Hint ... the "church" did not cover up the abuse; individual clergy did.
Reminder ... The Church is Christ's bride (Ephesians 5:29) and has "no spot, wrinkle or blemish" (Ephesians 5:27). Christ also stated that the gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church (Matthew 16:18) so how can the Church commit error? Individual clergy may commit sins, even popes commit sins because in the Church there are both "weeds and wheat" (Matthew 13:30).
Reality check ... Non-Catholic Clergy Abuse & Crimes
What a great reference link and list of non-Catholic molesters.
What a great reference link and list of non-Catholic molesters.
Your non-Catholic argument is lame. Remember, it is your institution, not Protestantism, that forces celibacy on its Popes, priest, and nuns. Everybody with half a brain knows such imposition is against nature...and for those of us who read our Bibles, against the Bible also.
With such unnatural pent-up sexual desires it is no wonder the sexual crimes of the RCC clergy always in the news. And the sexual escapades of such Popes as:
Sergius III, with his mistress, Marozia, her sister, and mother who “filled the Papal chair with their paramours and bastard sons,” and turned the Papal Palace into a whore house. Called in history, The Rule of the Harlots (904-963).
And John XII (955-963), a grandson of Marozia, “guilty of almost every crime; violated virgins and widows, high and low; lived with his father’s mistress; made the Papal Palace a brothel; was killed while in the act of adultery by thw woman’s enraged husband.”