(June 20, 2015 at 3:52 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: Who cares ... I'm not married, and yet I've never once ever thought about committing a despicable act like raping a child. But it's not even the pedophilia itself that I find the most problematic, it's all the senior church officials who protected these predators and created a culture where this grotesque treatment of children was allowed to thrive.
I've addressed this repeatedly, so there is no need to repeat what I've said in this thread and elsewhere. However, I would like to ask one question:
How, precisely, did the senior officials of the Catholic Church create a culture in which the abuse of children was allowed to thrive?
Quote:You tell me that yours is a church guided by a holy spirit, but how can any reasonable mind view this behavior as consistent with the idea of divine guidance (much less guidance by a benevolent and loving deity)? Fucking ridiculous.
Why is this difficult? It is not Catholic doctrine that individual priests and bishops are infallible (prevented from teaching error) nor are they impeccable (faultless, free from all sin).
These were individuals who made sinful choices of their own free will apart from and in opposition to the teaching of the Church and the will of God.
