MANILA (PHILIPPINES)
Manila Bulletin
September 23, 2018
By Genalyn Kabiling
President Duterte has assailed the local Catholic Church for its refusal to investigate allegations of child sexual abuse committed by some priests.
The President said church leaders knew of cases of abusive priests but still pretended to be righteous because they were also “a bunch of sh*t.”
One of the cases ignored by the church, Duterte claimed, was the abuse he and other Ateneo students endured from a Jesuit priest years ago.
“The Catholic Church of the Philippines, never bothered to investigate them,” Duterte said during a health forum in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu last Friday.
“And all the things that they did, asking cars from government, getting it free when they know very well that there is a separation of church and state, that no money of the government shall be spent for the benefit of the religious or religion,” he said.
Duterte recalled that he and other high school students were molested by Jesuit priest Mark Falvey while studying at the Ateneo de Davao University. He claimed that the school and church turned a blind eye to such abuse scandal.
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