Think of all the people who have jumped on this thread and stated that the Catholic Church has handled the “scandal” all wrong — are you saying that the Catholic Church should have, instead, forced the “victims” to accept the apologies of the priests who supposedly molested them?
Would that be the CHRISTIAN way for the Catholic Church to handle things, in your view?
Is that why every non-Catholic is castigating the Church? Because the Catholic Church did not demand that the “victims” forgive their alleged molesters? Because that’s not what I’m getting here.
Instead, there is almost universal condemnation of the Catholic Church by the anti-Catholic bigots here, and not one of them has suggested that the victims forgive the perpetrators. Instead, there has been a disgusting display of glee over how much the Church has paid to help those poor victims recover, as though the amount of the money corresponded to the severity of the alleged molestation.
That makes no sense. I cannot make it make sense. And I never heard Christ say anything about little children (did you speicify an age?) must forgive those who harm then.
Angel-Gal has outlined the
BIBLICAL PATH quite well above.
I agree totally.
It gets a bit problematic with the legal stuff but certainly the Christian part can be carried out regardless of the legal stuff.
The problem has NOT been that the Christian Biblical route was impossible. The problem is that folks are
NOT WILLING
to carry it out sufficiently to make it happen.