Posted on 03/14/2014 8:08:54 AM PDT by cleghornboy
In an article which may be found here, Dr. William Oddie notes that, "Pope Francis has now once again (though to judge by the so far sparse coverage, you’d think he’d never said or done anything before) expressed his abhorrence of clerical sex abuse. Previous popes—indeed most senior clergy—are normally too reticent, however, to do what he has now done as well, that is to say, he has defended the Catholic Church’s record on tackling the sexual abuse of children by priests, by declaring what is now the simple truth: that “no one else has done more” than the Church to root out pedophilia.
The Catholic Church, he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera published March 5, 'is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No one else has done more. Yet the Church is the only one to have been attacked. The statistics on the phenomenon of violence against children are shocking, but they also clearly show that the great majority of abuses are carried out in family or neighborhood environments.'
He’s not in fact the first pope to point out that child sex abuse is a problem for society as a whole, and not just for the Church. Pope Benedict, having acknowledged
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Every single human on earth is a part of a “family”, including Priests, school teachers, welfare collectors, pimps, and toll booth operators, so what is the point of pointing out that more incest and sexual acts happen in “families”, and why include mom and dad families with broken urban “families” where a number of men pass through the house?
I just tired of the constant attacks on teachers, when othe4r groups have even higher rates and it is ignored by so many here on FR.
Correct. You tolerate and celebrate them everywhere in the society at large, joke on national television "not that there's anything wrong with it", why do you think that the Church is immune to the diseases you yourself spread?
How generous of you. Just "most", yes?
Teachers are just people, they aren’t hand picked, church educated religious leaders, and there are millions and millions of them, and they are all types, from all types of school districts.
“How generous of you. Just “most”, yes?
The cover up prevents the public from knowing...
The Muslims and I think the Nazis said that Jews made their Purim cookies with the blood of Christian Children.
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