Holy Father calls for broad remedies: Washington Post

[Father Peter Rast]

Even though the abuse scandal was invented by anti-Catholic bigots to discredit Holy Mother Church, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has still called on church leaders to take responsibility for the issue. Now that's true humility worthy of the Vicar of Christ on earth. From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041600331.html

It was the second day in a row that the pope assailed the scandal that has engulfed the U.S. Catholic Church in recent years, and he told church leaders that it is their "God-given responsibility" to heal the resulting wounds and restore shattered trust.

The pope also seconded the words of Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who said in introducing the pontiff that the scandal was "sometimes very badly handled."

Yes, it was, and we need to ensure that Mother Church gets the proper respect in the media.

The Holy Father also noted:

"Children deserve to grow up with a healthy understanding of sexuality and its proper place in human relationships," he said. "They should be spared the degrading manifestations and the crude manipulation of sexuality so prevalent today. . . . What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?"

So you see? It actually isn't the Catholic Church's fault at all.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Holy Father calls for broad remedies: Washington Post

Even though the abuse scandal was invented by anti-Catholic bigots to discredit Holy Mother Church, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has still called on church leaders to take responsibility for the issue. Now that's true humility worthy of the Vicar of Christ on earth. From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041600331.html

Yes, it was, and we need to ensure that Mother Church gets the proper respect in the media.

The Holy Father also noted:

So you see? It actually isn't the Catholic Church's fault at all.

Yes, I can see how the Catholic Church teaches children a healthy Christian concept of sexuality by dressing them like this.

[Deaner]

Re: Holy Father calls for broad remedies: Washington Post

Children deserve to grow up with a healthy understanding of sexuality and its proper place in human relationships

I'm assuming he understands that's not bent over the altar railing getting your ass hammered?

[Justina Thyme]

Re: Holy Father calls for broad remedies: Washington Post

The terms "Holy Father and "Mother Church" are rather too reminiscent of a DEMONIC sexual union for my sensibilities.

In the same vein, Brothers and Sisters, I have obtained some little-known information about one of their icons/idols, "Mother" (see above) Teresa of Calcutta:

CNN New Delhi Bureau

CALCUTTA, India (CNN) -- Senior church officials in Calcutta acknowledge Mother Teresa had an exorcism performed on her in the latter years of life.

The exorcism took place in a hospital where she had gone for cardiac problems, said Archbishop of Calcutta Henry D'Souza. The archbishop himself had been hospitalized at the same facility and shared the same doctor as Mother Teresa.

He said he noticed that while Mother Teresa was calm during the day, at night she appeared "extremely agitated." D'Souza said Mother Teresa would pull off wires and other monitoring equipment stuck to her body.

He said that is when he believed Mother Teresa "might be under the attack of the evil one." He offered to arrange for an exorcism for the elderly nun. She agreed.

"So I said let's do the prayer of exorcism over her. So I called one of the priests who was a holy man in Calcutta," D'Souza said. "I told him, 'Please say the prayer of exorcism over Mother Teresa.' And he got a shock and said, 'Shall I pray and should I drive out the devil if it's there?' "

"I said, 'Yes, you do.' But he says, 'What will the devil do to me?' I said to him, 'You command the devil to go if he's there. In the name of the church,* as archbishop, I command you to go and do it.' "

*DEMONS ONLY LEAVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, NOT IN THE NAME OF A CHURCH!

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Holy Father calls for broad remedies: Washington Post

The terms "Holy Father and "Mother Church" are rather too reminiscent of a DEMONIC sexual union for my sensibilities.

In the same vein, Brothers and Sisters, I have obtained some little-known information about one of their icons/idols, "Mother" (see above) Teresa of Calcutta:

*DEMONS ONLY LEAVE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, NOT IN THE NAME OF A CHURCH!

Yet more papist silliness. You don't go to a Romanist "church" to have a demon driven out; you go to collect the whole set.