The pederasty in the Church

National The Church has to confront its problems The pederasty in the Church By: Carlos Damian December 01, 2012 Let us don't hide what is evident to the public México. - In the context of a congress organized by the Vatican in the Gregorian university of Rome, the American specialists Michael J. Berni and Patricia Neal, they pointed out that the cost that the Catholic Church has had to pay due to the accusations for their priests' sexual abuse either for the payment that is, this it is for concept of juridical services, compensations, medical, and psychological treatments for the victims – “it is located very above the two thousand million dollars". The figure although scandalous it seems conservative if they should have dedicated big sums to finance extrajudicial agreements with the victims of pederasty, to effect of discouraging them so that they desist of their accusations against clergymen. In any event, much more expensive that the economic losses it is the bad reputation in that the Catholic Church is sunk by the scandals of pederasty: it is unavoidable to establish a causal bond between that stigma and the marked loss of parishioners -10 in Latin America, according to data of the Council Episcopal Latin American - that suffers in the present moment. The costs in economic matter, in public image and in moral authority, they allow to ponder the counteractive character of the behavior of the hierarchy before the accusations against cures pederasts, which have been characterized by the hypocrisy and the concealment, will. The most representative case is that of the founder of Christ's Legion, Marciel Macial, whose sexual crimes against children were known from half-filled of last century for the highest ecclesiastical levels, and it includes it to John Paul II and to XVI Benedict. However, already outside fearing losing the quotas of political and economic power that Maciel contributed to the Catholic Church or for mere insensibility, Rome opted during decades to hide the crimes of the Michoacan-priest and it harassed in systematic form to the victims that denounced in its opportunity the suffering abuses. Of having acted with transparency and attachment to the law before the accusations against Maciel and other abusive priests; of having imposed exemplary sanctions to those responsible for those crimes, and of having been consecrated to the punishment and the prevention of new sexual aggressions of children perpetrated by priests. The Vatican one had been able to avoid the enormous one it discredit that those crimes have caused them and to be saved big sums of money by concept of compensations and extrajudicial agreements with the victims. If the Roman curia wants to retain in some measure the deterioration caused by its own behavior in front of the cases of sexual abuse made by clergymen, it will have to confront, and not to continue hiding, the reality; to undertake an exercise of wide and sincere self-criticism; not to stop the presentation of the corresponding penal accusations against priests aggressors that still enjoy institutional protection, and to point out openly to the ecclesiastical authorities that incurred in cases of the criminals' concealment. Guadalajara’s Cardinal tolerant The sunbeams hardly reach to heat the morning in the luxurious club of Golf Atlas Country, and the Guadalajara City has wakened up from a long lethargy when finding out that the Catholic boss with headquarters in Guadalajara will behave with moderation, without political protagonist, neither candidate’s tutelage, ethylic compassionate governors, and character spite mothers like Emilio Gonzalez. Anything of bodyguard neither ostentation. Touching the incredible thing, this cardinal won't look for fights neither it will pronounce altered sentences. Juan Sandoval Iniguez (JSI), he is a convert to the humility, to the tolerance, and to the good sense. Because not, it is cardinal Jose Francisco Robles Ortega (JFRO), who it was in charge of the diocese of Monterrey and it has raised the previous cardinal for age reasons. Cardinal JSI relates the cardinal proximity with the high classes, more than with the anything favored classes of Mexico that are those that nurture to the Church that headed. The raised cardinal was of gloomy manners, explosive personality, and as few peasant and insensitive. Just coarse with reviewing some sentences to describe him: "the commissions of human rights are only good to defend criminals"; “to the violated women it goes them that to be causing"; the Protestants don't have mother". Miguel Hidalgo, it has more than enough “the homeland’s father ", he referred how “nuns' violator", to the militants of the PRD he called them “children of the darkness", and of the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice he ended up affirming that “they had been drugged” to approve the unions among people of the same sex. It finally finishes the time this polemic character's of ultraright-wing February 7, strong opponent of the sexual diversity and to the adoptions of children for people’s couple of the same sex. Now they don't still breathe of relief that JSI will still stay to finish its great work: the Sanctuary of the martyrs in Guadalajara. For the one that have already made some adaptations in the City’s arteries, the station of the meter corresponding to this Church has already changed name. But let us recover the encouragement; difficultly the Catholic Church will accept progressive ideas, its paper from the Colony is in fact to be on the side of the oligarchy, which it is its historical paper, for it has always been opposed to the progress and the economic development of Mexico. This Catholic cacique's paw left an indelible track since for 40 years he had interference in the formation of priests in the seminar of Guadalajara, of where they have graduated more than 6 thousand priests. This priest was first professor, rector, and then as cardinal it continued as harmful shade to the cult ministers. JFRO was student of JSI, but it will follow the old cardinal shade putting noise in Guadalajara City. Otherwise, and in spite of the warnings of “zero tolerance” rushed by San Pedro's hierarchs, it is of supposing that the cases of sexual abuse for priests will continue, and there won't be money neither politics of control of damages that it reaches to revert the bad fame that they have acquired to pulse. (La Jornada, politica, p. p. 6 - 8, February 9, 2011).