No, it’s not and by the tone of the book, it had been going on for a while.
I’m thinking that over 1,000 years should have been enough time to learn how to deal with it appropriately, especially in light of how Scripture tells us to deal with sin in the church.
That fact that it hasn’t is what the big problem is and what the big scandal is. Abusers will find a way to abuse anywhere in any organization. Everyone knows this. The issue at hand is how it was dealt with, or essentially, mismanaged. That’s where the scandal comes in and where the Catholic church has left itself wide open to legitimate criticism.
And ANY organization which mishandles sexual abuse in its ranks is open to the same criticism and condemnation. There simply is no excuse for not addressing it appropriately.
‘The Catholic Church Has Paid Nearly $4 Billion Over Sexual Abuse Claims, Group says’
hmmm....I wonder where all those funds come from? Of course I ask in jest.
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BishopAccountability, whose mission is “documenting the abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church,” according to their website, says that there are also payouts involving over 8,600 cases of assault survivors abused by a member of the clergy dating back to the 1950s.
The largest known payout amounted to over $600 million dollars in 2007, CNN reported on Saturday, issued on behalf of 221 priests and other church employees accused of abusing and victimizing over 500 people
BishopAccountability maintains a list of every known settlement paid by the Catholic Church to those who have alleged sexual abuse at the hands of clergy and Church affiliates. “We document settlements involving 5,679 persons who allege sexual abuse by Catholic clergy,” their website states. “These survivors are only one-third of the 15,235 allegations that the bishops say they have received through 2009, and they are only 5% of the 100,000 U.S. victims.”
A grand jury released a document on August 14 that stated more than 300 priests sexually abused children in the state of Pennsylvania. Those accusations are among many global sexual abuse scandals that have come to light within the Catholic Church and its systemic failures to protect children. The Pennsylvania report detailed more than 300 priests that have been accused, credibly, of abusing over 1,000 children over the course of 70 years.
https://www.newsweek.com/over-3-billion-paid-lawsuits-catholic-church-over-sex-abuse-claims-1090753