Pope says Catholic Church should not be judged by modern standards over sexual abuse scandal as he refuses to answer questions after 3,700 children were assaulted by German priests
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The pope said the Catholic Church should not be judged by modern standards over sexual abuse scandals as he refused to answer awkward questions in a carefully choreographed press conference on board the papal plane yesterday.
Heading home from a four-day tour of the Baltics, the pope's spokesman said Francis would only take questions about the trip despite a bombshell report revealing that 3,700 children had been sexually assaulted by priests in Germany .
He did eventually get to the thorny topic and admitted that historic abuse by clerics in several countries was 'monstrous.'
But he insisted the Church should not be judged by modern standards because attitudes towards abuse, which he said happens not just in the Church but in society generally, have changed dramatically over the years.
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If he was smart he would throw the priests that abuse/rape children to the legal wolves as soon as they find them. It would send a message the church is no longer a safe haven for them.
Otherwise the Church can expect the exodus of their followers to continue.
Along with those in positions of power within the church who protected these criminals and obfuscated the truth. If he truly wanted reform there would be a massive purge, no more supposed "compassion" for these abusers and enablers when they showed zero compassion for the victims.
Pope Frank knows that if they are ever fully investigated they will learn that the entire church is a criminal organization and that sexual abuse of children has been part of the Vatican for more than a thousand years. NAMBLA could follow the lead of the Catholic Church and claim that they are a religion.
This seed is intended to be a slander against the Catholic religion.
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Newstalkers is an anti-Catholic site, and has been.
3700 children sexually abused in a country of between 70 and 80 million people. 3700 over the course of 68 years.
How many children do you think were sexually molested in Germany , by the general population over the course of SIXTY EIGHT YEARS?
In the United States, the number of children molested by priests is a DROP IN THE BUCKET of the total among the general population. I suspect the same thing is the case in Germany and everywhere else.
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