Cardinal George Pell Admits “Enormous Mistakes” in Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal

Pell asserted at the start: “I’m not here to defend the indefensible. The church has made enormous mistakes and is working to remedy those.” He said the church had “mucked things up and let people down” and for too long had dismissed credible abuse allegations “in absolutely scandalous circumstances.”
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… Pell also acknowledged that he too had made mistakes in often believing the priests over victims who alleged abuse.
“I must say in those days, if a priest denied such activity, I was very strongly inclined to accept the denial,” he said

“Words are one thing. Actions are another,” [abuse survivor David Ridsdale] said, in calling for a church-funded compensation scheme that addresses the fact many survivors are so traumatized by their abuse that they cannot support themselves financially.

… an enlightening exploration of the Pakistani culture that allows and even encourages honor killing. In this account of an 18-year-old woman who disobeys her family by eloping with a man from a lower class without permission, she is shot in the face by her father and uncle, thrown into a river and left to drown. Miraculously she survives. All the principals are interviewed.

… Honor killings affect hundreds of women in Pakistan every year and I hope that the film and its message will catalyze awareness and action around this crisis, igniting change for women and help put an end to this tragic abuse of human rights. This is an opportunity for Pakistan to acknowledge that it has a problem and to address it with urgency because there is no honor in an honor killing. We will send out a strong message that this heinous crime is not a part of our culture or religion, and by passing this legislation we will stand up for those victims who are no longer with us today…

HoratioTarr wrote:All that pious hypocrisy is enough to make you sick.  Is being celibate a healthy state of being for man?   I think not.

Didge wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:All that pious hypocrisy is enough to make you sick.  Is being celibate a healthy state of being for man?   I think not.

From what I understand it is well known within the Catholic Church that over 50% of priest are not celibate and have relationships with many women and some men....

Didge wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:All that pious hypocrisy is enough to make you sick.  Is being celibate a healthy state of being for man?   I think not.

From what I understand it is well known within the Catholic Church that over 50% of priest are not celibate and have relationships with many women and some men. The massive issue at the time in the US was that about 6% of Priests in the US were child sex offenders, which is staggering. In Boston alone that amounted to 90 Priests over a few decades

You should watch the film spotlight

HoratioTarr wrote:All that pious hypocrisy is enough to make you sick.  Is being celibate a healthy state of being for man?   I think not.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:All that pious hypocrisy is enough to make you sick.  Is being celibate a healthy state of being for man?   I think not.

Celibacy is not a uniquely Catholic trait...

There are several religipus sects and cults, and various philosophies, that have celibacy as a potential means of sipposedly reaching a "higher level of spirituality";
E.g.   Catholic, Anglican, Jewish and Buddhist nuns;
Certain non-Catholic orders of monks and brothers;
Buddhists;
Hindu and Sikh 'holy men'.
(Even many soldiers and other servicemen during wartime, have found themselves in extended times of forced abstinence, separated from their loved ones for 2, 3, even 5 years..).

Celibacy was actually first introduced into the Catholic church in Rome during the 9th Century, on the return of a group of monks and priests from their pilgrimage through the Middle East, where they were introduced to the concept of celbacy for spiritual reasons, by an old pre-Hebrew religious sect.
There were married priests and Popes, and even a female Pope, during the first Millenium of yhe Catholic Churchs history.

Until actual real world evidence of some causal connection to child abuse and rape is produced, such thoughts remain pure conjecture and opinion on the part of a few like-minded people..