All right then, enabling the raping of children is the issue, with a secondary issue of how excuses can be made for it. Happy?
That gives the organization too much credit - its enablement and support of the rapists of children is not the result of its organizational inertia, but of the individuals running that organization, at all levels. Those individuals have their own enablers, among the organization’s adherents, who show quite a powerful ability to excuse themselves behind a curtain of mumbo-jumbo and the delusion of being submissive to God’s will.
Any other human organization can change its own fucking procedures pretty much at will. The only problem is its own delusion, carefully fostered over the centuries, of it being more than that.
Throw the bastards out. No, it isn’t that hard; all it takes is admitting that its own procedures are under its own control. The hard part is accepting that the responsibility for acting is its own, not God’s.
No. The issue is *cultural *within the organization, and within its community of enablers. There is a long-standing culture of child rape and enablement of child rape within it. Its persistence is due to a culture of submissiveness to a human organization that merely purports to be the agents of God, while violating anything it can point to as God’s teachings. Framing the RCC’s fundamental problems as a mere procedural matter, one they are so powerless to deal with that they aren’t even really trying, is evading responsibility, and evading basic morality as well - what its primary function should be.
Don’t participate in the enablement, please.