[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Now if only the UN would condemn our public schools where the OVERWHELMING majority of child sexual abuse cases occurs these days.

[Alex Murphy]

The Vatican blasted back at a UN report that accused it of allowing children to be abused by priests and condemned its stances on homosexuality, contraception and abortion, saying the findings were "ideological" and likely driven by critics of the church's "non-negotiable" teachings.

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[Faithful Departed author Philip] Lawler points out that while less than five percent of American priests have been accused of sexual abuse, some two-thirds of our bishops were apparently complicit in cover-ups. The real scandal isn't the sick excesses of a few dozen pedophiles, or even the hundreds of priests who had affairs with teenage boys -- the bulk of abuse cases. No, according to Lawler, it is the malfeasance of wealthy, powerful, and evidently worldly men who fill the thrones -- but not the shoes -- of the apostles. In case after case, we read in their correspondence, in the records of their soulless, bureaucratic responses to victims of psychic torture and spiritual betrayal, these bishops' prime concern was to save the infrastructure, the bricks and mortar and mortgages. Ironically, their lack of a supernatural concern for souls is precisely what cost them so much money in the end.
-- from the thread Kneeling Before the World

"The Dublin Archdiocese's preoccupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid-1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church and the preservation of its assets," said the report. "All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities. The archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid any application of the law of the state"....
-- from the thread Pope calls Irish church leaders to Vatican to discuss abuse report

[massgopguy]

There are not “hundreds of thousands of victims”.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Why is everyone arguing over which religion has the most child-molesting clergy when the main point is that the UN is calling on a major religion to change its teachings? Does anyone else see where this is leading to?

And just what "human rights" does the UN want to protect? In a world without G-d human rights don't exist (and neither does right and wrong or good and evil). Rights and moral codes that exist only as constructs within the human mind have no objective reality.

It's time some countries started pulling out of the UN. The US never will (especially under Obama), but surely a conservative Catholic country like Malta or Portugal could do so. Who knows where that would lead?

The Vatican used to play footsie with the UN. Will this finally be the end of that policy?

[jim macomber]

Pot meet kettle:

"Once Again… UN Troops Traded Sex For Food With Minors"

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/once-again-un-troops-accused-of-sexually-abusing-minors/

[livius]

Odd that the UN doesn’t seem to see the conflict between “condemning” the Vatican for “child abuse,” mostly not true pedophilia but gay men going after teenage boys, and at the same time screaming that the Church should accept homosexuality.

[Hulka]

“systematically” adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades. . .”

The Church did not adopt policies permitting this practice. The Church did, however, allow homosexuals to becomes priests. . .provided they could and would control their urges. This was a mistake, as homosexuals define their very being by their behavior and being a priest, having so much control and influence over young boys, it was a homosexual predator’s paradise.

Normal heterosexual men living a Godly life of celibacy do not suddenly change into homosexuals and want molest young boys.