Paul,

"I have named the Catholic Church in this discussion as they are by far the biggest serial offenders when it comes to the crime of institutional child abuse in Australia, but they are not alone,...."

Do you man biggest by the number of abusers or the biggest by proportion to the number of clergy overall?

Or perhaps you mean the biggest in proportion of the offending clergy to the overall number of Catholics?

A little clarification would be helpful and just for the record I think that serial paedophiles, that is two proven offences, should be put to death regardless of their religious, political or other affiliations, and those that protect them should do prison time.

When one says 'Catholic Church' it would be well to remember that the Church is the whole membership regardless of their standing within that body.

Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.

mikk,

Good one, LOL!

How strange that the 'Usual Suspects' on the forum not being able to defend the indefensible, try and deflect the argument onto something irrelevant to the topic.
OTB, wants to divert attention away from the Catholic Church in Australia by firstly associating communism with the Greens, then somehow its more to do with Islamists importing toxic political systems and the political correctness of multiculturalism. A bit of a sop with the CC deserves a clobbering with a chain-mail fist, but, there is always a BUT, in this case the BUT is another irrelevancy, leftists and Islamic behavior in Rotherham's (UK). To soften it all OTB finishes with "the leftist aim of trashing the Christian churches. That is bent." Now we have it, there really is nothing wrong in the Catholic Church in Australia, its those leftists wanting to do a bit of trashing! Can you also put the blame onto the Labor Party? if not, why not?

Paul,

Could you make an exception and answer my questions?

There is one school of thought that in proportion there are more paeodophiles in the Greens than in the Catholic Church.

Is Mise, the main point raised re the Catholic Church is the dreadful realization that a supposedly moral organization who puts itself out there as morally above everyone else has been hiding paedophiles within it's ranks, and thus aiding and abetting their activities, for years.

Somehow, this makes those particular paedophiles, and their employers, somehow worse than other disgusting creatures.

They are still protecting them too, with Pell denying all knowledge and developing memory problems, while all the while supposedly being able to run the churche's finances in Rome!
What absolute rubbish!