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What is noteworthy about this report is the attempt to compare the extent of abuse within the Church to other groups. I think the report shows decisively that:

There is nothing noteworthy about this report. What goes on in other denominations does not make it right for what is/was going on in the RCC. If you think so, then you don't understand at all that GOD is the one that sets the standard. This report does nothing but justify and excuse what went on in the RCC AND any other denomination that such things happened in.

Becky

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Dear PNAMBC,

Yes, God sets the standards, and our leaders in the Catholic Church have fallen short of them.

But it appears that those in other denominations have fallen even shorter of these standards, and that folks in the secular world have fallen even much more miserably shorter of these standards.

Considering that many have taken the failings of Catholic priests and bishops to whack the Church on a variety of topics, including her moral authority to teach, and even whether or not the Church is even Christian, these results are quite noteworthy.

All have sinned, all have fallen short of the glory of God.

But it seems that Catholic priests have fallen short less often than other ministers of God, and much less so than those who do not try to serve God with their whole lives.

That effectively refutes those who would try to question the moral authority of the Church to teach on issues of morality due to the scandals.

That most effectively refutes those who say the scandals have been evidence of the "un-Christian" nature of the Catholic Church.

The results are noteworthy indeed.


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