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Handle it's own "bad guys"? No, not bad guys. Rapists, pedophiles and child abusers.
They did not fire these guys. They didn't make an example out of any of them. They didn't pay for counseling for victims. They didn't help these victims at all. They didn't care about the impact the abuse had on victims, their families or the congregations.
Being a Catholic myself, I say defrock those priests and lock their butts up. They don't deserve to be priests. There is a big difference between what the church teaches and what those priests have done.
Cook County Court documents state the following - which explains why abuse seems to have dropped. It hasn't dropped, it's just being covered up even better than before:
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On information and belief, the Archdioceses and Dioceses across the United States, including the Archdiocese of Chicago, have been instructed to destroy documentation of sexual misconduct by priests and/or to send any of this material to the Holy See inorder to claim it is immune from public discovery or disclosure.
I don't know when this was mandated, but I'm guessing it was done under the edict of Pope Benedict. There's a reason he's staying in the Vatican. It means he has immunity from prosecution.
Anyone read any of the documents of the priests in the link Magritte posted? The Catholic Church is as shady as the police are when it comes to protecting their own even if it means lives have been ruined. And in case you're wondering where all that money on Sunday is going - it's not to the priests. In the case I've been reading the creep was in the priesthood for 30 years and was making $20K a year.
I stopped going to mass years ago. I miss many things about the shared community but I will not support a criminal organization.
The RCC must be taken care of by the legal system, with or without their consent.
There are media reports I have seen indicating a NY Grand Jury will have findings even more enormous than Pa.
The next few years will present a great opportunity for the legal system to do what the RCC has refused to do. It will require a go for the throat mentality from district attorneys. No holds barred, no penalty, nor change of laws, too extreme.
One has to wonder where God himself is with all this going on in his own church?!
He destroyed 2 cities in a dramatic supernatural way due to sexual sin going on there, but this going on in the church for decades and he does absolutely nothing?
The RCC must be taken care of by the legal system, with or without their consent.
There are media reports I have seen indicating a NY Grand Jury will have findings even more enormous than Pa.
The next few years will present a great opportunity for the legal system to do what the RCC has refused to do. It will require a go for the throat mentality from district attorneys. No holds barred, no penalty, nor change of laws, too extreme.
Improbable - There were only 2 cases in PA which were chargeable. That will be the pattern. Maybe if they can find some recent cases that were covered up. But that is unlikely - Obvious the RCC stopped the record keeping, at least locally, in 2002.
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