[fish hawk]

Even though many molest children, go back and read the papers from the last 10 years and see if the Catholic priests are mentioned and pointed out 1000% more than anyone else. Maybe the reason for that is because they are supposed to be an example of clean living or the MSM is on a vendetta after them. In either case there is plenty of proof there that the Catholics have a BIG problem. That is why I mention it. I’m finding out that Catholics also have very thin skin. Whether it is because they doubt their own religion, I don’t know. Instead of just admitting the problem they call you bigot and prejudice. Why not insist that the bad priest get their butts kicked instead of paying millions every year and just transferring the priest to another district.

[ElkGroveDan]

In either case there is plenty of proof there that the Catholics have a BIG problem.

Go back and read the link I sent you. Protestants have a BIG problem too.

[Running On Empty]

Merry Christmas, fish hawk.

Of all times, this is the time for “peace to men of good will”.

The bad priests have been “outed”—the penalties have fallen on the people in the pews. Sounds a little like Joe Everyman taking up his cross—as Jesus instructed us-—and someone else’s cross as well (which Jesus did for us, in order to set the example for us to follow).

When the hard times of this “priestly problem” of the past 20-30 years is dealt with, and the penalities paid by good priests and good people in the pews, the Church will began again, as it has always done for the last 2000 years.

About every 400 years, the Church meets a crisis, confronts it, and begins a renewal and a new time of re-generation.

I see signs that our 40 years in the desert is coming to a close and once again, we are crossing the Jordan to new life in the Catholic Church.

I am certain that you will live to see it happen, though, for me, I know I am too old now to see it.

But it will come and, when it does, you may have to re-double your efforts in order to paint it in a bad light. It won’t be easy then.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Church has had a long and great history of giving much all over the world for which it never asks credit. It also has a long line of wonderful, faithful, good priests whose daily good works and sacrificial lives never make the headlines or receive any accolades.

Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to men of good will.

[Antoninus]

Whether it is because they doubt their own religion, I don’t know. Instead of just admitting the problem they call you bigot and prejudice.

Yes, we are well aware that homosexual predators have set up shop within the Catholic Church, particularly in Europe and the US. Yes, we have been acting vigorously to root them out--from Pope Benedict on down. If you followed the Catholic threads in the religion forum, you'd know that.

What you did was the equivalent of pointing out to someone, in normal conversation, that their mother was a whore.

How is making such a statement even close to acting the part of a disciple of Christ?