OpEdNews - Page 8 of Article: A Unifying Theory of Roman Catholic Clergy Abuse

This is not only the pinnacle of hypocrisy, but it is so much more than that. It is about a totally corrupted culture that not only trains men to behave in this manner, but which has become the only quality that will ensure their promotion.

And what of the Catholic laity? Ashamed, embarrassed, angry, distraught, hurt, victims of a culture that uses fear and human sexuality to maintain control; what is to become of them? They have been trained well to pay, pray, and obey. Those that wake up to hypocrisy will leave discontented, others will pray for change, some will try to affect it, and the rest will pray and pay regardless of how outrageous the acts of the hierarchy become because more than anything else in the world, they want to go to heaven. It is thus fitting to close with a line from Defining Deviance Down. "A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction."²²So is the Catholic Church!

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2. Engel, Randy. St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah:A Moral Blueprint for Our Times - Part I Nov. 26, 2009 Retrieved from: http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/articles/damian1.htm

3. Damian, Peter. The book of Gomorah an Eleventh Century Treatise Against Clerical Homosexual Practices. Translated by Pierre J. Payer. November 26, 2009 Retrieved from: http://books.google.com/books?id=hr4VAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=eleventh+century+clerical+abuse&source=web&ots=kBcxq4YpkG&sig=PwlMgSfUtRxys6KqhwrSJNf4GSE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA12,M1

4. Liebreich, Karen. Fallen Order November 27, 2009 Retrieved from: http://www.liebreich.com/LDC/HTML/Books/FallenOrder.html

5. Farragher, Thomas. Admission of awareness damning for Law. Nov. 26, 2009. http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/121402_admission.htm

6. Estrada, HerÃ³n. Archdiocese helped priest flee, suit says. Nov. 26, 2009http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/28150429.html?elr=KArks:DCiUnP::DE8c7PiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

7. Annett, Kevin. Open letter, Nov. 26, 2009 Retrieved from: http://signatoryindian.tripod.com/id80.html

8. Keating, Ted, From the Executive Director. July/August Bulletin, 2002 Retrieved from:

http://www.cmsm.org/index.shtml Author's note, site is no longer open to public.

9. Pious X. Vehementer Nos. (encyclical on the French law of separation) 1905, retrieved from

http://jingalls.com/holy_father/pius_x/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_11021906_vehementer-nos_en.html Nov. 26, 2009

10. Hagget, L. The Bingo Report, Mandatory Celibacy and the Clergy. CSRI Books (October 20, 2005)

11. Sommer, J. Clerical Celibacy and Pedophilic Priests. Nov. 27, 2009http://www.humanismbyjoe.com/clerical_celibacy_and_pedophilic.htm

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