It's like the Holocaust, no really

[kinvore.livejournal.com]

Wow. Pope Benedict's personal preacher Raniero Cantalamessa created a firestorm by comparing the scrutiny and pressure the Catholic Church has been experiencing lately in their molestation scandals to the "more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism."

This just further illustrates why the Roman Catholic Church will never take real steps to stop abuse. They aren't concerned with the children that are getting raped, they're only concerned with their own reputation. They see themselves as being wrongfully attacked, and never does it enter their minds that their actions (and lack thereof) contributed to what they are enduring now.

I hope the pressure never lets up but sooner or later the mainstream media will give up on it, only to flare up again down the road after more children have been raped, and the cycle will repeat again.

Pope Benedict, the only way this is going to end is if you take real steps towards stopping abuse. First of all stop protecting priests who molest children and treat it like the horrific sin (and crime) that it is. Throw them out of the Church and/or turn them in to law enforcement.

To help prevent this from happening as much you're going to have to allow priests to marry. Stop making excuses, stop covering up, and make a real effort to end this abuse.

Comments

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a4honor.livejournal.com]

Really. So God never told Peter in oh lets just say The Book of Acts, "you must not call unclean what I have made clean!" and He Never told him to go to Cornelius' house to preach him the gospel. Oh lets just say it might have been it Acts 10...but that NEVER happened

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

When and by whom was the Book of Acts written?

IIRC, I was taught that it was written by a group of Christian scholars several decades after the death of the Apostles, as part oral history and part an attempt at codification of current Church policy. I don't expect you to agree with this interpretation.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a4honor.livejournal.com]

I don't, because if they did why would they so obviously attribute it to Luke. It is written in the first person. But I think you and are going to have to agree that we wont find a middle ground on this.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The information I recall suggested that the Synoptic Gospels were written off of a matching written source (referred to as the Q source (http://www.livius.org/q/q-source/q1.htm)), perhaps compiled on the basis of first-person accounts of Jesus's teachings. Matthew and Luke were written by a scholar, or groups of scholars, after the deaths of all firsthand participants in the actions depicted. John and Revelations were almost certainly written by a group of Christian scholars, 90-odd years after Jesus died.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a4honor.livejournal.com]

You know I find that although argument on these types of issues often is rather informative, the preservation of correct manuscript(the variations can be compiled on one page, and contain no doctrine changes or errors) leaves me to believe that whatever was written must have had some divine influence, in order for him to protect it that well, especially with the history of the Church in the dark ages.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend has issues with your implication that the Church was somehow either anti-learning or revisionist in the medieval era. Why change the text when most people weren't going to read it? There's a reason they killed Wyclef.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a4honor.livejournal.com]

At some point the church would have known that they could not keep the ruse up forever. I am saying that it is a wonder that they were not revisionist. To set your girlfriend at ease, there were plenty of good men in the church even then, but they tended to let those with less than perfect scruples into positions of high power

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

By available evidence, they still do.

Re: Priest marry all the time.

[a4honor.livejournal.com]

All organizations will for all time. We are a flawed species, and that will always effect everything we do.