John Paul II takes the rap

I was responding to Runenoodle and his comment about people not picketing executions. I responded fairly appropriately I think. Have you seen him complain?

In response to Bad.Fish, my comments about public schools comes from this report: http://www.catholicleague.org/specialreports.php?id=10

In New York City alone, at least one child is sexually abused by a school employee every day. One study concluded that more than 60 percent of employees accused of sexual abuse in the New York City schools were transferred to desk jobs at district offices located inside the schools. Most of these teachers are tenured and 40 percent of those transferred are repeat offenders. They call it “passing the garbage” in the schools. One reason why this exists is due to efforts by the United Federation of Teachers to protect teachers at the expense of children.[xxxi] Another is the fact that teachers accused of sexual misconduct cannot be fired under New York State law.[xxxii]

Also look at this: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/opinion/main1933687.shtml

I will reiterate that child sex-abuse is heinous and so is the covering up of the acts. Yes, we are continually getting more and more reports from the past of bishops covering up for priests in their diocese. I did not man to trivialize the suffering by my comment to "get over it", especially in light of the recent revelations from Ireland (even more-so recent than the Ryan Report). the public schools I was referring to were those in the USA.

A few stories of "good news":
http://catholicanchor.org/wordpress/?p=601
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28allen.html

The Church unfortunately does move at glacial speeds and is doing more and more to uncover what has been covered. It must also be known how the Church is structured. In a lot of the the cases, the Vatican received no knowledge of what was going on, bu was the bishops decisions to more and not hand their priests over to the proper authorities.

 

Chaotic conditions make the previous pope less responsible. Thereby He had to work in the public appearances of thoughtful man. The law is the law. the question remained: what authorities should be considered responsibly to compare. Possibly on the national context of these legal distinctions the archbishops were allowed to overlook things.

 

Woops. Can't let our main point of being fellow Christians pass by.