I got banned for posting this article. Subsequently, one of the mods said they investigated my profile, making several aspersions upon my character. Shortly after that banned me. I’m not really surprised, though.

The Catholic Church could certainly learn much from the modern German people, who have owned up to, and have made amends for the sins of their Nazi ancestors.

Admitted child rapist and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker has died a little more than a week after he began serving a sentence of life imprisonment, officials said on Friday. Hecker, 93, had pleaded guilty on 3 December to charges that he had kidnapped and raped a teenager at a New Orleans church in 1975. He had received a mandatory sentence of life

One, Aaron Hebert, who had been prepared to testify in support of the former St John Vianney student had the trial proceeded called Hecker “Satan in priest clothing”, someone who stole his childhood from him. Another survivor called Hecker “an animal” and thanked God his day of justice had at last arrived.

Statements sworn under oath in April by the state police investigator who primarily built the case against Hecker, Scott Rodrigue, as part of the wider probe explicitly allege that authorities have probable cause to suspect that the archdiocese ran a child sex-trafficking ring responsible for the “widespread … abuse of minors dating back decades”. That abuse was “covered up and not reported” to authorities, Rodrigue’s sworn statements said.