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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imho,
Dr E and I have absolutely NO disrespect whatsoever for the authentic Biblical Mary.
We have tons of . . . dismay . . . aversion, incredulity, hostility . . . to the idolatry seducing, blasphemous, demonized caricatured farcical ‘Magnificent, Munificent, Magnanimous, Magical, Mary’ Ishtar-goddess-stand-in personage the king of hell has foisted so successfully on the Vatican cult.
. . . as, imho, should anyone who’s truly seeking God only—first, foremost and always.
But those are my words. Dr E may disagree and is well able to say so.
Dood...you need a time-out to cool off a little bit. I don't think I have seen one post of yours on this thread that was anything but a knee-jerk reaction to an imagined bogey man. Can I buy you a drink?
Excellent points . . . .
WHY?
Probably several common reasons:
1. Some folks who seek out such roles are mangled and tortured souls to begin with—desperately seeking God’s wholeness but never quite getting the deliverance and wholeness they so desperately need and maybe only occasionally earnestly seek.
2. Satan is eager to take any flaw, any degree of childhood ATTACHMENT DISORDER and turn the heat up on it as much as possible—toward derailing the person in a Christian leadership or mentoring role. All the more so, the more earnest and powerful in the Lord that the person is.
3. Sheeple in the pews have a compulsion to raise their own sense of self worth by flattering and elevating all THEIR Christian leaders to lofty fantasized realms of perfection or near perfection in their own minds. It doesn’t take much for leaders with flawed stuff, ATTACHMENT DISORDER etc. to feed compulsively and ravenously on such adulations . . . and a kind of incestuous reciprocal reverberation gets set up where pride is ratcheted up and up to dizzying heights. The leaders begin to believe their own press clippings and the sheeple bask in the reflected glory that they themselves have helped to trump up on such sandy foundations.
4. Very few congregations and virtually no denominations I currently know of . . . have sufficiently believed the crucial GOD’S ORDERS importance of—and certainly aren’t practicing CHRIST’S EXHORTATION that HIS DISCIPLES WOULD NOT LORD IT OVER EACH OTHER NOR OVER THEIR PEOPLE but instead WOULD SERVE THEM SACRIFICIALLY, HUMBLY, with TRUE SERVANT HEARTEDNESS AND SERVANT BEHAVIORS—that humility would be their hallmark—models of brokenness and humility vs models of pontifically prancing kings in gold lame.
5. Power mongering and !!!CONTROL!!! FREAK stuff are also usually involved in such pride embellished RELIGIOUS roles.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
I’m anti- a lot of things about the Vatican cult’s theology, dogma, culture and practices. However, not everything. And, I’m not, per se, anti- the people involved.
Thank you Pallidin...I have seen such ‘spiritual adultery’ occur between a husband and wife....it destroyed their marriage when the truth was known, and despite counseling and much prayer the marriage ended.
Interesting is the husband, who had become involved in a cult, told the counselor at least he had not committed adultery against his wife which would have been harder to handle. The counselor was quick to then explain to him why ‘spiritual adultery’ is far greater an offense for it engulfs the body soul, spirit, heart, and mind of the offended party, and it’s tentacles leave the deepest scars on the very soul of a person.
But I do think it is very difficult for catholics to fanthom how far reaching these sins, they are attempting to rid their churches of do reach, for them it is like a man created deadly epidemic, within the house of God, and encouraged by it’s leadership. It would take me awhile to digest this...and the inner battle no doubt would be great.
So, Luther is a hideous heretic except when he flatters the !!!TRADITIONS!!! of man and doctrines of demons the king of hell succeeded in foisting on the Vatican Cult.
Impressive.
Kind of like the Vatican cult’s picking and choosing from various paragraphs of the early church fathers
as well as
picking and choosing from the fantasized rubberized pseudo-’histories’ to justify the whole Magicsterical political power-mongering in Rome 400 years after the fact.
Very impressive.
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I thoroughly agree with you.
I do not have any young children, but I think it is wise in this day and age for ALL churches and schools to have standards and guidelines that will make such behavior next to impossible to perpetrate. That should entail rules about closed rooms with glass doors, never having an adult being alone with a child in a closed area, etc. Also, it is critically important that children be made aware about what is inappropriate behavior and that anybody who violates that should be reported by them - even if the action might have been misunderstood. At least let the incident be recorded and the proper action taken - either explaining to the child the innocence or reprimanding the rule breaker. Granted, kids don’t always know nuance, but every child should know they have the right to be comfortable around someone and if a person or their action makes them feel uncomfortable, it should be spoken about.
I fully realize that not all child abuse can be stopped and I also know it happens between members of their own family, but kids NEED to know they have an advocate, they do not need to be afraid to speak to a caring adult about anything that happens to them. A lot of the past sexual abuse in the Catholic Church occurred because children who DID speak out were hushed, punished and/or called liars. No one was on their side so they endured what they could. It grieves me so much to think of those poor kids scared, ashamed, hurt - physically and psychologically - and hopeless because NO ONE cared for their souls. That HAS to stop now! We all must do whatever we need to do to make that happen. We cannot have another generation grow up with that burden on their souls. WE CAN’T!
NOPE.
NOT AT ALL.
They have nothing whatsoever to do with the authentic Biblical Mary.
INDEED.
WELL PUT.
THANKS TONS FOR YOUR KIND AND DISCERNING WORDS.
You are, of course, quite accurate.
Love you Dearly, Brother.
I’ll answer that...not just no, HELL NO!
Absolutely indeed.
Actually,
I think there are some proper Biblical attitudes and foci in at least some of the 12 Stations of The Cross.
IIRC, I walked those stations in Jerusalem, myself.
The White Hanky spoof is merely a take off on the idea to highlight what I perceive to be outrageous hypocrisies of many . . . things . . . and many persons . . . in the Vatican system.
You can get lost.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Though I think the PRIDE/power-mongering/!!!CONTROL!!! stuff is right up there with the money and sexual stuff.
Seems like he offends you people far more than us.
Thanks, Doc, for your knowledgable answer. I think Satan has such an easy time with some people that they believe they are as great as he tells them they are, forgetting all the while that whatever they do have is from the Lord. What he gives he can easily take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord!
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