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Los Angeles Attorney: Many Abuse Claims Against Catholic Priests are ‘Entirely False’
TheMediaReport.com ^ | January 2, 2011 | TheMediaReport.com

Posted on 01/18/2014 11:23:29 AM PST by Salvation

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To: metmom
>> The mental gymnastics Catholics go through to justify this situation is unbelievable.<<

That’s a fact! I watch as they applaud the fact that “only half are true”. Can you imagine? Then they somehow think that by pointing to other organizations or groups doing the same it lessons the fact that there is something terribly wrong with who they follow. If I knew of an organization that I belonged to had done even one tenth of what the RCC has done in this regard I wouldn’t have anything to do with them.

101 posted on 01/18/2014 3:55:00 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: narses

That must be your one trick pony, eh???


102 posted on 01/18/2014 3:58:36 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool

The Word of God?


104 posted on 01/18/2014 4:00:56 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: CynicalBear
If I knew of an organization that I belonged to had done even one tenth of what the RCC has done in this regard I wouldn’t have anything to do with them.
But aren't you on record as equating all organized religions as false? And do not all of them have similar track records with this societal evil that you appear to want to make unique to the Holy Catholic Church?
105 posted on 01/18/2014 4:02:29 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: narses
The Word of God?

No...Posting the same page of the word of God in almost every post for the last 4 years regardless of the topic being discussed...

106 posted on 01/18/2014 4:04:53 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool

You appear to have a tough time with the truth. Sad.


107 posted on 01/18/2014 4:05:27 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: narses; CynicalBear
But aren't you on record as equating all organized religions as false? And do not all of them have similar track records with this societal evil that you appear to want to make unique to the Holy Catholic Church?

School teachers abuse children at a 5X greater rate. But you rarely hear that mentioned.

108 posted on 01/18/2014 4:06:00 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

No doubt then CynicalBear has stopped paying taxes to the schools. Right?


109 posted on 01/18/2014 4:06:45 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: WVKayaker; Religion Moderator
What you said speaks eternally! Your definition of Anti-Catholic is anybody that disagrees with your cult. "

Another interesting comment.

First the commenter deliberately misstates what I said by changing words to suit their agenda and now we see this blatant example of mind reading.

People who cannot make a comment without resorting to distortions, outright lies, and mind reading aren't working for Christ.

110 posted on 01/18/2014 4:06:52 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Salvation
^^
"One retired F.B.I. agent who worked with me to investigate many claims in the Clergy Cases told me, in his opinion, about ONE-HALF of the claims made in the Clergy Cases were either entirely false or so greatly exaggerated that the truth would not have supported a prosecutable claim for childhood sexual abuse."
(Capital letters are Steier's)
** Catholic Ping!

I think that those people who accused priests had $$$$$ on their mind.

Also, back in the '60's the Church didn't screen priest candidates looking for pedophilia. They do now.

Also, there HAD to have been equal amounts of claim against other males of the cloth. It was just the priests who were accused. People think that there is so much wealth in the Catholic Church. Shows me how stupid they are.

Dioceses are wealthy, middle class or poor--not Catholic Churches.
The beautiful gold/silver plates and chalices used for communion aren't a show of wealth. They are to honor God.

111 posted on 01/18/2014 4:25:23 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Salvation
Thanks for posting this.
NICE to have some good news for a change.
112 posted on 01/18/2014 4:26:42 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: PAR35
Who is paying/has paid the lawyer?

Lol.
Too bad you couldn't record the lawyers' sound of

KA-CHING!!
or

licking of chops in anticipation.

113 posted on 01/18/2014 4:29:37 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
School teachers abuse children at a 5X greater rate. But you rarely hear that mentioned.

My mother's grammar school art teacher told her that her drawings looked like she drew them with her feet.

At 55 years old my widowed mother did two things;

1. She went to art school and became VERY proficient in water color and etching. The entire family and all her friends have her art work as a memento of her talent. She passed away last year at 94 years old.

2. She decided to be a lawyer. She went to law school four nights a week and finished the course. She took the California Bar exam and passed it the first time. It took Richard Nixon THREE times to pass the bar.
My mother practiced family law from age 60-80 years of age.

Sad that teachers take out their own personal problems with vengeance on the children, even if said children are the BIGGEST pain in the neck. Not their call to do that.

114 posted on 01/18/2014 4:36:36 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
>>School teachers abuse children at a 5X greater rate. But you rarely hear that mentioned.<<

Now why would we need to comment about the worldly organizations that one would expect that type of behavior to be fostered in? Are you saying the School teachers are on the same level spiritually as the RCC? Do school teacher claim to be the “one true church”? Do school teachers claim to be the “body of Christ”?

115 posted on 01/18/2014 4:41:23 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: narses

Render unto Cesar.


116 posted on 01/18/2014 4:43:12 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: narses
>> And do not all of them have similar track records with this societal evil that you appear to want to make unique to the Holy Catholic Church?<<

I don’t know. I do know that none of them claim to be the only true church. I do know that none of them claim their leaders can forgive sins. I do know that none of them say if you do not belong to that church you are not saved.

117 posted on 01/18/2014 4:46:49 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Gamecock

“This article is pathetic. Why am I not surprised considering who is paying the attorney fees.”

Wonder if it was the same firm representing the Holocaust deniers.


118 posted on 01/18/2014 5:12:17 PM PST by redleghunter
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To: narses

And the thread that Catholics posted on it is linked to where, exactly?

You’d best tell that to your *Once a priest, always a priest* fellow Catholics.

Apparently they have not gotten the newsflash yet.


119 posted on 01/18/2014 5:36:19 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: narses

Hiding under a rock when the news story is only a couple days old?

Pretending that this is old news is intellectually dishonest.


120 posted on 01/18/2014 5:37:28 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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