[metmom]

Typical knee jerk Catholic response.

For the umpteenth time, it’s not that ministers fail. It happens and we all know it and know that there’s no fool proof way to prevent it.

The problem is the Catholic religion’s handling of the problem.

When a Prot minister or pastor or leader is accused of something like that, it usually involves words like, “arrested”, “jail”, “charges” , “ removed from office”. “credentials yanked” and so on
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When a Catholic preist has been found out, it involves moving him to a different parish and hushing the whole thing up, ordering the victims to not talk about it at risk of their eternal destiny.

That’s what the difference is and what we object to. The Catholic religion has done nothing more for years than to watch the door while the abuse was going on and then rewarding the offenders by protecting them and shifting them to fresh, unsuspecting victims.

They didn’t do anything until they were FORCED to and they are still dragging their feet about it.

The Bible that Catholics claim their own church wrote tells exactly how to deal with sexual immorality or sin in the midst of the church, and the Catholic religion has not done so.

Or at least not until people refused to be intimidate and cowed and went public with it and the religion finally had to deal with it as damage control.

Pretty pathetic reason.

[MurphsLaw]

You make very good points.
Catholics are indeed sinners... and the Clergy entrusted with the Church are sinners to a higher degree.... We don't go to Mass because we are good.... we go because we know we aren't.

But this got me thinking... given your disdain with Catholics- and I am not faulting you here, the hits just seem to keep coming for us... - but with regard to the Protestant ideal of denying a cleansing fire of Purgatory....
won't you find yourself shoulder to shoulder with these same Catholics in Heaven if our earthly sins are dismissed upon death??

[FreshPrince]

Again,

The temporal failings of the catholic church is not because of its teachings. IMHO its teachings are the Truth and will prevail, regardless of how rotten its administrators are