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Maybe you Non-Catholics sin differently. Can any of y'all answer my question? Do you ever repent of a sin and then end up repeating it, despite your best efforts? Does this ever happen again and again?

When you examine yourself over the years, are there some things you just keep doing no matter how much you try to stop?

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Maybe you Non-Catholics sin differently. Can any of y'all answer my question? Do you ever repent of a sin and then end up repeating it, despite your best efforts? Does this ever happen again and again?

When you examine yourself over the years, are there some things you just keep doing no matter how much you try to stop?

Do you have something specific in mind? Like beating a horse to death perhaps?

First. Welcome.

Second. I personally believe you are carrying your "pedophile priest" argument to the extreme.

Third. Assuming you haven't been lurking for some time, you have caught on to DoubleSpin, er, I mean SoothingDave very quickly.

I'll answer. Yes we repeat the same sins at times. Some of us ( myself included don't seem to always learn the first time, all the time). Hopefully though, we eventually learn from our mistakes and correct them. If in the process we are considered a danger to society though, we need to be placed where we can't hurt others. Praying for forgiveness AND correcting wrong behavior is the true sign of repentance to me.

In this day and age I will not leave my little ones alone with a catholic priest, baptist minister,or any other church leader. We now have to teach our children that some men "even in church" are bad and tell them what to do if ever touched inappropriately. This is what a few non-repenting "bad apples" have done to our society and the secular part loves it, and it isn't just happening in the catholic churches. Yall have made mistakes and have big problems but bad things happen in other churches too. Intense screening, observation, and how we deal with this, has got to be major concerns for us.