Can the Catholic Church be singled out for rigorous investigation if no other denominations are exposed to similar scrutiny?
“Can the Catholic Church be singled out for rigorous investigation if no other denominations are exposed to similar scrutiny?”
No other denominations have demonstrated themselves as widely and deeply criminal. And I am talking about the institution as now composed.
However, I would support the same legal scrutiny to any other denomination that shows us 1/10th the criminality.
And any other religions too. In fact, it is likely time for a much closer look at Islamic centers in America...where crime can be shown.
The organization is the people who run it.
If all of these crimes were truly committed by parish priests and nobody in the hierarchy ever covered/complied, I would say the organization should be off limits. But that is not the case, and you know that.
In the case of the Catholic Church we are not talking about financial malfeasance, or the trading of insider favors, and undo political/legal influence.
We are talking about a criminal conspiracy to groom and rape young boys, and to use positions of power/authority to extort young men for sex. These are heinous crimes which we in the secular world have great stake in as well.
These crimes are not just a Catholic problem, they are a problem so pervasive that the greater society has a major stake in eliminating them.
“Can the Catholic Church be singled out for rigorous investigation if no other denominations are exposed to similar scrutiny?”
No other denominations have demonstrated themselves as widely and deeply criminal. And I am talking about the institution as now composed.
However, I would support the same legal scrutiny to any other denomination that shows us 1/10th the criminality.
And any other religions too. In fact, it is likely time for a much closer look at Islamic centers in America...where crime can be shown.
The organization is the people who run it.
If all of these crimes were truly committed by parish priests and nobody in the hierarchy ever covered/complied, I would say the organization should be off limits. But that is not the case, and you know that.
In the case of the Catholic Church we are not talking about financial malfeasance, or the trading of insider favors, and undo political/legal influence.
We are talking about a criminal conspiracy to groom and rape young boys, and to use positions of power/authority to extort young men for sex. These are heinous crimes which we in the secular world have great stake in as well.
These crimes are not just a Catholic problem, they are a problem so pervasive that the greater society has a major stake in eliminating them.