Inquiry uncovers 80 new cases of abuse Bishops named in report fight calls to step down

Keep digging get the turth out there for all the people to see !!!

No. Only Muslims are molesters cuz i said so.

(sarcasm).

Very possible. Didn't mean to just single one religion out.

This stems from the latin word SINISTRA meaning left. If a person entered your home with his left foot first he/she wished you ill. The word "SINISTER" derives from this. So carry on this train of thought to an ill informed organization who derives many practices and language of the Ancient Romans and you have LEFT_HANDED=SINISTER.

I took 4 years of Latin. I know what sinister and dexter mean. The idea that people who wrote with the left hand were evil arose in the middle ages. The literacy rate was very low at that time. The church controlled schools. How did left handed people learn to read and write to become evil?

My brother-in-law was left-handed. He attended a Catholic school and was literally forced to learn to write with the other hand. He is now right-handed.

That mush have been a while ago.
I had a best friend in grade school who was a leftie; the nuns never tried to force him ot write with his right hand. I was in grade school from '63 to '71.

He would have graduated high school in '76. Every time he used his left hand they would rap his knuckles with a ruler. My daughter is also left-handed and went to Catholic school but is only 21. They didn't do anything like that to her (not that I would have let them).

That was my class.
I guess it just depends on where you were, though I never thought the Chicago Archdiocese of being very progressive.

My experiences with teachers in my Primary school are I was forced to use my right hand but because I used my left I was considered wilful. that's not the worse my own father called me cackhanded,I spent several months at a special school because assuming I was lefthanded ment I was backward which means many different things but mostly slow learner.

Since the I found lefthanded people have better eye hand cordination then righthanders,Our artistic skills are better, oh of course it's our righthand side of the brain that controls our left hand. There are many web sites dedicated to lefthanders to many to mention. Finally to those supertious righthanders who think we lefthanders follow the left hand path a curse upon you.

Televangelist without a doubt. Biggest con-artists / scammers around all in the "name of religion".

Good point. I didn't think about them.

Religions including Televangelist

Televangelism is not a religion in and of itself..........................

Televangelist without a doubt. Biggest con-artists / scammers around all in the "name of religion".

Exactly!

Televangelism is not a religion in and of itself..........................

Criminal activity elevated to the level of a business...Elmer Gantry.

Well, there may be the odd case here and there, but I think if there was anything else this systemic we would be at least hearing hints of it by now. Only time will tell, but it does seem to be almost exclusively the Catholic church.

I don't believe you'll find any other Christian denomination with this type of scandal within their ranks

Wrong as usual Dylan:

In the spring of 2002, when the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church was receiving unprecedented attention, the Christian Science Monitor reported on the results of national surveys by Christian Ministry Resources. The conclusion: "Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers."[xxi]

Finally, in the authoritative work by Penn State professor Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests, it was determined that between .2 and 1.7 percent of priests are pedophiles. The figure among the Protestant clergy ranges between 2 and 3 percent.[xxii]

http://www.catholicleague.org/research/abuse_in_social_context.htm#_edn22

post something besides the Christian Science Monitor some study conducted by the Catholic Church.

The Christian Science Monitor is not run by the Catholic Church, why would they lie?
If you can refute their study please, with real facts, please do so.

Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html

Not to mention the Catholic Church's willingess to cover up, pay off and otherwise CONDONE this type of action by allowing priests to continue in the priesthood and even draw retirement benefits as well.

NO-----WAY

State of denial Dylan?

DUBLIN -Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday.

Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the three-year investigation, said he felt deep shame and sorrow for how previous archbishops presided over endemic child abuse — yet claimed afterward not to understand the gravity of their sins.

http://news.aol.com/article/experts-bishops-covered-up-priests-child/489712

Yes, Not all archbishops are the same. Not all priests are the same. Not all churches are the same; But that wasn't your point was it?

-peace.