Posted 07/19/09 by Kell Brigan
SO, WHERE’S THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PROTESTANTS???

your a cathlick

dumb ### dont try to fool any one and dont worship plastic idols foolyou

Interesting documentary, but the intrusion of so many adverts was distracting - I shant view on this site again!

Thank you Fr.Tom Doyle and Fr.Bambrick for your courage, strength, and compassion. For centuries, I am certain, many priest have been praying for this moment.

SO, WHERE’S THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT PROTESTANTS???

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html
Sex abuse spans spectrum of churches
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers.

These are findings from national surveys by Christian Ministry Resources (CMR), a tax and legal-advice publisher serving more than 75,000 congregations and 1,000 denominational agencies nationwide.

CMR’s annual surveys of about 1,000 churches nationwide have asked about sexual abuse since 1993. They’re a remarkable window on a problem that lurked largely in the shadows of public awareness until the Catholic scandals arose.

The surveys suggest that over the past decade, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week. The surveys registered a slight downward trend in reported abuse starting in 1997, possibly a result of the introduction of preventive measures by churches.

“I think the CMR numbers are striking, yet quite reasonable,” says Anson Shupe, an Indiana University professor who’s written books about church abuse. “To me it says Protestants are less reluctant to come forward because they don’t put their clergy on as high a pedestal as Catholics do with their priests.”

At least 70 incidents a week

Dr. Shupe suggests the 70 allegations-per-week figure actually could be higher, because underreporting is common. He discovered this in 1998 while going door to door in Dallas-Ft. Worth communities where he asked 1,607 families if they’d experienced abuse from those within their church. Nearly 4 percent said they had been victims of sexual abuse by clergy. Child sexual abuse was part of that, but not broken out, he says.

James Cobble, executive director of CMR, who oversees the survey, says the data show that child sex-abuse happens broadly across all denominations…

As a Catholic and a family therapist, I needed to watch this film.  I need to know what my church is doing and not doing about this threat to children and their souls.  What a great documentary!  We are indebted to the couragous people who refuse to be quiet about the arrogance of power still existing in the Church among bishops, the denial in their thinking, in some cases.  But we can be grateful to God, at the same time, that truth and love are not silenced.

I think it’s outrageous that Father Bambrick was put on (church) trial for the “crime” of speaking the truth.  It makes me wonder what Jesus would say about all this, if he lived in this day and age.

“The arrogance of power within the Church.” How true.  I don’t believe that priests are any closer to “god,” dare I say if there is one, than any of the rest of us.

The sadness in the the story is the truth

Gut wrenching doc by Mary Healey Jamiel about child abuse in the Catholic Church. So disgusting it made me furious. The church, in all it’s “wisdom” has chosen to cover up rather than take steps to remedy this pervasive disease within. A sickening example of the church at its very worst.