10,000+ Victims and Counting
Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I found this article on the web today describing the Pope’s visit to the US during which he met with some victims of sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic church. I find this excerpt most shocking:
The scale of the abuse is still the subject of some uncertainty, but the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which did a study for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, found that 4,392 priests had been accused of abusing 10,667 individuals between 1950 and 2002. The crisis led in December 2002 to the resignation of Law, who was criticized for failing to remove abusive priests from ministry. John Paul II named Law to oversee a prominent basilica in Rome and appointed O’Malley to replace him as archbishop of Boston.
I still can’t wrap my head around 10,000+ victims. That’s staggering. What’s more unbelievable is that they just keep coming back for more. It’s like the battered wife syndrome we see so often. This is an organization that has hijacked morality, something virtually all of us are born with, and has convinced people they can’t be good without the church. Such is the cull of religion, I suppose. Maybe one day I’ll wrap my head around why so many people are so eager and willing to concede their power to a group of people who actively protected these monsters.
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