The people are also to blame in abuse scandal

The sexual abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church is now spreading in the Netherlands too. The country's religious community bears part of the responsibility for the incidents, writes the Christian-oriented daily Trouw: "Naturally nothing good can be said about what the Church and some of its priests did to the children who were entrusted to their care and pastoral supervision. ... Power corrupts, and uncontrolled power corrupts absolutely - this is also true for the Church, as we have long been aware. These things happen in an environment where the clergy and laity close their eyes to abuse and are deaf to the signals of the victims, where they hinder denunciations and abandon the victims to their fate 'in the name of peace'. It would be too easy to point fingers in collective indignation at the Church exclusively. The religious community makes and gets the Church it deserves."

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