RE: Another Lying Catholic Fuck Gets Caught
June 2, 2012 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 9:30 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
@Aiza
IF you REALLY want a balanced view, I refer you to 'The Case Of The Pope' by Geoffrey Robertson Qc, international jurist.
Roberston puts his finger on perhaps THE issue; to this day,the Church clearly believes Canon law trumps civil law. For centuries, the church has protected its clergy from civil authorities. It has been protecting pedophile priests since the second century,AS POLICY.
Review from The Guardian. The whole article is worth reading,but the (short) book is better.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep...-robertson
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Tangent: There is another juicy little scandal waiting quietly in the wings,apparently peculiar to Ireland on such a scale;priest's 'wives' and children . An open secret and national shame in Catholic Ireland. So to is the way in which the issue is handled by the Church;by tacitly ignoring it.
IF you REALLY want a balanced view, I refer you to 'The Case Of The Pope' by Geoffrey Robertson Qc, international jurist.
Roberston puts his finger on perhaps THE issue; to this day,the Church clearly believes Canon law trumps civil law. For centuries, the church has protected its clergy from civil authorities. It has been protecting pedophile priests since the second century,AS POLICY.
Review from The Guardian. The whole article is worth reading,but the (short) book is better.
Quote:The first child sex scandal in the Catholic church took place in AD153, long before there was a "gay culture" or Jewish journalists for bishops to blame it on. By the 1960s, the problem had become so dire that a cleric responsible for the care of "erring" priests wrote to the Vatican suggesting that it acquire a Caribbean island to put them on.
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
by Geoffrey Robertson QC
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What has made a bad situation worse, as the eminent QC Geoffrey Robertson argues in this coolly devastating inquiry, is canon law – the church's own arcane, highly secretive legal system, which deals with alleged child abusers in a dismayingly mild manner rather than handing them over to the police. Its "penalties" for raping children include such draconian measures as warnings, rebukes, extra prayers, counselling and a few months on retreat. It is even possible to interpret canon law as claiming that a valid defence for paedophile offences is paedophilia. Since child abusers are supposedly incapable of controlling their sexual urges, this can be used in their defence. It is rather like pleading not guilty to stealing from Tesco's on the grounds that one is a shoplifter. One blindingly simple reason for the huge amount of child abuse in the Catholic church (on one estimate, up to 9% of clerics are implicated) is that the perpetrators know they will almost certainly get away with it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep...-robertson
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Tangent: There is another juicy little scandal waiting quietly in the wings,apparently peculiar to Ireland on such a scale;priest's 'wives' and children . An open secret and national shame in Catholic Ireland. So to is the way in which the issue is handled by the Church;by tacitly ignoring it.
