The fact that the church's response in some of these cases was to simply relocate the offender and hope it would all be forgotten was also a problem for trust and honesty.
There was an article posted here this morning about how the church in the central valley of California was paying out 15 million dollars for lawsuits for molestations.
Frankly most Catholics I know are nothing but hypocrites who vote straight abortion loving Democrat. I have no reason to not believe they're the same hypocrites crying about Obama's demand for birth control.
As far as I'm concerned, all organized religions, for the most part, are the same bunch of holier than thou hypocrites only with different names.
If you're having PR problems in your church, some of you better look in a mirror to see the problem.
“Using your BBC example, the difference between the BBC and the Catholic Church is that the BBC doesn’t walk around in flowing black robes acting holier than thou. We expect there to be molesters in the BBC...We expect trust and honesty from the church(es).”
If all you expect from the BBC is molesters in its midst, and you don’t hold it morally accountable for what it does (and therefore what it says), how do you blindly believe all it and the other socio-communist, cultural Marxist media say about anything, starting from the totally fabricated “Catholic Church sex abuse scandal”?
If you have read all my article, you must have seen that reputable studies conducted by influential bodies have totally disproven the myth that child and adolescent sex abuse is singularly typical of the Catholic Church.
The opposite is true. That abuse is epidemic in our society, and the Catholic Church is the institution with a pedagogic role that was less involved in it than any other.
It was targeted by the media exactly and only because it is the Catholic Church, so they want to destroy it.
They have done a good job with you, as you have been easily manipulated into believing all their lies and that brainwashing is so effective and strong that you still believe what you were told, contrary to all evidence shown to you.
In addition, the Catholic Church has taken measures against child abuse that no other has taken, making it the safest place for children.
If abuse and paedophilia are rampant and on the increase, it is because of all the good, progressive and enlightened ideas of atheists leading to the “permissive society”.