(August 19, 2018 at 8:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Since I've been off the forums and off facebook for the past week, I just found out about this yesterday. Our priest addressed it this morning at mass as well.
I just wanted to say that I am horrified. The priests involved in any abuse and the bishops who enabled them are evil monsters. The ones who are still alive should all be stripped of their priestly powers and denied any form of retirement pay. If their names are associated with any buildings, scholarships, etc., they should be immediately changed. If some of them are still able to be tried, let them stand trial–and provide for their own defense from their own funds, and if found guilty, locked away for life. I don't believe in the death penalty, but if I did, I would say it should be reserved solely for people who abuse innocent children.
More people are weighing in. In my "local" paper, their professional curmudgeon weighed in with his happy experiences as a child educated from K-12 in a Catholic school, serving as an (unmolested) altar boy who spent a fair deal of time alone with priests. Many years after this, one of his friends and that friend's brother filed suit against a priest. That alerted said curmudgeon of the problem. He wrote a column calling for the Catholic laity, and the "management", all the way up to the pope to do the right thing.
This has been going on for centuries! We're in a different environment from when the Pope could order the Inquisition, but how different is it, when priests can commit sex crimes, and the police won't even touch the case? The RCC is a criminal organization, make no mistake. They've found enough hench- men and -women in the trenches to help them perpetrate their crimes. Vorly has it right- just make buttsecks a sacrament, and parents will line up their spawn to help. It's a good thing that none of my sons were molested. Truth is, we were involved enough in their young lives that that would never have happened. I'd be in jail if it had, unless I could plead justifiable homicide.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
