[terycarl]

We were just having a discussion on another thread about this subject. The fact that the RCC allowed these priests to continue is appalling and rather telling.

oh good grief, not again...the RCC allowed nothing, certain people within the church did...if a member of the cia allows something untoward to happen within his departmant, do we condemn the U. S. government....the church and the government are made up of fallible individuals.....do we condemn the entire organization for the errors of some of it' members

[CynicalBear]

>> do we condemn the entire organization for the errors of some of it' members<<

When it’s a continuing decade’s long tolerance and cover up of evil? We most certainly do. There is no way for something like that to continue for that long without the leadership to not have been complicit.

[metmom]

oh good grief, not again...the RCC allowed nothing, certain people within the church did...if a member of the cia allows something untoward to happen within his departmant, do we condemn the U. S. government....the church and the government are made up of fallible individuals.....do we condemn the entire organization for the errors of some of it' members

Yes, especially when the bosses knew about it and refused to act, by default, giving their stamp of approval to the behavior.

The organization is made up of those same individuals. and they represent it. So yes, we blame the organization because without the people who make it up, it does not exist.