Catholic priests corruption?
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no i don't think they were pedophiles when going into priesthood. they just had normal human desires for sex. unfortunately there easiest way to get satisfaction was there altar servers in which they had closest contact with.
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I agree with Wendy.  I'll be thinking about this and I'll post later if I think of anything new, but at the very least, it would be fornication, which is condemned.\n\nCatholic priests have no business touching children.  Period.  God does not condone it.  In fact, they will be held to stricter judgment for being a stumbling block to their victims and all those who turned away from God because of their ungodly influence.\n\nI appreciate your concern for children.  I know God hates it.  I'll keep thinking.\n\n(As for cutting off one's hand or foot or putting out one's eye - that's how serious it is.)
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some believe the catholic church
490012
Some of the best Priests I know are Jesuits.\n\nThey are a Holy group of men dedicated to defending the Truth.
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This error you are making is called donatism - the idea that priests have to be perfect.\n\nAnd St. Augustine answered this challenge of yours 1600 years ago.\n\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1408.htm
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Sweety- we live in a society that says that priests who molest children should simply be moved quietly to a new church far, far away- to repeat their actions with other unsuspecting young people who are supposed to be able to trust them. \nIf you are seeking religion, please do not look to simple mortals for what's acceptable or not. Some really sick people hide behind religion for the purpose of making people trust them so that they can then take advantage of those same people. God warned about this in the Bible- that before the return of Jesus Christ (which has not happened yet), the church would become tainted by all the evil in the world, and it would be up to us individually to seek and find the truth.\nWhen you study, do so with some people that have your interests in common, PRAY BEFORE YOU BEGIN each time that you find what you need to find, and then read/discuss with an open heart and mind.  Seek the truth and you shall find it.
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Do not honor false priests...for not all are men of honor. Instead honor me alone and trust in my word
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I'm a Catholic. I know of a regional priest here who left the Church to marry a woman. He's now an Episcopal priest. As the media is all too happy to inform us, there are also a number of gay priests out there. I suppose that some priests find the Church's demands for a  celibate clergy too much to live up to. That may be the real issue, with the gay-vs-straight issue being something of a smokescreen (gay or straight, celibacy isn't for everyone). I know that celibacy was certainly a concern of mine when I was considering becoming a monk (a move that would've required me to emotionally and physically abandon my girlfriend). What people aren't concentrating on is the vast majority of priests who handle it just fine and are doing their jobs efficiently.
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Please settle down sadgirlgreeneyez!\n\nThere are pedophiles in other denominations too, not just in Catholicism. Besides that, only 2% would fall under that title.
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Alright people. Enough with the jokes on the priests and little boys. It's extremely immature. People make mistakes and yes it was wrong. The pope and clergy are trying to fix this problem. GIVE IT A REST!\n\nA Catholic priest is the person who conducts the Mass and the sacraments. They are the "shepherds" of the church and are to help the "sheep" find their way in their faith.\n\nOn the subject of presbyteral ministry I have never heard that before and I am a Catholic so I can't help you there.
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http://catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0052.html
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I agree. Just like if you want to know about baking a cake, don't ask your local plumber, as a baker of a bakery that makes cakes. But don't just ask someone in the church that may not have a perfect understanding of their religion, not everyone thats catholic are scholar on Catholism. Ask someone who are in authority. Like a bishop or a missionary, or whoever else who should know alot.
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Well you pretty much answered your own question..thoroughly I might add. That's a silly Catholic guilt mechanism designed to control people when a person who knows better wants to control them. I'd imagine that the people that dish out this nonsense rarely believe it, it simply gives them more control in other peoples lives. Good to see you see better than that :)
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I was sitting in a pew in Sacred Heart, and it occurred to me that the priest was the most deluded man on the face of the earth, if he actually believed what he was telling us. \n\nAlso, that if anyone found out that I was a lesbian, I'd be the next crucifiction.
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My friend, you have hit on something that God is doing in this hour.  Pray!  He's leading you to a conclusion that the mainstream church may not agree with, but which God is expressing at this time.  God has a plan for His Church, and it is not to finish it's course on earth in corruption.  :)\nIf you want any further discussion, always feel free to e-mail me.
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very witty.......\n\ncant understand the whole priest thing myself. its unnatural not to have sex
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But of course.\n\nWho leads a Xtian church?  Why the priests of course.\n\nWho sets the moral standards that are to be followed by Xtians?  The priests frothing at their mouths reading excerpts from the Bible.\n\nSo, how can a priest, who is supposed to in communion with God and his perfectness, lead a flock of parishioners without having known his sins and the evil they supposedly entail?\n\nPriests are the root of how we view the dichotomy of bad & good, and have had cultural impact as such since the times of Biblical record.  They have helped, over time, to develop our value system of good / evil in every religion.\n\nTherefore, they must have been in concert with immoral values at one time to know that they were evil.  It is the priests and the noble class that have lead us to our cultural viewpoint we have today, which is that of a slave of religious ethics.\n\nSo....that makes the Xtain church leaders exceedingly hypocritical for they are the ones responsible for defining sin.   They have told us how to live ethically in accordance with the Bible.  Therefore they are the ones who have set the value of sin in the first place.  We are slaves to their good values, and are appalled by their evil valuations.  THERE WOULD BE NO EVIL IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE PRIESTS SAYING IT IS EVIL.\n\nThat is how the Xtian leaders are hypocritical.