Treating the priest as guilty “just in case”, then through the process determining if he is innocent is a pendulum-swing overcompensation for the church’s previous (unwritten?) policy of casually shuffling the known-sexually-offending priest to some other parish?
***Treating the priest as guilty “just in case”, then through the process determining if he is innocent is a pendulum-swing overcompensation for the church’s previous (unwritten?) policy of casually shuffling the known-sexually-offending priest to some other parish?***
You are absolutely right! Let’s not forget though that it was the psychiatrists who originally said that child sexual abuse could be cured which led the Church to send any accused priest off for treatment. Years later, the psychiatrists said it could NOT be cured. That led the Catholic haters to make accusations of negligence on the part of the Church. The pendulum swing comes in by the Church, as you said, using “overcompensation.”