Posted on 08/16/2012 7:46:17 PM PDT by RnMomof7
Are you using this news worthy story to tell the world that all of Christianity is perverted and twisted?
If you are a Christian, then why not just let the newsworthy story stand on it’s own, it is a strange and sad case.
You don’t need to turn this into a collection of all of the crimes of Christianity, with links and neon lettering.
What is your gut feeling, do you think it might turn out to be totally innocent, and a mistake of some sort?
Are you REALLY making excuses for this priest? Are you REALLY try to spread the blame around for his sin and sinfulness? If you are, I think you’d lost a lot of us.
**Are you REALLY making excuses for this priest? Are you REALLY try to spread the blame around for his sin and sinfulness? If you are, I think you’d lost a lot of us.**
Not trying to make excuses. Just pointing out that the truth of the matter is that there is a lot more sexual abuse in schools and orther denominations.
Is posting only part of the truth OK with you? Just post about the Catholic priests/ What about all the other nonsense that goes on?
Which denomination, you haven't named one have you?
I know some people will not like my comments and will jump to defendthe church (how unfair of me /s)... but I know, deep in my heart, there is a lot of CORRUPTION still in that church, still hidden under the surface.
Their SILENCE in certain "cultural" issues... tells clearly where they really belong.
Besides the immense amount of abuse that has happened in the Catholic Church, the Church has a sordid history of covering up and protecting priests so that they can continue to abuse for decades. So there's that.
There's also the fact that the Catholic Church holds itself up as a paragon of morality and truth, and expends great effort in having answers for everything that do not admit alternate interpretations. For such an institution to be guilty of sexually victimizing literally thousands of children, allows the Church to receive back from millions of people a focus for the rage the Church has created in them by inflicting its arrogance upon them.
You see, millions of people feel that if the Church actually deserved its claims of holiness, such abuse would simply never happen within its ranks, and if it did, it would be treated with the utmost honesty and protection for the victims. Instead, the Church wants it both ways - to be the mandated for all spiritual practices and decisions for the entirety of the human race, and be allowed to escape with a shrug about being just as human as anyone else when it is found to have committed, and protected, crimes of atrocity.
The great unwashed see that as profound hypocrisy.
That the Church then responds by spinning and minimizing its abuse statistics and denying all arrogance in the face of this uproar doesn't exactly help things get any better.
Really? The church -- and by that I mean the parish -- didn't ordain the priest and didn't select him to serve there; the bishop does that. Destroying the parish because they were unlucky enough to be saddled with a pervert pastor is a bit like shooting a sick person to kill the germs.
Do you favor shutting down and selling off public schools when a senior faculty member is discovered molesting students, or do you think we should remove (and prosecute, if possible) the guilty person and try to hire someone decent?
The people of this parish didn't molest anyone. They deserve our prayers, not our vows of revenge, financial or otherwise. Save that for the perp.
Why is this even in the Religion forum?
What I asked was, which denomination? This thread is about the Catholic denomination, which ones do you want us to look at in regards to this article.
Which denomination has “a lot more sexual abuse”. is it the Methodists, The Apostolic Faith Mission, the Spiritual Israel Church and Its Army, the Presbyterians, or what?
So the effect of sacramental grace obtained from ordination into the "one true" church can be examined.
The Church seems to have alot of these types of “problems”.
Such a society has no moral standing to point any fingers at anyone else and then complain about hypocrisy. God will judge us more severely than the Nazis if we don't repent.
Do you have the same feelings about the immense amount of abuse that occurs in public education and the indifference of property tax payers who blindly support same?
Well, it's taken 2,000 years but it looks like have finally found someone without sin who is qualified to cast the first stone. Be careful you don't out your eye out throwing at the whole Church.
Peace be with you
That’s a conclusion reached by the obtuse.
Show me where in Scripture it says schadenfreude is a Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Peace be with you
"Well, it's taken 2,000 years but it looks like have finally found someone without sin who is qualified to cast the first stone."
I'll keep my stones. Care to comment on why the special sacremental grace had no effect?
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