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1 posted on 03/09/2011 3:44:09 AM PST by Cardhu
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To: Cardhu
The report also indicated that the abuse was "known, tolerated, and hidden by high church officials, up to and including the Cardinal himself."

Sadly, I'm not shocked...
2 posted on 03/09/2011 3:48:33 AM PST by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: Cardhu

How many priests are there in Philly?


3 posted on 03/09/2011 3:48:51 AM PST by red tie
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To: Cardhu
I think they need to make eunuchs out of these priests...then defrocked.
4 posted on 03/09/2011 3:51:22 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Cardhu

If true, the Catholic church is grossly responsible for the cover-up and people should go to jail.

The story does not mention any details about the victims, so we’ll have to assume the overwhelming majority of the victims were boys.

If that is true, we need to be very clear that the accused, if guilty, were first and foremost NOT priests but homosexual men, that they betrayed their teachings and their positions of authority by giving in to their homosexual desires.

We must also begin to make the assumption that at least some of these men chose their professions in order to facilitate their long-range objective which was not to be priests but to prey upon victims of their homosexual desire.

And we’re supposed to allow openly homosexual men to be leaders in the Boy Scouts and to take our children on camping trips?


5 posted on 03/09/2011 3:52:03 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Cardhu
I really doubt the GJ report was referring to Cardinal Rigali as the cardinal who knew about the abuse. He's very pious and conservative and hasn't been in Philly very long, so it's entirely possible the report is talking about the previous cardinal.

Mrs. Prince of Space

6 posted on 03/09/2011 4:05:55 AM PST by Prince of Space
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To: Cardhu

During the war in ‘Nam a few occupations were GUARANTEED a pass and not be drafted.
Among them were CLERGY, and SCHOOLTEACHERS!!
Now, boys and girls, what sort of ‘men’ would be attracted to these jobs??
Now they have been there for a long time, and they protect each other—and RECRUIT MORE!!

BTW—What’s all this done to our SCHOOLS???
What”s it done to our CHURCHES??
IS ANYBODY SURPRISED BOTH INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED?


7 posted on 03/09/2011 4:10:16 AM PST by Flintlock
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To: Cardhu

Devastating. Someone needs to reconsider letting Priests marry...it is impossible to expect a human to be completely asexual..this obviously leads to serious problems.


12 posted on 03/09/2011 4:23:01 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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“On the day the grand jury report was released, Cardinal Justin Rigali issued a brief response saying ‘there are no archdiocesan priests in ministry today who have an admitted or established allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against them.’

Six days later, he hired lawyer Gina Maisto Smith, a former sex crimes prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office, to review the personnel files of all priests named in the grand jury’s report.

Smith’s preliminary review served as the basis for deciding which priests should be put on leave.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110309_Philly_archdiocese_puts_21_priests_on_leave.html


15 posted on 03/09/2011 4:33:51 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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Investigations conducted since 2003 reveal many cases where pastors, parochial vicars, chaplains, and retired priests have been accused of abusing children but no action has been taken against them.

Plus, the 37 suspects...Plus, who knows how many more???

A massive Homo Pedo Porno ring...I say confiscate the buildings which are a cover for this criminal enterprise...Tear 'em down or sell 'em...

19 posted on 03/09/2011 5:01:34 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Cardhu

I had thought that this was acted on a couple of years ago when the big scandal erupted. It appears it wasn’t.

Cardinals and Bishops who have hidden this and allowed it to go on need to be looked at. Are they too homosexuals. The Prince’s of the Church are picked from it’s Priests and it stands to reason many of them are also gay. It would appear that the rot is way down into the barrel.

The worst part of this thing is that every priest is made suspect by the actions of these homosexuals.


21 posted on 03/09/2011 5:16:22 AM PST by Venturer
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Overheard in the neighborhood........

"Billy, are you going to church this morning?.... No Mom, my butt is still sore from last week!

23 posted on 03/09/2011 5:22:54 AM PST by TPOOH (I wish I could have been Jerry Reed.)
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Shoot them all.
And parents should learn to never put their young men in these situations.
How many stories are needed before parents realize their kids are risk when around these types?


28 posted on 03/09/2011 5:58:20 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: Cardhu

“The report also indicated that the abuse was “known, tolerated, and hidden by high church officials, up to and including the Cardinal himself.”


66 posted on 03/09/2011 8:25:49 AM PST by Grunthor (hcg diet, down 25 lbs in 3 weeks)
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To: Cardhu

Any one really guilty= Castration as a beginning to other punishments!


78 posted on 03/09/2011 9:01:31 AM PST by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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21 priests suspended by Philadelphia Archdiocese for pedophilia

There is no longer a scriptural requirement for a set apart group of priests

Peter is quoted as saying we are all now priests.

The priesthood ended in 70 CE with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

Nowhere is there a scriptural requirement for celibacy.

That is Paganism introduced following the fourth century.

Satan has created a organization rampant with sin and sexual perversion.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
87 posted on 03/09/2011 9:35:25 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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21 priests suspended by Philadelphia Archdiocese for pedophilia

2 Cr 11:13 For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers,
disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Cr 11:14 No wonder,
for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
107 posted on 03/09/2011 10:36:58 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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Just 21 more isolated incidents.


110 posted on 03/09/2011 10:46:00 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Cardhu

This is awful and sad, difficult to believe the magnitude of this mess.


145 posted on 03/10/2011 6:14:41 AM PST by gitmogrunt
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