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Originally Posted by DanaC
Umm....excuse me? You think I think this shit is 'ok'?
I don't. Nor do most Catholics I know. The only difference here is that you seem to think that this should lead them to turn their back on their church, and I think that's an unrealistic expectation given the nature of catholicism. Ordinary catholics are far more likely (in my view) to want to repair their church than leave it.
I haven't heard hordes of catholics queing up to excuse paedophilia. There are clearly some priests who've been complicit. At the top there seems to have been an institutional silence. You seem to want ordinary catholics to define their church through this scandal. Their not doing that does not render them complicit; it is not a sanction of that behaviour: knowing about it and not acting, that is complicity. Continuing to believe that the Catholic Church is the one true church is not.
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WTF are you talking about!?! I only made one statement:
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All religion is about "people".
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I excuse no one for their actions. I do not define myself as Catholic. Let the Catholics on here respond. Good day.
edit: here is a great movie if any of you missed it. Along the same lines of the abusive environment of the Catholic Church, which btw controls the majority of the schools in Ireland.
The Magdalene Sisters
http://www.amazon.com/Magdalene-Sist.../dp/B00018D3L4