Search - Betrayal : The Crisis in the Catholic Church

A gave this book four stars not because I enjoyed the sordid account of the most horrendous out rage and betrayal perpetrated on children. This book is not about joy. It is part of an on going effort to expose the ease with which people speak of their love and reverence for childhood while they conspire with despicable secrecy to war on children. A war that brings the together the every institution and force available to the adult world. Not only has this scandal gained the cooperation of the courts and the police but families as well. Even now, families favor these self appointed moral guardians' pronouncements over the appeals of their own offsprings. A girl gets pregnant throw her out! If a child is sexually curious abandon the child to the predators. In the name of a child's moral good place it repeatedly in the custody of harmful people and defend the bad choices of parents and care givers against the questions raised by the victim child. This book is about many things.The Roman Catholic church is rightly called to account for its part. A part that is shameful. A part no more excusable than the part that was played by all those secular collaborators without whom this war on children could not have gone on. Even after all these 'exposures' the very atmosphere is complicit in targeting the youth as the just subject to the whim of adults. This seems to be the established order all over the place. In the USA if a child survives to his/her 21st year with merely their life they have escaped the time of most likely homicide by a PARENT. The reporters responsible for this investigation and compilation of source documents have begun a forensic process that needs study and soul searching not just by priest who rape children.