Catholic Church launches global centre against child abuse

[LovePatience]

The Catholic Church launched an international Internet centre against paedophilia on Thursday at the close of a four-day Vatican summit aimed at ending decades of abuses and cover-ups.

The new e-learning Centre for Child Protection will be based in Germany, with partners in Argentina, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy and Kenya, seeking to bring together research and ways to prevent clerical abuse.

The centre “is only one part of a renewal of the Church,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich, said at a press conference.

“This historical hour obliges us to an attitude both of humility and action… The loss of credibility is far from over but we will rebuild credibility step by step,” he said.

news.yahoo.com/catholic-church-launches-global-centre-against-child-abuse-181229689.html

Finally! Now why this does not exist in the United States? And why does Catholic Charities not have a section on child abuse? Sometimes I think that Dr. Philip Ney in Canada is the founder of the only institutional Catholic that actually cares about these issues. Unwanted children are more likely to be abused so getting serious about caring for children, even those in foster care, could be linked to ending the abortion/unwanted child epidemic.

 

[SpeakInSilence]

I’m getting sick of reading the comments people have, have you Catholics always had to dea with such hate?

 

[GWright]

I’m getting sick of reading the comments people have, have you Catholics always had to deal with such hate?

Pretty much.

If you look throughout history, there has been a lot of hostility towards the Church.

What you tend to find is that who does the hating changes over time, as beliefs/systems/organisations etc die out and are replaced by some new Catholic-haters. It is quite satisfing to note that, while our critics come and go from the pages of history, we are still here.

For example, where I live, traditionally we were hated by Protestants (mostly presbyterians). But this is now dying out (along with Scottish Protestantism). 30 years ago, it would have been exclusively Protestant ministers and politicians out on the street campaigning against the Papal visit (or other expression of opposition to the Church). But nowadays the prominent anti-Catholics will be homosexual activists, humanists, secularists, etc.

Essentially, after one flawed organisation (which hates us) has died out, a new flawed organisation (which hates us) will take its place.

We should not take hateful people too seriously. If nothing else, their attentions show we are relevant. If I was Pope, I would find it more worrying if there was no anti-Catholic muck-slinging in the secular news, than if there was.

 

[LovePatience]

It seems that some people here care more about hurt feelings when the truth is pointed out than damaged lives due to child abuse or lost parishioners due to less trust in the Church. I am a Catholic so this hardly anti-Catholic hate. Its been about a decade or so since the allegations began and they haven’t stopped. Really, it was the very human impulse to sweep it under the rug that caused the scandal to occur in the first place.

 

[Tenofovir]

It seems that some people here care more about hurt feelings when the truth is pointed out than damaged lives due to child abuse or lost parishioners due to less trust in the Church. I am a Catholic so this hardly anti-Catholic hate. Its been about a decade or so since the allegations began and they haven’t stopped. Really, it was the very human impulse to sweep it under the rug that caused the scandal to occur in the first place.

This is all fine but for those billions of us who were not abused sexually by Catholic priests we would like to not have to hear this. I think that’s a fair request. Or are we too guilty?

 

[ringil]

I’m getting sick of reading the comments people have, have you Catholics always had to dea with such hate?

I think of the Martyrs and their suffering and see internet posts and the media for what they are- small beans.

 

[LovePatience]

This is all fine but for those billions of us who were not abused sexually by Catholic priests we would like to not have to hear this. I think that’s a fair request. Or are we too guilty?

We should expect that Asia is up next for abuse disclosures.

Monsignor Charles Scicluna denounced “a deadly culture of silence, or ‘omerta,’” that has shrouded in secrecy many previous church investigations of abuse by clergy. He said the church’s effort to prevent child abuse must have “commitment and accountability” from the entire Catholic hierarchy, and he warned bishops they can and should be removed from office if they fail to follow church guidelines on reporting abuse allegations.

(1) Now, what do you think keeps up the “deadly culture of silence”? Do you consider those who would rather not hear about child abuse than fight to end it to be part of the problem? Where do you think the “commitment and accountability” comes from? Do you think that portraying the Church as a victim helps the cases in Asia be brought to the surface?

(2) And can you explain to me why you would rather not hear about this but you are fine with abortion being brought into almost every single topic? What is more disturbing, abortion or child abuse?

(3) And if you are ok with the fact that the very people who say we should vote for them because they will end abortion have been unsuccessful at the federal level but keep on repeating this argument for over 20 years with few to no results? Is it possible that they have been unsuccessful at convincing the public because they take an overly simple view of the problem and do not attack it in its complexity?

(4) Do you have an answer to the question as to why the newly created center does not exist in the US?

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) in America, predicted:

“A policy that makes contraception and abortion freely available, will greatly reduce the number of unwanted children, and thereby curb the tragic rise of child abuse in our country. Legal abortion will decrease the number of unwanted children, battered children, child abuse cases, and possibly subsequent delinquency, drug addiction, and a host of social ills, believed to be associated with neglectful parenthood.” (A Speaker and Debater’s Notebook, June 1978)

In the first 10 years after abortion was legalised in America however, child abuse increased by over 500 percent.
life.org.nz/abortion/abortionkeyissues/childabuselink/