Not a single bishop has acknowledged or apologized for his decision to put the image of the Church before the protection and care of sexual abuse victims of clergy.

Nor have any bishops had the decency or courage to call their fellow bishops to accountability.

The result? Many Catholics, including fellow clerics, friends who are practicing Catholics and friends who have left a Church they find disingenuous, dismiss the bishops as inauthentic and unworthy of their attention.
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Not so fast.

http://www.themediareport.com/2012/06/23/philadelphia-catholic-trial-verdicts-msgr-lynn-rev-brennan/

I agree, Cannoli, the bishops and their assistants need to be held accountable by civil and criminal law. But, I also think something should be done at the seminary level in order to weed out any potential pervs or creeps.

"If bishops and their assistants in the chanceries had been accountable, they wouldn't have to be held accountable by the courts."

Whose responsibility is it to hold bishops and their assistants accountable if they refuse to police themselves? Clearly, these enablers have not been held to account so, again, who has failed to do what they ought to be doing?

Who sanctions bishops if THEY are the people who fail to protect innocent children and, indeed, reassign sexual offenders to new parishes … [Más]

Sex offenders have the highest rates of recidivism and no doubt the Church should put much effort in ferreting them out in the seminary process. But, over 80% of the abuse cases, where men who would have passed a pedophile litmus test, because they were not pedophiles but homosexuals who desire young men in their teens. Its not relevant as to whether social science can cure a pedophile or homosexual- they can’t. However, the Church should also make efforts to bar these types of individuals … [Más]

In my opinion, many Catholics use the abuse [presumably authenticated] scandal as a pretext for leaving the Church, whereas the real reason might be entirely different. Referring to the Bible, New Testament, Christ has issued a disclaimer where it is written that there would be scandals but anyone who caused, particularly his " little ones " to commit sin would be in for very severe judgement.
Putting people in jail for abuse of minors would certainly prevent further abuse but never cure the … [Más]

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