There’s this just as egregious of an example.
I’m thinking the police has a good format for this, with how they arranged their own internal police, aka Internal Affairs. At least they acknowledge that sooner or later people will abuse the power of the profession and that you need a system in place to curb this. Bad cops don’t get transferred, they get fired or prosecuted,
Wow, that is bad, and should be more widely known. But I didn’t see anything specific about “public” schools and that summary of studies. I think private (including parochial) schools are included in those stats — though it’s true the vast majority of students are indeed in public schools.
But other organizations don’t need their own Internal Affairs. They can just go to the actual police, instead of trying to deal with it internally. It’s the fact that they did try to deal with this internally instead of calling the police that led to this shitshow.
Not just the Catholics, but Catholics have all of the very best excuses for child rape.
This American Cardinal, Raymond Leo Burke, had this to say to Bishops:
“The plague of the homosexual agenda has been spread within the Church, promoted by organized networks and protected by a climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence,”
He, along with a German Cardinal claim that this is why Catholic priests rape children.
And god continues to not strike these motherfuckers, pardon me- children fuckers down.
LDS Bishop Arrested In Human Trafficking Sting
LDS Bishop AND an ex cop. :(
I think the only solution and the only way that the Catholic church is ever going to change is for its parishioners to change it for them - by not attending services anymore.
Even though I’m not a Christian, I can generally appreciate the tenets of the Catholic church, but the persistent, recurrent problem that it faces is its refusal to allow outside intervention. It needs to stop with this idea that it can police itself; it needs to do what Penn State did and what other institutions do when they have a crisis: they need to allow for outside intervention.
Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re capable of it. The Catholic Church’s handling of pedophiles reminds me a lot of how notoriously bad police departments handle dirty cops. You have a majority of people in the institution who are probably not that dirty, but through their inaction and silence, willingly and knowingly enable those who are dirty to get away with their bad deeds.
I suspect that one of the reasons that the Catholic church is reluctant to agree to reforms and to allow greater transparency is that many, many of them probably fear what transparency would reveal. It seems like an institution-wide cover up.
You seem to think that “the Catholic church” means exclusively the priests. Those of us who belong to it don’t agree with that definition.
Even if the SBC grew a pair and said “We do not allow sexual predators to become Southern Baptist ministers!”, since each church decides among themselves who will be their pastor, there’s no teeth in the enforcement. Someone mentioned that in the last 20 years or so, the SBC has removed a handful of churches from the convention who ordained gay deacons or female ministers. My church was one of those churches. You know how they chastised us? They no longer accepted our money. We could not contribute to the SBC mission fund.
Now they do need to get out there and help smaller and poorer congregations screen their candidates. And not try to sweep allegations under the rug. Baylor took a pretty big hit a few years ago. I was surprised that they hired Pepper Hamilton in the first place, and then that they actually agreed to act on the report and fire Briles. Not to mention deep six the duplicitous and hypocritical Ken Starr.
McCarrick has been charged.