'Shameful To The Church'

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A panel of prominent Roman Catholics rebuked U.S. bishops Friday for failing to stop widespread clerical sex abuse over the last half-century, calling the leaders' performance "shameful to the church."

The comments came as the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel formed by the bishops, issued two highly anticipated studies documenting the molestation problem from 1950 to 2002.

One report is the first church-sanctioned tally of abuse cases: It found there have been 10,667 abuse claims over those 52 years. More than 80 percent of the alleged victims were male and over half said they were between ages 11 and 14 when they were assaulted.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/26/national/main602477.shtml

If you were married, had children, a job that was paying 30K - 100K would you stand up and tell the world that a priest molested you or would you keep it a secrect?

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Again I call for an investigation for Overseas missionaries, ministers and priest. Oveseas in the poorer countries there is absolutely no recourse for a victim. No one would listen to them. No media would publish the report. No police station would even accept a report of a crime. And if too much noise was made the victim would be killed.

THE PHILLIPINES, AWOL'S MODEL FOR ALL COUNTIRIES TO FOLLOW!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/international/asia/19PREX.html?ex=10...

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1. Absolutely Shameful!!!

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[Trillo]

2. They were rewarded

with money for their actions -- the Faith-Based Initiative.

[DiverDave]

3. I am surprised that none of them

has been attacked.
If I heard that my sons were molested by "men of god" then their bosses covered it up...well, I would get a lengthy prison sentence.
Another example of the value of children in our justice system.
And PETA thinks that animal welfare is worth their time.
If I HEAR OR SEE anything like this, there is gonna be a crazy dad falling on their head.