Is the Catholic Church the only perpetrator of such things? Seems to be a case where people have absolute power and no oversight or fear of consequences. I talked to a nurse who worked fof years in various hospitals and mental homes, apparently this was fairly common and ignored. She said often a kid was abandoned in a mental hospital by parents for dating the wrong man (black) or an Uncle or aunt who had power of attorney and was the electoral a will so they could get a hold of an inheritance and the child never got realsed. Sometimes it was abuse by a relative. Anyway she said there were cases of girls getting pregnant and patients getting stds while in hospital care even though they may not come into contact with anyone other than hospital staff. Disabled girls, girls with down syndrome even girls in comas would be getting pregnant somehow. One disabled kid she remembered developed a man infection and needed stitches in the anus from obvious sodomy. Same kind of thing happened in orphanages, not just Catholic orphanages but all. The boyscouts was rife with this and was the organisation was founded by a peado. This likely happen in a lot of schools that were non Catholic. We know it has always happed in prision. We see this is happening a lot more with women who work with kids.
Those hospitals would be closed on investigation. So should the Church.
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1 mo
Are you going to close almost every hospital and psychiatric hospital, schools etc? . Everyone involved as well as the victims are either dead or too old to go to trial.
If every hospital was connected like every Catholic Church. You really want to defend child rapists?
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1 mo
I'm not defending anyone. Just stating facts. Every hospital would have had that sort of thing going on. It would have all been swept under the rug by authorities. I mean would you shut down Pakistan where 1 in3 people think its OK to gang rape homeless boys?
But it’s unfortunate how you keep defending child rapists.
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1 mo
You are the one defending child rape
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How? Because it's the One True Church established by Jesus Christ Himself and sustained by the Sacrifice of the Mass and His Body and Blood.
Are you sure that "any other organization" would have been shredded, gutted, and more or less ended? Then why is Hollywood still making movies? Why is the music industry still pumping out music? Why are the military and government still in operation? They've gotten off much easier for far worse.
On that note, I must say that I commend your acknowledgement of the strength of the Church to survive such scandals.
All that being said though, if the Church did half the things that needed to be done in situations like this, within five minutes, everyone would be whining about how regressive the Church is, how we're stuck in the 1400s and clinging to outdated dogmas, that we're unforgiving and unmerciful, and that we're too judgmental and harsh.
Who's supposed to be prosecuted? And by whom? The entire Church throughout the entire world? By German courts?
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It's probably not even true. And there are just as many Protestant and Jewish ministers who sexually assault children as Catholic priests. The problem isn't religion. It's the fact that there are too many men who were abused as children and (as it says in the book: "Are Men the Weaker Sex") boys who are abused often grow up to be abusers themselves.
I believe in an Almighty Higher Power, which we call God, and yet I wish we'd just ban Christianity, there are too many forms of corruption and sexual abuse in ALL churches, not just Catholics. Pentecostals are the worst and turn into sex cults or suicide cults.
@Wade8888 Haven’t heard news stories about Pentecostals. But the former pope literally transferred a raping priest in Germany. So maybe we deal with the billion dollar Catholic empire.
Jim Jones was Pentecostal, originally, and I'm pretty sure Applewhit and David Koresh were both Pentecostal originally, and the two local sexual abuse cults that got broken up several years ago, they were both Pentecostal, and pentecostals teach 99% anti-scientific nonsense, and very little true Wisdom or Knowledge.
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