Is Catholic Church Trying to Destroy A Victim's Advocates Organization?

[Kulindahr]

Found these bits, too:

Unfortunately, the job description for a Catholic priest reads like an ad for pedophiles: must be an unmarried young adult male, not interested in relationships with adult women yet not acknowledge homosexual tendencies, love working with children especially in unsupervised situations like youth groups or altar servers, and believe one has a special relationship with God such that one should be placed in a position of authority due to it.

. . . .

...the primary problem remains that the Catholic Church preferentially recruits men with the demographics and behavioral traits of pedophiles. Until that changes, no admonishment from the Pope will stop the sexual abuse of children.

source

-- just as an example of the strange notions out there.

The hard part in looking for this online is the moment "priesthood" is linked with "pedophile" in a google search, a quarter million results pop up that are basically gossip.

 

[kallipolis]

^Thanks, for your effort in providing us with this information.

The real problem for celibate clergy is the myth that celibacy is fertile territory for abuse of minors, reminding us that the Boy Scouts of America have a similar outlook on all gay men.

 

[frankfrank]

One problem here is the "Salem witch trial" effect: people, especially kids, figure out that such an accusation gives them incredible power over an adult, so there's a resultant high rate of false accusations, partly because kids don't really understand just what that does to the accused person. And in today's witch-hunt climate, the system assumes the kids are always telling the truth -- often even if the kid later says it was all made up.

Somewhat off topic, but that's a good reason I try not to use restrooms in a restaurant or shopping malls or other places, if there are children around. If I'm in there alone with a minor, I feel much more threatened than I would feel if I jumped out (with a parachute) from a perfectly functional airborne craft. If the kid just decides to pull a random prank and say something untrue, my life could be over.

 

[Kulindahr]

Somewhat off topic, but that's a good reason I try not to use restrooms in a restaurant or shopping malls or other places, if there are children around. If I'm in there alone with a minor, I feel much more threatened than I would feel if I jumped out (with a parachute) from a perfectly functional airborne craft. If the kid just decides to pull a random prank and say something untrue, my life could be over.

I knew two Boy Scout leaders it happened to.


BTW, if there was such a thing as a perfectly good airplane, there wouldn't be parachutes.

 

[frankfrank]

Which Forum is the thread in? The Religion Forum? I'll have to look for it.

 

[White Eagle]

And it doesn't help when an organization like SNAP busts out the pitchforks and torches before an investigation has even been done. I have no doubt that most of the priests they target are guilty, but even one priest being falsely accused is too much. Unfortunately, they don't seem to care...

Whatever.

 

[JB3]

Whatever.

Considering that you've never had a priest that you grew up with falsely accused and publicly smeared by SNAP, you should show a little fucking respect. Most of what SNAP does is good. However, their zeal to expose the true criminals has damaged the reputation and lives of many innocent priests and SNAP doesn't give a shit. That's a problem.

 

[White Eagle]

Considering that you've never had a priest that you grew up with falsely accused and publicly smeared by SNAP, you should show a little fucking respect. Most of what SNAP does is good. However, their zeal to expose the true criminals has damaged the reputation and lives of many innocent priests and SNAP doesn't give a shit. That's a problem.

whatever