Posted on 04/17/2008 5:02:52 AM PDT by suspects
Growing up as an evangelical in rural South Carolina, I’ve heard plenty of rabid denunciations of the Catholic church and the corrupt scheming of its untrustworthy pope.
But to hear these angry rantings from Catholics, I had to come to Boston.
My good friend and colleague, Margery Eagan, is in a righteous rage over the positive media coverage Pope Benedict XVI is receiving on his first - and likely only - trip to America. Watching his warm reception in Washington, many local Catholics are surly and sulking.
Much to Margery’s chagrin, Americans - particularly Catholics - seem to like the guy. Among church-going Catholics familiar with “B16” (that’s hip lingo from the Catholic blogosphere) 74 percent of those polled by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life say he’s doing a good job. That’s not as high as Pope John Paul II, but it’s up there with Billy Graham.
Which leaves angry Boston Catholics to play the role of Bob Dole. “Where’s the outrage?” Or perhaps more accurately - “What about us?”
“Don’t they remember the priestly sex abuse scandal?” many local Catholics complain. “Has everyone forgotten what the church did to us?”
That’s the part that throws me off. “The church” did this.
When it comes to perv priests preying on young parishioners, I’m absolutely on the “outrage” bandwagon. What these sickos did to trusting young congregants is evil on too many levels to be counted.
And the behavior of church leaders like Cardinal Bernard Law is even worse. They cannot offer the defense of a diseased mind, but instead knowingly sent predators to molest young Catholics in parishes across America. This is one of the worst sins - and in my opinion, worst crimes - in my lifetime.
So if you’re organizing an angry mob...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Liberals as quick to wrap everyone together in a collective guilt package, except when it comes to Barack Obama and his infamous pastor. In that case, Obama should not be held guilty by association.
Viva la Papa!
The Catholic Church should allow priests to marry.
Any “Catholic” who has a problem with Pope Benedict XVI is most likely one who is not an orthodox, PRACTICING Catholic.
This means that this is a Media Manufactured article.
Why? Marriage does not stop pedophilia. Indeed, many pedophiliacs use marriage as a cover. And there is just as much sin found amongst Protestant ministers and Jewish Rabbis. And let's not even start to discuss today's school teachers.
The vast majority of perverts found in those professions are married.
So, what's your point?
Why?
Proof?
Some people will tell you that this is not a pedophilia issue as much as it is a homosexual issue. The reason this existed for so long is the entire priesthood is loaded with homosexual priests from the parish priest right up thru the church hiearchy.
I cannot imagine that there would be nearly as much abuse if a celibate priest had to work in close proximity of a married priest.
I’m a lifelong catholic and graduated from a catholic college that had a seminary on campus.
Best lines in the article )quoting Michael Novak):
“As for the anger, Novak believes that many of the Catholics complaining most loudly about the church are those who had already abandoned much of its theology and teachings. They were already ‘former’ Catholics in denial, and are using the clergy sex scandal as an excuse to blame their departure on the church itself.
“Why? Marriage does not stop pedophilia. Indeed, many pedophiliacs use marriage as a cover. And there is just as much sin found amongst Protestant ministers and Jewish Rabbis. And let’s not even start to discuss today’s school teachers.”
Do you have some actual statistics to back that up? If you read Luther’s writings from the Reformation you’d swear they were written in modern times.
That didn’t stop my minister.
They should also allow teachers, Democrat Presidents, and governors of the state of New York marry. That would solve a lot of problems.
Sorry, but it wasn't "pedophilia"--it was homsexuality. That the victims happened to be young is irrelevant.
Why?
Which is why governors like Jim McGreevey should of been allowed to marry.
everyone in NJ knew this guy was lite-in-the-loafers before he became governor but he was elected anyway. Jersey is a lost cause, I left in 2007.
I grew up as Protestant in SC, Columbia to be exact, and never heard denunciations of any sort against the Roman Catholic Church.
Michael Graham has been incredible all week about this issue. He’s one of the best in the country, imho. We’re lucky to have him here.
Eagan went on a rant yesterday. She’s a wicked Lefty.
The Point is that it's one Lefty Reporter to another Lefty Reporter in an contrived echo chamber. Very bad reporting unless one admits it's a reporter to another reporter.
Seven hills - the vatican - millstone - violence - the deep
They think themselves Zion, the new Jerusalem, the holy and blessed of God.
Therefore bear the measure and stroke of her visitation and punishment.
The people are guilty and accountable for the the sins of those they choose and allow authority.
Say you be the body of Yeshua? This day, this day shall the Spirit depart those that are not.
Isa 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Isa 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon . . .
But now they are entrenched civil and federal, in government and schools
And the people know not, care not or love to have it so.
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