@Go way ba willu: No, the GREED for MONEY is the root of all evil. That’s why there are so many claims for financial retribution by those claiming to have been abused, whether truly warranted, or under false claims of those trying to jump on a supposed imaginary money “gravy train” of the Vatican City State.
All of us know that no amount of money, not one single cent, will compensate for what was suffered by anyone horrendously abused by clerics, lay school teachers or family members and supposed friends.
Few know that the Vatican City State is barely surviving financially/economically… e.g. exports & imports. Vatican City State, like our own Irish State, is barely financially surviving, barely able to pay its way. It doesn’t have the cash for monetary retribution to all who were actually abused by its average 2% of clerics and lay-teachers all over the world… Exactly same as no more than the Irish State has the cash to incompletely, financially compensate abused people for its wrongs, failures and responsibilties towards any one abused.
In other words, there’s no money. Forget monetary claims; move on with life with all its future happiness and sorrows.

@Canny Jem: that’s 100% disgusting and 100% bullsh!t. They raped kids and you’re saying those kids are now the evil ones for seeking compensation.

@Canny Jem: That’s the mindset of someone who is as guilty ( due to the fact that they think “ oh just forget about it, it happened years ago, why dig it up now) as the perpetrators, who knew what was going on & did NOTHING!

@Canny Jem: move on with life ☺️

@Tom Molloy: Should they not be named and jailed to stop them abusing more children Tom? If you had 1% of the sympathy for children as you do for your zealousness defending the Catholic Church you would be on a virtuous path for once.

@Gaius Gracchus: that’s exactly what he said in the first line

@Siobhán Ni Mhurchú: No, he said so people would stop ‘bashing’ the poor Church.

@Gaius Gracchus: you’re right , it could ‘ve been phrased better .

@Gaius Gracchus: I should have predicted a negative take on my comment but fair minded people would take it that I both believe that abusers should be simply named and jailed because they are abusers and in addition this would clarify who the actual abusers are and frustrate the effort of those who try to create the fake narrative that clergy generally are abusers.

@Tom Molloy: show us the proof that’s it’s a fake narrative , it shouldn’t be too hard for you to prove if it’s indeed a fact

@Tom Molloy: and what about those who protect the abusers and cover up …like every pope ever !

@Tom Molloy: First of all 3% is that a joke? Us investigators found average of 6% in some cases more, secondly then u have all the priest/bishops/cardinals/popes and the like who knew and covered it up or done nothing! Then u have the sick ones who then met the victims blamed them made them sign non disclosures on the pretext the abuser priest would be dealt with! Which as we know now was 5 Hail Marys and carry on your abuse somewhere else? One bishop visited a mother of an abused boy in Ireland and gave her holy water and told her to put some drops in his bath water every night to “wash away HIS sins” is he one of the 97% innocent????
Then u have the Magdalena laundry’s? the sale of babies? The throwing of babies into septic tanks?
How u sleep at night defending that cult is beyond me!

“97% of sexual abusers are family” – Tom Molloy, 2018 “97% of clergy didn’t abuse kids” – Tom Molloy, 2018 “stop using actual crimes committed and covered up by the church to go after the church” – Tom Molloy, every day.

@flexfinn: For those abused the statistics are irrelevant as each case is devastating for the individual but the selective use of statistics to single out only one group is noteworthy. Out of the hundreds of thousands abuse cases in Chile mostly by family members and friends the media focuses in on 167, some of them not clergy under investigation over the period 1960- 2018 fifty eight years in a country with widespread abuse and child labour issues. Why are anti Catholics covering up the real scale of secular abuse with the “look over there” tactic, do they give a free pass to secular child abusers in their frenzy.

@Tom Molloy: “you can’t talk sense to a sociopath for they know not that they are sociopaths” as the old Chinese proverb goes.

@Tom Molloy: So you can’t trust the Church and you can’t trust the family. We’ll make a kibbutznik if you yet! Let’s face it family abuse is a wide spread social problem. The RCC has been behaving like the Mafia. Both need to be covered. Both are criminal but they are different phenomena.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: Peadophiles can never be cured and believing counciling would cure them was a society wide as well as a church administrators belief and this is at the root of the scandal of moving abusers on and short sentencing thinking they were “cured”

@Tom Molloy: to be fair, the church thought a new group of children was the cure for paedophilia