The Catholic Church had an opportunity to showcase to the world that it owns the mistakes of the past. It could have honoured Pell without attacking survivors; but it did not, writes childhood sexual abuse survivor Andrew Collins.
Source: George Pell’s passing cannot cleanse the Catholic Church
The Australian Catholic Church says it will not support a potential vaccine for the coronavirus, arguing that a more effective method would be moving the virus to another location and pretending nothing had happened.
Catholic Church Opposes Vaccine, Suggests Moving COVID To Another Parish Instead | The Shovel
Estimated 7% of clergy were sexual predators of children. The leaders like to claim they knew nothing of it despite the ritual of confession and the rumours and complaints that abounded. Life was treated as normal. Right wing media-crusaders defend the church today and certainly don’t demand the removal of the children.
Indigenous Australia openly cries help when exceptions of child molestation occur and right wing media trolls hounds like Andrew Bolt rise to the opportunity and occassion to decry the poverty of Indigenous Culture and that their children need to be removed for their safety not stolen. They decry the money spent on Indigenous Welfare but remain silent on the $2 billion diverted no stolen in paper shuffling. $2 billion allocated to close the gap. No such outcry is heard or action demanded of these other organizations like the Catholic Church. Who needs the greater government assistance in the care of children families who love them or $30 billion organizations with an arms-length attitude to welfare that profit by numbers (Old Dog)
Catholic Church fails to confront tragedy of ‘epic proportions’
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