>>>> Now Pope John Paul II has set up a sports department to give the Vatican a kind of new playing field in its drive to spread Christian values around the world.
"Christian" values like pedophilia and sodomy? The Catholic church has no business organizing youth activities until they have shown REAL commitment about curing the cancers inside rather than just masking or relocating them.
Now come on. The Church organizes youth activities all the time. Sometimes I get the feeling that people are just trying to smear the Church. As in: you have no right to tell me what to do, how to live, what is and what is not a sin, until you get rid of all the abuse. Which by the way is just as prevalent among Protestant ministers, teachers, everyone who has access to children.
I agree with your screen name.
Do you have any idea how many CYO's - Catholic Youth Organizations - keep city kids off the streets? And who do you think is coaching these teams? Are you implying that Catholic parents (and grandparents) are going to molest their own children? I coach my grandson's basketball team and I'm telling you the Philadelphia cops love us. We have our games on Friday nights when a good number of Philadelphia's undirected youths are hanging around WaWa trying to get an adult to buy them cigarettes.
"pedophilia and sodomy? The Catholic church"
There were very, very few cases of pedophilia involved in the recent scandals.
There is disagreement on the number, but somewhere between 80 and 99 percent of the cases were ordinary, garden-variety homosexuals doing what ordinary, garden-variety homosexuals have always been known for--preying on teenage boys.
And when I say "always," I mean back to the dawn of recorded history. There's no way of knowing whether they limited themselves to people over 21 before that.
Take your crap elsewhere, troll.
That is an insult to the 1000s of dedicated priests who do such good. And no, I am not Catholic.