Posted on 03/26/2010 6:27:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Because the transgressors have wounded, betrayed and abandoned the Church. If you're choosing sides, you should take the side of the Church, not of the transgressors.
You may want to take a look at #40 and #41, as well.
What awful, painful, shameful things.
That is where the mistakes were made in the first place IMO.
All those guys giving the priest that check look gay too.
Ya think?
Girl....Worry about the Priests who propagated this...not me who finds it interesting that people like you address who respond to my posts rather than address the Catholic abuse that has gone on for years....
Your original post had nothing to do with the evil of priests who had done this. It was a disgusting inappropiate comment at the expense of those who have been abused - only a perverted mind would come up with something so cruel. Shame on you for even trying to defend it.
In every provable case, it's a matter which justifies outrage, prosecution, and penalty.
But in my estimation, there are three main reasons why the Catholic Church is especially targeted in cases like this:
1) Records: the Church has documentation on its clergy, including employment and medical records, going back to their seminary days. You won't find that in any other profession.
2) Deep pockets: sue over a priest and you can dump out the assets of a Religious Order or a whole Diocese: operating funds, schools, parishes: quite the pinata.
3) The gotcha factor: Even in unproveable cases, accusations against priests, rabbis, or moral conservatives are irresistable: the accusation itself is as damaging as a conviction; and it's far more satisfying than going after people who cannot be accused of having had any moral standards to begin with.
And oh yes, #4: Got a case from the 1950's? And charges cannot be verified or falsified because, puzzlingly, there has never been even one single criminal charge brought? The secular record discloses no actionable evidence, no arrest, and no trial? And the accused perp, be he innocent or guilty as hell, cannot answer because he's twelve years the grave? Well, now's the time!
Holy Week!
You need to get a life......
your reply was predictable.....excuses and more excuses.....and my net is cast exactly where it should have been cast. Get real!
There was no “excuse” in my message. Tell me one line where I excused evildoing.
... excused evildoing, or told an untruth.
I see your original post was deleted so it was not just offensive to me. Your further posts show you seem to be here to stir up hate - will say a prayer for you this Holy Week.
Are you a dimocrat that you would put such stuff out here? Are you really aware of how the Archbishop there failed to do anything?
Please read the link I just posted.
These lies must stop.
The Pope and the Murphy case: what the New York Times story didn't tell you
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The real "connection between homosexual priests and gay marriage" is that for centuries the Roman Catholic church has sexually molested boys who then become guilt-ridden, confused and sexually wired to seek out other men, having been prevented by the pedophile priesthood from making a healthy transition through adolescence. Thus, the Roman Catholic church not only accepts homosexuality among its ranks, it actually encourages it and creates more of it whose growth is exponential.
As a thought experiment, start looking around and inquiring as to the background of homosexual men you know or see on TV, etc. You will be astounded to find how many were raised Roman Catholic.
This cancer at the center of the RCC will not be excised until Rome erases the celibacy requirement because that restriction attracts men who prefer male company and willingly avoid intimacy with a woman and a family life.
Sadly, there's not much hope of that happening because that is what Rome is -- a top-down, hierarchical behemoth who likes things just the way they are.
>”Are you a dimocrat that you would put such stuff out here?”
Is that your best shot?
You’re not defending the Catholic Church, are you?
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