tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post7944940711960025625..comments2023-06-10T07:41:43.276-04:00Comments on VS. THE POMEGRANATE: Time To Tell: The Church and the Sexual Abuse of ChildrenJoseph Shahadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563551051906038151noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-85151808901470912762010-06-14T14:23:35.475-04:002010-06-14T14:23:35.475-04:00Hey, Joe! Now, there's no way for me to prove ...Hey, Joe! Now, there's no way for me to prove any of this, but here's why I think it might be centuries. I truly believe that the silence about child sexual abuse is largely because the children who were subjected to it during earlier times often had absolutely no one they could tell. <br /><br />Catholic run orphanages and workhouses were around for a long time in Europe, particularly in the UK/Ireland.(The gross abuses of the Church with regard to the colonization of the New World is also worth exploring, but might be a lot more difficult to document.) Social secularization saw the care and welfare of children move from religious institutions to secular and government-adminsistered ones, so there were fewer children in Church-run institutions. I'd need to find some hard data on this to be certain, but I'm strongly of the opinion that psychological, physical and sexual abuse simply shifted from orphaned (or merely born out-of-wedlock and thusly discarded), disabled, and/or impovershed children to the next available population of kids, who clergy pedophiles often had privileged access to.<br /><br />I don't like to think about it, since this is one of those things that just gets rottener and rottener the more you dig, but the Church has been VERY good at covering all this horror up. And if you're good at something, it's usually because of years of practice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-91618049295413333482010-06-14T00:11:00.099-04:002010-06-14T00:11:00.099-04:00@DIMA
You hit the nail on the head.
@Fiqah
Dunno ...@DIMA<br />You hit the nail on the head.<br /><br />@Fiqah<br />Dunno about "centuries" re: child sex abuse but we have a realistic time frame that covers at least the last half of the 20th century. You may be on to something with bringing back the classics... Although honestly I'd be happy if these kid fuckers just went to jail. That would be just great.Joseph Shahadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563551051906038151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-8607572111387472832010-06-13T22:15:45.299-04:002010-06-13T22:15:45.299-04:00The centuries of abuse perpetuated by the Church i...The centuries of abuse perpetuated by the Church is the living, breathing definition of institutional evil. The betrayal of trust - of churchgoers, of faithful clergy, and of babies - embodies a tremeduum of horror that defies description. Speaking out against it should be standard operating procedure, not an act of courage. <br /><br />Can we...can we bring public crucifixion back? I'm just saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-36014752813025360112010-06-11T10:22:37.035-04:002010-06-11T10:22:37.035-04:00wow, good Facebook conversation. The Church's ...wow, good Facebook conversation. The Church's cover-up sex scandal and the Pope's protection of child rapists is just do disgusting and outrageous. the Pope needs to be arrested and all those priests be defrocked immediately, arrested, and thrown into jail with the parents of raped kids.<br /><br />i understand why some Catholics are very defensive about the Church, it's part of their culture and their lives, but there ain't no excuse to defend the Pope who is protecting child rapists.Sabina E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14679639206346030919noreply@blogger.com