Penn State scandal "opens wound" in Catholic Church

Reuters ^ | 11/16/2011 | Jason Tomassini

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(Reuters) - The top U.S. Catholic bishop said on Monday that a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University "opens a wound" within the church, which remains scarred from its own similar controversies and cover-ups.

"We know what you're going through," Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a news conference in Baltimore where hundreds of bishops have gathered for their national meeting.

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The difference between Penn State and the Catholic church is that Penn State swiftly removed the enablers unlike the church where the most notorious pedophile protectors, such as Cardinal Law, still serve the Pope.


Dolan said the Penn State scandal was proof that sex abuse was "widespread" and not associated with a particular faith.

"See! Everyone rapes children!"

"No one has suffered more than the Catholic community."

How about the tens of thousands of children who were raped at the hands of your clergy?

[Gamecock]

Love the martyrdom exhibited by the Roman Catholic Church leadership.

[Happy Rain]

Well,there is one similarity. A culture friendly to homosexual pederasts was established in both institutions -—the exception being one was secular and the other nonsecular.

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It’s the homosexuals, media’s, psychologist’s, pornographer’s, etc.. fault don’t ya know?

I also hear the devil made them do it...

[Mercat]

I think that the main difference is that the victims of the perps in the church were largely young but adolescent boys whereas the Penn State victims were pre-adolescent boys. Having raised two boys, there’s a huge difference.

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#1 This is unadulterated Catholic bigotry
#2 There’s no such thing as a “top Catholic bishop.” If you’re going to castigate the Catholic Church, you should do a bit of homework. If you mean the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, that’s something wholly different. Each bishop is in charge of his own diocese and answers only to the Bishop of Rome with whom he is in communion.
#3 Since you’re so well informed, you might regale us with the statistics regarding child sex abuse among all professions in this country percentage-wise. Why not start with public school teachers.
#4 I will certainly pray for the healing of your bigoted heart. No thank-you necessary.

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It is reported that the Penn State victims were 11 to 15.

The church’s victims have a wide distribution.

At the end of the day, it’s all child rape.

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Penn State is as despicable as the worst of the enablers in the RCC.

What happens is that whenever you get a strong machismo culture without equally strong institutional discipline and morality, MEN will inevitably seek out their narcissistic sexual perquisites and turn an organization into a brothel. You see similar behavior in Islam--male domination and no real accountability inevitably leads to debauchery. Women are for children, and boys are for sex.

We've created a culture where men can indulge their worst impulses. I have always been uneasy with the weird, almost religious, passions that men assuage in the world of sports. It doesn't seem like there is any place where men can have a wholesome good time without having to service their small brains...

An exception is the US Military, which is now under attack by the homosexual "lobby", if you will. The chain of command, and, dare I say? the assertive officers' wives keep a lot of this kind of trash out of the military.

The RCC are really pikers compared to our socialized schools, our fatuous universities--

I'd like to turn over the Sandusky's of this world over to some Commanche squaws...

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#1 This is unadulterated Catholic bigotry

What took you so long? ;)

#2 There’s no such thing as a “top Catholic bishop.”

So there's no way to remove pedophile protecting leadership? Something is seriously wrong with an organization like that.

#3 Since you’re so well informed, you might regale us with the statistics regarding child sex abuse among all professions in this country percentage-wise. Why not start with public school teachers.

"Don't blame us, everyone rapes children!" The difference is that people go to prison in most other organizations and the leadership is terminated.

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Yup. Penn State got rid of them right away. As soon as their money machine was threatened. Until then they did not give a $hit.

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I'd like to turn over the Sandusky's of this world over to some Commanche squaws...

I'm still partial to woodchipper therapy for the Sandusky's of the world.

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Penn State scandal “does not reopen issue of whether the Boy Scouts should be required to allow homosexuals in”

I wonder why?

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First go google up what Commanche women did to prisoners in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

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Dolan declined to offer advice to Penn State University on how to deal with its scandal, because the church "has not been a good example of how to deal with this in the past,"

Something is dead wrong when a church is not able to give advice about heinous sin.

Dead wrong.

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Um, teachers diddle so many children it doesn't even make national news unless the diddler is female, then it's woman-bites-dog...

In my community, I can barely open the local news without another local MALE teacher getting busted for hankering after baby flesh. And he's not a priest, just another man who can't control his impulses...probably because his own father set that kind of example.

So I call you out for anti-Catholic bigotry. There's a lot more self-indulgent lust among the products of our liberal arts universities than the Vatican could ever ordain.

And I'm not Catholic.

[Siena Dreaming]

If you mean the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops,

Wouldn't we assume the position gives him some kind of authority over other US bishops?

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And we would be wrong.

[Siena Dreaming]

Why?

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Penn State swiftly removed the enablers

What Penn State scandal have you been following?

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The difference between Penn State and the Catholic church is that Penn State swiftly removed the enablers

I suppose if you put it in terms of a 2000+ year Catholic tradition, you can argue for using the term "swiftly". However, to me 1998-2011 isn't near swift enough and shouldn't be classified as such.