How CAN the Catholic Church not address this issue (other than throw money at the victims)? It is a slap in the face of religion period!! The “business” of the Catholic church needs to file chapter 7 and start over again, it has lost it’s way.

“There is an epidemic of child abuse in this country, a pandemic worldwide”.

Sister Turlish I know the anguish you feel in your heart. It is an epidemic and people who you are suppose to be able to trust, those of authority, church leaders, judges, attorneys, politicians, some who adopt foster children etc., are some of the worst perpetrators and most protected because of the mask they wear and many cases are protected by those who are even higher in authority.

Many use the excuse that they are abusers because they were abused, this may be true, but God does not find this to be a justified reason for hurting another because as an adult you must come to understand and have that all things can be overcome through Christ. Just because one is abused is not license in God’s eyes to hurt anyone.

In the church all must understand completely the things that they MUST overcome for salvation and to be included into the family of God’s. There are three things that must be overcome.

The first is the World System; one must love God so much that they hate the world. The world and government and just about everything in it is based on lies, as you see even many churches have fallen into this trap.

The second one must overcome is their FLESH, this is the category of fornication, homosexuality, incest, pedophilia, rape, etc.any sin that it takes using your body, sinning against your own flesh.

Lastly, one must overcome Satan in the world; you must resist ALL evil and temptations to do evil.

Unless one overcomes these three things, they will not be included into God’s family.

I would like those who have suffered abuse of any kind to understand that all things can be overcome through Christ Jesus, and they must overcome their abuse so that they can have eternal life that all who are included into God’s family will have. These ones are promised a glorious life which will be forever (eternal); where no one will suffer ever again pain, emotional nor physical pain, nor will any evil or wicked people make it, they will be plunked from the earth. This is the prize that Christians are to strive for. If they do not strive for righteousness and overcome the evils of the world system, flesh and Satan, they will forever suffer a pain and misery unlike any hell anyone is able to experienced on this earth and it will be forever and extremely painful and tormenting, they will be put away forever with the key thrown away.

Think about all those who are in authority who think that they have the world by the tail, such as judges, prosecutors, etc, who themselves, the key will be thrown away for forever, a judgment worst than any judgment they themselves could ever pass upon another human being. Justice in the end will be and, no one needs not worry or doubt that.

Not to hijack this thread and take it off topic, but D. Walker, I find your post to be quite contradictory, considering who you support for President. The homosexualization of America stands to be dramatically advanced if one Barack Obama wins the White House in November. Access to abortion at any stage will most definitely continue to be guaranteed. Equally horrific, Obama also supports infanticide, since he takes the position that a child who manages to survive an attempt to murder it during an abortion should still be rendered no medical aid and just be set aside to die in a medical waste pan. How someone who claims to be a Christian can support the man is beyond me.

Show me any candidate that you agree with on all isuues.

Obama also supports the death penalty, I DO NOT.

Obama supports civil unions, not marriages and I suppose that is because he realize that not all are Christians or all believe in God. Christ does not desire people to be forced to behave like Christians as written.

McCain is not even a Christian, nor has he ever been baptised. So what is your point?

My spirit tells me that Obama is a man that God can work with becaus ehe is genuine in my opinion and is a man after God’s heart, but is new in the ways of our Lord.

If any man who is a mature Christian first off, would not desire to be leader of this country (the world system)and I believe that it is only because of Obama’s newnest to Christianity is his reason that he desires to lead this country to change, he is just in the perfect place spiritually to lead this country as I said earlier, hre is one who God can work through.

My question to you, do you allow the Holy Spirit to guide your thoughts and

The litany (I think the word is appropriate) of egregious and unethical actions by Cardinal George in his civil deposition is beyond any rational understanding. But where is the outrage from our society? Shouldn’t our political, government and religious leaders call the Cardinal to task on his self-proclaimed conduct that shows no regard for all American children?

But his treachery is nothing new to those who advocate for our children. Those who follow this trail of deceit and treachery by our Church leaders are numb to this already. Nothing is surprising, the work of desperate religious men continues to sink to lower and lower levels of depravity and evil.

Why is Cardinal George so glum and sour at the news conference announcing the settlement with abuse victims? What are the reasons for his pouting grimace? Is he embarrassed, ashamed, angry, disgusted, resentful? If he is doing the Lord’s work, why does he not find joy and hope in doing so?
I think I have the reason for his look of disdain. He has begun to realize that he is his own worst enemy. Cardinal George lacks the discipline, maturity and common sense to look critically at his own behavior, decision-making, conduct, etc. and how those actions have dramatically contributed to the decline of his Chicago Church and the parishioners respect for and allegiance to this organization.

Cardinal George is the poster boy for what mom and dad told many of us when we were growing up: “HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.” He appears so conflicted and torn because he is emeshed in such a web of lies, deceit and cover-up that he really cannot understand what is happening and why it is happening to him and to his Chicago Church.

For those reading this essay, please feel free to replace the name of the Cardinal with one from your own locale, diocese or jurisdiction. The conduct, hypocrisy, duplicity, and, oh yes, the sour, disgruntled, disheartened look is all the same, whether it be Law, Chaput, Bevilacqua, Mahoney, Burke, etc. I apologize for not naming your particular diocesan leader but it has become very difficult to keep track of all the good news (read “fine leadership”).

At http://www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker you can read daily verified domestic and internationl stories, in the dozens per day, verifying everything Sister Maureen is saying, and unfortunately, even more in these continued HORRIFICS.

The institutional Roman Catholic Church is the single largest ongoing pedophile and child and/or teen sexual assault ring, country by country, in the world.

To date, the CURIA in the USA (USCCB or about 335 Cardinals and Bishops) has cost all laity at least $3 Billion Dollars, in the ongoing child endangerment, sexual assault, extorsion, hush monies, bribes, racketeering, embezzlements, obstruction of justice, abduction, suiciding, murder, perjury, aid and abetting felons, hike insurance liability premiums, lobbying against statute of limitations, PR spinning, etc. rolling crime spree, with no end in sight, no correction, and no punishment of the vast majority of current miter and red hat office holders.

Among the overtly guilty, besides George, are: Mahony, Egan, O’Malley, Law, Leveda, DiNardo, Rigali, McCarrick, Maida, Keeler, Burke, Rivera, Hummes, Pell, Bertone, Sodano, Re, Scola, Schonborn, Ratzinger (now B XVI th) to name only a few.

Not only should these EVIL office holders resign (which they will not unless forced to by the laity) each should be canonically censored, and placed under life house arrest, like was done to Marciel, the serial pedophile, and sexual assault enabler founder, of the Mexican order cult The Legion Of Christ, or alternatively, each should be EXCOMMUNICATED, at a minimum.

Anyone saying the Legion of Christ, or Regnum Christi ( the LC’s laity organization) are purged of pedophiles, like many other religious orders (Salesians in particular) are liars.

How is this required curia purge accomplished?

There are about 64 million American Roman Catholics donating about $8 Billion Dollars per year (tax free or about 43% of the total global Holy See take).

In the last 14 months, the laity GETS IT, and is voting with their wallets (revenue from hard insider USCCB number put the ‘take or skim’ down by at least $3 Billion per annum).

Therefore, as St. Peter Damien correctly suggested, almost 1,000 years ago: STOP DONATING LAITY. Only lack of revenue will force the unrepentent and criminal curia to make any improvements.

Please remember pedophiles, teen sexual asaulters, and their curia enablers, or aid and abetters, are NOT CURABLE, and each is a maligent cancer in the Body Of Christ (the Church); the only solution is each of their permanent removal.

At http://www.amazon.com there are over 90+ recently published excellent and accurate books on this subject (also for free at your local public libraries), from such salient and cogent authors as: Roman Catholic Bishops Thomas Gumbleton and Jeffery Robinson, as well as Attorney Marci Hamilton, Dr. Robert Grant, MD, Jason Berry, Richard Sipe, Dr. Leon Podles, David Yallop, Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, Fr/Dr Howard Bleichner, SS, and Fr/Dr/Canon Lawyer Thomas Doyle, OP, to name only a few.

At http://www.youttube.com, or on DVD, watch the 2066 US Academy Award BEST DOCUMENTARY nominated ‘DELIVER US FROM EVIL’, as well as the 2007 acclaimed film ‘VOWS OF SILENCE’. These may also be FREE, for check out, at your local public libraries.

The extent and pervasiveness of the overt and persistent criminality of the cardinals and bishops is mind boggling (it makes Enron look like a tea party in comparion of corruption).

As thousands of parishes, convents, seminaries, shrines, schools, closed have and continue to be sold off (laity monies) to pay what the laity now refuses to, still, none of these cardinals or bishops take no responsibility, or assume any personal shame, by resigning.

THE DEVIL HIMSELF blushes in envy as to how well the likes of George, Mahony, Egan, Law, (all John Paul II appointees and certainly Karol is NO SAINT) etc., have, and continue to, destroy Christ’s Church.

St. Paul to the Ephesians (5:11) reminds us all: “Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead expose them!”

Edmund Burke reminds us also: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men (or women) to do nothing.”

Donation in any form to the Roman Catholic Church makes you a supporter of pedophile and child/teen sexual assaulters and enablers, and constitutes a MORTAL SIN!

No Curia Accountability? No Laity Monies! It Is THAT Simple!

Ciao e pace,

Albino Luciani
NOT Smiling From Heaven

SSK, the republicans don’t exactly represent the way of Jesus Christ either.

I don’t like McCain much better, Jimmy Russell. The US is in a very sad state indeed when we have to choose the lesser of two evils for President.

SSK:

The topic is criminal conduct cardinals and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; it you wish to talk about other things, do it in your own venue please.

Albino

Any of you who have posted about the church should read Steve & swizz……..according to those two bozo’s the church is perfect and anyone who questions it is a heretic

Pay, Pray & Obey…….Oh come on now folks grow up and jump into the 21st century