....At best, there have been some half steps brought on mainly by legal actions. If anything, the church has orchestrated a conscientious effort to minimize the scandal and hide behind any legal statute of limitations. But most everyone—including many Catholics like myself—is still waiting for church leaders to root out all the problem priests and hold others accountable for the cover-up. The pope is right that all of society’s institutions—not just the Catholic Church—must be held to “exacting” standards in their response to sex abuse of children. He correctly called pedophilia a “scourge.” But then the pope had the gall to hold up the church as an example for how to confront the problem....
....The pope is correct that child sex abuse isn’t limited to the church. But no one has said as much. The reason so much attention has been paid to the church is because of the Vatican’s supposed moral authority; the abuse stretched around the world; and the cover-up was extensive. “While child sex crimes happen in every institution, in no institution are they ignored or concealed as consistently as in the Catholic Church,” Clohessy said.
I’ll bet he puts the Christian Brothers right on it
And the writer thinks the pope lives in an alternate reality?
That's right Alex. For example, before the Penn State pedophilia scandal became public, they purchased a whole bunch of .xxx domain names.
Penn State Bought Adult Domain Names to Block Usage Prior to Sex Abuse Scandal (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2814307/posts).
Swift and decisive action!
“No institution has done more to deny and downplay the sexual abuse of young boys than the Catholic Church. No institution has done more to discredit victims and protect pedophile priests than the Catholic Church. And no institution has done more to avoid accountability for decisions made at the highest levels to cover up decades of sexual abuse of boys by scores of priests.”
This is a complete lie....we have the Franklin Cover-Up and the Penn State coverup over a decade (and maybe since the 70’s). The difference is the “deep” pockets of the Catholic Church and their Moral foundation—they know and accept the fact that pederasty is deeply evil—unlike the secular/pagan world which embraced homosexuality and pederasty for thousands of years and revered abnormal sex as “good”.
The Catholic Church dares to condemn homosexuality and pederasty—unlike many Protestant Churches today. The Slippery Slope is that homosexual acts are learned and modeled—homosexual societies have pederasty. It is necessary to corrupt and pervert the young while forming worldview.
Christianity is trying to be eliminated by humanist/secularists because they want to bring back pederasty/homosexuality as a “good”.
The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by Satan—it is true—but they still call sin a sin, unlike most of the pagan/secular/humanists who defy nature and God’s Laws—so ANYTHING will be ok if a person has the “urge”.
The Catholic Church has been hampered by APA and “hate speech” and they try to dance that fine impossible line (homosexuals are not evil—it is the “act” nonsense)-—They need to QUIT this nonsense and fight and rid themselves of the corruption in their ranks. I think they know this, but the corruption within the Church runs pretty deep with all the humanist/secular Jesuits who contaminated minds of many they “educated”.
Pederasty was rife with Hollywood producers—Corey Feldman claims-—and nothing—no names===nothing but protection of these pederasts. These pederasts create shows like Glee to normalize immorality and promote their (im) morality which includes child sex. Where is the outrage and names of the producers????????
We fight for Afghani’s who sodomize boys. Why would we fight to “protect” and rebuild such a corrupt, evil culture. This is the worldview of many of our University elites though—the Billy Ayers—the homosexual advocates—who even realize that promoting homosexuality as “good” in a society always means child abuse-—ALWAYS. But that is Marxist ideology—the destruction of the natural family-—so they will be easily able to make slaves out of the unprotected minds and bodies of the children. Only biological family unit is the safest and best and most natural way to bring up children...nothing else will create normal, natural thinking and logic and common sense.
At least the Catholic Church acknowledges the evil of pederasty and homosexulity. The secular humanists/pagans/Marxists hate the Church for this and their is a war to destroy the Catholic Church since Voltaire.
The Catholic Church is was rid the Western Civilization of the idea that pederasty and homosexuality was a “good”....and that has creeped into Africa and Asia and the colonies—where pederasty was rife.
“Legionaries of Christ In Wake of Scandal”
“In early 2009, the Legionaries said that Father Maciel had fathered a daughter; more recently, Legionary officials acknowledged that he had sexually abused seminarians, and they asked forgiveness for failing to listen to his accusers.”
This last paragraph tells only a bit of the story. The scandal was covered up for decades, it was not a secret among officials in the ‘Legion’.
And now the so-called investigation is a timid and averting of official eyes from the unpleasant truth.
Real pit bull...with sharp gums.
Hey alex........here are some facts for you..... the protestent church ( baptist, lutheran, protestant, charismatic, episcopal, and so on ) have more documented cases of child abuse than the catholic.... why do I mention such evil??? because the real evil lies in those that do not look in the mirror.... the catholic church has established a clearinghouse for lazy reporters and catholic bashers, like yourself, to find easy prey... why is it so hard to find this info on the non catholic christian churches??? because they bury it and do not let it out... wanna cast stones, look in the mirror first, enabeler of evil...
Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”
Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”
Good better best. Sometimes better will do.
It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
Luke 17:2
Ah, still at it I see.
Penn State took swift action? LOL!
That might be the funniest thing I read today.
Okay - Obama’s comments about Israel were funnier - this is a close second.
I suppose it’s rude to note that the church handling their child-abuse problem like Penn State did is largely what got them in trouble in the first place. And I’ll say it again...if you believe that Jerry Sandusky was going at it with kids in the showers and not a single hack covering the athletic program heard as much as a rumor about it until the grand-jury report came out, you’ll believe anything.