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I will not add anything to these two quotes. They speak for themselves.
He gave a mighty shout, “Babylon is fallen–that great city is fallen! She has become the hideout of demons and evil spirits, a nest for filthy buzzards, and a den for dreadful beasts.
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The Trial of the Catholic Church: A Tale of Moral and Financial Bankruptcy
By Liam Fox
NEWS JUNKIE POST
Mar 22, 2010 at 4:22 pmThe potential financial bankruptcy of the Catholic Church is rivaled only by the apparent moral bankruptcy reaching from parish priests all the way to the Papal offices of the Vatican. Tens of thousands of cases have emerged in dozens of countries from Asia to Europe and from Australia to the Americas. No country seems immune, and the vulnerability of the victims seems only contingent on the number of clergy.
Over the past week, stories have surfaced of sexual abuse that was actively hidden and aided by the current Pope while he was archbishop of Germany. Joseph Ratzinger, archbishop of Munich and Freising, now Pope Benedict XVI , ignored repeated warnings regarding a priest accused of sexually abusing boys. While Ratzinger was in charge, the accused priest, Peter Hullerman, was briefly transferred to Munich for therapy.
Dr. Werner Huth, a psychiatrist from Munich, told the New York Times; “I said, For God’s sake, he [Hullerman] desperately has to be kept away from working with children… I was very unhappy about the entire story.” His warnings, which he states were repeated to Benedict’s senior aids, went unheeded(1). Soon after, he was allowed to return to parish work and interact with children. In 1986, Hullermann was finally convicted of sexual abuse yet was still allowed to continued working with altar boys. He was finally suspended, just this month.
As in Boston, where Cardinal Bernard Law was caught actively lying about what he knew, and what he did to cover up the abuse, the Catholic Church is rallying in protection of the Pope, directing attention instead on underlings, and treating the institutionalized pedophilia as isolated and unfortunate incidents(2). Pope Benedict XVI has admitted that the Church has been “severely shaken” by repeated allegations of high-level cover-ups of sexual abuse(3) ,but his recent letter of apology to Irish victims, released March 20, 2010, was poorly received and deemed inadequate(4). The letter promises an internal Vatican investigation and a year of penitence.
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FROM READ ME:”Grabe naman yang dandelione na yan, walang kapaguran. Ganyan talaga nu kapag sarado utak, hahanap at hahanap ng butas kahit wala.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/world/europe/01vatican.html
Teka, meron ba kayong pasugo nung 60th anniversary ng INC? kelangan ko lang, o kaya san/cnu kaya ku pd makatanong. Grabe naman yang dandelione na yan, walang kapaguran. Ganyan talaga nu kapag sarado utak, hahanap at hahanap ng butas kahit wala. Kaya tinamad na ko makipag debate ng napakanonsense sa TUMBUKIN NATIN. Hay. Pansin ko nawala c Cenon Bibe? Tsk. Tsk. wala ng reply sa tinanong ko. daming cnabe, gusto lang makaiskor saken. E ung mga utak ng C defenders don ang liliit, un bang kahit anung sabihin mo, babaliktarin nila. sa mga ganyan tinatamad lang ako. ^_^ hehe bilib nga ko senyo di kayo nauubusan ng patience sa mga ganon, cge go lang kaya nyo yan. more power^_^
FROM RESBAK:”Well, it’s not so much as the “small minority” (at least according to you) of criminal priest but the fact that their superiors connived with them in committing the crime either by hiding their crimes, protecting them, moving them to another area without warning the people first, etc.
And now as it turns out, even your current pope seems to have done the same.”
Indeed its a fact that the Catholic Church cannot deny that people within the Church’s hierarchy have sometimes failed to live up to the honorable reputations befitting their offices. Non-Catholics cite such human failings as evidence that the Catholic Church cannot be God’s true Church.
Now let me remind you that when Jesus appointed the apostles,they were ALL SINNERS! The most notorious of the apostles is, of course, Judas Iscariot—the one who betrayed Jesus. Jesus entrusted preaching to Judas, a serious sinner and he knowingly appointed a thief and a betrayer to preach on his behalf which some claim that Jesus didn’t know of Judas’ sinful character when he appointed him to be an apostle but as John’s Gospel tells us otherwise:
[Jesus said,] “But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that should betray him . . . “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was to betray him. (Jn 6:64, 70-71)
So, clearly, Jesus does use sinners to represent him. But what does this say about the trustworthiness of the teachings of those representatives (i.e., infallibility)?
We have already seen in Matthew 10:7 that Jesus appointed Judas to preach. But how could he know Judas, a thief and future traitor, would get it right? The answer lies further on in the same passage:
“What you are to say will be given to you . . . FOR IT IS NOT YOU WHO SPEAKS, but the SPIRIT of your FATHER speaking through you” (Mt 10:19-20).
You see, Jesus wasn’t concerned about Judas misrepresenting the truth that he was sent out to teach because the Holy Spirit would guide him. Jesus made similar promises to all of the apostles at the Last Supper:
“The Father will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever . . . the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. . . . He will guide you into all the truth” (Jn 14:16, 26; 16:13).
And finally, Jesus’ promises are for all of his authoritative teachers until he returns in glory: “I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Mt 28:20).
The Christian faith “was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3), and it has been authentically handed down and taught authoritatively by sinners—the apostles and their successors, the magisterium of the Catholic Church—under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for nearly two thousand years.
Sometimes? What an understatement! The crimes are bankrupting your church to death.
All men sinned, even Apostles. BUT, they “stopped sinning” after they followed the Lord Jesus. If they don’t, the Lord Jesus wanted to “expel the evil from among you”. Have you ever wondered why those pedophile priest were not expelled when they were doing evil over and over again?
nyeeek.. o cge “brad” hehe
san kaya pd taung magchat or magpadalahan ng message?
wala muna brad. i will let you know pag mayroon na. I’ll post it dito sa blog sa right side.
Resbak, while NO one denies the wrongdoing and the harm caused by a small minority of priests, their misconduct has been used to undermine the reputations of the overwhelming majority of clergy who live holy quiet lives in their parishes. There is selective” and “salacious” reporting of Catholic clergy in the aftermath of clerical sexual abuse scandals and this is being used to discredit a “powerful moral voice” in public debate.Isolated cases of clerical immorality were magnified to make depravity appear endemic to the entire priesthood. These “salacious” reporting on clerical sexual abuse is conducted AS IF the crimes were limited only to Catholic clergy. They have been given more prominence than present-day massacres of Christians in India and Iraq.
On the other hand, there are an estimated 39 million victims of childhood sexual abuse in the U.S. Between 40 and 60 percent (http://www.darkness2light.org/KnowAbout/statistics_2.asp) of these were abused by a family member, five percent were molested by school teachers, and fewer than two percent were abused by Catholic priests. But to read the papers, it would seem that Catholic clergy hold a monopoly in child molestation.
So you see,it always takes a mental slant when the Catholic hierarchy is being attacked like as if all the other “churches” were SPOTLESS.
Well, it’s not so much as the “small minority” (at least according to you) of criminal priest but the fact that their superiors connived with them in committing the crime either by hiding their crimes, protecting them, moving them to another area without warning the people first, etc.
And now as it turns out, even your current pope seems to have done the same.
Well, let’s see the spot.
hi sir conrad, may facebook or ym ba kayo?
hello brad,
brad conrad na lang hindi ako mataas sa iyo.
meron dati, pero nalimutan ko username password ko.