Exactly. Because the Catholic Church has a structure, it was the first one to be subjected to attack. Sexual abuse in the Protestant Churches has slipped through the cracks for lack of central authority. The worst abuse, however, is to be found in the nation's public schools.
We live in a society where sex permeates every aspect of our lives - from commercials to the silver screen and the internet. Is it any wonder that some deviants seek it out where children are most often found and great trust is shown by unsuspecting parents?
One has to know the journalistic history of these two reporters who were on this story from the beginning. Knowing that would tell a lot about how the “news” reports have been handled.
It would also help to know the background of this: the name of the L.A. activist judge who worked with 2 activist lawyers to have a one-year suspension of statute of limitations, which gave the lawyers and their “researchers” a year to seek out and dredge up abuse cases—to the considerable financial benefits of all concerned in this process.
This does not in any way excuse the facts of the evil done.
But as Albion Girl once posted—(going on memory here)-—”I always thought it was a mistake of those who were molested to seek their justice with money”
One has to be in the pews day by day and week by week to hear what the good pastors and good priests are saying about this and to realize what a cross they bear, and to observe the grace and dignity they are demonstrating in the face of it all.
We as, Catholic lay people, bear the burden not only with these good priests, but we also bear the burden and cross that was visited upon us by the priests who did such wrong.
May God have mercy on us all.
“Thought your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow”.
May all of us be brought to repentance for one another, that all of us may hear: “The man who is in Christ Jesus is a new creation”.
Slipped through the cracks? In what way? A central authority didn't prevent the problem from happening in the Catholic church.
The worst abuse, however, is to be found in the nation's public schools.
If you're talking about perps unrelated to the victims, you're probably correct, but I think abuse by a family member is the most common.
We live in a society where sex permeates every aspect of our lives - from commercials to the silver screen and the internet. Is it any wonder that some deviants seek it out where children are most often found and great trust is shown by unsuspecting parents?
"Dirty old men" have been around almost as long as there have been children to take advantage of, but yeah, I think our over sexualized society is making abuse more common.