THE CHURCH’S LEGAL
HELL
Terri
L. DelCampo
The Catholic Church
is so caught up in hiding from scandal that it doesn’t realize it’s digging its
own grave. If a priest molests a child,
the church will settle rather than turning the priest over to the law. I read in an article that a bishop was upset
because of a large settlement gotten by a family of a victim of molestation. He said that money would deplete funds the
church would use for other programs in the parishes. If the church had not tolerated the priest’s
crimes and gone to the trouble of protecting him and preventing him from going
to jail like any other US citizen, there would have been no negligence on the
church’s part, and there wouldn’t have had to be a settlement because the
church wouldn’t have been responsible.
The church needs
to do extensive background checks on men entering the seminary. They need to keep an eye on the health,
mental and physical, of all the priests and make sure they are not leaning
toward pedophilic inclinations. If they
suspect that a priest has these inclinations it should be dealt with
immediately. Then the church if free of
responsibility to victims, because there wouldn’t be any!
That sound like a
lot of trouble, or unfair to priests?
Well is it fairer to transfer a priest out of a parish to avoid and
cover up crime and scandal, and subject a whole new parish full of young children
to a child molester? This is a common
problem. According to Linkup about 10% of all parish clerics are
pedophiles. This is rampant among
priests. And the victims are
children. Let’s take the compassion
we’re wasting on the criminal and place it where it belongs. With the children.
I
think the church’s problem is that it isn’t focusing on the philosophies of its
own God. Jesus Christ wouldn’t have
tolerated this crap. He threw a hissy
fit because a temple was being used as a market place. You think he’d put up with his priests raping
the children that were trying to serve him?
Think again.
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