WHY.... does not the Every Day Catholic.... DEMAND.... Civil Prosecution... for those Catholic Priests, Bishops and the Like.... instead of EXCUSING.... What they Have DONE ?
WHY... did not the POPE.... Kick them out.... INSTEAD OF SEEING THEY WERE.... Transfered... TO ANOTHER CHURCH?
IF.... the Catholic Church... IS THE ONE TRUE... CHURCH... Why did they..... NOT CLEAN HOUSE.....?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/clergy_sex6.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/reports/2004_02_CatholicLeague_SexualAbuse.htm
http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2007/09/18/Viewpoints/Case-Of.Child.Molestation.By.A.Jesuit.Elicits.Tough.Questions-2973425.shtml
WHY..... did not... the EVERY DAY.... CATHOLIC.... CALL... FOR.... ACTION ... BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH...?
Thanks, RR
2007-09-30 05:53:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
House cleaning is well under way:
http://www.usccb.org/ocyp/
http://www.archdiocese.la/protecting/index.php
With love in Christ.
2007-09-30 17:02:02 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You obviously don't care what the church in the US is doing about this scandal. While you try to make it sound like this is something that is wide-spread and continuing to this day, it just isn't so. Each Diocese has established procedures to not only deal with this, but to prevent it from ever happening again in the future. That is much more than public schools have done, or other such organizations that deal with children. If you were honest, you would recognize that so many of the cases were so long ago that they are beyond the statutes of limitations. That doesn't mean that the Church doesn't still have a moral obligation to take action and that they have been.
You are very mistaken when you say that the Pope transferred people around, it just isn't so, those things were the responsibility of the local bishops, that's the way things work.
2007-09-30 13:16:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because priests in the Catholic church respond to the cannon law, not the common law.
It is difficult to judge, because there have to be proofs.
Anyway, in some places it's people that have acted. In my diocesis the archbishop has been sued, and now there is another one. He is retired , they say, in a convent in another province.
The only thing I remember about him is a mass I went once, performed by him , many time before he was discovered to be "sexually perverted", I don't know what happened, but anyway I can't believe it.
I think that in every organisation there is good people and not so good people. Even in the catholic church.
And I think that children are first of all, the responsability of their parents. The first educator is the family. There are parents that give their children to institutions, thinking that the institution will do what themselves didn't with their own children, morally speaking.I think that if the children had a good dialogue with their parents, this things would not happen.
2007-09-30 16:27:27 · answer #3 · answered by Marinoska 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accused priests HAVE been prosecuted. Most lawsuits have been settled. You are basically talking about actions that happened twenty or more years ago. That is not consistent with present day reality. Today the Catholics believe in amends and reconciliation.
2007-10-01 00:13:37 · answer #4 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't all protestants demand....
every day....
that the westboro ***clowns be shunned...
instead of ....
ignoring...them...
if you are the right sect....why not.....
clean house?????
How do you write like that?
2007-09-30 12:57:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋