Posted on 04/19/2011 7:42:19 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Frontline’s next exposé focuses on the “decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska,” and in one particular town they find, “nearly 80% of the town’s children were molested” by Catholic priests.
As we reported on this story just a few weeks ago, the Roman Catholic Church, as part of ongoing lawsuits, will make payments to approximately 700 male and female sexual and psychological abuse, molestation, and rape victims who were living in Alaska Native villages and Indian reservations from Montana to Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and who were “sexually or psychologically abused as children by Jesuit missionaries in those states in the 1940s through the 1990s,” according to a statement by attorneys.
The latest agreement will financially compensate 524 victims with $166.1 million in cases including accusations against 140 Jesuit priests, brothers, and nuns from the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, in the Pacific Northwest. Only $48 million will come from the Catholic Church, the remainder will be paid by its insurance companies.
None of the Jesuit priests are being charged with any crime related to this abuse, rape, and molestation settlement.
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No, as much as that mental image makes me laugh, I’m sure that he’s real. A machine isn’t this easy to trip up in it’s own words.
True. true.
LOL.
I’ll be sure to say a “Hail, Mary” for you tonight.
I stand by my post 482.
You forgot Mary of the Perpetual Hallucination.
Include most of the ministers that I have known in that lack of trust.
When I was a college freshman, I took a survey of religion course (required) that included Paul Tillich. I went home to my home church and asked my minister if he agreed with Paul Tillich and he answered, yes. So, I asked why we hadn’t heard any of this in sermons. His answer was that you have to preach the kind of sermons that the church members want to hear.
Two successive ministers at other churches that I belonged to, ran off with the choir directors and the priest at my local Catholic church got caught molesting the acolyte class. They are all just people, not different from the population at large, I don’t believe in any special calling to do God’s work. They are just men (for the most part), some better, some worse.
There's not much I could do if someone talked about my mother that way.
But I can't speak for the Lord...
INDEED.
And of the Immaculate Contraption? . . . oh, that would be the White Hanky Factory . . .
Well, it’s good that you’re standing for something, even though that “something” is a bald faced lie which I’ve already pointed out to you. Scripture says that you’re either part of the Body of Christ or you’re not. If you’re not for Christ, then you are by definition anti-Christ which is Satanic in origin. You’re claim has been weighed and been found wanting.
I’ll pray that God gives you a hunger to seek Him and His Truth above all else.
See post 527. You are really tempting fate.
But it is a start....are we engaged in a contest to see who reads/know more scripture or are we lifting one another up for the glory of the Lord? I am just not into tearing others religion apart...
I believe in loving your neighbor. That’s all I am trying to point out...this anti-catholic stuff is hurtful and does not glorify the Lord.
Mary was a simple Jewish girl, chosen by God to carry the Christ child to term.
Rome has turned her into a freakish golum.
Repent, Rome. Christ is no doubt disgusted by what Rome has done to His mother.
You claim that Quix and Dr. E are tempting fate for disrespecting Mary. Is that somehow a worse "sin" than all of the other sins we, as humans, commit? I understand your revulsion towards disrespecting Mary, especially considering what the Scriptures have to say about her, but what Quix and Dr. E are trying to point out is that Mary was a sinner needing a Savior just like the rest of us. She was shown grace by the Father, but she still needed to accept the sacrifice that Christ made for her. In short, she was a human who was granted grace by the Father even though she didn't deserve it, just like we're shown grace even though we don't deserve it.
So just maybe this wonder of them, as Christ's ministers to us, is being used to the advantage of those who want to indulge their vile appetites while retaining all the respect and deference of their title and place. I fully realize that a very small minority of wicked men and women "of the cloth" commit the crimes and I also fully believe the majority abhor such behavior, but there is still the problem of why has this cancer not been excised by now. Why do we still learn of fresh allegations? Why are there STILL clerics within the organization who have serious and verifiable abuses? Why does it appear that the "powers that be" - that should have all the authority they need to rid the organization of the guilty - are in reality 90 pound weaklings when it comes to wholesale house cleaning? Of what are they afraid?
It therefore comes as no surprise that some people question the seriousness of the remorse and the determination of the hierarchy to do what is right before God. St. Peter Damian's treatise, Book of Gomorrah spoken about in the post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929551/posts is incredibly eyeopening just on the shear knowledge that the homosexual/pederast problems in the Roman Catholic Church were known and decried over a millennium ago.
One is left with the question of why does it seem certain "men of God" use and abuse that title and the people to whom they minister defend them anyway? I can't figure it out.
Thanks for the truth.
God willing, Roman Catholics will take it upon themselves to open their Bible and read it.
I would like to point something out to you. Anti-catholic does not mean anti-Christian. Pointing out the errors in the body, calling Brothers and Sisters back to a better understanding and worship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is always glorifying to the Lord.
Martin Luther wrote that: “Mary is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. God’s grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil”
Honestly boatbums, it boils down to a weakness that all Christians, not just Catholics, have. We don’t want to believe that those people who we trust to teach us the Word could do wrong. It happens in the RCC and it happens in other denominations. It happens with sexual sins, like the pedophile priests that everyone knows about in the RCC, and it happens with protestant preachers who have multiple divorces. I don’t fully understand why Roman Catholics continue to defend these things, but then again I don’t understand why some in our own camp continue to defend preachers who have affairs, get divorced and remarried multiple times and who teach false doctrines like Rob Bell does. The only thing that I can say is that it’s not just Roman Catholics who have this problem.
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