I can understand staying quiet about trivial misdemeanors, but pedophilia? What kind of Christian hides child abuse in the church? A phony one.
What kind of Christian hides child abuse in the church? A phony one.
There is nothing phony about the Church itself, but it has had some bad leadership.
There is no doubting that the leadership hid the pedo practices of some of it’s Priests. There is little doubt that they are still doing it in my mind.
It is and was wrong. I may be called a bad Catholic by many for my views, but IMO the problem was that the leadership was promoted from the rank and file, and that many in the leadership were as guilty as the lower ranking pedophiles and therefore hid them.
Homosexuality and the hidden pedophiles have done great damage to the Church, the credibility of every priest is called into question. No one can go to mass without wondering if their Priest has a problem, and many have stopped going to Mass.
Add to that the fact that probably 90% of Catholics in child bearing age are using Birth Control, many are having abortions or making excuses for those who have them and many now support active homosexuals and the Church leadership instead of tending to the problems we already have are pushing illegals down our throats and the church is in deep trouble.
Another anti-catholic article on FreeRepublic...I continue to be very proud to be Catholic and of its teachings.
No surprise there.
[Faithful Departed author Philip] Lawler points out that while less than five percent of American priests have been accused of sexual abuse, some two-thirds of our bishops were apparently complicit in cover-ups. The real scandal isn't the sick excesses of a few dozen pedophiles, or even the hundreds of priests who had affairs with teenage boys -- the bulk of abuse cases. No, according to Lawler, it is the malfeasance of wealthy, powerful, and evidently worldly men who fill the thrones -- but not the shoes -- of the apostles. In case after case, we read in their correspondence, in the records of their soulless, bureaucratic responses to victims of psychic torture and spiritual betrayal, these bishops' prime concern was to save the infrastructure, the bricks and mortar and mortgages. Ironically, their lack of a supernatural concern for souls is precisely what cost them so much money in the end.
-- from the thread Kneeling Before the World"The Dublin Archdiocese's preoccupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid-1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church and the preservation of its assets," said the report. "All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities. The archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid any application of the law of the state"....
-- from the thread Pope calls Irish church leaders to Vatican to discuss abuse report
Gallup diocese becomes 9th to file for bankruptcy
CWN - November 12, 2013
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=19650
Australian report rips Church handling of abuse
CWN - November 13, 2013
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=19661
Like THIS one??
C'mon pal.......you're slacking. Try to keep up. We're relying on you for a balanced overview of the sex abuse issue.
Think you're up to it?