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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
I agree with you completely on #49.
56 posted on 08/07/2003 2:43:27 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Aliska
There is a difference though between "secrecy" regarding an investigation of a crime alleged to have been committed by a priest during a Sacramental Confession or of the "secrecy" required for an ecclesiastical trial and a cover up. One would have to keep in mind that at those points in an investigation, the facts are not known. In the more recent cases in the American Church, only an idiot would have thought the charges were groundless when (in some cases) nearly a hundred allegations had been reported. The serial sodomy molesters who were shuffled from parish to parish should have been removed from priestly ministry and subjected to legal penalties. Why Church officials did not have more aggressive policies and procedures in place to discipline and remove molesters from the priesthood SHOULD be investigated and discussed. One of the disturbing current trends in AmChurch is a continuing refusal to acknowledge that an orientation toward sodomy is a grave impediment to ordination. One would guess that CBS did not bother to interview Michael Rose or Paul Likoudis nor did they bother to report on the fact that many Catholics would like the Church to bar sodomites from the ranks of the clergy.

If CBS is interested in reporting the actual facts of the sex abuse "crisis" they should investigate how the sodomy problem in the Church got started to begin with. Conservative Catholics have been complaining about this FOR YEARS. Somehow CBS missed this story. How could that be possible? How did CBS miss the fact that conservative Catholics have complained about the sodomy problem in AmChurch for years?

59 posted on 08/07/2003 3:03:21 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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