[A Proud Papist]

Re: Introducing myself...

WHAT!?!

Are you serious? Then the child's abuses scandal!? How can all that strengthen your faith on that church? That's like Jews voting nazis.

If you'd like to know my reasoning, you may PM me. It's, unfortunately, a complicated and long story with many reasons. Placing it here may distract others from asking other questions.

Ratzinger did near nothing about those scandal until it was years after, and only then because of public attention.

I don't think so. Please look at my other post (in the "False Religions" section) about the CDF. Basically, Pope Benedict XVI did nothing because 1) he hadn't even heard of it until several years later; and 2) it was not under his jurisdiction at the time.

You can also look at the actual documents. I went in there with an open mind, and saw nothing that caught then-Cardinal Ratzinger red handed.

If you really do think and are moral you should drop the incense swingers sooner and not later.

Sorry, I don't see that happening in the near future.

Really, look at the facts. Look at the victims. Look at yourself.

My heart breaks every time I hear of an abuse, believe me.

[BelieverInGod]

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I do think, friend. I do.
I'm a medieval historian, and of course the most scandalous (in my opinion) of past popes' behaviors have been in the Middle Ages. If anything, my studies into these dark chapters have strengthened my faith.

Anyone else notice that we have never had an Unsaved Trash Janitor? You'd think statistically that at least some of them would have menial jobs.

WHAT!?!

Are you serious? Then the child's abuses scandal!? How can all that strengthen your faith on that church? That's like Jews voting nazis.

Ratzinger did near nothing about those scandal until it was years after, and only then because of public attention.

If you really do think and are moral you should drop the incense swingers sooner and not later.

Really, look at the facts. Look at the victims. Look at yourself.

As the old saying goes, Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Did I feel left out of this? No, because there was no "club" to join. (Note: I used "club" because you seem to erroneously think that it is a type of nightclub that Catholic priests go to.)

HERE'S ONE

OK, so they've blocked it.

Go to Google and click on

[BelieverInGod]

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HERE'S ONE

OK, so they've blocked it.

Go to Google and click on

If you’re looking for a nightclub where you can have a couple beers with a bishop, go to confession, and shake your hips to the Village People, all in the cozy company of the final resting place of saints,

They're not even pretending to be righteous anymore, are they. I guess it's okay though since they have a confessional right in the bar. Not that I really want to know what happens in there

[MitzaLizalor]

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[Cursed]

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No matter how much they party and drink it will never block out the faces of all of those poor little children they've raped.

[BelieverInGod]

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No matter how much they party and drink it will never block out the faces of all of those poor little children they've raped.

I don't think they feel guilty in the slightest....

Irish abuse victim: New letter proves Vatican cover-up

A 1997 letter from a Vatican official advising Irish bishops not to report suspected child abuse cases to the police has sent shockwaves across the Catholic world.

Paedo priest admits abuse

"I don't in the slightest have any sense I am a paedophile," he said. "I don't get the impression my nephew was opposed, quite the contrary," he added, although he also admitted "I knew it wasn't good, I confessed it several times."

And a surprising one that was into little girls (yeah they're as rare as unicorns).

South Dakota Sex Abuse Scandal: A Peek Inside the Church's Drawers

"All goes along quietly out here," one priest wrote in 1968, with "good religious and lay faculty" at the mission. There are troublesome staffers, though, including "Chappy," who is "fooling around with little girls -- he had them down the basement of our building in the dark, where we found a pair of panties torn." Later that year, Brother Francis Chapman was still abusing children, though by 1970, he was "a new man," the reports say. In 1973, Chappy again "has difficulty with little girls."

But as long as our papist friend here refuses to admit there's a problem and abandon the unholy seat of the Beast, it will continue to happen.

[MitzaLizalor]

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…But as long as our papist friend here refuses to admit there's a problem and abandon the unholy seat of the Beast, it will continue to happen.

Given the "job description" for the false priestood of Catholoicism one might suspect it was intended to happen.