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Article originally prepared on : 17 April 2010

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Same old, same old : Abuses by Local Catholic Priests Boggle the Mind

Description: A week and a half after the release of 10,000 pages of depositions and church documents about child sexual abuse and Memphis pr

Abuses by Local Catholic Priests Boggle the Mind

A week and a half after the release of 10,000 pages of depositions and church documents about child sexual abuse and Memphis priests, it remains difficult to comprehend the magnitude of the crisis.

There are actually two scandals "“ first, the sexual abuse of children and, second, the years-long cover-up of that abuse.

A pastor had to tell the families of three children to keep their boys away from another priest in the parish because diocesan authorities failed to heed his complaints for years.

It's easy to say that was in the 1960s, when our society looked at this problem in a much different way.

But sending priests away for counseling, which also conveniently gets them out of town, is the existing policy. So is restricting the contact a priest has with children and then largely relying on the priest to abide by the restriction.

Until just five years ago the Catholic Diocese of Memphis didn't report anything to anyone outside the church hierarchy. The diocese still disagrees that it is obligated by state law to report the sexual abuse of a child 13 or older.

A Byzantine move within the Vatican in the past week demonstrates why this parsing is causing

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