How degrading and shocking that a BISHOP had "588 child pornography images along with 60 videos and numerous stories featuring themes of humiliation, degradation, torture and slavery of young boys."
I wish for the good old days when you could burn people at the stake. Only instead of heresy, would should burn them at the stake for this stuff.
I am beginning to believe that this horrible sin is deeply embedded in the fabric of the Catholic clergy. It is endemic, pervasive, and goes back decades, if not centuries.
I am a cradle Catholic. I believe in Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in God the Father and his Word (for He can neither deceive nor be deceived), in the Holy Spirit and His gifts and His fruits.
I do not believe in sinful men who allow these crimes against children to go on unabated. I do not believe in the absolute authority of priests, Bishops, Cardinals, or Popes.
I do believe in the sincere good people with whom I worship at Mass every Sunday. I have confidence in their wisdom and sense of justice. I have hope that my Church will be restored from the bottom up; not from the top down.
You forgot infuriating which was my first reaction.
It is an awful, awful disgusting truth and a testament to the depravity some sink to that the sexual exploitation of children is a big business.
Every one of those photos represented a real child who had probably been abused over and over again.
Please pray that Christ comes into their lives. That somehow they are rescued and given the love and hope they so deserve.
I view these vile acts as deadly as any homicide and feel the guilty should suffer the same penalty.