The U.S. bishops’ conference has released its annual report on the protection of children. The report records an increase in the number of new allegations of clerical sexual abuse being brought forward following the launch of independent compensation programs in some states.
The annual report on Findings and Recommendations on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People was released May 31 by the USCCB’s Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection.
Writing in his preface to the report, USCCB president Cardinal Daniel DiNardo said he offered his “sincere gratitude” for the courage of victims of abuse.
“Because of their bravery in coming forward, victim and survivor assistance and child protection are now core elements of the Church.”
The report covers a year-long period ending June 30, 2018 and is the sixteenth report since the implementation of the Dallas Charter and USCCB Essential Norms in 2002.
According to the report, in new complaints lodged during the report’s annual window, 92% of offenders identified were already either dead, laicized, removed from ministry, or missing. The majority of allegations concerned the period between 1960-1990, with a concentration in the 1970s.
The report highlighted the ongoing efforts of Church authorities to prevent future instances of abuse, recording 2.6 million background checks have been carried out on clerics, Church employees and volunteers. Six and a half million people have now been trained by the Church in the United States to identify the warning signs of possible abuse.
While acknowledging the progress made in addressing past cases, DiNardo noted that “much progress is still needed at this time,” and that the U.S. bishops would continue to address new measures for greater accountability and transparency.
“When it comes to the protection of young people, the question must always be ‘what more can be done?’” DiNardo said.
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It’s starting to seem like these priests did nothing but molest! Can all these accusations even be true? Of course, there were some awful predators, but must we believe every story of abuse then pay off the presumed victim? Starting to get suspicious…
Hahaha — Progress being made?? Are you kidding, bishop? Nothing good is going to come out of the Catholic Church regarding “sexual abuse” until: (1) the Church faces up to the true causation issue: a large level of homosexual clergy; (2) Catholic Tradition is fully restored, including the TLM (yes, all you George Soros followers, the forced change over to the Novus Ordo has been, and is, poison to the Faith; and (3) all Catholics seek to proselytize the Faith, as Christ demanded, and that all Catholics actually live the True Faith, particularly as explained by Our Holy Mother at Fatima and in other apparitions. Until these things are accomplished, the Church will continue to be destroyed, and many souls lost.
How sad that it has come to this in the church. Demoralizing.
After reading the just-released Associated Press report below, no one, Catholic or non-Catholic, should believe anything that comes out of DiNardo’s mouth regarding corrective measures about sexual abuse by the clergy:
https://apnews.com/8a80c0c1276f4cc485e0599e922759c2
When vulnerable adults are concerned, the sin is still there.
The psychological, emotional and spiritual damage is also long-lasting. Adults who fall under the spell of charlatans who masquerade as Catholic clergy have a long road to recover from the breach of trust. Rasputin anyone?
The crisis for the victim of sexual abuse, by an ordained cleric or a consecrated religious, whether the victim is a child or adult, who may have been groomed and seduced, is an inability to reconcile the Catholic beliefs taught to them, while at the same time being sexually abused by a “purported” representative of God. Where there is an ordained priest involved, it becomes insurmountable where a priest is concerned, who stands “in personam Christi.”
It becomes even more difficult when they feel alienated from the very Church they were taught as the one true Church.
The Church has no discipline. Very poor religious leaders, with almost no moral conscience! Irresponsible, weak, unreliable, untrustworthy hypocrites.
Is it possible to believe these statistics?
Cdl. DiNardo has another piece of “damage control” with which to deal as reported in the National Catholic Register:
https://m.ncregister.com/60765/d
I am so deeply disappointed by the news story of Cardinal DiNardo’s mishandling of a sex abuse crime case, involving his former vicar general! Don’t any of our Church leaders take religion seriously any more?? Do they not fear punishment for sins– even Hell?? Do they not feel a deep responsibility, for the poor victims — and spend many sleepless nights, praying to God in deep anguish, over these serious matters?? No fear of future possible sex abuse crimes, committed by their ignored criminal priests– on other future victims???
Dominoes are starting to fall. It is only a matter of time before it is DiNardo’s turn:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/no-excuse-no-adequate-explanation-lori-releases-findings-of-bishop-bransfield-investigation-39836
Why should we trust Cardinal DiNardo or any other member of the USCCB, when this tolerated?
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/expose-reveals-bp-bransfield-abuse-of-power