Posted: Jun 24, 2013 8:26 pm
Mick
Aren't you defending the Catholic church against straw men here? I can't see that anyone has claimed that priests are more likely to abuse children than other men in contact with children, have they? I doubt if such statistics are actually available.
The same with cover-ups, possibly. Sex abuse is often covered up - I remember in my school there was a paedophile teacher, who left under a cloud, but just got a job at another school! Of course, this was 50 years ago.
Jimmy Savile's operations were covered up really, or people looked the other way. Sex abuse in families is often covered up by other family members, etc. etc.
But there is something shocking about an institution like the Catholic church which claims to transmit the word of God, to be the guardian of morals, and so on, isn't there? Perhaps we are naive on this score, and I know that Catholics do not claim to be morally any different, well at least, I think they do.
But it is a big fucking organization, and hence, its cover-ups are mega-cover-ups. 1000 individual paedophiles do not shock people really, but 1000 in one organization do shock.
Aren't you defending the Catholic church against straw men here? I can't see that anyone has claimed that priests are more likely to abuse children than other men in contact with children, have they? I doubt if such statistics are actually available.
The same with cover-ups, possibly. Sex abuse is often covered up - I remember in my school there was a paedophile teacher, who left under a cloud, but just got a job at another school! Of course, this was 50 years ago.
Jimmy Savile's operations were covered up really, or people looked the other way. Sex abuse in families is often covered up by other family members, etc. etc.
But there is something shocking about an institution like the Catholic church which claims to transmit the word of God, to be the guardian of morals, and so on, isn't there? Perhaps we are naive on this score, and I know that Catholics do not claim to be morally any different, well at least, I think they do.
But it is a big fucking organization, and hence, its cover-ups are mega-cover-ups. 1000 individual paedophiles do not shock people really, but 1000 in one organization do shock.