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KP's avatar

Probably. But they’re not in the news so we’ll probably never know about them unless you go looking.

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Fr. David Langford's avatar

You're right! Here's an example: https://hnaseep.com/about-2/. They look awesome. It is honestly such a relief to have found a counter example.

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KP's avatar

The news is a funny beast… if religious orders had these kinds of problems and were suppressed every day for decades, we’d also probably never hear about them because it would be so common place it wouldn’t new newsworthy. It’s really important to remember when trying to maintain a perspective on all the negativity, something newsworthy is typically a rare occurrence, like a shark attack or a particular kind of crime, even if you see similar bad news clustered in a short timeframe.

Good people, God be praised, are not newsworthy as scoundrels which generally means that most people most of the time are not scoundrels.

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