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>>21001550
Now pedo church apologists will invariably try to tell you that protestant churches and public schools abuse too, as if we could possibly fathom the true scale of child abuse perpetrated by a millenia old multinational institution veiled in secrecy with incomparable amounts of money and resources.
>Some 216,000 children - mostly boys - have been sexually abused by clergy in the French Catholic Church since 1950, a damning new inquiry has found.
>The head of the inquiry said there were at least 2,900-3,200 abusers, and accused the Church of showing a "cruel indifference towards the victims".
>The inquiry found the number of children abused in France could rise to 330,000, when taking into account abuses committed by lay members of the Church, such as teachers at Catholic schools.
>The report, which is nearly 2,500 pages long, said the "vast majority" of victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.
>It said the Church had not only failed to prevent abuse but had also failed to report it, at times knowingly putting children in contact with predators.
>"There was a whole bunch of negligence, of deficiency, of silence, an institutional cover-up," the head of the inquiry, Jean-Marc Sauvé, told reporters on Tuesday.
>He said that until the early 2000s, the Church had shown "deep, total and even cruel indifference" towards victims.
>"The victims are not believed, are not listened to. When they are listened to, they are considered to have perhaps contributed to what they had happen to them," he explained.
>He added that sexual abuse within the Catholic Church continued to be a problem.
>While the commission found evidence of as many as 3,200 abusers - out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics - it said this was probably an underestimation.
>"The Catholic Church is, after the circle of family and friends, the environment that has the highest prevalence of sexual violence," the report said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58801183

>>19989224
>B-but we're totally the OneTrueChurch™ and the gates of hell won't prevail against us
Bunch of retarded Pharisees, all they do is kvetch like a jew about prots whenever anyone points out their false doctrines

>>19944199
>no arguments