Catholic church hypocrisy

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-07 09:21am

Another example of religious hypocrisy burn all churches

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-08-07 10:16am

Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases "in the most secretive way...restrained by a perpetual silence...and everyone {including the alleged victim) ...is to observe the strictest secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office...under the penalty of excommunication."

"Keep your mouth shut or we'll execute you" Bastards.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-08-07 12:44pm

I wonder what my mom will say to this after thinking it's just a local thing.

Do the Orthodox churches have these problems? The document was addressed even to them.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-08-07 12:47pm

Let the clergy marry and this *might* go away or go on the decrease...

Still, this is plain *wrong*

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-08-07 09:13pm

3rd Impact wrote:
Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases "in the most secretive way...restrained by a perpetual silence...and everyone {including the alleged victim) ...is to observe the strictest secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office...under the penalty of excommunication."
"Keep your mouth shut or we'll execute you" Bastards.

Er..."to excommunicate" means "to kick out of the church." It is not a synonym for "to execute."

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-07 09:23pm

Catholic hypocrisy knows no bounds. After claiming that their huge organization was "slow to react" to decades of child sex abuse in their own ranks, they turned around and reacted with startling speed and surprising aggressiveness when Canada legalized gay marriages. The message came right from the Pope and was quickly being blasted from pulpits across the country within weeks, with massive publicity campaigns to boot.

"Slow to react", eh? Fucking bastards. They can react pretty fucking fast when they want to.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-08-07 09:26pm

Darth Wong wrote:They can react pretty fucking fast when they want to.

Hehe. The document in the article dates from 1962, looks like they were REALLY on the ball with this one!

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-08-07 10:56pm

I was quite happy that I'd finally dropped out of the church when I heard about this. I was not surprised at all.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-07 10:58pm

Kuja wrote:I was quite happy that I'd finally dropped out of the church when I heard about this. I was not surprised at all.

What, you got excommunicated? You're a Catholic from the moment Dad came to the end of your life, in the eyes of the Church.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-08-07 11:32pm

Durran Korr wrote:What, you got excommunicated?

Excommunication is when you get kicked out. I dropped out.

You're a Catholic from the moment Dad came to the end of your life, in the eyes of the Church.

How nice. They can shove it up their asses for all I care.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-08-07 11:40pm

Darth Wong wrote:Catholic hypocrisy knows no bounds. After claiming that their huge organization was "slow to react" to decades of child sex abuse in their own ranks, they turned around and reacted with startling speed and surprising aggressiveness when Canada legalized gay marriages. The message came right from the Pope and was quickly being blasted from pulpits across the country within weeks, with massive publicity campaigns to boot.

"Slow to react", eh? Fucking bastards. They can react pretty fucking fast when they want to.

I would assume that when a directive comes from the top down, as in the case of the Canadian homosexuality ruling, there would be much less dilly-dallying and dead-ends in the gigantic Roman Catholic bureaucracy. The sex abuse business, on the other hand, was decentralized and occured primarily at the lowest levels of the Catholic hierarchy.

Not trying to defend the child molestors, just trying to understand this apparent contradiction.

otter · Post by **otter** » 2003-08-08 09:29am

Whats the religious world coming to?

Muslim clerics want to kill me and the Christian clergy want to fuck me up the ass without the courtesy of a reach-around.

Hmmm, suddenly converting to Buddism, Hinduism, or Aetheism seems like a good idea.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-08-08 09:50am

Find the Pedophile Priest
The classic shell game with a Catholic twist.