Catholic Church Equates Sex Abuse With Female Ordination

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Actually the biggest church is Muslim.

Kyle of IN 9:49AM April 29, 2011

This Catholic Church is no longer God's church. He would never allow child rape and women's ordination to be considered equivalent.
This Catholic church had thousands of priests that raped children. Then they hid the truth or completely lied about it, especially at their highest levels.
The church also, never, ever did anything to help the victims, who are unquestionably what God was talking about when he referred to "the least of my brothers".
God could have stopped this at any point, and clearly wouldn't approve of the lying and church wide cold shoulder turned to the poor victims. God is telling you not to follow this church. You just have to listen to the obvious.

Patrick O’Malley of MA 7:57AM March 26, 2011

I READ THE BIBLE.JESUS SAID TO HIS DICIPLES. DISGUSTING THINGS SETTING HOLY PLACE NO THE TIME OF END IS NEAR, BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT HOLY THIER DUSGUSTING PERVERTS AND SO ON ALSO JESUS BEFORE GOING TO HEAVEN GAVE SIGN OF WHEN THE END WOULD BE HERE. THEY WILL BE EXPOSED OF WHAT THEY TRULY ARE AND STRIP OF THERE RICHIES THIER PEOPLE ARE LEAVING AND THERE MONNNEY AND EXPOSED OF PERVERSION

JEKINA of CA 5:09PM September 16, 2010

I have always been in the catholic church and will be untill the day I die. The catholic church was founded by Saint Peter one of the 12 diciples. The priest who chose to defile the name of God in the church do so, as a seperate entity in the church. God will judge them when it is their time.
To sick puppy anyone who could make a statement like that about a church that is the largest church in the world in not truely a christian if u met someone and like them as person would you turn your back on them just because u find out they are catholic? If you would do that u need to read your bible god says to love thy neighbor.
The few preist who do that are not a true representation of the catholic church. That is the truth educate yourself please before you speak like that against something you could never truely understand. If you understood then u could never say what u said and a true christian would never say that another christian would be turned into a pillar of salt God has his jugdement day and on that day all living and dead will have their true justice.

Karson of OK 1:01AM August 13, 2010

I am Catholic and I do believe, I do have issues with the behavior of the church, not with the message.
True their are a small number of priests that are sub-human and bear no relation to Christ's work and sully the good works of the rest.
I think that it is sad that their is so much confusion and retoric about religion and faith. Their are so many ways to have faith and belief in a power that is so vast.
GOD GAVE MAN AND WOMAN FREE WILL TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES and sometimes the choices made are often very self centered with unintended consequences or no concern for the consequences to others at all.
When you say that there is far to much suffering for someone or something to be at the helm, I think that there will always be trials and tribulations for the human race to deal with, choices of if to do something or not, what, when, how. Choices of each and everyone one of us everyday and I choose to be helped along the road by that higher power I don't always listen but I am trying.
"Be safe" in your travels in this life no matter what you believe IMO

Mike of IN 2:33AM August 03, 2010

In a nut shell, the Catholic Church is sick: Mentally, Emotionally, and Spiritually Corrupt!
Truthfully, I cannot understand how the Church continues to
thrive and exist. More than that, God should turn it to a
pillar of salt.

Edo Yasutaro of UT 9:43AM July 20, 2010

These announcements should have been made separately. "For those believer, no proof is necessary. For the unbeliever, no proof will suffice." Those are the profound words of philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. I can state many reasong why I believe, and I am sure an athiest can provide many reasons they don't. What I don't like is that people are slamming the church for the worst of the worst. The 1-5% of priests who have betrayed and abused young people and are by no means the best example of their office. Why not look at the best of the best. The saints of the church. The great humanitatians like Mother Teresa? Or better yet, the ordinary parish priest. Who lives where he works and is constontlay tending to parishioners in need. Sacrificing any personal space, time, or family. The parish priest who one minute is baptising a baby and the next burying the dead and consoling a family. The priest who is called to the scene of a crime or to the someone's death bed. I worked in hospital ministry and it is amazing a) the difference in believers at the time of sickness versus the dour unbeliever or b) the unbeliever who reaches out for the hope that only a priest can offer. The greatest of athiests often meet their match when faced with their pending mortality. Have MEN made poor decisions while seriving the Church? Yes. But the foundation of the Church is not in man it is in Christ. The Church is not perfect, but is it supposed to be? The Church is the interim for the second coming. It is our human attempt of keeping Christ's words. History has shown that all races and creeds have had their screw ups. That is why Jesus came the first time and why he will come again. Man is weak.

Carl Jonson of NY 3:07PM July 19, 2010

it's amazing that the church can manage to brainwash people still to this day. there are glaring inconsistencies with religion in general yet seemingly educated people continually ignore them to fit their beliefs. i firmly believe there is no god for the simple fact that there is far too much suffering on this planet for any sort of benevolent being to be at the helm. pundits can talk until their blue in the face with psalms and verses to the contrary but old books don't equate to real life, IMO.

Matt 1:16PM July 19, 2010

The church has an incompetent p.r. machine. Perhaps, it does not have one at all. The unfortunate juxtaposition of pedophile priests and ordaining women priests only accentuates this incompetence, but as a Vatican spokesperson said later, they are both grave sins but on different levels, one moral and the other dogma, one having to do with human nature, the other having to do with protocol.
What this report really brings out is what we know already, and too painfully, the enormous well of anti-Catholicism in the country. Part of it is self inflicted, but most of it is the helping hand others who wish the church would just go away give to the heirarchy, which is not the church, but only its administration, which has not been doing a very credible job of it over the last few decades. The real church is the body of Christ, the people of God and the communion of saints. We may stand aghast at how some of our bishops and priests are acting, but we have enough contact with our fellow Catholics, our local priests and bishops to know what the true church is and what it stands for. It is on that knowledge that we remain Catholics because where else can we who are Catholic receive the real body and blood of our savior.

Daniel P. Dwyer of NY 12:34PM July 19, 2010

The real crime as I see it is not the Ordination of Women priests, or erroneously comparing them to the churches pedophile male priests. The real crime here is that Catholicism is still seen as a viable religion with This Poop as its head.

ZarathustraMike of FL 10:59AM July 19, 2010