Sixteen years ago, reporters at The Boston Globe conducted an extensive investigation of the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Not long thereafter, reporters elsewhere detailed similar abuse in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the like. The word used in the press to describe what had been going on was pedophilia, which is a misnomer deliberately employed to cover up what journalists then considered and still consider now an inconvenient aspect of the truth.
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my impression is that it would be better if priests married.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
DeleteActually I think it was St Paul that stated that a mans first duty during an emergency is to take care of his family. St Paul looked upon this as a reason that a priests family should be his congregation so that he could look after the congregation rather than his individual family.
DeleteMy Mother had great fondness for St. Paul.
DeleteFor sure, and that "teaching for doctrine the traditions of men" in direct contradiction of the Word of God:
ReplyDeleteNow the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron,
FORBIDDING TO MARRY, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
--I Tomothy 4:1-3
--Ron W
Thanks.
DeleteI don't know what this pope really is; he's a cryto something
ReplyDeleteor another. Even Putin said he was not a man of God.
This pope defended the pedophiles in Argentina yet this same pope also restated that homosexuality is not a mental illness but homophobia is. Politics and climate change is not his mission -
God is. Of course it's not to his advantage to resign in disgrace.
Maybe a closet commie.
DeleteOr maybe a closet pedophile!
DeleteMay well be!
DeleteI've followed a website "Church Militant" for some time and right now there is some inside information indicating the Vatican is trying to smuggle Wuerl out of the US before law enforcement nabs him. The DOJ has already made some inquiries about the mess in PA. The fog of war does obscure what is going on.
DeleteInteresting and what strange times we live in at the moment.
DeleteNot so long ago, when asked about homosexuality, the practice of which Scripture clearly condemns, the Pope replied, "who am I to judge?" But he pronounced judgment on then candidate Trump saying something like, "those who want to build walls are not Christian", even though the Vatican is surrounded by very high, imposing walls. Jesus condemned the religious leaders of His day as "hypocrites" and it fits the attitude and words of this one! --Ron W
ReplyDeleteit fits the attitude and words of this one!
DeleteShore' does!
I have some hope that perhaps all the rot in the institutions has finally reached the bottom of the gutter and we can organize and build from this point. My confidence level in that is not real high as I assumed it couldn't become more corrupt a few years ago but SURPRISE..it sure did.
ReplyDeleteI assumed it couldn't become more corrupt a few years ago but SURPRISE..it sure did.
Delete& where will the road end?