Priests and Pedophilia
Posted 4/5/2010 7:20:00 AM
Some pretty obvious questions about the scandal in the Catholic church are not being asked.
What about whistle blowers? Surely normal priests knew what was going on. They would have been as disgusted as we are. Did they report it to their superiors? Leak it to the media? Are whistle blowers in the church encouraged? Or punished? Did the church, and the Catholic community, manage to pressure the media to hush things up.
How is it possible that a “man of god” dedicated to good work and to the good of humanity can do such things? One or two aberrations might be understandable. But this was widespread around the world!
Priests go to confession too. Did they confess their sins? Maybe they didn’t even consider them sins.
In the seminaries is this problem discussed during training? Are novitiates warned? Is there a system in place to ...
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