When it was announced that Archbishop Fernández is the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (the office that deals with the Church’s doctrinal questions), I was pretty excited.
99.9% of child/vulnerable adult abuse is by the non ordained. WHY ON EARTH AREN'T FATHERS MOTHERS AUNTIES UNCLES COUSINS NEIGHBOURS FAMILY-FRIENDS even STRANGERS etc etc receiving the same animosity offending priests receive in abundance for life? Are we interested in the abused children or not? Why are you not horrified by ALL ABUSERS - not just single focus weaponising. Bad priests come from families into the Church not from the Church into families in the first instance. Please get real about the Child Abuse and general Abuse plague it is a societal, cultural problem- probably has more to do with marriage and family life than anything else. Anti-clerical obsession should never take precedence over the reality of child abuse and all forms of abuse in our world. Yes priests being human beings living in the world have the same issues as everyone else. But high time ALL VICTIMS were exposed with the same venom as ordained men.
99.9% of child/vulnerable adult abuse is by the non ordained. WHY ON EARTH AREN'T FATHERS MOTHERS AUNTIES UNCLES COUSINS NEIGHBOURS FAMILY-FRIENDS even STRANGERS etc etc receiving the same animosity offending priests receive in abundance for life? Are we interested in the abused children or not? Why are you not horrified by ALL ABUSERS - not just single focus weaponising. Bad priests come from families into the Church not from the Church into families in the first instance. Please get real about the Child Abuse and general Abuse plague it is a societal, cultural problem- probably has more to do with marriage and family life than anything else. Anti-clerical obsession should never take precedence over the reality of child abuse and all forms of abuse in our world. Yes priests being human beings living in the world have the same issues as everyone else. But high time ALL VICTIMS were exposed with the same venom as ordained men.