Ernie Allen, the president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated, “we don’t see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this [sexual abuse and pedophilia] or as a place that has a bigger problem [with this issue] than anyone else.”
I thought Roman Catholics were supposed to believe in moral absolutes. But it seems that the standard for sexually violating children is “it’s no bigger problem a problem with this issue than anyone else.” That’s a pretty low bar.
Hey come to the Catholic Church.
Why?
Cuz we’re no worse than anybody else.
Right but you know better either.
I’m sure I must be getting this wrong. That can’t be what you’re saying.
The standard that the “hospital” no worse than any place else, begs the question whether anyone’s getting better in it. After all some are getting better without it. If anyone is getting better within the “hospital” (the saints?) it might be in spite of it instead of because of it.
We can at least accept the stories of the saints as myths and legends that capture in narration the moral vision of the archetypal pattern and ideal of the Roman Catholic Church. The RCC is said to have documented cases in the tradition of Roman law. So I would expect RCC apologists to claim more. What can person with an open mind do but examine the evidence for their claims?
Meanwhile I’m happy to interpret the stories as myth and legend and suspend judgment about the historicity of the stories.
I like the one about Joseph the flying saint. Have you read about it?
I like the stories about the cephalophores, saints who got their heads cut off. It seems in depicting them artists couldn’t decide whether to put the halo around the head that the saint was carrying, or the halo around the top of the neck, where the head used to be.