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Originally Posted by Annie53
And yet the Catholic hierarchy and their followers seem to think they are in a position to critique/dictate the sexual lives of others.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
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Pedophilia is contrary to Catholic teaching. So is sex with a person of the same sex. Of course you knew that. But you're attempting to insinuate the Catholic hierarchy and lay Catholics believe and teach that not only is it morally okay for priests to break their vows but that it is okay for them to have sex with males as well.
That's not what the Church teaches.
There is something I find more disturbing how the Church responded. Being raised as a cradle Catholic I know the culture and the once high esteem priests were placed in. Their theological role within the Church. I'm flabbergasted the hierarchy assumed on the advice of psychologists that most these children would be psychologically fine once they grew into adults and would have little memory of the events. What's astounding is that both the hierarchy and psychologists were
educated adults. But the heirachy should have especially known better because they know what a priest symbolizes to a young Catholic child. I can't even begin to imagine how a Catholic child felt, the sheer shock and horror, of a priest fondling them let alone performing greater sexual acts on them.
It's almost up there with a parent doing that to their own child.
The Church should learn from this experience to be weary of what pronouncements psychology makes.
This Bishop is a good man. I know of him beyond headlines. But being put in a position of leadership will always come with the curse of "hard decisions" with limited understanding and or information. And I'm not sure any leader can make all people happy all the time. Obama seems to have his critics and so did George Bush before him.
'Prepare to be shocked,' Milwaukee archbishop warns of priest sex files
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In their letters, both Listecki and Sklba emphasized a common theme within the church hierarchy throughout the sex abuse scandal — that the understanding of child sex abuse has evolved, and that — to use Listecki's words, "it is easy to question decisions of the past with the insight of today."
Over 40 years, Sklba wrote, "society's general attitude toward perpetrators of sexual abuse moved in a trajectory from understanding abuse as sin with the possibility of forgiveness, to psychological flaw with hope of treatment, to deeper issues of addiction and finally to criminal activity."
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The bold my emphasis.
The bold part is true. Today's views and understanding have changed. Treatment--like rehab for drug addicts--were routinely prescribed decades ago for pedophilia in particular. And just as addicts graduating rehab, pedophiles completing therapy were viewed as returnable to their duties.
This can even be gleaned by how many times U.S. courts allowed serial pedophile rapists (some that abducted kids and even murdered them) back out into American society.
Nota bene: secular society leaders of the U.S. cities
did not notify the public when said pedophiles were being released into their communities.
What changed things were the serial offenses and outraged Americans and parents over children being abducted, raped, and even murdered at times by repeat offenders living in their communities.
It might be noted that these policies allowing for re-offenses were originally birthed by the minds of social and political
liberals.
As for Judas' allowed among the Apostles' the Church only follows the example of Jesus. The only unforgivable sin some say, is suicide. Even pedophilia, rape, and murder are forgivable.
I find hypocrisy in the fact
liberals and those that champion all views held in mainstream psychology as true, conveniently sweep their role in all of this under the rug. Why shouldn't lawsuits be brought against the Democratic Party for all the raped and murdered U.S. children it low sentence and early release from prison polices for serial pedophiles it pushed for years? For its role in secretly placing these dangerous men in the neighborhoods American child played in?
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