Binding? How is any English decision anything more than persuasive?

keep a hold of yourself, the clock changing can do quare things to your head

During working hours only. And if the employer tries to cover up their bad behaviour

And I think the clergy work a 24 hour day

Also if they make payouits to keep peoplres silent

Yes and they can be prosecuted under H & S law – bullying in the workplace. Duty of care to clients, visitors, sub-contractors. Public liability, etc…

If the dept knew about an abuser, didn’t sack him and hid him in another school, then yes, yes they would.
Same goes in any job

Unfortunately pedophiles do slip through the most rigorous of screening, but that is not the point. The point here is that the Roman Catholic Church has hidden and protected Child rapists and other kinds of Child abusers to protect its reputation. I find it despicable that people still try to belittle the monstrous crimes that the Vatican has committed against our Children.

If a football or swimming organisation or State institution systematically looked over its shoulders at consistant ongoing abuse then yes they should be open to litigation. A legitimate legal defence maybe that they werent aware or it was a minor one off infraction that they were unaware of. These dont apply in the RC church. It was beyond resonable doubt that these bishops knew these priests posed ongoing risks. Its basic health and safety law.

But society needs to move on from mob condemnation of individual people and recognise that the systemic nature of this organisation is conducive to organisational dysfunction which leads to these type of bad things happening for a whole variety of well understood psychological reasons.

One such reason being the propensity of humans to unquestionably worship hero figures ranging from gods to their annointed apointees on earth monarchs etc and stiffling dessent.

The established fact that people can be made believe in any ridiculous nonsense such as that god demands the beards of the afghan people to be of a certain length or that a 2000 year old Israelite can establish a judicial system and that we can telepathically speak through him through prayer. The resulting malaise of these beliefs is that they give their promoters absolute power. It has lead to the absolute dysfunction and societal shutdown of europe in the dark ages and do in some Islamic countries today.

Thirdly the use of guilt in religion as a method of mental manipulation of the people.

When humans have absolute power we turn evil regardless of culture. The answer to this is scepticism and free speech and the ridicule of bad ideas.

I have nothing against religious going to church and getting consolation from these things. However convincing society that we shouldnt be critical of these bad ideas when put in the public domain is extremely dangerous.

All of these reasons are why priests and popes acted these ways. Attack the ideas strongly but I agree we need to move on from attack of people themselves. Finally while the majority of priests do not abuse people, it is not true that being a priest has the same chance of being an abuser than the general public. They carry out 3% of all abuse and are probably about 0.5% of the population. The church in the past at least had an endemic problem with this. But it is still a tiny minority of all priests. In short the fact that some priests abused is not a reason to become either antiCatholic or Atheist. However once you understand the nature of why then it definately is as good a reason as you will find to outgrow organised superstition as it has profound implications for a whole variety of social ills and human rights abuses elsewhere in less enlightened. When one Country promotes organised superstition the implications dont stop at its borders.

Who recruits primary teachers?