Jesuit Social Services

But that's not where this ends.

Sadly, and I say this as someone of the faith, this website's the work of the Catholic group Jesuit Social Services.

Now, in the past, Jesuit Social Services were known for their strong position in support of refugees.

They were very much pro-boat people in the Howard era, and they support those coming out of prisons.

You get my drift.

It's a lay organisation, but clearly it's been captured here by woke church bureaucrats and has taken a decision to run with this Stop It Now program that's going to add, only add to the church's poor reputational record when it comes to the crime of child sexual abuse.

For years now, so many good Catholics have worked tirelessly to deal with and address the past.

For Jesuit social services to now be involved with this sort of website, regardless of whether or not the Royal Commission had a recommendation about self-help or not, well, I reckon that is madness.

I actually don't know why Tor continues to permit those websites.

A 2023 study by the University of New South Wales and Jesuit Social Services found almost one in six Australian men have sexual feelings towards children and teenagers.

And almost one in 10 acknowledge having committed child sexual offences despite few being caught.

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Thank you so much and bless you.

And Martha's been in Australia with Jesuit Social Services.

There's a longer version of that chat also at our website or at ABC Listen where you can find our podcast.

Thanks to producer Mandy Roberts and engineer Isabella Tropiano.

Um, Kate will be talking to us about how we can prepare for disasters such as heat waves, bushfires, um, and, um, other, quote-unquote, "natural disasters" that are exacerbated by the climate catastrophe, um, before they happen, so preparing for the recovery before the emergency takes place.

Um, and then at 8:00, we'll be talking with the strategic projects lead at Jesuit Social Services, um, David Murray, talk, talk about youth offending and how we can, um, try to address youth offending with, which is decreasing, as we've discussed before on this program, without resulting to incarceration of young people.

Um, and that will be all on the show today.

Um, hopefully it will keep you entertained, interested, and informed up till 8:30.

And that was Jah Warri with the song My Seed.

You're listening to 3CR 8:55 AM, Wednesday Breakfast.

It's 8:09 AM, and we have on the line, uh, David Murray, the Strategic Projects Lead at Jesuit Social Services.

Thanks for joining us this morning, David.