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After this colorful metaphor, an equally colorful simile from Pope Francis: While the pontiff firmly upholds church teaching banning contraception, he today said that Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits" and should instead practice "responsible parenting." Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, he cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven Cesarean sections.
I read an article a few months ago that said the Pope wanted people to have more kids. It was something about how he thought that not enough people are having children, and that pets should not take the place of kids.
I read an article a few months ago that said the Pope wanted people to have more kids. It was something about how he thought that not enough people are having children, and that pets should not take the place of kids.
The Pope is entrenched in a religion which welcomes pedophiles.
They break the law to cover it up. Putting in much effort to ensure more and more kids are sexually violated so the priests remain sexually gratified.
This response isn't surprising
"Hide your kids,...hide your wife.. and hide your husbands too...
cause they're a goin' around a raping every body round here!
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Ignorance is bliss:
The Protestant Clergy Sex Abuse Pattern
One of the most striking aspects of the Protestant clergy sex abuse pattern is that most people don't realize it is a pattern. The Catholic Church has taken a well deserved beating in the courts and in the court of public opinion as former altar boys, orphans and ordinary parishioners come forward with appalling stories of sex abuse. Yet equally egregious violations by Protestant clergy fail to generate the same level of outrage. Why?
You might answer that the problems in the Catholic Church are uniquely widespread, but that would be the wrong answer. Last week's Eddie Long scandal, in which one of the nation's most politically connected and homophobic mega-ministers was accused of strong-arming gay sex out of teens, was just one tip of an enormous Protestant iceberg. The news monthly Freethought Today has a regular feature called "Black Collar Crime Blotter," typically a two-page sampler of fraud, theft, and sexual abuse taken from the media across the country. They just turned their archive over to the Kinsey Institute. A website called ClergyGoneWild.com provides links to recent crime stories, including child abuse (206 articles) and internet solicitation (18).
This problem is nothing new. The first book on clergy sex abuse in this country, Betrayal of Trust, was published in 1988. The perception that Catholic priests are overrepresented among offenders is correct. They do offend at a higher rate. But because this country is predominantly Protestant, more children are abused by Protestant ministers than by Catholic priests. In 1990, the Freedom from Religion Foundation issued a study on pedophilia by clergy. At that time, two clergy per week were being arrested in North America for sex crimes against children. Fifty-eight percent of them were Protestant.
Why do we largely overlook the horrific pattern of Protestant pedophilia and sexual exploitation? Here are a few factors to consider:
The Catholic Church is easier to think of as a monolithic entity. That means it is easier for the press to cohere the abuse incidents into a single story and our brains to grok it. The idea of one big conspiracy appeals to us: "The Church" did it and then covered it up.
The centralized hierarchy of Catholicism makes Catholic offenders easier to sue and guarantees deep pockets. The lawsuits in turn both generate their own news cycle and bring victims out of the closet.
Since most Americans are Protestants, the Catholic sex abuse scandal is a story about "them." Protestant Pedophilia is a story about "us," which makes it less gratifying and more uncomfortable.
Most Americans find the idea of celibacy peculiar at best. It makes for a more interesting narrative than a generic story about abuse of authority.
After this colorful metaphor, an equally colorful simile from Pope Francis: While the pontiff firmly upholds church teaching banning contraception, he today said that Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits" and should instead practice "responsible parenting." Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, he cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven Cesarean sections.
The more I hear about this fellow the less impressed I am. He is like a politician who is not very good at his job, Thinks it can be done with publicity stunts and exhortations.
Essentially he is just rolling out the old 'No contraception - just abstention.' idea, yet again. Bad enough, even if it isn't right that he was urging his Catholics to outbreed the rivals.
This guy sounds to me link he is not the man they needed to try to keep Catholicism relevant to the world today.
The Pope is entrenched in a religion which welcomes pedophiles.
They break the law to cover it up. Putting in much effort to ensure more and more kids are sexually violated so the priests remain sexually gratified.
This response isn't surprising
"Hide your kids,...hide your wife.. and hide your husbands too...
cause they're a goin' around a raping every body round here!
.
this is because liberal people stop good people from going to get them. well, in America that is. how sick is a country that a parent turning off a pedophile gets in more trouble than the pedophile.
After this colorful metaphor, an equally colorful simile from Pope Francis: While the pontiff firmly upholds church teaching banning contraception, he today said that Catholics don't have to breed "like rabbits" and should instead practice "responsible parenting." Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, he cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven Cesarean sections.
yeah responsible planning is so bad. The worst thing ever. How can religious people even think like that.
We know the answer to that - a religious doctrine that will not consider the obvious answer - contraception. This is why the Catholic church has to be doomed, sooner or later unless it moves along to keep up with public opinion.
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