The Vatican said no such thing. Sodano was simply stating that the media spent a lot of time on a relatively small number of molestation cases in order to make it seem like there were many more cases than there actually were. The media did this with access to all the facts, but declined to use them because the facts didn't comply with their desire to put the Church in the worst possible light. When they did this, they put EVERY SINGLE PRIEST under suspicion, and Sodano is saying that this was not fair, and I agree!
If a high school teacher is caught molesting a student and is sent to another school without the school knowing about it, but it is later found out, should we suspect ALL teachers? No! We should be rightly angry with the administration that let it slide, but again, I would ask, where was law enforcement, where was the justice system?
The most blatant evidence that the media beat the drums on this in order to harm the Church is that they CONTINUE to ignore the fact that most of these cases involved pre-teen and teenage boys, and was more homosexual in nature. They will do nothing to harm their favorite minorities; but they'll do what they can to reduce the credibility of anyone who DOES speak out against the homosexual lobby. The Boston Globe salivated at the chance to do as much harm as possible to the one institution which stands against most of what the editors stand FOR. The Boston Globe is massively hypocrital in this regard. While it excoriates the Church for the heinousness of these crimes against children and young men, it also supports NAMBLA, the National Man-Boy Love Association which seeks to lower the age of consent for sex between adults and children. NAMBLA believes that introducing children and young adults to homosexuality is a freeing experience. Now how can the Globe jive that attitude with their outrage at what these priests did?
DO NOT GET ME WRONG!! I believe any priest who has molested a child or teenager should be arrested, tried, and put in jail for a very long time!! I am just sick of the assumption that most priests must be doing this because there is so much press coverage about it.
No, but every person who was in that school system that transferred this pervert would be fired and maybe arrested for conspiring to hide a pervert. In fact, someone who has a record of sexual questionability is illegal to work with children in schools.
Obviously it cannot be all priests. But is IS the entire system that hides them.
Any secular organization would fire all these people and replace them. From the top down. Only , like this article says, the only official responses we hear from the Vatican are, "Dont Worry, Be Happy"?