UNITED STATES
AlterNet
Joey Piscitelli
One would assume by March of 2012, that the Society of Jesus, aka “The Jesuits” – the largest single order of Priests in the Catholic Church, would be well aware that the clergy abuse crisis in the USA, and the world for that matter- is not only humiliating, but staggering. After paying out several million dollars in several lawsuits for molestation, one would obviously also assume the Jesuits would switch tracks, and derail the old train of negligence. …
But just as the smoke seemed to be clearing for the beleaguered order, which has been virtually inundated with lawsuits and complaints dating back decades; the Society has apparently gotten back on the wrong track. Countless previous lawsuits- citing negligence and knowledge that the Jesuit leaders had knowingly promoted and transferred numerous child molesters and their protectors around the world, should have been the STOP sign held by the mammoth white elephant in the Society of Jesus’s headquarters.
The recent investigation and prosecution by US Homeland Security, and the State of Illinois, that infamous Jesuit Fr. Donald McGuire, who was Mother Teresa’s personal adviser and confessor – and was known by Jesuit superiors for decades to be a serial rapist; should have also have been the atomic blast of wake up calls.
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