Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
Im not arguing for the Church, the Church has done very abhorrent things in the past. The problem is/was very real. Should we treat ourselves the way the media is trying to treat the Church and judge us by the sins of our fathers? My father was no saint, am I guilty of his sins?

I am a very badly behaving Catholic, as I already stated in this thread.

The history is there, but have you looked at the recent history? The last 20 years, or is your head buried in the sand of the past?

What the Catholics have done to children is dwarfed by how the Muslims have treated their children and women.
But Blue, we are not blaming you for the sins of the church, or of your father, or of the past. We are blaming the Catholic church system for allowing this sort of behaviour to go on and on and on. And the fact that it keeps going on, is evidenced by the continual relocation of the perpetrators to different countries etc etc. This is the PUNISHMENT that is metted out by the Catholic church to these priests.
Everyone else gets locked up.....priests get sent to a new location....something wrong there, don't you think ????
And as for the Pope....he's been sweeping this stuff under the carpet, it was his job !!!! Don't you think he should be held accountable for that ???

People look up to the church for spiritual guidance. Don't you think they deserve better than to have their children abused sexually ???

Nobody is attacking the Catholic Church.....they are attacking what the Catholic church is doing about a very serious problem...and that is very little.

"What the Catholics have done to children is dwarfed by how the Muslims have treated their children and women"

What has that to do with anything ???? I'm sure the Muslims will look after their own problems, and we will look after ours.