You are saying a lot of things and making a lot of accusations, but the studies from within the church and those done by neutral outsiders like the professor in the article I posted do not support what you are saying. Nor does any of my personal experience or those of hundreds of people that I know that attended a variety of Catholic schools in NYC and elsewhere. Some of your claims are also clearly false, though they must sound great to a hate filled audience.
There are a small percentage of bad priests and an even smaller number of pastors, bishops, and cardinals that were in a position to do something about their actions, but did not. Those percentages are consistent with other churches, institutions, and general society. That's the unfortunate reality.
We expect more from priests, rabbis, ministers, school teachers, psychologists, day care center personnel etc... but sometimes they don't deliver
I say "to hell with bad ones".
However, some rotten apples does not make make an entire institution rotten regardless of whether we are talking about priests, teachers, rabbis, day care centers, psychologists, etc... And making accusations does not make them right. Studies done by neutral parties have a least some chance of being right.
If you don't get that, to hell with you too. You'll never understand your prejudice or what I am saying. You are too filled with hate of the institution. |
