Wall Street Journal: U.S. BISHOPS STILL STONEWALL ON SEX
ABUSE David Gibson.
I wrote that some time ago U.S. bishops met to address the
growing problem of priestly child sexual abuse and adopted certain rules that
would help in preventing the abuses but the problem still remains because
bishops themselves are not obligated to follow these rules and only answer to
the pope.
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is slated to meet again,
this time in Atlanta
and expectations are that nothing will change.
To put it in simpler terms, Bishops themselves were
responsible for allowing abuser priests to continue their abuse in light of
damning evidence of abuse that the bishops were privy to.
There are a number of cases where bishops are on trial in
criminal court for their actions in failing to report deviant behavior of
abuser priests. They are being brought to justice in civil courts and NOT by
the Church itself; the Church has done nothing to stop bishops from continuing
to shield abusive priests and in fact has promoted those bishops and rewarded
them…is there a disconnect somewhere?
What really pisses me off is that the bishops are all about
religious freedom and fighting the government over new contraception insurance
mandates but they will not touch the very important and immediate need of
stopping priests from abusing innocent children.
In my Detroit diocese, the idiot bishop got his sheep out to
protest the contraception issue as an attack against religious freedom of all
things as if that issue has any merit in the real world but not a peep about
child abuse as if it never happened and is not happening as we speak…that is
enough to get your blood boiling.
I think lowly priests are staring to object to being held as
scapegoats in this scandal and I hope they will rebel but unfortunately more
and more priests are being imported from other countries where those priests
are sheep leading other sheep…we need a priestly warrior to take on the
hierarchy!
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