[Jan_Sobieski]

I thank God that, as a youth, my family was saved by Jesus Christ out from under the Roman Catholic Church. Who knows what could have happened to me and my little brothers had the Lord not put it into my mother's heart to try a Baptist Church down on the corner? It was there that we first heard the Bible preached in sermons. It was there where we first heard of salvation by faith (or being Born Again). We learned to pray to God Himself through our real priest, Jesus Christ, and not some corrupt man. We learned that the grace of God is not earned each week through consuming Jesus Christ flesh and blood, but by faith in His Word! (i.e. man does not live by bread alone but by every Word of God) I now attend a non-denominational family Christian Church with my wife and children and I pray that other families will hear the voice of God and leave the fallen, reprobate, Roman Catholic organization for the sake of their children, their families, and the truth...

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she* rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore* shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning...

[ClearCase_guy]

The Cardinal is right on the money. They need to let it all come out, no holding back. Clean the Augean Stables, no matter the cost.

The Church has been badly damaged. Better PR isn’t the solution. And by the way — tell us why Benedict XVI stepped down. I’m sure it’s all VERY interesting.

[heterosupremacist]

Uh, Jan, strongly disagree. Baptist ministers have raped many young men. Not only RC priests are capable of such abominations...

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I you want to know where child molesters hang out, just go to those places where there are children.

[Drango]

Second time. Needs to be a copper Sunday. A penny in the offering plate.

[onedoug]

bergoglio, the chief homo/enabler, needs to go, as do all his disordered pets.

[Chainmail]

"I thank God that, as a youth, my family was saved by Jesus Christ out from under the Roman Catholic Church."

Oh please. I have remained a faithful Catholic all my life and the vast majority of Priests have been heroic leaders of the faith. While I served in combat in Vietnam, it was the Catholic chaplains with us during the heaviest fighting.

You can go any direction you want to go with your faith but stop the anti-Catholic rants every time you think you have an opening.

[Eagles6]

You're free to worship as you wish but it's not just the Catholic Church.

Homosexuals have been infiltrating all institutions; religious, including Protestant and Jewish, Boy and Girl Scouts, counseling....

The biggest in sheer numbers is public education and I'm sure you can guess why you hear nothing about it.

These are not "men of God" who have fallen, they are frauds who entered the priesthood under false pretenses.

[cherry]

do you haters have to take every opportunity to bash MY church and my religion?

its one thing to decry this outrageous behavior but my Catholic religion is NOT to blame for this and you are attacking a persons' religion, not the crimes by some members....

I am SOOO glad we didn't end up in that cockamamie Baptist little church down the road ....

how does that feel?...

[lucky american]

The Catholic Church has touched my family. Literally. I knew back then that men and women who never married and claimed their love for God by serving in celibacy was a misnomer. If you were gay, you went where the men were. If you were gay and loved little boys you went where the boys are. The total breakdown of the Catholic Church is due to lust and the ability to cover it up. This also proves that many gays are prone to paedophilia. Keep your children safe. Dump the Catholic faith.

[jetson]

We kids 60 years ago knew not to let a priest corner you. How is it now just becoming big news. We made sport of evading the perverts ( young and old).

[hinckley buzzard]

As Burke said, this has been widely known. And ignored, since the 2002 report. Even as the church has struggled to heal and repair what damage it could, the media has conspired with retrograde elements within the church’s Left to conceal the real issue: ie militant homosexuals who flooded the seminaries after Vatican II and sought to subvert the church to their pathological ends.

It is worth noting also, given the knee jerk impulse to global condemnation sure to arise, that all but two of the cases studied in the Pennsylvania diocese happened past the statute of limitations for prosecution. That means the harm mostly was done a long time ago and has not continued into the present.

[Biggirl]

Um............need to disagree with you. Sexual sins sadly has been found not only in the Catholic Church but also in the non-Catholic churches as well. The SBC and also a well known mega church has faced legal judgment.

[Biggirl]

The RCC has survived worse and will not only survived but will see a spiritual spring time.

It NEEDS a major house cleaning.

The scripture you cited refered to Jerusalem not Rome or the RCC.