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Criticism of the Vatican’s UN statement on child sex abuse




Click here to read a criticism of the Holy See’s UN statement on child sex abuse by the International Humanist and Secular Union.

Brought to my attention by Vinnie Nauheimer. Thanks, Vinnie



This entry was posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 4:46 pm and is filed under Abuse and Cover Up, Church Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


    3 Responses to “Criticism of the Vatican’s UN statement on child sex abuse”

  1. Thomas Says:
    October 11, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    For the Church to look worse than it already does in the light of true scandal is to claim that it is cleaning house and purifying itself as it distances itself from those who abuse. The Church is incapable of purity…the people who make up the Church are also incapable of purity…the people who God has chosen are impure and imperfect. We all fall short of perfection and are sinners. But, one thing that we are— is all on the same pathway home. We are judged by the way that we interact when our paths cross the other. Charity demands that we apologize and make restitution when we sin against another and this does not exclude the Church or her hierarchy. Love without charity is not love. Love without hope is not love. Love without God is Godless and can never lead to love…and if we find ourselves without God—what is it that we have become? And, to whom do we belong? When the Church cleans it’s house, it throws the baby out with the bath water—and for what reason? Without evidence, they do not claim responsibility!

    For all those who are innocent and have been thrown out with the wash water(not because you are abusers, but rather because you say no to abuse)…you will still shine in the Light!

    It would be interesting to know what the United Nations and the International Humanist and Secular Union think about a Foreign Power holding its own independent study of American Sisterhood. Is this also a way of cleaning house?

  2. Thomas Says:
    October 13, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    Can the Vatican or anyone else ever be empathetic to the plight of survivors of abuse? It is not in their nature to know and to understand what it is like to be abused… not unless they have experienced it first-handedly. They will never know the harm of the very act of abuse. How it imprisons and changes a person forever. One can learn about ramifications through the stories, writings, drawings, and life-changing events that the victim presents…but one can only surmise what it was like.

    A victim is always a reduction of personhood. To be a victim causes us to be reduced. We never again regain what was lost when we compare ourselves to who we were before the incident of abuse. One of the greatest fears is not that the one who was abused will be abused again…but rather that…the abused becomes an abuser.

  3. Voice from the Desert » Blog Archive » Must Read: Tom Doyle letter to Vatican Archbishop Tomasi Says:
    October 30, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    [...] From Tom Doyle via email. This letter is a follow on to a previous Voice from the Desert post. [...]


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