Comments on: Vatican issues new seminarian guidelines

By: Tish

Tish — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:07:36 +0000

Agreed!

How dare the RCC try to push morality down our throats with such rampant abuse of the Scriptures and whatnot within their own secure doors.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:07:57 +0000

ASM826 has hit a home run here!! Amen Bro, AMEN!!

As an *almost* victim*, I have a lot of anger to this day, and I was just turned 17 when a perv priest tried it on me…

I broke his jaw for him… The only thing that SOB sucked was a straw when he ate dinner for a few weeks…

And you are DEAD on the mark, the hierarchy is at least as much, if not MORE to blame than anyone, they know, you can bet your ass, they KNOW!!

By: ASM826

ASM826 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:59:21 +0000

It’s a step in the right direction, anyway. The celibate priesthood isn’t going to survive anyway. Accepting a married priesthood would be a way to get some better adjusted individuals to join.

Behind the issue of the abusing priests, however, is the issue of the bishops and administrators that enabled them, covered for them, relocated them, and told the families to hush up for “the good of the Church”.

I can better forgive an abuser who has no control than I can his superiors who made calculated decisions to allow children to be presented to monsters for abuse. There is the larger crime, and if the lawsuits and the revelations destroy the Church and force the ouster of most of the hierarchy, so be it.

God is still God, and he will raise up a new church from the ashes.

By: Bloviating Zeppelin

Bloviating Zeppelin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:25:39 +0000

Sad thing is, I’ve had personal experience with the issue; when I worked the Child Abuse Bureau I had the suspect in one of my cases “whisked away” from the diocese and my supervisor at the time ordered me to drop the case. I was still sufficiently young and naive that I did as I was told.

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:50:22 +0000

Rob and Basti, BOTH of you are right on the money..

By: Basti

Basti — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:45:03 +0000

IMO the Vatican has done more harm to the RCC by hiding/transferring priests who are pedophiles than the Reformation ever did. And you can’t tell me the Vatican hasn’t been ‘in the know’ since day one.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:50:50 +0000

To your question: “What in the hell are they going to do about the *rump rangers* and *bone smokers* that are already in the priesthood? ”

You know, once you let the wolves in the hen house its a bitch to get them out.. they keep coming back for generations…

I think it’s been going on so long and just recently came to light, it will take some time to root them out and I hope this is a first step…

By: cary - Botan Ichihara

cary - Botan Ichihara — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:21:45 +0000

The visitor was enjoying his tour of the old monastery, and the conversation with the old Friar. Suddenly, a young friar came wailing into the courtyard, crying and carrying on.

“Whatever is the problem?” asked the old friar.

After much time, the young friar calms down enough to explain that he had been working on a new translation of the old scrolls.

“The original translators missed the ‘r’!”

“It should read CELEBRATE!!”

Bah-dum-bum!