Public Opinion Shows Sympathy for Some, but Never the Catholic Church

By Gerard Henderson
The Australian
February 8, 2014

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/public-opinion-shows-sympathy-for-some-but-never-the-catholic-church/story-fnkqo7i5-1226820776849#mm-premium

PEDOPHILIA is now regarded, in the West at least, as the vilest of crimes. So much so that most pedophiles are regarded as more evil than most murderers. Yet there appears to be a different approach to the perpetrators of such wrongdoing according to whether he (and it is invariably a male) is a believer or a secular type. The message out of Geneva this week was one of absolute condemnation of the Catholic Church and its leadership in the Vatican. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child delivered a scathing rebuke concerning how the Holy See has handled allegations of sexual abuse by its priests and religious brothers over the years.