You managed to cherry pick what I wrote to lead people to believe I do not condemn abuse. Try not to do that. I was very clear to state that I agreed with the concerns expressed by Turtlepower (?). I also in other posts in this thread said I wanted all the evidence allowed by law to be reviewed by the jury and if that lead to a guilty verdict so be it.
The fact of abuse does not change fact that many are using it as a means to condemn the Catholic Church and Catholics for Catholic beliefs and teachings.
You really don’t seem to share all my concerns though...you have stated that you are comfortable with the RCC process of performing internal investigations before involving civil authorities. Based upon the results, that process is flawed. There have been many examples of church leaders (e.g. Law, and Lynn in this Philadelphia case) who didn’t seclude the accused priests and really didn’t conduct a thorough investigation.
I’m sure catholics, like everyone else, are horrified when stories like this come out. However, catholics are too entrenched in their defensive mode and can’t believe that their church culture really is to blame and still hasn’t done enough to make retribution for their mistakes or even more importantly prevent future abuses.
Not at all. We can all read how you tag every criticism of anything Roman Catholic with the caveat that everyone else is doing it, too.