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This culture of victimology is unworthy of good Catholics
and of John Paul the Great. These people should be focused on their late pastor -- the Pope of Popes -- not on revenge.
Speaking as a non-Catholic, I think they are poor advertisements for their Church.


135 posted on 04/08/2005 2:07:34 PM PDT by California Patriot
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To: California Patriot
This culture of victimology is unworthy of good Catholics and of John Paul the Great. These people should be focused on their late pastor -- the Pope of Popes -- not on revenge.
Speaking as a non-Catholic, I think they are poor advertisements for their Church.

"Culture of victimology"? Are you saying you don't believe young people who were sexually molested by Roman Catholic priests are victims of these priests?

A significant number of these people were scarred for life by the abuse, some of it continuing over a period of years. To make matters worse, when they went to the priests' superiors (the bishops), the bishops turned diocesan attorneys loose on them. These vultures compounded the abuse by threatening them and their families with lawsuits if they told anybody, or by paying hush money to protect the "reputation" of the Church.

The behavior of the American hierarchy was abominable. For fifty years they transferred abusers from one parish to another, effectively giving them some fresh meat to prey on.

They aren't a very good advertisement, are they? Well, they represent a sore on the American Catholic Church, and that sore is still not healed.

It won't be until those in the highest echelons of the halls of the Vatican humble themselves, offer a public apology on behalf of the entire Church, and actually listen to the hurt that still aches in the hearts of these damaged souls.

Law will be resented for the rest of his life by some. That is perfectly understandable.

144 posted on 04/08/2005 2:30:09 PM PDT by sinkspur (If you want unconditional love with skin, and hair and a warm nose, get a shelter dog.)
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