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Lot's Wife
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Date: September 16, 2018 02:48AM
The latest news appears to show that in the Netherlands, half of all senior clergy over the last 65 years have either been child abusers or directly involved in coverups. As should be expected given the pattern in other countries, these bishops and cardinals simply moved some of the perpetrators from one area to another.
Would it be unreasonable to extend that 50% proportion to other parts of the world, in particular the developing world where anti-molestation laws are either nonexistent or largely unenforced?
This stuff is not isolated incidents; it is pervasive in a church that views its clergy as more important than its lowly adherents. That ubiquity, in turn, explains why--notwithstanding Frank's decision to hold a (sort of) urgent conference on child abuse next year--reform is so difficult. The complicit parts of the hierarchy are too powerful to agree that everyone's secrets should be revealed.
Everyone's hands, in other words, are red with Caesar's blood.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/16/dutch-catholic-church-accused-of-widespread-cover--upEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/16/2018 03:05PM by Lot's Wife.