Sex abuse in church

[wombat2u2004]

I don't think a priest who commits ANY crime should be sheltered by the Church. They should be bound to the law(s) of the land.

IMO, raised Protestant, now Pagan, I think this business of celibacy among the clergy of the Catholic Church is inhuman and inhumane. This is not how human beings are built. The survival drives (hunger and sex) are among the strongest in any animal, Homo sapiens sapiens included. Suppress either of these and drastic consequences can result!

Bang on old mate....bang on !!!! This is what I have been saying all along.

[pomtzu]

Bang on old mate....bang on !!!! This is what I have been saying all along.

Ditto!!!!

[RICHARD]

Bang on old mate....bang on !!!! This is what I have been saying all along.

Maybe not 'bang on'?

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I had to 'laugh' this morning because one of my favorite programs intergrated a story line with as priest as one of the anatagonists.

He took confession from another character and it was then it hit me.

Confession is one of those kinda rituals that is supposed to absolve the sinner of all sin.

Think of three small closets next to each other, the priest sits in the middle and can open a little window that allows the people in the outside boxes to state their 'transgressions' -I love that word - get an absolution with a penalty from the priest and every thing is reset.


You have to do one main prayer and a repeat two others for as many times as a the priest sees fit.

LOL, I'd love to see the 'penalty sheet" that he reads from.

After you finish the penalty phase, you can go Frack Off again, the meter is at zero.

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The priest is supposed to rep the BIG GUY and poses as a go-between to insure god hears you....

So, with that kind of system in place, what's the big deal?

He goes to another priest, cops to his love of little boys, gets his penalty and goes on his merry way......Not only that, it used to be that the priest was supposedly sworn to secrecy-so if you went to him with a set of sins like cheating on your wife with 14 women-no one would ever find out.

The parents of a molested child would probably go complain to the parish first.

The parish gets the drift, the priest confesses and gets moved away from the crime scene and everything is peachy.

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You really cannot blame people who have god on their side.