Child officials told to protect [Catholic] Church

Australian Teacher Magazine ^ | 2/21/2014

[Dr. Thorne]

BRISBANE, Feb 21 – A culture of protecting the church existed in a diocese where a Catholic teacher raped and molested 13 girls, an inquiry has heard.

Teachers were repeatedly told not to compromise the bishop, but the culture of protection wasn’t sinister, a former principal told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Brisbane.

Two Catholic Education Office staff and the principal of a Toowoomba school learned of abuse claims against a teacher in 2007, but failed to act.

[Dr. Thorne]

Money quote: "Teachers were repeatedly told not to compromise the bishop..."

The rape of little girls is not important. The bishop's reputation is important.

[.45 Long Colt]

History tells us that is the way of Rome. But glory hallelujah, the Bible tell us that God will remember every single sin they have swept under that giant purple and scarlet rug.

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication” (Rev 17:4)

[BipolarBob]

Oh no!! You quoted the Bible. They have TRADITION!! Who you gonna believe??

[RitaOK]

Fascinating study of your nearly exclusively anti-Catholic posts, and of your exclusively Catholic examples in those anti-Catholic posts, of sex with minors.

Hmmm. Obsess much?

[BipolarBob]

One of the posters has taken exception to your postings. Perhaps we need a little more que sera sera? Or a little more "What's a little pedophilia amongst friends" attitude. I just want everybody happy.