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if one has so many complaints against a certain religion doesn't make sense to leave it or start your own???(instead of whining==imho----ted's issue is with sexual abuse--so get into therapy instead of continually dissing one religion as sexual abuse happens in all religions and is swept under the rug by 90% of them(years of running groups for abused experience)
Haven't you heard? the sex abuse and cover up is still going on after the bishops promised a zero tolerence policy back in 2002.
Tell me you don't know what is going on right now in Philidelphia.
The sex abuse and cover up by the hierarchy is just a symptom of the problem.
The National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) revealed that its final checks found that from April 1, 2010, until March 31, 2011, the actual number of complaints about sexual, physical or emotional abuse totalled 272.
The board, which in December 2009 was instructed by the bishops to conduct a comprehensive national audit of clerical child abuse, was initially told of only 53 new allegations.
Haven't you heard? the sex abuse and cover up is still going on after the bishops promised a zero tolerence policy back in 2002.
Tell me you don't know what is going on right now in Philidelphia.
The sex abuse and cover up by the hierarchy is just a symptom of the problem.
please get therapy--you are obsessed with this issue that has occurred in many other religions and keep stating this behavior as the representation of all catholicism
please get therapy--you are obsessed with this issue that has occurred in many other religions and keep stating this behavior as the representation of all catholicism
When did I ever say " this behavior as the representation of all catholicism"
The bishop responded to the claim in a May 14 statement, reiterating that "the direct killing of an unborn child is always immoral, no matter the circumstances, and it cannot be permitted in any institution that claims to be authentically Catholic."
The U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine also weighed in on the issue with a June 23 statement.
"No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself and proclaimed by the church," the committee said.
or as the saying goes "BECAUSE I SAY SO"
RESPONSE:
Actually, after enough women had died from a tubal pregnancy that the Church said could not be removed, a way around this problem. A direct killing was became an indirect killing which might be OK under some circumstances
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"However, if medical treatment or surgical operation, necessary to save a mother's life, is applied to her organism (though the child's death would, or at least might, follow as a regretted but unavoidable consequence), it should not be maintained that the fetal life is thereby directly attacked."
This must be the part that Bishop Omstead overlooked.
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