Damned Catholics

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I'm not saying it will prevent all instances of molestation. Yes, Protestants molest too, but not nearly as much... which raises the question: Why? What's different about Protestants?

That's all I'm sayin'.

Not exactly true.  The reason the protestants don't seem to be molesting as much is because they haven't been found out, yet.  If you look at the CoE in recent years, the authorities have begun to unearth child abuse and child killing atrocities on the same lines and scales as was found out in the rcc starting twenty to thirty years ago.  They had their own mother and baby homes (where the good looking babies were sold off and the bad looking or cranky ones let die and thrown in a septic tank), their own magdalene launderies and their own mass rapists, but the authorities are only now beginning to pull back the veil of secrecy.

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Why? Because the offenders are the minions of a sovereign state? I hope that isn't what's holding people back.

You know the only thing keeping the polite fiction of the vatican being a "sovereign state" is a treaty made in 1929 with a dictator who, after being killed by being hung by his ankles and machine gunned to death, had every other treaty he signed annulled.

Maybe we should do the same with the Lateran treaty and put the church back under the heel of the Italian state.

  OK, I studied mathematical physics, and not history, for a living. I think that the RCC should be under the heel of the rest of the world. Case in point, I used to live in Los Angeles. Cardinal Mahoney was accused and proven to have covered up many a priest's sexual abuse of the children in their "care". He's not allowed to celebrate mass. Boo-fucking-hoo. He ought to be in JAIL, as well as all those priests. The LAPD investigated it and didn't follow through on it. I have a friend who is retired from the LAPD. I'll ask him why, next time I see him. He's out of town for a couple more months, so it'll have to wait.