Ping!
It seems like there are those in Australia who would have had the investigation focus solely on the Catholic Church. Opposition leader Tony Abbot and Cardinal Pell made sure that the invetigation would include all accusations of child abuse and cover up in any institution.
There is certainly an element in Australia who intensely hate the Catholic Church and will try anything to foment hatred towards it.
As an example a TV news story the other day was up in arms about how Catholic School fees where going towards paying for the victims of child abuse. Turns out that the Church self insures throug a Catholic Insurance company which Catholic Schools also insure through - Talk about a beat up. Still I find it is only stupid lefties who willingly fall for this stuff!
Mel
First the hanging, then the trial.
Another thing we know is that abortion always kills one person and sometimes two. That more people die having abortions than died because they don’t have them.
Ping for later.
Nothing new about Catholics being persecuted. Long enduring history of it . Won’t stop until the end of time.
This sort of oppression seems to raise its ugly head from time to time in different places: First, in Rome during the original advent of Christianity, then during the French revolution, the Mexican Christiada of the 1920s and now it’s swimming to the surface once again. Of course it was evident when Al Smith ran for President and once again during the Kennedy years.
I’m sure there were many more occasions of official and semit-official oppression over the years but these are the ones that come immediately to mind. Just as leftists hate the absolutes of the U.S. Constitution, so to do the minions of hell hate the Catholic Church. It will survive once again, as it always has.