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Jason Pitzi-Waters over at Wild Hunt is doing our community a big service by initiating crafting a statement concerning child abuse within our community<\/a>.  Given the abject failure of the Catholic Church over these issues, and the predilection for power hungry people to seek any position of spiritual authority in order to abuse others, Jason’s is a valuable service. We are not immune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Pitzi-Waters over at Wild Hunt is doing our community a big service by initiating crafting a statement concerning child abuse within our community.  Given the abject failure of the Catholic Church over these issues, and the predilection for power hungry people to seek any position of spiritual authority in order to abuse others, Jason’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPagans and Child Abuse - A Pagan's Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/04\/pagans-and-child-abuse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pagans and Child Abuse - 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