To: undirish01; NYer; american colleen
I can't speak for A.C. or others, but as one who was very skeptical of this report and the "town hall" setting, I was very pleasantly surprised. It was made clear that what we have a predatory homosexual problem, not a hetero "child abuse" problem.
I'd say that 81% of the victims being male teens is very telling.
Nearly everyone agreed that the clergy is no place for homosexual males.
14 posted on
02/28/2004 5:56:08 AM PST by
AAABEST
(<a href="http://www.angelqueen.org">Traditional Catholicism is Back and Growing</a>)
To: AAABEST
Wow! I cannot believe it!
Even Bp Darcy?
Thank you, AAABEST. (and yes, I think it healthy these days to view EVERYTHING with skepticism)
15 posted on
02/28/2004 5:58:29 AM PST by
undirish01
(Go Irish! If only we can get the theology dept. turned around.)
To: AAABEST
I'd say that 81% of the victims being male teens is very telling.
VERY telling and it was the one thing that a lot people just would not take into account. Yes, there were a few cases of true pedophilia, and those men should have the full weight of the law on them, but for the most part it was homosexuality.
I think there is going to be a gradual waking of the laity to this.
17 posted on
02/28/2004 6:06:09 AM PST by
Desdemona
(Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
To: AAABEST
I was out last night. Is this meeting going to be aired again?
24 posted on
02/28/2004 6:36:40 AM PST by
Desdemona
(Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
To: AAABEST
It was very good. I was more pleased with Bishop D'Arcy than I thought possible (though I kept telling myself "He knows he is on EWTN. He knows he is on EWTN.) But I was not happy when he tried to shut down a point Fr. Richard John Neuhaus made about hte problem of priests having sex with other priests. Bishop D'Arcy wanted to emphasize that most priests are chaste, but it came off to me as if he were shutting down Fr. Neuhaus. And in my family book, that is a very very bad thing to do.
50 posted on
02/28/2004 8:15:45 AM PST by
Siobhan
(+Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet+)
To: AAABEST
Like you'd actually hear in the regular media the truth of this whole scandal is a "homosexual" problem and less of a pedophile problem.
Some of the Diocese need to be cleaned out.
67 posted on
02/28/2004 11:30:33 AM PST by
Jaded
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