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Before one goes calling for heads on pikes, consider that this would be an excellent way for someone bent on damaging the Church to proceed, through baseless accusations, to cripple the clergy.

So now you have the 'motivation' of the law, etc. Talk about baseless accusations.

With the willingness of the media to belabor any accusation, justified or otherwise, it is only prudent that the Church isolate the accused (to prevent any further incidents, if indeed wrongdoing has occurred) and perform its own investigation before calling in authorities, otherwise, the tactic would be entirely effective.

So now the media is belaboring the accusation and totally ignoring what was shown in the 2005 grand jury report of harboring of the RCC. Just what catholics do best - it's someone else's fault. Another liberal tactic.

[Smokin' Joe]

So now you have the 'motivation' of the law, etc. Talk about baseless accusations.

Not the law, but the media. In case you haven't noticed, those venues are a hotbed of liberalism, and have been pushing both (not only unlimited, but taxpayer funded) abortion and the homosexual agenda. They'd love to shut down the Church, because it is in the way of both.

So now the media is belaboring the accusation and totally ignoring what was shown in the 2005 grand jury report of harboring of the RCC.

If you reread my statement, you will see I said the media will belabor ANY report (justified or not).

If justified, let the chips fall where they may.

If not, you end up with the press burning an innocent priest at the stake of public opinion, a stigma which will follow them the rest of their life, and before any investigation is conducted. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

One does not get to be a priest by taking courses at a correspondence divinity school while driving truck, rather it is an involved process taking a few years. The liberals are not beyond fighting a war of attrition to advance their agenda.

Just what catholics do best - it's someone else's fault.

If you knew anything about Catholicism, you would know the sacrament of Reconcilliation, which requires reflection on one's own faults and shortcomings. It is all about personal accountability to God for our actions. Apparently, you know little of that which you demean.

Another liberal tactic

Sure is. I had thought the secular humanists were the champions of such tactics, but perhaps I err.