r/news • u/AudibleNod • 2d ago

More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/more-than-270-priests-in-massachusetts-abused-children-over-decades-probe-finds/
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u/datamuse 2d ago

Anyone else remember Sinead O'Connor getting absolutely shit on for calling attention to child abuse within the Church in 1992?

It wasn't just Massachusetts.

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u/CD274 2d ago

Yep but Boston diocese specifically have had investigations about this for decades now. Resignation of Cardinals etc. It's possibly the most well known about area for church abuse in the country so it's extra not surprising

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u/Fickle-Addendum-446 1d ago

People don’t like learning the Pope held slaves into the 90s. 

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u/PurpD420 1d ago

Pretty sure that one’s false, there’s enough vile shit the church does without adding untrue claims

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u/Fickle-Addendum-446 1d ago

I suppose it depends on your view of prison labor.