NIGHTLINE Tonight: The Big Picture (Dallas Paper to Break BIG Story on Catholic Scandal!)

ABCNEWS | June 11, 2002 | Leroy Sievers

[rwfromkansas]

The answer is very simple: you purge your ranks of the devil's agents. Unfortunately, since the Catholic church doesn't care much for the Bible's exclusive authority, this is not going to happen in all likelyhood.

[ninonitti]

My money is on the ample rump of Cardinal Bernard "Bunny" Law of Boston.

Many stories circulate here in Boston about private suppers in his residence with a major league poofter employed as an attorney in City Hall.

[ThomasMore]

Tune in to Nightline this evening.

Don't be surprised if you here the name Avery Dulles!

[SoothingDave]

The answer is very simple: you purge your ranks of the devil's agents. Unfortunately, since the Catholic church doesn't care much for the Bible's exclusive authority, this is not going to happen in all likelyhood.

I just looked through the Bible and it didn't have any list of names. I guess some other authority will have to do the purging, eh?

SD

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Makes one wonder why someone with this in their closet would persist in the affrontery of pretending to be a priest. They like the dining priveleges, VIP cocktail parties, and fluffy pillows, one must assume.

[BlackElk]

Another opportunist. Catholics care very much what the Bible says. We simply don't agree with what YOU think it says. The Catholic Church and the reformed churches have teaching magisteriums. The Catholic Church has no compunction about saying so. We are not going to be put into a narrow little box constructed by a discontent priest nearly 500 years ago.

[Mo1]

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[BlackElk]

The fluffy pillows are probably easier on the teeth. If Nightline wants to know, they can ask Rembert.

[maryz]

I donated -- I hope everyone else here did.

[rwfromkansas]

lol....the Bible's exclusive authority on TEACHINGS AND DOCTRINE.

[Saundra Duffy]

I don't have any faith in these Bishops & Cardinals. The Pope should fire about TWO THIRDS of them.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Peter Puffer Puffed a Peck of Pickled Peters.

All seriousness aside, though, this is really starting to unveil into something. Time for a real housecleaning and no more under the carpet treatment.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Roughly two-thirds of the bishops have either been accused themselves, actually a relatively small number, or more commonly, are accused of covering up the actions of one of their priests.

That's rather ambiguous and slightly dangling in antecedents. "Roughly two-thirds have EITHER been accused themselves, actually a relatively small number," [?] "OR more commonly, are accused of covering up the actions of one of their priests."

Does that mean 2/3 are merely accused? Or that, in total and combined, 2/3 are EITHER accused of molestation OR covering up? Those are different crimes. Considering that some accusations may be from schizo-affective psychos, and therefore untrue, is not included in this sentence. This needs clarification.

[SoothingDave]

Makes one wonder why someone with this in their closet would persist in the affrontery of pretending to be a priest. They like the dining priveleges, VIP cocktail parties, and fluffy pillows, one must assume.

Do you seriously not know? It's called Gramscian takeover of the Institutions, and it's rolling through a gov't school, university, or Church near you.

Why have these pillars of society arrayed against your "progressive" agenda, when you can join up and pervert them from within?

SD

[Mo1]

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[american colleen]

Thanks for the ping Mary. Looks like I'll be dragging down the TV while I'm at work, can't miss this!

[LarryLied]

The church has never been about god, it has always been about the priests.

Oh come one. I'm a Unitarian, one of the first heretics the Catholic Church went after, and even I can see the good the church has done. It has been a bulwark against secularism, marxism, fascism and all the other isms which plagued us in the last century. Now it is fighting the UN/George Soros/Marxist NGO crowd. Tens of millions have found great comfort in their faith. That doesn't happen in a church which is, as you suggest, a fraud.

The church will emerge from this purged and stronger than ever. And that is good for everyone who loves liberty.

[SoothingDave]

Does that mean 2/3 are merely accused? Or that, in total and combined, 2/3 are EITHER accused of molestation OR covering up? Those are different crimes. Considering that some accusations may be from schizo-affective psychos, and therefore untrue, is not included in this sentence. This needs clarification.

It means 2/3 have either committed a crime or are covering it up. The actual number who have molested is what they are referring to as a"relatively small number."

In other words, a relatively small number have committed abuse, but a large majority have covered up for someone who has.

SD

[Illbay]

Some say the issue is celibacy. Others that the priesthood attracts those disposed towards children. Still others argue that the issue is homosexuality in the priesthood.

And some say "all of the above."