We see the same thing happening in our current society when judges let criminals go if they plead guilty and say they won’t do it again. BTW I’d love to see the comparable stats regarding other religious clergy because I can guarantee it happens in other faiths too.
Same priests swore to their Gawd to respect celibacy, and broke that promise.
You have to be either terminally stupid or in on “it” to be such a Bishop.
Yeah, you can forgive his sin and then pitch him out of church. Anything less than that — he has piccies of you.
Any abuse by clergy is indefensible, but the reason that the incidence of it rose, astronomically in the 70s and 80s no one wants to openly admit.
Yes, sexual abuse of children has always happened in any organization that puts adults in positions of power and access of children, child predators are going to go where the children are.
The marked increase that happened in this time however, is due to something greater than “protecting the church”. In the late 60s they began to allow open homosexuals in the priesthood... it takes 8 years before you are allowed in parrishes as a priest.
So, the marked increase in the mid 70s onward, well, you can track it right back to that decision. Compound it with the fact that now homosexuals are trading sexual favors amongst each other as well, when one of them gets caught with kids, its not simply a matter of protecting the church, its about protecting their homosexual cabal, because it will come back on them if one of them is doing this, it exposes them all.
Benedict attempted to take on this homosexual Cabal within the church, and vastly underestimated its power and entrenchment and no matter what they tell you, there is no doubt in my mind this is why he was forced into retiring.
The current Pope either is a homosexual, or completely owned and controlled by this cabal.