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By Paul Adams | Feb 24, 2013
Nothing has undermined the moral authority of the Catholic Church more than its handling of the torture and rape to which many children in its care have been subjected.
It is not just the abuse itself that is so shocking. As the church often reminds us, it is an institution made up of human beings subject to human frailty.
It is the complicity of the church hierarchy — bishops, cardinals and popes — in covering up the truth and, in the course of doing so, abetting and condoning criminal behaviour.
As the American conservative Catholic commentator Michael Brendan Dougherty has remarked, the church should be telling these men: “Go to the monastery and wait for the cops.”
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