Funny how the liberal Jewish owned Washington Post/Newsweek/Slate just love to highlight the negative stories about the Catholic Church.....one would think they have a bias or vendetta against the Church....as if they were age old enemies. (they are) People are loosing their churches....and the nuns lose their convent...what of it? And is it really your business Mrs. SomethingBerger? These nuns have apartments, they are not on the street and as nuns they take a vow of poverty so where they live is not the big issue. As for abuse, the media fails to put in CONTEXT - like they fail to do with most subjects. Abuse happens in all institutions and is HIGH in Protestant and Jewish congregations (8% and 11% respectively) and MUCH higher in public education! By comparison, the Catholic numbers of clergy accused of abuse are at 4%! The church does not play by liberal, relativist rules and the media (esp. Jews in the media) HATE the church for it. This is an age old story.... Where are the stories about the Catholic Charities - the LARGEST in the US- or the hospitals or the schools or orphanages?????????? Where are the stories about the 200,000 converts to Catholicism a year? Face it, the media are about as "fair and balanced" in covering the Catholic Church as they were in covering the lead up to the Iraq War (Judith Miller, anyone) or in covering Ron Paul - or any candidate that does not fit the mold. You people are sheep and the media is your master - get ready for a "necessary" war with Iran and keep hating Catholics.

Please don't confuse Judiasm, as a religion, with liberally slanted media organizations that like to attack religions in general. There have been quite a bit of anti-Jewish sentiment here, as with anti everything sentinment.

If you can't get with Christians you just don't appreciate entertainment.

You're an idiot and a defiled institution and its ex-Nazi Pope are YOUR master. Not much to brag about, eh?

Heh

Wow, you are a completely ignorant jackass. I wish they would extend hate laws to religions so that people like you can be jailed.

I agree with you that the instances of claimed abuse in the Catholic Church involve a very small percentage of priests, and I also agree that the perception in the media probably exaggerates the prevalence.

To claim that this is somehow a Jewish conspiracy has little credibility, however.

The difference in the Catholic Church's response and that in the other organizations where sexual misconduct occurs is not so much in the frequency with which it occurs, but rather in how the organizations respond to the charges.

In most organizations, the alleged perpetrator would be suspended pending investigation -- or at least moved to a position where the possibility of future misconduct would be minimized, and where the charges are shown to have substance, take appropriate action.

According to published reports, in many cases, the Catholic Church did nothing at all, or in other cases, just transferred the alleged perpetrator to another location, rather than taking any steps to prevent future abuse -- not to mention taking any steps to make them face justice for what was already done.

I understand that in many such cases (in or out of the Church) it may be difficult to prove what happened -- these situations often are "he said, she said" (in this case, actually "he said, he said") with little corroborating evidence that would permit successful criminal prosecution. But in any other organization, at a minimum, the accused would be closely watched to be sure the alleged abuse is not continuing.

"In most organizations, the alleged perpetrator would be suspended pending investigation -- or at least moved to a position where the possibility of future misconduct would be minimized, and where the charges are shown to have substance, take appropriate action."

And how do you "suspend" a Priest? Do you even know what a Priest is?

Say shit I don't like, thow yo ass in jail.

Those other ones are the altar boys.

Hate speech isn't protected under the First Amendment. Religions are.

I didn't suggest he be suspended from the priesthood, any more than a teacher would have his/her teaching credentials cancelled pending the investigation.

Simply put on leave (either paid or unpaid). And there is always the option of reassigning to other responsibilities (without the likelihood of opportunity for future abuse) pending that investigation.

You're a Catholic fascist, probably a fan of good ol' Francisco Franco in Spain. Did you live under his rule, by chance?

I'm sure you miss the good ol' days of the Inquisition and the auto-da-fe, as well...:)

Wait, I think I hear your priest calling....he wants you to wear the cute li'l black lace thing under your surplice at Mass this evening...:)

Put on leave?

Hes a priest. You can't "put him on leave". Even without letting him practice the sacriments, which many were not allowed to do, they are not "on leave". Its not a job, you know.

I hate to get into name calling, Horus; however, Franco was a reaction to the communist/collectivist aggression and murder of thousands of those nuns and priests and those who defended them. Just as Hitler was a by product of the excesses of the bolsheviks in Bavaria and Hungary.

This brings up another theme in liberal media/culture, the highlighting of fascist atrocities while completely over looking the much larger and original atrocities of collectivists and communists.

Lots of Nazi movies.....were are the movies on the 10 million starved by the Bolsheviks (a Jewish general actually led the export of grain from the affected areas to Russia) in Eastern Europe before WWII?