How can the Catholic Church "the Inquisition" and rampant sexual harassment of children?
Tens of millions of dollars have been paid by way of settlement funds to sexual atrocities committed by Catholic priests against children for decades … Altar boys for the most part.
How does the church explain the coverage of this abomination
And by other bishops and the hierarchy of shuffleing pedophile / homosexual priests from one parish to another to prey again on innocent?
Why would anyone want to remain a member of any religion that condemns Satan with one hand and carries ouit their work with others?
Islam, for example, is open for all to know postulates violence, hatred, intolerance and murder, while the church has maintained much of cathloic the same … if I were a Catholic I would like to know these answers?
And what about the horrors of Inquisiton all sponsored and conducted by the Catholic church … Not all Catholics out there
never ask about these heinous acts and articulate how the church that this was explained to members?
- What is the Catholic Church / clergy at all levels doing to prevent sexual abuse of children by priests?
- Does it annoy when people try to defend hatred toward the Catholic Church for Bringing Up The Crusades?
- Get the Catholic priests were recently sentenced for sexual abuse of children?
- Why are Catholics So Angry About Abortion, but not as outraged by the sexual abuse of children by priests?
- Why is it so common child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church?
Do not feel like they have to explain - they feel omnipotent. Change Scripture to suit their needs, to pray on the weak and exploit their powers. Catholicism is a cult!
The weakness of the man / men serving God …….
Hey Klu: You are here another suitor knowledge. Therefore can not and says NO? Do you know how to eat your words here coz of an answer. Grow and do their homework and put an end to attacks.
This is Catholic.com. Its been there sitting on its website for at least six years. So if you have questions about catholicsim ask Catholics. The anti-Catholic. This is what makes the intellectual inquiry.
The Inquisition
Sooner or later, any exchange of views with all the fundamentalists out of the Inquisition. For Catholics it is not a scandal, Catholics, a shame, for both confusion. At least it is a stick with which hand to participate in Catholic-attack, because most Catholics seem to loss of a good response. This set of tracks on the situation.
There are actually several Inquisition. The first was established in 1184 in southern France as a response to heresy Catharist. This was known as the medieval Inquisition, and was eliminated as Catharism disappeared. Very different was the Roman Inquisition, which began in 1542. Was the least active and most benign of the three variations. Was separated from the famous new Spanish Inquisition, started in 1478, a state institution uses to identify conversos - Jews and Moors (Muslims) who falsely "converted" to Christianity (ie, not through faith in Jesus Christ, but to the effects of political or social advantage) and practiced their old religion in secret. His work is also, more importantly, to clear the good name of many people who were falsely accused of being was the Spanish Inquisition to the worst record.
The main sources
Fundamentalists writing about the Inquisition was based on the books of Henry C. Lea (1825-1909) and GG Coulton (1858-1947). Each man has more right to the facts, and each made progress in basic research. Appropriate credit should not be denied them. The problem is that although they could not because events had a strong animosity towards the Church - the animosity that had little to do with the Inquisition itself.
The problem would not have been unknown. Some Catholic writers, particularly those less interested in digging for the truth than to give a quick excuse, have concealed the facts and incontrovertible fact that it could to whitewash the Inquisition. This is a disservice to the truth as to exaggerate the shadows of the Inquisition. These well-intentioned, but misguided, defenders are in one respect at least, like Lea, Coulton, and the current strain of fundamentalist writers. They fear, as the hope of others, that the facts about the Inquisition could prove the illegitimacy of the Catholic Church.
Fear not the facts
But the facts do not at all. The Church has nothing to fear from the truth. Account No crazy, misguided zeal, or cruelty by Catholics can undo the divine foundation of the Church, though certainly these things are obstacles to Catholics and non Catholics alike.
What must be understood is that the Church contains within itself all kinds of sinners and Knaven, and some of them responsible for obtaining positions of responsibility. As Jesus and Paul warned us that there would be a wolf among the leaders of the Church (Matthew 7:15, Acts 20:29). Wheat and tares there in England until the end, that was the way the founders intended.
Fundamentalists suffer from the problem that the Church believes that only the elect. For them, the sinners are outside the doors. Locate the sinners, and find another place where the Church is not. It seems easy to prove without operating through the Inquisition - at least in dry logs allow us to perceive sin, at a distance of centuries - and the fundamentalists of the Inquisition that is, if the arm of a Church, was the arm of a false church.
Fundamentalists might think they have a point, Catholics tend to be defensive. That is the wrong attitude. The right attitude for Catholics to learn what really happened, to understand the events in the light of the times, and then to explain the anti-Catholic (although it may be difficult) the reason for the sad story does not show what they think it. How should Catholics respond to charges about the Inquisition? He should not deny the undeniable, the story can not be wished away. On the other hand, it should not, for shame, to consent to every calumny fundamentalist. What you should do is try to challenge her a little perspective. If he is able, Catholics must learn enough about the Inquisition to his rival a kind of overview and demonstrate that, while much of what we know about the Inquisition is true, much fantasy.
PHONY STATISTICS
Many fundamentalists believe, for example, that more people died under the Inquisition than in any war or plague, but here are based on false "statistics" generated by one upmanship among anti-Catholics, each of which appeared to try out with the greatest number of casualties.
But trying to straighten out such historical confusions can only have one so far. Ronald Knox as it were, we must be cautious, lest they have to wander endlessly in a desert of comparative atrocity. " In fact, nobody knows exactly how many people were killed by the Inquisition. We can determine with certainty, however, one thing about the numbers by fundamentalists: They are simply too great. A popular book with the fundamentalist claims that 95,000,000 people died under the Inquisition.
The figure is so grotesque that he was a writer immediately doubt the sanity, or at least their understanding of demography. Not until modern times that people in countries where there was the Inquisition approach 95,000,000. There is in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, or England. Is mainly confined to the south of France, Italy, Spain and some parts of the Holy Roman Empire. The Inquisition could not have killed many people and parts of Europe did not have to kill many people!
Moreover, the plague, which killed one third of the population of Europe, is credited by historians with major changes in social structure. The Inquisition is credited with few - precisely because the number of its victims, in comparison, small.
What explination? Still waiting. Will I lose?
Do not explain. They are denying their existence.
Yes, all these monotheistic "pillars of society are awash with blood. And God's laws, dess are superior to men. Therefore, the pedophiles? Coming back and getting annoyed. Karma works in mysterious ways …
Right makes might.
Hello, according to the Gospel of Judas, Jesus told his disciples were pedophiles and murderers who take legions lost.
Why abandon the cross, by the way? They were horrible. Why leave out the centuries of Protestant murder of "heretics" Why leave out all the sexual abuse in other churches?
Why Catholics are pretending uniquely in this way? Most of the three 'great' monotheistic religions are awash in blood.
Let me say that the boys happens to every group of people, not just the Church, but there seems to be something personal against the Church and against the Spanish.
When this happens somewhere else, the media does not make as much noise as when it occurs within the Church.
Yes, it is a mistake. It was not handled properly by the top people, but that does not make the wrong doctrine. Bad people exist everywhere. Sad, but true.
As for the Inquisition, he forgot the Protestant inquisition, which took as much as the horrors of Catholicism, so to speak. In Geneva, John Calvin burned Michael Servetus, the discoverer of blood circulation.
In England, Henry VIII people burned at the stake too.
The Catholic Inquisition because they were the kings came the burning of villages under the pretext of religion, but they were really the kings, because the desire. The Inquisition tried to end that situation. Besides, is not that the Inquisition burned people. The Inquisition and tried to decide whether the accused was guilty. Then, the person was surrendered to the king of justice and it was they who will determine whether the person is burned and carried out the sentence.
The problem started with the burning in the XII, XIII century when people began to show some strange religious ideas that threaten society. Kings saw this as a threat to their authority and began to punish them, sometimes with the game.
The number of persons tried by the Inquisition was increased because sometimes people who would otherwise be tried in civil court were tried by the Inquisition, because what they did was considered an offense to religion as well.
Finally, in the nineteenth century, the secretary of the Spanish Inquisition, Father Llorente, burned part of the archives and escaped with the rest, using as "proof" of what the Inquisition had done. It is strange why they burned some of the files if its purpose was critizice the Inquisition, instead of using them
They are not to question what happens in their parish, or his religion.
They can not and do not!
They firmly believe they are defective and that has done nothing wrong.
Otherwise do not hide or lie about it!
"Why would anyone want to remain a member of any religion that condemns Satan with one hand and carries ouit their work with others?"
This is an absurd question. the Catholic Church does not perform the work of Satan. There have been abuses / crimes by some priests and some bishops covered them. But that doesn't 'mean the church approved of such acts. The pope condemned these actions. Remember Frank Serpico, the police in New York? Some NY police were corrupt. Does this mean that the police in general are all bad? These crimes by a minority of priests that happened in the past 40 years are a good excuse for a Catholic haters slam the Catholic Church.
Recently, a federal report, ordered by Congress and chartered by the U.S. Department of Education, exposed rampant sexual abuse in public schools throughout the country. But politicians and the press corps all but ignored it.
Although the media ran daily stories about allegations of former Catholics, the federal government report estimated that 422,000 students in California public schools to be victims of sexual abuse by educators before graduation - a number dwarfing the state the entire Catholic school enrollment of 143,000.
By contrast, during the first half of 2002, the 61 largest newspapers in California ran 1,744 stories about sexual abuse in Catholic institutions, referring almost exclusively to decades-old allegations. During the same period, the newspapers ran four stories about the federal government exposed sexual abuse in public schools.
Public school students face a greater risk of sexual abuse. But it is easier to attack the Catholic Church. This is simply bigoty Catholic.