The topic is: Why isn't the Catholic Church laity protecting their children by eliminating Priests from the ministry for sexual perversions, and why did it take generations for this grevious act to be an issue that the church would address?
Your own priesthood is filled with known homosexuals, and has been for years now, that cannot be denied since many of you are declaring that their actions aren't child molesting but homosexuality because a 12 to 14 year old boy is past puberty, and for this reason you try to use that as an excuse to tell the world that what is happening isn't so bad??
My goodness, Bible believers have condemned the liberal actions of Protestant Churches and continue today to condemn Jim and Tammy, Robert Schuller, Bob Tilden, Billy Graham for his ecumenism of the last 50 years, and you claimthat we only address sin in your church...I have a question myself:
When are you going to admit what is happening is a terrible thing and these perverts need to be arested just like the Protestant and Baptist are when they are caught? When are you going to throw out the Cardinals and Bishops that hid these perverts from the law?
I dont care what your profession is, if a group of men in company X are molesting children, and the board members are hiding it, there would be such a public outcry the company would close just from people looking to work elsewhere, let alnoe the police presence interviewing and arresting the perverts. Yet in the RCC, you have a wicked history of covering up, hiding, telling the laity it is no big deal...
Shandley and Law in Boston have been molesting kids since the 1960's, and you really think that a one week conference where they announce that Priests will be sent to the law NOW yet still remain Priests makes it all ok?? The very first responsibility your leadership has is to God, and they are to exercise discipline by throwing these wicked sinners out of the church, and STILL...you wont do it, even after the last week's meetings.
You have absolutely no moral authority to tell me anything that is in defense. The RCC response is dispicable.
I have no further comment to make, this is so disgusting what you are allowing to happen to what you think was a religion founded by Jesus Christ! You are letting pedophiles remain in the priesthood and serve in the church, and you are trying to tell everyone it is ok because you are Catholic. That is disgusting.
You won't even throw them out just to look good!!
Your righteous rage is as nothing compared to that of Catholics, but you are missing the Big Picture. You assert:
"...The topic is: Why isn't the Catholic Church laity protecting their children by eliminating Priests from the ministry for sexual perversions, and why did it take generations for this grevious act to be an issue that the church would address?...."
But Catholics know, as horrible as it is, the subject of pervert priests is only one of many perversions that afflict the Church. And the sexual perversions follow other perversions and deformations. The Church is rotting from the top and the middle----but so is our secular society.
Why do you think arrest and conviction by government authorities is somehow more fitting--more moral---more effective? Sexual perverts are routinely unleashed upon unsuspecting communities after having been processed and "cured" by government-approved "specialists". One notorious case in Montana--where I lived until last year--involved a Massachusettes boy-sodomizer who impressed a judge as a very fine citizen. He was released--with the requirement that he relocate to Montana--which he happily did. In Great Falls, the hunting was very fine and he molested many boys as well as killing several; hanging them on meat hooks to cure; cutting them up and eating them; It is also believed that he served portions of them to family members and neighbors of the victims whom he had invited over for a meal and to offer sympathy over the mystery of their missing sons. In the wake of this disaster Montanans were stunned to learn that many States routinely send their sexaul predators to Montana without informing local authorities. Montana--with a population of a little over 800,000--is now home to over a thousand sexual predators from other States. They were ALL arrested and convictedby the secular authorities in their various States.
Is the Big Picture coming into focus at all for you?
You also wrote:
"...I dont care what your profession is, if a group of men in company X are molesting children, and the board members are hiding it, there would be such a public outcry the company would close just from people looking to work elsewhere, let alone the police presence interviewing and arresting the perverts...."
Your simple faith in the uprightness of the men of Company X is.....very troubling, to say the least. In fact, it is precisely because the American Church has embraced the moral ethos of Company X that these outrages have been committed, protected and even fostered. There have been tons of articles posted about the sexual shenanigans of Company X all over the planet. One that comes immidiately to mind is defense contractor Dyncorps---is that how it's spelled? I can't seem to find the article, but it's quite revealing about "public outcries" and "groups of men molesting children" and "board members hiding it" and so-on-and-so-forth. Oh, and concerning your belief that the company would close just from people looking for work elswhereDyncorps seems to be doing quite well--new government contracts and all--in the wake of their sexual scandal.
Get in the Game RaceBannon!! We Is All Company X Now
You're using Scripture to make the case that the Catholic Church can't be Christ's Church since the hierarchy is sinful.
So I thought I'd take the opportunity to point out that the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura is logically incoherent, and therefore, cannot logically prove anything.
That's odd, since you asserted that the presence of sinners in positions of power proved that the Church is "a cult" -- a totally unBiblical assertion, since there were grave sinners in positions of power in the Church by the time of the Last Supper. ("I tell you, woman, I do not even know him!" -- ever heard that line? Do you really think that sexual abuse, however evil, is a more serious sin than a Christian leader publicly repudiating Christ to save his own hide?)
Are you changing the topic?
Now, to the point: "Why isn't the Catholic Church laity protecting their children by eliminating Priests from the ministry for sexual perversions"
Because that's outside of the laity's control. This isn't a democracy, sorry.
When are you going to admit what is happening is a terrible thing and these perverts need to be arested just like the Protestant and Baptist are when they are caught?
Admit it?!? ADMIT IT?!? Heck, I'd put it on a billboard or on a sign towed behind an airplane if I thought it would do any good.
With one quibble, however. "What is happening" is not a terrible thing. "What has happened" is a terrible thing. The sexual abuse was terrible. Having it come out into the open, and seeing the guilty parties held up for punishment and public disgrace, is very, very good. A mercy.
The very first responsibility your leadership has is to God, and they are to exercise discipline by throwing these wicked sinners out of the church
Sorry, buddy. We don't "throw wicked sinners out of the church". The church exists to call wicked sinners to repentance, not to demonstrate how holy we are by sending them off into outer darkness.
You are letting pedophiles remain in the priesthood and serve in the church, and you are trying to tell everyone it is ok because you are Catholic.
One more time: you are accusing the wrong people. Nobody here is guilty of these crimes. Nobody.