You know, like they did with Presidents. They used to be discrete but now all bets are off.
2007-01-09 18:15:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
All types of rape and molestation were kept more quietly in the past. Now everything is out in the open all the time, and the press eagerly exploits that.
Priests, teachers, camp counselors, and anyone who has power over children are capable of abusing that power. They have done so in the past, and they do so today. However, the majority of people who work with children do so with pure, humanitarian motives. The press makes it seem as though ALL Catholic priests are sex criminals. You notice that only boys receive coverage as well--the press portrays the priesthood as both pedophilic and predatory of boys, which, in the mind of the ignorant, equals double perversion.
The current exposure of sex crimes against children is like the exposure of sexual harassment around 15 years ago--it had always gone on, but no one had talked about it until that time.
2007-01-09 18:25:10 · answer #1 · answered by Iris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that with the pervasive presence of the press, and the availability of instantaneous communication, we're simply seeing something that has been there as long for as the Catholic church has demanded celibacy of its priests. I believe that as long as this requirement remains, there will be problems, and that (at least in the U.S.), the Church will either self-destruct or split off from Rome. It will take longer in the rest of the world, but eventually it will only remain in "third-world" countries, and even then it will only exist so long as there is a lack of education among its followers.
2007-01-10 02:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, I think the clergy is probably no better. I do think priests in the past probably had discreet affairs. Their abuse of children has got to be related to heightened repression of their sexual lives.
2007-01-10 02:20:10 · answer #3 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naw, they're still the same...
Pedophilia-driven men in women's robes, wearing jewelry in the name of God, living in ornate churches amongst the richest religion in the world.
They're still out there molesting little boys and then absolving others of their sins in the dark corners of the worlds...
No, the Catholic church will never change.
2007-01-10 02:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
- why, worried about something ?
2007-01-10 02:19:52 · answer #5 · answered by Mystro 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋