Is this a joke? In April he will become a "saint." The guy who helped protect thousands of child molesters? Is this your idea of a "saint?" What a disgrace and embarrassment! How do Catholics feel about this atrocity?
How many Baptist leaders met face to face with victims? "helped protect thousands of child molesters" is a lie. You have no evidence.
scandals in the Baptist churches
take the log out of your own eye
Pope JPII laid the groundwork for the
PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF MINORS
Is there a Baptist equivalent? 80% of all cases did not involve children, but homosexual teens, but you say they were all children to add wood to the stake fires.
The Christian mission field is a “magnet” for sexual abusers, Boz Tchividjian, a Liberty University law professor who investigates abuse said Thursday (Sept. 26) to a room of journalists.
While comparing evangelicals to Catholics on abuse response,
”I think we are worse,” he said at the Religion Newswriters Association conference, saying too many evangelicals had “sacrificed the souls” of young victims.
“Protestants can be very arrogant when pointing to Catholics,” said Tchividjian, a grandson of evangelist Billy Graham and executive director of Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE), which has investigated sex abuse allegations.
Protestants ‘Worse’ Than Catholics On Abuse
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY SCANDALS AND COVER UPS
There Is More Sexual Abuse In The Protestant Churches Than Catholic
It is ridiculous and anachronistic to expect modern treatment for cases that happened back in the 1960s and 1970s, when the standard treatment prescribed by therapists and psychiatrists of the time who were advising the Catholic Church
as well as Protestants, Jewish leaders, teachers, coaches, fathers, uncles, etc. (who had equal or higher abuse rates) was to give them counseling and then reassigning them. Most bishops in the 1960s and 1970s (when the majority of the abuse cases occurred)
were simply incompetent or unqualified to handle the situation. They were bishops after all. Instead, they simply followed the prescribed treatment given by the counselors and psychiatrists of the time: require the abuser to undergo counseling and move him to another assignment in an attempt to break the abuse cycle.
Once again, this was the standard method of treatment for the era, not just for the Catholic Church, but for schools, sports teams as well as any other institution which had cases of abuse (including Protestants). Remember, until 1974, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) taught and treated homosexuality as a mental disorder.
The Catholic Church today is the model for the protection of children. The rates of abuse within the Catholic Church in the 1960s and 1970s was no different than any other religious group, including Jews and Protestants. The real reason why the Catholic Church was singled out, aside from her assets, is because of a hatred for her doctrine. The world cannot stand the Church's teaching on celibacy, an all male clergy, and her opposition to homosexuality. It is for these reasons, and these reasons alone, that the secular world will try and make the claim that celibacy led to the abuse scandal and that an all male celery makes abuse all the more likely to occur.
Campion
The latest audit of the Catholic clergy involved in the sexual abuse of minors shows that there were two new substantiated cases made during the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 against 52,238 priests and deacons. That comes to
.004 percent of the clergy.
Though the report does not mention it, we know of
no other institution in the United States, secular or religious, which has a better record than the Catholic Church today when it comes to the sexual abuse of minors by adult employees.
