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To: Barnacle
Such a film, with its highly selective dramatizations of abuse, feeds blind prejudices in a way that would not go unchallenged in depictions of other religions and social organizations.

Tonight's World Over Live on EWTN featured Philip Jenkins, the author of "Anti-Catholicism - the last acceptible prejudice" (or something similar). Jenkins pretty much said the same thing about the national newspapers and their coverage of the scandal. Although you find the same abuses (the physical and the coverup and the transfer of abusers) in all Protestant denoms, the Jewish religion and in secular institutions (schools) at the same numbers or in even greater numbers, the newspapers did not report that at all. Part of the reason is that the Catholic Church has great record keeping and therefore it is easier to find the evidence and the other part is that the Catholic Church has been consistent over the years in Her moral teachings and is a large force which cannot be ignored so She engenders much bad will.

8 posted on 08/29/2003 7:44:29 PM PDT by american colleen
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To: american colleen
World Over Live on EWTN featured Philip Jenkins, the author of "Anti-Catholicism - the last acceptible prejudice"

Jenkins is very credible in that he is not even a Catholic himself.

9 posted on 08/29/2003 7:49:05 PM PDT by Polycarp ("If God does not exist, everything is permitted" - Father Felix Lubyxsynsky)
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To: american colleen
Catholic Church has been consistent over the years in Her moral teachings and is a large force which cannot be ignored so She engenders much bad will.

That and Leftist are such horrible shots that they need big targets to shoot at. They’d attack farmers too if they could hit the broadside of a barn.

They resort to shooting at cathedrals instead.

14 posted on 08/30/2003 9:44:13 AM PDT by Barnacle (When the persecution of Christians begins, surely it begins with the persecution of Catholics.)
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