Posted on 04/29/2010 6:16:19 AM PDT by marshmallow
If my experience is any indication, they don’t get a veil until they can prove their proficiency with the paddle and accurate eraser-throwing
Skills such as these would be most welcome at the editorial offices of The Rambler about now, say I!
Amen - and with one of those paddles with the holes, so as to cut down on air resistance when swinging
Thus the Church has been proactive and the latest accusations date back to the 1960’s, 70’s, 80's. In the most recent stories journalists are referring to who did what, when, with many of the perpetrators long since dead or else who sent what letter when or what office had oversight responsibility. Perhaps the Church should have a "Hate the Church Day" in Congress like Goldman Sacks and allow all the Catholic bashers to have their day in the sun. Since the 2002 reformation appears to be efficacious these recent newspaper articles do not resonate or cause alarm with the Catholic faithful but only with the uninformed.
And the uninformed need to know this:
The most probable pedophiles in order are:
Fathers
Teachers
Coaches
Protestant ministers
Priests are way down on the list.
So if a father is a teacher of mid-high history, coaches the girls basketball team and is a youth minister at his church on weekends/Sundays watch out! He would be much more prone to pedophilia that any priest.
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Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination
Child Sexual Molestation by Various Protestant Clergy
"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse
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Teachers and Pedophilia - In YOUR Backyard
Washington Post -- D.C. school officials reported 220 abuse allegations against teachers
Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church
WHEN BOYS ARE MOLESTED BY TEACHERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY
Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
fatboy,
You’re completely out of touch with reality.
The “present situation” the Church finds herself in is already all-but-over. It has nothing to do with 1517 and can’t be compared to it.
Also, all of this is causing an INCREASE in vocations, not a decrease.
"Terrorists! Yes, and incendiaries, too! They burned Rome, you know. And then they died in the arena. But they died smiling. Monstrous of them to die smiling. It's inhuman ..."
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