I hate this topic, it doesn't prove anything. The US News has a catchy headline but it doesn't say how many priests violate their vows with boyfriends. A gay priest doesn't necessarily mean actively gay. Being gay is not a sin, doing gay things is a sin. US New wants to keep the stake fires burning.
Of course there are no gay Protestant clergy and never any sex abuse.
The Alternet is a cheap tabloid, an editorial, offering no links to anything factual. "Confidential Vatican reports obtained by the National Catholic Reporter," That's a good one. It's always "Confidential Vatican reports". From who, the janitor? National Catholic Distorter, a source it cites with no link, is the most unreliable source for so called Catholic news. One lie that really stood out is about the Pope was once a member of the Hitler Youth. This is misleading because anti-Catholic bigots ignore the fact that everyone in high school was forced to join it, years before the atrocities broke out. He got out as soon as he could and joined an underground seminary. I could go on about the lies of Alternet.
‘I Was A Gay Priest for 25 Years’ (Advocate). There is nothing in this article that advocates gay behavior, but acceptance of those with homosexual inclinations. They are not the same. A gay priest can still be a good priest, as long as he doesn't violate the vows he made to God. Same with ministers. With that said, homosexuals are no longer permitted into the seminary.
The Christian mission field is a “magnet” for sexual abusers, Boz Tchividjian, a Liberty University law professor who investigates abuse said Thursday (Sept. 26) to a room of journalists.While comparing evangelicals to Catholics on abuse response,
”I think we are worse,” he said at the Religion Newswriters Association conference, saying too many evangelicals had “sacrificed the souls” of young victims.
“Protestants can be very arrogant when pointing to Catholics,” said Tchividjian, a grandson of evangelist Billy Graham and executive director of Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE), which has investigated sex abuse allegations.
Protestants ‘Worse’ Than Catholics On Abuse
Last month, I moved out of a residential Christian community attached to a Methodist church in London. I moved for several reasons. One was the way that the church had handled an allegation of sexual abuse. The victim in that case was interviewed as part of the Methodist church’s Past Cases Review into abuse allegations. She had no advance notice of Thursday’s announcement by the Methodist church, which has formally apologised for
1,885 cases of abuse over the past 60 years. Despite media references to “historical abuse”, some of the cases are very recent...
Protestants can no longer dismiss abuse as a ‘Catholic problem’
Tchividjian had become convinced that the Protestant world is teetering on the edge of a sex-abuse scandal similar to the one that had rocked the Catholic Church. He is careful to say that there’s not enough data to compare the prevalence of child sex abuse in Protestant and Catholic institutions, but he’s convinced the problem has reached a crisis point. He’s not alone in that belief. In 2012, Christian radio host Janet Mefferd declared, “This is an epidemic going on in churches. … When are evangelicals going to wake up and say we have a massive problem in our own churches?” For years, Protestants have assumed they were immune to the abuses perpetrated by celibate Catholic priests. But Tchividjian believes that Protestant churches, groups, and schools have been worse than Catholics in their response. Mission fields, he says, are “magnets” for would-be molesters; ministries and schools do not understand the dynamics of abuse; and “good ol’ boy” networks routinely cover up victims’ stories to protect their reputations.
He fears it is only a matter of time before it all blows up in their faces and threatens the survival of powerful Protestant institutions.
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY SCANDALS AND COVER UPS
We know from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice investigation into this matter that almost all of the cases of the sexual abuse of minors that took place in Catholic institutions occurred between 1965 and 1985. By contrast, in the last five years, the average number of credible accusations made against 40,000 priests is exactly 7.6. Currently, it's down to less than 1%. No matter what number you pick, there is no entity in the United States today, private or public, that can match this record..(Catholic League)
The Catholic Church's record of aggressive and proactive protective measures
is unparalleled in any organization today. Since the beginning of the abuse crisis, the Catholic Church:
-has instituted a "zero tolerance" policy in which any credibly accused priest is immediately
removed from ministry. Law enforcement is also notified;
-has trained over 5 million children in giving them skills to protect them from abuse;
-has trained over 2 million adults, including 99 percent of all priests, in recognizing signs of
abuse;
-has conducted over 2 million background checks, including those in the intensified screening
process for aspiring seminarians and priests;
-has installed "Victim Assistance Coordinators" in every diocese, "assuring victims that they
will be heard";
-has conducted annual independent audits of all dioceses to monitor compliance with the
groundbreaking
*2002 Charter for Protection of Children and Young People;
-has instituted in all dioceses abuse review boards – often composed of child welfare experts,
child psychologists, and abuse experts – to examine any claims of abuse against priests.
- the slightest suspicion of wrongdoing must be reported to the police, by order of canon law.
No other organization even comes close to implementing the measures the Catholic Church has taken to protect children in its care. In this regard, the Catholic Church in the 21st century is the model for other institutions to follow in the safeguarding of youth.
http://www.themediareport.com/fast-facts/ <not a Catholic site
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors was created by Pope Francis in March of 2014. The Chirograph of His Holiness Pope Francis states specifically, “The Commission’s specific task is to propose to me the most opportune initiatives for protecting minors and vulnerable adults, in order that we may do everything possible to ensure that crimes such as those which have occurred are no longer repeated in the Church. The Commission is to promote local responsibility in the particular Churches, uniting their efforts to those of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for the protection of all children and vulnerable adults.”
