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veritas |
I think you will find that the "celibacy" vow was a device begun after about 500 years of the Catholic Church's establishment and was more to do with the fear that the off-spring of priests may have a legal claim against church property.
Various Popes were fathering kids left right and centre and we all know what the Swiss Guards(all unusually handsome young men) were on about.
Most churches are more like political organisations. |
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veritas |
do you have a link JC ?
I watched a fascinating TV program just recently about gay culture in the USA and it brought up the dreadful demolition job done on Paul Rubens and his wonderful Pee Wee Herman character over his arrest in a porn cinema but then also on an alleged child porn charge.
Heaps of celebrities came out to support him and to say they had viewed his art collection, that was the subject of the arrest inlcluding Elton & Jennifer Aniston plus UCLA professors.
Under that very dodgy "plea bargain" system in the USA he pleaded guilty to a very minor charge and was fined yet he still has the collection and art collectors have offered him a fortune for it.
As many have pointed out..most of Europe's art galeries and museums could be accused of displaying child porn under the current hysteria and in The Library Of Congess in Washington there is a mural by Ganymede with nude pre-pubescent boys in quite suggestive poses.
This is little to do with child protection and all to do with imposing personal 'morals' on a populace. When the details of a countries children are collected on a data base-when a 10 year old boy is taken into a Texan court shackled in chains (imagine the sheer terror for this lad) authority has lost all claim to a moral high ground. (The Sun of course is exempt from these rules)
There is most definitely a witch-hunt..today they came for the "pedos"..tomorrow..who knows ? |
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PassionateAboutFluff |
The clip of film on the TV news provided sufficient proof that the children in that place had been horribly abused. They were made to sleep beside posters of Donny Osmond !!!!
How would you like that? Huh? |
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david |
It seems the Catholic Church did know about the abuse and actively covered it up rather than deal with it openly.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8059826.stm
Surely the clergy's vow of celibacy is at least partially at fault here. A life of , enforced celibacy is not natural. But yet again the Catholic Church (well, not only them) are obsessed with the idea that sex is somehow a sin, and not a natural act of love and enjoyment that is nothing at all to be ashamed of. |
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Angel |
BR wrote:
Remember the IRISH ABUSE CASE TODAY - it was not the CATHOLIC CHURCH who were at fault ( They just administered the abuse and controlled it on behalf of the local and national government and Police who TURNED A BLIND EYE ( because they were at the root of it )
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How do YOU know that the Police were at the root of it and what benfit is there for "turning a blind eye?" I agree that the Catholic Church were not at fault primarily, but surely those who were supposedly looking after kids who happened to be Catholic were accountable? |
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