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April 22, 2008 at 09:55:56

Pope's Apologies For Pedophile Priests Are Too Little, Too Late. Nothing Will Change

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He's your pope and the cardinals are your leaders.

If you choose to forgive and forget, as they will forget all their promises to change, you have no one but yourselves to blame when it happens again, and an entire new generation of children -- your children -- are victimized.

Washington Post: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/907531,CST-NWS-crime22.article

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A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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This is not to insult Catholics

but I want to point out that we here went ballistic about the Pope, the offiicial leader of the ONLY branch of Christianity which EATS the body of Christ ( sorry, swallows) and DRINKS his blood. NO other branch of Christianity does that. And we here do not consider that weird and we do not throw insults at them as we throw, say at Islam on a regular basis. BTW, that did not stop us from killing millions of Vietnamese who had been very good Catholics.

I would argue that pedophilia is not only a Catholic Church vice. But only the Catholic Church is a corporation and that corporation breeds, raises and uses its own employees. It is thus behaving as a closed- circle Carlyle group and has to acknowledge that ( Dream on).

So, returning back to the matter of strange customs I would urge that I would prefer the real Pope not to go to Washington but to New Orleans ( did he go there? Naa) and have there a mass in that Stadium, a mourning mass for all those perished and then maybe - throw a good meal for all parishioners in the MOST CATHOLIC city of the USA. But he did not. Hey, Catholics, what do you think? How many pieces of the body of Christ do you have to swallow before the Church throws you a free dinner?Dream on as I said.

by Mark Sashine (51 articles, 19 quicklinks, 244 diaries, 3461 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 10:15:13 AM

I do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School
Susan NelsenI do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School

I am not clear....

are all the pedophile preists in the U.S. of A....? Any body have the statistics...maybe its less a Catholic thing and more an American thing...this country is alive with pedophiles....child molesters and muderers...any body have a chart on it? Just curious...

by Susan Nelsen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 268 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 10:57:19 AM

I guess

in Europe the legalized or half- legalized prostitution fills the void and in the poor countries... the poor women fill the void. It would be very naive to consider that male priests would not find a way to satisfy their desires and the history of the Catholicism proves that. Not that other priests of other religions don't do that. But in the US such things can result in lawsuits and... Catholic Church as an organization is by far the most..property- oriented. That simple.

by Mark Sashine (51 articles, 19 quicklinks, 244 diaries, 3461 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 11:58:33 AM

40 year old woman from Boston.
bella40 year old woman from Boston.

to susan nelson

There are many abusive priests in other countries.

Go to www.bishop-accountability.org

Look at the "Abuse Tracker." Each day the tracker posts all news stories regarding clergy abuse from around the world.

by bella (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 3:40:40 PM

Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

They are also as empty as his eyes.

As a cardinal, the present pope was one of those who played, "hide the priests that hide the sausage on kiddies." His words and his prayers ring as hollow as the reasoning that would put a man even slightly tainted by just the slightest whiff of Nazism into such a high office, when there were clearly more pious, worthy, and beneficent men ready, willing, and able to wear a miter.

The happenings of the Catholic church here of late make me ever happier that I gave up Catholicism for Lent when I was eighteen. The maddened throng willing to throw themselves at the soiled hem of the pope's skirt proves standard religious willing ignorance.

It's sad, it's pathetic, but it's par for the course.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 5:55:08 PM

Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers...

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Sandy SandSandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers...

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It is pathetic

So sad yet so true.

by Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 197 diaries, 1385 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 6:25:05 PM

A Viet Nam era vet, musician, father, civil servant, grandfather (4x), mortgage consultant: loosely covers about 40 of my 58 year history. Cut my political teeth on Viet Nam and Watergate, and thought that there was no chance in hell that the 'Pigs' could ever attain the power again. Boy was I wrong!
DandreA Viet Nam era vet, musician, father, civil servant, grandfather (4x), mortgage consultant: loosely covers about 40 of my 58 year history. Cut my political teeth on Viet Nam and Watergate, and thought that there was no chance in hell that the 'Pigs' could ever attain the power again. Boy was I wrong!

Institutions

When Bishop Mahoney looked into the news cameras and said they were 'sorry if they had offended anyone.'

My initial reaction was that I was looking EVIL right in the EYE! I am a product of twelve years of Catholic education and I believe from all that I have studied then and since that Catholicism is the Mother Christian religion and the foundation institution of Christianity. When the foundation trembles it shakes all religions. There are all the differences that make up humanity in all churches but the Catholic Church reaction to all the abuse as an institution was criminal. Institutional corruption is inevitable but this is evil!

by Dandre (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 6:53:37 PM