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Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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The documentary is very good and based on facts, and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people such as the collaborators who have been implanted there by the old communist governments or child molesters who proliferate in this environment, having unrestricted access to children in schools and churches. They are simply moved from one chapel to another or, eventually, to houses for the elderly priests.

This needs to change, and, as a Polish person, I wholeheartedly welcome this documentary. I am glad that it has been made - it would never be possible if it was not for independent filmmaking.

It's time for the Catholic church to stop being associated with child molestation - and in order for that to happen, the child molestation must be purged from that church with all appropriate means. Otherwise, that stigma will just keep on going on.

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Any other organization with that behavior that is not a church would already have been shut down worldwide and leadership would be in jail. I hope that believers will put pressure on the church to clean up its act.

So far believers (and the government which is in bed with Catholic Church here) cry it's "an attack on the church".

EDIT: someone even flagged this.

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Here's another great documentary that reflects the efforts of the Catholic Church historically to not only hide the offense and move the alleged perpetrator, but would often move them back to positions where the abuse could take place again:

The Keepers

https://www.netflix.com/title/80122179

Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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Tell sexual humans not to be sexual due to some made up non-sense myths and put them in positions of power and authority, what could possibly go wrong? They want to stop child abuse, and sure who is not for that, but how about stopping myth abuse?

I'm personally not convinced by the often exerted narrative that celibacy leads to pedophilia. It seems to me that a more likely explanation is that someone with a certain inclination would seek out a job (perhaps even subconsciously) that may offer him a chance to get closer to living out that inclination.
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