But they really need to clean their act up here.
Seems they are (finally).
This is a major business story. The Catholic Church is a major religious and Educational enterprise. it is a non profit that depends on donations because it does not have a sufficient endownment. The scandal has put the brakes on large donations. People may put money in the box to pay the day to day costs of their church, their priest, but the large bequests have pretty much stopped. At the same time the Church is probably going to face a Billion dollars in judgements. It doesn't have the money. It will be forced into bankruptcy. That means a conservator appointed, assets sold off, people fired in vast numbers. How will the workout and recovery be done?
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No, it is not you .. The left in the Media have an agenda where the Catholic Church is concerned. The pro-abortion folks want to discredit the church .. the NOW gals want women to become priest .. along with other issues.
Val is right .. there are pedophiles teaching in public schools but yet you never hear about that .. there are no out cry from the media or the public to clean up the teachers in the public schools. ... Hello Union Leaders
The NOW gals want women Priest .. and some want Priests to be allowed to marry .. But what they fail to notice is that these Priests are in majority of the cases were abusing boys and not girls .. which now can also mean it is also a gay problem. Gay priests are the big secret that for years no one wanted to discuss ... and yes I have heard the stories over the years about it.
But I will say whether they are gay or straight .. it comes down to the vow of celibacy that these priests make to God and to the church .. and if they can't make that vow then they should not be priests .. about the closest thing I can compare this to is like a vow a man and women make when then get married .. they vow to honor each other and not cheat on each other ... if the couple cannot keep that vow .. they have no business getting married .. I know that abuses against children can't be compared to that .. but that is the closets thing I can think of .
Prentice is right in the fact that this will not bring down the church and we will survive this .. Because in the end it is the faith that Catholic's rely on and our belief and love for God and his son
But Swervie is also right that this will also become a big financial hit on the church .. I don't know if it will go as far as bankruptcy. but it can and will cause a big financial hit and yes there will be all kinds of people coming out of the woodwork claiming they were abused just so they can cash in. And like everything else in this country .. the true victims of these abuses will end up being hurt again.
I don't claim to be a great catholic and know everything .. many here on FR are much better catholic's then I and have much more knowlege then I .. but a post I once read seemed to make sense and that maybe this was God's way of cleaning house.
These abuses of children is a huge problem and cannot be tolerated or even covered up. They need to be exposed and some how make right what what was wronged.
I hope all that made some kind of sense .. I tend to ramble at times ...
And see Swervie .. I don't always disagree with you .. does this mean I lose my gold star .. lol .. SMOOCH