Sunday, March 28, 2010

As It Stands: If the truth sets you free, the Catholic Church is in captivity

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Dave Stancliff/For the Times-Standard

Posted: 03/28/2010 02:26:41 AM PDT

Facts can fracture foundations, but once they are exposed they can also be repaired. The current scandals involving the Roman Catholic pedophile priests in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, the Netherlands and Italy are rocking the church's credibility and stability to the core.

When Pope Benedict XVI recently sent a letter to Ireland apologizing for the chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church, after offering no help to three official Irish investigations that revealed 100 years of abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese and the rural Ferns diocese, he followed the road paved by his predecessors. Over 15,000 victims of sexual abuse by priests have been discovered thus far.

In his letter, the Pope urged priests to confess if they're child molesters, but didn't say what he'd do with them when they did. He mentioned facing the law. But whose law? The Vatican's track record with the church's pedophiles is not very reassuring. The church outright refused to help in the 2001-2009 probes that revealed the scale and longevity of the abuse suffered by Irish children throughout the 20th century.

GO here to read the rest.

UPDATE: Web site carrying today’s column (11:45 a.m., PST):

Wayne SeelingerNew Jersey Church Insurance Specialist

UPDATE: Former Eurekan, Kay Ebeling, shares her story of early age abuse in the Catholic Church. Go to her blog City of Angels: Action 2010 for the whole story.

An article (March 27) by her appeared in AlterNet.

Special thanks to you Kay for fighting for justice. Someday, people like you will force changes within the Catholic Church. Someday, they won’t protect pedophiles.

Image: Jeff AndersonU.S. lawyer takes on Vatican over abuse cases

updated 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

He shared documents with New York Times, sees Ore. lawsuit as critical

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