Posted on 03/16/2010 7:25:56 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest attack on the pope by the New York Times:
Once upon a time there was a homosexual priest who was accused of molesting boys in Germany. That was 30 years ago. At the approval of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger (now the pope), he was sent away for therapy and was later reinstated; years later, under a new archbishop, there was another incident and more therapy.
We know this because the New York Times (which does not like to report on molesting rabbis in 2010), told us about this on Saturday in a front-page article. Today, it ran a front-page article on the same story. Was there any difference? Yes. On Saturday, the Times was only able to identify the priest as bearing the initial "H." Today, it has real news: his name is Hullermann. And now "H" has been suspended.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleague.org ...
“What’s so bad about sending a priest to therapy?”
Ask the second child he raped, I’m sure he might have some insight to share with you.
Great, so do Catholics. How then can you conclude that anything in the Catechism, Canon Law, Epistles and dogma of the Church is incompatible with Scripture if you have never read them to the extent that you can make a knowledgeable analysis? If you are relying on third party assessments how are yo certain that you are not unduly influenced by those possessed by hatred or ignorance?
So where is your outrage at the far more prevalent instances of repeat abuse within the Protestant Churches?
“So where is your outrage at the far more prevalent instances of repeat abuse within the Protestant Churches?”
Does bad behavior excuse bad behavior?
Was this article about Protestant abuse?
Why would I post something about Protty abuse on a thread that has nothing to do with it?
Is it because you want to excuse bad behavior by pointing at others’ bad behavior?
I point it out because the Catholic Church has aggressively and openly dealt with the problem and that fact goes unmentioned in the criticism of the Church from non-Catholics while they maintain complete silence and denial of a far worse problem within their own ranks.
There is quite a bit of difference. There exists no international hierarchy or beauracracy that spent decades trying to cover up sex abuse by Pastors. You are correct in that the cathoic church has now addressed the problem.
Once they were sued.
Sounds like an excuse to me.
Anything to defend those perverts in collars huh?
Are you referring to the Protetant Clergy guilty of sexual misconduct??
All of this aside, the NYT attack on the Pope is an attempt to destroy the Church. They have a myriad of reasons for doing this, none of which has anything to do with pedophile priests. The NYT is despicable and should take the logs out of their own eyes.
“The NYT is despicable”
On this, ALL of us regardless of our religions should be able to agree.
You have no idea and I am sorry for that :-(
lol. How long you been posting here, Willis? 8~)
As you observed, there is no such “evidence” which supports the idiotic assertions of the RC apologists who vainly try to cover the sins of their priestcraft with lies about everyone else’s church.
Sadly, even after they're sued, even after they lose in court, even after billions of dollars are spent settling these sex abuse cases, even after lives and families and churches are destroyed, even then Roman Catholic apologists work to ignore, deflect and deny.
And nothing changes.
Thank you both for your kind words.
God Bless and Happy Easter,
And NOTHING changes in any of the other religious organizations nor in families that have a perpetrator....Because your issue is NOT really about child abuse, but anger at the catholic church.
So nothing will change, keep focusing on your hatred of Christians other than YOUR brand. Wow, THAT should certainly bring us all together and help solve the child abuse problems.(Not)
Talk about “deflecting, denying and ignoring...” Do I sense the classical psychological ‘projection” defense mechanism?
Here are some stats from an australian website—google child abuse, Australia—
I quoted here the “Protestant “ statistics...just in case anyone thinks that “Oh, it is just the catholic culture”
“Southdown Institute, a Canadian treatment centre for religious personnel with problems, says that 15% of the The Anglican diocese of Brisbane has raised the potential of bankruptcy were they obliged to pay out on abuse claims. This would be consistent with the Archbishop’s statement that the proposed inquiry into the diocese’s handling of abuse claims over the period 1990-2001 would be examining )
One researcher claims that the problem is greater in Protestants than among Catholics, stating 1.7% of Catholic priests are abusers, but 10% of Protestant ministers are abusers (cited in http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2213/pedoph.html ) “
thanks. I Just don’t like the focus on only the Catholic church because it really does not solve the problem, which is Child Abuse is in every part of society.
As long as we focus on only ONE church, we do disservice and enable the abuse to go on everywhere.
If one checks out the stats, one will see that the Catholics get the coverage, but it is a problem everywhere.
You are not listening. The point is the COVER-UP of the abuse by the RC Church.
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