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the question - how valid are the allegations of abuse? What the victims have been doing (in some cases for many decades) all the time? Why they did not contact the police and kept silence? That's why unless there is a proof (as in some clear cases where priests where indicted and put in jail) this latest scandal seem to be media creation.

Because it is media creation I am tired of all these stories of sexual abuse which some newschannels like CNN strangely put at the top of headlines. When they again and again repeat these allegations I just switch channel. And it is not about my religious beliefs, I despair these media machinations and manipulations when they try to give the story undue importance. There are so many more important things going on in this world, take just continuing blockade of Gaza by Israel for example. Yet the Western media simply is not relenting.  

I am not a catholic and not a christian but I am dismayed by seemingly determined destruction of Western church by media. What, the Westerners would be much better without church which clings to outdated superstitions? Would Westerners stop their wars and occupations of other countries, abjure targeted assasinations, abductions and torture of suspects and give up support for apartheid style regimes like Israel? It's not the Roman pope who asked the Westerners to do all these things.

by FarEasterner on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 07:15:56 AM EST
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