Dear Paul,

It would be fantastic if the Vatican would have a
re-think about criminal offences such as the
sexual abuse of children. If they could somehow
be forced to report these offences. I say hit them
where it hurts - in the pocket. Make it a criminal
offence of not reporting and take away their tax
exemptions and the funding of their schools. Perhaps
that would force Rome to have a re-think. Those
people have gotten away with this for far too long.
It's time to draw a line in the sand and say -
enough is enough!

the catholics will have nothing on the abuse and grooming that will follow from the 'safe schools' program. It has been put together by some very devious people.

Want to talk about paedophiles? What better way to start than with Muhammed and modern day Muslims taking child brides.

As for the Catholic Church, no government has the right to make rules for any religion in Australia. If peados are to be caught and punished, it is up the Australian law and authorities to do it, not a church.

The RC didn't make its findings on either Muslim institutions or government schools public. So what's left ? Christian institutions and private/non-governmental schools, including Catholic schools. Bit of a double whammy.

Can't wait for the findings on Muslim institutions and government schools to be made public.

So, now we know what might have been done in the past. What steps should be taken to ensure it doesn't happen again in the future ? Or do we just keep treating the symptoms, not the causes ? Bill Leak, where are you ?

Joe

The failure of the church to deal with the
sexual abuse of children within its ranks is
horrendous and intolerable - and has led to immeasurable
damage to the victims. The cover-ups, the protection of
abusive clergy and the refusal to admit egregious
mistakes is unjustifiable.

We have not yet even begun to calculate the damage these
crimes have done to people's trust and the reputation of
the church. The law had allowed the church to simply move
demonstrably abusive clergy from parish to parish, giving
them access to new victims.

This must be stopped from being allowed to continue to
happen. The church needs to be made accountable. And not be
above the law.

Dear Foxy,

«Those people have gotten away with this for far too long.»

Those people, that criminal gang who call themselves "Australia", have gotten away with their crimes for far too long: ordering everyone who lives here to follow their laws and dragging those who do not obey them to jail.

Enough is enough: so far the "Australia" gang attacked soft targets, but now they tackled a hard nut, the Catholic Church, who once sided with them (for which they will have to pay dearly), but no longer! Now there will be an open war, many martyrs and lots of blood will be spilt on both sides. Do they really believe that people are going to forsake God's commandments (even if it's only whatever they believe God's commandments to be) for the commands of mere flesh-and-blood?

The church will fight to its last drop of blood and tread over the laws of your gang.