Good TV program last night on this
2006-10-01 22:21:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ye, I watched this too......scary wasn't it...I don't think that the church should be above the law. The priests should answer to the police etc if allegations are made just like anyone else should......
If the church thought we were moving away from it as a society it's definitely fu.ked now isn't it......by the way I am Catholic....but like all the regions they are corrupt too.
2006-10-02 01:07:17 · answer #1 · answered by EMA 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why... I've asked myself this for a while now and do you know that there really is no answer. Why are paedophiles allowed back on the streets, living near children. Why do parents not listen when the child is telling them in so many ways what is happening to them. Why can a man of God find justification in destroying the innocence of childhood.
Why...
The Vatican does not protect them though, this is where so many people are wrong. It is the Bishop of the diocese that does this. I think he should have to stand accountable for his actions (or non actions) too.
Why...Because ther are so few boys growing up wanting to become priests.
Why... there is no answer for this. It should not be. No amount of money or therapy will recover what is lost.
2006-10-02 05:34:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think its because they have a lot more to hide.
If they start to offer support to these victims people will be more open about seeking help and this could destroy the Catholic church.
I am sure there are many other victims around the world who have not said anything because they know these priests are protected.
Des c- what do you mean
they did not have structures or procedures in place to deal with these issues? What structures and procedures do you need to convict a paedophile and support victims?
The Catholic church choose to protect these paedophiles.
2006-10-02 06:29:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Catholic church, like many other agencies simply did not have the structures or procedures in place to deal with these issues as they arose. One should also bear in mind that cases are emerging from decades ago, greatly distorting the scale of the picture. One should also look at recent NSPCC or Barnardos figures suggesting that 20% of all children have been abused, mostly by family members. Who suppresses these details? Parents and relatives! Which is a greater scandal, a priest abusing a child or a father raping his own daughter or son? I don't think there's any difference. Let's hear more outcry about the levels or child sex abuse throughout our society and stop finger pointing at churches and scoutleaders etc. Such sensationalism serves only to detract from the true scale and the insidious nature of child abuse. Incidentally, as a Catholic, I believe that any member of the church engaged in these evil practices should be excommunicated and made to face the full rigours of the law.
2006-10-02 06:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by des c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they are a bunch of jelly back boned scum like the Priests they protect!
They lie and lie through their teeth about it and have done for decades, just shifting the problem on to another parish when it becomes apparent what the local priest has been up to!
It makes me sick and all of them should be imprisoned, they are not men of God , they are devils in Priest collars talking through their *** preaching the word of GOD and molesting children while they are doing it.
It makes me sooo angry that's why I hate all things about The church, after all God is not an institution but for some reason the Vatican thinks it is above the law, well it is not and that over righteous haven for paedophiles should be sealed off pending investigation for ruining the innocent childhood's of 1000's of children...
The bastards deserve to rott in hell where they belong...
2006-10-02 05:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by celtic_colieen 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The various dioceses have been doing plenty for the "victims." (The Vatican has claimed "sovereign immunity.") Several “victims” have surely received well over $1000 ($100,000?, $1 million?) per incident of induced orgasm for the many years and encounters during which some of them endured their victim status in silence. (Actually, it is difficult to calculate the price per incident, but the settlement per "victim" was over $2.8 million from the Diocese of Dallas, alone: $31 million for 11 "victims." In New Mexico it was $2.5 million per “victim.”) It is the poor Catholic parishioners who are not being protected from the payment of these generous sums negotiated by church lawyers with the lawyers for the "victims." Maybe the Catholic Church ought to have let more of these cases go to trial by a jury of men and women who never got paid for the unbearable mental anguish of receiving sexual stimulation (but not in Texas, where a jury thought the stimulation/abuse warranted $1.9 million per “victim” or in the Stockton, California, Diocese, where a jury thought the abuse warranted $15 million per plaintiff, later reduced by a court to only $6.5 million per victim).
2006-10-02 06:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by Steve MV 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am waiting to see what the Church has to say before I comment. I would like to see the text of the full document and not just the lines which the BBC cleverly borrowed to illustrate their point.
2006-10-02 08:55:05 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever wondered why they don't want Women Priest there? It's because they are all a bunch of Homosexuals.
They are sick degenerates who need to be castrated and thrown into the lake of fire.
They care nothing for their victims and they are a complete discrace to the Lord Jesus Christ!!!!!!
2006-10-02 05:25:03 · answer #8 · answered by dreamangel20051 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
just like within any family - thy are going to take up for their own. they have tried working with the families and getting them help. they are paying our millions of dollars in reperations. unfortunately, some people have gotten greedy and began and continue to falsely accuse priests - this is why they have had to take on the side of defense.
nothing for their victims - please.
2006-10-02 05:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Marysia 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i feel for the victims and the church should do all they can to prevent this/ let the priest marry and have healthy relationships but the priest are sick also
2006-10-02 05:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋