Yet no rational person can possibly believe that
all priests are pedophiles and that a plan to erect a church should or could be opposed by victims of priestly pedophilia.
That DOES NOT mean that most, much less all,
priests are pedophiles.
Numerous
priests are pedophiles.
On literally every one I ever read, there is a flood of «Religion is a myth for idiots» posts, not to mention the «
all priests are pedophiles» rants.
Not
all priests are pedophiles btw.
Posted today «NEW STATS: 10 % of Catholic
priests were pedophiles and still counting, 20 to 200 times more than general population» at http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-stats-10-percent-of-catholic.html Written by, me, a Journalist / Survivor of pedophile priest crime in Los Angeles.
You have that report that the Pope allegedly claimed that 1 in 50
priest are pedophiles, you have that sickening incident in Arizona where radical FLDS members allegedly half buried a kitten in cement as a warning to a former member (the poor thing was trapped for hours and later died).
Not exact matches
The number of
pedophiles in the rcc may not
be much different than in the general population, but it appears that the number of
priests, or others in authority, that place the safety and future of children above their cult
is very low, if not zero, given that not a single «whistle blower» from within the rcc has come forward, to my knowledge.
I
'm sure the Catholic school issue has absolutely nothing to do with the economy or that Church's absolute moral failings with respect to its
pedophile priests (eye roll please).
or the
priest could
be a
pedophile and not the holy
priest that most of us come in contact with in the confessional.
More «Catholic
priests are a bunch of
pedophiles» and «I
'm against
pedophiles» posts by people who really know very little about
pedophile statistics and just use these areticles to vent their anti-catholic prejudices.
It
's not
pedophile priests that
are the problem.
I know
pedophile priests are plants by a liberal commie media, right?
6000
pedophile priests that the RCC ADMITS to, tbt... and you
're going to defend THAT??? You
're part of the problem.
Yes, we
are spared the pain of seeing our spiritual leaders portrayed as sweaty, quaking, self - righteous, pulpit - pounding televangelists, but on the other hand the last few years have shown that Hollywood has no problem seizing the headlines and showing
priests as either
pedophiles or at least questionable.
there
is no way a
pedophile priest can believe in god.
The percentage of catholic
priest pedophiles is between 20 and 200 times that of the entire population, whether you
are in America, Australia, England, etc...
These
priests and others
are in fact — by the numbers - representative of the fraction of
pedophiles in the population at large.
This
is about
pedophiles becoming
priests to practice their trade.
From the religious atrocities of the reformation and the counterreformation, the inquisition, several dozen crusades, to the modern day Church protecting
pedophile priests, and insisting on no birth control in AIDS ridden countries, and mindless zealots trying to pretend that what has
been proven by science should
be subsumed under their fairy tales.
It
's still hard to believe the number of tainted
priests or the «
pedophiles.»
The Church knew and allowed
pedophile priests were doing what they
were doing.
If his job
was to maintain the dark age teachings of Catholicism and hide the
pedophile priests, he
was perfect!
Abuse exists, but decades and decades of hiding it, moving around
pedophile priests, obfuscating, and stonewalling
is the sin OF THE CHURCH, not of the individual
priests who perpetrated the abuse.
It seems that the «anyone can
be cured» psychological community should
be taking some heat — How many psychologists pronounced
pedophiles,
priests, rabbis, ministers, teachers, Catholics and not (MOSTLY NOT) «cured,» only to have the behaviors recur?
see I
'm right down the middle, see how many directions I go lol... And for all you that think only
priest to blame,,, hate to break it to yeah but even your family ancestry has
pedophiles in it,,, as no one escapes this horror, and denying it helps enable it!
Of course, igaftr, but I believe the Pope
was talking about
pedophiles, not gay
priests.
There
's absolutely no reason to lose any respect for the average
priest because a few
pedophiles were found in the profession.
Well it would take care of the
pedophile priest problem «For there
are eunuchs, that
were so born from their mother's womb: and there
are eunuchs, that
were made eunuchs by men: and there
are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.
Boehner isn't half bad as you make him out to
be, but you
are apparently so biased you don't know the difference... BTW, This Catholic church has a major problem with
pedophile priests, so they really ought to shut to he11 up.
The Church
is working at cleaning these people out and setting up stringent entrance requirements for seminarians so that no new
priests will
be ordained who
are pedophiles.
My problem
is with the
pedophile priests and the bishops who covered up for them.
The
pedophile priests should all
be in prison as the common criminals they
are.
The leaders of the Mexican Catholic Church
are traitors to this country and as far as I
am concerned until the so - called church, which
is really a foreign enemy, stops providing sanctuary to lawbreakers,
be they
pedophile priests or illegal immigrants, you can not call yourself Catholic and
be considered a loyal American.
The abuse perpetrated by
priests is atrocious and hurts Catholics (meaning THE PEOPLE who make up the Church) deeply but that does not given anyone the right to paint every
priest the with the same brush of
pedophile!
Arizona Yankee: Yes I do admit that there
are priests that
are pedophiles and they should
be dealt with.
The problem
is that, generally speaking people do not call all teachers
pedophiles, but they will clump all the
priests together and label them as pedohiles.
For years the Vatican has
been running its fingers thru piles of gold coins and just busting out laughing while their
pedophile priests were abusing kids.
Likewise, evil
is not exclusive to catholics
priest therefore my point that instead of complaining about catholicism and bashing «catholics», we should all condemn
pedophiles, regardless of who they
are or their roles in their communitiies.
First of all, the Pope
was honoring the
pedophile priest's request to
be removed from the clergy, and it took him a year to do it.
The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, excommunicating Galileo for saying the Earth revolved around the sun, forgiving sins for money through the selling of indulgences,
pedophile priest, it
's really not a pretty picture.
Furthermore, the two most notorious
pedophiles, Boston
priests John Geoghan and Paul Shanley, trained at the same pre-Vatican II seminary and began their abuse before 1968, and many of the bishops at the center of the scandals — Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston and Cardinal Edward Egan of New York come to mind —
are not known for doctrinal or disciplinary laxity.
Even the rare incidents involving young boys get passed over because headlines about Lutheran pastors aren't nearly as invitingly lurid as «
pedophile priests.»
Raffa there
is more
pedophiles in this young generation to over shadow the few
priest that
were.
Again, I can assume that the ministers that
are directly harming people, i.e.
pedophile priests, etc...
What
is their view on
pedophile priests abusing little boys?
Now, when the word «
priest»
is mentioned, people will naturally think «
pedophile».
If the RC had come out a couple of decades ago and asked the public for help in exposing the
pedophile priests so that they could
be excommunicated and imprisoned, they might have a leg to stand on, but they didn't do that.
Of course many will say that we shouldn't comdemn the entire Catholic church just because a few
priest and lay persons
are pedophiles; I meam you don't throw out an entire bushel of apples just becuase most of them
are rotten do you?
I
'm a catholic, but i do not abide by the church not doing anything about the
pedophile priest, and lying and moving them from one parish to another.