Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church

What about you? Many Catholics may face this painful question in the future. The abuse scandal also poisons the entire church. Since the discovery of the first cases in 2002 in the US by “Boston Globe”, scandals leave each other in place.

Sexual abuse by clergymen in Australia, Italy, Ireland, Chile, Germany, and many other lands - more and more victims demand the word, more and more bishops and priests found guilty, more and more believers abandon their church.
Therefore, it is important to note: Even if new cases of abuse become known from time to time, the suffering of victims does not get smaller. On the contrary. Revaluation, clarification, justice, and compensation become increasingly important.

Suffering of Victims
The danger is that Catholic church abuse scandals because of their busyness will increasingly confront indifference in the future. But unlike the public on newscasts, for victims, the day after the act, life doesn't go on normal.
Reassessing cases of abuse has started in Rome and many local churches, but it is far from over. The shocking investigative report from Pennsylvania gives a powerful witness. The result of this revaluation could question the Catholic Church as an institution in its current form. Because an institution in which such violent acts occur and are covered loses the right to social acceptance.
The Vatican already insists on a painful self-cleaning late, but hopefully not too late. It was the former head of the school of Catholic College Canisus in Berlin, Klaus Mertes, who set the abuse scandal in Germany in 2010, to testify to Rome that it has marked success in the lessons it has learned: The Commission for Child Protection, established by the Vatican, in which even victims of sexual violence are involved, does excellent work, according to Mertes.
In Germany the Bishops' Conference has determined strict directives for the treatment of sexual abuse and its prevention. Victims have the right to receive compensation, cases of prescription for sexual abuse in 2013 were extended to 30 years different from the U.S. situation.

Depressed Amateurs
Pennsylvania again testifies to the depths of man, to the dual morality, and to the ability of suffering that exist in the Catholic Church. But it is not easy to remove a line between “good” and bad “”. Because not only committed believers and amateurs suffer under the contradictions of their church “ ”. Many priests and bishops, who violate Celibat, who live double lives because they are homosexuals, are also depressed by their church. Without talking about women who can't be priests.
Since Vatican Second Consil really changed a lot of things in the church, but they're very few to keep it from hardening. Fellow Muslims struggle for changes in Catholic sexual morality in the treatment of remarried divorced women's commitment. They deserve gratitude.
The pope's infallibility and priestly invisibility have passed. However, Rome continues to keep its moral dogma structure unchanged. But the series of abuse scandals has long shaken the supporting columns of this hierarchical male universe. It is threatened by internal explosion.

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