08-20-2018, 10:38 PM
(08-20-2018, 09:19 PM)Fry Guy Wrote: I doubt it. They will do what they always do, the very least they need to, to make it go away.
My Father went to a Catholic boarding school. They abused him.
He was messed up. Immature, violent and given to melancholy. He was a big drinker and irresponsible. He was violent to me and could be very mean and nasty and petty. Behind all that he certainly had his moments and was far from all bad. He could be fun and funny, loving and strong and occasionally show pride in his children. He was just broken.
It doesn't stop at the victim. These evil old men really need to be beaten to death.
I'm sorry that your family was one of the many thousands affected by such evil bullshit FryGuy. You're right, based on the victim/family interviews that I've read and watched, the abuse rarely ever stops at the direct victim.
Too often, children who are abused in their formative years become abusive themselves -- learned behavior. And those who don't become abusive are frequently broken in other ways due to the betrayal and self-loathing inflicted upon them by people their parents misguidedly taught them to respect and never question. It's tragically fucked up.
Anyway, I agree that the Catholic Church has an unforgivable history of doing as little as possible to address and prevent the systemic child abuse. I do believe they'll do more about it now though, not because I'm convinced that the Catholic Church has fundamentally changed its priorities and grown a conscience. But, more so because their unconscionable and criminal abuses have been so thoroughly exposed and proven that it's causing them to lose subscribers (and thus income) by the millions.