In recent years, the public has learned more and more about the sex scandals in the Catholic Church. Testimonies have now shown that children had been sexually abused by priests as early as the eighties. Long story short the priests were using their upstanding reputations in the community to convince children and their parents to arrange personal meetings between them and the children of the community. Needless to say these meetings had very little to do with bible readings or practice for communion.
However the current scandal is the fact that the Vatican and the Catholic church has sort of turned its back to the situation. The church feels that every priest and religious figure should represent the church unconditionally, as it should be. But the sex scandal was clearly not what the church is hoping for in terms of good publicity, and therefore there has been a sort of silence in the Vatican. Now the heat is beginning to fall on the Pope for not adressing the issue of the past sexual abuses by Catholic priests.
This is, I guess just a coincendence that we were reading a scence in the Kentucky Cycle on roughly the same topic. In order for Joshua to work in the mines, he needed a birth certificate that said he was fourteen, and he was twelve. So the priest came over to sell him a forged birth certificate for a few bucks. This is unforunate that this is such a recurrent thing that the men that are appointed to guide the the world spiritually, are so often involved in morally wrong behaviors.
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