Great news.
I hope this is truly what is going to happen and not some lazy reporter just half arsing a story. Some diocese' in the American Catholic Church are completely run and owned by active homosexuals.... it is like a YMCA fraternity.. Rome must PURGE this blackness from the church... I hope that this is going to come to pass.
Most lay Catholics have no idea how infiltrated and corrupted some of these diocese are.
Believe it or not the moves in the Catholic Church will help stiffen the conservative Protestants and their churches who are also under assault by the homosexuals as well!
Of course its homosexuality.. its not Pedophilia. If it were Pedophilia, first off the victims would not be 12 to 17.. they'd be much younger... and secondly if it was purely pedophilia there would be female victims as well... Priests have access to young girls even more so now than ever in the past.
Talk is cheap.
I'll be impressed when I see some ACTION coming out of the Vatican to address this.
If that's the case the Catholic church might as well disband the Jesuits.
To destroy the Velvet Mafia a lot of heads are going to have to roll. Good.
History will say that the greatest stain upon the record of Pope John Paul II was how under his watch the Velvet Mafia was allowed to foment a scandal of such proportions that the moral voice of the American Catholic church has been deeply wounded.
It was really great.
The Pope needs to bring the hammer down and clean the mess up.
Uh...good luck with that.
finally..... thank you Lord. Somebody is saying what is KNOWN about the problem.
Now let's deal with it. The Lord will forgive us if we ask and are truly penitent, but first the ones that have bastardized the church into a gay-socialist/marxist organization need to be given a boot to the a@# and clean up the mess they've left behind.
"the reality is homosexuality was the primary culprit"
MICHAEL "How bad do you think it's gonna be?"
CLEMENZA "Pretty g*ddamn bad. Probably all the other Families will line up against us. That's alright --
this thing's gotta happen every five years or so -- ten years -- helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know you got to stop them at the beginning, like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, They should never've let him get away with that. They were just asking for big trouble. You know, Mike, we was all proud of you -- being a hero and all. Your father, too.
Benedict will be a hero if he cleans up the Anerican Catholic Church.
IF this article is true regarding what the Holy Father (Ratzinger) may actually do, then we should support him on this.
Regardless, shouldn't we FReepers be focused on the "De-homosexualization" of the Bush Administration instead of the underhanded Church bashing implicit in the article author's critique of John Paul the Great?
Okay, FReepers, now's a good time to OUT the pro-homosexual members of the Bush Administration, especially those who have dissuaded the President from pushing a constitutional amendment clarifying marriage as between a man and a woman, only.
A very prominent priest in our area mentioned that 80-90% of the abuse problems are homosexual related vs. pedophilia, based on the fact that most is directed at post--pubescent teenage boys, not pre-pubescent children (which is by definition what pedophilia is). It's also rarely a case of a priest preying on a girl -- almost always boys.
When a 22 year old college frat boy hits on an 15-17 year old high school girl, most wouldn't consider it pedophilia (except for perhaps in a legalistic sense). It would be a case of a man acting like a scumbag, not controlling his sexual urges, and exposing himself to a charge of statutory rape.
But when a priest targets a boy in that same age range, everyone calls it pedophilia because they are afraid of offending the homosexual community.
Just like there are heterosexuals that are pathetic sexual preditors, it may pain people to hear it, but there are also homosexuals that are pathetic sexual preditors.
This isn't a rant against homosexuality, it's just a rant against any group who won't admit that some of their members have the capacity for immorality.