Catholic Diocese Totally screws up handling Sexual abuse

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Catholic Diocese Totally screws up handling Sexual abuse

A continuous stream of revelations of Clerical sexual abuse and also the associated cover-ups has been a shock for many. What has become increasingly clear is that it has been happening on a literally global industrial scale over multiple decades, and most probably centuries. In our increasingly connected age there was no way that this could be swept under the carpet, and so it naturally led to the rather obvious and desperately needed internal reforms back in 2002 that came with all sorts of checks and balances.

Problem solved, it is all history now and better times are ahead … right?

Nope.

If they totally screwed up handling it all initially, then where on earth did you ever get the idea that a few wholly appropriate reforms would magically…

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