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1 posted on 07/01/2009 1:23:56 PM PDT by Balt
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To: Balt

Do you know—the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to your Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. Your graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%, all at a cost to you. To the rest of the Americans it’s free.
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But it seems that the Catholic Chuirch get better returns for their education dollars than the US government...


2 posted on 07/01/2009 1:26:44 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: NYer; Salvation; narses; Petronski; trisham

Ping


3 posted on 07/01/2009 1:28:23 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: Balt

There is something to this but it goes beyond leftist, MSM, etc. It’s just about everywhere. Even many Catholics treated me as a sort of freak because, as a monk, I pursued a life of chastity. I got the impression that, for many of them, it was harder for them to personally understand and identify with chastity than it was to understand homosexuality. Gay men at least had sex lives and I seemed to refuse to have even that much in common with them. Over sexualization is everywhere.


4 posted on 07/01/2009 1:38:31 PM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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To: Balt
It validates every nasty thing we've ever thought about Catholics: they're evil because they want to deny me my orgasms! And we can prove it because 1.7% of those weird priests abused a kid.

The percentage of pedophiles in the priesthood roughly equals the percentage of them in the general population.

That's never really been the point. The point was the lengths that the church hierarchy went to cover it up and the willingness to shift these pervert priests around rather than deal with the problem in a forthright manner.

5 posted on 07/01/2009 1:44:56 PM PDT by GunRunner
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"...10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia."

I have trouble believing that.
8 posted on 07/01/2009 2:08:55 PM PDT by ConservativeByChoice
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To: Balt

Perhaps the best way to counter the MSM is to label it as silly. Any other form of retort seems, at least in its collective mindset, to be misperceived as legitimizing its sewage as ‘journalism’.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 4:45:17 PM PDT by cthemfly25
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