Why does the catholic church seem to attract so many homosexual pedophiles as preists?
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I watched a great documentary on sexuality and the Catholic Church, and when one particular researcher on the subject was asked that question, he responded as follows. He felt that because no priests are allowed to engage in any sexual act, pedophiles and even homosexuals who have come to believe that their sexual preference is wrong enter the priesthood because they know they can't have sex anyway, so they feel like the priesthood will prevent those feelings from developing. However, as we've seen, that doesn't always provide a solution.
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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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Many just can't get past the gay thing.They are more concerned with what two guys do in the privacy of their own homes then with what they themselves do.Jesus would not approve and would again say to modern followers, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
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It just comes down to watering down what the bible says to appease people more and more as their morals degrade.\n\nFor a 'christain' country and for 'christian' priests you would think that the bible should be the authority on which to base their morals wouldn't you.  But no! even though it is undeniably clear that god totally condemns homosexuality in a number of places in the bible, they see it fit to either ignore this or say that god has changed his mind!?  On what authority can they say that god has changed his mind?\n\nBy these things they identify themselves with false religion which god will soon destroy, not true religion.
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Probably something to do with religion, christ etc. There are an awful lot of religious wackos out there.
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+ Enormous Hierarchy +\n\nThere are 1.1 billion Catholics in the world and the number is growing. Do you think the apostles ever thought there would be more that a million people for every bishop (successors of the Apostles)?\n\n+ The Pope +\n\nJesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:17-19)\n\nThe Catholic Church believes the Lord made Simon alone, whom he named Peter, the "rock" of his Church. He gave him the keys of his Church and instituted him shepherd of the whole flock.\n\nThe current Pope is the successor of Peter in an unbroken line from the direct words of Jesus Christ.\n\n+ Celibacy +\n\nFirst, Judeo-Christian tradition has always held that single people be celibate. This is taught by Judaism and Christianity from before the Scriptures were written down.\n\nThe question should be: Why can't priests marry?\n\nThis idea came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul.\n\nThe Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). This argument could certainly have been based on the biblical example of Jeremiah, a celibate prophet who was ordered by Yahweh not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nJohn the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that either or both Jesus and John the Baptist were influenced in their celibacy by the example of the Essenes.  \n\nThe Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).  \n\nThe concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Currently there are about 8 million parishoners in about 150 countries all over the world.\nThis figure is growing fast at the present time.\nAs to why this is the case, I would imagine it has something to do with personal choice. You would have to ask them individually.\n\nYou might however, consider sticking to your original ideas about religion.\nLet them be, and I'm sure they will continue to let you be.
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Because they became powerful by instilling fear, and power corrupts, and no one is stopping them.  You can't say why "did", you should say why "does" the church change so much, then suppress so much.  The Pope is as close to God as the rest of us.
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because they are brainwashed into believing something and it seems so convincing to them and once they have read the bible they cant be open to any other suggustions or logical explantions to how the world etc started and they get a temper when u even try to discuss it openly there are so many bad christians and priests out there its not funny if they want some guy they have never met or have proof rule there life and make them be so called good people like they are in prison then they can go for it but if you ask me its all a ploy to get power and dominates but also relief for people that are lost and need help.
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pedophiles in the church?that must explain why Michael Jackson is trying to become a catholic priest.
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i think it comes from the fact that the general view of a catholic is believeing that this life is just "preperation" for eternity.  they dont think that their time on earth is as important as the time after their death.  that being said i think the catholic religion has an appeal to poorer people because it teaches that your material things dont matter, and as perfect as catholics claim to be, they still have jealousy running through their minds.  that jealousy is not manifested through the attempt to gain wealth, because they dont think that anything obtaind on this earth matters, so they shun the upper class for living life better than they are.  that to me is an extremely depressing way to look at things.\n\ni know catholics are gonna hate me for saying that but take a psychology class and stop being ignorant.
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Most pedophiles are straight, not gay, but that's simply because straight people outnumber gay people so much.\n\nI read that PER CAPITA, homosexuals are more guilty of pedophilia than heterosexuals are.  \n\nLook at the scandal involving sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests.  The vast majority of it involved BOYS -- and not young boys, but mostly older postpubescent boys.  \n\nWhich means that media reports of it being a "pedophile" scandal were not entirely accurate.   \n\nIt wouldn't have been PC to call it a "homosexual crisis" in the Church -- but that's exactly what it was!
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Because these two issues have received entirely too much press in the media today and history. If you're a homosexual do what you have to do. If you're a polygamist, whatever works for your three, four, or five. And as for religion, just worship and stop trying to force beliefs onto other people. That's the problem with Christianity and Catholicism.
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I'm sure a lot of them are. But I also notice a lot of questions that are a thinly veiled attempt to promote christianity. I'd say there's probably a connection between the two things.
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The vast majority of Catholic priests are not child molesters.  \n\nAnd the vast majority of child molesters are not Catholic priests.  \n\n.
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Priests are people too. There's no Divine barrier that shields these people from sin once they are ordained.  Mind you, only 6% of priests have been associated in any way to molesting children.\n\nWe all know that society is a cess pool of immorality, so when the average man on the street is discovered to be a child molester, nobody really cares.\n\nBut we expect a Catholic priest to exhibit a proper moral code. So when one is discovered molesting a child, it's a shock.\n\nSociety has made two mistakes here:\n\n1) People, many of them Catholics, have placed priests upon a moral pedistal with standards impossible for any person to follow. We have to remember that priests are people too. They sin like everyone else.\n\n2) The Catholic Church's moral code is unpopular with Western civilization because what it finds morally acceptable, and what secular humanists find morally acceptable, are two different things entirely.\nThe media, largely secular humanistic, uses it's power and influence to attack the Catholic Church whenever possible - and people eat it up because they don't consider themselves sinners.\n\nMy point is that 'what IS' and 'what SEEMS TO BE' are two different things. Yes, some priests are child molesters - but only 6%. That's 6% too high of course, but let's face it; doesn't the media and the anti-Catholic crowd make things seem worse than they really are?
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Greed and lust are the prevailing factors.\n\nNeocons are the hypocrites, they love war...but they don't want to fight it themselves. The love America, but don't wanna pay taxes.\n\nAnd of course, a lot of neocons preachers, are gay. Rev. Haggard, a major neocon, told people not to be gay(because God doesn't like it). Of course, he is one. Hypocrite neocons.