Posted on 10/11/2018 8:58:28 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
The editorial board of the New York Times declared it had identified the source of “The Catholic Church’s Unholy Stain.” It names pedophilia and asks: “How have so many pedophiles been allowed into the priesthood?”
The question was purely rhetorical because the board had an answer ready. It cited the usual grounds: “the all-male priesthood and the celibacy imposed on Catholic priests; the elitism, careerism and clericalism of the church hierarchy; the lack of transparency or accountability among bishops.” Most damning is “the power a man of God has over a child.”
Every parent knows instinctively that sexual abuse of the young and vulnerable is an evil that cries out for punishment, swift and severe. Anything less mocks the harm done by abusive priests. Equally inadequate—and blameworthy—are expressions of sympathy for the abused that disguise the elephant in the rectory. The first responsibility is to call things by their right name.
Ignoring the Issue Will Prevent Addressing It
To casual readers, duly angered, the Times’ charge sounds about right. More thoughtful ones, however, will hesitate over the word pedophilia. With few exceptions, sexual abuse by priests has been visited overwhelmingly upon pubescent boys, and young men, most often teenagers. This is pederasty, not pedophilia. And pederasty is endemic to gay culture. (For an unsparing indictment of that culture by a gay man, read Jason Hill’s “Loveless, Narcissistic Sex Addicts” in The Federalist.)
Without intending to, the Times’ studied determination to ignore homosexual predation as the culprit parallels the Catholic Church’s dilemma. How is the hierarchy to work at “restoring trust, instituting accountability, and eradicating the cancer of sexual abuse” without acknowledging a subject inoculated from judgment by reigning opinion?
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being a priest calls for a devotion to your vocation....I am sure its not easy but some men are strong enough to do it....
Catholics can go an easier route like protestants and just let every body marry, of course then we'd have homosexual marriages among the priests.....
I don't know what's worse...
but perhaps we Catholics (I'm not a good one) will have to settle for far fewer but better priests...
Good post. The link between pederasty/pedophilia and homosexuals is well documented. When one does not have a womb, it is how they replicate.
Yep.
Homosexuals worship in a cult of youth and boys. It can not be separated from their sexuality.
The connection between homosexuality and pedophilia has been known for centuries. Anyone that has read the ancient histories knows that.
You don’t know what’s worse? Raging pedophilia covered up for generations by the church all the way up to the cardinals or higher, vs. two gay men choosing a committed monogamous relationship? Hmmm, tough choice.
Alterboys are used as the farm team.
It’s awful.
You mean married men of God such as Peter, Paul, a great number of the disciples? Glad you agree they were not Roman Catholic.
The problem will not go away until the Church wakes up to the fact that they have got to boot all of the queer priests out of the priesthood and refuse them entry into the seminaries. The Church has to admit that homosexuality is a real problem.
Yes, and no.
I’m pretty sure there is about as much heterosexual abuse as homo, even in the Church. It’s not all boys.
Honestly one of the problems I have with protestantism is the “marrying” thing.
I seriously see the problems of divided attention. A pastor should be wholely focused on his religious duties, and devotion to God and the parishioners.
I sometimes envy that point about Catholicism and Orthodox, etc. Real traditionalists at least can have the likelihood of devotion to duty.
Like that makes the molesting of minors better....
Sure.......
Catholics who make excuses and try to white wash the problem are no better than those they are pretending to accuse.
Too bad.
Add it when you’re posting.
Otherwise, live with it.
The Orthodox manage just fine.
And besides, if you have enough priests, then *divided attention* isn't a problem.
Not only that, if the priests were wholly focused on God as prohibiting marriage is supposed to foster, then there wouldn't be the problem with the homosexual abuse of minors.
Not to mention that Scripture REQUIRES marriage for a man who desires to be an elder or deacon.
And Peter was married and Jesus didn't say boo about his marriage or alleged divided loyalties.
That is such a weak argument for something that is totally unnecessary.
God never considered it an issue with His OT priests.
The damage lasts for a very long time. Generations sometimes.
Really, was Peter married when going all over the world?
Was Paul? During his evangelization?
As for OT, God also ALLOWED many things, such as harems. Ie., polygamy. So is that not only allowed, but righteous? I think God put up with a lot of nonsense, because He is patient and tolerant. Not because He likes it.
Priests in Orthodoxy may choose celibacy, but the pastor of a parish must be a married man.
Only celibate priests can become bishops, however.
Takes hike. Live with it. Smartass.
In a word, Yes.
It says so right here in Scripture.
Paul tells us that Peter took his wife along with him.
1 Corinthians 9:5 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
As for OT, God also ALLOWED many things, such as harems. Ie., polygamy. So is that not only allowed, but righteous? I think God put up with a lot of nonsense, because He is patient and tolerant. Not because He likes it.
So marriage is now *nonsense*?
And Catholics claim to be champions of marriage and the family? That's a joke.
God said that it was not good for man to be alone. Roman Catholicism contradicts that and teaches the opposite.
It is not teaching the truth of God's word.
Proving once again it is usually, though not always, the Roman Catholic who first resorts to profanity and/or the personal attack when the argument goes against them.
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