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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
I almost got in a scrap a last week when someone had another go at Catholic abuse, despite being part of another denomination with its own sexual problems, boy scouts and the RCMP. If you're not prepared to look at the organizations that you are involved with, then shut the ___ up about the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church isn't the only institution with this terrible problem and slowly, very slowly, it is coming to grips with it because in large part of the opinions of its members that abuse is completely unacceptable.
Unfortunately, the anti-catholics will jump on this one (as they have in this thread) and will blame Catholicism for this tragedy as well.
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This is not a problem restricted to the Catholic church by any means and I wouldn't ever suggest that, the catholic church has proved to be particularly unresponsive and its shear size and close ties to the authorities have made it more ripe for problems, it was/is a more exploitable church for abusers if you will.
The unresponsivness is a facet of the church's response to the reformation, and doesn't just apply to sexual abuse, the church is glacially slow to respond to anything, unfortunatly for the church it has ill served them in this matter.