Abatael wrote:Ganos Lao wrote:I've told you my beliefs already.
So you are refusing to tell me if it is incorrect or correct, according to your beliefs?
In 1957 Fitzgerald wrote to the bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire:
"We are amazed to find how often a man who would be behind bars if he were not a priest is entrusted with the cura animarum."
You'll find Fitzgerald wrote plenty of material about the problem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Guys like him seem to have been ignored, though, and that leads to my point.
I've told you already my beliefs on this issue - this isn't about the seal to me. It's about the Catholic Church stuck in the mess it - and it alone - created, a mess that didn't have to be created. I am pretty certain that most of the cases documented were not heard of by other priests in the confessional, but that public outrage propelled the Catholic Church to deal with the situation. And what did they do? They sent them to other churches, as if nothing ever happened, rather than do the right thing. Now we're in 2012, and we're dealing with Australia considering prying open the seal of the confessional. And I am here saying one thing:
Why?
Why did it have to get to this point in the first place?