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Originally Posted by Velvet
Perhaps she did not realize that her action offended not the Pope but the 1.36 billion Roman Catholics. Lucky for her they don’t adhere to fatwa.
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Someone else said this came to light in 2002 with the Boston Globe's articles. Locally, it was a LOT earlier than that. It seemed every six months there was another trove of documents that the Boston Archdiocese would turn over and insist that THAT was the last of them - only to turn out to have more.
I can't put into words the revulsion I have for my ex-Church. This scandal was the primary reason in my leaving the church.
If Catholics were offended by her coming out against the raping of children, then TOO BAD.
I was told that I was going to hell if I ate a hot dog on a Friday. But the people who told me that were out raping kids - and I found it interesting that male priests were most often raping BOYS while saying the homosexuals in the secular world were evil.
Father James Porter was the first of the dominos to fall. I heard him on a recorded phone call on the news with WBZ-TV. He thought the statute of limitations had expired. He was by that time a priest in Minnesota and ADMITTED TO RAPING 150 BOYS!
Local parishes and diocese have been nearly bankrupted because the Vatican isn't bailing them out those local parishes have had to sell their churches and any other property they have (land, schools, hospitals) to pay the victims.
But, sure, be mad at the messenger who told you what was going on behind closed doors - at those CYO camps - in the rectory.
Yeah. I used to be an altar boy. I never thought I'd say something like "I was one of the lucky ones" when it comes to something like that. I wasn't raped. What a low bar to clear.
Thomas Paine had a quote that has been paraphrased into "If the truth offends you, then you deserve to be offended".