Post by goz on Aug 22, 2019 21:37:06 GMT
This thing is not over for Catholics. And slamming the Church for their obvious choice of evil for decades does not put down Catholic theological teachings.
If it brings down the church it brings it down anyway.
My point is that most Catholics don’t encounter kiddy diddlers among their clergy and they also understand the notion of confessions being between the priest and contrite alone. There would be no reason for them to be upset about a known tenet.
However if they are in a church and knew then they should have reported the crime themselves.
It’s just not a common occurrence and even in places where it did occur, they may have held back because they were told not to which would still not make them too culpable if they truly believed eternal punishment was the result. I’m not Catholic.
You think that the laity were more concerned with eternal punishment for themselves in dobbing in a paedophile priest, than a child's welfare?
GREAT moral religion that is. I mean it really says it all, that priest have been told for centuries to cover up crimes admitted in 'confidence' and secrecy of the confessional.
It is archaic and immoral. End of story.