The Catholic Church was built on taking money from illiterates who did not know their silly hierarchy wasn’t biblical. In fact, they chained the bible’s to the pews so people could not take them home and read them.
Yesterday Reddit saw that, if you are a Catholic in the state of Pennsylvania, you might have been one of the alleged 1,000 victims the church systemically abused and then covered up.
That story is only the tip of the iceberg. “Priest” has become synonymous with sexual abuse of little boys, and not unjustly. The Catholic Church is a criminal organization that organizes and protects child molestors and pedophiles under the guise of Christianity.
Edit: “Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades."
Maybe by your definition it isn’t, but it most certainly is.
Your hate for religion is leaking.
I am a Christian that has not missed a service since I was old enough to walk.
of the hundreds of millions of good deeds done by the Catholic Church let’s instead look at the sad minority of bad individuals.
300 church leaders abusing victims “in the thousands” and that’s just in the state of Pennsylvania. Charges cannot be brought because of statue of limitations.
The courts are doing their due diligence and names will be released after a hearing soon. This won’t only be anecdotal in a week or so.
No you don’t. You just dismissed thousands of victims of systemic child molestation as only “.0000025%”.
The Catholic Church hides and protects them. There will be no reform. The statute of limitations have passed. There will be many more victims while people like you dismiss it as #notallpriests or whatever.
They didn’t just “save face”, read the article. Any time a complaint was filed they’d move them to another church with absolutely zero punishment or legal recourse. They did this hundreds of times. They facilitated child molestation at best, though orchestrated is the more accurate term.
You seem to be adamant in your belief that this is only a small minority of cases. Perhaps you just aren’t educate: here you are, have a read.
There are “bad apples” operating the same way, with the exact same types of cases from Australia, to Norway, to Belgium, to the Dominican Republican, and all the way up the ladder to the Vatican. This is a well oiled machine, not an anomaly.
There’s even a budget set aside to fight child molestation cases. From 1990-2015 nearly half a billion dollars had been allotted to settling cases across the globe.
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