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A Call for the Resignation of Rabbi Rick Jacobs Amid Reform Movement Discontent
Since I stepped into this role of being a voice for those who have been harmed in the Reform community, I have spoken to many people. Their stories and the way they were harmed are all very different, but one theme remains consistent: The Reform Movement’s response was inadequate, caused more harm, and failed to display the changes promised in its public apologies.
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In 2021, Pope Francis conceded that the church had failed to put the needs of victims first in what was considered to be one of his strongest condemnations of child sexual abuse in the Catholic church to date.
"There is, unfortunately, a considerable number," he said during his weekly audience at the Vatican. "I would like to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma they suffered. It is also my shame, our shame, for the incapacity of the church for too long to put them at the center of its concerns."
An independent inquiry, France's first major reckoning with clerical child sexual abuse, found that an estimated 216,000 children were victims. In wake of the damning findings, Hans Zollner, a German priest and close advisor to Pope Francis, urged Italian bishops to "find the courage to investigate" clerical child abuse.
The issue has been mostly buried in Italy, and at an episcopal conference, the speech by Pope Francis was criticized by abuse victims for failing to strike the tone of taking strong action against pedophile priests. In January 2019, a UN commission condemned Italy for being complicit in protecting pedophile priests from criminal charges.
"We want an inquiry here too, but the pope has never asked for one," said Francesco Zanardi, who set up Rete l'Abuso, Italy's only network of clerical abuse victims. "The numbers in France are frightening but here we could have up to 1 million victims. Simply hearing 'I'm sorry' is laughable."
In 2021, the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope's criminal court took place, where the Vatican tribunal absolved Reverend Gabriele Martinelli. In 2017 former altar boys went public with allegations of misconduct by Martinelli and a cover-up by the seminary superiors. The priest was acquitted by the three-judge panel of some charges and ruled others could not be punished. The former rector of the seminary, Reverend Enrico Radice, was similarly absolved.
#pope francis#france#italy#clerical abuse#clergy abuse#catholic#vatican#the vatican#hans zollner#francesco zanardi#rete l'abuso#gabriele martinelli#enrico radice
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A new day for victims of child sex abuse in Maryland
The Child Victims Act of 2023 has been passed in Maryland, allowing survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file retroactive lawsuits, even if the existing statue of limitations on the claim has expired. The Child Victims Act of 2023 will also remove the statute of limitations for all future lawsuits based on childhood sexual abuse claims. This Act was passed on the heels of the report released by…
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to go along with that poll though... you should try rereading, as an adult, books you hated in high school or college. like. i cannot stress how much more sense they will make. (sometimes. personally i don't think i ever will understand the appeal of Moby Dick but that's probably more a me-problem.)
you change. you see things. you learn things. you start to understand what empathy actually is and see things from other people's povs. and suddenly that book you thought was so incredibly dumb becomes an "oooooh" moment because you realize it was bigger than your developing 8th grade brain could realistically process.
we force kids to read books too young -- like, yeah. you should be forced to read things that bore you or that you don't fully understand. that's how we grow. but also Romeo and Juliet was written about teenagers, not for them. no book that has been long considered a standard part of The Literary Canon should be tossed because college freshman find it boring. they're freshmen. they do that. they also think all-nighters, keg parties, and a steady diet of pizza and ramen are good ideas lol.
reread books you didn't get. there's a good chance you'll see why it was required reading.
#i have feelings about this okay#i HATED the scarlet letter when I read it at my conservative university#because hester was painted as the problem#in a post metoo/church world... that story is incredibly poignant#it's a damning portrayal of clergy abuse and wildly feminist for its context#but did i get that as a college freshman? no. i was bored. XD
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after seeing that amazing edit...I can't ever stop thinking about Wriothesely and the complexities of his character. From his prior loyalty to Thomas to his eventual loss of devotion to him, whether it be out of fear, lust for power, or both - but his unquestionable loyalty to Stephen at the very end of things. One thing I appreciate is that, in the show , Risley tried many times to help Thomas, trying to get him to make a move against his enemies (Norfolk), trying to warn him of potential threats. There were even instances where we knew Risley was probably talking to Stephen, and he still attempted to steer Thomas in the right direction but just realized he was too stubborn. Then Risley betrayed Thomas and Gregory, which negated all his good qualities unfortunately.
I don't think what Risley did to Thomas at the end of the day was right, by any means, but what I do think is that he is such a nuanced, and complicated character. and i love characters like him.
It would've been so much easier if he hated Thomas and the Cromwells, if he was planning to betray them from the very beginning but that isn't the reality. He loved them, he saw them as his own family, he enjoyed being around them and being in their presence. His heart absolutely ached for what happened to Thomas, despite being the most instrumental person in his master's downfall. It was Risley's confession - that i don't believe was actually in the show - that really pushed Thomas to be executed.
And then there is the other hand, where even in the books there is a power play between Thomas and Stephen when it comes to Risley. They both want him, they both want to use him for their own ambition, they both want to show him off to the other just to say' I have him and you don't.' One of Thomas's main reasons in the books for having Risley close, was to spite Stephen.
And then you have these instances where, as much as Risley loves the Cromwells, he questions his place in their lives. Richard and Rafe outwardly talk down on him, Richard calls him an idiot, Rafe never liked him to begin with. He mentions how Thomas laughed at him when he suggested something and you can tell he questions if this family really accepts him, or not. Or if he is just another example of a man of 'noble' birth that Thomas parades around to show that he can.
So many complexities in Risley - even down to his attire. I was never sure if it was cheetah or jaguar or leopard clothing but the point is, those are both ambush and solidarity predators. They don't fit well in groups, especially the males; they will fight and kill, and they will ambush. I always saw Risley as a person who tried to fit in with the Cromwells but realized at the end, he never had a place, so his next logical step was simply an ambush.
Another animal, at least I find him comparable to is the snake that Thomas many times references in the books. Not just the snake, but the poison that eventually catches up to Thomas. Thomas spoke about how he was bitten by a snake in Italy, but it didn't kill him, but he never knew if it was poisonous or not. However, after that, he would consistently get ill, and it was implied that the poison was killing him slowly he just didn't know when. There was something about Risley being there, like the poison festering from the snake wound, slowly undoing the Cromwell house hold, slowly sinking his fangs into the stability and that family that let him in, and then eventually, destroying them.
#i see a pretty risley edit now i have to talk about him#he is so multifacted#it is why he and stephen fascinate me so much#in my personal hcs he and stephen are actually related by marraige like#he is stephen's nephew by marriage - married to stephen's blood niece#i do this thing where even tho stephen is the illegitmate gardiner takes care of all of them - but it's mostly just girls and if there are#boys he makes them go to the clergy#he's making his father's line suffer#anyway i love them both#risley is far more of a tragic character - caught between wanting to do the right thing but also his own fear but real greed for power#and inward resentment toward Thomas and his family - like i wish that was explored more. i think he hated them for a moment and stephen mos#certainly leaned into that but then risley realized how wrong he was but it was too late he had already fucked up#but also fuck mantel for the way she made stephen and risley hate each other or at least risley afraid of stephen#historically they remained best friends even when risley left stephen's tutelage - like mantel hates stephen i know#but making him borderline abusive to risley was so ugly#that and her refusing to accept that stephen worked for everything he had and was as lowborn as thomas and wolsey#like the beef i have with her#but she DID write Risley well#i am not going to deny that she made him sooo compelling so i can forgive her on some fronts
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Opportunity to help stop child abuse with two minutes of your time
New York Attorney General Contact Form: Please take two minutes to do this
On May 27, 2024, The Central Conference of American Rabbis Ethics Committee was recorded agreeing to keep child abuse confidential if the witnesses would come forward and talk to them! I am in possession of this audio recording. Yes I have turned it over to authorities in more than one state. Victims have appealed to the New York Attorney General’s office to intervene regarding threats into silence and failure to report crimes, including child abuse, as well as intimidating victims into not reporting abuse. This must stop. Please use this form to ask the New York Attorney General to intervene in this matter: NYAG ~contact form~ is here and here is a ~Petition~ with links to articles that have more information.
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Truth! Happened to me.
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It is absolutely infuriating that the list of priests found to be guilty of sexually abusing kids for the last eighty years in the Baltimore Archdiocese has some of the names redacted to protect the identities of the priests. If literally anyone else is guilty of CSA they get put on a publicly viewable sex offender registry, why should clergy be exempt from that?
#I'm so glad my mom was well past lapsed by the time i was born#mind you i don't think the Baptist Church is any better than the Catholic Church#but it wasn't my parents who made me go i went alone. hell they were just as worried about me regarding it#that was right as news was breaking of priests abusing children and being protected by the church#but i in my naïvte thought 'well I'm Baptist and not a boy so I'm safe'#Protestant clergy are just as guilty#csa tw#Baltimore#edit: accidentally repeated myself in the tags
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Nothing sacred to the CIA
#Catholic#clergy#CIA#MK-ULTRA#mind control#manipulation#drugs#abuse#rape#sex trafficking#child prostitution#blackmail
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Imagine an organization tolerated the rape of 600+ children over 80 years, and one of the two major political parties is demanding the entire country live by their rules about sex practices and reproductive health.
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Victim Implores CCAR President to Address Abuses by the CCAR Ethics Committee
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/victim-implores-ccar-president-to-address-abuses-by-the-ccar-ethics-committee/
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