04-14-2024, 01:24 PM
(04-14-2024, 11:27 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The thread title is unfortunately inaccurate. The ruling says the church or diocese cannot be sued, not the individual priest who committed those heinous acts. I'm willing to bet the logic behind this is rather tortured and I'd be inclined to disagree with the assertion. But it does not say what you're claiming it said, unless I missed something from your link that I don't believe I have.
It's a convenient outcome for the diocese. Priests make little money. The church is loaded.
I was raised in the Catholic Church and sometimes consider returning. Unfortunately, I can't really excuse the abuse that they've no doubt facilitated and all but encouraged.I don't necessarily blame Catholics en masse for the occurrences, but I legit think that the church should have been brought to rubble after these things came to light. If this were some Branch Davidian type cult overseeing these acts, the leaders would have been jailed or shot by federal agents. The church merely gets by due to being too big to fail in some sort of way.
I hate it, because it's almost like admitting that your "family" is deeply flawed on a criminal and disgusting level. It's gross. But it's reality. With the amount of performative dislike for child abuse and pedos that permeates our culture, it's nothing short of collective willful ignorance that the Catholic church continues to survive doing business as usual.
