(02-18-2019 12:18 PM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  I fail to understand what their "problem" is. They should be treated like ANY other child molester would be.

If a priest is molesting children, they should be arrested, criminally charged, not to mention, defrocked.

Pretty simple.

It's when they attempt to deny and cover-up that the problems begin.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”

I completely agree.

But that IS what happens now. The new revelations over the past year are almost exclusively from far in the past. In fact I haven't seen a single incident yet of a new allegation being discovered and NOT reported to police since the American church instituted reforms in 2006.

I'm frankly struggling to see what the actual current-day relevance is of the controversy. Could someone tell me what the current controversy is? I.e., what does the Church needs to do differently in 2020 from what it did in 2018?

The Catholic Church in the USA today has the most stringent child protection practices of any organization in the world. You can't even have an 11th grade basketball practice on Church property without 2 adults present.

This was a problem, and we fixed it. The fact that new people are coming forward with new allegations from 40 years ago doesn't change that fact.