“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this,” begins the nearly 900-page report released Tuesday by a grand jury that spent two years investigating reports of sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church over a period of 70 years.
The report, which says there were more than 1,000 identifiable victims and perhaps thousands more, is the broadest examination yet by a government agency in the United States of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church"
The rest of the article can be found here--->Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 7 Excerpts From the Grand Jury Report
Be forewarned that some of the accounts are pretty disgusting. This is the New York Times.
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Do you think the Catholic Church is trying to address this issue or is she being negligent?
Do you think this is being exaggerated and is a slam on Christianity --- Catholics in particular?
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The report, which says there were more than 1,000 identifiable victims and perhaps thousands more, is the broadest examination yet by a government agency in the United States of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church"
The rest of the article can be found here--->Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 7 Excerpts From the Grand Jury Report
Be forewarned that some of the accounts are pretty disgusting. This is the New York Times.
Aims of this thread:
Do's
Dialog
Discuss the article. Is it accurate or do you think the Times is biased and being unfair in its reporting?
Do you think the Catholic Church is trying to address this issue or is she being negligent?
Do you think this is being exaggerated and is a slam on Christianity --- Catholics in particular?
Don'ts
Ad hominems
Harassment of the participants in this thread.
Dumb off topic nonsense