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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Unlike the RCC clergy whose ranks are literally filled with sexual deviates.

You know the most recent per year number for the RCC, don't you?

The fact that only some of the 260 per year are clergy isn't much of a comfort.

Beyond all that, my point is that none of us can relax our guard. The predators are unrelenting so we have to deny them the opportunities to abuse.

91 posted on 06/15/2007 3:26:31 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: siunevada
If you were to watch "Deliver Us From Evil," the documentary about recent sexual abuse of children in the RC clergy, you'd see part of the problem is that the young Catholic child is taught, along with the rest of the church, that the priest is more than a man, closer to God than mere human beings.

And as we've seen from the article by the priest I posted, the RCC teaches that priests are "another Christ."

Thus, can you imagine for a moment the paralyzing fear of a child who is being molested by a man whom his parents and church are telling him is "another Christ?"

That lie is not told in Protestant churches. Children who might be abused by a Protestant clergy would run from him as they would run from any other man.

The problem is deep inside the RCC. As long as it insists priests are "another Christ," they are preaching "another Gospel."

95 posted on 06/15/2007 3:38:23 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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