This is 1000% correct. Its all shell games to them. Broke? Realllllly....sell off so.e of those priceless antiquities you have hanging in churches and other spaces across the globe. They use bankruptcy as protection pure and simple
The Catholic Church has a history of financial corruption going back centuries. In Medieval times they would accuse people of crimes, torture a confession out of them, then confiscate their property. The Vatican Bank was created as a money laundering operation for Mussolini. I do not understand why the Catholic Church still exists. That said, they’re not a whole lot worse than many other religious tribes.
This is a game that the Catholic Church has been playing for a considerable while now. The steps are simple: 1) Get wind of a priest or priests who are about to get either arrested or sued, 2) Transfer all valuable properties and cash out of the immediate hands of the organization, and 3) Claim poverty and a total inability to pay restitution.
If it were possible (and maybe it is), the court should order the reversal of those transfers, then DEMAND that the Christian Brothers PAY WHAT THEY OWE IN FULL.
Because, as with so many other onerous things going on these days, this crap has gone on long enough.
Of course they’re selling off their assets to avoid accountability. It’s good they’re going out of business, as it were, but they need to be held liable for their shady dealings. Seize the buildings and jail the people who thought they could get away with it. Fraud, this is fraud. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the EREA didn’t have skeletons in its closet as well. Check browser histories all around.
I bet EREA sets up another RCC brotherhood or similar organization once this washes over.
That's how the mining industry often works in the US: promise to pay all environmental cleanup after extracting the minerals. Extract, make profit, shift the profit to a parent/daughter/other company, declare bankruptcy, never do the cleanup, parent/daughter/other company uses the shifted profit to start new mining company. Rinse, repeat.
It means the money for cleanup should be put aside before they are allowed to start, or at a minimum the local government should demand some pay as you go setup.
For cases like this one, it means that the moment the judge gets lawsuit coming in, they should freeze all ongoing asset transfers and not allow any new ones without court permission. However I'm not sure that would have helped here, as it sounds like this group was cagey and started the asset transfers years before any court case started. Which supports the notion that the folks at the top knew exactly what their priests were doing for those years.
Indeed. Not just put them under scrutiny, but make them set aside monies for potential future lawsuits and damage penalties. Maybe this means that whatever comes after the Christian Brothers are considered guilty until proven innocent.
"Georgia Trump supporter who accused Joe Biden of being a p*dophile and called for p*dophiles to be executed has just been arrested on child m*lestation charges.
Meet Robert Raymond Tilley, 58, of Waynesboro, GA. Burke County deputies arrested him June 23 on four counts of child molestation and three counts of aggravated child molestation. Bond was denied. According to the incident report, the victim told deputies Tilley inappropriately touched her more than 20 times over the past three years.
This is the same guy who shared a meme calling Biden a “p*dophile.” The same guy who shared “liberalism is a mental illness” content, posted a meme calling for “p*dophiles” to be shot — “2 in the chest, 1 in the head” — and insisted teachers who “indoctrinate” kids “should be terminated” from their jobs.
He even posted a joke “Wanted by the FBI” mugshot of himself. I bet he doesn’t find that so funny anymore.
He also defended Trump’s treasonous actions on January 6th, writing that Trump “is not responsible for those people being stupid.”
This is who they are. They scream “groomer” and “p*dophile” at everyone else while this is who they actually are. Always projection."
Didn’t one of the banners for the fair depict a roller coaster? There was no roller coaster. That ferris wheel was the sole attraction (probably put up by the lowest bidder. It broke down at least once that I know of).
It's interesting – I'd love to know the "Christian" reasons for denying victims compensation. Would it be the greater good? They can't save souls without money? I don't know but surely it's not simple greed.
OT: About twice a week, I drive by this nice farmstead. They have a 5 acre or so fenced in area where they keep a small herd of some kind of exotic mini deer. In the middle is a small pond. I regret to inform you that over the weekend the pond was vandalized. There is algae everywhere. There are no security cameras, so it's unknown who the perps were. It could have been antifa, BLM or Lgbta+. I have my suspensions, but the only evidence is some glitter along the side of the road. It could have been a broken bottle but it's hard to tell at 55mph. This scourge must be stopped!
Completely unrelated, the weather turned extremely hot over the weekend.
Wanna know what gets the clergy's blood up? It's not the broken bodies and minds of children, it's that clergy absconding with church funds. THEN they're tooth and nail in crucifying the high-collared perp.
In a choice between god and mammon, god comes in a poor 2nd.
Oh yeah, the old shell game. First hide abusing priests by moving them around or denying the abuse or minimizing the number offending priests. Now move the money around to some other organization or claim bankruptcy or play hide and seek with the (tax free) money. Where is Jesus overturning the money changers in the temple when you need him--no where to be found, he disapears literally and figuratively. Anything to avoid paying the victims anything.
I’m not going to go into details, because my real name is displayed on the article. But I read this morning of an evangelical pastor in Australia whose 24-year-old son was sentenced to a year of prison for raping the 13-year-old girl.
If you could read this article, you would know that for the son, this isn’t his first goat rodeo. The judge gave him a rather lenient sentence, even though the young man admits that he wanted to hurt someone BECAUSE HE WANTED TO FEEL SOMETHING. Can you say psychopathic personality/The lawyer claims it’s because of a porn addiction. Ummm, no. Dad is upset because he was kicked off the local soccerteam— oh the pain. The church elders knew about the young man’s offenses, and did nothing. The list of things that are absolutely wrong with this whole story is longer than my arm.
This won’t be news to anybody, but It seems to me that there are actually two churches. There is the church that for whatever reasons tries to do some good in the world. And then there are the churches that are perfect exemplars of absolute corruption and moral rot. And perhaps there’s a third church: the ones that maybe try to do some good in the world, but still teetering on the edge of absolute corruption and moral rot.
Sounds like the Stanford swim team rapist, who was caught in the act of sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman, behind a dumpster, imagine being such a pos that your first instinct is not to offer help, see if they are all right, but to rape them. Then his father was angry that his son had to pay "for two minutes of pleasure!" The judge was a member of some network associated with the school so let him off with a slap on the wrist, compared to what he should have gotten. The outraged locals got the judge fired.
There was a case some 40 to 50 years ago of a bunch of thugs that threw a gay boy off a bridge as he was screaming that he couldn’t swim. He drowned. The judge basically let them off with a slap on the wrist, saying that they had never been in any trouble before, and they were good boys.
Yes, they were good boys that just murdered another young man.. I tried researching the story a few years ago to find out who the victim was and the names of the perpetrators, to see what had happened to them. But I couldn’t find the story. It was probably too long ago.
As to the "two churches" thing, sometimes they are so intertwined that one cannot be separated from the other. The archdiocese of Boston comes to mind here, and I'll bet it is by no means alone!
That’s what the “umm, no” meant. I’m willing to concede that it is a possibility, but mostly the only people I’ve ever heard arguing for its existence are religious people. For some reason, they seem to have a problem with sex. They are slaves to their lust, and rather than believe their own rhetoric about free will and choice, they would rather believe that they have none.
Yep, evilgelicals who watch porn once a week convince themselves that they are addicts. Whereas, a normal person can watch it once a day and twice on Sunday doesn't.
The Catholic Church pleading poverty anywhere in the world is a cruel, sick joke.
They're definitely morally bankrupt, but cash-wise? Pull the other one.
This is 1000% correct. Its all shell games to them. Broke? Realllllly....sell off so.e of those priceless antiquities you have hanging in churches and other spaces across the globe. They use bankruptcy as protection pure and simple
Selling off a few statues in the Vatican Square would cover all of their debts.
Too many religious people have their own rules on morals an compassions. Not excactly surpriced.
Big money, real estate, corruption, financial shenanigans, pedos. Does that remind you of a certain someone?
Too fucking many to count. Yeah, that guy too.
It could be a night time soap opera.
Yes.
The Catholic Church has a history of financial corruption going back centuries. In Medieval times they would accuse people of crimes, torture a confession out of them, then confiscate their property. The Vatican Bank was created as a money laundering operation for Mussolini. I do not understand why the Catholic Church still exists. That said, they’re not a whole lot worse than many other religious tribes.
This is a game that the Catholic Church has been playing for a considerable while now. The steps are simple: 1) Get wind of a priest or priests who are about to get either arrested or sued, 2) Transfer all valuable properties and cash out of the immediate hands of the organization, and 3) Claim poverty and a total inability to pay restitution.
If it were possible (and maybe it is), the court should order the reversal of those transfers, then DEMAND that the Christian Brothers PAY WHAT THEY OWE IN FULL.
Because, as with so many other onerous things going on these days, this crap has gone on long enough.
I know nothing about Australian law, but most legal systems have a mechanism to force reverse of a transaction which only was meant to hide assets.
Those certainly do seem like what we here in the US would consider to be fraudulent transfers.
Catholic clergy are ill-equipped to fight evil because they ARE that evil.
Of course they’re selling off their assets to avoid accountability. It’s good they’re going out of business, as it were, but they need to be held liable for their shady dealings. Seize the buildings and jail the people who thought they could get away with it. Fraud, this is fraud. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the EREA didn’t have skeletons in its closet as well. Check browser histories all around.
Arrest the head honcho. Who might that be?
Technically it's more money laundering than fraud, since the victims never acted on the deceit of 'we're broke'. But yeah.
Well, they're telling us what they really worship: money and power.
I'm convinced that's what the majority of the clergy wants, regardless of the tribe they belong to.
I bet EREA sets up another RCC brotherhood or similar organization once this washes over.
That's how the mining industry often works in the US: promise to pay all environmental cleanup after extracting the minerals. Extract, make profit, shift the profit to a parent/daughter/other company, declare bankruptcy, never do the cleanup, parent/daughter/other company uses the shifted profit to start new mining company. Rinse, repeat.
Which means that local law enforcement needs to watch them like a hawk.
It means the money for cleanup should be put aside before they are allowed to start, or at a minimum the local government should demand some pay as you go setup.
For cases like this one, it means that the moment the judge gets lawsuit coming in, they should freeze all ongoing asset transfers and not allow any new ones without court permission. However I'm not sure that would have helped here, as it sounds like this group was cagey and started the asset transfers years before any court case started. Which supports the notion that the folks at the top knew exactly what their priests were doing for those years.
Indeed. Not just put them under scrutiny, but make them set aside monies for potential future lawsuits and damage penalties. Maybe this means that whatever comes after the Christian Brothers are considered guilty until proven innocent.
Maybe they deserve said treatment.
W.R Grace did that to Libby, Montana. Asbestos.
The Koch's mining interests excel at that.
Not a drag queen
Not an immigrant
Not a leftist
Not a protestor
"Georgia Trump supporter who accused Joe Biden of being a p*dophile and called for p*dophiles to be executed has just been arrested on child m*lestation charges.
Meet Robert Raymond Tilley, 58, of Waynesboro, GA. Burke County deputies arrested him June 23 on four counts of child molestation and three counts of aggravated child molestation. Bond was denied. According to the incident report, the victim told deputies Tilley inappropriately touched her more than 20 times over the past three years.
This is the same guy who shared a meme calling Biden a “p*dophile.” The same guy who shared “liberalism is a mental illness” content, posted a meme calling for “p*dophiles” to be shot — “2 in the chest, 1 in the head” — and insisted teachers who “indoctrinate” kids “should be terminated” from their jobs.
He even posted a joke “Wanted by the FBI” mugshot of himself. I bet he doesn’t find that so funny anymore.
He also defended Trump’s treasonous actions on January 6th, writing that Trump “is not responsible for those people being stupid.”
This is who they are. They scream “groomer” and “p*dophile” at everyone else while this is who they actually are. Always projection."
https://www.wrdw.com/2026/06/29/waynesboro-man-charged-with-child-molestation-bond-denied
the projection is strong with this one, hope he has the day he deserves
Execute pedophiles, Bobby Ray? Careful what you wish for.
Insert "I'll allow it." meme.
As we used to say as kids: it takes one to know one.
He knows what pedophiles are like because he is one.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18165559a087bc3b3902952956e59bfc309e84e46b27afe2f04cc7b68d37f8cd.webp
OT but hilarious.
Pure genius.
Didn’t one of the banners for the fair depict a roller coaster? There was no roller coaster. That ferris wheel was the sole attraction (probably put up by the lowest bidder. It broke down at least once that I know of).
The roller coaster is the economy.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/5a/5a6303df1472271bdc3753c81b74457aeb804be09e744a2e1f52f71cdbaafffc.jpg
youtu.be/S_DHWzeotmU
It's interesting – I'd love to know the "Christian" reasons for denying victims compensation. Would it be the greater good? They can't save souls without money? I don't know but surely it's not simple greed.
It's simple greed.
OT: About twice a week, I drive by this nice farmstead. They have a 5 acre or so fenced in area where they keep a small herd of some kind of exotic mini deer. In the middle is a small pond. I regret to inform you that over the weekend the pond was vandalized. There is algae everywhere. There are no security cameras, so it's unknown who the perps were. It could have been antifa, BLM or Lgbta+. I have my suspensions, but the only evidence is some glitter along the side of the road. It could have been a broken bottle but it's hard to tell at 55mph. This scourge must be stopped!
Completely unrelated, the weather turned extremely hot over the weekend.
Was there a big gash in the pond? A gash that was 290...300...350 feet long?
And was a box cutter found?
Shaped like an armored Limousine.
https://media.nbcwashington.com/2026/05/GettyImages-2275069940.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&resize=1200%2C675
Pssst............the mini deer are Antifa.
Antler-tifa?
Yes. I'm guessing if the owner had put nice, fresh clean Potomac River water in the pond, this might have never happened.
Wanna know what gets the clergy's blood up? It's not the broken bodies and minds of children, it's that clergy absconding with church funds. THEN they're tooth and nail in crucifying the high-collared perp.
In a choice between god and mammon, god comes in a poor 2nd.
Which suggests that they know as well as we do that their god is a bunch of hooey.
Oh yeah, the old shell game. First hide abusing priests by moving them around or denying the abuse or minimizing the number offending priests. Now move the money around to some other organization or claim bankruptcy or play hide and seek with the (tax free) money. Where is Jesus overturning the money changers in the temple when you need him--no where to be found, he disapears literally and figuratively. Anything to avoid paying the victims anything.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9a676957e30ebe52fa844c5d4530892b69a29f08ff37a30d9772d06cb3909923.jpg
I wonder how much they contributed to Trump's slush fund.
Probably lots to all of them.
And all in the redacted Epstein files.
I’m not going to go into details, because my real name is displayed on the article. But I read this morning of an evangelical pastor in Australia whose 24-year-old son was sentenced to a year of prison for raping the 13-year-old girl.
If you could read this article, you would know that for the son, this isn’t his first goat rodeo. The judge gave him a rather lenient sentence, even though the young man admits that he wanted to hurt someone BECAUSE HE WANTED TO FEEL SOMETHING. Can you say psychopathic personality/The lawyer claims it’s because of a porn addiction. Ummm, no. Dad is upset because he was kicked off the local soccerteam— oh the pain. The church elders knew about the young man’s offenses, and did nothing. The list of things that are absolutely wrong with this whole story is longer than my arm.
This won’t be news to anybody, but It seems to me that there are actually two churches. There is the church that for whatever reasons tries to do some good in the world. And then there are the churches that are perfect exemplars of absolute corruption and moral rot. And perhaps there’s a third church: the ones that maybe try to do some good in the world, but still teetering on the edge of absolute corruption and moral rot.
Sounds like the Stanford swim team rapist, who was caught in the act of sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman, behind a dumpster, imagine being such a pos that your first instinct is not to offer help, see if they are all right, but to rape them. Then his father was angry that his son had to pay "for two minutes of pleasure!" The judge was a member of some network associated with the school so let him off with a slap on the wrist, compared to what he should have gotten. The outraged locals got the judge fired.
And he should have been removed from office.
There was a case some 40 to 50 years ago of a bunch of thugs that threw a gay boy off a bridge as he was screaming that he couldn’t swim. He drowned. The judge basically let them off with a slap on the wrist, saying that they had never been in any trouble before, and they were good boys.
Yes, they were good boys that just murdered another young man.. I tried researching the story a few years ago to find out who the victim was and the names of the perpetrators, to see what had happened to them. But I couldn’t find the story. It was probably too long ago.
But I’ve never forgotten it
Yes AI has made it hard to search for anything older, as it only seems to pull up recent cases.
As to the "two churches" thing, sometimes they are so intertwined that one cannot be separated from the other. The archdiocese of Boston comes to mind here, and I'll bet it is by no means alone!
No such thing as porn addiction.
That’s what the “umm, no” meant. I’m willing to concede that it is a possibility, but mostly the only people I’ve ever heard arguing for its existence are religious people. For some reason, they seem to have a problem with sex. They are slaves to their lust, and rather than believe their own rhetoric about free will and choice, they would rather believe that they have none.
Hence the use of the term addiction.
Yep, evilgelicals who watch porn once a week convince themselves that they are addicts. Whereas, a normal person can watch it once a day and twice on Sunday doesn't.
I can stop any ... be back in a minute .......... time.
A minute? My condolences. 😉
I almost typed 'just a sec'.