What happens to the “victims” who admit they lied? Does the church demand they be jailed? Anything?
Why? Do you know of any? Maybe what ought to be done is what should of been done when all the allegations were being made: call law enforcement.
Its a crime to lie or make false statements.
Produce all those many letters from men who "admitted they lied."
$700 million paid out by the L.A. archdiocese on one day to settle abuse claims. Added to the $300 million paid out the year prior, that adds up to one billion dollars paid out of the coffers of hard-working Roman Catholics who assume their weekly offerings are going towards something other than court costs defending the indefensible.
Christianity is not under assault by these sexual abuse cases; the Vatican is. As we've learned on this forum, they are not the same thing.
The church in Rome teaches that its priests are "another Christ;" an "alter Christus" in "both their personal as well as professional lives," as Father Kenneth Baker explained to us.
That is not Christianity.
The church in Rome teaches that Mary is a mediator between God and men (contrary to 1 Timothy 2:5) and a co-redeemer and a dispensatrix of all grace.
That is not Christianity.
Most of us didn't know the church in Rome believed such errors until we learned from FR RCs themselves as to what the papacy preaches.
It is another gospel. And it is reaping what it has sowed.