http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/world/europe/03church.html?src=me&ref=general
Surely there will come a time, reasonably soon, that the current stance will change. But as of now the Church won’t hold all those responsible for the heinous crimes against children to even a small pittance of justice. This seems not out of fear of culpability but out of fear of responsibility. Many apologies have, and will be made. But no one at the Vatican will accept that either directly (by moving priests around, by keeping the acts from law enforcement, by ignoring charges made) or indirectly (by supporting a system that stigmatizes sex and requires celibacy among it’s leaders).
As an atheiest I don’t see this as direct proof that there is no God (though his decency comes into question), I see it as a flawed understanding of morals. Is sex, in the confines of a monogomous relationship-hetero or homosexual, so ghastly a sin in the eyes of God that he would turn his scrutiny of the molestation of children to protect those Puritanical beliefs? So many ‘rules’ that have come from the Bible have been “interpreted” to suit modern practitioner (keeping the Sabbath holy, divorce being a sin, etc), can these not be updated in hopes of curbing such awful, and common, practices?
