Did I say that the Boy Scouts don’t have the problem at all?
Go back and re read the post and post 60. Stop believing the lie that people don’t recognize that it happens elsewhere as well.
What I said was that the Boy Scouts are doing a BETTER job of dealing with the issue and protecting their boys tahn the Catholic church is doing.
Not a perfect job, not never happens there. A better job.
The Catholic church, with the moral high ground it takes, should be leading the way by example of how to deal with sexual exploitation of others by its clergy and it hasn’t.
They are in no position to point fingers about other’s sin, condemn them for lack or repentance, claim to exercise their alleged God given role to loose and bind the sins of others when they won’t even deal with the sin in the ranks of those who are alleged to have the power to refuse to remit sin and damn someone to hell as a result.
The hypocrisy is appalling.
Without reading this thread I'm sure RC's have offered the defense that until the priests are convicted they shouldn't do anything, "innocent until proven guilty", after all. In something like sex abuse it makes sense to have law enforcement investigate before jumping to conclusions.
However, until the investigation is completed any accused should be removed from contact with any children. For example, my church had a church worker accused of sexual abuse at a summer camp we run. Our pastor told us of the accusation on the first Sunday following the accusation. The individual accused was pulled from the camp and all contact with children. Police were called immediately when the accusation was made. A couple weeks later our pastor told us that the investigation had been completed the accused had been cleared of all charges and that we should pray for the accuser because the accuser suffered from a mental disorder. All this was done with no secrecy and as a result no one expressed any concern about having their children around the wrongfully accused camp worker.
A policy of open disclosure has never been the RCC practice. This alone is why they should not be trusted.
The Catholic church, with the moral high ground it takes, should be leading the way by example of how to deal with sexual exploitation of others by its clergy and it hasn’t.
MM you are being too kind. Where exactly is the RCC near the moral high ground on an issue?