The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.
https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-church-excommunicate-priests-following-new-us-state-law-2069039
The worlds largest pedophile ring doing gods work I guess.
Teaching has the most pedophiles, followed by music tutor, and priests/clerics are 3rd.
Teaching might have the most reported pedophiles. (Might because there’s no citations)
This comment below the post about how the Catholic Church will excommunicate those who report pedophiles may be… not as supportive for your argument as you might think.
There are also mandatory reporting law in many states.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Abusers-occupation-Occupation-n_tbl4_237962292
Could be more like they give children a safe space they can trust to confess, but I’m more on team they just want to cover up their own diddling.
Is parenting no longer a job? Because that’s top by far.
Step-fathers in particular seem unusually prone to child abuse in all its forms.
By straight numbers I’m sure that’s the case, but i doubt its true by percentage. But to be honest I’m not sure if the study included parents.
Yeah but is there a central leader for for teachers?
There is for Catholics. They’re all pederasts. Or at least comfortable with pederasts
It’s not like the pope or the catholic leadership is encouraging pedophiles. They’ve covered things up that happened, but it’s pretty wild to act like it’s some kind of pedo ring.
Hahahaha yeah ok.
Hundreds of millions of dollars spent to silence the countless victims of their systematic abuse but they’re not a pedo ring. lol
😂
I guess I would define a pedophile ring as an organization whose purpose is to abuse children.
Do you really think a pedophile ring would publicly advertise as such?
That dumbass really isn’t living up to the username.
Hold on, you seriously believe that the purpose of the catholic church is to promote pedophilia?
Your choice of using the word “promote” is interesting, I would not have chosen it as their intent is to hide it.
The catholic church has certainly protected pedophiles for hundreds of years, so that is a function they perform very well.
Bingo! You described Catholicism!!! And all religions. Actually!!!
Religion is child abuse. Catholics actually systematically rape the kids too.
Not sure if you are just being an edge lord or if you are a moron.
/u/OccamsRazer suggest that based on my anti theistic perspective I’m either “pretending to be edgy” or “functionally stupid” but they can’t tell which.
The concept of Occam’s razor would suggest that I’m offering an earnest opinion which that user cannot wrap their head around because they lack the faculties required to consider my opinion
It’s ironic.
A name like that and you can’t even see the simple explanation.
TLDR: if you’re struggling to understand what someone says and you try to dismiss it as “garbage” or “idiocy” but unable to figure out which, the simple explanation is your brain isn’t ready for this.
Covering thins like that up, is encouraging pedophiles. It let’s pedos know that it’s safe for them on the church.
There is a difference between wanting to deal with things internally without involving authorities, and actively promoting pedophilia. But I’m not here to go to bat for Catholics, I’m just pointing out the difference.
I feel like the distinction starts to get pretty blurry when “dealing with things internally without authorities” mostly just means covering stuff up and protecting predators, but yeah they don’t literally advertise to pedophiles
My only real problem with the narrative in this thread is with distilling the catholic church down to pedophile ring. It’s super reductive, ignoring so much history and the world views of so many decent people in light of a single issue. But just to be clear, I get that it’s a serious issue and they did a very poor job in dealing with it.