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I appreciate all of your posts,but I think some of the comments validate what the writer is talking about! He's saying that whether a priest,bishop is good or bad,he comes from a FAMILY! A lot of families are NOT teaching their kids to pray and to ACCEPT ALL OF THE CHURCH's TEACHING! And I think he's right on the money.It's easy to be self-righteous(as we all are at times),but the truth is if more families had been raising their kids to be good Catholics,we wouldn't be in the possition we are in now.I,for one,feel that I should be on my knees day and night praying first of all for my own sins and then for the Lord's Bishops and Priests,instead of calling them names.And how in the world is THAT suppose to help anything?!I don't know about any of you,but I have never heard so many so-called Catholics,in a public forum call nearly all bishops and priests names! I will fight for my Faith and my Church. As for the non-Catholic Christians,they can in NO WAY feel superior because as Fr Groschel said in his latest tape, they handle scandals in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as Catholics.They don't go to the civil authorities and the SETTLE OUT OF COURT! Father also said that,right now there are 80 clergy in prison.40 are Protestants and the balance are Catholic, Jewish,Muslim,and Orthodox.Lastly, the media has been printing some things that are either half truths or mis-information.If we all do our parts, Parents(as the first teachers of the faith),bishops and priests,we can turn our Church around with the Lord's help.The writer of this letter is right on,IMHO!

but I have never heard so many so-called Catholics,in a public forum call nearly all bishops and priests names

I'm a devout Catholic. But if you don't rise up in righteous anger over the pure evil that has infected our many bishops and our Church, you will allow what's happened to continue. "The only thing necessary for the rise of evil is that good men do nothing."

If we all do our parts, Parents(as the first teachers of the faith),bishops and priests,we can turn our Church around with the Lord's help.

I really object to this statement. My wife and I work very hard to inculcate our children (2 sons, 1 daughter) with authentic Catholic teaching on sexual morality. But we are ALONE. It's not taught in our CCD classes (despite having a 'conservative' pastor). It's NEVER, NEVER mentioned in homilies. There are no teen workshops on it in our parish. Our kids are being bombarded by sexually immoral ideas on TV and in our schools, including a full embrace of premarital sex and homosexual activity and NOT A PEEP from our Church (or any Catholic Church in our area). This should be a central focus of our Church leaders, if they truly cared about our kids. Then, because of our Church, we ARE FORCED TO EXPLAIN TO OUR KIDS THE NATURE OF THINGS LIKE ANAL RAPE, MALE/MALE FONDLING, ORAL SODOMY. Why? Because our kids have asked for details of what's been happening in the Church. Further, the schools are flooded with priest jokes. So, in sum, our Church just TOTALLY IGNORES traditional sexual morality, and forces us to explain total sexual perversion to our children. WE ARE DOING OUR PART - BUT WE ARE TOTALLY ALONE IN OUR CHURCH. AND OUR CHURCH IS BECOMING OUR ENEMY IN THIS REGARD.