Pennsylvannia Pedo Priest HORROR

[Cyberman]

It doesn't. I'm merely forearming you. In fact, if anything it confers inferior status; since the organisations involved in these cases are to be judged on how they react to them. Over here, we've had a long-running scandal involving BBC personalities going back at least to the 70s, when the culture of the time seemed to be "least said, soonest mended". Since the cases came to light, via Operation Yewtree etc, there's been a mad scramble to put right the sins of the past, even to the - to my mind - extreme extent of erasing certain individuals from history. In any event, it's basically the opposite of the RCC's response, which has been to say nothing and quietly reshuffle the same pack of knaves.

[vorlon13]

[vorlon13]

[The Valkyrie]

This sums it up perfectly.

Marriage equality:

"If teh gays get married that will make my marriage meaningless!"

Pedo priests:

"It's only a small percentage!"

No, arsehole. One person, priest or not, molesting kids, is too many and should fill any right thinking person with anger. The fact that you defend them and the organisation that protects them, makes you part of the problem."

[KevinM1]

This sums it up perfectly.

Marriage equality:

"If teh gays get married that will make my marriage meaningless!"

Pedo priests:

"It's only a small percentage!"

No, arsehole.  One person, priest or not, molesting kids, is too many and should fill any right thinking person with anger.  The fact that you defend them and the organisation that protects them, makes you part of the problem."

It's even worse than that. When I was growing up, the common refrain was that gay people kidnapped children in order to molest them. Turns out it was the priesthood all along.

[Fake Messiah]

They not even raped the kids but even made them do the abortions afterward. It is indeed a horror!

a priest who raped a young girl in the hospital after she had her tonsils out; a victim tied up and whipped with leather straps by a priest; and another priest who was allowed to stay in ministry after impregnating a young girl and arranging for her to have an abortion.

“Despite some institutional reform, individual leaders of the church have largely escaped public accountability,” the grand jury wrote. “Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades.”

The grand jury said that while some accused priests were removed from ministry, the church officials who protected them remained in office or even got promotions. One bishop named in the report as vouching for an abusive priest was Cardinal Donald Wuerl, now the archbishop of Washington. “Until that changes, we think it is too early to close the book on the Catholic Church sex scandal,” the jury wrote.

[vorlon13]

Shocking to contemplate, but everywhere the authorities look, they find another den of priestly pedos, and then realize, they've hardly looked anywhere.

We are STILL just seeing the tip of the iceberg with this GLOBAL disgrace and outrage.

Fox (!!) carried a clip of a senior citizen recounting he had been abused in 1947. He did not come forward because who would have believed such a thing back then? Well, the Catholic hierarchy would have, they were covering up incidents then too.

A woman on Fox last night reported being abused after the year 2000. The church officials hired a private investigator to investigate the VICTIM, not the perpetrator.

Fox also had a Boston Globe investigative report noting it's time for congress to hold hearings as the church still does not get it.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's even worse than that.  When I was growing up, the common refrain was that gay people kidnapped children in order to molest them.  Turns out it was the priesthood all along.

You'd think that they'd want us to slide down that slippery slope they're always babbling about..where letting gay folks get married ends up causing the legalization of pedophilia.

[Minimalist]

Lock them up!  Lock them up!!  Lock them up!!!

[vorlon13]