Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Clergy men on the Loose no longer


On Tuesday in Philadelphia, 21 Priests under the Roman Catholic Church were suspended and discharged permanently from the order under charges of sexually molesting minors. Besides these 21, there are another 35 that have suspicions pinned to their reputation. Article writer of The New York Times, Katharine Q. Seelye, has quoted Cardinal Rigali,
“I am truly sorry for the harm done to the victims of sexual abuse, as well as to the members of our community who suffer as a result of this great evil and crime”
This is obviously another meaningless public statement in which the higher-ups of the Roman Catholic Church has decided to ease some of the raging arguments against their bad deeds. There is no doubt that many members of this order is definitely flawed, some obviously in illegal ways as well. The main obstacle to the society around them is that they exert so much power and has such a long history of tradition that bringing them under complete surveillance cannot be done easily. However, it is a little bit more reassuring that the Church is already hiring inspectors to investigate members of the Church which shows that they do intend to root out internal problematic people in order to rid themselves from dirtying their organization.

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