The Priest Scandal of 2000/ Questions

[pnewton]

Why keep silent about a very big problem within the Church, and not on another ?

We heard about it. Our diocese even had a program to address prevention. There was the John Jay report. I think by 2000 the Church was addressing the issue.

Yes, it is addressed a lot differently than contraception because the problem is different. Child abuse required a solution first and foremost to stop it, or make it as scarce as hen’s teeth. The current issue is a polical quandry that the Church is being placed in of possibly having to violate an immoral law. There is no question that laws against child abuse are moral.