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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:55 PM Original message |
Vatican: sex abuse in Catholic Church was a homo problem, not pedophilia |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. The real problem was that the hierarchy sheltered the predator priests, |
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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't think they are correct. |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. if it were about them being gay, they could have been fucking each other. |
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ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. yup |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. That is an excellent point. nt |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. Or identified while cruising gay bars |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Exactly.... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Well, they aren't pedophiles if they're having sex only with teens. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. There's a theory, that I think makes some sense, that |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:50 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I also think that allowing women to enter the seminary would take care of their |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Self Delete |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Did you go to the article that your author is discussing? |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. There is an enormous number of priests who had regular sex with women or girls. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. So how has this whole business affected your family? |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Do you have any idea how many of the "majority" of the priests hid their fellow clergy's crimes? |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. On the contrary..the majority of the victims are the youngsters who never spoke to anyone. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. The children around the priests were altar BOYS... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Every child was available to "Father" and if you had grown up in the RCC you would know that. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. A good pal of mine who will be 70 years old next month was molested by a priest... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. Yeah that was typical. Nobody believed the kids and even if they did, they were powerless. |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. From my informal poll , of all the priests that I |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. No all priests are gay. I wonder if the Pope is. As a catholic I can't stand the bastard. |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. and the little boys seduced the preists too, I bet. |
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BillDU (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
11. and all the dead crime victims in the world are a killer problem and not murder |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. It was about a ten year war that victims, not the congregants, waged against the lies |
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BillDU (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. Yeah, right. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. Is a competition for misery ever justified then? |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:31 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Which war are you talking about? |
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BillDU (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Pick one, any one |
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BillDU (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:33 AM Response to Reply #34 |
40. Ok Not the last ..One more. |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. As I said before... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. The Vatican does not care whether the offending priests are gay... |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Yup. I think that sounds about right. nt |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Certainly sounds plausible. n/t |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. WTF? |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. That is an understatement |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
21. So .. Father Daley Was Really a Homo While He Was Feeling Up the Little Girls? |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. Yup, this has been their "theory" for a while now |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
38. One wonders just how irrational and immoral religion has to get... |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
39. The priest is right |
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