If you have a large enough organization, you will have people who are pedophiles. Our complaint about the pedophile scandal is what the organization of the church does in response to a discovered pedophile and what is it about this organization that attracts pedophiles to it and what about the organization allows for repressed pedophilia to come out and manifest when being apart of this organization. That is what people are outraged about. That the organization of the church fosters this and safeguards this behavior instead of destroying it when a pedophile is found. Pedophiles are officially protected under this organization through its actions and private letters and the access to children, while the pedophile is being protected, is what fosters these sick men to come to this organization because they know they’ll have the access and the protection. If the church’s response would be the same as say, literally any other company in America, then this wouldn’t be a problem. Any other company in America would at a minimum fire this person and at best help pay for the prosecution of this sick person for the families that can’t afford to prosecute.
The silence of the members of this church about the discovered private letters and the church’s shuffling around of these pedophiles speaks volumes as well. Is there nothing that the church could do at this point that would make it’s members force it to change? Is there nothing that the church could do that would make you walk away from it? Is tribal unity and the social benefit of claiming to be part of a group really worth this price? The shuffling around of known pedophiles and threats of ex-communication of the church isn’t from a one-off bad church. The response is directly from the Vatican itself. The Boston priest that was found guilty of shuffling pedophile priests around for decades is sitting in the Vatican now and was one of the voting members for the last vicar of christ. If the church will not change, why don’t the members force it to? If not, then you are complicit as well.
If nothing else, then just stage a protest outside the Vatican with children’s shoes for every child raped by the church the same way we did this to the white house here in America for all the children shot in schools since Columbine massacre. Show the world that the members care even if the church will not and that will help bring solidarity to the members who are catholic because everyone understands what it is like to stand up against an organization too powerful and insulated from its members, even if you are apart of it.
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