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To: metmom

Problem is, it’s easy to attack the Catholic Church because it has a definitive structure.

Protestant churches do not have this structure at all, so it is nebulous and you don’t see or cannot easily point a finger at clergy in those groups. But it has happened in various denominations, just isn’t as obvious what to do, who to go to, whom to attack and demand accountability.


19 posted on 01/16/2014 2:35:52 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I know pastors in Evangelical churches who have been involved in garden variety adultery and have been removed from the pulpit and had their credentials pulled.

In most, if not all, the threads involving non-Catholic clergy and immorality, especially involving children or teens, the key words are *arrested*, *charged with*, and *in jail*.

Local congregations often take care of the matter themselves.

Not all non-Catholic churches are independent and not all non-Catholic denominations are without oversight. There is accountability within the different districts of some of the denominations.


27 posted on 01/16/2014 2:52:16 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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