2015 there
      were 460,699 NCIC entries for missing children. Similarly, in 2014, the
      total number of missing children entries into NCIC was 466,949. During
      the last 32 years, NCMEC’s national toll-free hotline has received more
      than 4.3 million calls. NCMEC has circulated billions of photos of
      missing children, and assisted law enforcement with more than 13,700
      cases of missing children. On average, 90,000 people are missing in the
      USA at any given time.

      There
      are roughly 400,000 children in the US foster care system as of March
      2014. Of that number, approximately 100,000 are waiting to be adopted.
      Approximately 55,000 children younger than 18 were reported missing from
      foster care systems in 2014.

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