When I imagine a situation with a priest, I imagine that there’s exactly one priest and common knowledge of who it is. Which seems like it changes things a bit.
“Whoa, why are you telling me this? Why not go to the priest?”
No ability to share small amounts of detail with one priest, different small amounts with another priest. Or to test the waters with one and see how they’re likely to react to the more damaging stuff.
What about the victims here? (Acknowledging that that word might not be entirely appropriate.) I feel like some of what protects people is the thought “I don’t like what person did to me but it’s not worth ruining their life over”. But you can tell a priest about that kind of thing, and if everyone tells the same priest… I dunno, but I like of feel like the priest does something?
When I imagine a situation with a priest, I imagine that there’s exactly one priest and common knowledge of who it is. Which seems like it changes things a bit.
“Whoa, why are you telling me this? Why not go to the priest?”
No ability to share small amounts of detail with one priest, different small amounts with another priest. Or to test the waters with one and see how they’re likely to react to the more damaging stuff.
What about the victims here? (Acknowledging that that word might not be entirely appropriate.) I feel like some of what protects people is the thought “I don’t like what person did to me but it’s not worth ruining their life over”. But you can tell a priest about that kind of thing, and if everyone tells the same priest… I dunno, but I like of feel like the priest does something?