Talk about being gobsmacked, I never saw this coming.
Pope Benedict was right on the money about there being a societal problem. The Catholic Church was certainly not immune and many of her leaders failed her, but identifying it as a Catholic thing allowed and allows others to fly below the radar.
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04/23/2019 12:56:17 PM PDT by
Hieronymus
("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
On the other hand (in the time since I joined) this forum has had many Catholics falsely accuse those who insist that the Catholic Church fix its problem in this area only hold the church to that standard, even though the person whom they were addressing might have also been on a thread about pedophiles in the school system a few hours before.
Inventing a persecution for not being given an exemption quite correctly irritates a lot of people on this forum.
Yes, there are a few who only berate pedophile priests, but not that many.