General Chat

I have just read yet another report of child abuse in France - yet again a person alleged to be a man of the cloth.
Is no child safe? And yet part of me thinks this always was the case but now because of media in general and the internet maybe it is just being reported in a more widespread manner.

and they dont understand why sunday school and church numbers are dropping!!

What's sunday school got to do with the price of spuds lol x

Any link to the report from France please........just so I can be appalled by something I've actually some second hand knowledge of..ta x

um maybe because Sunday school is connected to the church?

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21903:french-catholic-priest-charged-over-child-sex-abuse&catid=81:news&Itemid=625

Did this event happen at Sunday school then?
without a link i have no idea x

just sent the link - apologies - we crossed over

nasty barstool.

Shove him in an open prison and let the experienced lags deal with him.........THEIR way.


gggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

very insensitive thread

knowing people this has happened to :-( :-(

um why Joy? It is a comment on news today

Muffy I can think of quite a few ways to deal with people like that!

Well where do the little under 15 kids go while their parents go to church ..............when we were kids we were taken to the vestury (sp) for sunday school!!!!

In most cases Sunday school serves an excellent purpose in my opinion but there are people that take advantage of situations - I suppose the usual get out clause is "we are only human" - fortunately mostly correct

Clearly I'm lucky to have had athiests as parents !!!

Apologies for not beating my chest in horror without knowledge of what I was supposed to be beating it over.

Must try harder to play dumb in future :-D

atheists are just as guilty - somewhat naive to think it is just the church - I think it is heinous that any human can do such a thing

Eh?????????????

Atheists are just as guilty of promising children spiritual care and gaining trust and using their positions as holier than thou paragonsof virtue?????????????

What planet are you on?

I'm not an athiest despite having parents that are lol but I get your meaning...whatever *god* you worship..or not....it's WRONG..Im just glad i wasn't exposed to it........via the church.

I totally agree Eldrick - the crime is not down to the religion, sect etc. It is down to the individual whether atheist or not

We are certainly a society who hurt our children and often our elderly. However I wouldn't say that this is the reason why numbers are dropping in church and Sunday school. If this was the case then perhaps numbers would also drop in preschools because of known cases of abuse.