You know, in this case, the cover-up is almost more vile than the crime considering who is facilitating the cover-up.
I have many family and friends who are Catholic. I don’t hate them or their faith. I do hate those who abused children and covered it up.
Personally, if I felt the way some of these folks do I would keep it to myself because aside from being wrong, it’s creepy.
Speaking as an ex-Catholic, it's hard to understand how deep and strong the indoctrination is. It's beyond reason.
The Church is not perfect, only God is perfect. If you were hurt by individuals within the Church the Church too was hurt.
Christ taught up to offer seven petitions when we pray. One of these is the forgiveness of sins (forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.) As difficult as this might be you are called to it.
Exactly!
The behavior was not just a "psychological disorder" 50-60 yrs ago. It was and is a CRIME!
Any organization can be infiltrated by sociopaths. It's covering up their CRIMES that makes it so much worse. What happened to the people in authority that did not report the CRIMES to the police. Were they elevated in stature, or were they thrown out and prosecuted for their CRIMES?
How many more suffered because CRIMES were covered up?