The Catholic church is still making excuses for paedophilia

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/catholic-church-still-making-excuses-paedophilia-pope

The Catholic church is still making excuses for paedophilia
Peter Stanford

Cardinals around the world are joining the pope at a forum on tackling
abuse. But only radical reform can solve the crisis

Sun 17 Feb 2019 02.00 EST Last modified on Sun 17 Feb 2019 02.34 EST

hen the first meeting in the Vatican of cardinals from around the world
to discuss clerical sexual abuse was announced, hopes were high among
Catholics. Finally, it seemed, the courageous, mould-breaking Pope
Francis was going to force through root-and-branch reforms to tackle the
scandal that has done such damage to the reputation of the institution
he leads.

Yet even before 180 cardinals assemble on Thursday in Rome for this
unprecedented four-day summit, the chance of such prayers being answered
is looking increasingly remote. The Vatican press office has been
downplaying the event as simply an opportunity to remind senior clerics
of the patchy efforts that global Catholicism has made this past quarter
of a century to address the thousands upon thousands of cases of priests
molesting, abusing and traumatising children in their care.

To be fair, a reminder is no bad thing, since there is a long list of
bishops around the globe who still make negative headlines because they
refuse to take this crisis seriously, and put protecting the institution
before the victims of predator priests.

Even in the Vatican itself, the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine
of Faith has refused a very basic request from the Commission for the
Protection of Minors, set up by Francis in 2014, to send a letter
acknowledging receipt of every new report of abuse that reaches it.

There is so much that the summit could insist be done better, but it
will require the pope to come out fighting. And on that score, the omens
are not good. On his return flight from his latest overseas trip – to a
World Youth Day gathering in Panama at the end of last month – Francis
offered scant encouragement. “The problem of abuse will continue,” he
told reporters, as if it were as inevitable as the sunrise. “It is a
human problem.”

He sounds as much in denial as his predecessors. When the first shocking
disclosures of clerical abuse emerged in the 1990s, Pope John Paul II
referred to those clerics who abused children as a “few bad apples”. His
successor, Benedict XVI, pointed an accusing finger instead at the high
number of closeted gay men in the clergy. Though it flies in the face of
all secular, scientific and psychosexual orthodoxy, the leaders of
Catholicism (as many as 80% of them gay themselves, according to a new
book by sociologist Frederic Martel) persist in equating same-sex adult
sexual attraction with the violent rape of children by grown men.

Francis resorted to an even more outdated explanation in September last
year. In language that owed much to medieval theology, he blamed it all
on the devil, a malign force tempting otherwise good priests to sexually
abuse children.

So is there really any possibility that this gathering in Rome might
just be a road-to-Damascus moment for Catholicism in a crisis that has
shaken it to its core? Naively, perhaps, I continue to hope so. Back in
June 2011 I wrote in these pages of the profound blow to my own faith of
learning that our beloved priest and family friend, Father Kit
Cunningham – who had married us and baptised our children, one of whom
was named after him – was not the eccentric but essentially good man of
God that I had always believed him to be, but a child abuser whose past
crimes had been known to his religious superiors, who didn’t breathe a
word of it.

The logical thing would have been to walk out then, but I clung to the
notion that the failings of individuals didn’t make redundant the
Catholicism that is so much a part of me. And so I have persisted, but
it has not helped when church leaders trot out the same discredited
excuses in place of mature reflection on how things need to change.

Perhaps the most misleading excuse given is that Catholicism is just the
same as others, including the BBC, that have faced charges over
harbouring those who abuse children. However, a range of studies
suggests that Catholicism is different. The number of paedophiles found
in the male population at large is usually put at anywhere up to 4%. Yet
the recent Australian Royal Commission on child sex abuse by Catholic
priests suggests the figure in clerical ranks is as high as 7%. That’s
almost double, and should be ringing alarm bells.

Even the Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has suggested
that the absence of women in leadership roles plays a part.
Statistically, women are far less likely to sexually abuse children. Yet
Catholicism clings to the almost laughable explanation that, because
there were only men at the Last Supper, only men can be priests.

The product of this stubbornness is a secretive, male culture at the top
of Catholicism where large numbers of priests routinely break their vows
of celibacy. It is an appalling moral failure and needs to end now, but
that will involve rethinking an entire approach to sexuality in
Catholicism that is peculiar, punitive and often plain perverse. The
Jesus of the gospels had almost no interest in such matters. Why does
the Church leadership? It is a question that would take more than four
days to answer, were it even to make it on to the agenda in Rome this week.

Instead, expect more make-do-and-mend, fine words, dramatic gestures,
and then crossing of fingers and hoping it will all go away.

It won’t. And faithful but despairing Catholics will continue quietly to
depart the pews.

Peter Stanford is a former editor of the Catholic Herald newspaper

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Hmmm I wonder how many Christians on the subcontinent have been abused today? RH

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Abused?

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...The figure must run into millions....RH

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...Still give it time and most subcontinental will stop worshipping gods whose supernumerary arms and legs test the counting ability of subcontinentals...RH

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which is why you keep asking the same questions which are "ALREADY
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7) And the WORST PART is you "DELUDE yourself" that you are intelligent,
just like most of the Caucasians.

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..I daresay you have your shoes and socks of as you should have managed to count to at least 11... RH

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