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Maybe it wasn't the final word! (Main Forum)

by CathyT , Adelaide, South Australia, Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10:49 (404 days ago) @ Ian Lawther

It's strange, but I'd just posted a comment on my original thread about scapegoating, and I'd entitled it, "A final word on this scapegoating business". Then I noticed that another discussion had started on the topic! Maybe it hasn't slipped below the horizon after all. To reply to the point raised: I can understand how the attitude of priests being almost divine can add to the trauma of child abuse, and can cause even more outrage from the public. In a way, though, that's not really relevant to the point I was making: it was not about whether or not the Church deserved its reputation as a hotbed of child sexual abuse; my concern was/is that society could develop an attitude that sexual abuse ONLY happens in the Catholic Church, and, among other things, this could be disastrous for victims/survivors who had been abused in other circumstances. Please let me emphasise again that I was not trying to deny or downplay the suffering caused by child sexual abuse, and I apologise if I have given this impression.

Cathy Taggart

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OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-12, 00:16
- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - georgeh, 2012-05-12, 10:15
  - OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-12, 21:49
- Maybe it wasn't the final word! - CathyT, 2012-05-12, 10:49
  - Unfair attention - James, 2012-05-12, 12:20
    - Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:39
      - Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:42
        iT IS THE SAME IN MY PARISH DESI. - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 02:45
    - Unfair attention - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 01:33
  - Maybe it wasn't the final word! - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 00:26
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Dolores, 2012-05-13, 01:17
  - Putting priests on a pedestal - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 03:42
    - Putting priests on a pedestal - Dolores, 2012-05-13, 09:24
      - They put themselves on a pedestal and insist we worship - Oh Yet We Trust, 2012-05-13, 10:39
      - Putting priests on a pedestal - Helen, 2012-05-13, 11:12
      - Putting priests on a pedestal - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 11:22
      - Putting priests on a pedestal - judith, 2012-05-13, 15:32
  - Putting priests on a pedestal - Macbee, 2012-05-13, 12:54

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