Saying it over and over does not make it true…
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Ah, I ran across something Mr. Donohue wrote on the 9th…
Abuse Scandal Is Not Widening (Eurasia Review)
There is no other religious or secular institution being cherry-picked by lawyers and the media like that of the Catholic Church. If what happened in the 1950s qualifies as news when it happened in the Catholic Church, then surely it would be news to learn of all those who were abused a half-century ago by ministers, rabbis, school teachers and others. But it will never happen—such news fails to make the media salivate.
Wow, shameless, morally challenged, apologist, liar, doesn’t even come close… Dear Mr. Ass-Hat, this HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED AS HAPPENING THROUGH AT LEAST 2002. That’s 2002 A.D., not B.C. You are apologizing for rapists and pedophiles and trying to shift focus away from the morally challenged hierarchy of which I can only assume you an elite member.
Do the world a favor, do the right thing, apologize and commit suicide…
You know you’ve lost…
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when I agree with Maureen Dowd twice in as many weeks. From her OpEd: Worlds Without Women in the NY Times (emphasis mine):
…the Catholic Church took its moral codes and orthodoxy to extremes not outlined by Jesus. In the New Testament, Jesus is surrounded by strong women and never advocates that any woman — whether she’s his mother or a prostitute — be treated as a second-class citizen.
Negating women is at the heart of the church’s hideous — and criminal — indifference to the welfare of boys and girls in its priests’ care. Lisa Miller writes in Newsweek’s cover story about the danger of continuing to marginalize women in a disgraced church that has Mary at the center of its founding story:
“In the Roman Catholic corporation, the senior executives live and work, as they have for a thousand years, eschewing not just marriage, but intimacy with women … not to mention any chance to familiarize themselves with the earthy, primal messiness of families and children.” No wonder that, having closed themselves off from women and everything maternal, they treated children as collateral damage, a necessary sacrifice to save face for Mother Church…
As the longtime Vatican enforcer, the archconservative Ratzinger — now Pope Benedict XVI — moved avidly to persecute dissenters. But with molesters, he was plodding and even merciful…
The Vatican must realize that the church’s belligerent, resentful and paranoid response to the global scandal is not working because it now says it will cooperate with secular justice systems and that the pope will have more meetings with victims. It is too little, too late.
The church that through the ages taught me and other children right from wrong did not know right from wrong when it came to children. Crimes were swept under the rectory rug, and molesters were protected to molest again for the “good of the universal church.” And that is bad, very bad — a mortal sin.
The church has had theological schisms. This is an emotional schism. The pope is morally compromised. Take it from a sister.
Ouch… Mr. Donohue, we’re just waiting for you lie your way out of this one…
And here’s an interesting piece I missed from Sinead O’Connor (via WaPo): To Sinead O’Connor, the pope’s apology for sex abuse in Ireland seems hollow
…This month, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a pastoral letter of apology — of sorts — to Ireland to atone for decades of sexual abuse of minors by priests whom those children were supposed to trust. To many people in my homeland, the pope’s letter is an insult not only to our intelligence, but to our faith and to our country. To understand why, one must realize that we Irish endured a brutal brand of Catholicism that revolved around the humiliation of children…
Why was such criminal behavior tolerated? The “very prominent role which the Church has played in Irish life is the very reason why abuses by a minority of its members were allowed to go unchecked,” the 2009 report said.
Despite the church’s long entanglement with the Irish government, Pope Benedict’s so-called apology takes no responsibility for the transgressions of Irish priests. His letter states that “the Church in Ireland must first acknowledge before the Lord and before others the serious sins committed against defenceless children.” What about the Vatican’s complicity in those sins?…
Irish Catholics are in a dysfunctional relationship with an abusive organization. The pope must take responsibility for the actions of his subordinates. If Catholic priests are abusing children, it is Rome, not Dublin, that must answer for it with a full confession and in a criminal investigation. Until it does, all good Catholics — even little old ladies who go to church every Sunday, not just protest singers like me whom the Vatican can easily ignore — should avoid Mass. In Ireland, it is time we separated our God from our religion, and our faith from its alleged leaders.
Oh that’s gotta sting… O.K., Mr. Donohue et al. , I’m waiting for you to lie your way out of that one too…
The people have spoken…
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Times of Matla via AmericaBlog: Pope billboards defaced
The Church yesterday condemned the defacement of three billboards promoting the Pope’s two-day visit to Malta.
One billboard on the busy Marsa road portrayed the Pope’s face with a Hitler-style moustache, along with stencilled signs of a bear associated with paedophilia…
More from Times of Malta:
Good will come from storm facing Church - Mgr Scicluna
“The Church has to be very, very clear on a simple point: that we are interested in the truth because only the truth will set us free. When it comes to minors, the paramount concern is the safety of children in churches and in organisations run by the Church.
That’s what’s been said for years, but guess what… no one believes the Vatican on this anymore, the Catholic hierarchy has lost ALL credibility on this issue.
Papal billboards vandalism ‘does not respect people’s sentiments’- Curia
The Archbishop’s Curia said this afternoon that acts of vandalism on billboards of the papal visit appeared to be the work of elements who, for their own reasons, decided that they were in a position to judge.
Which from a look at the comments is about as accurate as the rest of what they want to believe…
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