Archbishop Convicted of Covering up Child Abuse.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-...lson-sentenced-concealing-child-abuse/9883610

Wilson is the most senior Catholic anywhere in the world to be sentenced for covering up child abuse - something the church engaged in across the world systematically for generations. This is long overdue and should be the first of many convictions. Sadly I suspect it will be a rare example. Even worse, he is going to get a slap on the wrist.

Too little, too late, but better than nothing.

 

I saw a study that said the child abuse is so rampant because the job draws in a certain type of individual.

In order to eradicate the child abuse you must change the job to encourage different types of people to want to enter that field.

How you would go about that I don't know but it sounds like the solution.

 

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan is being accused of covering up sex abuse by an Ohio State university doctor who treated athletes, and evidently also sexually abused some of them, including taking showers with them.Jordan was a wrestling coach at the university at the time the abuses were occurring ,and according to wrestling team members was told of the abuse but did nothing to stop it.We also have a case in the news right now of a scoutmaster abusing Boy Scouts.

 

I just got my fingerprint clearance card to work with children and I just don't understand how people can abuse the authority they have with kids.

It disgusts me.

Children do not have the tools to fend off these predators and I would show them no mercy.

 

By allowing priests to marry and have families. That'll stop a huge % of the diddlers. the rest should be shot when caught.

 

I would agree with that.

 

12 month ? It smell like laxism.

 

That will help, but it is only part of the solution. The sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church is part of a much wider phenomenon of abuse of children - physical & emotional. That didn't just take place at the hands of priests, but also nuns, brothers and lay workers (such as teachers). Some of the violence toward & mistreatment of children in Catholic institutions was almost as chilling as some of the sexual abuse. In some cases it was worse.

The problem went well beyond married priests.

All of this was only possible because people brought up to defer to & trust the Church & its employees did so. It was possible because the people doing the abusing were in positions of power that were difficult to challenge. It was also possible because people inside & outside the Church were more interested in protecting its reputation than the children in its care.

Fortunately much of this has changed, but not nearly enough. It is only necessary to see the ongoing protection of church officials by the hierarchy to see that.

 

I'm on record as saying I'd kill them as readily as swatting a fly, and I mean it.

 

I'm sure you do, in an 'I'll say anything on the internet' sort of way. Killing people seems to be your response to all manner of situation. Anonymity brings out the worst in some people.

 

What would be a more worthy reason to kill someone than knowing it will prevent them from raping and otherwise violating any more children? No 'anonymity' here, if only I could be given the chance. Oh, and what are these 'all other manners of situation' do you believe would move me to kill somebody? What a preposterous and baseless accusation. Needless to say, I won't be expecting a reply to that, either.

 

Oh I agree, its only eliminates the misdirection of human sexual urges towards the vulnerable under their religious "authority". I believe that would be quite effective. It would also open the priesthood up to those who could not sacrifice their sexuality in marriage to their church.

But its going to take a lot of other efforts to purge this heinous "sin" within the church. It had become institutionalized and pervasive and there's lots of guilty (by direct diddling, or turning a blind eye or actively burying incidents for the good of the church). It ain't gonna change over night considering the culpability of so many who are charged with effecting that change.

 

Forum right wingers have created dozens of threads on sex abuse among Muslims - let's see them criticize the Christian {sic} churches the way they do with Muslims.

 

The 'chance' to kill child molesters exists. You just want it to be consequence free, like your posts here supporting the mass rape & murder of Muslims in Myanmar or the killing of others you don't like. That tells me everything I need to know about you - all tip, no iceberg.

 

Don't hold your breath.

 

I sure as heck won't. If forum right wingers had even the slightest degree of integrity they would each be posting all sorts of hostilities towards that turncoat like they do whenever someone poses a FAKE NEWS thread about Muslim sexual "assaults" in Scandinavia that are merely imaginary.

 

I'm sorry but if given the chance I'd kill a raping murdering pedophile in a heart beat and then dance a jig as they carted me off to prison. Not a shred of guilt but quiet satisfaction of doing my part for the human genome and kids everywhere.

 

Dig up threads on Myanmar. A number of them were actually cheering the mass rape & murder of Muslims there. Plenty more just didn't care. Some of them are just pathetic little trolls, but there is some genuine & profound mental illness here too. Some very sick & damaged people.

 

Good for you. I'll believe you when it happens. Until then it is just more cyber hot air free of consequence.

 

So true. its in my heart and its how I feel but I realize "doing" is on another level entirely. Hey, it works for me.

 

So you keep saying ad nauseam, but every time I ask what makes you believe it, you simply ignore the requests then repeat the accusation. Go away, before you lose what little credibility you have.

 

Solution Moi here.
That's why Roman Catholic Clergy should be allowed if not encouraged to marry.
I mean marry adult women.


Moi

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Is it possible that the Priesthood has been molded to be a pedophile hangout?

 

Right here where I live we are witnessing what may be a case of the abuse of power by those in positions of authority. It's a a 50 year old cold case of the murder of a nun who it now appears may have gotten wind of a sex ring involving police, teenage girls and priests/other nuns. Truly horrific if true.

 

I am Catholic and I agree with you.