- 20 days
I’m sure there are some preists who are good people, but enough of them are predators that it ain’t worth the risk
- shittydwarf@piefed.caEnglish20 days
The position just attracts too many pedos to give any one of them the benefit of the doubt
20 daysHow do you even apply for a job like that? If it’s like any other interview, surely there’s some sort of psychological assessment or a background check. Maybe you just need to wear a fanatic facade, and you’re hired… I just have no idea how Catholics roll.
- 20 days
Basically, you need to go to Catholic university to get a degree in theology. There is a while process of attending courses and getting additional qualifications to get higher ranks. Freemasonry was partly modelled on this.
- 20 days
Most priests aren’t paedophiles.
The problem is that the hierarchy actively protects and covers up those who are, to the extent of moving them to different parishes if people get suspicious. And to be clear, this isn’t because popes are necessarily in favour of paedophilia (though I’m not saying none are…), it’s because the clergy are more concerned with the prestige and survival of the institution than they are with the well-being of lay believers.
- 19 days
Also the seal of confession. Paedo priests would confess their abuse to all of their colleagues using it. Thus they can’t do anything or they’d be accused of breaking said seal
- 19 days
It’s been a trope since at least the 1500s that clergy are pedos, “Julius Excluded from Heaven” by Erasmus contains this exchange between Saint Peter and the recently deceased pope Julius:
PETER: [… ] I hope it won’t be too tiresome for you to answer a few clumsy questions about the details. Who, for example, are these little curly-headed striplings? JULIUS: I brought them up for my diversion.
- 19 days
Yes but statistics indicate priests are not more likely to be pedophiles than any other profession that works regularly with children.
- 20 days
You could expand beyond just Catholics
Just one example
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/faqs-sexual-abuse-southern-baptist/
- 20 days
This. Ultimately, it’s about people having a heavily trusted position (priest, teacher, babysitter, police whathaveyou) taking advantage of the utmost vulnerable: children.
- psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish20 days
Let’s do another religion too
I do not trust pious people for this reason. The closer to god they claim they are, the further you should stay away from them.
- 20 days
Recently had to file a report at a state-run insurance and they have a dedicated button on their webpage for “sexualized violence in churches”.
I do wonder, is it the churches themselves that are insured that way? Because surely the victims get paid from the lawsuit, not from insurance.
But either way, that is fucking harrowing that they have a dedicated button for it.
I get that it’s probably just a matter of “we offer insurance for this, so we’ll have a button for it”. But even that someone in a government-near position decided “kids get raped in churches so often, and we expect more cases to happen or be uncovered, so we should add an insurance for that to our portfolio”, that concept just does not fit into my brain.
- forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish19 days
What do you all think happens at Catholic mass these days? It’s been about 10 years since I’ve gone myself, but when I was a kid I just sat next to my parents for an hour, went through the service, and left after.
- 19 days
They’re not in much danger during a church service, but they’re in danger when left alone with a preist
