Good. In fact, it's quite pervasive. The Boy Scouts are dealing with this boy scouts sexual abuse. Ironically, they are under pressure to drop their ban on allowing homosexuals to join their ranks.
Sexual abuse of minors is rampant in this culture. The courts are filled with such cases committed by rabbis, imams, protestant ministers, orthodox priests, camp counselors, sports coaches ... and the list goes on. The question you need to ask yourselves is why has the Catholic Church been singled out for public flogging? Why doesn't the media cover the abuses in the Boy Scouts but foster their refusal to allow homosexual leaders? Instead, you join the ranks who wish to see the church subjected to pillory. You claim to be christian, yet you are right there with the mainstream media, pointing fingers of blame while your own ministers are engaging, unchecked, in the same abuse. I just don't understand that.
You just don’t want the star ravishing Sodommites rising up to run the joint.
I agree Sara. I also recognize that the Catholic Church, throughout its 2000 year history, has been under siege from without. Many are those who wish to take her down. We also know that during WWII, the church was subtly infiltrated with communist agents. When the sexual abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in North America first erupted and the information was conveyed to Pope John Paul II, he dismissed it. He grew up during the war years and witnessed accusations of homosexuality falsely directed against Catholic priests by communist agents. The possibility that this was true came as a shock. He initiated the process of compiling verifiable facts against those accused. Since the Catholic Church is global, such a task is tedious. Pope Benedict XVI picked up the pace during his pontificate. Last year, with no fanfare, he eliminated hundreds of bishops. Last year, he commissioned 3 cardinals to investigate the extent of this infiltration and that report has now been sealed. It will be delivered to whoever is elected as pope.
Sara, consider that of all the christian churches, only one has held steadfast and uncompromising in matters of faith and morals. These have never changed. Her enemies are many yet she continues in proclaiming the truth entrusted to her by Jesus Christ. We Catholics have the reassurance of our Lord that "the gates of hell will not prevail against" the Church. Many have tried, no one will succeed.
We had two men in the family (husband's side) picked off by the pervs in the scouts when they were children. The Scout management was protecting a nationwide homo perv ring from exposure like the Catholic church. They kept it up until the lawsuits began and the homo pedos have been squealing ever since.
I used to be Catholic and sometimes went to Catholic schools as our family moved around, but your portrayal of the church staff and organization as moral, was not my experience. I had a few very holy adults influence me and for that I am forever grateful. I managed to unload all the others who worked in the opposite direction on my ethics, mind, heart and faith.
If it comforts you, I have avoided all church organizations. There are none that are better than your church. But I am as close as I can be to Christ. The Catholics introduced me to Him and my faith in Him and relationship with Him has never wavered. I understand that may not match your Catholic doctrines.
I have a couple of sisters who go to Catholic churches still. I am not anti-Catholic and I don't want the church to disappear. I do want the evil to fall but that is not the church. I am anti-perv and triple that when done in the name of Jesus. Raping and molesting young men and boys is a serious sin to be protested but doing it behind a curtain of God is horrific.
Just because I condemn the Catholic power structure for feeding homo perv. operations, that does not mean I don't go after all the other pedo organizations and actors, too. I wrote a bunch of letters recently to the Scout Board members, urging them not to give into the money pressure of the pedos. Love you, NYer. Sara