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We used to hang pedophiles and kick out illegals
Will the Catholic Church ever return to its roots?
I think part of the reason for the harsh punishment was hopefully to return the person to the straight and narrow path. Maybe even to save their soul.
I can’t imagine why any Bishop would hide or cover-up for a pedophile, unless they were supreme cowards, or involved themselves.
They should be outed publicly, and the Church itself should call the public authorities.
The pederasts and pedophiles need to be exposed and shaken so badly so they will all flee the Church.
Doesn’t seem barbaric to me at all...
Hanging them by the neck until dead sounds about right to me.
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Good thing the death penalty is inadmissible now. /s
How to handle these sodomite perverts? Burn them at the stake.
**“Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publicly flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure. Thus shorn, he shall be disgraced by spitting in his face, bound in iron chains, wasted by six months of close confinement, and for three days each week put on barley bread given him toward evening.
“Following this period, he shall spend a further six months living in a small segregated courtyard in custody of a spiritual elder, kept busy with manual labor and prayer, subjected to vigils and prayers, forced to walk at all times in the company of two spiritual brothers, never again allowed to associate with young men.”**
I like this. Can we implement as lay Catholics?
Read Ann’s article and Sipes’ letter ....if you can stomach it.
Burn them at the stake...publicly
Gee! I don’t know which is worse, the torture or the sex abuse.
The Church needs to get this serious about this issue once again.
We need to do something, all the PC programs in the world aren’t going to work until there is real justice against the perpetrator.
All that happens now is the priest is laicized and the church gets sued.
And I forgot, NO MORE HOMOSEXUALS, PERIOD. They have proven that they can’t be celibate, it has been tried and failed. They give them plenty of psychological tests and they know.
Sodom is a good example of how God dealt with sex offenders.
There’s no point in trying to get them fluffed, Drain, or quartered. Or any of the church’s infamous inquisitions tortures. Imho, it will be a Miracle if the current church hierchy merely removes the serious offenders from clerical and other parishioner- contact assignments. Like Cardinal Donald
The Orange used to say so eloquently, “You’re FIRED!”
The Catholic Church
Is VERY far from Christ Jesus
VERY far
In the Ten Commandments, we mis-translate the Commandment as “Do not take the Lord’s name in vain” and think it means don’t say God damn or some other curse.
In reality, a better translation from Hebrew is “Don’t use God’s name as cover for bad deeds.”
This is in line with the one thing God can never forgive - doing evil in God’s name. God can forgive murder, rape, child abuse.
But why never forgive doing evil in God’s name?
Because when someone does evil in God’s name, makes people think God is evil. How much of the rise of atheism in the past hundred years is because major wars and fascism were done with the complicit endorsement of the church? How many people became virulent haters of faith because they were molested by priests? Evil was done in God’s name, and it turned the victims and those who knew about it away from God permanently.
That’s why God cannot forgive evil done in his name - he loses the souls of those who need him most.