he's sooo willing to talk about 'bad' and 'evil' things like abortions, so he should talk about other bad and evil things during his sermons.
like the priests in the catholic church molesting children. start doing sermons and heart filled talks on that, bucko, then I'll take you seriously.
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I don't think anyone thinks that molesting children, by priests or anyone else, is legal nor socially accepted. So why would the priest speak about that behavior in church? Yes, we must pray for these sinners and try and find the way to have them understand their wrongdoing, while having the victim's self worth built back up to where it should be. I'm sure if you wanted to speak about your topic, the priest would take the time for you. But the purpose of that sermon was that abortion is morally wrong.
shareExcept that when the Church doesn't do anything but "pray for these sinners," it looks like it's QUITE accepted in that circle, or at least TOLERATED, and child abuse should NEVER be tolerated. The OP is implying that maybe the priest should pray for healing for the victims, and pray for the perpetrators of these most heinous crimes be arrested and made to pay for this tragedy. But.... no one cares about the living, breathing child, just the one that is still in the womb. The figurative future child, the one that is nothing more than a parasite, feeding off its host. That's all that matters to these religious authorities. Eff off to the kids crying because the priest they should trust touched them and swore them to secrecy. Eff them, stupid kids, it was probably their fault, anyway, right?
shareI'm sorry, I'm not Catholic or a religious authority, but why do people think that ALL priests molest children? No doubt, the cases presented were terrible and appalling situations, but is it really fair to think that because of the priests outed in the media for their crimes, that ALL other priests must be of the same character? That would be like saying that because social outcasts have typically been responsible for the highly covered school shootings, that all social outcasts have or will be violent. You realize that people of all beliefs and backgrounds do horrible things? No one is exempt, not even the religious...we are all human, no matter what your fundamental beliefs are.
And if you do not in fact believe that ALL priests are child molesters, then why would one expect that this topic should be covered in church any more than any other topic?
Additionally, not that I feel any obligation to defend anyone, but how do you know that the priest in the documentary didn't ask the congregation to pray for the "victims?" The film literally depicted less than 10 minutes of one church service; surely, we have to understand that film editing gives the audience a "snapshot" of an entire situation.
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The figurative future child, the one that is nothing more than a parasite, feeding off its host.