Well, okay, just this once:
Posted on 03/26/2011 12:59:03 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
The Pew study I cited was from 2008. Yours is from 2001.
You lose.
That is worth repeating...
“Advocates for victims of clergy abuse called Thursday for an investigation into its allegations that the Roman Catholic church purposely funneled problem priests into the chaplain corps of the U.S. military.
Meeting with reporters outside the downtown headquarters of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called for CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS to determine “how frequently & why Catholic officials dumped predator priests on military bases.”
And they distributed documents that they said showed that Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien ignored sexual misconduct by chaplains when he headed the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.
The names were compiled from public court, church & military records with help from BishopAccountability.org, which tracks abuse within the Catholic church. SNAP Maryland Director Frank Dingle said they represent a sampling of perpetrators.
The personnel files of one Boston priest on the list contain a 1987 notation that he “fools around with kids,” according to newspaper accounts, yet the man was subsequently assigned to a VA hospital in Palo Alto., Calif.
Another Boston priest who was accused of violence & sexual abuse against a preteen boy was later sent to work for the Army, according to personnel records available online.
No, but you give off the impression that you are.
Because it wasn't truth.
Ah, but it was.
Who knows..lol! I guess they just quickly change the subject to something they can all agree infallibly on....contraception...
“What a red herring.”
It’s obviously not a red herring. While on the topic of churches changing, it’s always pertinent to bring up the 180 degree turn on contraception that Protestants performed.
“Are you taking that much of a beating on the thread that you need to switch gears so radically?”
I’m not the one taking a beating on this thread.
RCs follow "another Christ" and pray to a "co-redeemer" and other "mediators" and presume their own good works must be added to the justification Christ has incompletely won for them on the cross.
Thank God we "have not so learned Christ" (Ephesians 4:20.)
LOL.
Do your own homework and read up on pope Gregory XVI.
Churches changing what they believe.
Talk about incoherent.
No, I don't feel like going over your post again.
Much to the chagrin of pope Gregory XVI.
And many other priests have died since the abuse.
Well, okay, just this once:
Pedophiles will go where children are. It it impossible to prevent every single incidence of child molestation. Abuse is going to happen because those who want to abuse badly enough WILL find a way to do it. I don’t know of anyone who denies that.
The question then is not why abuse happened in the church, just like the question isn’t why abuse happens anywhere, but what it wasn’t dealt with appropriately, by the church. And the same question could be legitimately asked of ANY organization which didn’t deal with the problem appropriately.
The church, any church, of ALL organizations should be leading the way in setting an example of dealing with the problem. God has made it extremely clear in Scripture what is to be done in dealing with immorality in the church. The Catholic church, which claims authorship of said Scripture is doubly accountable for not following the advice that it not only claims responsibility for, but that should know better than anyone else. It condemns homosexuality as sin and yet doesn’t deal with it within its own midst.
That is NOT acceptable. And pointing that out does not make one a *anti-Catholic* or a *Catholic hater*. Expecting integrity in behavior from someone who is supposed to be setting an example is not unreasonable and if they fail in that, criticism of them is to be expected.
Read 1 Corinthians 5 concerning the subject of immorality in the church.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+5&version=ESV
The dictionary also gives a definition of heresy that backs up my claim:
FIXED:
The RCC DAFFYNITIONARY also gives its DAFFYNITION of heresy that backs up my claim:
Not being willing to admit human foibles like that makes one wonder how they can honestly go to confession to confess sins. If they don't admit that sin is sin, as in the abusive priest issue, but are in denial about it, well, you can't ask for forgiveness about what you won't admit you did that was wrong.
Is that why you have so much trouble saying that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine?
“Mistakes were made” is hardly the same as “forgive me father for I have sinned.” Although both are about as useless in the end. It’s just all so ridiculous. And pitiful.
“The real story is that truly conservative Roman Catholics are becoming Protestants.”
I am a truly conservative Catholic. That’s why I’m registered on Free Republic-—I am a true conservative. I’m also Catholic.
I also know many, many Catholics who are true conservatives. And those are just the ones I know personally.
That’s why I consider posts of this type to be more like “drive-by” comments that generalize and then treat such generalizations as a universal truth-—(such as “the real story”).
Merriam-Webster's dictionary is a tool of the "RCC?" Are you one of those conspiracy nut? Oh, wait...
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Evangelicals-take-top-spot
"Evangelical Protestants outnumber Catholics by 26.3 percent (59 million) to 24 percent (54 million) of the population, according to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, a massive 45-question poll conducted last summer of more than 35,000 American adults."
59 million Evangelical Christians in the U.S.
54 Roman Catholics in the U.S.
The U.S. is over 50% Protestant and 24% Roman Catholic.
Keep arguing the obvious. It won't be the first time.
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