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"I'm Catholic and the Catholic Church has taken a lot of heat of late because of the pedophilia but it is still very strongly condemned, especially in my little part of the world."
It would be nice if there was some strong statement against pedophilia and active homosexuality/lesbianism by the Catholic Church as a whole. All we get are 'prayers for the 'victims of these unfortunate events' and snotty comments about . Of course, our Bishop and his chief aid were active enablers and protectors of the Pervert Priests.

Our Bishop is very outspoken on this topic. There is no gray areas whatsoever. Although we have not had any child molestation incidents in our diocese we did have a priest who was a drunk. He was gone in a skinny minute once this Bishop took over. No idea where he sent him, he just vanished off the face of the earth.

It would be nice if there was some strong statement against pedophilia and active homosexuality/lesbianism by the Catholic Church as a whole.

Is this strong enough for you?

Vatican Document On Homosexual Unions

“Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recently discovered methods of artificial reproduction, beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity,(15) does nothing to alter this inadequacy.”
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS

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It would be nice if there was some strong statement against pedophilia and active homosexuality/lesbianism by the Catholic Church as a whole.

The Vatican has consistently condemned pedophilia, and any homosexual (or heterosexual for that matter) activity by priests or religious. In the 60s and 70s they allowed the American church way too much rope - partly because of Vatican II, partly because of fear of being seen as meddling in American affairs (a common refrain of nativist anti-Catholics).

That has changed drastically. Coincidentally, yesterday I received our archdiocesan newsletter, which contained a comprehensive report from an independent investigative agency appointed to review all sexual misconduct allegations against ALL the dioceses in the U.S. (whether homosexual or not - but something like 80 percent are homosexual).

Two interesting points from this report - 1. our archdiocese was commended by the agency for implementing every point and aspect of the Vatican's plan for rooting out those guilty of sexual misconduct and preventing any future offenses. 2. there was a laundry list of allegations -- virtually all allege misconduct that occurred more than 25 years ago. About half are new allegations against priests already laicized, imprisoned, or dead.

That tells me that strong action HAS been taken, and what we are seeing now is mostly winding up the remainder of the sexual offenses from the 60s and 70s.

You can't ever completely eliminate the possiblity of misconduct -- you don't hear about what goes on, for example, in the public schools -- but the Church after a bad period of indifference has made significant efforts to combat this problem.