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Sze Heng and Reasonable,Do I detect the usual anti-Catholic prsanottet fling again? (Protestants just like to dredge Catholics through the streets, don't they?)Reasonable (Post #1),(1) Please, define what the "institutional Church" is.Sze Heng (Post #2),(1) It is not anachronism; it is history. The Catholic Church is the first Church to exist, long before any of your prsanottet Bible Colleges came into existence. And yes, several universities, schools and hospitals were set up by monasteries in Europe; the most prestigious schools in Europe were in fact monastic schools. (Some still retain their status today.)Aside from that, this article seems particularly vindictive, almost as if you have some kind of grudge against the Vatican.Reasonable (#2),This charge of "gagging" is an instance of taking situations out of context. The Church is a religious organization - I hesitate at the word "Institution" - it is not designed to take care of criminal issues.A sex abuse case is however a very delicate matter, because the last thing any sex-abuse victim wants to do is to re-live the trauma, and the bishop and innocent priests - out of goodwill not malicious "institutional intent" - do not want to force public revelation, which will make the poor victim even more embarrassed.So the Church handles these matters by doing what it can, perhaps not the best methods, but what it has the jurisdiction to do.There is no "gagging" or "cover-up"; that is as usual media hype. And well, one of the European Media's favourite victims (from the Enlightenment up till today) has been the Catholic Church.Incidentally, have any idea what the period that the Murphy Report covers is? (The period that that Report is studying, not the period in which the study was carried out.)The Catholic Guy,insofar as the info in your posts as accurate, you are nonetheless being a little too emotive.
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