God’s right-hand man allows the facts to be introduced prior to giving us his comments concerning Pedophilia and the Catholic Church (Catholic Chruch’s child abuse data)
The religious woke elite, including the Vatican, wanted it to just go away instead of dealing with the problem head-on
Instead of correcting the pedophile problem, they did a massive ad campaign to cover it up
It was a global crisis for the Church, not just in the US
The priests sexually abused primarily boys. It was not just a few here or there but reached into the thousands
Catholic Bishops kept these crimes secret and reassigned the accused to other parishes in positions where they had continued unsupervised contact with youth
Many of the accused priests were forced to resign or were laicized (defrocked)
Also, the Bishops who participated in the cover-up had to resign or retire. Why were they not “prosecuted or jailed?”
Settlements with the victims were estimated to have surpassed $3 billion in total by 2012
The religious elite (Bishops) instituted a zero-tolerance policy that was bull %#& in 2012. By 2019 Bishops across the United States withheld hundreds of names from their accused clergy list
This is research behind the above summary. If you have the stomach to read the complete report you will find the following:
There have been many lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, and scandals over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in the United States of America.
The issue of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was first publicized in 1985 when a Louisiana priest pleaded guilty to 11 counts of molestation of boys.[1] It was again brought to national attention in 2002 following a series of publications by The Boston Globe.
As it became clear that there was truth to many of the allegations and a pattern of cover-ups in a number of large dioceses across the United States, the issue became a nationwide scandal, creating a crisis for the Catholic Church in the United States. Though the sex abuse cases are not unique in comparison to other countries, the sex abuse crisis in the United States is more conspicuous due to the behavior and reaction (or lack thereof) from the clergy and the Vatican.[2]
Allegations in the United States also encouraged victims in other nations to come forward, rapidly creating a global crisis for the Church. Over many decades, priests and lay members of religious orders in the Roman Catholic Church had sexually abused children, principally boys, on such a large scale, that the accusations reached into the thousands[3]
“The majority of accused priests in the United States (55.7%) had one formal allegation of abuse made against them, 26.4% had two or three allegations, 17.8% had four to nine allegations, and 3.5% had ten or more allegations.”[4] A major aggravating factor was the actions of Catholic bishops to keep these crimes secret and to reassign the accused to other parishes in positions where they had continued unsupervised contact with youth
Many of the accused priests were forced to resign or were laicized. In addition, several Bishops who had participated in the cover-up were also forced to resign or retire
The dioceses in which the crimes were committed found it necessary to make financial settlements with the victims estimated to have surpassed $3 billion in total by 2012.
The revelations nationwide led to a “zero tolerance” policy by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In December 2019, however, it was revealed that numerous Bishops across the United States withheld hundreds of names from their accused clergy list.[5][6][7]
I feel the leadership in the Catholic Church did not think this type of child abuse was wrong or immoral. It is almost like it was their right and privilege to participate in these abominations (Lev 18:22-29, 20:13, Dt 12:31)
What would have been a logical response to this massive problem for the leadership of the Catholic Church to make?
From the beginning, the pedophiles should have been arrested and prosecuted. Instead, they covered up, paid people off, moved the accused around, and finally, because of public outrage, fired a few and then covered it up again!
This sense of superiority is not new in the Christian Church era. The religious elite of the Old Testament law killed God’s Right-Hand Man. Then contrived to stop Peter and John from healing people. A great example of this was how they dealt with first healing after the day of Pentecost(Acts 3:1-9)
The religious elite hated the truth and was exaggerated when Peter and John taught the resurrection of God’s right-hand man -Acts 4:1,2, 4:16
Their actions tend to protect their doctrines (dogmas). What is the difference between covering up for pedophiles that are priests or having Peter and John jailed for healing people? Stopping descent against their doctrines (dogmas) was their goal -Acts 4:3, 5:18,19 (for healing the people)
They look down on what they call people that are uneducated and ignorant – Acts 4:13
They will threaten people that confront them on their doctrines (dogmas) – Acts 4:15-21,29, 5:27-33(including murder)
It includes taking physical violence against their rebels and protesters – Acts 5:40
