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To: vladimir998

Does it bother you at all that part of the ongoing tithes that you give will support men like the one in this story who feed young boys to pedophiles? If you were in charge of policy in such a situation, what would you do?


34 posted on 02/03/2013 9:39:11 AM PST by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
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To: bramps

You wrote:

“Does it bother you at all that part of the ongoing tithes that you give will support men like the one in this story who feed young boys to pedophiles?”

No money I have ever given has been used for anything of the kind. I know this for a fact. I attend a Latin Mass parish. We’re not really part of the diocesan structure as other parishes are. And, anyway, we have a very good diocese which has not had the problems other diocese have had at anywhere near the frequency other diocese have had them. My previous diocese also had almost no cases of abuse committed by diocesan priests for the decade I lived in that diocese. Pick a good parish and diocese and you don’t have problems.

“If you were in charge of policy in such a situation, what would you do?”

Follow the law - as good bishops and priests do.


35 posted on 02/03/2013 10:12:21 AM PST by vladimir998
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When a Catholic puts money into the collection basket at Mass, it goes to support his parish directly. (Parish budgets aren't secret; it's part of the pastor's job to report the numbers back to the parishioners.). Collections that support something other than the parish are announced as such.

I think we can safely say that you have no "inside knowledge" that either my parish or Vladimir's is "feeding children to predators," right? Neither do we. So, that being the case, it would seem not to be the case that our tithes are going to support those predators.

38 posted on 02/03/2013 12:00:10 PM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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