Posted on 07/01/2024 1:56:37 PM PDT by patriot torch
A.W. Richard Sipe was a former Benedictine monk and Catholic priest, trained as a psychotherapist to deal with the mental health problems of the clergy. However, over the years, his work with the records of over six thousand patients uncovered a pattern of behavior within the Church that eventually led him to exit the clergy and reveal the truth behind the sexual abuse of minors.
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1 Timothy 4:1-3
King James Version
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
The abuse is beyond reprehensible but has nothing to do with the mass. The following is also reprehensible:
“Nearly 400 Southern Baptist leaders, from youth pastors to top ministers, have pleaded guilty or been convicted of sex crimes against more than 700 victims since 1998, according to a recent investigation by The Houston Chronicle and The San Antonio Express-News.”
Well, that makes it alright then. There’s a legal precedent.
I’m not a southern Baptist so I’ll leave that up to “southern baptists” to respond to the accusation.
Sexual Abuse In The Catholic Church
Sexual abuse by clergy members has been documented in every state in the United States. The abuse allegations span multiple decades and thousands of victims.
In 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) reported 4,228 child sexual abuse allegations. These allegations were filed by 3,924 abuse survivors from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. The incidents involved more than 2,700 individual clergy members from across the country.
The report found that only 22 of the allegations involve current cases. However, survivors with older cases are still seeking legal justice and accountability from responsible dioceses.
Additionally, many high-ranking Church officials have orchestrated cover-ups. Instead of safeguarding children, many dioceses and church officials concealed the abuse and protected the abusers.
https://www.abuselawsuit.com/church-sex-abuse/
Linking the abuse committed by priests to the requirement of celibacy is ridiculous. If they were connected there would be no abuse by school teachers, Boy Scout leaders, Protestant ministers, etc.
BTW, I belong to a Catholic Ordinariate that has plenty of married priests. My own pastor is a married priest. So I’m not opposed to married priests in concept. But the idea that removing the general celibacy requirement would fix the problem is absurd.
The problem is that they admitted homosexuals to the priesthood. The vast majority of the abuse was with pubescent and teenage boys. Celibacy had nothing to do with it.
Excellent Documentary regarding the cover-up within the Catholic organization “Spotlight”
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/
Sound Biblical Doctrine would argue that point!
1 Timothy 4:1-3
King James Version
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Study links Catholic Church celibacy and child sex abuse
Australia has published a long-running report on child abuse in the Catholic Church. Celibate priest perpetrators offended because they were “terrorized with their own sexual desires,” a report co-author told DW.
December 15, 2017
Australia has published a long-running report on child abuse in the Catholic Church. Celibate priest perpetrators offended because they were “terrorized with their own sexual desires,” a report co-author told DW.
Among the 189 recommendations put forward by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are two for the Catholic Church to lift its demand for mandatory celibacy and enforce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, even if it is heard during confession.
A five-year study from Melbourne’s RMIT University on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church found that mandatory celibacy is the major precipitating risk factor for child sexual abuse.
DW spoke to Professor Des Cahill, who co-authored the report with Dr Peter Wilkinson.
DW: How did you come to the conclusion that mandatory celibacy is a risk factor for child sexual abuse?
Professor Des Cahill: In the [psychological and psychiatric] studies of priest offenders, the key facts were that the offending priest perpetrators were either psychologically immature or psychologically mal-developed and suffering from loneliness, lack of intimacy and sexual deprivation, and they became terrorized with their own sexual desires and sexual thinking. In their sexual deprivation their thinking mutated towards children, and so they began grooming young children and eventually abusing them sexually and emotionally.
Read more: Australian Catholic Church paid $213 million to child sexual abuse victims....
In case you were too slow to follow the reason that Southern Baptists were chosen, they are the largest Protestant denomination, and one that (other than immigration) hasn’t been too swamped. The point is that contrary to the media hype, sexual abuse is not a Catholic thing.
I will note, however, that the Catholic sexual abuse problem was worse than it had to be because gays flocked to the priesthood to find a vocation other than marriage; when they found they could not control their lust simply by joining the priesthood, some went to more liberal denominations, such as the Episcopalian Church, and others subverted and thus further perverted their sexuality, and so it is that a strangely high portion of the sexual abusers in the Catholic church are gay.
The elephant in the room is that 80% of the priests in question are neither heterosexual, nor (as his psychobabble presumes) true pedophiles, but men who lusted after hormonally mature but still psychologically immature young men.
But seriously, this is just a case of people with Catholic Derangement Syndrome venting their spleens.
quote: “But seriously, this is just a case of people with Catholic Derangement Syndrome venting their spleens.”
response: I don’t suppose there are any CATHOLICS that spend each day here on FR “venting their spleens” against Protestants due to their derangement syndromes against Biblical Christians, right? ;>))
And the “problem” within the catholic church is NOT limited to priests alone, as the following article details.....
Nuns sexually abusing minors could become next Catholic Church scandal, experts say
Abuse Tracker
Daily guide to media coverage of clergy abuse worldwide, and especially in the US Roman Catholic church. More than 100,000 articles blogged since 2006.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/
Exactly.
And it is pointless to try to reason with them.
I pray for them, though.
and while your praying don’t forget to pray for the abused altar boys.
Oh, an Australian study said it. So it must be true.
Use your own brain. If that were true then everything they said could be applied to any immature or psychologically mal-adjusted unmarried person who is sexually frustrated trying to live by the Christian prohibition of sex outside of marriage. It completely ignores the FACT that the vast majority of the abuse was homosexual in nature, committed against pubescent and teenage boys. So I guess the Church should just promote fornication, then!
Take it up with God, He inspired the Scriptures. Including the following....
That same Scripture might even be found in catholic versions, if they haven’t removed it yet.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
King James Version
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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