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Report on PA abuse confirms: It's time to quit the Catholic Church [View all]
Last edited Fri Aug 17, 2018, 04:29 PM - Edit history (1)
If you stand by the Catholic Church, if you donate time and money to this organization, you are complicit. There is no way around it. This will not be the last report. It will not be the worst report. Its just the latest in a long line. And we all know this to be true. If you still support the Catholic Church, you are complicit in the rape of children and its coverup. If you think that is too harsh, start thinking about the victims instead.
The cross is an ancient torture and execution device an odd choice as *the* symbol for a religion. Catholic priests in the Pittsburgh Diocese found a modern and insidious use for the cross, one that harkened back to the bygone era of torture. They would gift the most pliable, reticent victims with a gold cross, marking the children for torment by their fellow pedeophile priests. According to the report, the crosses were a visible designation that these children were victims of sexual abuse. They were a signal to other predators that the children had been desensitized to sexual abuse and were optimal targets for further victimization.
The Church knew. It kept secret archives [that] contained incriminating information regarding numerous priests who had molested children. Access to these secret archives was highly regulated, protected from legal discovery during litigation, and seldom turned over to the secular authorities, even when the church was supposed to be coming clean. The secret archives date back to at least 1948.
The statute of limitations has run out on almost all of these cases, and, as a consequence of the coverup, almost every instance of abuse [the grand jury] found is too old to be prosecuted, according to the report. In other words, the coverup worked.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/pa-abuse-report/
And this is one of the kinder articles, though no kindness is deserved here. The last line says it all: The coverup worked.
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Report on PA abuse confirms: It's time to quit the Catholic Church [View all]
Lordquinton
Aug 2018
OP
I see only one way for the Church to save itself and make itself worthy of any sort of following
thucythucy
Aug 2018
#8
Historically, the RCC has held major councils when it's back was to the wall
marylandblue
Aug 2018
#21
A former poster who was a lawyer argued against extending or dropping the statute
Lordquinton
Aug 2018
#19
That "I just won't go into a church in [X] place" fallback just got a lot harder for somebody.
Act_of_Reparation
Aug 2018
#16
When a child raping priest was getting close to prosecution he would be transferred
Major Nikon
Aug 2018
#23
The Catholic Church is a GIANT HYPOCRISY that needs to go out of business.
democratisphere
Aug 2018
#27