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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Michael Reagan: Purging the Church's Predatory Priests

Am I the only Catholic who thinks the church needs to consider getting rid of the old guard — all the way up to the Pope?

That may be the only way to finally purge the predatory priests who have been allowed to exist within the bowels of the Catholic Church for so long.

The church has been rocked in recent years by sexual abuse scandals in Ireland, Australia, Chile, Boston, LA …

Then two weeks ago we got the shocking results of the country’s largest investigation ever into the sex crimes of Catholic priests.

A grand jury in Pennsylvania identified more than 300 “predator priests” in six dioceses who over the course of 70 years had molested and raped nearly 1,000 children, mostly boys.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thousands of priests who evidently don't believe in the concept of Hell, or even a hereafter. Isn't this odd?

Anonymous said...

When you allow failed religions convert to the Catholic religion was the first mistake. Now you have people who aren't Catholic and don't want to be Catholic. Changing the MASS and prayer's. If you want to sing and dance stay the hell with the Protestant, METHODIST and Baptist. We don't want your "good ole religion"!!!!

Anonymous said...

This is not only the Catholics folks, this is all Churches, as confirmed by the insurance companies who insure them for such things.

Billy Grahams grandson confirms this too, and works to fight it.

The problem is that religion gets a pass. No one questions, everyone assumes that people are "good Christian" whatever.

If we throw out all the Catholics, then we have to do the protestants too.

But guess what? As long as we give religion a special pass and privileged status you'll just be removing one group of corrupt criminals and replacing it with another group of corrupt criminals.


Anonymous said...

@12:39

It's worse than that.

The ENTIRE system is based on confessing your sins and being forgiven by God.

The person you offended doesn't matter, their forgiveness is irrelevant. As long as God absolves you of your sin, and forgives you, you get your pass to the promise land.

The entire thing is disgusting. How people fall for this, I just can't understand.