Tuesday, 17 July 2007

Clerical abuse

Barney Zwartz is spot on in his attitude to clerical sex abuse. The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles has now agreed to pay $US 660 million to 508 victims.

From the article:

That the abuse happened is bad enough — especially by people in a position of trust and charged with pastoral care — but most of us would not be amazed to find the odd rotten apple in such a large barrel as the several hundred thousand Catholic priests around the world. What is truly appalling is the way the church hierarchy connived and concealed and covered up, apparently much more concerned for the perpetrators and the church's own standing than for the victims.

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