Go to the website “The church militant”, they are claiming a like scandal is or is about to break in almost all if not all of the diocese in NY. The Vatican will have to respond like it never has, are we looking at something RICO-ish, and what other states will these atrocities be unveiled?
the catholic church has always been corrupt
I can’t bear to read through it, the whole thing is so disgusting.
Duh.
Now WTH is the state of PA going to do about it?!
Talk is cheap.
Shapiro is a professional politician. If he says something, it is to further his career.
When a priest molests a child, that is not damning evidence against the Bishop. We 300 priests molest 1,000 children, I find it hard to see how that is not (both figuratively and literally) damning evidence against those higher up in the Church.
It’s hard to imagine many things worse than what happened, but these predatory homosexual pedophiles managed it. The worst part is the contribution this makes to the other side’s campaign against the Church, against Christianity, and against God. By handling this so badly, the Church turned what should have been quickly crushed isolated indiscretions into a weapon that will weaken morality nationwide and probably worldwide, handing a big win to Satan and to his anti-family, anti-God, anti-freedom minions. The end result? Making it easier for other predators to harm children and even to argue “love is love” as if abusing children is not even wrong.
The Cardinal is a master of word manipulation intended to give the casual reader one thought while explicitly failing to address a key aspect of the sex abuse scandal.
The Cardinal says that he “...acted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse.”
That statement may be true on its face but in true Clintonian fashion obfuscates the question of what actions he took (or didn’t take) against a primary finding: that the Church protected the perpetrators rather than referring them to the justice system for adjudication.
While preventing future acts of abuse is a concern a more pressing one is insuring that the accused are treated as required by law. Inquiring Catholics want to know:
- How were the priests handled?
- What did he do remove them?
- Were they hidden instead?
- Did he protect them by playing the wack-a-mole game and moving them to a new parish? And a new one after that?
- Did he refer them for prosecution or did he bury it under the cloak of Church secrecy?
Has anyone accused the Pope himself of sexual abuse? He has decreed many rulings that seem to go away from traditional teachings of the Catholic Church and he also seems to try to protect abusers within the church. The fact that he is the Pope does not make him above the law, even though many might argue that it does.
I trust Josh Shapiro as far as I can throw him. I also trust gay priests/sickos & this pope as far as I can throw them. A good first start for the reform of the RCC would be to sweep out the gay, in all it’s forms.
Let me state up front, I’m not a Catholic so my only concern is the abuse and not the Church itself. However, to you Catholics out there, don’t you think it’s time that priests should be allowed to have a wife? My personnel opinion is that it’s not normal for most men to be celibate for their whole life and that this type of life attracts sexual deviants. If the Church allowed priests to marry, I think this would resolve the problem. You would have a lot of men attracted to the vocation and could weed out the sexual deviants. After all, where does it say in the bible that priest/pastors/preachers can’t have a wife?
Go after him, Mr. AG!
And did you read that letter from Pope Francis that was released just earlier today? Talk about saying a lot and admitting little. (frown)
Anyone who has read that report can clearly see that Wuerl has been caught in some major-league fibbing.
His old friends here in Pittsburgh are highly disappointed.