Posted on 03/16/2002 3:03:31 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
Dropping celibacy would not stop these crimes against children. These homosexuals are not violating their oath by engaging with other adults. They are targeting kids. In the general population homosexuals commit sex crimes against children in numbers far exceeding their % of the population. Not a single story that I have read about these deviate priests refers to a female victim. Until the press starts to acknowledge this aspect the full problem will not be addressed.
The Church is, in my opinion, criminally responsible for every act against a child that was committed by a priest after that priest was known to be a pederast. The Bishops' silence has cost individual victims untold anguish and will, at the end of the day, have cost the church any claim to moral high ground.
There is a dichotomy between pedophiles and homosexuals.
Most pedophiles (abuse of children under 12) are heterosexual males.
Most of the priests who've been accused of sexual abuse are homosexuals who have abused TEENAGE BOYS, not children.
There is a difference. The NYT calls these priest pedophiles, but they are not. They are homosexuals who are preying on teenage males.
Of course they hate to give it up. It's no more a real charity than the same scam being run by Protestants,Jews,Hare Krisnas,or any other religious cult. These so-called "Charities" are really money-making businesses.
At least as far as Catholic Charities are concerned, you don't know what you're talking about.
But you say, and I disagree, that Navarro-Valls' statement was 'offhand.'
Perhaps.
Really? Then why did the archdiocese (sp) in San Francisco cave-in and agree to pay "same sex" benefits to the roomies of homosexuals who work for them? Think it MIGHT have something to do with Willie Brown threatening to cancel the 5 MILLION DOLLAR PER YEAR CONTRACT the city has with them to provide homeless shelters,soup kitchens,battered women's shelters,etc,etc,etc? Or do you think the local Church is losing money at 5 Million per year to do these things?
Organized religion is a competitive business,and the only real difference between the Catholic Church and the other cults is that the Catholics are more successful because they have been at it longer.
Cults? I guess that's what a burned-out old fool sitting in his trailer in his underwear would call them.
Seems to me the fools are the supersititious people who still fall for that crap.
You'll be surprised after you die.
Depressing stuff.
But the first step to ending a problem is to admit you have one.
And there's no question, unfortunately, that the Church has one.
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