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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am culturally Catholic, but do not practice or donate regularly.

[b]All organized religions have the potential for abuse[/b], OP. You need to understand this.

For the specific issue you are talking about, it will take many years to root out the old generation of priests who have been trained to protect their ilk from the law. They're an old men's club completely removed from reality. It's a good sign that our current Pope is willing to make some modest changes, but real progress won't happen until the boys who entered the Church after the scandals, are at the helm.

And if they could welcome women and married priests, I might even toddle over with my checkbook every Sunday :-)
Probably not in my lifetime, though.
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Not OP, but of course there can be abuse in all religions. But child rape/molestation/etc does not seem to have the kind of institutional protection in other religions, as it has in the Catholic Church, at many levels.

The dysfunction and corruption (coverups, etc) seems to run very deep at structural level. There isn't anything like this in any other organized religions, that I'm aware of. It's disturbing and beyond sickening.[/quote]

And you know why, right? The Catholic Church is the most powerful religious entity with a strict hierarchical structure. No other religion has such a pyramidal organization accompanied by such wealth and such entrenched, century-old, traditions. The Catholic Church cemented its hold in the Middle Ages and has been going strong ever since, despite the Wars of Religion. It's a recipe for great power, but great abuse too, in all realms: people rightly focus on the sex scandals, because they involve vulnerable populations, but there have been billions of dollars siphoned off at the Vatican which have not been used for their intended purposes. Not surprising, but as I said, change is slow, but it will happen. The Church is realizing that modern people want to have much more of a say and have way more liberal views than before, and the African churches aren't financially powerful enough to impose their conservative views.

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