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To: Triple

How about if the church focused on establishing an order to provide care for child victims who grew up unable to manage their own lives? Therapy and psychiatric medication and financial management and help with employment.

And try to identify and find those people.
Rather than only paying off the ones who can beat the church in court.


5 posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:47 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: MrEdd

Most, if not all, dioceses in the United States have established programs administered by members of the laity to do that. I don’t know how successful a specific order would be in gaining the trust of the victims in order to provide them the help they need.


7 posted on 02/10/2011 1:32:39 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: MrEdd
"Rather than only paying off the ones who can beat the church in court."

When taken to Court many of the priests were exhonerated. The vast majority of the payoffs were out of court settlements. Frankly, the Church doesn't know how to protect itself from this sort of thing, (false accusations and unfair media attacks). The Church is a big, easy target. As a Divinely instituted entity whose job it is to preach the gospel and forgiveness of all sins, and to save souls, it's really not much good at defending itself from the vultures. What the Church needs to do is rid itself of homosexual priests, (even the ones who have not been accused of anything). The media refers to these homos as "pedophiles"; even though nearly every single "victim" was a post pubescent BOY, many of them age 16 and 17.

The problem is the Church's acceptance of queers and allowing them to be priests with the false belief they will "behave themselves" and be "Christ-like" once ordained. But the fact is homos can't control their urges nearly as well as normal men. These very words in fact were written in an Apostolic letter by Pope John XXIII in 1961, directing to the bishops of the world to NOT allow homosexuals into the seminary.

11 posted on 02/10/2011 1:56:26 PM PST by jiminycricket000
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