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The Spectacle Blog
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard Joseph Bottum makes the case that the recent headlines involving the pope and sex abuse of children are simply an outcropping of ages-old anti-Catholicism. Overall I think it’s a strong argument, and a great read.
It’s also an interesting survey of the facts regarding sex abuse in the Church and the hierarchy’s response. I for one did not fully comprehend these numbers:
Then there’s Ireland-ground zero for the European scandals raging now, just as Boston was for the American scandals back in 2002. Brendan O’Neill, editor of the Spiked-Online website and no particular friend of the Church, points out that the Irish government’s official commission spent 10 years, from 1999 to 2009, intensively inviting, from Irish-born people around the world, reports of abuse at Irish religious institutions. Out of the hundreds of thousands of students who passed through Catholic schools in the 85 years from 1914 to 1999, the commission managed to gather 381 claims-with 35 percent of those charges made against lay staff and fellow pupils rather than priests.
“It might be unfashionable to say the following but it is true nonetheless,” O’Neill concludes. “Very, very small numbers of children in the care or teaching of the Catholic Church in Europe in recent decades were sexually abused, but very, very many of them actually received a decent standard of education.”
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Teflon93| 4.29.10 @ 11:06AM
And there's the trifecta---anti-Catholics will be cancelling their subscriptions to National Review, The American Spectator, AND The Weekly Standard.
If Chronicles is still around, that's about it for them.
Alan Brooks| 4.29.10 @ 4:02PM
Finally, an AS blog I can (and do) agree with.
Dads have incest/underage sex far more than priests do.
And Martin Luther saying something along the lines of 'he who does not liketh wine, women and song is dull', was not being responsibly Christian. The Bible doesn't say:
THOU SHALT DOETH THY THING, DUDE.
Anthony| 4.29.10 @ 11:23AM
I appreciate this. Thanks, AmSpec. I finally have given up on the NYT because of their war on Catholicism (I mean, how many daily articles can they write-???-I guess it's endless). It's been extremely liberating.
Teflon93| 4.29.10 @ 11:34AM
Anthony, you might want to pick up The Wall Street Journal. They're going after The Times big-time, even expanding local and sports coverage. Murdock's looking to send Punch and Keller back where they came from.
Anthony| 4.29.10 @ 12:54PM
Thanks...I have switched to WSJ. I finally picked it up after throwing out (in a rage) the NYT in an airport trash bin. I couldn't read beyond the editorial page.
I hope to live longer as the result of switch.
Lawrence| 4.29.10 @ 11:39AM
Ofcourse anti-Catholicism has not began today or yesterday but it beagan long time a go,but it has live for 2010 years.Recently the Media made it to publish the a buse in the Catholic church as if it was celebrating the second coming of Jesus Christ on earth.However,i wish to thank the entire Catholics in the whole world who are still praying for our Faith,p`se continue praying for her nad the Holy Father.Remember it` on the Rock and those who are aggitating for her collapse,they will never manage it.And let`s pray for the Victims we ask the Almighty God to bless them and heal thier wound.P`se the priest and the Bishops,this goes to you.Remember you were called by God to lead His Flocks,so,look at the CROSS and confess your sins mostly those who are affected and those who affected the children.We pray even those who have not yet sinned.
Mary Mother of Church Pray for Us.
Long live the Catholic church.
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catholic mom| 4.30.10 @ 8:12AM
I agree with the comments about the NYT. We get the Wall Street Journal and we love it. It has balanced and thoughtful articles and there is no agenda. We don't get our local paper anymore...it is the worst!
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