Posted on 08/17/2018 8:40:24 AM PDT by wardaddy
Cardinal Raymond Burke has called for “open recognition” of the Catholic church’s homosexual culture in light of recent revelations of sexual abuse. “I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church,” Burke said in an interview Thursday, “especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously.”
he former head of the church’s equivalent of the Supreme Court said it was already “clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men.”
“There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this,” he said, referring to the mainstream media cover-up of the homosexual nature of the abuse as well as such denial within the church itself.
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True; but you REPLIED to a question and gave an answer that was not directed at the question..
Cite some examples of *worse* than molestation and cover up of hundreds or thousands of kids by hundreds of priests over (known) decades and very likely centuries.
Why couldn’t the queer priests just keep it between themselves?
Who would have complained?
WRONG!!
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The Catholic Church has weathered through far worse.
Followed by:
Such as?...Cite some examples of *worse*
The "example" of the Spanish Inquisition bloodbath is WORSE then the boy-raping faggot "priests". Neither of which I'd be very proud of nor defend.
Then there's the "example" of the Spanish Conquestatores in the New World, who brought along priests so they could baptize the Indians before they were slaughtered, so their souls would go to heaven.
I wouldn't be too proud of that one either.
Because the molested become molesters. 80% of faggots surveyed, admitted to being molested as kids.
This current Pope really stinks.
I miss him, too. Frankie should be forced into retirement. He is a total nutcase.
It sure would go a long way in preventing the priesthood from becoming a safe haven for homosexuals, and married men are going to be far less tolerant of that kind of deviance than other homosexuals who are covering their own behinds and have a vested interest in the abuse themselves.
So, yes, it would help take care of the problem.
I like that criteria.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Corruption, immorality, power grabs, and sexual sin are endemic in Catholicism.
It's not the fruit of V2 as if none of it ever existed before that.
It's been going on for over 1,000 years as the Book of Gomorrah testifies to.
More correctly, it would seem, is that V2 is the fruit of corrupt Catholicism.
If the Catholicism hadn't been so corrupt, V2 would never have gotten off the ground.
You're going to get skewered for that by other Catholics.
They keep telling me it wasn't the church, they didn't do it. It was political leaders who did.
More finger pointing and excuses.
Thank you for your honesty. The Inquisition was pretty bad.
Before I converted to Catholicism I was a “born again” protestant. I was a member of four different protestant churches in which the head pastors were always married. In retrospect, having to deal with pastors’ wives was a net negative. It added to the cult of personality, way too much focus on the pastor himself instead of the Gospel. I also think there was too much melodrama re: the pastors’ wives and what THEY said how Christian women should think, act, dress, etc.
I really appreciate that our Catholic priests are not married, are not distracted by the melodramas of having wives and children. They are shepherds dedicated to their flocks, I like this very much.
Ping!
I hope so.
The Church erred grievously at the 1049 Synod of Mainz when celibacy was made mandatory for ALL of the clergy and clergy wives were forcibly removed from their spouses. That edict and all enabling Canons are hereby and forever nullified.
When the God-ordained means (Marriage) of channeling the God-created urges is forbidden what else can be expected but this present darkness
There is a matrix of Marriage and Ordination: Some are called to both, some are called to one or the other, and some are called to neither.
Celibacy is not the problem. The problem is homosexuality.
Great and honest post.
Puts Elton [FAG] John's Philadelphia Freedom in a whole new light, doesn't it?
Is it possible that through a process of trial and error, the church has discovered why the Bible forbids men sleeping with men?
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