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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The unique example of a “corrupt organization,” yes? No other organization with any issues? No other corruption? No public entities with problems? Nope. Just the Catholics.
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I think this is akin to systemic vs. individual racism.

The RCC has a systemic child abuse problem. Not an individual problem, a systemic one. At the highest levels of the Church, there was an organized and systemic effort to cover up abuse, to move abusive priests from parish to parish, and to sideline and discredit child sexual abuse victims. It's baked into the crust.

Yes, other organizations have seen abuse occur but none have gone so far to side with abusers as the RCC.

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You haven’t got the slightest idea what you’re talking about. History is replete with examples of organizations, particularly public schools and other public entities with access to children, doing everything they could to keep their abuse problems quiet, and when that failed, hiding behind immunity to avoid making things right. Just recently, a major Protestant denomination (sorry, forget which) got caught red handed in a cover up of precisely the sort you assert was uniquely the province of the Catholic Church. The Church may have had its problems, and those might have been mismanaged (sometimes in relative good faith), but it is undeniable that the Church became and remains a primary target because of size, perceived wealth, archived records, and relative unwillingness to defend. Allegations against the Church also get more attention because of opposition to Church teaching on various issues and a desire to use such (typically unproven and in many cases highly questionable) allegations to undermine the Church’s moral authority. [/quote]

Where to start!  Do you realize what you are defending?

It’s OK that Catholics abuse children because kids get abused in other places as well.

Mismanaged in relative good faith!!!

And you’ve got the answer. People are picking on the cc because they don’t like it’s teachings (read your last sentence).  What kind of person takes moral authority from an organization that hides the fact that it abuses children?  Not only hides it but does not remove the offender.

Don’t you sit in church and wonder if that guy up there is a sexual predator?  How can you not?
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