The policy debate BS
All this bullshit about McHugh, Baron and all the rest of them, this is just smoke. There is one simple four step policy that the Catholic Church can approve that just screams out to me as pure common...
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I think the bishops intentionally chose McHugh because it would bring up the debate about recovered memories. Doing so has provided them with a lot of obfuscation.
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A large part of the reason the Church is in this mess is the experts to whom they have been listening. One could argue that some of the experts & their institutions bear substantial liability for...
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Maybe you are on to something.... Because there is a shortage of priests, perhaps the bishops are hanging on to bad apples to fill the pulpits at whatever the cost to our youth. Much like Viet Nam, if...
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P142 is on to something. I suspect that some in the hierarchy are really concerned down the road w/the # of FEMALE victims. In a patriarchal, hierarchal, authoritarian system, male victims are the 1st...
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Bill, you are right. It should be that simple. Perhaps we are building a future where that will happen. For that to be effective, it would have to be a future where evidence was not supressed. It...
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By appointing McHugh & continuing to use Berlin, the Church is telling us that in spite of what some of us may think, their resolve to tough this out & vigorously litigate is intact. There are...
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WTFTK:Can you clarify what you mean when you say "if we limit removals to convictions..."? Are you saying that people should be fired or punished even if there is not enough evidence to convict them?...
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I'm saying a lot more work needs to be done in society at large, so that when cases are brought juries will have a better understanding of how these criminals operate and will be less likely to be...
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W:You raise some good concrete propoals which could really have an impact.
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wftk,I agree with everything you say. there needs to be public education. I believe there needs to be treatment for pedophiles, priests and otherwise. Unless we're going to have a death penalty, these...
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I see your point now about advisory boards and I agree. We don't have a conviction largely because we went before a board in our church. Did you know that if you report it to the church first and...
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I believe there should be a policy of ZERO TOLERANCE for all Professions of any violation of the Power relationship between counselor and client. This includes Ministers, Priests, Rabbis, Therapists,...
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