That's what you get for playing "Guess What's Under My Vestment"
Oh what a tangled web we've weaved. Not only a sex scandal, but now money problems. Jesus would be so proud of the Catholic Church. Tell me again, oh most Holy Church, about how God hates gays and how contraception is sinful. And explain to me again why women can't be priests?The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Wash., one of three in the country to have filed for bankruptcy in the aftermath of the sexual abuse scandals, agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $46 million to settle claims by 75 people who allege abuse by priests, lawyers involved in drawing up the settlement said.
If approved by a bankruptcy court and the plaintiffs, the agreement will provide one of the largest payouts per victim of any of the settlements reached across the nation since the church encountered crisis in 2002 with disclosure of abuse in the Boston Archdiocese...Among those concessions is an agreement by the diocese to stop referring to "alleged victims" of priests' abuse rather than simply "victims," said Tim Kosnoff, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers. The victims, Mr. Kosnoff said, are to be allowed to return to the parishes where they came into contact with their molesters and possibly face them, a provision that victims' groups said appeared to be a first. They will also be permitted to write about their experiences in the diocesan newspaper, with a full page devoted to that purpose each month for the next three years.
Further, Mr. Kosnoff said, the bishop will lobby state lawmakers to abolish statutes of limitations on child sex crimes and will go to every parish where any plaintiff was abused, tell the parishioners that an abusive priest had ministered there and encourage them to report any suspicions of abuse...
posted by BrooklynKat at 12:21 AM
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3 Comments:
That's your opinion fine... But actually WHAT DO U KNOW ABOUT CATHOLIC CHURCH if you're probably not cathoic ??!! Maybe you should try to find out why women cannot be priests?
Hey Catholic Person, actually, we don't have to know anything about the Catholic Church to voice our opinions about it (although I happen to have been raised Catholic).
You really don't seem to make much sense in your comment: On the one hand you seem to approve of voicing one's opinions but then you seem to immediately contradict yourself. What IS your beef actually?
As a matter of fact, one of my areas of study is the origins of religion and mythology and if you must know, I am Eastern Orthodox, which is even MORE conservative than Catholicism. In fact our religions are the same in almost all aspects (except we don't believe in the infallibility of the Pope). So as far as I'm concerned, I am fully qualified to criticize our religion.
As for your second query, women are not allowed to become priests because women were indeed suppressed from "Mother Church." The centralized church was afraid of women because they tend to practice spirituality in their homes, close to their family, as they have done throughout history (that's why so many women have been accused of witchcraft also). Instead the church wanted to control the masses by having people worship ONLY in the church. That is why they are corrupt, have always been corrupt, and should be publicly scrutinized whenever possible, especially by their own flock. Amen.
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