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ZanyZander
10 years ago
Hey Nick you amazing with your knowledge...with that said...I think you meant "boldly" and not "baldly"...of course you could have, you could have, lol. :)
10 years ago
Every institution has it's bad apples. Doesn't mean they are all bad and all of them avoid scandal. I remember during the Reagan era when it was reported about male prostitutes making late night visits to the White House for the staffers. That was covered up quick!
10 years ago
The old saints and their "lovers", as may have been beautifully canonized by those monks and clerics, may provide lots of wanking material for reading today by some. But, personally, I'd love to hear from the other side as well — the "luscious youths", or minors, who were ensnared by their local "ministers" and forced to endure these "acts of love". Oh, that's right, I can't read THEIR side — as ONLY members of the clergy were allowed to write, or even be literate, in those "wonderful golden days of yore". I agree with Phallussy.
DrMoraPhD
10 years ago
I'm fine, Nick. Thanks so much for asking. I truly appreciate your concern, and I sincerely hope that you're ok too. But anyone who thinks that grown men getting away with RAPING children for DECADES is something that you "make peace with," has no fucking clue. Have you ever thought about entering a seminary?
DrMoraPhD
10 years ago
After helping to cover up and facilitate dozens of cases of child sexual abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Boston, Bernard Cardinal Law lives in palatial splendor in a mansion in Rome. If Pope Frank cared one iota about justice for the innocent victims of clerical abuse, he would order Law to return to the United States to face trial and probable imprisonment, but nearly three years into his papacy, there has been no indication that the cherubic pontiff will take any such action. The whore of Rome's "boys club" continues.
DrMoraPhD
10 years ago
"Dark side" indeed. Back before his papacy, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was known as John Paul II's "bulldog." As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he signed a letter warning all Bishops not to cooperate with legal authorities investigating pedophile priests, and further ordering that any priest who gave testimony against clerical child molesters be defrocked and possibly excommunicated. They would punish the priests who tried to stop the sexual abuse of children, and not the criminals doing irreparable harm to the innocent. When this letter became public, the late journalist Christopher Hitchens rightly accused the hierarchy of the Catholic Church of being "facilitators of child rape."
RobbietheRobot
10 years ago
As an agnostic, I TRY to keep an open mind, but would appreciate some tangible sign. Maybe a wee burning bush? ;)
10 years ago
Judge by deeds, not looks
10 years ago
I don't see the Pope steering the church into any U turns. He just softened his anti-gay wording but make no mistake about the fact that he is still very anti-gay and I don't consider that to be progress.
10 years ago
"...kind of chill' is not enough.
