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nathell ◴[] No.43928925[source]
From [0]:

> Rev. Robert Prevost bears responsibility for allowing former Providence Catholic H.S. President and priest Richard McGrath to stay at the high school amidst sex abuse allegations that dated back to the 1990s.

> That's according to Eduardo Lopez de Casas, a clergy abuse survivor and national vice president of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

[0]: https://willcountygazette.com/stories/671124585-if-he-saw-an...

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jordanb[dead post] ◴[] No.43929081[source]
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lostlogin ◴[] No.43929145[source]
‘I was only following orders.’
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anon291 ◴[] No.43929458[source]
A lot of the church abuse scandal happened during a couple of decades when the church's handling of the cases were the result of following the then scientific consensus on the matter. The church was not alone in this. The scientists told us they could be reformed.

Just look up the history of what was going on in Germany following the same advice.

It's a relatively new thing where we just declare pedophiles unfixable and jail them. In the past, the social scientists told us that it was the result of the environment.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp...

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1. watwut ◴[] No.43929629[source]
It was not about them being reformed or not. It was about protecting the institution from bad PR without care for victims.