When an ex-Pope writes about the Church's child sex abuse crisis in a way that makes everyone who understands anything about said crisis cringe: Full text of Benedict XVI essay: 'The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse' http://bit.ly/2P1lMT6 via @cnalive
The calculation abusers make is that anyone who finds out what they are doing (or did) would be too powerless (children) or too ashamed (Church leaders, parents) to hold them accountable for it. And in the case of ecclesial abusers, Church leaders proved them right time & again.
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#gaslighting needed to give effect to the cover-up? The answer is lies in the fact that he's STILL gaslighting us. "The question of pedophilia, as I recall, did not become acute until the second half of the 1980s." No - I was there.Show this thread -
I was in Catholic school in the late 1980s, attending Mass every Sunday. Never saw in the parish bulletin about how the "acute" question of pedophilia was being handled - only announcements about how we were getting new priest after new priest who'd been at several different...
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neighboring parishes in the course of just a few years for reasons that were quite pointedly NEVER DISCLOSED but who were later among the "credibly accused." The only thing that was "acute" in the late 1980s was the Church's COVER-UP of ecclesial sexual abuse of children.
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