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In reply to the discussion: Catholics are as much to blame for clergy abuse as you are to blame for the WARS [View all]BainsBane
(57,751 posts)because no one puts the news in front of your uninitiated face it doesn't exist. You've obviously avoided learning about all the Catholic groups working to reform the church and Catholics waging lawsuits over sex abuse. You avoided learning about the Nuns on the Bus, about Oscar Romero, about the Maryknoll Sisters, about a great deal. You wouldn't know about the sex abuse case if not for Catholics. Who do you think exposed those cases?
Evidently you never heard of all of the Catholics who were murdered in Central American with your tax dollars. Or the Catholic clergy and groups that fight for social justice all around the world while you sit at home watching TV and consuming gasoline acquired through war. Who do you think organized the protests against US interventions in Latin America during the 70s and 80s?
There is a great deal you have not "seen," principally because no one "sees" news. They must read it and seek it out, although all of what I've mentioned above has actually been covered on television. There is evidently a great deal you've managed to avoid learning, and that is no one's fault but your own.