(December 15, 2016 at 5:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I like what you suggested in your second paragraph. I think it would be a good thing if more of us would stand up behind our faith and call for justice against the criminals. I feel like too small of a person to start something like that on my own, but if there was such a movement I would feel like it is my responsibility as a Catholic to help. Because I agree with you - even though what was done was directly against Catholic moral code, it was still done by Catholics in important roles. Of course, the problem is that I'm sure that's what everyone else is thinking too: "I would support such a cause, but don't know the first thing on how little me could go about starting something like that."
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I think for us, the little people, it's just generally not shying away from the conversation. Talk about it, if abuses of power like this are happening within the Church, get awareness of it up and get people showing disagreement with it. The more knowledge people have about what's going on and the more disapproving they are of it, the more can be done.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie