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Longtime Bronx Catholic School Priest Admits Sexually Abusing Children: Officials
NBC News ^ | 1/6/2015 | Ida Siegal

Posted on 01/06/2015 1:11:59 PM PST by Dr. Thorne

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To: ansel12

“Actually yes, when people hear ‘Catholic Priest and sex scandal’, their first thought is that he is gay, not that he ran off with the female organist.”

And how does that mean someone who doesn’t know about scandals among Episcopalians still isn’t ignorant?


61 posted on 01/07/2015 5:17:38 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: Ransomed
Why do you think the married Anglican and Episcopalian clergy didn’t stop those groups from actually openly accepting gay clergy? I mean among Catholics, the ones now most in favour of ending the discipline of celibacy are also the ones invariably most in favour of homosexuals

It's a good question, and I don't have a good answer.

Most Episcopal clergy I have known are either homosexuals themselves or are heterosexual (or bisexual) females whose mission in life is ending oppression of gays and lesbians.

I have imagined that the pre-1965 RC clergy formed much more of a fraternity than the married Episcopal priests, who usually flew solo.

But, as I said, you raise a good point.

62 posted on 01/07/2015 5:24:41 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: vladimir998

It seems that you want to talk to someone about Episcopalians, you should find a thread on them, or seek someone to talk to about that.

“Actually yes, when people hear ‘Catholic Priest and sex scandal’, their first thought is that he is gay, not that he ran off with the female organist.”


63 posted on 01/07/2015 5:42:38 AM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, cause they ain't us.)
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To: ansel12

“It seems that you want to talk to someone about Episcopalians, you should find a thread on them, or seek someone to talk to about that.”

It seems that you don’t want to talk about Protestant sex abuse scandals. Although Protestant clergy engage in sex abuse more often than Catholic clergy, the Protestants here really don’t talk about it.


64 posted on 01/07/2015 6:07:51 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

So find someone to talk to about sex scandals at churches rather than pester people who aren’t interested in it.

My post 11 was about the unique homosexual culture of the Roman Catholic denomination.

When one hears of sex and the Roman Catholic leaders, they instantly think of homosexuality, that and fancy funerals for pro-abortion politicians.


65 posted on 01/07/2015 6:22:04 AM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, cause they ain't us.)
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To: allendale

Gay priests don’t see gay sex as violating celibacy because they aren’t with women.


66 posted on 01/07/2015 6:23:56 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Jim Noble

My take on it is that now with the broader culture in the west the most accepting of gays it has ever been, gays stopped becoming priests and older gay priests died. The peak of instances of abuse peaked around 1978-82, and fell steeply according to the John Jay report. I don’t think that was a result of any discipline or change in policy. Less gay priests meant the % of priests that committed the most abuse also decreased.

The theory is that gays hid in the Catholic Church because of the celibacy discipline, it was from the broader culture in a group that mandated that they couldn’t get married. So they had cover. Now, they don’t need to hide anywhere, they can soon get married in 36 states, in many areas it is against the law to ‘discriminate’ against them. If they want to get into religion, there are many faiths that will now eagerly put them in positions of leadership, where they can be openly gay in relationships.

FReegards


67 posted on 01/07/2015 6:27:58 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

That is wishful thinking, the Catholic church will always attract males who want to be authority figures in the most female excluding club in the world.

No girlfriends, no wives, no daughters, no contamination of the male in any way, except as servants and staff.


68 posted on 01/07/2015 7:00:00 AM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, cause they ain't us.)
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To: ansel12

“So find someone to talk to about sex scandals at churches rather than pester people who aren’t interested in it.”

I’ll just keep posting as I wish. I don’t see any proof that your posts aren’t above “pester[ing] people who aren’t interested”


69 posted on 01/07/2015 4:12:43 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: allendale

This will continue to happen until the Church makes celibacy optional >>>

not true, celibacy has nothing to do with sex abuse, those mostly charged with abuse are married protestant ministers, coaches, teachers, etc.


70 posted on 01/11/2015 6:54:45 PM PST by Coleus
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To: AbnSarge

>>to protect and prevent recurrences.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-of-the-vatican/

Evidently that’s not working well.


71 posted on 01/15/2015 12:30:05 AM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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