CBS PITTSBURGH
301 ‘Predator Priests’ Named In Pa. Grand Jury Sex Abuse Report:
‘They Were Raping Little Boys & Girls’
By Andy Sheehan
August 14, 2018 at 3:05 pm
{QX NOTE: I realize that RC's have a YUGE vested interest in minimizing this horrendous 'problem.'
However, as the solid, factual, hard evidence reports pile up--it is fairly CLEAR that such goings on are NOT a 'mere' few cases way back when or very occasionally.
It is repeatedly clear that such goings on have long been endemic to the vast reaches of the RCC institution. Actually, it is hard to imagine such a widespread pedophile 'problem' without the higher-ups being very well aware of it, if not complicit themselves.
And, that, in fact, is what case after case reveals--Cardinals have been implicated repeatedly around the world, including IIRC, at the Vatican, itself.
We are all sinners--some choosing to confess, repent and receive Christ's Blood to save us by His Grace and enable us to live more and more in right standing with God as we earnestly endeavor to walk ever closer to Him.
However, while we pray for such guilty to confess and repent, we also owe it to God and the victims to not white-wash their activities. Nor should we whitewash the endemic cover-up policies and practices of the RCC for a VERY long time and still ongoing in far too many regions, if not generally.
Certainly it is always hazardous to judgmentally look down long haughty noses and pointy fingers at ANY evil doers, sinners--regardless of the sin.
I've lived long enough (parents had low class rentals all my growing up) to know that given certain DNA, certain childhood traumas and conditioning, most of us are almost capable of almost anything.
So humility is always in order.
Nevertheless, it is also important to call a spade a spade and it is fiercely important to protect our children and deliver whatever God ordained punishment is fitting to the perpetrators.}
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/08/14/pennsylvania-diocese-sex-abuse-grand-jury-report-released/
NOTE: QDROP #1879 states:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/14/stunning-findings-on-report-catholic-church-abuse-pa-priests-molested-more-than-1000-children.html
House of GOD? Only the beginning. Those who you are taught to trust the most…. Expect MANY MANY MANY similar reports to surface from around the world. IT GOES A LOT DEEPER. Connected. The choice to know will be yours. Q
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It isn't a small problem. One is too many, masquerading as a man of God, so root 'em all out and get rid of them.
However, let's also put that in perspective. There are 410,000 priests in the Catholic Church. That's a pedo predator percentage of 0.073%, which I would wager is low compared to a lot of groups.
Keep in mind that the Catholic Church stands against "gay marriage" and abortion, and has continued to do so when other denominations and sects have folded to pressure. For that reason, the MSM harps on the discovery of pedophiles as if the problem is endemic in the Church, and regularly uses that meme to deflect from other offenders who are nearer and dearer to the media's agenda.