Posted on 03/16/2010 7:25:56 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
No, you're not the only one who knows that. I know it, and a lot of other people who are interested in the truth know it.
People who blather about this topic, and are unaware of the facts you mentioned, tell us a lot about themselves. None of it is good.
Do you? Are you ok with that? Are you claiming the NEA is a world power?
Dealing with sexual abuse is a responsibility that belongs to the Bishops, not the Vatican.
I stand with you my FRiend, and never back down from this cr@p. It’s disgusting.
And the Vatican never knows, is that your story?
I think it was words spilling blood.
The only thing worse than a pedophile is a sytem that knows a man is one, and then gives him access to more children.
I don't get your point. Bishops are part of the mega-organization that is the Catholic Church. The internal rot was widespread.
But that's the point: NOW we know they cannot be cured. At least not through psychiatric treatment. Then, however, when they were being shuffled from parish to parish, the prevailing theory was that with the proper treatment, they could be cured.
This fact puts a whole new light on the popular notion of a "conspiracy" in the Church to "protect pedophiles".
Believe and/or disagree all you wish, but it's simply uncharitable to ascribe evil intentions to the bishops involved. It would be like saying, 20 years from now, if we ever discovered that playing card games somehow encouraged anti-social behavior, that all the bishops who reassigned priests who were obsessive card players, were involved in a massive "conspiracy to protect priests".
Which is more reasonable to believe: ( assuming one does not have an agenda against the Church in the first place) That the Church leadership was involved in an active conspiracy to protect their own at the expense of the laity, or that at the time, in a misguided and misinformed desire to help the priests, they referred them for psychiatric care, because AT THE TIME they thought such treatment would be effective?
I submit any reasonable person with no axe to grind against the Church would, and should, answer the latter.
You know, in this case, the cover-up is almost more vile than the crime considering who is facilitating the cover-up.
I have many family and friends who are Catholic. I don’t hate them or their faith. I do hate those who abused children and covered it up.
Personally, if I felt the way some of these folks do I would keep it to myself because aside from being wrong, it’s creepy.
Nope. The word "blood" appears eight times in the canon law. Six times in the context of blood relatives and twice in the context of the blood of Christ.
What in incredible pile of steaming excrement. We're condemning the Catholic Church for practicing the concealment of crimes and allowing countless children and young men to having their lives ruined. Or is that your idea of "practicing this faith"
You know, if it were just a few guys, just a few times, I could almost buy into this. But we know now that it was widespread, and there were many who recommitted and recommitted.
(a)The NYT is anti-catholic. Rocket science, nor scientific literary analysis necessary. Ipso frickin'facto. res ipsa frickin' loquitur, etc. et frickin' cetera.
(b) The Holy Roman Catholic Church, the most visible multi-national, religious body in the Western World, is unfortunately infested with a large number of deviates, mostly of the homosexual, paedophilic variety. Ipso frickin' facto. res ipsa frickin'loquitur, etc. et frickin' cetera.
(c) The present Pope, is a splendid fellow. But, like every other pastor, bishop, archbishop, and cardinal in the outfit, he screwed up, probably more than once. For centuries now, the HRCC has been hushing this sort of thing up, shuffling the perverts around, putting them through penance, therapy, torture, imprisonment, sequestration in monasteries, death, etc. They have tried everything. Probably never did any good, except keeping it out of the papers, which in the olden days, no one could read anyway.
(d) Last hundred years or so, almost everybody can read. And, begininning in the 50s, due to a dearth of "vocations," the Holy Roman Catholic Church started admitting queers to the seminaries in ever greater numbers. Previously, a hint of lightness in the loafer was enough to send many a sweet boy packing. The new theory was, "What the Hell, they have to be celibate anyway, what's he difference if they are celibate queerly or heterosexually?"
Well, it's a bad theory, as pointed out by Tough Tony Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philly. Unfortunately, The Holy Roman Catholic Church is paying for it now, bigtime. Guilty as charged, baby. Maybe that feel-good rabbi's next book should be, "When Bad Things Happen To A Good Church?"
In regard to Jewish perverts. Of course many a rabbi is a molester. But (a) there are fewer rabbis than priests and (b) last I checked, the Jews have no Pope, no Ruling Legal Authority. (c) No big time highly visible multi-national organization that's easy pickins for a nosy reporter. So, your Jews are less apt to make it to page 1 above the fold of the anti-catholic NYT than priests. If a rabbi-molester makes that paper at all, it's going to be in the classifieds, after "Livestock."
Did I mention that the NYT is anti-catholic? Always has been.
But this IS a Catholic problem. Now for the solution. This is a secular police matter. Call the cops. Arrest the pervert priests. Defrock'em immediately, Tie'm to stakes in front of the cathedrals and burn them. And the reporters of the NYT.
Oh baloney. Out here in the real world, people know that a pedophile is completely different than a horny straight guy.
I'm sorry, but that is the lamest analogy I have ever heard.
The Archdiocese of Boston secretly settled child sexual abuse claims against at least 70 priests from 1992 to 2002.
http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories/013102_priests.htm
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