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To: marshmallow
“Rape is another thing entirely and I don't have the slightest doubt that the Christian Brothers did harbor homosexuals who were responsible. Which is precisely why the Catholic Church has always ruled that homosexuals should not be admitted to religious life. As usual though, it will be the Catholic Church, not the homosexual perverts who perpetrated these crimes which gets the blame.”

You obviously didn't read the Catholic church's legal defense.

Read post #40 and get back with us.

70 posted on 05/20/2009 1:05:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: ConservativeMind
You obviously didn't read the Catholic church's legal defense. Read post #40 and get back with us.

Post #40? I read the entire article. Twice.

The Catholic Church did not mount a legal defense. The religious orders who ran these institutions did. That's important because it undercuts your worthless conclusion that the Catholic Church is corrupt to the very top. That is pure, unadulterated garbage. There has been systematic protection of abusers within the Church in this country and Ireland by some members of the hierarchy and some religious orders.

The actual stats on the other hand (linked in one of the posts above) of percentages of priests and religious involved and the numbers of bishops who failed to remove these priests and religious from ministry, in no way justify your broad conclusion.

Your statement that the "corruption cannot be fixed in any normal way" is purely wishful thinking. It will be and it has. The Catholic Church will emerge from this scandal stronger, not weaker. That's right, stronger. Despite the scandal which broke in '02 in this country, vocations and conversions are increasing.

You'll have to put the high fives on hold, I'm afraid.

73 posted on 05/20/2009 1:30:48 PM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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