By 1990, John Paul II had put a stop to 95% of the sexual abuse, before any of the lawsuits, and before any of the media attention. I’m still waiting for the Southern Baptist Convention to make the very fist steps that the Catholic Church had. Instead, all that comes out from them is, “We’re not Catholic, so we don’t have a problem.”
They don’t care. They all think they’re going to heaven anyway because they believe in their ersatz Jesus; They’re “born again”.
In their minds it doesn’t matter what they do. Ersatz Jesus covered all their sins, every last one of them, even their pedophile preachers. No one is going to hell except the Catholics, buddists, Jews, etc.
Additionally...The ONLY reason the world even knows of the clergy abuse is because the press has exposed it. It certainly isn't because the catholic membership or leadership spoke up to the authorities as they should of to stop these perverts.
Furthermore...It’s really disingenuous for the catholic church to try to deflect its faults to others.... In the rest of the world if a person is involved in felony rape of a child then they are accused, go to jail if found guilty, and are labeled as a “sex offender.”....... In contrast the Catholic Church has a long history of hiding and moving priests around and only until recently were still not fully cooperating with the law enforcement authorities.
You can claim all you want of what PaulII did but few would agree 95% of the problem is resolved...the evidence shows otherwise....and the only reason the mechanisms the church has now put into place are there because your church was shamed into doing it……exposed for what it's been doing,…….....individuals who cared more for their reputations and monies, and it's abusive perverts than they have or do for children... or the devastation which comes to their families.
Benedict XVI,.... who as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has publicly acknowledged the enormous pain he endured reading the thousands of reports of abuse that crossed his own desk year after year. Rome..... Since the early 1980s , he was in a position to know the extent, the depth and the horror of the problem, and he was in a position to lead the Church in responding to the problem....he “supremely” failed.
And let's be frank of what some of these Priests have done just so your eyes are wide open...this was in the Phila. Archdiocese and only some of the happenings the grand jury reported:
- An 11-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by a priest who took her for an abortion when she became pregnant.
- A fifth grader was molested by a priest inside a confessional.
- A teenage girl was groped by a priest while she lay immobilized in traction in a hospital room.
- A priest offered money to boys in exchange for sadomasochistic acts of bondage and wrote a letter asking a boy to make him his “slave.” The priest remains in ministry.
- A sadistic priest enjoyed having children play the roles of Jesus and other biblical characters in parish Passion plays. He made them disrobe and whip each other until they had cuts, bruises and welts.
- A priest falsely told a 12-year-old boy his mother knew of the assaults and consented to the rape of her son.
The grand jury found that many victims were abused for years and that many priests abused multiple victims, sometimes preying on members of the same family. One of the Priests was determined to be on a “criminal rampage” abused 17 victims,.. many of them from a single parish. Another abused 16 victims and was allowed to stay in his pastoral role for decades after the first abuse report in 1966.
And so....this is just on ONE Diocese.....how many are still being hidden and protected which we do not know of because the Pope and others are sheltering them.????