I do t care what church or denomination a church is, if they do this I'm walking! This kind of thing drives people away from the church.
I'm not talking about lawyers, plumbers, etc. Total catholics isn't the demographic I'm speaking of either, we are talking about the clergy, which is a much smaller group. 2,000 open and admitted cases is a significant number over a few, no matter what way you want to spin it.
If I post about a child molester on this board, people would want to tear him apart. Rightly so. However, if one brings up the history of the catholic church.... "oh well.... a lot of people sin." Why is that?
I'm not supporting any Catholic, but neither am I attacking anyone simply because they are of the same group of some criminal. No, I'm not, nor have I ever been Catholic.
We rant on here about being grouped with those who misuse firearms, the same idea applies to any other group or wrong action. Gee, if you have a problem with Catholics in general, do some personal research and meet a few. The ones I know are all very nice folks.
We rant on here about being grouped with those who misuse firearms, the same idea applies to any other group or wrong action. Gee, if you have a problem with Catholics in general, do some personal research and meet a few. The ones I know are all very nice folks.
He's not ragging on Catholics, he's ragging on Catholic Clergy, who seem to have a disproportionate number of non-Heteros and diddlers amongst their ranks.
Does that fall under " confession confidentiality?"
I know plenty of catholics, that's not the issue here. I'm stating that there has been an issue, and it's been a problem with more than a "few" of their clergy. I have a moral standard of which includes not protecting child molesters in any way, or apologizing for them. Why is relaying the facts, (facts that the vatican relayed btw) attacking them?
Ministers to include Bishops, Priests etc. are held to a higher standard than the laymen, just as presidents and congressmen. They set the moral tones for their religion and politics for the country. I wouldn't bash a Catholic nor would I bash a Mormon-but I would condemn the actions of anyone that did what this Rome Bishop and his groupies did. It wrong, immoral and sets a very poor standard of morality for not only Catholics but other religions as well because they too are susceptible and are guilty of the same sin somewhere in the not too distant past.
All manner of sin can be forgiven save one and most of you know what that is without me belaboring the point. Something we all must face at some time is our appointment-"It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement."
So therein lies the crux of all mankind, what are we going to say when we stand before the judge? We'll have no lawyer representing us, no one to speak of our good character and we will be taking an "open book test" and there is no grading on the curve, it will be a pass/fail grade and I hope we all receive a passing grade on that Day.
All manner of sin can be forgiven save one and most of you know what that is without me belaboring the point. Something we all must face at some time is our appointment-"It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement."
So therein lies the crux of all mankind, what are we going to say when we stand before the judge? We'll have no lawyer representing us, no one to speak of our good character and we will be taking an "open book test" and there is no grading on the curve, it will be a pass/fail grade and I hope we all receive a passing grade on that Day.
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No harm no foul, so no apology needed.
this happened a while back and that church didn't do anything but promote the guy...
http://www.news9.com/story/12738449...lestation-scandal-speaks-out-through-attorney
a bit of reading but you'll get the gist.
http://kwtv.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/pdf/0804/Plaintiffsoriginalpetition.pdf
http://www.news9.com/story/12738449...lestation-scandal-speaks-out-through-attorney
a bit of reading but you'll get the gist.
http://kwtv.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/pdf/0804/Plaintiffsoriginalpetition.pdf
