The Vatican's Commission on Child Protection | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The make up of the commission is encouraging. It is quite the transition for Boston to go from having a Cardinal who covered this scandal up to having one who has and will clean it up for the entire Church. I suspect Finn will be gone soon and others, like Rigali, will be consigned to oblivion - aka discernment - for an extended period of time. Of course, when Peter the Roman becomes anti-pope, the bad boys will come out of the woodwork again, like demons in a bad horror movie.
Sadly, SNAP's expectations exceed what is possible. The Gospel places a condemnation of leading the young astray. The standard Church interpretation focuses on teaching them bad docrtine - except there was no doctrine in first century Christianity. I am sure, however, that children were probably abused even then (indeed, pederasty was rampant in the ancient world and still is in primitive cultures like Afghanistan). I don't see it being stamped out any time soon - indeed never is a good guess. It also occurs in families - not just in the Church. This is not to excuse it but only to argue for vigialence - both in and outside the Church.
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