[Gamecock]

If they covered it up!
(Which is what Rome did for the rapists, and that has ALWAYS been my point)

[metmom]

That has ALWAYS been the point.

It’s been made time and again and time and again, it has received no recognition or even an acknowledgement that that is what the real issue is.

It appears that there is some level of delusion or deception in the minds of Catholics that prevents them from either of those two actions.

[Heart-Rest]

"If they covered it up! (Which is what Rome did for the rapists, and that has ALWAYS been my point)"

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With just a very small percentage of priests even being credibly accused of abuse, and a smaller number still of bishops being credibly accused of not taking proper action to stop them and just shuffling abusive priests around, it is disingenous to assert that the whole Church is responsible for that.    Those few abusers did their best to cover all their tracks.    To paint the whole Church with that deceptive, dishonest, broad brush, is like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson saying all white people are responsible for what one white person does to one black person.    That is obviously false, and comes from the father of all falsehoods.

It would be like blaming you Gamecock (and all other Protestants) for what these Calvinist Protestants did.   (See also this account.)

"The Church" did not perform that abuse, and "the Church" did not cover up that abuse.    Individual human beings did those things, and they are responsible for their actions, and to blame others who had nothing to do with either of those evil things (the vast majority of members of God's Church) is to assert an insidious falsehood.