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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
Do you foresee Catholic priests in America being allowed to marry?
And do you think that would impact this problem?
http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/c...use/index.html
Though honestly, I feel the problem does appear to have been dramatically reduced insofar as that the Catholic Church did enact a bunch of new rules to create new safeguards, e.g. any accusation of sexual abuse reported to anyone has to be immediately reported to the police and the accused person suspended during the investigation. Or, at least, they did in the US--maybe that didn't happen in other countries. But, limiting ourselves to the US where they did enact such policies, it seems nowadays whenever there's a new headline about sexual abuse, it's about stuff that happened quite a bit in the past, prior to those policies being enacted, not actual new and recent cases. That indicates that it isn't a problem currently... or, alternatively, people who suffer abuse aren't speaking out about it in the same way that in the past people didn't end up speaking out about it until much later. But with the zeitgeist being so in favor of the accusers nowadays, I suspect it simply is the case that it isn't happening in the present, or at least has been dramatically reduced.
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