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Originally Posted by Finny61
I'd be more worried about the public school system in which we put our trust in teachers to guide, care, and tutor our children. It doesn't downplay the concerns in the Catholic church but to only focus your concern and statistics on that and not secular society makes for a very poor approach to the board. Your attacking one segment of something that surrounds every part of society whether it's encompassing a religious sect or your neighbor's dayhome. No difference. So to me your looking through a pretty damn small window pane, there is a lot more out there you are failing to oblige, and its a hell of a lot bigger then the Catholic church or religion period.
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I think one difference is that while most institutions (public, private, religious, whatever) try to weed out this kind of thing, reduce the harm, and give up the perpetrators to justice, the Catholic Church has employed strategies that really give the wrong impression.. settling out of court, moving priests around and even threatening victims and their families with excommunication if they speak out. Rather than being transparent and eager to weed out the offenders, they are (or were anyway) more worried about the public perception of the Catholic Church than the were about the actual harm being done.
Any organization where kids congregate is going to attract these kinds of people, religious or not.
But to try to stop shining a light on one problem because there are others is kind of silly; it's not like you can do only one or the other.
If I were a Catholic I would have been outraged when I found out about the actions and attitudes the Church had in this case.