Is Canon Law the Root of the Problem?
CANON LAWThe code's canon 1395:2 specifies that sex between priests and minors is an ecclesiastical crime. Yet the 1985 code commentary stated that an initial charge of...Read More
View ArticleWhat About the Racketeering Dimension (RICO)?
The pope should be told that sexual abuse by priests is the heart of the scandal, but only the start of the scandal. The rest is the racketeering dimension--the fact that a RICO suit has been brought,...
View ArticleCelebacy is a "recruitment" problem
I believe the only issue effected by celebacy is the recruitment of persons to become members of the clergy. Recruitment has and continues to be a serious problem for the church, thus clouding...
View ArticleNo, celibacy is NOT the root of the problem
The episcopate, priesthood and religious life all require celibacy as part of the discliplined life to serve Christ in those capacities. In a similar manner, those of us who are not so called are...
View ArticleCounselor Priests Seducing Grown Women
There is a lot of information about the children and young adults that have been abused by Priests.Does anyone know where there is information about Priests who counsel women on their marriages and...
View ArticleInstitutionalized tolerance of abuse is a big part of it
Everybody, outside the Church anyway, knows that the surest way to encourage bad behaviour is not to correct it and, even worse, to reward it. Ask any parent. So what did the Church do when complaints...
View Article"Mental Reservation" Rome's Doctrine on Lying
The "church", pope, cardinals, bishops, priests etc. have actively hid many things from Rome's faithful and the eyes of the world and they continue to do this even today and they do it with Rome's...
View ArticleI belive pope leo and MAry predicted this
Mary revealed that satan shall enter the church and pope leo predicted the moral decay of the church and our lives but the church shall survive May Christ Cleanse the church and may God have mercy on...
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View ArticleCelibacy: Food for Thought. . . .
Quote:The board said celibacy was not a cause of the scandal, but that the celibacy requirement may have attracted candidates for the priesthood who were seeking an escape from their s...Read More
View ArticleA good read...
A fine interview by one of the more informed individualson the question. It underlines certain ironies...www.advocate.com/html/stories/912/9...Read More
View ArticleArticle by Bob Hoatson
Our own hoatsie has published this:www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/060902I have rather strong opinions about it...but I'm gonna...Read More
View ArticlePeter had a mother-n-law
If celibacy is suppose to be an outward sign of an 'inward' commitment, then why have I read that Peter, Jesus' disciple, have a mother-n-law. Has anyone heard a valid explanation as to why celibacy...
View ArticleExperienced counselors dealing with clergy sexual abuse
Does anyone know of a conselor who has first hand knowlege of clergy sexual abuse? I do not feel that just an ordinary counselor can understand what we have gone through or how to deal with the...
View ArticleAttracts the Wrong People
At the very least, a celebate priesthood is far more likely to attract pedophiles. In comparing the Catholic hierarchy's enabling of pedo-priests to women's enabling of their destructive husbands, one...
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