Jersey Girl wrote:
I don't know how other countries might handle this information. I do know that UK has had opportunity to receive information via one BBC televised discussion and another BBC story that was run, if memory serves, in late July of this year.
Another story was recently run in Austria.
No way of telling how these issues will be addressed (or not) outside the States.
Yeah, it's a wild card but here's the thing, since the church is in all over the world that means there are many wild cards in the deck which also means the deck is stacked against the church because in the end protecting children is going to win out and government(s) will step up to the responsibility of putting an end to this religious form of sexual bullying -- an abusive form of brainwashing. You can count your bottom dollar that the church is going to put a stop to it once forced and then comes the spin and apologetic responses about how the church never really officially sanctioned the practice but left it to bishops to decide how to handle individual matters. But all that will backfire on the church. The church owns it.