Pennsylvannia Pedo Priest HORROR

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It's a sick situation. The RCC still has enough sway over the population that this shit persists, and the laity won't complain.

This is the part I can't grasp.  The problem isn't just localized to a particular parish.  It's embedded in the church's structure.  I mean, it's pretty obvious given the lengths the church has gone through to shuffle priests around and otherwise obstruct justice.  The rank and file should be demanding blood, not trying to convince themselves that not only is the problem small, but that their silence doesn't equal tacit approval of children being molested by powerful, hypocritical men.

This isn't me speaking as an atheist wanting to strike at organized religion.  This is me speaking as a citizen of the US and wondering why justice isn't being carried out, and why there isn't a larger outcry.  Because crimes - of the heinous, vicious, deplorable variety - have been committed.  Surely that deserves some response by the every day folks who've hitched themselves to the RCC's wagon.

I get it, believe me. I didn't raise a ruckus when I was still a Catholic, and I'm not raising a ruckus, now. I think that religion has some kind of hold where most people are just afraid to get the outrage out there. I, at the time, expected the RCC to handle it. We know how that is working out. I'm willing to bet that law enforcement people find themselves in a tough position when the churches they grew up in end up being under scrutiny. I salute those people who are able to go back and ask Father Umptysquat the hard questions. Just look at how the RCC bitched about the Italian police taking documents from a Cardinal who was laundering money for the Mafia, the RCC claiming to be a sovereign state, and all. I think that the concept of trained sheeple is applicable here. We get so accustomed to that authority that we still don't question it properly. It's pervasive in our culture. I worked one place where the supervisor was extremely abusive. I had no idea that I had an avenue for addressing the problem, and just accepted that that was the way it was. I think that religious indoctrination drives part of that acceptance.