So sick of hearing about these priest molesting kids

[Didacus]

i fear for the souls of the guilty as much as I cry for the victims.

[Fleeing in Terror]

the vatican 'legalized' it over 100 years ago.  Afterall priest are "right next to God" and get to do whatever they want to whomever they want

The Australian canon lawyer and the sociologist published two documents.  The first is a legal report entitled “Canon Law – A Systemic Factor in Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church.”  (Free download from National Catholic Reporter) written for the Australian government. The second is the lay version “Potiphar’s Wife.”  (Buy on line for real money). I verified the information with the author of the second book and the legal firm from the movie Spotlight. A third is “Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church; An Interpretive Review of the Literature and Public Inquiry Report” another free download through the Center for Global Research; School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT    Both books thoroughly document how the vatican ORDERED the bishops to protect the pedophiles starting 100 years ago.  They include more detail on the Pontifical Secret that Francis just abolished.

[Anastasia]

13 hours ago, Fleeing in Terror said:

“Canon Law – A Systemic Factor in Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church.”

The document is more than 400 pages. I think I read diagonally years ago but I am not certain. Yet, while trying to find it online I came across short articles by the same author. The info in one of them, 'Sex abuse and the seal of the confessional' surprised me:

"Ever since private confession became the practice in the church in the early Middle Ages, there has been a continual problem of priests soliciting sex in the confessional. The church was so worried about the practice that the Council of Treves in 1227 required such priests to be excommunicated. In 1622, Pope Gregory XV required penitents to denounce such priests to the Inquisition or to the bishop, and that confessors should advise penitents of their obligation to do so. In 1741, Pope Benedict XIV confirmed this decree, and added that absolution should be refused to solicited penitents until they denounced their confessors. He also decreed that only popes could give absolution to penitents who falsely accused priests of soliciting.

The persons solicited were mostly women, less so men, but rarely young children because until 1910, they did not go to confession until they reached the age of 12 to 14 years. In 1910*, Pope Pius X reduced the age to 7 years thus broadening the opportunities for paedophiles to find their victims. A number of case studies examined by the Australian Royal Commission confirmed that such soliciting of young children in the confessional had occurred in Australia.

The 1917 Code of Canon Law continued Benedict XIV’s 1741 decree, and required the penitent to denounce the soliciting priest within one month."

So, the Church before was intolerant of such crimes. That is a relief.

Other articles of Kieran Tapsell on the subject of child sexual abuse within the Church and what must be done can be found here https://www.ncronline.org/authors/kieran-tapsell

[Fleeing in Terror]

Both reports are 400 pages.  The PA AG report is about 1,000. My summary is about 200 - Men Explain Religion to Me.

the vatican 'legalized' it over 100 years ago.  After all priests are "right next to God" and get to do whatever they want to whomever they want

That was Benedict's response.  That's OK. They're male they can do whatever they want.

Unanimous agreement all the way down the line to the bishops and the priests.  The best est est response to pedophilia is his standard lecture on the sanctity of the penis and you should just see their faces LIGHT UP WITH JOY on the subject.