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Last week the priest in his sermon addressed the issue of the recent scandals in the Catholic church. He said we don't come to church to visit the priest really, we come to receive Christ. He said he was ashamed at the scandals and that there should be no cover ups, they have been exposed and must be punished. He encouraged us to keep the faith.
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He's right that those scandals need to be exposed, I think it was great that the pope spoke up in Ireland. Have a great week, hugs, Valerie
The church isn't God - the curch is human.
I found to god not through church and confession but on my very own way. I often pray or medidate in the woods. For me he is there! And the only thing that is important is to L O V E.
God is pure LOVE!
Happy September!
Hugs, Susi
Good priest and a good sermon.
God bless.
He is right, they should be punished. What they've done is criminal.
The Catholic Church historically has been really really stubborn about addressing its own problems. When you consider the rise of Protestantism during the Renaissance, it was only an inevitability.
Even with a reformer like Pope Francis, I don't see these scandals going away. As you know, I'm not religious and the idea of life-long celibacy is something I would consider to be rather unrealistic. Like most animals, our DNA is programmed by nature to have desires to reproduce. Priests originally could marry, then when they couldn't they had mistresses, then we they couldn't do that the church turned a blind eye to visits to certain "establishments", and when they couldn't do that there have been many children who have been abused as a result.
There is nothing lower than sexually abusing a child. And I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Humans disappoint. God never will.
The scandals are outrageous!!
I'm not religious in the least, but I do think that this abuse is just one sad horrible issue that results from organized religion. People are entitled to their religion, if it helps them, then great its good it helps, but like this priest said, there should be no cover ups. Its good that he addressed this since it might have been a worry to the congregation and people might want to talk about it. At least by talking about it, other people in the church will know they can go talk to him about it.
The scandals are outrageous and there should never be cover ups.
All the best Jan
tip of the iceberg, you are right.
All religion has there scandal and I recall the local Mormons had there scandals which was years ago.
Coffee is on
It really is shameful.
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