The Church’s response has been to force me, an usher in a Catholic Church, to undergo an enhanced level of background check.
My level of interaction with children is to point to the bathroom and say “over there”.
Stall and deflect.
Our parish made all the playground mothers head downtown to get their fingerprints put on file.
Yeah...thats the problem, those deviant mothers.../sarc/
A priest once asked me for my church references in order to be Godfather to a friend’s son. I said I’d be happy to once the church starting policing their own.
When I was Grand Knight of my Knights of Columbus Council, I had to tell men with previously-completed FBI background checks, Top Secret security clearances, that they had to submit to the archdiocese’s screening process.
I took a lot of heat for a lot of guys whose reputations were sterling, verified by extensive personal investigations, and in some cases, polygraph. They found it a bit... insulting. At the time, we noticed the promulgators of the policy weren’t being investigated. I had to quell a riot or two.
Our archbishop was... demon “uncle ted.”
It is a stalling tactic.