dogwhisperer
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I don’t think he’s defending rapists and pedos mate. The whole time through he is only defending the church even though he may seem to be defending pedos and rapists.Oh, yeah? Of course people should respect others but that also needs to be earnt a little too.
Think it's hard for most people when they see someone defending rapists and paedos. Hard to have a rational discussion after that in all honesty, so can understand why people fly off the handle a little bit
In all honesty, it's disappointing that more people aren't having a go at his views tho imagine people have just got used to his dribble?
There are 415,000 catholic priests throughout the whole world. According to some statistics 4% are pedos maybe up to 20,000 priests. 96% are actually good priests. These are very rough figures but you get what I’m trying to say.
The Catholic Church has 1.34 billion members around the world and not all identify as Roman Catholic. There are 23 Rites of the Catholic faith, including and not limited to Roman Catholicism. There are the Maronites, The Melkites, Chaldeans and 20 other rites each with their own traditions are history.
While it is true that there have been many priests and bishops who are/were pedos and also bishops in higher authority who have harbored and protected them, the majority of these entered into the priesthood in the mid 20th century as a way to hide behind the collar and seek protection from outside authorities/law enforcers. Yes, they wore their priestly collars but they had other intentions. It is very very very unfortunate that these disgusting activities were allowed to go on for a very long time and the pain and devastation it has caused victims and their families. It is also unfortunate that the whole of the Catholic Church worldwide is branded the same way or tainted with the same brush because millions of church members, bishops, priests, nuns, monks, friars, brothers and the like give up their whole lives serving the needs of the entire human race. The Catholic Church shelters, clothes, feeds and educates more people than any other organization in the whole world.
While it’s been a bad 60-70 years of bad publicity regards some maggots within the church and rightly so may I add, a lot of this generation of pedo priests have either died, nearing their deaths or have been publicly shamed and convicted. Over the last 15 years there is a growing amount of young priests with zeal entering the priesthood with genuine intentions and purpose who strongly oppose the dirt inside the church with dirt cleaning well under way. For the billion or so church members this gives us hope. For the individual parishes around the world, these parishes have been a refuge for many, especially for the persecuted Christian’s in the Middle East by Islamic extremists or the persecuted Christian’s in North Africa. Many priests have taken bullets or offered themselves to be beheaded in place of innocents families trying to flee areas of persecutions, slavery and cold blooded slaughtering of innocent civilians. There has been many other times in history where the church stood up and protected the innocent lives of humans, Mexico in the 1920’s, world war 2 and the stance against the Nazis. A lot of priests were lined up and shot dead for protecting and hiding Jewish prisoners of war, innocent men, women and children.
When we hear the words Catholic Church, we can focus on the 4% of pedo priests or we can celebrate what good the church has done.
I personally feel peoples hate of the church is far deeper than the pedo priests. I feel the church is hated for many other reasons as well. It’s hated for its stance against abortion, it’s hated for its stance against contraception, it’s hated for its stance against euthanasia, it’s hated for its stance against same sex marriage, it also may be hatred by certain individuals who may have had a bad experience once upon a time in their lives. Maybe they got the cane at school by a nun for being cheeky.
Until the church changes it’s teaching in the catechism of the Catholic Church to include “it’s ok to rape a child” then I will always be a Catholic. And may all the bad bishops, priests and nuns who have sexually abused a child be brought to justice, and get what they deserve.
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