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Two prominent Roman Catholic Church cardinals have urged an end of what they call "the plague of the homosexual agenda", telling bishops to break their complicity over cases of sexual abuse. In an open letter, Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller say the Church has wrongly blamed the abuse of power by clergy as the main cause of the scandals. Instead, they say the cases involve priests who have "gone away from the truth of the Gospel". They also openly criticise the Pope. Their letter comes on the eve of an extraordinary summit of bishops in Rome called by Pope Francis as an effort to deal with the scandals rocking the Church.
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: 2012newstart
is that REALLY the " excuse " they are going with ???????????????????????
" teh homosexuals made us rape nuns "
send in the clowns ... ooops cardinals
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
Heterosexuality.
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
Heterosexuality.
Not if rape was involved, then it is a whole other monster.
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
Heterosexuality.
Not if rape was involved, then it is a whole other monster.
If you were gay would you rape someone of the opposite sex?
But honestly my previous post was kinda pithy. The idea that a priest would sexually abuse a boy not because he is attracted to males but because he is God's right hand man and holds power over the boy is ridiculous.
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
If you reform rules and regulations that have been in effect for 1000s of years then you are no longer a religious authority but merely a panderer to popular opinion.
Im not a fan of the church and dont believe it was in any way divinely inspired, I believe it was set up as a system of control
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
Heterosexuality.
Not if rape was involved, then it is a whole other monster.
If you were gay would you rape someone of the opposite sex?
But honestly my previous post was kinda pithy. The idea that a priest would sexually abuse a boy not because he is attracted to males but because he is God's right hand man and holds power over the boy is ridiculous.
Sure, because with my experience in life so far (lots) with homosexual and heterosexual men, there is a great percentage that are bi-sexual. But, rape is really not a gender preference thing, it is a power and control thing, hence another reason these types of predators choose this position of power.
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: NobodyToldMe
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: 2012newstart
This is all part of damage control.
Riddle me this, how do they explain the priests that abuse nuns?
Heterosexuality.
Not if rape was involved, then it is a whole other monster.
If you were gay would you rape someone of the opposite sex?
But honestly my previous post was kinda pithy. The idea that a priest would sexually abuse a boy not because he is attracted to males but because he is God's right hand man and holds power over the boy is ridiculous.
Sure, because with my experience in life so far (lots) with homosexual and heterosexual men, there is a great percentage that are bi-sexual. But, rape is really not a gender preference thing, it is a power and control thing, hence another reason these types of predators choose this position of power.
Good point. Like the whole prison sex thing I guess.
But again if I was hetero and wanted to wield control and power over someone by using sex and had a choice between male altar boys and female parishioners (whatever they are called) and nuns I would go female/nun every time.
But what do I know, I'm not a control rape freak.