“Pedophilia Only a Catholic Sin? “
No. Keeping priests with problems as priests, while covering up the sin is the problem.
Destruction of young lives wherever (in any church or organization) it occurs is the problem.
Covering it up and allowing those who fall to stay by rotating them to new ministries is the moral failure of the church and a PR nightmare.
It is a blot on the Catholic Church - just as it would be on any other kind of church.
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Righto.
No evidence I’ve seen shows the rates of such cover-up, and indeed conspiracy to allow/commit further crimes/sins for other organizations.
Those Catholics who say other organizations have also had problems with pedophiles/ephebophiles are correct but missing the point. It’s the coverup, not the crime that is the problem.
See this Pravda investigative report for some balance - http://english.pravda.ru/print/society/sex/112790-to_confuse_wood_with_trees-0
Do you always believe what the NYSlimes, Daily Kos, DU, American Progress etc., report?
FYI: This thread is actually about Protestant Pastors and their Insurance Statistics on child molestation’s.
The point being the numbers. The Church did indeed protect priests, and in a way that forgot that the Church must be held to a much higher standard than
others and which in many cases sank to a CYA level. This is a case of blowing out of all proportion, and primarily aimed to tar the reputation of an institution that is a threat to the powers that be in our society. The very timing of this is suspect. We are just beyond the passage of radical legislation that will, in the end, man the end of the independence of Catholic hospitals and by extension to
other Catholic social services. The complicity of liberal Catholics in the passing of this hideous new law suggests that they had a role in this new campaign of villification of the pope, a pope whom they hate because he stands in their way.
“Pedophilia Only a Catholic Sin? “No word from Roman polanski waits for court orders hopes bribes work hollywood snickers.