Posted on 03/22/2010 8:13:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
It has become fashionable to claim that the sex abuse scandal currently afflicting the Catholic Church is “its biggest crisis since the Reformation”. Oh, really? Tell me about it. The abuse issue is just a small part of the much larger crisis that has engulfed the Church since the Second Vatican Catastrophe and which is more serious than the Reformation.
Abolish clerical celibacy? The last thing a priest abusing altar boys needs or wants is a wife. There is no compulsory celibacy in the Church of England, but that has not prevented vicars and boy scouts furnishing gratifying amounts of copy to the tabloid Sunday papers for the past century. Celibacy goes against the grain of today’s “unrepressed”, “non-judgemental”, let-it-all-hang-out attitude to sex; its continued existence is a reproach to the hedonist Western world; so Rome must be persuaded to abolish it – likewise its condemnation of divorce, abortion, contraception, homosexuality and all the other fetishes of liberal society. Dream on, secularists.
“Irish abuse victims disappointed by Pope’s letter.” Of course they are. They were disappointed by it before they had read it, before it was even written. Any other response would diminish the power they find themselves wielding against the Church. Have they a legitimate grievance? In most cases, yes. They have a ferocious grievance against the “filth” (Benedict XVI’s term, long before he came under public pressure) who defiled them and treated them like animals.
How could clergy transgress so gravely against the doctrines of the Church? What doctrines? These offences took place in the wake of Vatican II, when doctrines were being thrown out like so much lumber. These offenders were the children of Paul VI and “aggiornamento”. Once you have debauched the Mystical Body of Christ, defiling altar boys comes easily.
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I don't agree with everything which Warner says but the above certainly caught my attention.
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.
Fathers
Teachers
Coaches
Protestant ministers
Priests are way down on the list.
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Bears repeating.
Benedict XVI should take advantage of a popular wave of revulsion against the failed episcopate to sack every 1960s flared-trousered hippy
Wow. That's great.
Too bad it'll never happen.
Exactly!!!
This has been a thinly veiled, Anti-Catholic attack from Progressives.
By the way....on your list, didn’t Democrat office holders make the top 5?
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
Could have. I have recalled it from memory from a lot of study that I have done. I used to be involved in the child care industry — so I knew the facts.
I’d had to do some more research of current statistics.
Usually sexual abusers are not strangers — they are people children know — such as those mentioned in my list.
Thanks.
Thanks for posting the truth. It’s not that often that we see it here on the RForum regarding this issue.
This is like the dems screening their flank, although few democrats even try to live up to their Catholic commitment, you never know but what one of them will have one of those crazy religious moments at just the wrong time, so here's a scandal that shows not even bishops or priests live up to their Christian commitments so why should any demos?
Regards
Well balanced article. Liberalism seeped into the Church just as has occured in the American body politic and without the strong leadership in Rome, dissenters took over from Cardinals and Bishops down to religious groups. Time to weed them out.
But it will — time will take care of it, no matter what the Pope does.
And they'll be replaced with men just like them.
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Quite right. It may be that the current political situation has emboldened these misfits, which is why they seem to everywhere in the news recently.
Male homosexuals want to have sex with adolescent boys. Keep them away, period. (Keep crazy women away, too.)
More than a few of those “crazy women” appear to be homosexual as well. Imho.
Certainly they’re ugly.
But that's just it -- they won't, because liberal Catholicism doesn't produce vocations to the priesthood. It's sterile and lifeless.
No liberal priests means no liberal bishops down the line.
No liberal priests means no liberal bishops down the line.
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Well said.
No liberal priests means no liberal bishops down the line.
I'd say "we'll see," but neither one of us is likely to live long enough to do so.
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