http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/royal-commission-into-child-abuse-...
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has just presented its report consisting of 17 thick tragic volumes.
Two of the recommendations are that celibacy in the catholic church should be voluntary, and that priests hearing confessions of harm to children should be able to report them.
What do you think are the chances of either of those things happening? I think the Catholic church would rather go on paying victims than tackle the root causes of these horrible abuses.
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The Catholic Church will do nothing except put lipstick on the pig. In Australia they have huge influence on both political parties and were unpleasantly surprised when this Royal Commission did its job, The only way to pressure them to even comply with the recommendations of the enquiry is to hurt them financially as they have proven from the top down to have no morals or ethics. Even as I write they are lobbying parliamentarians to water down the recommendations and remove any teeth that a commissioner may have in the future. Let it be noted that even though every other organisation named had at least one rep at the final day of the commission the Catholic Church had not one Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal or even priest at the hearings end. The best they could manage was a lay apologist.
@Old Man Re: Catholic rep
Sounds to me like their sending that lowly "messenger boy" to the commission that day was an intentional act of insult toward the Royal Commission. Basically showing how little concern they have for the whole thing. They have the money, the politicians, and the power, and they know it. The higher Catholic officials need not be bothered with such a minor nuisance as recommendations from a Royal Commission. They have more important things to do such as properly "train" new altar boys. (And feel free to interpret the word "train" in whatever manner you choose.)
the chances are 0.0
Barely the ink dry and the Catholic Bishops are out in force decrying the commissions recommendations, refusing to report peadeophile priests to the police, reserving the right to shred documents. etc. It is well time to tax these bastards and disallow any clergy from dealing with minors in any way. One paragraph in the report on Institutional attitudes caught my eye The common belief [In the Catholic Clergy] that celibacy only applied to penatrative encounters with the opposite sex and not to sexual contact with young boys..WT fucking fuck??>??