When someone makes a crime he has to go to a jail.
Yet when complaints were made to office holders of the Catholic church in Australia, the alleged offender was shifted to other dioceses rather than being handed over to the police for investigation and prosecution.
That's just simple nonsense and bullshit. Since when is the police and public prosecution organized in dioceses?
This makes Pell's defence receive little sympathy.
Although he is a citizen of the Vatican too, Cardinal Pell came to Australia because the Catholic church had trusted in the integrity of the Australian "system of justice". I see this with very sceptic eyes, because lots of tyrannies exist on this planet. Australia is not a tyranny - ¿or is it? - but this misjudgement is in my eyes only an evil joke. I would say everyone is able to be arrested and judged in Australia - completely independent from any reality. And everyone has the right to be protected from the Australian state with the torture solitary confinement and sensory and social deprivation and insufficient activity.
You seem to be denying the church protected its offenders. Are you?
Let me say it this way: We are a kind of spiritual sports club or fisher club. We don't have offenders. We have people, who sleep during church service or something like this. What for heavens sake do you expect from our church?
Let me calculate. I use here data I found out in Germany and will generalize it now. A clerics of the church, who lives in celebacy, is in average 25 times more harmless in case of the crime "sexual abuse" than any other male being on this planet. A psychiatrist here found even out the factor is 36 times higher in the so called "normal" population. It exists about 400,000 priests worldwide - and I calculate now 140,000 monks (that's the relation in Germany) so we have about 540,000 male Clerics. Let me calculate the population of the world with 5.4 billion (it's more). This are about 2.7 billion men. So let all catholic clerics do x crimes. How many did the "rest of the male world"? 2.7 billion / 540 thousand * 25 = 5,000*25 = 125,000. The
factor is "times 125,000" (and perhaps even much higher). Did you ever have the feeling you are discussing a minimum of 125,000 more often about sexual abuse from people, who are not clerics from the Catholic Church?
And how much money had the Church to pay in the USA? Let me say "x billions". What is 125,000 times x billions? ... Oh damn - I don't know how to name this number in the English language. But your world will love it, because it is titanicly high.
