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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why anyone would be happy given this: "In picking the 69-year-old Prevost, the papal conclave looked past allegations that he had mishandled or failed to act on sexual abuse cases involving priests in both Peru and the United States."[/quote]

Do any cardinals care about sexual abuse.[/quote]

Do any religious men with power anywhere care about sexual abuse? I have yet to see evidence of that, anywhere in the world. [/quote]

That's not true and shows you haven't done research into the massive reforms that started decades ago.[/quote]

They haven’t done a single thing until they were forced to.

From SNAP Network:

“It may be a slender hope. After all, files on sexual abuse allegations are still kept secret, widespread coverup still exists in the US Catholic Church, and the new pope’s record on this issue is mixed. But as Anne Barrett Doyle, cofounder of BishopAccountability.org, a Waltham-based watchdog group, wrote recently for the National Catholic Reporter, “Thanks largely to the United States’ unique civil justice system and robust free press, bishops here have been forced to adopt more prudent policies on abuse than bishops in any other country have.”

In other words, as bad as things may be in the United States, they are worse elsewhere in the world.

For example, the US Catholic Church has a zero-tolerance policy, requiring the permanent removal of priests proven guilty of child sex abuse. Meanwhile, “universal Catholic Church law still lets bishops reinstate proven and admitted child molesters to parish posts and other ministries,” she noted. In addition, four-fifths of the 178 US bishops publish the names of credibly accused clergy. “None provide sufficient detail, and all are incomplete — and yet we’ve seen nothing close to this level of disclosure by bishops anywhere else in the world,” she wrote.

How much the experiences of the US Catholic Church will influence the new pope in dealing with clergy sexual abuse is, of course, unknown.“

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