How the Catholic Church is still Protecting Child Abusers

Well yes, the title might come across as a tad click-baitish, but it is literally the official Catholic position to this day.

Really?

Yes really.

If you, as a normal decent empathetic human being became aware that somebody was sexually abusing kids, your immediate response would be to report it to the authorities. You would not hesitate.

If however you are a Catholic Priest and somebody confesses to you that they have been abusing kids, then according to what they deem to be the Sacrament of the Confession, (officially called the Sacrament of Penance), that priest must keep silent and not tell anybody else … ever. They are ordered to step back and do absolutely nothing except to let the sexual abuse continue.

It gets worse.

This supposedly bastion of ultimate morality will handle things like this …

• If a Priest makes a confession that he himself is sexually abusing kids to another priest, literally nothing happens.
• If however a Priest makes the right moral choice and breaks the seal of Confession to report an abuser, they will toss him out of the priesthood and he will be excommunicated.