Posted on 03/22/2010 8:13:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
It has become fashionable to claim that the sex abuse scandal currently afflicting the Catholic Church is its biggest crisis since the Reformation. Oh, really? Tell me about it. The abuse issue is just a small part of the much larger crisis that has engulfed the Church since the Second Vatican Catastrophe and which is more serious than the Reformation.
Abolish clerical celibacy? The last thing a priest abusing altar boys needs or wants is a wife. There is no compulsory celibacy in the Church of England, but that has not prevented vicars and boy scouts furnishing gratifying amounts of copy to the tabloid Sunday papers for the past century. Celibacy goes against the grain of todays unrepressed, non-judgemental, let-it-all-hang-out attitude to sex; its continued existence is a reproach to the hedonist Western world; so Rome must be persuaded to abolish it likewise its condemnation of divorce, abortion, contraception, homosexuality and all the other fetishes of liberal society. Dream on, secularists.
Irish abuse victims disappointed by Popes letter. Of course they are. They were disappointed by it before they had read it, before it was even written. Any other response would diminish the power they find themselves wielding against the Church. Have they a legitimate grievance? In most cases, yes. They have a ferocious grievance against the filth (Benedict XVIs term, long before he came under public pressure) who defiled them and treated them like animals.
How could clergy transgress so gravely against the doctrines of the Church? What doctrines? These offences took place in the wake of Vatican II, when doctrines were being thrown out like so much lumber. These offenders were the children of Paul VI and aggiornamento. Once you have debauched the Mystical Body of Christ, defiling altar boys comes easily.
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Oh, it’s already under way. Find ten young priests and see how orthodox they are. Find ten dissenters and compute their average age.
if you include pedophiles who go after girls, the main abusers are mom’s most recent boyfriend or stepdad, not fathers.
fathers do the most “physical” abuse, but I’ve only seen one case of sexual abuse by dad to boys..girls yes, but not boys.
and no liberal “sisters” either.
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