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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do understand that the stats on priest abuse are very similar to abuse in leadership in other faiths? It isn't just a "Catholic" issue.  It is a human issue.[/quote]

This is why you have to leave OP. 
The people who stay will keep normalizing abuse and the leadership will keep covering it up. Nothing will change until a mass exodus forces change. Be a part of the solution.[/quote]  You missed the part about it being a human issue.  No one is "normalizing" this abhorrent behavior simply stating that it is a problem in all religious institutions and because it is a "human issue" it is also a problem in schools, clubs, etc.   People will single out the Catholic Church while ignoring the bigger problem in society as a whole.[/quote]

When it happens in a school, the person is fired and/or sent to jail.

When it happens in the Catholic church, they just moved the abuser to a new church.

These things are not equal.[/quote]

And at Penn State, they gave the guy free tickets to football games and let him run a program for boys from poor families.

Unfortunately, people used to genuinely believe that someone could be "cured" of these "urges." They thought a few months of therapy could fix the person, and then he could be placed elsewhere. We know better now, but many people did not have an understanding of these situations back in the fifties and sixties.

It would have been better if people in the past could have had the knowledge we have now, but sadly they did not. Many, many people wish they could have known then what we know now about how to deal with child molesters. Many people, both within the Catholic Church and in many other organizations that work with young people, would have done the right thing, if they'd only known that people can't just cure themselves and just decide not to do these evil acts. 
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