Damage Control! What about moral actions instead?

I'm sure everyone knows the catholic church is deeper into the shit than usual - a series of sexual abuse cases have broken across the world, revealing a systematic and widespread conspiracy by the church to hide paedophile priests from the law, and to ensure that the victems never recieve justice.

Needless to say, the discovery of decades of these sorts of cover-ups has - justifiably - pissed a lot of people off. And, as you'd expect, the church is in full-blown damage control. First they blamed the media, then it was the jews, now its the gays fault this occurred.

But notice whose not at fault - the catholic church itself. Yep, that's right, THEY hid the baby-rapers from justice, THEY moved the baby rapers around to avoid the law, but its NOT THEIR FAULT the baby rapers kept on a'rapin. Its pretty much everyones faults but their own - I'm surprised they didn't try to blame the victims themselves - that's probably next week excuse...

You'll also notice what is not forthcoming - either in the past or now - and that would be the only morally justifiable actions available to the church. Openness about their crimes and the crimes of their priests, and the turning over of all evidence and persons to the relevant police forces so that these criminals can be prosecuted.

Of course, those actions will never occur. This is, after all, a religion we are talking about here. For these organisations, moral actions always take a back seat to protecting ones organisation...

...now, if only politicians and the legal system would do the right thing, and declare the church a criminal organisation. It is, after all, what their coverup of crimes, and refusal to aid the police, makes them.