Originally posted by scottycelt
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Originally posted by scottycelt
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Laws civil and criminal and the societies for which they were designed have obviously changed immeasurably since pre-Reformation times and the Church's widespread transgressions of the past few decades or so have obviously to be witnessed and addressed in a 21st century environment in 21st century terms.
Your statement that you do not seek "to make light of some of the abuses by a tiny minority of individual clerics" probably does too little to convince some people who'll have read the bullish confidence in your previous paragraph with which you refer to the Church "rising above its current difficulties"; for one thing, you'd need to be armed with sufficient incontrovertible evidence to justify your 100% confidence as to how "tiny" that "minority" really is and, for another (and here I am minded to recall the widely reported UK music schools allegations) it's not just the abuse itself but the manner in which and the extent to which higher authorities than the abusers themselves cover it up.
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