Why is there more outrage at Penn State than the Catholic Church?

[d2bets]

Why is this seemingly a bigger story than the pedophilia mill run throughout the country and the world by the Catholic Church?

Everyone even remotely involved with the Penn State silence and/or coverup is going to get canned and/or arrested. That sure as heck isn't the case with the Catholic Church.

Just wondering.

[SBR Lou]

Only question on my mind is why this thread is posted in the S&I forum.

Please put your seat in its upright and locked position as we depart for PT.

[MadTiger]

$$$ and power
Power and $$$
sad, but true
shit ain't funny

[bobby heenan]

yep..the roman catholic church, with the power and resources, cant put shit on the shelf pretty quickly.....

[d00d]

Some say the Vatican runs the world

[Dax]

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that pedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
“In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.
“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.
But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.
He said: “That is not normal. I don’t know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”
Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.
Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church’s sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.
“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,
“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.
“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context’ he can’t control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context’ he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”
The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope’s role in allowing a known pedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.

Way to go Catholics

[Jonah]

yep..the roman catholic church, with the power and resources, cant put shit on the shelf pretty quickly.....

Your memory is just not that great I am guessing...We all forget too easy these days.

[Jonah]

I am guessing OP's favorite channel is ESPN. Also, Joe Pa has celebrity status.

[jarvol]

I think their was plenty of outrage at the Catholic church. However the mass delusion of Catholics worldwide squash that of the relatively few in PA as does their money and influence. Many people will believe anything their pope, bishop, priest, or anybody they trust in their delusional religious world tells them.