[TSgt]

You can continue to parrot the editorial line of the Boston Globe (more accurately New York Times North) because it gives you an emotional charge or you can use your brain and think things through.

Of course, make it personal, it is the FRoman Catholic MO.

[Pyro7480]

Beam. Splinter.

[wideawake]

Of course, make it personal, it is the FRoman Catholic MO.

In other words, you have no rational argument to make - you'll just go along with what the New York Times Corporation says you should think.

The fact remains that canon law applies to all Catholics everywhere, regardless of whether they live in a country that adheres to the rule of law or not.

You cannot just generically instruct all Catholics everywhere to blindly trust the police.

I'm pretty sure that in any other context, you would never suggest that everyone around the world blindly trust their government to do the right thing, but your emotional investment in hating Catholicism precludes you from exercising common sense analysis in this matter.

[urtax$@work]

Bottom Line: Suspicion of abuse should be reported to the law first. The clergy heirarchy , last. There is a sheeple mindset in the congregations of large denominations that you start with the next higher church official in reporting. Nothing could be further from the truth.