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United Nations Scolds Catholic Church On Human Rights
Investor's Business Daily ^ | February 10, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 02/11/2014 11:31:20 AM PST by raptor22

Anti-Religion: Ignoring abhorrences such as China's one-child policy and atrocities condoned by Shariah law, a U.N. committee tells the Vatican to deal with abusive priests and change its teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality.

That the report issued by the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child would mention the instances of abuse of children by priests in the United States is not surprising.

What is surprising and unfortunate is that the U.N. would act as if the Catholic Church had done nothing about it and use the report as a springboard to attack the core doctrines of a religion embraced by an estimated 1.2 billion people.

No honest analysis of the church's response to the sex abuse issue, including the recent emphasis by Pope Francis, can conclude the church is not vigorously addressing this evil. Except, perhaps, at the U.N., where instances of child rape by its peacekeepers have been swept under the rug.

From what can be ascertained, according to Claudia Rosett in the Wall Street Journal, more than 600 allegations of rape or sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers were recorded from 2007 to 2013, with 354 substantiated. This number, which includes the gang rape of a Haitian teenager, may be significantly understated.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholicchurch; catholics; religiousfreedom; religiousliberty; unitednations; waronreligion
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To: GOPJ

The last time I checked, the entire leadership and mgmt of the UN were communists - has that changed?


21 posted on 02/11/2014 12:42:58 PM PST by edcoil ( "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal)
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

WAR ON RELIGION PING


22 posted on 02/11/2014 1:11:06 PM PST by raptor22 (Petty and vindictive do not be)
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To: edcoil

I believe there’s some radical muslim groups involved in human rights’.....


23 posted on 02/11/2014 1:47:07 PM PST by GOPJ ("Hillary Clinton says (the) press has big egos and no brains". - Tony Blair - May 19, 1993)
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To: raptor22

Have you seen this?

Conservatives to DOJ, FBI: Stop Advancing Southern Poverty Law Center’s Anti-Christian Agenda

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/conservatives-doj-fbi-stop-advancing-southern-poverty-law-center-s-anti


24 posted on 02/11/2014 1:48:16 PM PST by GOPJ ("Hillary Clinton says (the) press has big egos and no brains". - Tony Blair - May 19, 1993)
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To: raptor22

Right after the trials of any Muslim suicide bombers who blow up the U.N. building and U.N. Employees.


25 posted on 02/11/2014 2:38:26 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

WAR ON RELIGION PING


26 posted on 02/11/2014 2:55:22 PM PST by raptor22 (Petty and vindictive do not be)
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To: struggle

its mentioned


27 posted on 02/11/2014 2:55:58 PM PST by raptor22 (Petty and vindictive do not be)
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

WAR ON RELIFION PING


28 posted on 02/11/2014 2:57:15 PM PST by raptor22 (Petty and vindictive do not be)
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To: raptor22

No fair!

I only came here to find out what “ RELIFION “ was and was at war....

The UN is a pack of Devil Worshipin, Satanic Inspired, Kommunists


29 posted on 02/11/2014 4:33:53 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Army Air Corps

“This from a elite club that includes child molesters, slave traders, animal humpers, and psychotic butchers.”

Everything you posted is 110% accurate. We were in Pretoria, South Africa, back during the UN Biodiversity Treaty meeting back in 2003.

These UN pigs were eating klip, South African lobsters, Russian caviar and French delicacies, prepared by five-star chefs. The UN posted armed guards with machineguns at the dumpsters so that the people in the shantytown couldn’t grab the food that the UN pigs threw away.


30 posted on 02/11/2014 4:52:16 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

I pass water on the UN.


31 posted on 02/11/2014 4:59:04 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

” I pass water on the UN.”

Bloody good for you, Army Air Corps.


32 posted on 02/11/2014 5:07:22 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: YankeeReb
Not to mention the practice of Slavery by some muzzie countries

American blacks don't get it yet ..... Obama is descended not from slaves, but from slavers.

Helllooooooo .....

<crickets>

33 posted on 02/11/2014 5:16:57 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: raptor22

Isn’t this reversed? Shouldn’t the Catholic Church be suing the United Nations?


34 posted on 02/11/2014 5:53:44 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Army Air Corps; sergeantdave

I pass solid organic matter on the UN.


35 posted on 02/11/2014 6:22:30 PM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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To: Salvation

IMO, the Catholic Church (and Christians in general for that matter) are too nice in that regard.


36 posted on 02/11/2014 6:23:34 PM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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To: Jacob Kell

Locally sourced organic fertilizer, eh?


37 posted on 02/11/2014 6:42:24 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

VERY locally sourced.


38 posted on 02/11/2014 7:39:45 PM PST by Jacob Kell (The last good thing that the UN did was Korea.)
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