We now know that the sex abuse crimes involving Catholic clergy first
reported in large numbers in the United States may have been committed
in equally high numbers in Europe. Amazingly, in these two relatively
sophisticated places, parents, nuns, teachers and both religious and
civil authorities – Catholic and non-Catholic — were willing to be
blind to the often obvious occasion of sin. And they ignored the
Catholic laity in the pews, preferring instead to make deals with Rome,
or at least to respect its jurisdiction.
More disturbing, though, is that Catholic leaders continue to trivialize the growing scandal of sexual abuse in Africa and Asia. What started as a hurricane of sex scandals in the First World may well become a tsunami of charges from the Third World.
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/23/next_catholic_priest_abuse_scandal/
More disturbing, though, is that Catholic leaders continue to trivialize the growing scandal of sexual abuse in Africa and Asia. What started as a hurricane of sex scandals in the First World may well become a tsunami of charges from the Third World.
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/23/next_catholic_priest_abuse_scandal/
