[a little elbow grease]

"A study commissioned by the German Bishops Conference and published last year found that more than 3,600 children were sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014." ---

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After watching the movie, "Spotlight", that sounds like a rather surprisingly low number (60 a year).

And how did they ascertain this number of abused?

[marajade]

I think it was because the CC felt it just couldn’t be touched. Arrogance!

[PeterPrinciple]

“What a shameful way for the Catholic Church to relativise guilt and defame homosexuals. Disgraceful,” Ulf Poschardt, the editor of Welt newspaper, wrote on Twitter.

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relativize guilt, what does that mean?

defame homosexuals? Think about that too.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

The Catholic Church has to come to the point when they bust the queer priests out of the priesthood. Nothing else will end this abuse. Also, they must not allow anybody with homosexual tendencies into the seminaries.

[bert]

Earlier I watched some epidodes of Victory At Sea.

In one episode a catholic chaplin held a service for Marines all geared up for an immnent landing.

The priest droned on in Latin, in Latin. The Catholic curch and all it’s costumed queers are a joke in the modern world

[trebb]

Perhaps the conference fudged the numbers....the Episcopal Church elevated an open homosexual to Bishop 16 or so years ago.....

A short snippet on the council that organized the study: The German Bishops' Conference is the episcopal conference of the bishops of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany. Members include diocesan bishops, coadjutors, auxiliary bishops, and diocesan administrators.