The church should take their lead from the boy scouts.
Ah, could I broach the subject by saying, "That's exactly what they're afraid of getting Bright Path!" It's not from being around them. It's from them. Duh!
Can someone explain this one to me? It is my understanding that celibacy is defined as one who does not marry; one who practices sexual abstinance. So how in the hell do the pillow biters get away with just because they are not having sex with a woman, they a celibate?
Get rid of the queers--get rid of the problem. Simple as that.
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The infiltration of this malignancy into the Church and it's propagation and subsequent cover up is the reason the church is having this problem. Now that they are beginning to understand this maybe they can fix it.
Just attend one gay pride parade and you'll understand completely why straight men would get the willies around that bunch.
Is there any JUSTICE for the VICTIM in the CHURCH?
I've heard that, but I also heard somewhere else that 95% of the cases are with teenage boys. If true, that's more homosexual than pedophilic.
A friend of mine entered the seminary last year. He skipped local St. John's Seminary in Brighton (under Cardinal Law) for this very reason. He's now at a traditionalist seminary (with a "no poofta" policy) under Bishop Bruskewitz in Nebraska.
I'm very happy that the Cardinals have spoken the unspeakable word. Now things will get interesting.
This is garbage. The Church published a directive in 1961 during the pontificate of that darling of the liberals, John XXIII, which forbade the ordination of homosexual priests.
That directive has never been rescinded.
What we really have, in most cases, are gay priests attempting to have sex with vulnerable, underage post-pubescent males. That's absolutely wrong and vile and so forth, but it doesn't fit the classic example of pedophilia, which would be someone trying to have sex with 8-year-olds of either gender.
That doesn't mean there haven't been cases of hetero priests trying to have sex with 14-year-old girls (or 30-year-old adult women). It doesn't mean there haven't been cases of pedo priests trying to have sex with 7-year-olds.
But most of these cases involve gay priests trying to have sex with teenaged boys, generally vulnerable or lonely (or confused) teenage boys who implicitly trust an authority figure. And those aspects make these predatory priests well beyond despicable (as are the hetero and pedo priests).
It's an open joke that many seminaries are full of gay men. While it's wrong for them to violate their vows of celibacy, if they're buggering fellow adult gays at least that's not exploitative. When they're taking advantage of teenaged boys, that's absolutely sick.
The gay community should be out front denouncing adult men (whether gay or hetero) who take advantage of underaged boys or girls, whether the adult men are gay or straight. Instead we have the gay community trying to defend this sort of behavior and challenging any attempts to call it for what it is. Not that the gay activist community impressed me all that much, but they're even more vile than I had thought.
Bad enough to think that these clerics are the "leaders" of our Church and were hiding all this abuse but to think they are this Stupid is really diffucult to handle.
"cardinal" Law says he "made a mistake" he is a mistake.
Nonsense, he made a choice!
He chose to protect the Homosexual Perverts over the safety of the children for 15 or more years.
He chose Secrecy,Lying,and Betraying his God,His Church and the Children.
He chose to continue to Stonewill the Victims, the legal system and the Faithful Catholics still in the Church.
He chose to be a vehicle for the Smoke to enter the Sanctuary of the Church.
He Chose Poorly? God help the victims,God help our church.
Is a homosexual someone who is attracted to members of their own gender, or someone who has sex with members of their own gender? It seems to me that the church considers people homosexual based upon their attractions rather than their behavior.
Sadly, once the RC church figures that out and announces a ban on homosexuals in the preisthood, there will be an all out war against their very right to exist in this country, particularly in their charitable efforts that utilize tax dollars. The liberal courts will cut them off at every corner. The homosexual lobby will have every private and public institution boycotting the RC church. The media will treat that church as an enemy in our midst. From there it will spread to all bible-adherents - especially Protestants who defend the RC position on homosexuality on biblical grounds.
We are fast separating into the a world of the Church and the anti-church. Maranatha.