Protestant Clergy Abuse

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Anomaly' post='1385817' date='Sep 15 2007, 08:50 AM']In my opinion, (notice I'm working on personal humility here), the Catholic Church could have done, and should do, a must better job of policing itself and cooperating with civil authorites and establish the 'Gold Standard' of how it should be done. For example, if the Catholic Church established and enforces "A-Policies", why can't the people demand the same of their public school systems?

The in-bred reluctance of the Church to correct itself so as to not weaken it's authority or power in the face of people who want female, married priests, only serves to demonstrate weak will in trying to do what's right. The Catholic Church is trying to win battles and is losing the war as far as the people wanting to trust the Church.[/quote]

Well, I know the archdiocese of Chicago established a policy in the early 1990s that included cooperation with civil authorities. In fact, at one point in a recent highly-publicized (and messy) case, it came out that the authorities were notified by the church months earlier, but no action was taken at that point.

[cmotherofpirl]

Most cases in the Catholic Church were homosex, not pedophilia. There is a big difference.

[XIX]

[quote name='ironmonk' post='1385669' date='Sep 14 2007, 10:33 PM']This should not surprise any of us, yes it is frustrating to the Nth degree, but the fact is the current ruler of this world is satan...[/quote]
You might want to rephrase that.