Since there is such an official church doctrine, surely you are able to post it here and remove any doubt that your opinion is correct.
That's not hard to do.
40 years ago, Pope John XXIII wrote "Crimine solicitationies", a 69-page document, bearing his official seal, that was sent out to all the bishops in the church. The document requires that no record of sexual abuse cases be kept where it may be accessed by the public, all records must "be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia [Vatican] as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries." It also required that all victims be compelled to take an oath of secrecy when reporting the complaint to church officials, under religious threat if they do not comply. Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases "in the most secretive way... restrained by a perpetual silence... and everyone... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office... under the penalty of excommunication".
Then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in 2001, sent a letter to all the bishops in the church stating that said law regarding strict secrecy in sex abuse cases was still in effect, effectively threatening anyone who would dare bring such cases to public light.
None of this is at all secret information, it's freely available for anyone who wants to look for it.
It is exactly comparable. A handful of muslims fly into the buildings just like a handful of catholics priests molest some kids. The only difference is that when a group of muslims that do not have anything to do with the terrorist want to build a mosque everyone acts as though they are building the mosque to rub the 9-11 attacks in their face. But yet if the catholic church wanted to build a church near a day care, elementary school, preschool a chuckie cheese pizza or some other place where lots of children hang out no one would give a rats ass. They would probably say "oh how wonderful the catholic church is building a church in that area, they'll probably help out a lot of people". But some muslims want a build a mosque and a lot of idiots act as though it was al queada, hezbollah, the taliban or some other muslim terrorist group building the mosque trying to rub the 9-11 attacks in the noses of the victims and their relatives.
That's not hard to do.
40 years ago, Pope John XXIII wrote "Crimine solicitationies", a 69-page document, bearing his official seal, that was sent out to all the bishops in the church. The document requires that no record of sexual abuse cases be kept where it may be accessed by the public, all records must "be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia [Vatican] as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries." It also required that all victims be compelled to take an oath of secrecy when reporting the complaint to church officials, under religious threat if they do not comply. Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases "in the most secretive way... restrained by a perpetual silence... and everyone... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office... under the penalty of excommunication".
Then-Cardinal Ratzinger, in 2001, sent a letter to all the bishops in the church stating that said law regarding strict secrecy in sex abuse cases was still in effect, effectively threatening anyone who would dare bring such cases to public light.
None of this is at all secret information, it's freely available for anyone who wants to look for it.
No they shouldn't be banned from doing such.
However if a Catholic Priest had previously molested like a dozen kids from said daycare center I would say it'd be a bit questionable to build a church right next to said day care.
That said, I'd say its not exactly comparable to similar situations going on in the modern day...such as the mosque near ground zero...due to the scope of the situation there on a national level that it touches a vast majority of citizens the country over and has became a sort of monument to history in our country that people travel to visit where as a daycare that had a dozen kids molested is likely not going to be somewhere that people routinely go and visit and would be unlikely to even still remain in business or open at that point anyways.
I can't imagine why they would want to keep the scandals out of the public eye. It's not like the media would go into a frenzy and attempt to crucify the Church.
oh wait...
The media has been hard on the Catholic Church, but the Church has persisted in elevating itself above the law and public morality. Other institutions may try to hush up the acts of discovered child molestors in their ranks, but few will hide these molestors from secular authorities and administrate their own forms of justice.
I've had second thoughts about this and no, I don't think they shouldn't be able to. What if a little kid get's a dicked in the ear by a priest? I mean I know there are millions of Catholics out there and not all of them are child molesters but I'm not willing to take that chance.
do you have any evidence of catholic priests molesting anyone who wasn't in their congregation?
You do realize that it is only a small percentage of catholic priest have molested little kids.
Five myths about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal
Sexual abuse of minors is not the province of the Catholic Church alone. About 4 percent of priests committed an act of sexual abuse on a minor between 1950 and 2002, according to a study being conducted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. That is roughly consistent with data on many similar professions.
I do not know anything about the catholic bible other than it is slightly similar to the christian bible. As far as I know with the christian bible it doesn't say anything about child molestation. Therefore it could be implied that it was okay as long as the molester was married to his victim and seeing how the catholic bible is similar to the christian bible it probably doesn't say anything about child molestation either.
Hey why not let us ignore that HRCC filth has been doing this for years and years likely for centuries, all the way up the ladder to and likely including the head honcho.
But if it suits you to think that by blaming other faiths for doing the same thing will diminish attacks on HRCC, go ahead.
Have not heard of other faiths being charged to same degree as have HRCC and that these are continuing to be unearthed throughout entire christendom.
That is roughly consistent with data on many similar professions.
If Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be pedophiles, why is it that the church is being attacked as being riddled with pedophile priests? Why not attack some other profession?
If Catholic priests are no more likely than anyone else to be pedophiles, why is it that the church is being attacked as being riddled with pedophile priests? Why not attack some other profession?
Because there are certain elements in the U.S. left and media that are anti-Catholic?
You're being sarcastic right?
Should catholics be banned from building churches near elementuary schools & daycares?
After all a tiny percentage of catholic priests molested some kids. Letting them build near elementuary schools and day cares might be too much of a temptation and would be offensive to those who were abused by child molesters.
I just don't see how being Catholic and molesting children are even related. I know several Catholics and none of them molest children as far as I know. If there isn't an actual practical reason, I believe any religion should be able to build a place of worship wherever they want.Should catholics be banned from building churches near elementuary schools & daycares?
After all a tiny percentage of catholic priests molested some kids. Letting them build near elementuary schools and day cares might be too much of a temptation and would be offensive to those who were abused by child molesters.
Though the best solution is to let priests marry again.
I never understood this. Is the argument that "normal" men will turn to child molestation in absence of "normal" sex. I don't believe that.
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