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To some, pope's plea for forgiveness falls short
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 12, 2010 | Mitchell Landsberg

Posted on 06/13/2010 10:27:18 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg

When Pope Benedict XVI announced the "Year of the Priest" that concluded Friday, he probably didn't have in mind the sort of year he got.

He acknowledged as much in a closing Mass, telling more than 10,000 assembled priests in St. Peter's Square that "in the very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light." ...

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To: Salvation

I would like to see the numbers on that sal.. I think Catholic priests lead the pack as gay and child abusers ...I would like any stats that say more ministers have sodomized little boys that priests

The priesthood attracts homosexuals ... just look at your parishes ...


21 posted on 06/13/2010 10:49:41 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: wideawake
Using your excellent guideline, Ratzinger has plenty to apologize for.

Nixon lost the Presidency not for the break-in, but for the cover-up.

22 posted on 06/13/2010 10:49:57 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If priests could marry the priesthood would not attract as many homos


23 posted on 06/13/2010 10:50:27 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Thanks for the ping!


24 posted on 06/13/2010 10:51:05 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Trailerpark Badass; Gurn

Homosexuals might not be drawn to a profession such as the RC priesthood if it was not solely inhabited by “celibate” men living without wives and children.


25 posted on 06/13/2010 10:52:16 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Exactly.

Sometimes the coverup is worse than the crime.

These men KNEW the church would never out them..so they continued in their evil deeds.. under the cover of “the one true church”

The popes hands are not clean


26 posted on 06/13/2010 10:52:53 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Irisshlass
It is amazing to me the anti-semitic invisible church that doesn’t believe in the Holy Trinity is always pointing the finger at the Catholic Church.

Who or what are you talking about?

Are you on the wrong thread?

27 posted on 06/13/2010 10:53:31 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Dr. Eckleburg
People seem to think that apologies are magic.

You've got an interesting point.

It seems that if a woman murders her children and says she's really sorry, instead of getting the death penalty she gets 20 yrs in prison. So if a religious leader says he's really sorry about past crimes we should say no problem.

I'm not of this school of thought.

I just want to see that everything that can be done is being done to see that it never happens again and those that were involved go to prison and never see the light of day again.

28 posted on 06/13/2010 10:55:31 AM PDT by wmfights (If you want change support SenateConservatives.com)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

http://holycrime.com/CrimeDoc60.asp

Why should the Pope, who has never abused anyone, ask for forgiveness when the MULLAHS rape teenage boys . . . caught on tape!

It’s Muhammadanism that needs to apologize to the world for the abuse of Muhammad on the people who follow the Koran AND on those who want nothing of the sex-crazed killing cult.


29 posted on 06/13/2010 10:56:02 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
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To: Salvation
Those links are as damning as the one I posted.

"Heresy" is the reason behind the pederast priest sex abuse scandals???

I still hold out hope there are conservative Roman Catholics who do not buy into this idiotic deflection and can truly understand where this satanic sexual activity is coming from -- the protected class of men who have been told they are "another Christ" by a church which believes everyone else is "defective."

But then once that truth finally occurs to someone, they usually find the exit and end up in a more Biblically-faithful Protestant church which protects its children.

30 posted on 06/13/2010 10:58:15 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
the church doctrine which believes its priests to be "another Christ." An "alter Christus."

Still selling this falsehood, DE?

Really?

"alter Christus" does not mean "another Christ."

The Latin phrase for "another Christ" is "alius Christus" not "alter Christus."

The medieval Latin word "alter" means "likeness." The job of a priest (like that of all Christians) is to emulate Christ. More specifically for priests, to offer the Mass like Christ offered the Last Supper.

In 1 Corinthians 11:1 St. Paul specifically calls himself such an emulator of Christ.

31 posted on 06/13/2010 11:00:49 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: RnMomof7
.I would like any stats that say more ministers have sodomized little boys that priests

The priesthood attracts homosexuals ... just look at your parishes ...

Amen. How parents can still send their children to a parochial school is unfathomable. They've been blinded.

32 posted on 06/13/2010 11:01:40 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: RnMomof7
Actually priests are way down on the list. Don't take me wrong by my posting here.....abuse is terrible wherever it happens.

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 girl’s 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

Baptist Predators website

"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse

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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

 


33 posted on 06/13/2010 11:04:07 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Irisshlass
Who or what are you talking about?

Are you on the wrong thread?

She is just throwing slanders up against the wall to see what sticks. Ya know the best defense is a GOOD offense and that one is certainly offensive ...LOL

Like I said..glass houses

34 posted on 06/13/2010 11:05:29 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

**I still hold out hope there are conservative Roman Catholics **

Are you aware of the stringent pre-screening now done in seminaries. At least a two day psche exam for starters.

There have been threads posted about it.

Basically the seminaries in the U. S. are now cleaned up. The Pope is now working on the convents — and many of the nuns are not too happy about it. I wonder why? >sarc off


35 posted on 06/13/2010 11:07:04 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

It’s pointless to try and convert those in the dying OPC cult. Let them wallow in their blindness.


36 posted on 06/13/2010 11:08:12 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: wideawake
I'm not "selling" anything. I'm relaying what Roman Catholic priests teach about themselves. The RC habit of changing the meaning of words when the truth is inconvenient is getting old. Read this...

THE AMAZING GIFT OF THE PRIESTHOOD
by Father Kenneth Baker

"...Simply stated, the Catholic priest is another Christ. Through his ordination he has been granted the amazing gift of being a channel of divine grace for the eternal salvation of those he come into contact with — both in his official ministry and in his personal life..."

So we have a well-known Roman Catholic priest telling us that Rome believes its priests are "another Christ...both in his official ministry and in his personal life."

Did you get that? Even "in his personal life."

Sick.

37 posted on 06/13/2010 11:08:35 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: HighlyOpinionated; Dr. Eckleburg
Now that is an INTERESTING comparison ...but I guess any port in a storm

As my mother used to say , "if your friend jumped off a bridge would you??"

Just because heathens do it does not make it ok for you to do it too (unless of course they too are heathens)

38 posted on 06/13/2010 11:09:17 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Salvation; RnMomof7
Anyone who thinks Protestant ministers molest children more than Roman Catholic priests must be blind or being paid to issue idiotic propaganda.

The slurs against everyone else in this mess are getting louder and more insane.

Why, I do believe postmen and marine biologists sexually abuse children even more than pederast priests.

I read it on some RC blog so it must be true.

39 posted on 06/13/2010 11:11:17 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Dr E, Satan does not have to motive the unregenerate or cause them to sin . sin comes from the depraved heart and lustful desires.. It is a natural as breathing.

Saying “the dvil made them do it “ used to be a punch line in a bad joke, not a legitimate excuse from a “religious leader”


40 posted on 06/13/2010 11:12:37 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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