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BOSTON GLOBE’S NEW ATTACK ON PRIESTS
http://www.catholicleague.org ^ | 08/18/2017 | Bill Donohue

Posted on 08/18/2017 12:59:28 PM PDT by heterosupremacist

The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team is out with another attack on the Catholic priesthood: this one a two-part series on “Children of Catholic priests” who “live with secrets and sorrow.”

Using a few highly publicized cases, and several anecdotal stories, reporter Michael Rezendes concludes that by “any reasonable measure, there are thousands” of children around the world “who have strong evidence that they are the sons and daughters of Catholic priests.” Yet as he acknowledges, with over 400,000 priests worldwide, even if the unsubstantiated “thousands” estimate is accepted, that could amount to as little as one percent or less of priests having fathered a child. And as he further acknowledges, some of these priests “took their responsibility seriously.”

So the question arises: Is the phenomenon of priests fathering children, then neglecting or abandoning them—while clearly sinful and morally wrong—so singularly egregious as to warrant such an exclusive exposé?

How do these speculative numbers and percentages compare with Protestant, Jewish or Muslim clergy illegitimately fathering children, then neglecting or abandoning them? We don’t know, because Rezendes and the Globe show no inclination to investigate any clergy other than Catholic priests. To do so might undermine what is clearly part of the agenda here: to attack the Catholic Church’s rule on priestly celibacy. Neglected children of priests, Rezendes writes, “are the unfortunate victims of a church that has, for nearly 900 years, forbidden priests to marry….”

And what of our secular culture? Citing the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Fatherhood Initiative reported recently that “24 million children, 1 out of 3, live without their biological father in the home.” And “millions more,” notes the National Center for Fathering, “have dads who are physically present, but emotionally absent.”

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1 posted on 08/18/2017 12:59:28 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
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2 posted on 08/18/2017 1:00:03 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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If it is true, it isn’t an attack...


3 posted on 08/18/2017 1:04:54 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( You)
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Although Christ himself surely never married it's hard...*very* hard...for me to imagine Him expecting His vicars (all of whom are very much human in *every* sense) to go their *entire* lives without the emotional,spiritual and physical companionship of a helpmate.

Add to that the fact that there are priests in the West (and elsewhere,presumably) who are loyal to Rome and have wives and children (most,I suspect,being converts from the Church of England) it doesn't shock me to the core of my being to hear of priests with children.

Yes,my views are unlike the views of some.

4 posted on 08/18/2017 1:11:37 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
If it is true, it isn’t an attack...

Exactly and sadly there's more reason to believe it's true than otherwise.

5 posted on 08/18/2017 1:12:29 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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When Natural Affections are banned some will turn to unnatural affections. It excuses nothing though. If they’re going to break their vows why not do so with consenting adults?


6 posted on 08/18/2017 1:14:19 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

My take on this is “So what?”

There are millions of children all over this country who do not know who their fathers are.

This is typical Boston Globe garbage.

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7 posted on 08/18/2017 1:15:05 PM PDT by Mears
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Is this supposed to remind people of the “crisis” of 2002?


8 posted on 08/18/2017 1:15:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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[[How do these speculative numbers and percentages compare with Protestant, Jewish or Muslim clergy illegitimately fathering children, then neglecting or abandoning them? We don’t know, because Rezendes and the Globe show no inclination to investigate any clergy other than Catholic priests. To do so might undermine what is clearly part of the agenda here: to attack the Catholic Church’s rule on priestly celibacy. Neglected children of priests, Rezendes writes, “are the unfortunate victims of a church that has, for nearly 900 years, forbidden priests to marry….”

And what of our secular culture? Citing the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Fatherhood Initiative reported recently that “24 million children, 1 out of 3, live without their biological father in the home.” And “millions more,” notes the National Center for Fathering, “have dads who are physically present, but emotionally absent.”]]

Wow ! Is this trying to justify bad behavior by saying someone else does it ? I wonder if the person who wrote this even begins to realize just how bad this sounds


9 posted on 08/18/2017 1:18:09 PM PDT by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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So let me get this straight - the tens of children of Priests is a problem worth writing about in a major newspaper, but the tens of millions of ordinary fatherless children in America is not worth any ink. Right?


10 posted on 08/18/2017 2:14:23 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

A girl I went to school with got pg by the local priest. He quit the Church and married her.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 2:38:49 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: heterosupremacist; ebb tide; NYer

This article reminds me of the anti-Catholic stories I heard in my youth in the 1950s and 60s. The Boston Globe is just giving those anti-Catholic attacks a new spin. And I give them no credence.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 3:35:57 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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