No, they are a criminal organization who has systematically sheltered men and women whose crimes would make any sinful fornicator wince. They deserve no quarter. They deserve to be treated like any other criminal organization, with RICO. Let us see anyone even tangentially involved with the covering up or instigation of the torture and rape of children put behind bars, and the Church's property seized.
Are there any statistics compared to other organizations about the prevalence of abuse?
The Boy Scouts have been a defendant in more than 200 federal lawsuits since 2008.
And there should be a time limit on this offer. Say, 30 minutes?
Not being married doesn’t cause you to become a pedophile. The problem is pedophiles seek positions through which they can have easy acess to children without outside supervision. It happens in mosques too, and imams can get married.Its pretty bad. They really need to reform and make it so priests can marry again.
These things do not happen out of thin air, and a culture that protects it is and shows all the signs of having been cultivated over a long period of time.
Two things -
The "gay" wing of the church has done a lot to enable this practice.
A couple of addendums for the easily triggered -
- Yes, not all gay men are interested in young teenage boys/twinks, it would be grossly unfair to assume so.
- Yes, the targets are juvenile boys, this is not pedophilia, it is a sick form of predatory behavior on teenage boys. Some of the perpetrators may be demented pedophiles, others are (In any reasonable measure) gay men who found an outlet in the priesthood that provided dangerously young "twinks" for the score.
That from all accounts and in the way that culture/as well as gay culture work, should be undeniably true, but is not very PC and no doubt many will howl at the implications.
It is also fair that the implications should not be used to condemn gay men as a group, as that will be unfair and cause more problems than it solves.
Secondly, the gay priests of the church have a powerful bloc, not all of them, or perhaps most of them are not after boys, but we all have a tendency to A - protect our own B - protected our sympathizers.
Pope Francis and Pope Benedict both relied on some Cardinals who were turning a blind eye towards, actively protecting of, or even engaged in gay sex with victimized boys.
Most people know that I am not a judgemental type, however, that can not stand, this is the one and perhaps only opportunity to "clean house" and show the -world- that the Catholic Church is serious about taking no tolerance to predation on young boys.
If it means toppling Pope Francis, toppling many cardinals, priests, et al. it must be done, or the abdominal behavior will not be dealt with, and the specter will rightly haunt the Church.
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I went to Catholic school (some Catholic schools actually) but my mom wasn’t very Catholic and very skeptical of priests. Mid-90’s, she and my grandfather basically told me priests are often pedo’s and do not trust them.Any of you guys Catholics? Any firsthand knowledge?
The pope is blaming the devil. No mate, it’s the peado priests your sheltering.
2018 and still yet to have a visit from the big g, even with all this child fucking going on in his house. What a stand up guy.
You're suggesting they don't know they're not supposed to diddle children?
Something needs to change, there's been too much abuse.
No, but its a good start with getting normal men involved.Not being married doesn’t cause you to become a pedophile. The problem is pedophiles seek positions through which they can have easy acess to children without outside supervision. It happens in mosques too, and imams can get married.
Thousands of cases of abuse. If they could stop it, don't you think they would have by now?The easiest change is for them not to fuck little kids. What’s so hard for you to understand?
An adult man having anal sex with a young boy is homosexuality, pedophilia, and rape.
This same phenomenon within the Catholic Church continues to occur all around the world, year after year after year.
The Catholic church’s response all around the world, year after year, is also the same. Internal investigation, forgive the homosexual-pedophile-rapist, move him to a new location, do not inform the new local area, and do not EVER call the authorities.
Catholics are great people. I love them as my brothers and sisters in Christ. There is, however, a yeast at the highest levels of leadership in the Catholic Church that we as normal human beings have difficulty comprehending. The reason they keep getting caught is the kids keep speaking up. I wonder if they’ve ever destroyed the evidence.
...Why? I've never understood this. What exactly about celibacy makes you attracted to young boys? They could just aswell have sex with women.No, but its a good start with getting normal men involved.
I guess I'm saying the celibacy thing it deterring normal hetro men from going into priesthood....Why? I've never understood this. What exactly about celibacy makes you attracted to young boys? They could just aswell have sex with women.
No. It’s been proven the church protects the priests instead of the children.Thousands of cases of abuse. If they could stop it, don't you think they would have by now?