A Nun's Views on Abortion

[Regina]

So, the church covering it up and moving these rapists around to keep them safe and their name unbesmirched does not make it look like what you "should" do by example? It's pervasive enough to be considered a uniquely Catholic problem. It would be super cool if Catholics started organizing protests against this and raising money to aid in the legal counsel of victims, etc. I would definitely be less likely to consider it Catholic rape if more Catholics actually did a thing about it

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Exactly. It just sounds like the "nothing to do with Islam" phenomenon.

We can argue back and forth until the cows come home, about whether the atrocities done in the name of religion are "true Catholicism" or "true Islam" and whether they're supported by the texts. What are people actually doing though, practically, to stop the abuse of power? Simply denouncing it as "un-Christian" is not a solution.

How powerful would it be if both practicing Catholics and ex-Catholics like myself (it's a community I grew up in myself btw) came together on it and held the clergy accountable for their crimes? Not in a "this isn't our religion" kind of way, but in a want for justice for the victims and for reform of the Church. That goes so much further. Even if we're not personally guilty, it's absolutely our responsibility to address it within our "community".