dereko1969
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If a church can get people to attend, donate money, hold to their belief system, while simultaneously using that attendance for an element of control in peoples lives (like rules governing peoples sex lives), use the money for their own business ends, and have all these people believing in an imaginary entity - then is it any surprise that when members of that church do terrible things like abuse children, that they chance their arm to get the parish of the very people they abused to pay up?
Im not too sure why people are surprised here. Churches are about power. Not about helping people.
The church and the banks have an awful lot in common IMO. They both capitalise the profits & socialise the losses.
Just listened to Sinead O Connor on netcast. She said some disturbing things about an encyclical, threatening victims with excommunication for talking about the abuse. Worth a listen but be prepared for a shock.
12m..I'm sure the Vatican could stump it.
I object to parishoners being asked to pay for lawyers who advised the bishops to fight the charges "tooth and nail".
many believe that the celibacy rule has nothing to do with the teachings of This post will be deleted if not edited immediately, etc. It's more to do with preventing women being able to divorce their priest husbands and looking for their share of everything in the marriage. Imagine parish property, the Parish House, etc. having to be sold, and the wife getting half of the proceeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Women!!!!!
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