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Thanks for the bump, ArGee. As usual, your apologetics are superb. You have already stated what I would have posted. (You sure you're not a closet Catholic??? You do a better job than me and several others here on many issues dear to us... ;-)

Catholics do not deny harsh realities. Here's two things I have been studying lately:

The Price Of Priestly Pederasty

Who Burned The Witches?

Thanks for the link to those two articles.

I've met Dan Michalski, the author of the first, at some confab a couple of years ago. He was talking about Pederasty then, too. He was one of those incensed that Rehkemper was trying to build an expensive school against the wishes of the parishoners at All Saints>

Rehkemper's the one who had to resign as pastor of All Saints AND as Vicar General of Dallas when, after he was asked by a reporter about the Rudy Kos case, said "Those boys were as much to blame as Fr. Kos was."

The poster boy of insensitivity.

You do a better job than me and several others here on many issues dear to us... ;-)

I may not be a member of the Holy Roman Church, but I have great respect for her. And all members of the Church are my brothers and sisters and I have great love for them. I know bashing when I hear it, and bashing can usually be addressed by logic. As for my membership, if I could get a priest to accept certain views of mine that are distinct from those often shared from the pulpit as being non-apostate - even if I never share them - then I could become a member of a Catholic Community with no trouble. But I would not want to hold my views to myself and not clear my relationship with the Shepherd of the Flock. IMO: that would be dishonest. Also, my wife was raised Baptist. She has come a long way in her spiritual walk to stop worrying about labels, but becoming Catholic would still be too great a stretch for her. And I love her to much to press the issue.

Shalom.