(June 17, 2015 at 12:41 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 11:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: And yet, the church hierarchy has and does protect the perpetrators at the expense of the victims.
How's that dissonance?
There have been people in the Church who have covered it up, yes. Those people did wrong and were definitely not acting on Church teaching.
Let's approach this from another angle.
The Catholic church features a top-down hierarchy, does it not? You know, Pope-as-Vicar-of-Christ and all that.
When did any Pope implement a policy of cooperating with civil authorities regarding child molesting clergy? Hell, when did any Pope implement a policy of not stonewalling civil authorities regarding same?
