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tw · 05-11-2002, 07:01 PM

Pedophilia in the Catholic Church has been old news for years. Almost a decade ago, estimated that upwards of 8% of Priest were pedophiles. Even worse, little challenge to those numbers. How many actually are pedophiles? We don't know. But we do know the numbers are high and were routinely covered up.

What makes the current scandel new is that even the courts have demonstrated routine coverup by the Catholic Church 'powers that be'. That is old news to be proven even by the American legal system.

In Cellar Mark I, one poster openly acknowledged being gay. This was not a problem until we encountered the 'gay in the military' conflict. Hetrosexual males feared serving with gays. Why? What is the most aggressive, violent, and most feared sexual orientaton? Not lesbians, heterosexual females, or gays. The most feared are almost always heterosexual males. And yet they are the ones who most fear gays? How absurd.

Males are sexually aggressive. To turn such people into enics is even more absurd. And yet that is exactly what the most right wing Catholic Church leaders demand. It makes Priests ripe for concepts such as "The Thornbirds", homosexuality, masterbation, and pedophilia. Males must have sexual release. But a perverted church even considers sex only for the making babies. Even birth control is an original sin according to an archaic church. The church creates its own problems by denying reality.

Having ignored reality, the church then and instead covers up crimes by their employees - rather than address reasons for those crimes. More reasons for pedophilia to be so rampant. The church was a safe haven for any pedophile. So safe that at least one priest adovcated pedophilia in public speeches.

But it gets worse. The Economist published one of their famous Surveys on the church. Excerpts were posted in an earlier version of The Cellar. Under this Pope, only the most right wing leaders are promoted. One need only review the current leadership in US dioceses to see the 'we fear the real world' mentality. Anyone in the US with a progressive attitude would never be promoted to positions of authority by this Pope. Since he has been Pope so long, the Church has become very extremist and very myopic.

Even when all US Cardinals go to Rome, and even when same will demand the removal of a long known pedophile friendly Cardinal, then instead they get nothing useful from a Rome that fears this entire issue. Sex. It can't exist. It must only be for making babies. Or are church politics more important that reality?

Pedophilia is rampant throughout the Catholic Church - not just in America. What is the church doing about something they just 'discovered'? They ignore it as much as they can.

For a Priest to be normal, he must live a normal sex life as Priest once did a thousand years ago. To make a Priest celebrite is as rediculous as requiring meals of fish on Friday. But in a conservative church, reality always takes second place to reality. 8% are pedophiles? Quite possible because of the leadership and policies of the Catholic Church.

05-11-2002, 07:01 PM	#4
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Pedophilia in the Catholic Church has been old news for years. Almost a decade ago, estimated that upwards of 8% of Priest were pedophiles. Even worse, little challenge to those numbers. How many actually are pedophiles? We don't know. But we do know the numbers are high and were routinely covered up. What makes the current scandel new is that even the courts have demonstrated routine coverup by the Catholic Church 'powers that be'. That is old news to be proven even by the American legal system. In Cellar Mark I, one poster openly acknowledged being gay. This was not a problem until we encountered the 'gay in the military' conflict. Hetrosexual males feared serving with gays. Why? What is the most aggressive, violent, and most feared sexual orientaton? Not lesbians, heterosexual females, or gays. The most feared are almost always heterosexual males. And yet they are the ones who most fear gays? How absurd. Males are sexually aggressive. To turn such people into enics is even more absurd. And yet that is exactly what the most right wing Catholic Church leaders demand. It makes Priests ripe for concepts such as "The Thornbirds", homosexuality, masterbation, and pedophilia. Males must have sexual release. But a perverted church even considers sex only for the making babies. Even birth control is an original sin according to an archaic church. The church creates its own problems by denying reality. Having ignored reality, the church then and instead covers up crimes by their employees - rather than address reasons for those crimes. More reasons for pedophilia to be so rampant. The church was a safe haven for any pedophile. So safe that at least one priest adovcated pedophilia in public speeches. But it gets worse. The Economist published one of their famous Surveys on the church. Excerpts were posted in an earlier version of The Cellar. Under this Pope, only the most right wing leaders are promoted. One need only review the current leadership in US dioceses to see the 'we fear the real world' mentality. Anyone in the US with a progressive attitude would never be promoted to positions of authority by this Pope. Since he has been Pope so long, the Church has become very extremist and very myopic. Even when all US Cardinals go to Rome, and even when same will demand the removal of a long known pedophile friendly Cardinal, then instead they get nothing useful from a Rome that fears this entire issue. Sex. It can't exist. It must only be for making babies. Or are church politics more important that reality? Pedophilia is rampant throughout the Catholic Church - not just in America. What is the church doing about something they just 'discovered'? They ignore it as much as they can. For a Priest to be normal, he must live a normal sex life as Priest once did a thousand years ago. To make a Priest celebrite is as rediculous as requiring meals of fish on Friday. But in a conservative church, reality always takes second place to reality. 8% are pedophiles? Quite possible because of the leadership and policies of the Catholic Church.