Moorhead zegt zelf katholiek te zijn en stelt derhalve dat het biechtgeheim ten allen tijde beschermd dient te worden, zoals de Australische aartsbisschop Denis Hart, die stelde liever de gevangenis in te gaan, dan het biechtgeheim te breken.......
Moorhead stelt dat na de biecht vergiffenis wordt geschonken, waar een 'boetedoening' aan vastzit, ofwel 1.000 weesgegroetjes is wel voldoende voor het verkrachten van kinderen (oh ja, plus een loze belofte het nooit weer te doen.....).......
Let wel: dit na de enorme golf van kindermisbruik door rk 'geestelijken....' Mensen wier leven voorgoed is verknald door seksueel gefrustreerde rk dienaren, waarna de rk kerk ook onder paus Franciscus, alias Bergoglio, het meer dan belachelijke celibaat niet wenste af te schaffen (celibaat, of: hoe fabriceer je zoveel mogelijk seksueel gefrustreerden....??)...........
Moet u nagaan: dezelfde rooms-katholieke kerk verbiedt nog steeds het gebruik van anticonceptie en abortus, ook voor verkrachtte meisjes..... Wat een geweldige vent hè, die paus Franciscus..?? Over dat verbod op abortus binnenkort een bericht uit Chili en India*.
A Guardian column has literally called on the Catholic church to protect the secrets of child rapists [EDITORIAL]
The
Guardian has
published a call that confidentiality rules should protect Catholics
who admit to child sexual abuse in confession. While the author
rightly calls on us to consider our own humanity, she neglects
entirely the issue of widespread child abuse within the church. Abuse
is about shame, and silence. And it’s time to break both.
The priest abuse scandal
First,
we need to set the piece in the context of the priest abuse scandal.
Representatives of the Roman Catholic church have engaged in child
sexual abuse on an industrial
scale.
The
church abused children in the US, Austria, Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium,
Italy, Malta,
Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, Ireland, the Dominican Republic and
Australia. From local priests to cardinals, church leaders conspired
to rape and sexually assault children; and protect each other (and
the church) from justice. In 2012, experts advised the
Vatican that there could be 100,000 victims of clerical child sexual
abuse in the US alone.
Australia
provided one of the most robust responses to the scandal. It launched
a royal
commission into
both the abuse and the cover up, with extraordinary powers of
subpoena. And it found that, between 1950 and 2015, 7% of
Australian priests were accused of abusing children. In some orders,
up to 40% of
brothers had allegations of abuse against them. The commission later
established a key reason that so few accusations ever made it to the
police.
The seal of the confessional
This
reason was the seal
of confession.
This internal church law states that all sins admitted in the
confessional remain in the confidence of the priest and the
penitent. The commission states in its report:
“we heard evidence of a number of instances where disclosures of child sexual abuse were made in religious confession, by both victims and perpetrators We are satisfied that confession is a forum where Catholic children have disclosed their sexual abuse and where clergy have disclosed their abusive behaviour in order to deal with their own guilt.”
The
commission found that child abusers and survivors alike were bringing
their stories to confession. And the church treated the crime as any
other sin; forgivable by God and outside the jurisdiction of the
justice system.
While
the perpetrators were left to continue their cycle of abuse, the
abused were shamed
and silenced.
Breaking the silence
The
commission found that, to break the cycle of shame and silence, it
had to break the sanctity of the confessional. It recommended that
priests who fail to report child sexual abuse for any reason,
including the confessional seal, should be answerable to the justice
system.
Australian
archbishop Denis Hart (see featured image) has stated publicly
that he would go to jail rather than report child abuse heard in
confession. This is unsurprising from Hart, who has his
own history of
keeping secrets inconvenient to the church. The archbishop was
accused of burying a report that showed widespread humiliation and
bullying of LGBT students at Catholic schools.
Vivian
Waller, a lawyer who represents victims of child sexual abuse, argues
that Hart and his church need to change. She says:
“I think it’s about time the Catholic Church was dragged out of the dark ages. We can no longer think about sexual offending against children as some kind of forgivable sin.”
But
in her opinion piece for The
Guardian, Joanna
Moorhead sides with Hart and the Catholic church. And the piece has
gathered a lot of negative
attention.
Some people are even accusing the author of putting the safe spaces
of priests above the personal safety of children.
Voor het vervolg, klik op deze link.Hier de link naar de column van Moorhead in The Guardian: 'Even for child abusers, confessional confidentiality is sacrosanct'
* Dat bericht is inmiddels gepubliceerd, zie: 'Michelle Bachelet wil abortus doordrukken in Chili'
Zie ook:
'Paus Benedictus XVI: kindermisbruik gevolg van seksuele revolutie......'
'Rooms katholieke priesters misbruiken nonnen op grote schaal'
'Vaticaan maant bisschoppen niet te snel te reageren op beschuldigingen van kindermisbruik door rk geestelijken.....'
'Paus Franciscus beschuldigt vrouwen die een abortus laten uitvoeren van huurmoord........'
'Paus Franciscus weet het zeker: het kindermisbruik door rk 'geestelijken' is het werk van de duivel..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha ha!'
'Bovenklasse ontloopt elke verantwoording, waar de onderlaag zoveel mogelijk verantwoordelijk wordt gehouden voor elke misstap' (met een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over de rk kerk en de paus)
'Miskraam: Maria Teresa Rivera vrij na bijna 5 jaar gevangenschap....... Viva El Salvador & paus Franciscus.........'
''Urbi et orbi.....' hypocriete praatjes van een valse profeet!'
Voor meer berichten over kindermisbruik in de rk kerk, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht.
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