>>Why can’t you get this into your head? <<
Why can’t you get into YOUR head that you are seeing the treatment of child sexual abusers from a 2009 standpoint and not from the standpoint of the years it happened? You’re speaking like a imbecile (in a clinical sense) and I will tell you this, my FRiend, that is my professional opinion of your rant and obsession with something that does not effect you.
I’m sorry that you are so thick that you can’t get it nor can you read apparently. I TOLD you do not write to me again unless you understand that concept. You still don’t get it, you argue like a liberal on your “feelings” and to be quite honest with you, I have neither the time nor the inclination to instruct you any more. I have had a much easier time teaching my 11 year old Latin than teaching you what was the norm in the treatment of this Psychological disorder in years gone by.
What I don't understand is why the Catholic Church treated the child sexual abusers within its clergy "from the standpoint of the years it happened" and not from the standpoint of 33 A.D....
"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
-- Matthew 18:6Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
-- Leviticus 18:22If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
-- Leviticus 20:13Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion....Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
-- Romans 1:26-27,32What are they all so afraid of? The truth, it seems. [Faithful Departed author Philip] Lawler points out that while less than five percent of American priests have been accused of sexual abuse, some two-thirds of our bishops were apparently complicit in cover-ups. The real scandal isn't the sick excesses of a few dozen pedophiles, or even the hundreds of priests who had affairs with teenage boys -- the bulk of abuse cases. No, according to Lawler, it is the malfeasance of wealthy, powerful, and evidently worldly men who fill the thrones -- but not the shoes -- of the apostles. In case after case, we read in their correspondence, in the records of their soulless, bureaucratic responses to victims of psychic torture and spiritual betrayal, these bishops' prime concern was to save the infrastructure, the bricks and mortar and mortgages. Ironically, their lack of a supernatural concern for souls is precisely what cost them so much money in the end.
-- From the thread Kneeling Before the World [Catholic Caucus]"As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate, try hard to be reconciled to him on the way, or he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison."
-- Luke 12:58What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."
-- 1 Corinthians 5:12-13
Regardless of whether the Church thought pedophiles redeemable or not, the fact remains that they discarded the victims like so many used condoms.
Nobody who does that deserves to get a free pass and neither does anyone who defends it.