If One God, why so many denominations?, page-4

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    There is one, holy, Catholic, Apostolic church and that is the Roman Catholic church. There are 30,000+ attempts to destroy it (homosexuals and pedos included) but it will never be destroyed.

    The church is destroying itself without outside help.

    For it is writted: Man who lives in glass house should not throw stones.
    Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
    Just in Australia.
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    Australia[edit]

    The Gillard Government instituted the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2013.[58][59] The Commission reported that 7% of all Catholic priests in Australia were "alleged perpetrators of child sex abuse;" the children's average age at the time of the abuse was 11.5 for boys and 10.5 for girls.[60] Alleged perpetrators were overwhelmingly male (90%) and religious brothers were disproportionally highly responsible (having the most claimants and some 37% of all alleged perpetrators, despite being numerically inferior to priests and religious sisters). Most reported incidents of sex abuse occurred between 1950 and 1989,[61] however it was noted that there was on average a delay of 33 years between when a victim was abused to when it was reported,[62] which skews the statistics towards older incidents of abuse. Some reported incidents occurred as early as the 1920s and the latest after 2010.[61]

    Of the 201 Church authorities surveyed, 92 (46%) reported having received at least one claim of child sexual abuse. Overall, some 4,444 claimants alleged incidents of abuse in 4,756 reported claims over the period 1950-2015 (86% of claims related to pre-1990 incidents). The 3,057 claims resulting in a payment for redress amounted to $268 million between 1980 and 2015. Claims had been made against 1,880 alleged perpetrators, with 30% against priests, 32% non-ordained religious brothers, 5% non-ordained religious sisters, 29% lay people and 4% of unknown religious status. By means of a weighted index, the Commission found that at 75 archdioceses/dioceses and religious institutes with priest members examined, some 7 per cent of priests (who worked in Australia between 1950 and 2009[63]) had allegations made against them (this finding did not represent allegations tested in a court of law).[64][65][64][61][62] Between 1980 and 2015, the Christian Brothers, which operated a number of residential facilities, made the highest number of payments to victims at 763, totaling $48.5m.[61]

    Australia's Catholic leaders had been among the first in the world to publicly address management of child abuse: In 1996, the church issued the Towards Healing Protocol, which it described as seeking to "establish a compassionate and just system for dealing with complaints of abuse".[66] Papal apologies for abuse in Australia were made by John Paull II and Benedict XVI.[67][68]

 
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