'A Newfound Faith': Rapist Says the Lord Will Help Him as He’s Sent to Jail
ARCHDIOCESE OF TOULOUSE, FRANCE, JUL 13 – Archbishop Guy de Kerimel appointed Dominique Spina despite his 2006 rape conviction, citing mercy; victim groups and Catholic media condemned the decision as unjustifiable.
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The Archbishop of Toulouse appointed priest Dominique Spina in June to an "administrative" post invoking "mercifulness", but voices rose in the Church to denounce the situation.
Survivors furious as French archbishop cites ‘mercy’ in naming priest jailed for teen rape to top Church post
PARIS, July 13 — A French archbishop’s decision to promote a priest who was sentenced to jail for raping a teenaged boy has drawn new condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church for its record on sex abuse. Victim support groups and traditionalists have expressed outrage over the case of Dominique Spina, who was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old boy in 2006 and sentenced to five years in prison. The archbishop of Toulouse, Guy de Kerimel, set o…
A lifetime waiting for an answer that never came. Patricia, the mother of Daniela Silva, bears the unbearable burden of knowing that Raúl Sidders, the priest that her daughter denounced for having abused her when she was a baby, was released. After so many years of struggle, the end was painful. The trial against Sidders was going to start last Thursday in La Plata, but finally it was not done. A few days after the oral debate, the Oral Court in…
The appointment of Father Dominique Spina, sentenced in 2006 for the rape of a minor, to a position of responsibility in the diocese of Toulouse provokes a wave of indignation within the Church of France. The decision of...
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