An atrocious scandal at a Benedictine abbey

[fpb]

I am not well disposed about charges against the Catholic Church. But what has come out from the Benedictine abbey of Ealing, west London, and its school, is so atrocious that I am firmly convinced that the whole abbey ought to be investigated as a criminal association. It is not just impossible, it is inconceivable, that abuse could have gone on

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[sabethea]

the long-heard lie that the whole Church is somehow responsible for these crimesOh gosh, this argument when used against any general body makes me FURIOUS. A small amount of animal rights protestors who kill/put at risk humans means that all AR people are nuts. A few people diagnosed with ME send threatening letters to doctors who say it's all in their minds, meaning that all people with ME are dangerous criminals who think the same way. A murderer is found with Black Sabbath CDs in his room, therefore Black Sabbath made hir commit the crime

[fpb]

Thank you, but, while I agree, the point is somewhat different

[fpb]

Whooops. The "something even worse" I mentioned went actually unsaid above. It is this: that in all this idiotic kerfuffle of bad law and power-lust, the one thing that has not been sufficiently investigated is the mechanics of the actual crimes and the extent to which collusion existed in the actual abbey. Nobody, that is, seems to have wanted to ask whether the abbey was, as seems obvious to me, a criminal association, how far back that association went, and who was involved in its common criminal purpose. To the contrary, Lord Carlisle seems to have started from an assumption that the abbey as such was innocent. Luckily the Pope has ordered his own inquiry into the facts, and while this Pope is no rabid disciplinarian, he has been know to shut down corrupt priories and discipline disorderly orders such as the Legion of Christ. Perhaps church investigators will show more sense than British lawyers.

[sabethea]

I apologise for taking the tone of this down from world religion, but to put it in simpler terms - basically, it's like suing a millionaire Minister for Education because one teacher (or even one school) committed a crime. Because the Minister in question (hypothetically) happens to be astoundingly rich, and they can request he pays from his own pocket