How do the church leaders feel about suicide in addition to rape? They appear completely insensitive to the end result of their behavior and more concerned about their own power. When they look back in years to come it will be obvious that it was their own actions which caused the most destruction to the institution. Surely even uglier details will be emerging soon.
A Belgian commission looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses say widespread abuse over decades led to at least 13 suicides.
The report was incomplete because its files were seized in a June 24 judicial raid that forced it break-up. But, commission chairman Peter Adriaenssens said Friday that 488 witnesses came forward, most of them after the April resignation of a bishop for sexual abuse set off a deep crisis within the Belgian church.
