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Cardinal Burke: U.S. Catholic Church in ‘Possibly the Worst Crisis that It’s Ever Experienced’
LifeSite News ^ | 8/16/18 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 08/19/2018 5:04:15 PM PDT by marshmallow

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To: marshmallow

It’s time for the laity to take a stand. We need to demand justice for the children. We should all boycott the Bishop’s Pastoral Service Appeal to make them listen.


21 posted on 08/19/2018 9:04:37 PM PDT by Melian (Patriots fight!)
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Here we go again. Trying to minimize the sexual abuse of a minor by referring to it as pederasty. When you sexually assault an 11 year old, that is pedophilia, not pederasty. The catholic church just wants this to go away and then it's back to business as usual. God knows how young the youngest of McCarrick's victims was.

It is all part of the programming of doctrine... the 'church' is the object of worship, and whatever it takes protect the 'holy church' is required. The amount of money that has been squandered over this abomination is ungodly... not even to mention the ruination of many young boys. Thankfully, God keeps the perfect record and there will be an accounting... soon...

22 posted on 08/19/2018 9:20:40 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: 43north

He was absolutely correct.. The biggest mistake in modern times of the church, if not in its 2000 year history was the decision in the 60s to allow admitted but “non-practicing” homosexuals into the seminary.

Now there are entire diocese that are completely run by sodomites, who trade sexual favors for positions and protect each other and drive ANYONE who might oppose them out in the boonies.

Nearly this ENTIRE mess is directly related to homosexual activity... Nearly 80% of all abuse was on boys... by men, and of that roughly 80% over 80% of that was on post pubescent boys.... Meaning that a full 2/3 of the abuse allegations were by homosexual men on post pubescent yet under 18 boys.

This is NO excuse for the Church covering this stuff up.. and it does not dismiss any of the cases regardless of their details. Sadly sexual abuse will happen in ANY organization that has access to children.. and while the stories are heartbreaking the incident of abuse is, even with these horrendous stories incredibly rare... That isn’t an excuse, but it is rare. Over more than 7 decades of investigation by this PA grand Jury they found 300 alleged priests and 1000 victims... When you realize how many children were involved in the church and its schools over those 70 years, even if the report only represents 10% of all cases, its still a very very small number.

However, without homosexuals in the priesthood, the numbers would be a third of what they are!!! The PC garbage that Homosexuals are just like everyone else is destroying lives... The refusal to accept the reality that has been shown time and time again, that homosexuals, particularly homosexual men, are far more likely to abuse and be predatory that any other group sexually is destroying peoples lives. Your sons should not be being offered up to this lie.

The Church has a LOT of work to do, but without being honest that homosexuals within the church are a huge part of the problem, nothing will truly change...

This has been known to anyone willing to pay attention for DECADES..... And any excuse to deflect is being used.


23 posted on 08/19/2018 9:40:43 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To Hell with anyone who scoffs at the notion of “Pizza-Gate”.
A well-organized pedophilia ring run by rich, powerful people is MORE than doable as evidenced by the scandals of the Catholic Church.
I pray for all good Catholics who are seeing their Church torn apart by the bad guys and those covering for them.


24 posted on 08/20/2018 5:04:03 AM PDT by Maverick68
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He was absolutely correct.. The biggest mistake in modern times of the church, if not in its 2000 year history was the decision in the 60s to allow admitted but “non-practicing” homosexuals into the seminary.

I know other denominations had some of the same problems in their seminiaries until the late 70s. There were also a lot of doctrinal issues that were iffy.

My pastor at my childhood church told me if you went to seminary you better be sure of what you believed. I've never forgotten that.

25 posted on 08/20/2018 8:21:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
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