NEW YORK TIMES TARGETS THE POPE AGAIN

Catholic League ^ | March 16, 2010 | William Donohue

[Pope Pius XII]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attack on the pope by the New York Times:

Once upon a time there was a homosexual priest who was accused of molesting boys in Germany. That was 30 years ago. At the approval of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger (now the pope), he was sent away for therapy and was later reinstated; years later, under a new archbishop, there was another incident and more therapy.

We know this because the New York Times (which does not like to report on molesting rabbis in 2010), told us about this on Saturday in a front-page article. Today, it ran a front-page article on the same story. Was there any difference? Yes. On Saturday, the Times was only able to identify the priest as bearing the initial "H." Today, it has real news: his name is Hullermann. And now "H" has been suspended.

[Pope Pius XII]

The point is, is that percentage number of priests who actually commited sexual abuse is pitfully small when compared with the public schools and I day say it’s worse in other Christian denominations.

[T Minus Four]

those who wish to denegrate the Church have, by definition, no desire to give the Church the benefit of the doubt.

Benefit of the doubt? OK, YOU hire a pedophile who's been through pschotherapy to babysit your little boys. Judge not, ya know.!

[Pope Pius XII]

I’m not sure what your point is here.

[Salvation]

Do you know how many teachers and Protestant minisiters molest? Fathers too?

The most probable pedophiles in order are:

Fathers
Teachers
Coaches
Protestant ministers

Priests are way down on the list.

So if a Father is a teacher of mid-high history, coaches the girl’s basketball team and is a youth minister at his church on weekends/Sundays — watch out! He would be much more prone to pedophilia that any priest.

Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers

Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church

[Pope Pius XII]

The reason for the sex abuse scandal is Catholic Unorthodoxy.

[Salvation]

How about one offense with teachers?

Does that make ALL the teachers offenders?

[Pope Pius XII]

Thank you salvation!

[T Minus Four]

The point is, is that percentage number of priests who actually commited sexual abuse is pitfully small when compared with the public schools and I day say it’s worse in other Christian denominations.

The point is, one child is too many.

The point is, the Catholic Church as an organization has protected and allowed this.

The point is not that Rabbis and Baptists have molested. The point is the protection afforded molesters by the RC Church.

Did I mention that one child is too many?

[Salvation]

Are you a Catholic?

[T Minus Four]

How about one offense with teachers? Does that make ALL the teachers offenders?

If there was a world-wide central authority that protected the teacher, kept the incident a secret and then reassigned the teacher to another school in another town, then you could compare.

[magisterium]

How is it that even the secular world knows that these people can’t be reformed

Because, back in the timeframe involved - some 30 years ago - that was the course of action that the "experts" were recommending. The Church tended to believe the experts and their belief - naively, as it turns out - that therapy could work sufficiently well that laicization of the offenders wasn't automatically necessary. Do we know this to be incorrect today? Certainly. But such was not the case back then. It is unfair to project current clinical opinion onto the honest - if incorrect - "professional opinions" of former days, in order to paint a picture of deliberate malfeasance on the part of either the Church or the psychiatric community.

[Pope Pius XII]

And my point is that the media, Protestants and whoever, love to use the sex abuse scandal as a way to say that priests should be married.

[CholeraJoe]

The preponderance of medical evidence speaks against that. It is possible, though not common.

[T Minus Four]

The reason for the sex abuse scandal is Catholic Unorthodoxy.

I don't know what that means.

But the REAL reson for the Catholic sex abuse scandal was that there was abuse, it was covered up, and then it was found out.

[Pope Pius XII]

Oh, so now you’re protecting pedophiles!?

[TSgt]

Do you know how many teachers and Protestant minisiters molest? Fathers too?

I guess that makes it ok then. And no, I'm not Catholic. But my family member who was abused used to be but is no longer for obvious reasons.

[T Minus Four]

There is also not a world-wide, central authority for fathers and step-fathers. One that would discover abuse, hide it, fail to report the crime, and then reassign the fathers and stepfathers to another family in another town with new children.

[Salvation]

And you don’t think the NEA hushes up media on teacher offenses? LOL!

[T Minus Four]

I doubt it.

[Natural Law]

"Natural Law, canon law actually says that a man who has murdered someone cannot be a priest, let alone the Pope."

I had never heard this or remembered reading it in the canon so I just did a quick word search. It isn't there. In fact neither the words murder and kill are contained in the canon law.