Catholics in the US quit the Church in droves...

Two million «flee» from Rome. Abuse-effect: a bleeding of faithful in the United States. 3% of U.S. Catholics left the Church because of the scandal of pedophile priests, according to a study conducted by Daniel M. Hungerman for the University of Notre Dame. And those who benefit the most from this crisis in American Catholicism is the Baptist denomination. Guido Mocellin, in the magazine of the Dehonian Fathers “Il Regno” warned of a «credibility crisis» in the U.S. Church. The fault is above all in the line of omissive conduct applied by the episcopate before the «zero tolerance» imposed by Benedict XVI. For years the American bishops have in fact tried to cover guilty priests by dealing with the compensation of victims outside the courtroom, instead of reporting all cases they became aware of to the legal authorities and instead of removing the accused from their pastoral duties. And it was late for the public admission made by the bishops of their previous failure or inadequacy in the face of sexual violence against minors committed by priests.

The feeling that «the Catholic Church was more concerned with defending its priests rather than its children; that the bishops preferred to spend billions of dollars in private compensation for damages rather than publicly acknowledging their responsibilities and those of the priests under their jurisdiction; which in essence so flagrantly betrayed the trust that under many aspects the Catholic ecclesiastical institution has earned in the country, placing the legal and financial aspects before the pastoral ones, all this is generating, particularly in the everyday "American Catholic", painful feelings: sadness, disgust, anger, frustration, confusion, embarrassment». Full story...

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