more appropriate for the world events section due to its international range and the fact that this has no concise thing to discuss/debate.

just the issue at hand.

as all of you who dont live under a rock know, the catholic church has been embroiled in a scandal that is old news.

but its new news because emperor pope-patine finds your lack of faith disturbing. benedict has been accused of covering up and protecting child molesters for the image of the catholic church to remain intact.
the bishop who i cant be bothered googling his name, molested 200 children at a thingy for deaf children.

some more extreme bishops have been noted as blaming homosexuals and even ZIONISTS.
so the scapegoating is the same... what is different is that the head of the church himself, pope benedict, is being challenged.

some pompous atheists decide to gather some publicity, dawkins and hitchens both are trying to use a flaw in international law to try the pope for crimes against and remove his diplomatic immunity.

the catholic church has spent 1 billion dollars protecting priests that have been accused and/or convicted of child molestation.

as you can see, there are several issues interwoven spanning multiple countries and at the heart of it is the vatican city with the pope sitting inside wondering which hat of his is larger.

GO.

The Catholic church has been the cause of death of millions of people already, why don't we discuss that?

a bishop in norway got caught for sexualy abuse a alterboy.

it were later known that the church knew about it about 6 months later, but didn't report it because "it were no point in bringing up this old cases" [badly translated]

i wonder what more the church is hiding

same reason we dont hold germany accountable for the actions of hitler, as long as they dont try to cover up or deny the crusades, there is no point punishing people who had zero involvement.

the recent scandal however is... well... recent...

as such, keep on topic of the recent scandal but feel free to drift around onto adjacent subjects involved. :3