Catholic Diocese Proposes Running Orphanage

[jberryhill]

Given all the pedophilia scandals, shouldn't they reconsider?

A lot of people are still suffering from child abuse in the Catholic church, and for them to propose running an orphanage is just a slap in the face.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. good gawd

[cynatnite]

16. You nailed it exactly.n/t

[nicky187]

2. They'll probably team up with GOP...

... and run them for a profit, as well as abuse the children.

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[WinkyDink]

4. Oliver Twist will be ever so pleased. More, Sir?

[jberryhill]

5. They built one near Dickens house

It was like a monument to victory.

[foxfeet]

6. Foxes propose running henhouses.

[brendan120678]

7. There are plenty of orphanages run by religous groups...

Catholic, Jewish, other mainstream Christian, etc.

What's wrong with that?

[Igel]

9. There are also a fair number of sex scandals with non-religious groups.

Most of the guilty are represented by unions and personnel agreements, so even if the group has enemies it seldom comes to light.

I once was in student government. My academic affairs officer was investigating sexual harrassment on campus. He beat the bushes to find out from the administration what the incidence of sexual harrassment by faculty against students was on campus. The AAO was told by the administrator he was referred to that there had been no charges or allegations of sexual harrassment by faculty against students on the campus in the years that the admin dude had worked there. The AAO handed him a copy of a newspaper article about one such case that went to trial, naming the professor. The administrator said that may be, but such things tend to be settled out of court with a non-disclosure agreement that would require both victim and perp to deny that any such case and agreement ever existed. The AAO was upset and said that can't be right, they can't cover up the truth--others have a right to know. The administrator leaned against a filing cabinet in his office that was locked. "If such agreements existed you can be sure that they'd be kept in my office in a locked filing cabinet. Of course, if asked I'd have to deny that the filing cabinet even existed." The AAO asked if the cabinet he was learning against was the filing cabinet with the sexual-harrassment-related non-disclosure agreements. "What filing cabinet? There's no filing cabinet here." The AAO wasn't stupid. He ended up doing a sexual harrassment survey. The administrator who denied having the filing cabinet coughed up a lot of the funding for the survey.

[skepticscott]

14. And in how many non-religious groups

have known serial child rapists been not only active in dozens of countries, but been protected from any kind of exposure or punishment as a matter of policy, AND had the continuation of their crimes (once known) not only ignored, but AIDED by the organization?

[humblebum]

8. Catholics have been running orphanages in the US since the early 19th century.

Boys' Town is one example.

[onager]

11. Yep, and a fine example it is...

Abuse Allegations Probed At Boys Town

(AP) A former priest at Boys Town, the fabled home for wayward youths, on Monday denied accusations that he sexually abused boys.

Former Boys Town pupil James Duffy alleged in a lawsuit last month that the Rev. James Kelly and a counselor, the late Michael Wolf, repeatedly molested him in the late 1970s...

Kelly was accused of sexual misconduct in 1983 and 1984 in New York, but two investigations by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany found the allegations not credible.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/23/national/main534066.shtml

[humblebum]

12. Perhaps you should also check with the other hundreds of thousands who

have been helped or raised by Boys Town.

[darkstar3]

13. How many hundreds of thousands must be helped in order to counter

the destruction of one innocent life? How the hell do you make that scale?

[piratefish08]

15. pedophilia for the greater good?

not buying it. they should have been shut down years ago.

[Book Lover]

10. Which one?

Would it be run by the diocese itself? Would an order be given the administrative work? It really seems illogical that any US diocese would take on the expense of this kind of venture. Link?