Posted on 12/02/2007 11:50:04 AM PST by NYer
You aren’t really aware of what is happening in the abuse scene in U. S. schools, are you?
I remember some horrific figure of cases reported — something over 100 a month? Pinging someone who may know.
Satan doesn’t attack what Satan already controls.
Just posted the url for the picture. You can find it with a right click to the red X and then going to the Properties. Just posted the url above. It is a picture of the Flaggelation of Christ.
Oops. Spelling error on me.
The Flagellation of Christ
Very good comparison. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, no matter what the age of the persons involved.
Sex is right between married people who are prepared to be parents. In any other situation, wrong. Trying to split hairs among the versions of "wrong" isn't working.
Amen!
It's a daily battle against the secular world to convey that message to our children, their friends and the broader community. The earlier thread on Aids is a good example of what these kids are fed by society.
I wonder how many newspaper published that cartoon!
; - )
People judge us by the words we use. I wonder if Gamecock has ever considered the impression he makes on lurkers to these threads, by his anti-Catholic comments and rhetoric.
***ROFL!!!!
I wonder how many newspaper published that cartoon!***
I saw it in the last issue of GUN WEEK.
Thanks for the ping, Big 'Ol.
I think for one reason for more stories about the Church was the mass cover up. The way most people would look at it is if you had a priest that was molesting a kid and just moved him to another parish its wrong. The Church really didn’t do anything. Whereas in the schools, the teacher was fired. True, they should have been reported, but people don,t think that way. As they see it, the school did something.
I’m not Catholic but I will defend the Church. While growing up in a small town there was a priest that some of us guys used to hang around with. He never said or done anything that we felt uncomfortable with. And we all talked about this when all the stories started. I don’t think there are as many ‘victims’ as the law suits state. I think some are just money hunger people that seen a way to make some easy cash.
FYI: Being homosexual is not the same as being a pedophile. To many studies have shown this. Just look at the teachers who had sex with the kids, most were married.
Sounds like you are trying to "interpret" what the author's intent was.
Accused means just that, accused. It doesn't need quotation marks to highlight the use of the word, unless there is now a new class of "accused" in the criminal justice system.
We ahve a solution. We send them to jail instead of moving them to an unsuspecting parish.
I am quite sensitive to what is going on. My point is that it appears from the article that certain groups are saying things aren't quite as bad in the Roman Catholic church, just look a what others are doing.
It's horrible no matter where it happens.
I wonder if those same lurkers are impressed by your defense of Rome at all cost, irregardless of it's past/current sins?
My apologies.
You no doubt can produce verifiable documentation detailing your assertion what "ROME has paid out recently after actually being found guilty of such" as opposed to what individual DIOCESES have paid out.
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