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Don't report the sexual abuse, Pope said !!!!!

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kai said:
wow! from a member who expressly wishes us not to use biased websites when posting about Islam?

caught me out there you devilishly devious poster i had already taken the bait before i noticed atheism.com
Not atheism.com, but atheism.about.com. About.com is not an anti-Catholic site, though Austin Cline himself probably doesn't think much of Catholicism. I don't think the Evening Standard could be described as anti-Catholic, either.

I can understand the Church's desire for discretion to some extent; what's always bothered me about the whole scandal is the way some abusive priests were moved around from parish to parish. But I really think the following is, if possible, even lower:
And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated.
And yet the Church deems it necessary to protect society from people like me with repressive laws. It really ticks me off. I don't understand how the hierarchs imagine that they have any moral authority, or why anybody still cares what they think.
 

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Katzpur said:
But I do want to answer this one question by stating that people shouldn't send their children to church alone anyway. They should take them to church and worship as a family. If church is good for the kids, it should be good for the parents, too. Otherwise, what kind of a message does it send the kids?
My grandmother and her siblings were sent to the Methodist Church while their father and stepmother attended the Baptist Church. My great-grandfather was persuaded to join his wife's church, but had promised my great-grandmother that he'd bring the children up in the Methodist Church. We always respected the fact that though his own allegiance changed, he never wavered from honoring my great-grandmother's dying wish.
 
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